Don't forget that JD Vance is a Millennial Not all of us are cool and enlightened
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I'm just Nat! No, I'm the OTHER trans Natalie from Maryland.
This also goes for the "have trans men maliciously comply with bathroom bans" nonsense I still haven't finished that essay that I promised to @cripdyke.bsky.social but I'll get to it someday tl;dr We shouldn't be encouraging cis people to freak out about who's in the bathroom
👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · 2h agocan you guys retire "the right wing / chuds don't know what to do with trans men and forget they exist and will be So Confused by them!!!!" already. they are fully aware trans men exist and the thing they do to trans men is violently abuse and murder them
it's crazy how people aren't understanding this when the right wing think tanks are literally saying it out loud
This is partly why I think my "replace trans with a different minority" exercise in these discussions is apt Many bigots direct similar - or even identical - attacks at other minorities It also reveals the underlying sexism when cis women who beat men also have their womanhood questioned
Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2h agoThere. Are. No. Trans. Women. In. The. WNBA. This whole conversation is a racist trap and long circuitous argument that always comes back to insulting cisgender Black women by calling them not women. In particular it attacks: Brittany Griner, Liz Cambage, and A'Ja Wilson.
This is why so many cis Black women roll their eyes when they see Sophie Cunningham coming. They've seen this silly story play out before. Transphobes are pushing towards a world where Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham are women, but A'Ja Wilson is not unless she chemically neuters herself.🤦🏿♂️
Trans allies point out that A'Ja Wilson and Liz Cambage share the WNBA scoring record at 53 points. Then transphobes turn into transvestigators, and want to know A'Ja, Liz and Brittany's hormone levels.🤦🏿♂️ They start trying to redefine what "woman" means, so that these cisgender women no longer pass
A’ja Wilson 53 POINTS 😮 Ties record for most in a game in WNBA history [HIGHLIGHTS]
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We hear all about Caitlin Clark, but the best WNBA player is A'Ja Wilson. She's only 6'4, but she can dunk with ease as well. She is a cisgender woman who has a speed and athleticism advantage over almost every woman on the planet. Add to that elite level skill, and you have an unstoppable player.
A'ja Wilson Dunk at Mississippi State - 2/5/18
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The trans allies point out that 6'3 former college men's basketball players even struggle in 1 v 1 against 6'8 Liz Cambage, not just because she is tall. Other women are tall. But she can move, is deceptively fast, and can dunk with ease. The size and power combination are difficult to overcome.
WNBA All Star Liz Cambage *CHALLENGES* MEN to 1v1 and goes CRAZY
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The silly argument starts with transphobes saying that even the most skilled women basketball players can't beat much less skilled men and boys, because the height, speed, and athleticism advantage is too much to overcome. Then trans allies point out that some cis women have the same advantages.
Brittney Griner Career DUNKS Mix!
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There. Are. No. Trans. Women. In. The. WNBA. This whole conversation is a racist trap and long circuitous argument that always comes back to insulting cisgender Black women by calling them not women. In particular it attacks: Brittany Griner, Liz Cambage, and A'Ja Wilson.
Again, I don't think this applies to politicians who are in favor of your own oppression or who are silent in the face of it
Micah@rincewind.run · 3h agosome specific democrats suck and they suck in ways that are detrimental to issues that you personally care about you know how you solve that once we are past the primaries? you elect even more democrats so that their votes are less important joe manchin couldn’t have done as much damage as vote 52
That seems like the most obvious takeaway here The sharply defined coalitions that we imagine based on Bluesky left-wing squabbling are a lot fuzzier in the real world Most people just don't pay as close attention to politics as terminally online news junkies do
Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 2h agoI think this is an extremely online take that is divorced from the actual democratic primary electorate. I am willing to bet that Michigan democrats have positive favorables of both AES *and* Stevens, and that is why it was close
"People like it when famous people share their opinions and dislike it when they don't" is such a facile fucking take... who publishes this shit? *checks* Ahhh okay that tracks
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 6h agoAaron Rodgers spoke out about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sophie Cunningham spoke out about transgender athletes. Caitlin Clark chose not to weigh in. Three different approaches, one common result: criticism. Steve Buckley on how athletes can't win on social media: nyti.ms/3Sa9A7D
My take on boots discourse is that we face a lemons problem with many consumer goods, given the acquisition of many storied brands by companies aggressively milking accumulated brand equity for higher profits, such that price and reputation for durability does not reliably predict higher roi.
Three years ago, the Biden White House attacked me for saying "Democrats should be fighting on every possible front — filing a flurry of lawsuits and exerting public pressure through the media." "The president's team wants to be more selective in picking legal fights." I feel sadly vindicated.
I'm not "Blue No Matter Who" unless the candidate is a proven trans ally Otherwise, I have no faith that any given Democrat won't throw us under the bus at the first opportunity This is why I no longer consider myself a Democrat I would rather cast a blank ballot than vote for my own oppression
My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.
If Stevens had made it to the general election and lost in the fall, the argument would have been that the left cost the Dems the Senate. The left is pretty used to the media narrative always being “the left is at fault.”
Faeelin@faeelin.bsky.social · 5h agoIf sayed loses in the fall then the argument will be the left cost the Dems the senate which would be bad IMO
The youth claim to hate capitalism yet they purchase goods and services in order to survive ahaha and I am very Fortune Magazine
It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
When they said “there will be no toilet police” they were always just saying so we need You 🫵 to be a toilet vigilante and sniff out the gender deviants
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h agoThis is what they expected and wanted to happen: that members of the public, shown the cops would take their side if they kicked off and went mental at anyone they suspected of being a transgender, would then start going apeshit en masse and enforce their wacko ideas for them.
In 2011, the UK government response to antitrans provocations was "Don't be so bloody stupid".
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 6h agoweb.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"
We will not comply with the EHRC 'guidance', and neither should you. Take action for trans liberation.
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"Reluctantly," a federal judge dismisses the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy cases. Trump DOJ "excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy—the peaceful transfer of presidential power—to buckle." "The court cannot write a different ending," he adds. buff.ly/NvVKnaW
this isn't very popular to say, but for me personally, it was good that i had unrestricted internet access when i was a minor. i was aware of what i was doing and enjoyed it. i don't look back on it and go "well that was a mistake", i look back on it and wish i could do it for the first time again
Deeply disappointed at the comments on my Ken Jennings video. People would rather have empathy for a cis person than the trans person mocked. Yeah it’s the trans persons fault for lightly pointing out to a cis person the New York Times is bad actually to trans person. She’s making it about herself.
