Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later

Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

I've seen people express fears about "framing transition as a choice losing us cis allies", but that's not the point. The point is to stop justifying transness, to stop giving so much heft to the "why" and instead focus on the fact that we exist, we need this care, and we have a right to it.

I saw someone claiming "the effect of estrogen is more reversible than testosterone" and if I catch you saying that you're required to donate to someone's top surgery.

This isn't a competition about whose transition is harder, we're all in this together.

AIPAC went after less targets than they suggested they would. And some of our strongest pickups in PA, IL survived. I think that’s worth exploring.

Reflection doesn’t automatically mean capitulation or left-punching. It can mean actively identifying the strategies that are actually *working,* too.

Imagine if we just had a ton of really queer people, butch dykes, trans men and women, etc queue up to use the bathroom outside of Nancy Mace’s office and make them tell us which one we are allowed to use.

Absolute gender fuckery.

After thinking for a while and reading the thoughts of a bunch of other trans people, I kinda feel like maybe we've been too hard on Sarah McBride. A lot of people have made the point that civil rights movements are generally made of two tracks: clean hands and disruptors. She's clean hands 1/2

Let's just get one thing straight. Every time Nancy Mace mentions a specific trans person's penis, it's sexual harassment.

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ALSO! ALSO! ALSO! Maybe you're overwhelmed by all the stirring, touching, deep, meaningful stuff. Maybe you just need to laugh. @rileysilverman.bsky.social has GOT you there.

Riley is staying alive for the pettiness. Be like Riley. Make creeps lose their little minds with rage, just by being you.

I literally just got out of meetings with members of Congress & used the bathroom on my way out.

Trans women are women—full stop. We're every bit as "biologically female" as cis women & Speaker Johnson's statement doesn't change the fact that women's spaces include trans women.

I love that if you start watching the Kung Fu Panda series at 4, it seems like Po's two dads are in a gay relationship.

Even having watched all 4 now, I'm not sure this reading is wrong.

I always thought bodies were stupid and if given the opportunity, I would immediately upload my brain to "the cloud". And of course my avatar in the cloud would be a girl because "everyone/most people would rather have a girl's body".

The incoming administration will wage a war on women and anyone with a uterus. And obviously many, many others, but that's the group that's around 50% of the country. It's going to be a dark four years. And beyond, because of SCOTUS and other things.

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