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est. 1998 | they/them | 🇨🇦 flaming traffic cone of the millennium genderqueer butch with the ‘tism or whatever
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Two years ago today, trans woman Eden Knight died at 23 after being trafficked out of the US and forcibly detransitioned in Saudi Arabia by her father Dr. Fahad Ibrahim Alshathri. In her final message, Eden named the individuals responsible for luring and capturing her: trans.cx/in-memory-ed...

Don't have much energy to post for Detrans Awareness Day, in part because it's instrumentalisation by the Right is very tiresome. So I come back to this passage from my essay 'Detrans/Uncis':

turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

A ‘Three Pistols’ guitar tutorial by PL

Further thoughts, a major issue with getting your leftism online is a lack of understanding organizing, which means calling in people of ALL political persuasions talk to an organizer IRL, *of course* you need to be kind to liberals, most liberals are working class

the problem with the "trans sports participation is a loser / 80-20 issue" framing is that it ignores how it got that way. it didn't just happen out of nowhere. It's been a 5+ year campaign by Republicans to make it an 80-20 issue, and noone fought back.

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.