EatMoreMacroplastics [she/her]

It absolutely isn’t, unsurprisingly JKR has been endorsing the genocide of Palestinians since at least the days when Labour ran a smear campaign against Corbyn.

They care about ending them. They will absolutely treat transphobia as a winning strategy after Texas, even though it’s obvious it was the gas prices.

jfc that article just keeps getting worse and worse with every paragraph, i’m not sure i should have read that

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Or they’re scared of the entirity of Dem-adjacent media giving them the Tara Reid treatment. Coming forward with allegations against anybody this powerful is pretty daunting, you can also safely bet that there’s a lot more than these 11 women that could accuse Trump of CSA, but that they’re terrified of what would be done to them by the public.

How many months (years?) did the dems sit on this shit and delay making it public?

Bill Clinton moved in the same circles back then, he did the same shit, so the dems were there while Trump did this.

Some of this happened as far back as the 1980s, a lot of it is from the mid 1990s, a lot of the allegations on file are from Epsteins first trial, from the Maxwell trial or shortly before or after these, but a lot of it was not made public before. This has been going on forever and has been successfully covered up over and over again, with the redacting of the Epstein Files being the most recent cover-up. Apparently some Dems have gotten access to some unredacted files some time after that, so technically this was info they accquired during Trump’s second term, at least in this form.

I would assume there is a way to lift parliamentary immunity, especially given that the Brazilian fascists have not managed to fully secure the courts to support their antics.

That’s assuming one wants to play by the rules, which i think Lula does based on how he’s acted in the past. But that does not mean you can’t utilize these rules as much as possible.

Yeah i get that, it’s a nice change of pace to feel some optimism beyond something like:

In the dark times, should the starts also go out?

The big difference to western countries is that there was a meaningful geopolitical choice on the ballot: A BRICS nation defending its sovereignty or becoming a comprador-ran puppet like Argentina. That’s not comparable to people in the imperial core getting to pick between diet hitlerism and diet strasserism. It was terrifying to see how one LatAm government after the other fell to the US-backed fascists, i am relieved to see that a nation as big as Brazil has bucked that trend.

Love and solidarity to my Brazilian comrades! Glad you fought back against the US meddling, may all of LatAm follow!

Literally saying out loud he views it as a success when his staff has abused kids to the point of showing a fawn response to the threat of violence. As if school wasn’t traumatizing enough without people who get paid to physically abuse children with torture devices.

I had to check a map to compare historic and re-introduced ranges of wolves, and i sadly didn’t even have to check a map for the fascists, but yes.

As somebody coming from a country that also barely has any old growth forest left, where wolves were hunted to extinction and where their return has been constantly used as a talking point by a far right party courting the votes of petit bourgeois farmers, i find that depressingly relatable.

The FBI counts this as “nihilistic violent extremism”, a category they created specifically to obfuscate that groups like 764 or O9A follow a fascist ideology. I doubt this will be counted as a right wing attack in spite of the obvious ableism shown in the selection of the victims.

Apparently this time it was 764, but same difference.

Dess, please come home

lol they’re calling it cyber psychosis now. Originally this was a word for how cis people imagined it would drive you mad when you have so many robot parts you do not recognize your body as yours anymore, which just proves once more that cyberpunk as a genre is wasted when you leave it to the straights.

From what I’ve seen, most trans people have been treated like this for years already, they’re just making it official now and forcing the few “good” nurses, that did treat us better, to also join in on the abuse.

Ofc transphobia in the medical system has always been a problem, it’s hands-down the most transphobic part of society from my own experience and almost any trans person i know has at some point experienced open, outspoken transphobia by medical staff. Still, i’ve also seen medical staff that tried their best to be better, a lot of trans orgs will keep lists of trans inclusive places in the medical system for reference, it’s common for trans people to share recommendations and a law like this openly works against such measures.

Referring to “biological sex” in the context of trans women is almost exclusively used to misgender us and deny not only our everyday lived reality, which is clearly that we are treated with all the contempt and objectification patriarchal society has for all women and then some, but it also betrays a superficial, actively anti-scientific understanding of what constitutes biological sex in the first place.

Biological sex isn’t a discreet, unified characteristic, it’s a composite of different biological features that then get conveniently subsumed under one label.

Nowadays you will frequently hear that biological sex equals chromosomes, but i do not know a single cis person who actually knows their karyotype - in fact, a not insignificant number of them have a karyotype that does not fit what you’d expect for their phenotype (see Klinefelter, Chapelle and other variations of chromosomal sex). And when you look at how transphobes want to police access to single sex spaces in a way that specifically excludes trans women, chromosomes are only ever used as a bad faith argument and never a foundation for exclusion in practice.

What transphobes instead obsess over are genitals. Now, if you have functioning gender affirming care (which obviously does not apply to any place on earth, particularly not the UK), a majority of trans women would in fact have a vagina. In my social circle, which consits almost entirely of trans women, we’re slowly reaching the point where a majority of trans women do, in fact have a vagina that is not distinguishable from that of a cis woman by any means. I won’t even get into the point that a woman’s penis is functionally not the same as a man’s for a variety of reasons, it will likely break your brain if i do. But when you press transphobes on this issue, when you ask them if they actually want genital inspections and if they would then sperate between people with vaginas and people with penises (what to do about people with both is a question that never occurs to them, even though such people do exist), they quickly reveal that they do not mean that, either. And they do not mean secondary sexual characteristics like facial hair, breasts, tone of voice etc., all of which are mutable and not equally pronounced among all men or all women.

No, what transphobes actually mean by biological sex is socially enforced sex. It’s always nothing but that. I could go on, this issue is a lot more complex and would require that i throw a lot more commonly held assumptions about biological sex out of the window, but let’s leave it at the fact that these discussions and these laws and these means of exterminating us are never actually about biology, as our biology is usually a core part of what we wish to, and usually do, change during our transition.

Cis people showing once more that they do not remotely understand what “biological sex” means.

Edit: feddit.uk does seem to be fairly reasonable about it so far, and moreso than the linked article which uses the nonsencical, inappropriate and misleading “biological sex” wording.