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yeah maybe i’m fucking sad and lonely but i cleaned my room so

29.12.2024 09:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

sorry to everyone i’ve ever befriended for inevitably fucking up our friendship and losing you

29.12.2024 06:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

WHO NEEDS THERAPY WHEN YOU HAVE TAYLOR SWIFT

21.12.2024 15:50 — 👍 171    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 4

when i was a kid there was someone who would walk around the neighbourhood playing the bagpipes at 3pm twice a week. they would be friends

18.12.2024 05:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

bold of me to say when i refuse to look at my pics and videos from my show in case it makes me feel too sad

18.12.2024 05:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i miss taylor :(

18.12.2024 05:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
On November 20th, Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a federal trans bathroom ban under the title of the "Protecting Women's Private Spaces Act." While this began as an attempt to bar newly-elected Representative Sarah McBride of Delaware from using the women's restroom in her own place of work as a legislator - which is unacceptable on its own merits - it will not end there. Speaker Johnson's decree in support of Mace's proposal reiterated the same argument: that this is an act designed to protect women, to keep us safe, because "women deserve women's only spaces." To introduce this legislation on the International Transgender Day of Remembrance - a day commemorating trans people worldwide who have died due to hate and violence - is appalling. To pretend Mike Johnson and the House GOP care about the safety of women, given the candidate they just elected and the Cabinet nominations he continues to make, is beyond naive.

On November 20th, Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a federal trans bathroom ban under the title of the "Protecting Women's Private Spaces Act." While this began as an attempt to bar newly-elected Representative Sarah McBride of Delaware from using the women's restroom in her own place of work as a legislator - which is unacceptable on its own merits - it will not end there. Speaker Johnson's decree in support of Mace's proposal reiterated the same argument: that this is an act designed to protect women, to keep us safe, because "women deserve women's only spaces." To introduce this legislation on the International Transgender Day of Remembrance - a day commemorating trans people worldwide who have died due to hate and violence - is appalling. To pretend Mike Johnson and the House GOP care about the safety of women, given the candidate they just elected and the Cabinet nominations he continues to make, is beyond naive.

Over the past several years, as trans bathroom bans have been enacted in communities across the country, we have seen firsthand the cascading negative effects. No one is made safer by this. Certainly trans youth are not, as we saw firsthand from the shocking, violent death of Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old nonbinary youth in Oklahoma who complied with exactly such a bathroom restriction and was brutally beaten by classmates in February of this year. But even the women and girls these bills purport to protect are at increased risk; this legislation empowers individuals with narrow definitions of gender presentation to appoint themselves bathroom cops, and harass anyone they do not believe is publicly performing the role of womanhood correctly.

Over the past several years, as trans bathroom bans have been enacted in communities across the country, we have seen firsthand the cascading negative effects. No one is made safer by this. Certainly trans youth are not, as we saw firsthand from the shocking, violent death of Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old nonbinary youth in Oklahoma who complied with exactly such a bathroom restriction and was brutally beaten by classmates in February of this year. But even the women and girls these bills purport to protect are at increased risk; this legislation empowers individuals with narrow definitions of gender presentation to appoint themselves bathroom cops, and harass anyone they do not believe is publicly performing the role of womanhood correctly.

Lesbians and butch women, women who are unusually tall, women who have short hair, women who wear baggy or "masculine" clothes, women of color in professional sports whose bodies are critiqued for their strength, even simply women who wear baseballs caps: all of this is sufficient evidence for increased harassment. This is not even a new phenomenon; there are news stories of exactly these cases going back to the bathroom bans of 2016. It will not just be Rep. McBride who suffers for this; it will be your own congressional staff - anyone who is queer, trans, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, or simply does not fit the stereotype of female physical appearance - whose workplace harassment you would be enabling if Mace's proposal is allowed to pass.

Lesbians and butch women, women who are unusually tall, women who have short hair, women who wear baggy or "masculine" clothes, women of color in professional sports whose bodies are critiqued for their strength, even simply women who wear baseballs caps: all of this is sufficient evidence for increased harassment. This is not even a new phenomenon; there are news stories of exactly these cases going back to the bathroom bans of 2016. It will not just be Rep. McBride who suffers for this; it will be your own congressional staff - anyone who is queer, trans, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, or simply does not fit the stereotype of female physical appearance - whose workplace harassment you would be enabling if Mace's proposal is allowed to pass.

The people who make women's restrooms unsafe are people like Nancy Mace, who are banking on the silent complicity of other cisgender women to support the lie that the majority of us feel safer and more comfortable with trans people pushed out of our spaces. The end goal of trans bathroom bans is not limited to who uses which bathroom; it is a way to test the public's compliance with eradicating trans and nonbinary people from public spaces altogether. In the wake of the recent presidential election loss, it seems clear that it is also a test of the moral backbone of the Democratic Party, and whether we will choose to abandon our progressive values for the sake of expedience and permit more Nex Benedicts to suffer.

The people who make women's restrooms unsafe are people like Nancy Mace, who are banking on the silent complicity of other cisgender women to support the lie that the majority of us feel safer and more comfortable with trans people pushed out of our spaces. The end goal of trans bathroom bans is not limited to who uses which bathroom; it is a way to test the public's compliance with eradicating trans and nonbinary people from public spaces altogether. In the wake of the recent presidential election loss, it seems clear that it is also a test of the moral backbone of the Democratic Party, and whether we will choose to abandon our progressive values for the sake of expedience and permit more Nex Benedicts to suffer.

boosting the Cisgender Women Against Bathroom Bans petition again, please sign and share if you missed it the first time around! It’s at a little under 8,500 signatures now and we would love to try to get it to 10,000 by the weekend!

actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

05.12.2024 20:13 — 👍 987    🔁 813    💬 31    📌 50

i have repeatedly read this as millennium falcon

06.12.2024 05:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

between magically obtaining taylor tickets and then marianas trench on thursday, it’s so good that i’m able to approve my own vacation days at work

06.12.2024 05:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i am in SHOCK

06.12.2024 04:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

THANK YOU KAYSI 😭

06.12.2024 04:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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in a twist of events i never saw coming i have obtained a vancouver n3 ticket and im sobbing

06.12.2024 04:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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it’s that time of year again! give me a number from 1-100 ✨

04.12.2024 15:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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not shocked

04.12.2024 15:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

19.11.2024 03:56 — 👍 33260    🔁 11517    💬 232    📌 332

idk how to introduce myself on this app, let alone when i’m in the middle of a depressive episode ✌🏼

19.11.2024 04:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

someone asked me what my love language is and i said “taylor swift lyrics”

17.11.2024 23:00 — 👍 156    🔁 33    💬 3    📌 1

it has been an ETERNITY

18.11.2024 07:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

omg i miss youuuuu

17.11.2024 16:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

this was supposed to be my tour! my year! i got my hopes up when i got vienna tickets and then it was ruined and now i’m not going to get the closest thing i have to a hometown show and i’m exhausted and sad

17.11.2024 08:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

every day i wake up and my chances of seeing taylor in vancouver are lower

17.11.2024 08:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ok here i am

16.11.2024 21:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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