@thomasjwebb awwww this was actually heartwarming to read, thanks for this. Go M&S!

What I'd like to see is advocacy for something really simple - you get to choose your puberty. And if you disagree with that, show me the data that shows that doesn't pass cost/benefit with flying colors. Even if you stretch the likelihood of regret-detransition as high as you can.

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@thomasjwebb yeah I have reasons to wonder if my father was part of our "strange tribe", though I'll never have satisfying answers.

@thomasjwebb he wrote a book called "I Will Fear No Evil" where the old rich white dude main character's brain gets transplanted into his hot young secretary, and it is both exactly as bad as you think and also obviously a transition fantasy. "All You Zombies" and some of the Lazarus Long […]

@thomasjwebb a) Oh yeah? Linky?
b) I am 110% convinced Robert Heinlein was trans.

@thomasjwebb never understood people who go to other countries and complain that they're different.

@thomasjwebb Oh I know that struggle! One of the big reasons I did laser was so I could go an entire international flight without shaving.

@thomasjwebb that's how it works in the US at least, they push a boy button or a girl button when you walk in. In my experience a tight tuck will get you past them without issue.

@jcriecke @danwentzel speaking as a professor of American politics, I don't know and anyone who says they do is lying. That's the answer to most questions in the field right now.

The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all.

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@danwentzel at least Clark County, NV would like to join, thanks.