"What if transition goals were less about looking a specific way, and more about becoming the kind of person that pushes open the doors of the cage so everyone can get out of it?" On 'transition goals' and what that could mean if we're brave enough.

The Goal Of Transition?

Access to physical transition is important. But what then?

kayknighting.medium.com

We should also have a frank discussion about the gender-conservative craze seducing our mothers ;P They go online to these radical extremist sites like Mumsnet and get obsessed with their niche gender ideology to the point it's all they talk about!

This is such a good example of how women are rewarded for reinforcing conformity to gender as control. All that matters here is the optics of a conventional gendered woman supporting the norms. The fact that she didn't put any intellectual effort in doesn't contradict that, it underlines it.

There is a certain grim humour in seeing terfs saying how disappointed & sad they are in Hilary Cass and that she 'doesn't know what she's talking about' because the leaked interview shows her acknowledging that trans people might exist, even though she still thinks we're a problem.

Don't talk to journalists about DIY HRT.

Excellent thread. The issue for me is always that there is no group of people who acknowledge they are 'doing conversion therapy'. The people who do this stuff always disguise their acts & make opposition out to be a mere ideological disagreement. It's not, it's opposing abusive quackery.

Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig@conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

With conversion therapy bans likely to be declared unconstitutional, states and their professional boards still have meaningful room to protect thepublic. But they have to be careful to regulate professional conduct and informed consent, not ideological speech. How? 1/14 #conversiontherapy

I live for the day when cishet men are held to account for their emotional constipation, unresolved insecurity and absurd dominance displays, instead of just being called closet cases by people who are too cowardly to acknowledge they still think being gay is the most awful thing you can be.

When this #BBC article was first published, it accurately described Dr Beth Upton - the woman found to be harassed by Peggie - as a trans woman The piece was then scrubbed - replacing an accurate description with a transphobic slur instead of the language trans women use to describe themselves

Them Fatale,@mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Not sure what is going on here, but the BBC just called Dr Upton a "trans woman" not that biological slur, grab a screenshot before the TERFs demand it is edited back! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I can't imagine this sour lot appealing to anyome, tbh.

Libby Brooks@libbybrooks.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Sandie Peggie’s lawyer confirms she will be appealing the “highly problematic” tribunal decision - Peggie herself says “I won’t be giving up the fight anytime soon”

I'm really proud of this. It's something I've been trying to articulate for a long time. Huge thanks to Forge for publishing it. 🧡

FORGE@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Check out our new blog post from @writingknighting.bsky.social! "Facing the Fog" is "a brief memoir and rumination on realising that I am actually going to grow old, what that might mean as someone who has transitioned, and how I came to terms with that." forge.tips/facing-the-fog

It's my dad's birthday. He was the first hero I had, and as I grew up I realised what a terrible human being he is. I am sad, because I'd like to be able to celebrate the man I thought he was when I was 8, and that man never existed.

Of course they put this behind a pay wall. “There are moments when I catch myself wishing she would just discover she wants to live as a boy,” says Ruby’s mum, “not because I doubt her identity but because I fear for her future in the UK." Please share. archive.is/newest/https...

One of my favourite ironies of surviving quiverfull crap is that the several children I bore to be part of god's right wing army are all lefties who all love and support their trans dyke parent and refuse to speak to their racist bigot grandfather. Congrats, fundies, you played yourselves.

God didn't give me enough for one of my babies and she had developmental delay because of it. What a skinflint. Also, he gave me a potentially cancerous lump that required I stop nursing another one of my babies, so his planning is also way off.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."

What I find so incredibly disingenuous about these people is that they would eat their own toes before improving the situation for women and others in regards to parental leave & other measures which might help those who wanted to nurse their babies. They just want to control the breeding stock.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."

In case you're as confused by the headlines in the UK media as I was, the outcome of the Peggie case is: The bigot nurse lost. It's still not lawful to harrass trans women. The court only agreed that the employer should have acted sooner to stop the harrassment.

I genuinely think one of my favourite things to see in passing when out and about is two men who are obviously together, holding hands and being lovingly affectionate. It still carries so much stigma, but it makes my heart glad every time. We need to see love lived to believe we can live it too.

I think what makes me so angry about these orgs excluding trans women isn't just the decisions themselves, it's the handwringing 'ally' language. "We stand with you!" Does it soothe your conscience as you watch trans folk get picked off as you 'stand'? What good is it to stand & do nothing?

It's not a coincidence that the statement GG issued will demonstrate to the girls who are allowed to stay that compliance is the highest virtue. That's the role for women. Non-conforming ones always have to be sacrificed to enforce the obedience, willing or not, of the rest. It's deliberate.

Without History@withouthistoryband.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Like, I'm sorry the fascists are giving you difficult choices. But that's what fascists fucking do. The only legit answer is "fuck you make me". The only answer that shows you have actual fucking principles not preferences is "fuck you make me". And that sucks. But here we are.

The only *logic* in excluding trans girls and young women from Girl Guides is if you don't believe they are girls & young women. If that's the case, say it. If that's not the case, don't do it. Claiming to be inclusive & also sad about pushing out a marginalised group is incoherent cowardice.

I note they still want the free labour of trans people to run the organisation while excluding trans girls and young women from participating on the basis of pressure from bigoted pressure groups. This is such a cowardly, mealy-mouthed statement.

Statement for members on our equality and diversity policy

An update on our equality and diversity policy following the Supreme Court decision of April 2025

girlguiding.org.uk

Painfully middle-class professional whiner, Maya Forstater, has always poured scorn on period poverty. Not getting a contract renewed because of her tantrums about pronouns is a 'human rights' issue. Youngsters on benefits making do with bloody bog roll stuffed in underwear is just tough luck.

However bad the dysphoria I feel about my sexed anatomy, I push against the tendency to indulge misogynist language about it. It's an easy shortcut to perceived 'masculinity' but I don't want to be the kind of guy who talks about female anatomy with disrespect, even if mine causes me distress.

I've been struck recently by how many slurs directed to trans folk, whether trans women or trans men, are based in misogyny. Slurs based on body parts, and rooted in disdain for both women's sexuality & bodily autonomy. On trans men, the purpose is to diminish, on trans women, it's to demonise.

GC Feminists don't like acknowledging it, but every single tactic they use mirrors prolife rhetoric. 'I couldn't get sterilised but children can if they say they're trans!' = 'In one part of the hospital the wanted baby is alive and in another, they're killing the unwanted baby on a whim!'

Mitildide 🧌@mitildide.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It's very simple: you struggled to access your bodily autonomy, and eventually got it, and trans people did the same. Now you're using the arguments that were used to harm you, to harm others. That last part I cannot make sense of.

It's a good barometer of how horrific things are for trans folk in the UK that, for a long time, Linehan's belligerent obsession, seen here in full technicolour, meant that most GCs kept a wide berth from him, but are now feeling safe enough from consequences to tweet support for the hateful fool.

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I can't believe someone flew to Arizona to interview Graham Linehan. Nobody comes out of it well observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

🧵/ Today a damning parliamentary report on the state of palliative care services in England was published. Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs. Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible. The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.

I don't think we're going to have a successful Amazon boycott till we break their monopoly on indie books. They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵

This is the sort of study that, if GCs were honestly concerned about trans youth, would reassure. However, they think the high percentage of folks who stay on HRT *is* the problem. It's not *just* that GCs leverage detransition - it's that they also consider successful transition a problem.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 11mo ago

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.