If we could just take a fucking breath and admit "our kids are people, we don't get to decide who they are," and stop using "BUT THE CHILDREN" as a reason to attack trans people, and autistic people, and whoever else we've decided not to like, that would be cool.

I know this is something I circle back to a lot, but it honestly feels, to me, like half the attacks on our trans siblings roots back to "children aren't people." The doctor said "boy," so I get to be the parent of a boy child! Not a girl child! How dare my child want things I don't want?!

If you want to take one thing away from the art of the New Deal it is - in my humble opinion - that throwing money at *NORMAL* artists to decorate public buildings makes the world a much nicer place, particularly if you charge them with making the decorations evoke the history of where they are.

There is no “safety and security” interest in denying people the basic sanitary products they need to manage normal bodily functions.

Our latest briefing examines what it's like to have a period behind bars, where menstruation is treated like misconduct – more here 👇

And when they try to band together to cope, such as sharing pads or tampons, they often fall prey to prison disciplinary systems used to target them for punishment.

Yes – that means someone can get punished for giving another incarcerated person a tampon.

Amusingly, one of those trips was the first time I remember recognizing a Leather Bar out in the wild.

...it's *easy* to imagine how horrific it might be if you, or perhaps your child, were forced to endure an unwanted puberty, one that contradicts your fundamental understanding of yourself. if you can't apply this to trans kids' realities you're a f-ing monster juliaserano.medium.com/the-cass-rev...

The strategic gazonga reserve.