Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️

anyone who tries to start or keep going bullshit like "i as a white trans woman know that white trans woman racism is a problem we must ritually denounce constantly" right now is a collaborator while bourgeois cisoids purge our black brothers and sisters for speaking up against hypocrisy and abuse.

ATProto is what the Fediverse would've been if it had been designed in the proper way from the start.

Of course, hindsight 20/20.

"You must dox yourself to use the internet" is dystopia shit, and everybody's just going along with it.

I fucking hate this dynamic with transfems when whenver one of us is like "I would not like to lose the rights I currently have", we get attacked by other people for having "got our bag"

maybe controversial, but im not convinced that performative wokeness actually does much to help marginalized groups get treated as more human

it just enables people to give themselves a gold star for pretending the zoo animals are human when others are watching

All decentralization is not created equal either.

AT Protocol works quite a bit differently than Mastodon. The decentralization is at the user account level. The way Mastodon is setup creates UX nightmares and leaves room for a lot of petty tyrants.

More generally I think a big problem with left & trans activism is that stretched truths / white lies / inspirational narratives are promoted with the same unquestionable seriousness as the actually important, actually true things.

And so the uninformed fence-sitter just assumes that even (1/)

... that even the "actually important / actually true things" are just leftist copium too.

You burn your credibility with the obviously fake/stretched truths, and no one believes you when you say the actual facts.

More generally I think a big problem with left & trans activism is that stretched truths / white lies / inspirational narratives are promoted with the same unquestionable seriousness as the actually important, actually true things.

And so the uninformed fence-sitter just assumes that even (1/)

I am tired of hearing assertions that Democrats "threw trans people under the bus" in 2024 from people whose primary interest in the trans community is as cannon fodder for their revolutionary pipe dreams

One of the many problems with left-liberal deontology is that it blinds people to the reality that, even in a relatively functional democracy, you likely have to convince people of your preferred policy if you want it to happen

When it comes to transmisogyny and anti-transsexuality, LLMs mostly produce mainstream/queer inclusivity slop, where identification is all that matters and trans women are an afterthought.

Not surprising, given how discourse/academia is dominated by those views.

no you don't understand we have to coddle the feelings of the superposition between most brainwormed transmasc ever/most attention whoring cis woman ever. dolphindiaries feelings are the most important thing in the world that's why we can't say detransitioners are cis. kiss my ass

i DEEPLY hate the term. it's patronizing, it's a stupid euphemism, it plays into the transphobic notion that cis people are humoring us, it's epistemological oppression to avoid saying the word trans, 90% of the shit cis people do isn't called "gender affirming", etc

it's fucking trans healthcare.

If HRT were to get banned for trans people, what are post op transsexuals supposed to do? We literally need the medication to survive. Not dismissing what happens for any other trans person, but I was thinking more about my specific circumstance.

They would offer you testosterone, and they would treat your inevitable refusal to go on it in the same way that they would treat any refusal of life-critical medication for any other medical condition.

Which is why I never use this argument. It's a monkey's paw.

The first argument is something that even a moderate Bush-style / small-governement republican could find appealing, even if culturally they are neutral/unsympathetic towards trans women.

But this is also the messaging/framing that the trans community has chosen to talk about this issue.

It's never/rarely
>Let private sports leagues decide for themselves

It's always
>Trans women deserve to play because <reasons, or worse, emotional appeal>

Many celebrities and corporations are literally just "I support the current thing".

No wonder they change their minds when the current thing changes.

As for 3rd party feeds, I wish there a way to separate feeds based on whether they're "this is a generic algo feed", vs all the countless "this is a thematic feed based on a bunch of keywords/filters".

The way it is now, the latter overwhelm the list and make generic hard to find/discover

#atproto

I also use Popular with friends, and I recommend going to Settings -> Content and media -> Following feed preferences -> ✅ Show samples of your saved feeds in your Following feed.

Btw I found this post of yours via the "Quiet Posters" feed (which is not a default feed, but I really think it should be)

The default algorithm sucks (purely chronological)

Whether a post will succeed or fail depends a lot on which of your followers happened to be scrolling bsky at that time.

They'd definitely go, if its tagline was "Heckin' wholesome space for AFAB non-binary folx, no TERFs allowed!!"

Also leftists defend free speech almost *only* when it involves themes that they personally care about (LGBT) and that Republicans attack.

Like you did with your example right now.

What happened to "I don't support what you say, but I support your right to say it" [without being killed]?

Yes Republicans and Leftists each have their own issues with free speech.

honestly being separatist shouldn't be seen as such a bad thing, ppl just try to use it as an anti-feminist slur. acknowledging the material conditions within which we're forced to operate, in which we are already separated, is good. and ppl saying it's bad usually just want access to us to harm us

This is absurd, it wouldn't work and would create even stronger backlash, unless you want to go full North Korea censorship.

Nobody forces you to mourn him.
But do you expect the Democrats to say "waow more fascists (=people with bad speech) should be killed", like your average bsky leftist who hates free speech and believes that they should be killed?

You free speech haters truly cannot grasp the difference between "I endorse this message" and "I don't think people should be jailed or killed for expressing it"