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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.
A concern trollâs cognitive dissonance: Helen Joyce on trans kids
If your mind is made up, why do you pretend to be open to more data? I used to wonder why people got so anxious over the idea of trans people, and now I realize itâs because they believe contradictory things about us.
Helen Joyce: All trans people break the world
It sounds metal, but actually, she just doesnât like us. She compares gender transition to a contagious disease, lobotomy, and opioid abuse and calls us a disaster.
YouTube deleted the Peterson/Joyce ‘meat lego’ video
On âmeat Legosâ and whatâs older than trees. “That’s what people say about me,” Joyce says innocently, smiling, batting her eyes. “That I want to cause a genocide…When did I ever write such a thing?”
What we can learn about Helen Joyce in two sentences
That second paragraph on the book jacket of âTransâ. Whose feelings matter? It’s a premise of Helen Joyce’s book ‘Trans’ that cisgender people’s feelings matter the most. It’s right there on the book jacket.
On the 3rd anniversary of J.K. Rowlingâs pledge for trans rights
She âwouldâ have marched with us, but when? Her supporters insist she canât be transphobic, citing her tweet: âIâd march with youâŚâ Well, her tweet is three years old today. She hasnât marched.
Iâm disappointed in the âWitch Trialsâ
J.K. Rowlingâs image-polishing podcast doesnât grapple with the real problem. When someone accuses Rowling of transphobia, her teamâs refrain is: When has she ever been transphobic? At this point, I hear it as a running joke.