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Microdosing friendship by liking each other's posts and sending a single dm back and forth every 6 months.

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intersex people aren't just some gotcha you can throw out in arguments about trans rights btw. they're real people. intersex people are also hurt by anti-trans legislation because it's rooted in a binary system of sex that doesn't include them, leaving them excluded and in danger. an intersex woman could be excluded from women's spaces, and in fact, they have been excluded already. intersex people have been targeted for not fitting into the binary. they've had procedures to alter their genitals performed at birth or as young children, have had their conditions concealed from them by parents and doctors, and their gender identities aren't respected due to their biological sex. intersex people have poor healthcare, few resources, and a society that doesn't accept them.

stop using intersex people as nothing but a gotcha moment. they're in the trenches with us.

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I came to this way later than I should have as a supposedly engaged Friend, but holy shit Britain Yearly Meeting's response to the transphobes is fucking incredible.

this is the most profound "fuck you and your shitass underhanded tactics" i have ever seen from an official Quaker source. do you know how badly you have to fuck up for the clerks to outline five different ways you're out of right ordering?

and they have, as one would expect of Quaker bureaucracy, brought the goddamn receipts.

nyah nyah yah boo sucks

like i am just. I'm not surprised but it's still always good to see it acknowledged that Quakers are disproportionately trans and non-binary (literally four times higher percentage of us in Britain Yearly Meeting than in Britain as a whole) and also as a disabled Somewhat Trans the original message leaning so heavily on "but think of the poor disabled people!" pissed me off so fucking much. so. another W here.

yes i know this is just the stuff trans activists have been saying the whole time but this is the stuff we've been saying the whole time and it's laid out just. so fucking succinctly and obviously that it just feels like a sick burn, you know?

HOOTIN AND A-HOLLERIN again, i know this, but having it in official terms as A Fact Of The Situation is just like. ugh. my heart is healing.

it is a very quaker "shut the fuck up" move to repeat "discerned" twice in one paragraph just so you know for damn sure it was done under the quaker process and is divinely/spiritually/bureaucratically solid, and i know because i have done this exact thing while clerking

fellas is it possible to do a pacifist murder

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP again like. if you are not used to quaker spaces i need you to know that it is SUPER uncommon for modern quakers to straight-up say "this is offensive and wrong" to each other. like. it is frankly one of the real problems in the Society, our tendency to be conflict-avoidant and try to find a middle road and be polite.

so i need you to know that being this unequivocal on a contentious issue, in a published communication from BYM, is a fucking nuke in Quaker terms. this is gloves-off bare-knuckle quaker convincement. fucking get 'em.

and finishing out on one final "no YOU'RE out of order!" which, again. as someone who clerks on an area meeting level and has wanted to say this kind of thing to people a lot, this is additionally satisfying in ways that aren't even about the trans rights of it all.

although also

including pronouns in the sign-off is also, i think, standard practice for the Clerks now, but god it's satisfying in this context

WHOOOOOOO i am FIRED UP this has MADE MY MONTH

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Memes that are illegal to share with your family

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heartbreaking:

girl has sooooooo many ambitions and ideas for projects but can only get 1.5 basic tasks done per day

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House drugged that coffee btw

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not wanting to be outdone by the benders in the gang, sokka invents the flamethrower, the supersoaker, the leaf blower, and the concept of throwing rocks at people

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STUPID TWINK WHO WORKS THE FRONT DESK SKIPPED BAD ROMANCE!!! JAIL FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS!!!!!!

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hm. the princess requires her most scariest & biggest guards to start kissing each other.

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