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People need to be allowed to keep their ID cards
I hope everyone is aware of the threat to š³ļøāā§ ļøtrans Kansansā 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.

Why fascists target gender transition
It messes with their imagined āpureā origin story for their compatriots. Just by existing, we overturn the alleged ‘mythic past.’ We expose its fictions. Fascists don’t want us to exist because we are outside their time.

He says your academic evidence is ālaunderedā
If you believe oppression is real, Peter Boghossian doesnāt think your academic work is real. Conservatives ask for their feelings to be validated and for “Western Civilization” to be saved through intellectual debate. Can we meta-debate that?

Being transgender is homophobic? Thatās trope, notĀ truth
Breakdown of ‘A Heretic’s Manifesto’ (2023) by BrendanĀ O’Neill. They publish screeds without speaking to a single one of us, which goes beyond paternalism and shows an intent to control us in ways that are harmful to us.

15 common features of anti-trans troll comments
They really pack āem in. They didn’t read my article and don’t care about my perspective. They act as though I’m the one who didn’t do the required reading.

30 terrible ways to express ‘skepticism’ of transgender people
I will tell you how I generated this list. Itās not random. For people who have been bothered by these arguments, who want to see them unpacked, and who will gladly avoid repeating or amplifying them in the future.

Skeptical of trans people above all
They could have been skeptical of science denialism and supernaturalism instead. Some theories, beliefs, and agendas are false, and their falseness merits skepticism. But trans people are real. We shouldn’t be the object of skepticism.