The thing about getting people to vote for you is you have to actually offer them something "Im gonna segregate your community you slur, but vote for me cause maybe I wont harm other people as much as the other guy" is about as compelling as suggesting rat poison as a snack.
While the most serious vulnerabilities, the PHP related exploits are just one in a list of dozens of serious cybersecurity incidents over the last 48 hours. We’re seeing AI facilitated penetration testing and exploit efforts across the entire global online infrastructure.
The NHS is already one of the biggest perpetrators of anti-trans violence in the UK. This new guidance, which refers to trans people using slurs, demands that we be segregated and abused. I’ve said it before: senior NHS managers must be sacked and punished for what they’ve done to us.
This will kill people
Screw it, it's time people learn the deep lore
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
A truly astonishing statement by the Head of Bluesky Trust and Safety. Here's a sanity check for when you post about trans people, replace the "trans" adjective with any other minority, for two completely random examples use "japanese" and "jewish" here and check if you would still say it.
This, right here! Both voting for these Democrats and abstaining from voting for them has significant risks and instead of spending their time yelling at us (and never at the politicians doing transphobia), cis people should maybe grapple with the fact that they've put us in a no-win situation.
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
From immigrants to the Prairieland Defendants to hate crime victims, the Trump regime is already rounding up trans people while the public turns a blind eye, the Democrats look for a compromise, and the media cheers on the societal panic and purge.
I have a dire update on this story. I have reason to believe my source, Aurora Rush, was taken by the federal government as a political prisoner. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...
As I’ve said before, any serious attempt to ban conversion therapy needs to confront the fact that the NHS has been doing it for decades.
Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.
When we say they are coming for everyone's rights, we mean it. This was not hyperbole. The systems you think protect everyone only exist until we are inconvenient.
1/🧵 The Supreme Court has today overturned Cheshire West and removed important protections for severely disabled people. This case hits all the keywords: guidance, segregation, “never had the right”.
Considering that I’m part of the amazing LGBTQ community, absolutely! 🏳️🌈
Since the concept is being misunderstood and misused, let's talk about what "third-sexing" means as a mechanism of transphobia. I built on an idea first discussed in @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl" that discussed how, interpersonally, cis people refuse to acknowledge our genders.
The Third Sex
“The Gender Binary” is a misnomer; gender has always been a hierarchy.
taliabhattwrites.substack.com
This is probably the best news of the year:
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed an HIV vaccine candidate that achieves something never before observed in the field: inducing detectable neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) against HIV within just THREE weeks after a SINGLE immunization which was further INCREASED after an additional booster.
💿🐎 Put simply: trans women are not "socialised male" - they are socialised specifically as trans girls and then trans women. There is a very specific form of gendered discipline which occurs (transmisogyny). Is a continuing, lifelong, dialectical process between self-concept and social structures.
A trans girl is not "socialized male" - she's brutalized into hiding herself. What someone is doing when they accuse trans women of "male socialization" is that they are denying us the closet, denying that it is a painful and traumatic experience where the life is choked from us by dysphoria.
This was the funniest possible outcome of the Scottish elections, and the scots delivered..
JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.
does anyone else remember when a trans woman wrote a story about how trans folks will never be tolerated by patriarchal white supremacist capitalism until they can be weaponized by the military industrial complex and got so much hate for it that she pulled the story and stayed closeted irl? just me?
eek
Ran into some people on Reddit who are angry at games for making these statements. Please repost this to make them angrier
Both *Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle* games over on Steam now have new banners on their store pages. Support human creators.
I have already survived the worst part of my life, and I will not give up.
I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u #transdayofvisibility #tdov
if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either
The first teaser trailer for the new ‘HARRY POTTER’ series drops tomorrow #HarryPotter
Obviously this is as excellent as you would expect. But it has a very smart bait-and-switch that really hits hard.
The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy. Proud to expose this stuff ✊ youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...
Trans people have been *screaming* for *years* this was coming. And here we are.
Trump Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans Under a new rule, the State Dept will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally. transitics.substack.com/p/trump-admi...
The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with