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do you know any trans people? have you ever talked to any? have you ever heard their ideas about themselves? I mean I assume you're just a fucking bellend, as you all would put it, but prove me wrong

well, he doesn't give a shit about trans people, danny. he's been making that clear for years.

I've seen you for years here promoting your TERF/SWERF lines, boss if you don't want the labels that's fine, but it's just an issue of semantics when someone posts a relevant study that contradicts exactly what you've just said - which you offer no evidence for - and instead of 1) finding some...

you know what's an awful thing to do? to ignore people's understanding of their own identity and refuse them care that affirms that identity. queer youth are 4x as likely to attempt suicide as heterosexual youth trans youth are then 2.5x as likely as cisgendered queer youth to attempt...

you're probably right but again, to let it stand is even worse I also don't really want to get derailed into a technical argument about degrees of consanguinity etc

Indeed, and I bitterly resent even having to address it, but it's even more offensive to me to just let it stand

one of the more perceptive European readings of America that I can recall the problem is that this is a direct and ferocious attack on the very tools than allow people to maintain existence with dignity, as well as their very existence

Extremely grim, though would certainly be challenged in the courts for a variety of reasons you never want to just default to a queer rights == civil rights comparison, but it's hard not to think about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

This is the approach that most people I know with young children are in fact taking

all 100% true for most of post-WWII American history, the dog whistle issue was race. desgregation, civil rights, school busing, welfare queens, Willie Horton, superpredators, etc. At some point that became unfeasible, even as a dog whistle (immigration you can absolutely still use as an ugly...

but since someone has to address it, let's bullet point -there's a serious history of straight culture and pederast culture: see child marriage, which is still prevalent in parts of the world (for example, West Virginia, where state lawmakers just blocked - as in, on Wednesday - a bill to ban...

So many things wrong with this, and so sick of people dragging it into everything queer-related, in bad faith the overwhelming majority of the time and before I waste time answering it, let's be 100% clear that you know just as well as I and everyone else that @mixed_biscuits absolutely isn't...

DeSantis, who unsurprisingly is at the forefront of this nonsense, and his most recent attack on gender-affirming care (for, let's be clear, legal adults, not minors)...

certainly deserves its own thread there are so many pieces of proposed state legislation - 97 was the last count I saw - to ban gender-affirming care for minors (and not just minors, as some proposed laws extend the age past 18), ban trans kids from playing sports, and outlaw drag performances...

and for the record if I post here these days it's cos it something I care about i.e. I'm mainly just posting for me I don't give a shit about likes or banter or whatever and I give less than zero fucks what @entertainment or luka or whoever think

thanks droid but 1) I don't want or need anyone to make excuses for me 2) and I made this distinction above but just to be crystal clear: despite having lived in relatively high-crime, highly policed neighborhoods for much of my adult life, I'm at little risk of violent crime or police...

also, less important, but tbc when you post a thread you don't own the thread. if I start a thread and people take it another direction, I don't demand people play by my rules or leave. if you write something in a space for public discourse, don't be surprised when discourse ensues. could I be...

@Mr. Tea basically already said it, but this a deadly - literally - serious issue. there is zero posturing involved. it is the exact opposite of forgiving and low-pressure. insofar as it goes I agree that saying something like ACAB to accrue social capital without meaning it is morally...

btw I can't recommend We Own This City strongly enough to anyone at all interested in American policing and police reform even though David Simon can't, I think, ultimately break free of a reformist mindset - if only we could do reform better, then it would work (The Wire's version of this was...

btw if you or anyone else wants to show actual sympathy for cops, you should support those kinds of policy changes cops aren't social workers, mental health professionals, addiction treatment specialists, etc. it's unfair to ask them to perform those roles, which is what happens when resources...