It’s worth noting however that civil commitment is primarily a state level process. There is no federal infrastructure at scale for what he describes, which begs a series of increasingly disturbing questions about how this will be carried out.

Involuntary “treatment” does not work. What it does do is permanently alienate people with addictions from potential treatment providers, drives up overdose deaths and maximizes “revolving door” use of facilities such that people who are ready to make a change and want treatment can’t get a bed.

i don’t really know what comes next for us

nobody really does if they’re being truthful with you

but having the supreme court say you can ban hrt as long as conversion therapy stays legal

and that’s not discrimination

is a recipe for such incredible hardship, pain, suffering immeasurable

This ruling also asserts that the characteristics of "women drivers" are biologically determined, if you want to gauge the radioactive level of sexism it emits.

Sigh.

I'm not trying to make myself happy. I am trying to communicate what my positionality in a patriarchal hierarchy is.

The queer academy and the discourses it's spawned have been such a fucking disaster for (trans)feminism.