Petra Lainas ✊🏻🏳️‍⚧️

Excellent point- a lot of evangelicalism: Protestant work ethic, suffering as moral purity, eschatological thinking (it's the apocalypse!) in Leftist organizing spaces. A lot of us haven't deconstructed as thoroughly as we think we have.

It's never too late to live publicly as your authentic self but you have to feel safe to do so. You're valid, either way. This is a safe space.

Happy National Coming Out Day! I've been out as pansexual for decades and came out as trans 4 years ago, at 45, so if you're not out, it's not a big deal.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Level 49 ✅
4th tranniversary ✅
Finally got the courage to post some of my pics from the Nuovo shoot I had done last year ✅
#TransAndProud
Happy birthday to me!

I feel this. Deeply.

Left: first day on hrt, holding a bottle of estradiol pills Right: 3 years on hrt, holding a vial of estradiol valerate Incredible journey of self-discovery

3 years of hormone replacement therapy. 3 years and 9 months since I remembered who I truly am. Living as my true self. Learning what it is to be truly happy in my own skin; to look in the mirror and like what I see. I can't be erased. We won't be erased.

#TransAndProud

I don't feel like being visible today but I must be visible because there is a movement to erase mine and my trans sibling's very existence. We will not be silent. We will not be invisible.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Transness is political. To pretend otherwise I'd to participate in our own genocide. To talk about "hard times" for trans people whilst refusing to name our enemies is to participate in, and reinforce, our own oppression. Pierre Poilievre is an emergency of trans people, who has openly flirted with anti-trans hate, I'm particular: • asking that Canadian medical leaders "stand up to gender medicine" (aka ban trans healthcare); • proposing banking trans women from women's bathrooms, and other segregationist measures; • defending the anti-trans "parental rights movement", seeking to deny trans youth their autonomy as human beings Asking that people "call in, not call out" people who have decided to campaign on the dehumanization of trans people is to participate in our own destruction. Like it out not, you cannot be "apolitical" whilst standing up for trans people. Period.

TDoV - Trans Day of Visibility

I don't want to be visible *because I'm trans*, I want to be visible because of my accomplishments and my abilities. I'm visible every day but not in the way I want to be.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights
@celeste.lgbt

@rikkilacoste.bsky.social hey hi hello! I'm ditching Meta after March 20th.

What this \|/ says

Thank you, so much! I'm in Canada and, given the latest events, I'm not sure how safe it would be for me to travel to the West Coast but that's great info! 💕

Here's a starter pack for you! These are some of my favourite Canadian trans activism peeps! 💕

go.bsky.app/5AN8t5U

I start electrolysis this month but getting laser treatment had a similar effect.

Once upon a time, yes. This is like it was but better and with more functionality.

Yet another reason I'm dropping Meta. Engagement=money, consequences to the societal fabric, be damned!

and expect me to not take offense at something he said that I found deeply offensive. It doesn't work like that. I got in my car and left without waiting for a response. If you're going to be a bigot, own it. Don't hide behind, "No offense", because i do take offense to bigotry. 🖕🏻4/end

that and the election results in the States reflects that.

But, you know, no offense, right?
He wanted to end the discussion and we did... until we got back to our cars. He was parked right beside me and tried to tell me that he meant no offense. I told him that he cannot say, no offense, 3/

One of them says that, of course they did. I asked why? My life and how I live it doesn't affect his or anybody else's life. He said something about influencing children. I called 🐂💩 because trans people have existed since recorded history. He said, "No offense" but people just didn't agree with 2/

"No offense"
A lot of offense was taken.
The scene: I live and work in Canada and two of my co-workers are discussing just how much the trump presidency will bone Canadians. While they were discussing how he won, I chimed in about the 200+Mil that was spent on ads targeting people like me. 1/

It huuuurts!

Why are all the images you post, AI generated? It's not actually art, it's an algorithm's approximation of art, cannibalizing the real human made art of thousands, if not millions of artists.

The side-affect of e is the jiggle your ass gets and the need to shake that 🍑 to get that euphoric rush!

Whatever you do, don't blink!

This is disgusting. The church has no business dictating policy.

I'm with you!

Exactly. Before the recent influx, Bluesky might not have lasted as long as it did without the lgbtq+ and sw communities which took root here.