I hope this doesn't come across as "I want trans people to do the work of educating me", & I can and will also do my own research, but ... as a cis ally, where can I best direct my limited energies & financial resources to help improve things for trans kids?
It's just relentless. Attack after attack after attack. I'm not one to get defeatist but it feels like it's neverending.
If you're a trans kid, take heart, and reach out to your trans siblings. There's more than a few of us with hormone stashes and the means to get or make more.
*clears throat, gets bullhorn*
buuuuulllllllllSHIT
Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters Follow I don't wish we could abolish gender, I just wish it were less an identity and more of a hobby. So you'd get people who are like "Oh yeah, l'm a woman when I have the time," or "I'm a man but I'm not very good at it yet" along with the CrossFit gender types who are SUPER INTO IT
A friend just saw this in the wild and you know what? I stand by it
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If you think Labour is not actively anti-trans: have a read of this thread.
Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).
This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5
If the way that adults behave in public endangers the lives of children & your proposed solution is that the children change their behaviour in a way that is inconvenient & poorly evidenced to help rather than that adults change their behaviour so that they do not endanger children:
What the fuck.
It's really frustrating how many people, even supposed allies, even some trans people, seem willing to abandon trans kids. There's a pervasive attitude of "you're a losing cause, sorry, it sucks, but we'll be here for you when you hit 18"
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68
actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67
Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!
The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
Something that speaks to a sudden decline in our society is the amount of people I’ve seen lately approaching stop signs and then going right through them like “nope, don’t believe in this anymore!”
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”
Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth
In today's least surprising news
40 far right with union flags surrounded by cops on every side boxes into a small huddle
Bristol Patriots having a shit day out today. All 40 of them, totally boxed in by hundreds of antifascists.
Police turned them around and marched them back the way they came.
Despite using batons and horses against antifascists, people held their ground and the fascists did not pass.
When men's workload is automated, it's genius; when women's workload is automated it's a character flaw and morally questionable.
A photo in the background of a protest with trans and rainbow flags. In the foreground a big number: 5,000 is shown... with text underneath saying "LGBTIQA+ Greens Members". The number of 5,000 is bordered with a rainbow gradient. The photo attribution is to What The Trans!? Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.
5,000 members! As @greenparty.org.uk has broke over 215,000 members, we've discovered that we're now past 5,000 members in the LGBTIQA+ Greens.
Our growth has been incredible over the last year, growing to at least double our previous size. Here's to many more members!
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER GIVE YOU UP, THEREFORE A COMPUTER CAN NEVER LET YOU DOWN
there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran
the last time i got to laundry zero, with everything not on my body clean & neatly put away, kissinger died within 4 hours
i will be back to L0 in about 3 hours, so, although the zero/death were clearly unrelated, let’s all put some energy into the universe in 3 hours
just in case
Just saw a store advertising with the slogan “wellness is the new luxury,” which really says the quiet part out loud huh
A common argument put forward by British AI boosters is that we *have to* hand the life’s work of the UK’s creatives to AI companies, because other countries are doing so.
But they are wrong, for three reasons.
🧵 1/6
idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet
Prompt: please draw the best mouse Output: an adorably naff mouse
Prompt: ai please draw a sneaky whale Output: a small whale and the words "you can barely see him"
Prompt: show me the best cat Output: dog in a cat mask. The words "not dog"
I want to be friends with every single person on youraislopbores.me
As a local resident I'm much more concerned about cars parking on pavements: they're far more dangerous to pedestrians when moving on & off pavements; they do more damage to the pavements themselves; and they take up far more space (& I can't drag a car out of the way like I can with a Voi!).
Algorithmic cruelty.
Legally, a car in a bike lane is a bicycle, so you can remove two of its wheels and they can't arrest you.
the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid
Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME
Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day.
Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
