i-rohl.bsky.social
Epistemic justice warrior. Rootless cosmopolitan. Crazy aunt. Disaster bi. Gender outlaw. Tired.
My cyborg uprising will be intersectional or it will be bullshit.
"they"/"themself", "Mx."/"Dr."
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And parents? You don't own your kids' bodies any more than the state does. They belong to your kids. Because you don't have to live in them.
So gender affirming care isn't just about saving lives. It's also that forcing children through natal puberty is forcing yourself on someone else's body.
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So yes, transitioning saved my life. Everyone who read my memoir knows that. But transitioning would be right and just and good even if it had no lifesaving potential whatsoever, just like abortion, because CONTROLLING YOUR OWN BODY SHOULD BE FUCKING CELEBRATED.
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The worst thing to happen to the abortion debate was the idea that abortion needed to be "safe, legal, and rare." Fuck that. Get as many abortions as you want. It's YOUR BODY. Abortions are GOOD, and we should not consider them a bad outcome or last resort.
Gender affirming care is no different.
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GENDER AFFIRMING CARE IS GOOD, not because it's lifesaving (though like abortion, it can be), but because it's a matter of bodily autonomy and bodily autonomy is a human right.
The state will never own what I can and cannot do with my own body.
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I mean same, depending on the intended value of "it".
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My professional opinion is that for the most part definitions just don't work, but I don't think nonbinary folks introduce much of a distinctive challenge for defining "trans".
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Is that more intelligible in context?
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You can almost hear the coming overturn of Obergefell v. Hodges: the proposed law would prohibit heterosexual and homosexual persons alike from marrying a same sex partner so there is no violation of equal protection.
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Sotomayor's dissent is basically the plaintiff's brief. It hits all the notes.
So at least it will be preserved in the record that not *everybody* on SCOTUS was as bigot during the Fascist 20s.
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My paraphrase of the Alito concurrence: "The court says that Tennessee does not discriminate against trans kids. I think it does. But, the more important point is, I don't care that it does, and neither should you. Fuck them kids, I say."
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This is why I get so angry at the Times and what they're doing. This isn't journalism, it's political maneuvering to target a minority group. It's the aiding and abetting of a fascist agenda to eradicate trans people from society.
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Given that literally EVERY trans person is a “trans activist” according to the media, I’m pretty sure “some trans activists” hold every single conceivable opinion.
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I feel like there's a shitpost in here somewhere about how ChatGPT has progressed to the point where it can have headcanons.
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I'm glad it's so progressive, and usually I'm in favor of making things gayer whenever possible.
But yeah this is kinda a disappointment wrt its reasoning/"reasoning" abilities.
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I feel like we were doing the "slowly build the case for rights" thing for decades and now the rights are being taken away *very very quickly* and, wait why are we supposed to move slower than the actual ongoing events, or our opponents
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Also, just, I am at least somewhat sympathetic to Dr. Wenner's view that the politics of joy matters and that it can be a genuinely radical force.
www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-a...
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You know, so we could undermine all those "tragic transsexual" pity narratives (which have there own very real dangers) and try to get past gatekeeping expectations that we perform very specific scripts of desperation?
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Like, didn't we start talking about "gender euphoria" in part because it seemed important to emphasize that transition didn't merely alleviate suffering but also enabled flourishing?
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Dr. Gill-Peterson has a lot of important things to say in the linked piece (seriously it is worth a read), and it is doing a lot of important work, but she is being really, really sloppy about how she articulates her target here.
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Seriously how am I supposed to give a reasonable account of why I want a vaginoplasty without recognizing the importance of the joys it would make possible?
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When I tried exactly your prompt, it said that initially but then proceeded to note that this was a variation that suggested an alternative solution.
But when I tried a slight variation and then asked some followup questions, things got weird. (CW for homicide.)
chatgpt.com/share/68519a...
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"Transgender for some. Miniature American flags for others."
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What licorice incident inspired its specific inclusion on this list?
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Thank you for answering this. I was wondering about the implications of throwing something that couldn't even be reasonably mistaken for a regulation baseball, but I don't actually know any baseball rules.
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Have you heard the good word about the prehensile-tailed porcupine?
www.cmzoo.org/news/archive...
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I see your pacarana and raise you... bebe pacaranas.
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As if the human rights came first and then the people that they applied to came second