briellastella.bsky.social
Gender goblin. All pronouns fair game
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JD Vance stands in front of a chalkboard, brow furrowed in concentration. A mathematical equation is scrawled across the board: "GAY? + DOESN'T WANT DICK = ?????" What could it mean?!
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I read the rebuttals and realized it was bullshit and *still* subconsciously felt pressured to assign traits to my hypothetical female self that I wasn't actually comfortable with, driving myself back into denial for another 10 years.
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Nothing makes me feel more valid than angrily sleeping with my back to my wife, a stranger to both her and myself.
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Clearly this is a reference to woke Catholics complaining about shipping immigrants to overseas black sites and Lutherans gay marrying people, don't you see
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So why do the NY Times, Atlantic, and all the British newspapers clamor endlessly about the dangers of procedures for trans children that have overwhelming (but admittedly imperfect satisfaction), but not say anything about elective cosmetic surgery for cisgender minors? Surely that's worse?
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True! We should ban all medical care as contrary to nature's design.
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The sad thing is that it's such an easy layup! It's been 80 years since "Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me." Saying that they're not going to stop at persecuting the most vulnerable is an easy statement of solidarity as long as you do not call them a distraction!
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I just hope their takeaway isn't "I need to throw trans people under the bus so that I don't get attacked like this."
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My egg cracked less than 2 weeks ago. It's been a fucking wild ride and I'm still less depressed than I've been at any point since early childhood.
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I'm not sure how many of them actually know what it's like to have a happy or meaningful experience.
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Yes!! I am some weeks or months behind you but I'm on the path now.
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And I got off easy because I'm still here! I benefited from a great deal of privilege and had an easy enough life that I could sort of bear it. Not everyone in my spot is so lucky.
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It's ok, you are just amazingly sweet! It just makes me so angry when I look back at all the years I wasted drifting aimlessly through life and then I see "allies" saying "oh, actually it's Good that you went through that, more of that in the world please"
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I haven't left work yet, please don't make me cry ðŸ˜Thank you
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I am only just now pursuing hormones after a long, long period of denial. Even just the possibility of getting on hormones has been a life changing revelation for me. I thought that I was OK before but I only just started realizing how very, very far from OK I ever was.
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Was that so hard?
I will take your word as an advocate for access to trans healthcare for kids that the article cited by Thomas as proof of doubt in the validity of trans healthcare for kids is not actually arguing against trans healthcare for kids, and apologize for my hasty assumptions.
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Still no answer.
Let's play a game. If you will state that you, Ian Judge-Lord, personally believe that trans children should have access to gender affirming care including at least puberty blockers, I will happily admit that I have been sorely mistaken in this entire argument.
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You already called me a liar, so my admission must not count for much (also, at no point did I admit this.) So let's have it from your mouth. Tell us, Ian, that you support gender affirming care for minors.
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Why are you personally opposed to gender affirming care feor minors, Ian?
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Why are you personally opposed to gender affirming care for minors, Ian?
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The overlap between them and the people who say that we don't need chemo drugs because rarely someone's cancer will go into spontaneous remission has got to be pretty huge.
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And yet you still won't answer. Why don't you support gender affirming care for minors, Ian?
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He won't answer, of course. He won't say no and admit that he is arguing 100% from personal bias, and he won't say yes because he can't square that position with his support of anti-trans propaganda.
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You are vehemently arguing in favor of a piece that calls medical care for trans kids "unproven treatments" and suggests that advocates should abandoned them.
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I notice you still don't want to answer the question. Do you or do you not think that children should be able to medically transition as a treatment for gender dysphoria?
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It's been cited.
Look, this discussion is getting very heated and we're talking past each other. Let's try to clear the air and get on the same page. Do you, personally, think that children who are experiencing gender dysphoria should have access to gender affirming care such as blockers and HRT?
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So how exactly are we supposed to do additional research on the needs of dysphoric kids if medical interventions are banned? The intellectual dishonesty is in the article itself.
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Maybe stop replying long enough to actually read the article with your critical thinking cap on.
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"Instead of promoting unproven treatments for children, which surveys show many Americans are uncomfortable with, transgender activists would be more effective if they focused on a shared agenda." This "support" is literally 100% in line with the SCOTUS opinion upholding care bans for minors!
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The article concludes by explicitly calling for withholding medical care from trans youth and calling it "better care." Congratulations on falling for the most transparent Orwellian doublespeak possible.
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Like the way you are PRETENDING that the New York Times just provides a soapbox for anyone who wanders up, and doesn't exercise any control over what it publishes on its opinion pages?
Let's try this: YOU cite a New York Times article offering full throated support for access to trans care.
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Literally cited in Thomas's concurrence: www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/o....
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The Supreme Court's ruling saying that transgender people can legally be denied life-saving care cited the New York Times as part of their justification. Would they have done the same thing without the Times helping? Undoubtedly. But the Times is squarely in the corner of cutting off trans care.
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Life saving medical supplies everyone should have available if they have the resources to spare:
Epipen in case someone has anaphylactic shock
Narcan in case someone ODs
Estradiol in case someone's egg cracks
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Oh, they do care about women's rights: they think women have too many of them.
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Religious liberty for all, whether Southern Baptist or American Baptist (but not Progressive Baptist though, let's not go crazy.)
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The same guy who got this distinction written into the annals of medical literature also tried to argue that creeping on 10-year-olds wasn't actually pedophilia because they might have started puberty. Fetish shit.
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It is and it isn't. Skip the wine mom vegetarian casserole recipes and go straight for ethnic cuisine. People have been making vegetables delicious for thousands of years because meat was not always an option. Maybe it's not as easy as slapping some meat on a grill but it's really very close.
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Hmm, so you say that masculinity can only come at the expense of others? That men exist only to hurt others for no reason except their own gratification, almost as if they can only destroy rather than create? Very interesting sir, please tell me more about how you are a blight on the earth.
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It's like looking into a mirror...
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Lung capacity helps a lot for voice training too! But yes also living is important.
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Oh oops you got to Hirschfeld. Sorry I got excited.
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It happened the last time too! Germany in the 1920s and 30s was on the bleeding edge of sexuality and gender theory. If you read the theory they were putting out it sounds backwards today but they were trailblazers by the standards of their times.
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