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Often when trans women ask me when I'm performing next, and I tell them that it's a queer/trans event, they will tell me that they'd rather not go because they do not feel comfortable or safe in those spaces, that they have been dismissed or belittled at such events before. Even trans women who are dyke- or bisexual- identified often don't feel welcome or relevant in queer/trans spaces. And whenever a trans woman or ally points out aspects about the queer/ trans community that contribute to these feelings of irrelevancy and disrespect—such as the way our community coddles those who support trans-woman-exclusionist events or who make trans-misogynistic comments—we are described as being "divisive." This use of the word "divisive" is particularly telling, as it implies that "queer/trans" represents a uniform movement or community—a "oneness"—rather than an alliance where all voices are respected.

Julia Serano, Whipping Girl. Published 2007.

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Dog Girl Elizabeth Holmes convincing you to invest in Therianos, her startup that can tell if you're a good girl from a single drop of your

Anyway you ever think about the contexts in which the scientific method is treated as a virtue? Like logically, the scientific method is, at least in abstract, water tight. That's why when people are showing misapplication of science by systems and institutions it's pretty much always that their argument shows how an aesthetic or gesture towards scientific soundness has been used in an unscientific way or to create an unscientific result. This I think drives the common technocratic impulse that "if only experts ran everything, everything would be fine" - if a state upheld science in earnest as its utmost virtue, it would be infallibly logical and therefore generally infallible. But do we want the state to be infallible? I don't want to just argue that the "science" of economics is bunk because rigorous economic science, materialist analysis frequently refutes the basic conclusions of what most economists treat as a given, I want economics to not be taken as an implicit authority that is allowed to rule and govern the lives of human beings and the general health of the planet because what is moral, sustainable, and creates the most equity and happiness is not necessary based in what can be proven on a whiteboard. Idk

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

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TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

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Calling Samaritans but only as a prank because it's april fools and telling them all my best jokes about suicide and getting permanently banned from the crisis line as a bit

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Something about a TERF opening a bar called "The L Community" I can't stop laughing

members only bar for women with no rizz so lesbians can be outnumbered 20 to 1 by straight terfs telling them they're brave for signing up to the BiOlOgIcAl WoMeN OnLy bar

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Also very much to my point Walker and a bunch of other cowards progressives reporting on this have repeated the terminology of "children with gender dysphoria" and I don't want to just call this chickenshit but it makes me really mad how they're refusing to say trans kids so instead of spelling out my point please apply the analysis above to the use of the term "children with gender dysphoria"

Liberal Dissociative Amnesia

The Cass Review is the most discussed political topic among trans people in the UK right now. The 388 page report by Dr Hillary Cass examines the gender services available to young people in the UK and concludes that young people are being let down, gender services need to be taken out of reach for trans people under 25 and a new system which urges avoiding transition at every turn needs to be created which will refer people at age 25.

I just watched Michael Walker on Novara Media say "I think there are some very difficult questions here that I really don't know the answer to", and I find myself baffled by statements like this. I did actually understand in watching what specific questions he thought were "difficult", and I think someone could probably answer them pretty effectively to a standard he was happy with if he had a well informed trans person who he trusted in his life. The problem is, the whole segment was presented with as much equivocation and both-sidesing as possible, this constant air of "what if"

I feel like I'm observing a dissociative amnesia that people like this run into when discussing something that people they can easily see are bigots have declared to be scientific and complicated and requiring serious scrutiny. The Novara team understand the broad wave of anti-trans attacks happening across much of the world, particularly America and Britain, right now, even if they won't necessarily call it genocide - so why does this story exist completely devoid of context? Why is it suddenly time to ask "difficult questions"?

Walker wonders out loud about people on a spectrum where at one end people would have always been cis under all circumstances and on the other they would have always been trans, and in the middle of course are people who might transition if it's easier and there's less stigma. His point as far as I can tell is that somewhere in there it could get TOO easy to transition and then people will do it and regret it. Do I need to bother saying this is why we have informed consent?

It's like the people trying to wipe us out are playing Simon Says with the most progressive of our liberal media. The progressives can see bigotry for what it is most of the time and then somehow suddenly it becomes ✨special science bigotry ✨ and, perhaps because there's an institutional weight behind it, perhaps because it claims to be a serious study, or perhaps just because of the aesthetics of intellectualism the progressive journalists mysteriously forget about the whole wider context of transphobia around the world and have to apply rigorous journalistic standards to it.

"There's social contagion!" "No that's bigotry"

"They're just undiagnosed autistic people!" "No they're trans AND autistic"

"They're coming after the kids!" "No, that's age old queerphobia"

"✨Simon Says ✨ there's social contagion!" "oh well this warrants very careful discussion, I need to think very hard about this before taking a side here, it's a toxic culture war debate and we must remain ✨rational✨ when discussing issues like this..."

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If you like my writing, consider supporting me on patreon or sending me a tip over PayPal. I'm not releasing new videos for a bit but I just put up a new essay and I'm going to keep uploading new writing to patreon in the meantime.

