There's a kind of "support" cis people will give trans people (and queer people more generally) that amounts to: "It's well and good for you people to be the way you are, but not MY kid. My kid is normal and if my kid ever the idea of being anything but normal, it's YOUR fault."

Abstract support.

The interesting ethical question you could ask about Sisters of Dorley is "How fucking unethical is the real world in how it treats transfems that this is cozy aspirational fantasy to us?"

But if you want to know what I think the perpetrators of abuse deserve? Yeah, I'd rather see them fucking dead than build little pockets of nightmare totalitarianism and then let the abusers roam free anyway, which is the status quo.

Now the thing is, I don't believe in lynch mobs or summary executions or whatever shit the people who've appointed themselves volunteer nonce safety advocates have imagined me saying. I do, however, believe that it is literally kinder and less violent to kill somebody than incarcerate them.

They loved her. She loved them.

and they were all only able to find each other and be those beacons of support because they had phones.

If you want to take that away from kids like Brianna? fine. do what evil shit you want.

But take her name out of your god damn mouth. @charlotte2153.bsky.social

She forgives Brianna's killers but I guess doesn't forgive Brianna for being online a lot because being trans is fucking isolating and difficult.

bsky.app/profile/tali...

I would like it known that my parents don't know who I am. They never did. Not only because I'm trans. They never knew my little sister, either. They, too, talk like this.

All you want to do is to extend your section 28 bullshit into a totalitarian control over trans children's lives to prevent their ability to even know of the possibility that they are not the only people to feel the way they do, and that there's something good they can do about it.

The parents of trans people are notoriously unreliable figures in our lives. The phrase "deadname" arises from our communal knowledge that our own parents will erase our transition and very lives for their own narrative convenience when the world conspired to kill us before our own parents die.

Esther Ghey is of this parental decision, and her decision to bemoan her daughter's ability to be trans, befriend the family of her murderers, and deadname her throughout a book is because she's a fucking ghoul of a transphobe. She grieved the loss of her son, not daughter, let's be real.

Anti trans radicals have long targeted parents because they know parents are the most potent figures of authoritarian violence against queer kids. Esther Ghey is merely their latest weapon.

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