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I know there’s a lot going, but 19 Republican AGs have said—in writing!—that pro-choice speech should be criminalized. Thats a Big Fucking Deal and it blows my mind that more people aren’t talking about it

Trans people need to build and maintain a common conscience that firmly rejects any politics premised on our inferiority. Any political "compromise" that accepts that premise by weighing trans existence against cis comfort is capitulation.

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Despite orders for polls to remain open for an extra two hours, results are already coming in, including from states with the strongest evidence of voter suppression, like Bahia. This will be a long night. What is happening is an unprecedented crime against democracy in Brazil.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Stop the count!

seriously, as a trans person living in Iowa I'm not voting for this guy and I'm asking you not to either

The AFD is run by a white Lesbian who wants to bring Germany back to traditional family values, & accuses all the homophobia in Germany as being the result of immigrants. There are a lot of white queer folks out there who will happily act against there interest in the name of whiteness.

A restaurant-scale brick pizza oven.

Why is "lip service to pride" meant as a silver lining here? Also it isn't just rhetorical backstabbing, it's voting to deprive us of bodily autonomy and equal social standing.

Wondering where all the "stop purity testing!!" brownshirts are right now

The KPD warned that "a vote for Hindenburg is a vote for Hitler, and a vote for Hitler is a vote for war." Yet, the liberals sided with Hindenburg. Then Hindenburg appointed Hitler. Then the Reichstag Fire. Then the Enabling Act. Reflexive lesser-evilism gets to the same place with one extra step.

Please contribute to this fundraiser if you can, or at least share to spread: www.gofundme.com/f/bring-abel...

"Above all, never vote for any man who is not true to you. Make allegiance to you the measure of your support. So doing, all parties will seek your vote. You will be felt, and your cause will be irresistible." - Senator Charles Sumner, 1872

"trans girl" is not in the conservative lexicon. They monster such children, calling them "biological men" to fan parents' panic about keeping the purity of their "girls" secure. It was the same defense used against lesbians and ethnic minorities. It's never acknowledged as what it is: pedophilic.

trans people “apparently able to feel pain,” surprising new study reveals

Here's the opinion for anyone who wants to stop having a good day: law.justia.com/cases/tennes... One of the most gut-wrenching parts to me is that the prosecutor basically validated the trans panic defense while arguing that evidence of the victim being trans should be excluded in this case.

Sometimes I feel embarrassed to admit to the toll I feel from having a government that uses slurs for me, as the cis folk around me don't even register it. I want to choke back that embarrassment. This shit matters, and is indeed an impeachable offense.

One particular strength of this story is the ambient sense of societal collapse, with signs of climate change having far surpassed reversibility, political collapse, and frequent epidemics (likely owing in part to the other crises), that creates a near-apocalyptic mood alongside the dystopic horror.

am i allowed to talk about how weird it is that the main way liberals philantropize trans people is by donating money to liberal nonprofits for call centers that beg us not to kill ourselves, instead of directly funding our material needs which, when deprived, lead to suicidality? is that allowed?

I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense

In the case of House races, the difference between a slight Democratic majority and a supermajority is politically negligible when the Senate is almost certainly going to be controlled by a thin margin in either direction. Punishing anti-trans Democrats in the midterms is exactly the time to do it.

No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community. Its that simple.

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

"Youth transition is not some 'culture war' nothing but rather a central pillar of trans rights. To understand this we need to talk in an honest way about medical transition and what it means." (from December 2024) www.liberalcurrents.com/the-biopolit...

Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.

Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...

much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

I still can’t believe a law professor made an evidence-free claim about cultures’ capacity to do constitutional democracy and then followed that with ~and your challenging my moral claim justifies government suppression of academic freedom~ Good grief.