bc no matter what the civil law is a medical/mental health professional cannot ethically do that.
But a Lawyer cannot out a murderer?
Crime bill is crime
Where are our cops and military to protect us ???
SCOTUS rrld that 1. Police are not required to protect common citizens, 2. Cops can decide which laws they want to enforce.
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“The reason you have to have prosecutorial discretion is that we now have an awful lot of federal laws for practically everything,” says John Malcolm of the Heritage Foundation, who’s a former Assistant US Attorney himself. “And when everything all of a sudden becomes a crime, then you have a broad field from which you can pick and choose.
we’re watching the new season of queer eye and my dad is actually crying over the ep with the trans dude, like he’s talking about his top surgery and my dad is in tears going “when you sculpt marble the sculpture is already inside, you’re just getting rid of what isn’t part of it! he’s just getting rid of what isn’t part of him!”
so from my oldass 70 year old dad to all my trans followers, y’all are marble sculptures and you’re perfect
the first pride month that I was out, Pride 2015, I was 15 and I was sent to a conversion therapist after my old church convinced my parents that I needed repairing.
Pride 2016: I was referred to endocrinology to start T. my parents were more or less tolerant of my transition but had a long way to go. my old church was acting hateful towards us because my parents had decided to let me socially transition.
Pride 2017: I had top surgery. I was cared for by my mom after surgery. she said my chest reveal was one of the happiest days of her life because she had never seen me so happy.
today, my mom wished me a happy pride, sent me some gay and trans flag edits, and is ordering a big rainbow flag to hang in our yard so everyone knows where she stands. we go to an affirming church that loves me as I am. I am post-transition. even though we had to cut out most of my step dad’s family, there are tons of people who love us. life is good.
this is for other kids who might be in unsupportive families, homophobic or transphobic religious environments, or conversion therapy. please hang in there. there are people who will love you as you are. life can be so good if you hold on for right now.
i was sitting with a bunch of cis people at lunch who think i’m cis and they literally had an entire conversation on how “nowadays you can’t tell who’s transgender” while i there wearing a trans pride flag t-shirt
bringing this back bc i wore the shirt again today and some guy came up to me and gave me a high five while saying “FUCK YEAH SUPPORTING LESBIANS!!!” bc he thought it was the lesbian pride flag
yo if youre a cis woman who considers yourself an ally to trans women please take a second to read this
stop engaging with terfs, its not helping. it has never helped. stop reblogging terf posts to poke fun at them, stop directly engaging in arguments with terfs for the sake of getting off some petty insult or telling them off, youre not proving anything and youre not going to change their minds. doing something to “piss off terfs” does not help trans women, it just frustrates terfs, who will then take their frustrations out on trans women. terfs might tell u off or insult u but ultimately they see u as a poor victim who has been Brainwashed By The Trans Rights Activists™, youre not a target, youre not the one who has to deal with their anger, we are.
if u want to help trans women do things to uplift and support trans women, if u see a trans women is being harassed on this site by terfs throw some positivity her way. dont rile up ppl who are attacking someone else just to earn radical discourse brownie points.
Anti-terf activities that can actually be helpful for cis allies to engage in:
If someone makes a post about “please don’t reblog from (popular artist) cause they’re a terf,” feel free to reblog it! Help spread information about who terfs are.
If a trans woman makes a post detailing why terf arguments are absurd nonsense, feel free to reblog it! Help spread information about why terf ideas are bullshit.
If you see a post like that, or a general positivity post for trans women, and there’s some terf being hateful on it, just reblog from OP! Even if someone further down in the thread “totally destroyed” the terf’s argument! Don’t give terfs a platform on your blog.
If you see a post from a lesbian feminist blog you don’t recognize, give it a quick look before you reblog! This goes doubly true if the post talks about people in terms of “males” and “females” or the person has words like “radical”/”rad” or “female” in their url or blog title. Put in the effort to not reblog from terfs so trans women don’t have to do it for you!
If someone close to you turns out to be a terf, cut them off and tell them why. Don’t think you can be an ally to us and still be friends with the people who want us dead.
But like the OP said, making a big show about arguing with terfs and mocking them doesn’t actually help us at all. I know it’s easier and flashier to fight a big evil enemy, but it’s better and more important to help the trans women who’re being hurt by them and by the world we live in.
Love and support trans women before you worry about fighting terfs.
very good and important additions here
also like make sure if u think a lesbian feminist is a terf that they’re not actually like, a trans woman bc that happens more often then it shd where ppl are like ‘i don’t like lesbians w radical politics so im gonna call them terfs’ even tho they, u kno, aren’t.
have i ever told y’all the story about how a snake knew I was trans years before I did
okay so
my 7th grade social studies/8th grade science teacher (he did both classes. Somehow…) had a snake lovingly named Hisser. Hisser would occasionally be taken out to crawl and he was held by kids and when there were fire alarms Hisser was taken along, usually to his chagrin.
This was one of those days where we had in class work time and most of us were just chilling and so Mr. A got Hisser out and started passing him around.
Every girl student that he came to, he would immediately snuggle up to, wrap around their arms, and get cozy. With boy students, he would just sort of sit in the coiled lump that he’d been handed in. This was true with just about every single student, and Mr. A said that Hisser likes girls a lot better than guys and this has been thoroughly proven by Hisser’s attitude.
Then Hisser was handed to me. He was a loveable cold scaley rope as you would expect, but he didn’t coil around my arms. He didn’t get cozy. He just sat there. And Mr. Anderson said, “Huh. That’s weird. He usually likes girls.”
I passed the snake to my friend and surely enough, Hisser wrapped around her arms and got cozy.
I came out as a trans guy about 7-8 years later, and just recently realized that Hisser was right about me not being a girl all along.
I’ve also decided that whenever anyone asks me “Why I think I’m a boy,” which is my LEAST favorite question ever, I’ll just tell them that a snake told me a long time ago.
you ever have 8,045 bad mental health days in a row
you ever have 8,046 bad mental health days in a row
thats 22 years of bad mental health are you okay
you ever have 8,050 bad mental health days in a row
They’re deactivated now and I really hope they are okay, but my nihilism is telling me something else. 😦
nah i just changed urls a few times. i came out and transitioned, graduated college, and got an amazing girlfriend who lights up my life. i had to delete the queued update to this post that said 8400 days for my 23rd birthday because i’m in a really good place right now.
to everyone struggling: it really does get better.
I’ve reblogged the original but this makes it better.
It gets better. Even if you’re struggling for years.
Six: Kenneth Zucker
Blair White*
Walt Heyer
Paul McHugh
James Cantor
R. Blanchard
Remember these names. If you see these names, shit is about to go down. Any organization that allows these people to soeak at their event is either very ignorant or willfully platforming a massive transphobe.
These are horrible people. They lie, they publish bad ‘research’, they promote abusive therapies. They have all been discredited a thousand times yet they continue to get invited by media and conferences desperate for a transphobic ‘expert’ to hide their bigotry behind.
*Blair White doesn’t claim to be a scientist so if you count transphobic pseudo-scientists, yeah it’s literally five people
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