This one is very very simple but is a good place to start, possibly- youtu.be/1bhBbMrF8Z0?...

It's like how "Transgendered" became "incorrect", when 20 years ago we absolutely described ourselves as that, as in, we are gendered (verb) in a trans-sexual way, the way we are gendered is seen as incongruous or as crossing/transiting a boundary...

A friend who went to public school once observed to me that all his male PE teachers were ex-Doc Martens League footballers, and all his female PE teachers were still playing for England, and never has the way that women's sports are underfunded and treated as a novelty for the rich been so stark.

If every one of us put a drop in the bucket every day, we'd fill so many buckets. The unsung heroes are just as important.

You know, I posted it and immediately thought "I rather like neanderthals, they were curious, thoughtful people, I bet if you gave one of them a lightbulb and a socket, they'd either use it as-intended, or work out how to break it open to use as a firelighter..." XD

Transphobes holding "HASHTAG WE CAN ALWAYS TELL, MA'AM, SIR, MA'AM" in their left hand and "If you don't tell us what your genitals looked like when you were a baby, we might forget and accidentally fancy you" in their right, and trying to fit them together like a neanderthal screwing in a lightbulb

That's my point, his "tradition" isn't a real tradition, what he's talking about is liking an animal, or maybe feeling a connection with the symbolism applied to an animal. There is no living tradition of anything similar to spirit animals in modern Irish or any Scandinavian cultures.

Even more gently: Cool! How was the tradition passed down to you? Did your parents invest you with it, or did you do a ceremony in your Irish-Scandinavian community? Was it a coming-of-age or personal achievement? Do all people in yr culture have one? What role does it play in how yr culture works?

I say this gently but, if you have to use the AI summaries off Google (which in turn don't describe a tradition of spirit animals, one of them talks about symbolism and the other is about fylgja and/or the companions of the Gods) rather than real live examples, you don't have a tradition.

I've been saying "Cass hoax" or "Cass fraud" as a direct parallel to the Wakefield hoax that it is a successor to (Where a doctor with vested interest in producing their own 'treatment' tries to discredit existing treatments by mangling collected data). Definitely though, cute puns don't help us.

Every single sex-by-deception case too usually has a sidebar in the press (regardless of the details of the actual case) about "Dangerous (trans men, especially Black or South Asian ones) preying on White Women's Innocence" (ie, Good Girls don't know how A Man Will Be, so can be FOOLED by PERVERTS)

We just did an exhibition there at the start of this year! It's such a beautiful place. Do you know the Edinburgh Zine Archive too? (We haven't worked with them, but one day I'd love to!)

If the census is right ~1:100 people is trans. So if you're an average trans 10yo with 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 1 sibling, 60 pupils in your year, 20 friends at swim club and 10 local pals- you often won't know another one Like You. You will only see them in media. That media can be lifesaving.