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The City of San Francisco stealthily not flying a trans flag in its pride display is quintessential California liberalism.

The public was 100% ready for trans rights just a few years ago. What we’re seeing now is a massive shift in public opinion after a coordinated and expensive propaganda blitz, one that Dems happily ignored. Trans rights aren’t new. We had them for years and everything was cool.

Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem apellant

The story of LGBT rights is a story of advances followed by setbacks followed by media with no skin in the game saying, "It's because you were too loud/asked for too much/moved too fast/got too big for your britches/didn't make your case." That never changes--but happily it's never the last word.

This is like the third story put out by the New York Times since Skrmetti rubbing transgender people's faces in it. The paper got the ruling it asked for.

I would have been dead by the middle of the 2017-2018 winter if I hadn’t gotten on HRT. That is not an exaggeration or a guess, that’s just true. All one party wants is dead freaks; all the other wants is for the freaks to just be very quiet when they die so they don’t have to think about us

my entire timeline is trans people struggling with suicidal ideation and panic attacks next to cis people talking about other things besides the ruling that says banning our health care is legal a microcosm of trans life in america

Careerist quisling Sarah McBride shut the fuck up forever challenge

I’ve failing at my voice for 5-6 years. I had made some limited progress with a good coach recently… and then I got to hear myself in front of the entire senior leadership of my company in a mini documentary for an award. I am devastated and can’t deal. Also can’t manage a femme voice now.

To be trans is to know that cis allyship is not always, but often, contingent.

I can’t sleep I’m too busy replaying being brutally misgendered today.

I had to explain to some rando’s four year old why I look Iike a woman and “sound like a boy” today and I am just not okay

I’m not okay. Passing fail today was the straw that broke the (obviously male) camel’s back.

I'm honestly tired of how every time a cis person clumsily pushes back against transphobia by swallowing their own foot and demonstrating that they have implicitly accepted the right-wing framing and erosion of trans issues in the mainstream, people freak out and act like pointing this out is death.

“She sounds like a boy?” - little kid playing with my daughter indicating me. Good job, voice training. Glad I’ve wasted thousand of dollars on this shit.

I’m fat. My body keeps being hairy and only had time and funds for laser on face and upper chest. (And I have enough white hairs I still have to shave.) My skin is flakey. I’m falling apart and dysphoric and B-L-A-R-G. Nothing sexy here folks.

Work has me stressed out of my gourd. Had to make some judgment calls I’m questioning. Now I’m in a worry loop and sincerely wondering if I need a medical leave to do IOP or some other intensive therapy. Not okay but wondering how to fix it.

I know I’m a woman because men help me with basic automotive knowledge without me asking.

I hate body hair. Hate it.

a group of white trans women is called a discourse

“Hey I wonder if Threads has any merit —“ *sea of transphobia, trans women writing it “transwomen” and misogyny* “Nope.”

Cis people need to understand when the alt-right complains about "pronouns", one of the pronouns they're trying to eradicate is "she". Not even in the sense they don't want trans people to be she/her; they just oppose women. They want to create a world where women are never the subject of a sentence

Roses are red Violets are blue

gluing a furby on the back of a roomba and declaring it an AGI

[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken] CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter

Schumer is trying to justify his vote on Jake Tapper right now, saying if they had let the government shut down "they could fire half the workers in the federal government." WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY'RE DOING RIGHT NOW CHUCK

When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

A yes vote on cloture should ensure a primary challenge for any Democratic senator. If the republic survives, their names should be a byword for cowardice.

Sorry but this is transmed bullshit. My being a woman is not contingent on me passing or not (which I do). It is not up to cis people to grant us permission to be women. Fuck outta here with that.

TV commercial voice: “We’ve replaced American investors with a flock of incontinent pigeons. Let’s see if anyone can spot the difference…”