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People need to be allowed to keep their ID cards
I hope everyone is aware of the threat to đłď¸â⧠ď¸trans Kansansâ IDs. If I had a Kansas ID, Kansas would ask me to surrender my ID. It’s nonsense. There’s never been a reckoning. Anti-trans moral panic is hotter than ever.
On a journey toward truth
New art, ancient thought. Truth and the meaning thereof isn’t in a dictionary. It’s something you go on a journey to find. Philosophy by Guillermo Hurtado.
Will everything be OK?
No one can promise, but we can prepare. Put your plan into action. Uncertainty is a fact of life. We can promise each other we’ll do the work. We can iteratively take that moment to think about what we need and to prepare.
Pirate secrets you canât have at sea
They worried their mates might steal a watch, not that their mates might be trans. Many people today act as if trans people were secret pirates. But even pirate captains didnât care if other pirates were secretly trans men.
There were gay Nazis
âBad Gaysâ by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Weimar-era Germany had LGBTQ society and culture and an early movement for LGBTQ legal rights. Of course, that was lost. And some of the Nazis were gay.
More shameful nonsense from âGay Shameâ
Regarding trans people, Gareth Roberts asks: âWho exactly invited the vampire inâ? A continuation of my criticism of the âsex-realistâ aka âgender-criticalâ aka transphobic book âGay Shameâ by Gareth Roberts, published in April 2024.
Gareth Roberts says accepting trans people is âGay Shameâ
Yet another LGB-minus-T âsex realistâ book hits the shelves. Roberts wonât engage the academic work or mere existence of any trans people. He name-drops a couple, but weâre all either airheads or criminals to him.
121 things I want cis men to stop doing
Conveniently, all of them are sentences in the same article by the same cis man. Cis menâs name is Andrew Sullivan and I want them to stop doing what he did in his April 9, 2021 article on Substack. This is not Star Wars.
Yet another pro-discrimination argument
Always follow the typos. They reveal what editors arenât researching. Why does a national newspaper pay a columnist for a 2,800-word anti-transgender opinion essay? More mysteriously: If thereâs a typo, what does it imply?