Today's ban on NHS HRT for under 18s formalises a policy that has already been in place - Noone under 18 has received a new prescription for HRT since mid 2024 (I don't know of any since late 2023).

Of course this policy also raises the risk of similar action on private healthcare for under 18s.

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”

-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

But what can I do – Dr Ruth Pearce Posts about But what can I do written by Ruth

There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England.

1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs.

This video is lowballing it.

Most Americans can be fired from their job without cause, at any time, and our health care is tied to our employment.

This fact alone is enough to feel dread and panic every day.

If you agree with this please take action against KOSA with us, keep annoying your legislators. We must erode support.
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please send money to Juno so she can eat and stay housed! she works so hard and just needs a little help. all her links are in her bio.

[slapping my desk and howling with laughter like the joker as I whip out my trusty "electoralism will not save us and is a drain on revolutionary energy" sign]

This is an attack Gillick Competence, and without a doubt the beginnings of an assault on the supply of birth control to young people.

I was 17 when I started taking HRT. If you’re over 16, then by English law you can legally consent to your own healthcare.

I would argue they knew exactly what they were doing, which was deliberately sabotaging needed public works programs by offering snake oil they never had any intention of delivering.

if you want to know how important it is for you to do this math: the fees patreon took from me in 2025 add up to roughly 3 months of income. that's 3 months of income i would have paid taxes on if i didn't deduct the fees from the 1099. 3 months of income i never actually had!

This is also why all the insane tech CEO stuff about having a national dictator. And it’s why they have no semblance of a popular basis for any of these actions anymore. They don’t think they need popular support.

"lethal autonomy without human authorization"

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

you can't do shit for an incurious audience.

it cannot be overstated the extent to which something needs to be Done about home-owning christian suburbanite parents

I’d like to skip to the part where everyone acknowledges that the President of the United States is insane. Please.

This neatly encapsulates The Dipshit Paradox:

Any ignorance creating sufficiently damaging effects will become indistinguishable from malice. Any sufficiently damaging malice will be abetted by ignorance. We must never exonerate malice simply because it can easily be explained by stupidity.

You should hammer all these reps who voted yes on the KIDS Act.

Additionally, keep contacting your other reps as well

Hi @itch.io, I'm now on day 17 of waiting for a payout to clear. I haven't gotten a response to any emails over the last week.

The ID is 214910. Can y'all please approve that so I can pay my rent today?

Thanks,

Autumn

screenshot of patreon's payouts page

reminder when you're doing your taxes, the number patreon is putting on your 1099 is the gross and they DO NOT exclude all the money they took from you in fees. you need to deduct that yourself as business expenses. an easy ("easy") way to do that is to download your earnings by month

Mamdani confirmed would rather take photo ops with Trump and play pretend as his weird marxist son than fight for trans people

Listened to this at 6 minutes in or so. It’s not directly stated, but it appears the reason that Mamdani has not directed H+H to absorb trans patients is out of fear of the federal government. “It’s part of the game we have to play with the federal government .”

It’s the EXACT logic NYU is using.

I feel like these two belong on a card or something
#BIONICLE

I hate to say it but the ballroom may be averting nuclear disaster.

american century of humiliation incoming

I don’t want to share the video because it’s pretty graphic, but apparently we’re at the ‘Republican Senator breaks the arm of a Marine IN FULL DRESS because that marine was protesting the Republicans starting a war of choice with Iran’ stage of things.

bella has been a victim of revenge porn over the last few days which is extremely fucked up and I hope you’ll join me in chipping in some $ to help pay for therapy and other support 🖖🏽

to continue existing as a society we must expropriate every billionaire's fortune and nationalize every big tech company, nothing less can work

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