Bigotry has never been shocking to me as such but this dinner party fascism where you advocate for the elimination of whole demographics from public life but *politely* so nobody is allowed to call you a cunt feels like it descended from another planet.

anyway whether you read this as cynically/cautiously as i do or whether you find comfort in its funerary poetry, what's beautiful to me is we can still say we remember you Trygonion, little dove. after all this time, we know your name. in the end your memory outlived the empire that marginalized you

interesting ancient greek epigram (1st C BCE) which may be about a trans girl (lesbian?). the "wanton emasculated" appears to be translating a phrase associating Trygonion (a gallus) with salmacis, the nymph who fused with hermaphroditus & namesake of a pond that "feminizes" anyone who enters it

You HAVE to be a weird little freak it's so important

I find it interesting because I consume media to escape too, just not this media

I find it difficult to get invested in media that lacks conflict, and what I really need to escape is to be fully engrossed in a story where people who suffer in ways similar to me triumph in ways I haven't

women can do anything

“The ruling is not simply natalist or cissexist, but actively eugenical--dividing us between the worthy who can contribute, and the offal to dispose of.”

Unless you are approaching this "debate" with the knowledge that the anti-trans side wants to eradicate us from public life you are going to fail to understand what is happening and be completely unequipped to argue against them

They don't think we are human. They don't care about consistency

This is because fundamentally the answer they want to give is "don't exist in public", but we're not at the stage where that's an acceptable answer for a Labour politician. They have a huge majority, if they wanted to they could legislate to resolve this issue. They won't because of their goal here

the land of the big clitted tranny dyke doesn't exist. but. if we dare to dream of a better world, it can,

This goes appropriately hard:

"Woman" is now legally classified as "broodmare," I'm sure this will have absolutely zero long term consequences for reproductive healthcare down the line.

After all it's not like anti-trans agitation is part of a far wider far-right, explicitly natalist movement or anything, right?

Please more cisgender people do this. Read @jessothomson.co.uk's and @goodlawproject.bsky.social's articles on the impact of the supreme court ruling and demand primary legislation to urgently safeguard trans rights.

All of these spoke to me, deeply.

the political force acting on trans women can be generalized to just a bunch of different implementations of "blame trans women for things that are done to them"

anyway have some daggerfall cat 👍

When you go for a snack in the middle of the night but then you drop it and you feel your last bit of sanity hanging on by a gossamer thread