Lynne✋🖤
@livingpuppet.bsky.social
she/her | transsexual nomad | chronic infodumper | tired grad student
every day there's a new study by cis academics that apparently discovers "hurting trans people hurts them" as if this was a novel insight and not the obvious, intended result of our continued status as weird gender freaks - and I've never seen such a study change anything or help anyone
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
every day there's a new study by cis academics that apparently discovers "hurting trans people hurts them" as if this was a novel insight and not the obvious, intended result of our continued status as weird gender freaks - and I've never seen such a study change anything or help anyone
You are literally not standing in solidarity with us. In fact, you are literally doing the exact opposite of standing in solidarity with us.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
You are literally not standing in solidarity with us. In fact, you are literally doing the exact opposite of standing in solidarity with us.
If you're not willing to stand up and fight for trans people you don't get the privilege of pretending you're on our side
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
If you're not willing to stand up and fight for trans people you don't get the privilege of pretending you're on our side
Guy who has never lived in a country but has opinions on how it should be run because his great-great-great-grandfather was from there:
"Ireland is full!"
"Ireland is full!"
November 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Guy who has never lived in a country but has opinions on how it should be run because his great-great-great-grandfather was from there:
"Ireland is full!"
"Ireland is full!"
Why do all the Catholic churches in West Virginia have this particular energy?
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Why do all the Catholic churches in West Virginia have this particular energy?
The Labour party has taken up the shallow "phone bad" messaging in the wake of Brianna Ghey's murder precisely because creating a world where trans kids don't die is incompatible the belief that trans kids don't, and shouldn't, exist.
November 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The Labour party has taken up the shallow "phone bad" messaging in the wake of Brianna Ghey's murder precisely because creating a world where trans kids don't die is incompatible the belief that trans kids don't, and shouldn't, exist.
What's the difference between conversion therapy and indefinitely or arbitrarily delaying somebody's transition in the hope that it'll turn out they weren't really trans?
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
What's the difference between conversion therapy and indefinitely or arbitrarily delaying somebody's transition in the hope that it'll turn out they weren't really trans?
Echoing a long-standing critique of queer theory: its institutional positionality tends to assume a narrow concern with textuality that reduces vast lived experiences to the figural to deconstruct various discourses. This is especially true of transness.
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Echoing a long-standing critique of queer theory: its institutional positionality tends to assume a narrow concern with textuality that reduces vast lived experiences to the figural to deconstruct various discourses. This is especially true of transness.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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[youtuber voice, wearing a squid game outfit] YO what's going on everyone TODAY we're in THE cave of plato. that's right everyone we have TEN contestants currently chained in the cave looking at shadows on the wall. the FIRST contestant that can develop Knowledge of the Forms wins $1 MILLION dollars
May 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
[youtuber voice, wearing a squid game outfit] YO what's going on everyone TODAY we're in THE cave of plato. that's right everyone we have TEN contestants currently chained in the cave looking at shadows on the wall. the FIRST contestant that can develop Knowledge of the Forms wins $1 MILLION dollars
I think labels are a lot less important than meaningful class consciousness and that reducing all political struggle to a politics of recognition has always been the archetypal liberal response.
October 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I think labels are a lot less important than meaningful class consciousness and that reducing all political struggle to a politics of recognition has always been the archetypal liberal response.
a more-radical-than-thou cynicism about any and every political action is almost certainly more useless than figuring out how to turn all of that energy into something revolutionary
October 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
a more-radical-than-thou cynicism about any and every political action is almost certainly more useless than figuring out how to turn all of that energy into something revolutionary
whenever there's a conversation about who is the "right kind" of queer, trans people generally and conspicuously find ourselves excluded from this category.
October 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
whenever there's a conversation about who is the "right kind" of queer, trans people generally and conspicuously find ourselves excluded from this category.
misgendered! on the court order to change my name!
October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
misgendered! on the court order to change my name!
Authors: Green, Richard, John Money.
October 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Authors: Green, Richard, John Money.
The Irish National Gender Service
October 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The Irish National Gender Service
1 mg estrogen 100 mg spironolactone
October 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
1 mg estrogen 100 mg spironolactone
most discourse is a result of context collapse. new discourse happens when the context collapse itself collapses into another context collapse. like a context prolapse
October 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
most discourse is a result of context collapse. new discourse happens when the context collapse itself collapses into another context collapse. like a context prolapse
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we should invent a Discourse that isn’t increasingly furious people talking past each other
October 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
we should invent a Discourse that isn’t increasingly furious people talking past each other
we should ban people from making new kinds of accelerationism. call it ban/acc
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
we should ban people from making new kinds of accelerationism. call it ban/acc
As somebody who left the States a while ago, people should be aware it isn't always as easy to access HRT in other countries, where it might be gatekept or withheld because of your immigrant status.
The only reason I could leave is because I got incredibly lucky and had nothing else tying me down.
The only reason I could leave is because I got incredibly lucky and had nothing else tying me down.
October 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
As somebody who left the States a while ago, people should be aware it isn't always as easy to access HRT in other countries, where it might be gatekept or withheld because of your immigrant status.
The only reason I could leave is because I got incredibly lucky and had nothing else tying me down.
The only reason I could leave is because I got incredibly lucky and had nothing else tying me down.
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The longest debate in the history of forums is actually "Are mods cops?"
December 24, 2024 at 4:01 AM
The longest debate in the history of forums is actually "Are mods cops?"
my favorite thing about Bluesky moderation is they immediately banned me when I created my account, without reason, but apparently we can't ban people for off-platform activity
October 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
my favorite thing about Bluesky moderation is they immediately banned me when I created my account, without reason, but apparently we can't ban people for off-platform activity
cis people really love to pretend being trans is a privilege
October 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
cis people really love to pretend being trans is a privilege
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everyone should have a black cat in their life. it's so great seeing just a vaguely cat-shaped hole in the universe jauntily trot across your living room squeaking for snacks
October 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
everyone should have a black cat in their life. it's so great seeing just a vaguely cat-shaped hole in the universe jauntily trot across your living room squeaking for snacks