If we lean into the conservative viewpoint that trans children are simply confused and gender can only be the sex assigned at birth, how does the TN law not simply violate the equal protection clause? An AFAB child can say “I’m a girl” and also receive hormone blockers but an AMAB child cannot?

my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

There’s an autism ‘epidemic’ in the same way that there was a left-handedness ‘epidemic’ when we no longer treated it as a ‘sign of the devil’ and stopped training kids out of it.

One of the many, many things bothering me is the pointless pettiness. Like, renaming Denali back to Mt McKinley will *cost money* - people will have to go change out signage and reprint marketing materials and update websites - just to be a little more offensive and a little more white supremacist.

Is anyone else getting added to some wild moderation lists? Apparently I’m a both a MAGA troll and a porn bot? I was under the impression that I’m the prudiest member of my sex-positive, progressive, feminist friend groups, but maybe the new accounts with no posts and no pfp are right?

The kind of friendship I aspire to have

So after fleeing Twitter for Threads after a fascist takeover, here I am on Bluesky having deleted my Meta accounts. Third time's a charm?