Cuando toque votar el 23J, recordad: antes cerdo que fascista.
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Next Sunday we're having general elections in Spain, and a whole movement has started around Porco Rosso to encourage people to vote against the rising fascism in my country. He's become the perfect icon... and well, it's time to fight (again) to keep our rights.
tragic! this faggot finally has an opportunity to go to the fun out of town gay bar and the weather is so weird she can't figure out how to serve cunt in a god honoring way
Max is so emotionally constipated and sarcastic and guarded. she wants to be included and to show and be shown tenderness so badly but both are so hard for her. she's had a front row seat to relationships crashing and burning and it made her build walls before it was even her turn for relationships. she'll show up, she'll pick locks, she'll audition relentlessly for a role that does not exist, she'll fight for her spot, she'll prove herself. she'll walk away, she won't fall for it, she'll accept insults she thinks she deserves, she'll leave before she's left. she'll disguise hurt as anger and add another brick until nobody can see her anymore and then she'll cry that she's alone.
El grew up in a cage and she's cannonballing into a human life that she learned from soap operas five minutes ago. she's eager to love big and messy and full of mistakes and unashamed. she'll knock anyone on their ass who tries to take what she's decided is hers. she'll kill for her friends, she'll die for them, she'll caress their hair when she hugs them. she'll seek the acceptance of someone she's already rejected. she'll drop the most dramatic line and not bat an eye. she'll bleed and scream and cry in front of everyone, she'll tell a room full of bullies that her dad is her hero, she'll say I love you when no one's ever said it to her. she will have love in her life even if she has to drag it by the ankle. and if she's separated from it she'll escape, she'll break rules, she'll go defcon 1, she'll defy natural laws, she won't stop at death. she'll give of her own heartbeat to get it back.
Last night was wild. @rhysiedarby & I crashed* the Indiana Jones premiere after-party and got to hang out with a Python for close to an hour (I largely asked him about encounters with Francis Bacon’s ghost).
*were invited to
From left: drunk podcaster, writer of the new Indiana Jones movie, vampire / colleague of Clem Fandango, and a werewolf (not a swearwolf)
Late Friday afternoon, Judge Patrick Hanlon, a Trump-appointed federal judge, issued a temporary restraining order halting Indiana's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The ruling fully blocked the enforcement of the law, with Hanlon determining it likely violates the constitutional rights of equal protection under law. Hanlon pointedly stated that these bans unfairly discriminate against trans youth and that denying them necessary care could cause "irreparable harm."
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In essence, the discriminatory nature of the law is evident as it only forbids treatments designed to support transgender youth in their transition to a sex different from their assigned birth sex. Conversely, it permits the same treatments when used to maintain alignment with their birth sex. To put it plainly, if a cisgender boy experiences gynecomastia (enlarged breasts), he can access treatment for reduction; however, this option is denied to transgender boys. Similarly, a cisgender girl can get medical assistance to suppress excessive testosterone, but transgender girls are prohibited from the same treatment. These biased regulations are wholly founded on sex, leading the judge to unequivocally rule that “sex-based classifications are not just present in S.E.A. 480’s prohibitions, they’re determinative.”
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This law is the most recent law in a string of laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community judicial demise. Two weeks ago, Florida’s own prohibition on gender-affirming care was blocked by a federal judge. Similarly, Tennessee’s restrictions on drag were ruled unconstitutional. In Indiana, a court ruled that teachers do not have a right to misgender their trans students. On the national stage, the U.S. Supreme Court permitted a transgender student in West Virginia to continue participating in sports. This evolving landscape underscores a new phase in the fight for transgender rights, a phase in which harmful laws are repeatedly toppled in courts across America due to their unconstitutional nature.
While many transgender people currently suffer under these laws, these recent developments give hope to a community that sorely needs it. As the last few gender affirming care bans move through Republican-supermajority state legislatures, these court decisions may serve to dissuade lawmakers from passing their own versions of these unconstitutional prohibitions on care.