I've been struggling to pay rent and afford stuff like bills or my HRT for a while now, and any amount of support helps a bunch http://linktr.ee/sophiefrommars

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The Sky Is Falling: Panicking Will Not Save Us, Organising Will

Public post on patreon about the organising the trans community needs to do to survive

https://www.patreon.com/posts/102709670?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_source=android

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Liberal Dissociative Amnesia

The Cass Review is the most discussed political topic among trans people in the UK right now. The 388 page report by Dr Hillary Cass examines the gender services available to young people in the UK and concludes that young people are being let down, gender services need to be taken out of reach for trans people under 25 and a new system which urges avoiding transition at every turn needs to be created which will refer people at age 25.

I just watched Michael Walker on Novara Media say "I think there are some very difficult questions here that I really don't know the answer to", and I find myself baffled by statements like this. I did actually understand in watching what specific questions he thought were "difficult", and I think someone could probably answer them pretty effectively to a standard he was happy with if he had a well informed trans person who he trusted in his life. The problem is, the whole segment was presented with as much equivocation and both-sidesing as possible, this constant air of "what if"

I feel like I'm observing a dissociative amnesia that people like this run into when discussing something that people they can easily see are bigots have declared to be scientific and complicated and requiring serious scrutiny. The Novara team understand the broad wave of anti-trans attacks happening across much of the world, particularly America and Britain, right now, even if they won't necessarily call it genocide - so why does this story exist completely devoid of context? Why is it suddenly time to ask "difficult questions"?

Walker wonders out loud about people on a spectrum where at one end people would have always been cis under all circumstances and on the other they would have always been trans, and in the middle of course are people who might transition if it's easier and there's less stigma. His point as far as I can tell is that somewhere in there it could get TOO easy to transition and then people will do it and regret it. Do I need to bother saying this is why we have informed consent?

It's like the people trying to wipe us out are playing Simon Says with the most progressive of our liberal media. The progressives can see bigotry for what it is most of the time and then somehow suddenly it becomes ✨special science bigotry ✨ and, perhaps because there's an institutional weight behind it, perhaps because it claims to be a serious study, or perhaps just because of the aesthetics of intellectualism the progressive journalists mysteriously forget about the whole wider context of transphobia around the world and have to apply rigorous journalistic standards to it.

"There's social contagion!" "No that's bigotry"

"They're just undiagnosed autistic people!" "No they're trans AND autistic"

"They're coming after the kids!" "No, that's age old queerphobia"

"✨Simon Says ✨ there's social contagion!" "oh well this warrants very careful discussion, I need to think very hard about this before taking a side here, it's a toxic culture war debate and we must remain ✨rational✨ when discussing issues like this..."

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The Sky Is Falling: Panicking Will Not Save Us, Organising Will

Public post on patreon about the organising the trans community needs to do to survive

https://www.patreon.com/posts/102709670?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_source=android

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If you like my writing, consider supporting me on patreon or sending me a tip over PayPal. I'm not releasing new videos for a bit but I just put up a new essay and I'm going to keep uploading new writing to patreon in the meantime.

I've been struggling to pay rent and afford stuff like bills or my HRT for a while now, and any amount of support helps a bunch http://linktr.ee/sophiefrommars

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This ABSOLUTELY works.

I have used this for many years. Definitely b do it.

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PERCEPTION: Kim is kissing you! EMPATHY [Hard: Failure] - Seems like he's wanted to for a while, for some reason? LOGIC: You're enjoying this 'kissing Kim, who is a man' thing. ELECTROCHEMISTRY: You're enjoying it A LOT, bucko! LOGIC: You must be a member of the homo-sexual underground. LOGIC: But--wait. Something doesn't add up. You still like women. ENCYCLOPEDIA [Easy: Failure] - This is unprecedented. A homo-sexual who likes kissing women? COMPOSURE [Godly: Failure] - Holy shit. You are going to get a terrible score in homo-sexuality. DRAMA: You are the world's worst homo-sexual.

KIM KITSURAGI: ... Detective? Are you okay? 1. [Composure - Challenging 17] Keep it together. It's fine if you're bad at homo-sexuality. You're new at it. 2. Have a panic attack.

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Every day I unavoidably think about two things at some point, but usually right after I wake up. One is this scene from snowpiercer, and the other is the graffiti on the wall in A Bewitching Revolution when the prisoners are rioting that says

"THEY CAN SHOOT US ALL TO DEATH BUT THEY CAN'T SHOOT US BACK TO WORK"

The thing that too many people are failing to grasp is that there is a moment coming when the people will throw themselves at the state with the force of the resentment and the bitterness against the unfairness - the cruelty - of the lives that the state has imposed on them, and that moment is coming over and over. When the moment comes, if the organising has been done the state will be toppled, and if it hasn't then it won't, but the state cannot topple the people because the people are its foundations, so the moment will come again.