Again, are you respecting someone’s identity? I don’t care what you think you’re doing; if you aren’t recognizing a person as the person they are, then the conclusion is that you’re mistreating someone. The world isn’t a place where your self perceptions overwrite the person you actually are.

There are plenty of respectful debates about trans issues, and tolerance of people genuinely not understanding queer topics. What cannot be debated respectfully is whatever or not to respect a person"s identity. No amount of polite language can make such a conversation respectful, as you’re refusing to do the bare minimum required to speak to that person as an equal.

Creating a tolerant space requires not tolerating intolerance. This is not an authoritarian insight, but one centered on maximizing the freedom of everyone. If you demand a space where you can debate a basic fact about myself, then that is not a space in which I am free.

It is, but the bubble mustn’t burst or the grifters will stop making money selling “the end of skilled labor” to braindead capitalists.

It’s only a matter of time. Even if the Democrats somehow work up the courage to filibuster(Schumer seems dead set on okaying anything to keep the Republicans who want to maintain it on his side), Trump will inevitably demand they get rid of it because he has no intention of ever leaving office. He doesn’t give a shit about the long term, only consolidating his power and making the Republicans even more reliant on him. Such an act of shooting their own legislative power and independence in the foot is something Trump can demand at this point.

Only a few “moderate” Republicans like Susan Collins care enough about the legislature’s own power enough to stop him. However, he holds the supreme ability to use violence as the commander in chief, so they’ll break eventually. They cannot keep saying no to him forever, and he has every reason to take this ability away from them at some point. Eventually, they’ll simply be a rubber stamp congress for the policy he demands.

This is why I refuse to hate the bigots in the same way that I hate the rich. They’re just rubes too weak and pathetic to stand up to power. I have more hatred for wealthy elites who financially support democrats than the average Trump voter.

Fighting poor racists is an endless struggle of self defense, but going after those who let fascism win can have an unpredicted effect. They expect to remain above it all, but they’re the ones who fucked around, and they’re the ones who need to find out. They introduced violence and destroyed the rule of law, so now they need to hire guards if they want security. Feeding a class war will not stop the race war, but it will encourage those with capital to want the old times back, and while that is not ideal, it does give more wiggle room to not get sent to deathcamps

When my biggest fear wasn’t being trans, but not getting to transition 🤦‍♀️

As someone who both is and looks Hispanic, I need to worry about ICE deporting my ass if I can’t prove my identity in any particular moment. I can’t rely on the identification the state can give me alone. It’s not just a trans issue for me, as getting a passport was a long and arduous process before fascists took over and started dismantling the government. With a new name on my California IDs, my old passport might as well be a cousin’s

cool, but I don’t wanna invalidate my passport 😞

TIL Paxiti is an unfiltered dark web artist

gender affirming bullies 💖

Talking about your own lived experience or the experience of other trans people? Amazing! Encouraging a specific person, unprompted, to question their gender? Fundamentally not a good idea.

The whole problem is your assumption that unsolicited advice is a good idea. It rarely is. When genuinely trying to help people, it’s more useful be clear that you’re talking about your own perspective and your own situation. This will be much better received, and it will not make normative assumptions about how others ought to act. Saying what people should do is the real problem with egging. It unnecessarily orders people to think about their gender rather than giving them the tools to do it themselves. If they are an egg, they’ll use those tools when they’re ready.

Richard Dawkins when gender affirming care is one of the most successful mental health treatments to date, trans people display behavioral traits consistent with evolutionary theory, and people get fed up with his rigid thinking: