The pervasiveness of the term “biological male” is proof that the style guides are determined by a certain type of staffer and it ain’t one that knows what my hormone panels look like

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · yesterday

Did we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?

I hate sounding like a conspiracy person but there’s a reason that this Sophie Cunningham thing is on like day 7 of discourse and how there’s absolutely very little trans staff writers driving the news coverage of it.

I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · yesterday

I hate sounding like a conspiracy person but there’s a reason that this Sophie Cunningham thing is on like day 7 of discourse and how there’s absolutely very little trans staff writers driving the news coverage of it.

It’s true, in the past I would have had multiple editors in my inbox asking me to write about the Cunningham stuff. I haven’t gotten a single assignment request. Trans writers used to be tokenized to write about these things but now that the topic is “mainstream,” those bylines go elsewhere.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · yesterday

I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.

I pitched both of my usual outlets about the Cunningham stuff, one said yes, one said not right now. In 2019 I would have had a dozen editors competing for my words on this.

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 7h ago

It’s true, in the past I would have had multiple editors in my inbox asking me to write about the Cunningham stuff. I haven’t gotten a single assignment request. Trans writers used to be tokenized to write about these things but now that the topic is “mainstream,” those bylines go elsewhere.

This is what happened 5-10 years ago in the UK. Journalistic seriousness was stripped from trans journalists and columnists despite trans topics dominating headlines.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 4h ago

I pitched both of my usual outlets about the Cunningham stuff, one said yes, one said not right now. In 2019 I would have had a dozen editors competing for my words on this.

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

erininthemorning.com

I will say that this is making ease up on the snark. Worth noting, this is being consistent about going "Vote Blue No Matter Who"

Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 7h ago

I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.

everywhere everytran all at once, featuring jobu tuckpacki

Cloudy 🌥️ (estrogen angel)@oncloude.bsky.social · 4h ago

this shit is frying me

honestly I'm pretty sure were it not for the genocide Israel's perception would have remained largely positive for the foreseeable future tens of thousands dead and expansionistic military adventurism on everyone's screens tends to make people have qualms about supporting you!

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3h ago

I mean this sincerely: I think pro Israel people really need to begin internalizing that this is not a fringe opinion anymore and in fact is very statistically likely to be the average view of any brown Democratic candidate for office or any candidate under the age of 50

Next time someone tries to tell you that Roman slavery was different or better than other forms of slavery, tell them to listen to last week’s episode of @thisguysucked.com and/or buy Emma’s book.

For my @xtramagazine.com column this month: "There are no trans women in the WNBA; there has never been an openly trans player in the WNBA... so it’s essentially impossible for a trans woman to play in the league or refute any of Cunningham’s statements." xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

The WNBA should have never let it come to this | Xtra Magazine

After Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham came out against trans women playing women’s sports, the league has allowed things to snowball

xtramagazine.com

Banger

every time I think discourse here is the bottom of the barrel, I recall tiktok exists apparently the latest attempted gotcha to this stupid ongoing discourse about straight women refusing to date bi men from a place of unexamined homophobia is asking straight men whether they'd date bi men

personally i still hate "vote blue no matter who" regardless of whether leftists or centrists win, but it's quite amusing to see centrists and liberals suddenly opposing the "vbnmw" line they've been pushing for the past several years now that their candidates aren't winning primaries

Still true btw for those who have an odd and totally not racist obsession with bringing up Dearborn or Uncommitted every day

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 4w ago

Do centrist Dems realize that the incentive structure they're establishing by admonishing one of the few major Arab American figures who unequivocally endorsed Harris despite nothing being conceded on Gaza? The lesson for those Arabs will be to uh, not do that again.

the most expected thing about the replies and reposts of this is that the *only* people lauding this and healing praise on k. jennings are people who aren't trans it's like when white people fall over themselves accepting apologies on behalf of asians after one of their ilk talks about the gooks

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 3d ago

I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️

If you’d like to read the report exposing the anti trans people ‘Gender Critical’ movement in the UK - which sadly Amnesty took down after bottling it due to legal threats from the Edinburgh Funder - here it is. Like_a_snowball_final_.pdf - Google Drive drive.google.com/file/d/1PSsa...

One of the bigger problems the 2025 ruling has introduced is establishing that, instead of resolving equality cases based on trying to as best as possible integrate everyone's right to be treated humanely, we use philosophical debates about what someone's true legal essence is to decide rights.

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 10h ago

web.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"

in a just world these betamaxxing cucks at ice/cpb/dhs would find themselves supermaxxing in adx florence until the heat death of the universe

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

clips like this remind me why I love the character of orange cassidy

Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins@wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 9h ago

This is unironically what it's going to be like if even a single DSA backed candidate makes it into the Dem Primaries for 2028

pure bskyism in this freshly tapped vein, look at all the people completely missing the joke dawg

Ruwa Romman@ruwaromman.bsky.social · 15h ago

🫶

Mike Rogers and John James will never be asked more than once about official statements from the leader of their party, while Abdul El-Sayed and Jocelyn Benson will constantly be grilled about a thing that they didn’t say but someone with six Twitter followers thinks is communism.

jay@yourpaljay.biz · 9h ago

Abdul supporters, be ready to say “is that something he said, or is that something you heard he said?” Because when Van Jones is allowed to say he “declared open season on Israeli children,” our job is to point out the casual dishonesty that has and will be a hallmark of this race.

there are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. clearly the chatbot that created kavish's post hasn't solved the second of the hard computer science problems

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 23h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

It's weird because as @laurentheisen.bsky.social wrote, the anti-trans people have created a situation where they can stoke anti-trans sentiment and anger without there even needing to be an actual trans athlete involved. defector.com/the-right-ha...

The Right Has Created Its Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN p...

defector.com

What exactly is the ask from Cunningham and Smith here? More leagues to proactively implement rules banning trans people? More anti-trans laws (that will be described as "protecting girls sports" but also include provisions that restrict trans rights in other aspects of life)?

women/queers will go through life with intimate knowledge of their dietary restrictions straight brosephs will have diarrhea for decades and think that's normal

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

two comments: 1. spider-man brand new day was better in the original klingon, the first language of the odyssey 2. if it hadn't been for the amateur tiktok musical spider-man would have never been green lit as a movie

Acornloaf@toneloaf.bsky.social · yesterday

Spider-Man Brand New Day is also a loose adaptation of The Odyssey. After his successful plan to sack Troy(the spell to protect the Multi-Verse), Peter loses himself, spending years traveling aimlessly across the seas (NYC). Running from the life he had built 1/3

definitely not considering what happened to the kospi these past couple weeks, esp. given how much of its value came from samsung electronics and sk hynix, which thankfully have almost nothing to do with the ai bubble

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · yesterday

ThisIsFine.Gif

This is why I said they never cared about women's sports, women, children, or even sports at all. It's always been about finding the barest plausibly deniable reason to start the program of women-as-property, eugenic genocides, forced birth bullshit. And it's not limited to Republicans at all.