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They make him or some other Republican trade them something in return for making them the new speaker. Could be McCarthy again, could be someone else. Doesn't matter who (depending - they'd never to agree to Gaetz himself or another crazy far right mfer) so much as what they can extract from...

I have. every single one someone has made here. multiple times over. it is tiring to have to answer the same things again and again. evidence that self-recognition in a dozen countries for decade (varying by country) has not lead to any rise in sexual assault I can dig back thru if...

refute it if you can, otherwise complaining about it

saying Kathleen Stock has never said or done anything remotely transphobic is such a wild statement flying in the face of so much evidence that it's hard to even fathom 600+ of her fellow philosophers signed an open letter after she received an OBE specifically complaining about her transphobia...

and if TERFs were still out there in the wilderness, howling into the void, it would all be whatever but they're being used to help promote a vicious slate of anti-trans legislation that is destroying lives and literally forcing people to flee their homes the Heritage Foundation specifically...

her sources, btw? surveys of parents from 4thWaveNow, Transgender Trend, and a site called Youth TransCritical Professionals, which definitely sounds like an unbiased place welcoming to trans people and I could go thru the links again to J. Michael Bailey and Ray Blanchard and Stella O'Malley...

btw, let's just be clear that this is handwaving someone saying that the Taliban are better than "trans activists". The Taliban. like, what the fuck are we doing here?

oh I guess I should specifically address minors, since that's supposedly the main concern Kathleen Stock is on record (ofc on Unherd, where else) about child beauty pageants. Alrite, I'll rephrase from "totally silent" to "overwhelmingly focused on trans people to an absurdly disproportionate...

@subvert47 already nailed the main points quite well, but your representation of trans activists is anything but neutral. "the activism claiming to represent them" is a bullshit formulation, suggesting that it is insincere/self-interested, overly demanding, and not representative of the...

malelesbian being a true skool 5 elements stan is intensely on brand

it's true, all the rest is really a scaffolding built onto the bedrock of opposing that cruelty. a very important scaffolding, because it determines why that stance is important and how to best go about doing it, but that is its emotional core for me and I suspect any ally. for trans people...

I don't want to ruin the olive branch above, but I have to say that trans and other gender-nonconforming people have been a part of the gay rights struggle literally since its inception (shoutout Marsha P. Johnson and all the other heros on whose shoulders we stand), and to frame trans rights as...

I thought your arguments about domestic violence were in good faith (tho perhaps not coincidentally they're the least concerned with trans people) the thing is, everywhere else I can see, you're advancing arguments created by transphobes, and making them in usually the same terms. if you want...

I looked at it I don't think the original post - the screenshot - is really transphobic. there are disapproving overtones, but it's a parent struggling to get to grips with a major event that just happened, and it's reasonable in that context. if her kid had been saying this for 3 years and...

To tie all that back into this thread, HDB proponents were, surprise, some of the earliest supporters of the Blanchard/Bailey autogynephilia theory (i.e. that trans women transition as/because of a sexual fetish), which is a cornerstone of both TERF-style ideology and the right-wing religious...

I know who Margaret Sanger was, yeah. She's been dead for going on 60 years and modern Planned Parenthood is vastly different from her original vision. Whatever public credibility eugenics had was destroyed, as I'm sure you already know, by its close association with the Nazis. Modern...

surely all the trans people I don't talk to don't want the same things as the ones I disagree with, which I know from not talking to them like, what do you even say to that kind of nonsense first off the entire idea of "trans activists" as uniquely shrill and demanding is a construct of TERF...

well, Mumsnet itself had to enact stricter moderation terms in 2018 in response to rampant transphobia characterized by a former employee as' "The first threads about trans people date from 2012, but looking at the board today, almost every conversation started is about trans people and trans...

So there's that evidence, both by governments which have instituted self-ID and independent experts who have studied it