Children are seen as property by a shocking amount of people who seemingly understand why treating people as property is bad under other circumstances.

It's transphobic to believe there's something different about trans children's healthcare and any other healthcare. There's no evidence for such a belief which means its only basis is transphobia. Hope that helps.

I've already suffered enough at the hands of this transphobic society, so yeah, no, I'm not going to take the L again so that the other 99% of people in this country can live their lives. I've found my voice and I'm going to use it, and if you find that inconvenient, that's a you problem.

It’s a short story but Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue by Charlie Jane Anders, published 2017

Big ol content warning for conversion therapy and nonconsentual medical on this.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/cha...

yeah actually I do trust trans women dedicating their lives to helping people like me just slightly more than a storefront that screwed a bunch of people like me and are refusing to take any responsibility whatsoever

everything you as a democrat hate about what trump is doing has been means tested on trans people. everything. the democracy you want to save, we were the test case for ending it.

and it started with making you angry about trans people in sports.

As I am religious, I am also queer, and never the twain shall be separated. God never had a problem with me being queer; the only people who did were the people who run his church. The choice is simple: I want to burn the church down in a refining fire so that a better one can rise from the ashes.

these people don’t understand effects without agency. the paranoid style has completely shattered their minds; they can no longer conceive of things happening without someone intentionally causing them to happen. the language model has the signifiers of agency so they “””understand””” it