Reminder to all feminists
If you accept trans people being defined by their reproductive role...
Then men can define all woman by their reproductive role
If you accept that trans teenagers are too young to make decisions about their bodies...
Then men can decide teenage girls are too young to make decisions about their bodies
If you accept medical gatekeeping of trans people's access to hormones...
Then doctors can restrict any woman's access to HRT and birth control
If you accept stripping trans people of legal protections...
Then men can strip women of legal protections
This is the truth of "trans rights are human rights"
Regardless of your personal feelings on whether trans people are "really" the gender they say they are, the exact same human rights protecting us also underlie women's liberation-- bodily autonomy, dignity, equality of opportunity, and protection from harm.
And so many men are desperate for those rights to disappear.
"Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Hannah Arendt warned us that the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act. More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action.
The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them."
https://www.404media.co/you-cant-post-your-way-out-of-fascism/
If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
The 24-Hour Reality Check: Mus...
I spent my holiday break in Tucson, Arizona with my mom and the elder of my two younger sisters. It was ❤️: I re-bonded with my sister, re-connected with old friends, and ate a lot of food. 🥰
I also passed pretty consistently with strangers (at least as far as I could tell).
It’s one of those curious things about being a Bay Area Transperson: you tend to pass more easily when you’re traveling than when you’re home. San Franciscans tend to know what’s up; they also tend to be kind about it. 😘
Hi, it’s me again. ☺️
I was pretty foolish moving to Insta and Threads. Egg on my face, 100%.
Hard not to wonder what it would be like if @mozilla’s Social were still around today …
I haven’t posted here as much this year as I would like. I pin most of the blame on the pressures of my employment, which have consumed my waking hours with such ferocious appetite that there’s very little of me leftover to write, and very little that I can write about other than the perks and perils of corporate employment in our late, great capitalist dystopia.
But here’s a cool jacket.
Went to my first bridal shower last weekend. Interesting time all around. The bride-to-be is the fiancée of a dear friend of mine going back to high school, which meant his sister, mother, and step-mother were also all in attendance—none of whom I’ve seen in 30 years.
Also, we won the TP wedding dress competition (last photo)!
🏳️⚧️ Proudly Trans
🌉 Bay Area
Product-Engineering Manager for a software product portfolio; former iOS dev; attorney (CA/IL); large-format photographer; marriage ministress; cinema nut; weeb; lifelong weird girl.
Lover of myths, legends, fairy tales, fantasies, and folklore; 6502 assembly aspirer; book hoarder; gaming nostalgist; gore-adverse, torture-adverse feminist horror film fan; food worshipper; Slack poet; ace-demi-recipro-crier; a total and complete mess.
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