so instead of living our lives and defending our basic rights to our own autonomy, we should wait until others are ready to accept us -- when they have shown no willingness to compromise, and instead are persecuting us as a conveniently targetable minority? how about -- NO

@JamesLimmer attacks on trans people, their rights and just ambient hostility, has flared to a decadal high due to the politics of the moment. the right specifically targeted trans as a crushable minority to rile up the assholes

@KnotzLuggy there have been literally hundreds of bills introduced denying rights to trans people, while political candidates slander us, say they are going to deny our legal recognition, and call us pedophiles while kidnapping their own kids. whatever do you mean.

that's insane. you're ruled over by a trans overclass? the president is trans? everybody is being pushed to trans? no. what has happened is that the historic level of discrimination lead to a counter effort restoring and celebrating pride. there's still plenty of discrimination. people are just getting pushback, occasionally, on some of the most egregious stuff. people are pissed that they can't be openly assholes to trans, and so we're the most protected class? yeah right

yes, I think you essentially are clueless and don't even realize it because you are not a member of the affected population and you don't know closely anyone who is. so you think that we can "just wait" and you have fallen for the specious, fabricated, moral panics which have gripped and enraged the right aqnd are now making it worse and worse to be trans in the UK and red states and nationwide if trump gets in. no, I will not be quiet. fuck you

yes, speaking out against hate fearlessly, living my life and standing up for others who can't speaqk, fighting against hypocrisy and hatred, letting trans people know that they matter and can life and can work to make their dreams come true and that even if people are going to attack them that they can still keep going, that's going to work. what's not going to work is to let them steamroll us. fuck that!

but, you’re speculating that the support that you would have gotten would have overwhelmed, even spurred you past the resistance that you would have gotten. that’s not the case. there’s a lot of transphobia and internalized transphobia. any hrt / blockers is behind medical gate keepers and usually therapy — are many steps. there is resistance from family and friends and relatives and community members. support and “pride” barely balances bullies. there’s hate irl and online. even people trying to be superficially supportive can struggle, and it can be a challenge in many respects. and it doesn’t happen all at once either. anti trans activists have blown the tiny 2% of detransitioners totally out of proportion and ignored their actual lives and the many stages of decision and reversible steps, and act as if without their explicit bullying and transphobia all kids would trans for points which would be easy and would be applauded by joe biden himself. fantasy

@Winwintegrity @JamesDowell2 so you don't believe in self determination for trans people. you think in order to maximize your freedom you need to take away my freedom. how about no, and fuck off

trans people have to put up with a disproportionate level of bile that is absolutely concern trolling most of the time. just try to follow the chain of discussion in my threads on this. one specious argument after another. this gives trans people no option but to put up barriers and avoid spaces where anti woke extremists are repeatedly given the benefit of the doubt.

the way you win a culture war is by Living

in 2006, despite graduating with a first class honors and university medal (highest GPA) in computer science and physics, at 17, I couldn't find work at all (discrimination vs trans, probably, this was in montreal) at some point the bit flipped and I was like "oh, the system doesn't work, I have to take responsibility for creating my own opportunities or I will literally starve" I made a like $$ from winnings from topcoder competitions, and became an entrepreneur. i didn't have my name out there, so I started blogging at https://t.co/Q3UXnU9b79 and posting on hacker news. I applied to YC -- got rejected, but intro'd to amazing startups/founders, and did a little work for them. I slept on couches. I earned my keep making dumplings. I tried to prove my worth to cofounders by working on their projects, telling them about mine. Finally I found someone as excited about my long term projects as I was, and I went from there. at no point did the system pick me up and was like, here's what to do next, here's a job for you -- even though this is really all I wanted at the time -- just some financial stability while I transitioned. no dice, it was hard mode for me -- trans while your company is making you ~famous, have fun with that! but in return the wool was pulled from my eyes -- the system does not provide for you. you simply have to go out and make your own opportunities. but once you do, the world really is open to you

@cryptsycrackers bullies like having people they can punch down on mtf and ftm transition threatens patriarchy if you suppress others you can repress yourself these are all reasons

there is absolutely blue dominance in mainstream media and dc government. i am at odds with them on many things, particularly islamism, oct 7th, housing policy, monetary policy, censorship. i give them shit about these things. the ready nature of reds and greys to use the tactics they have decried is a blackpill. the ready acceptance of specious moral panics about trans in defiance of all statements about freedom and self determination is a blackpill. i’m calling it out as a blackpill. the steady degradation of norms to actually communicate vs finding people in the other coalition to attack is a blackpill. and there are laws that resist this at the edges. people may call that lawfare, but the alternative is a decent into chaos.

there were a whole pile of weird things in the show. if you don’t like it you can scroll past. considering there’s no where else for trans people to exist in the olympics i grant them their momentary stage. also, i grudge against being prey by their medicalization bodies. the same dude who ruled on this stuff was part of the medical body that assaulted me

one point that I feel should be brought up again. the wedge issue that people are constantly driving is, basically, think of the kids, social contagion, avoid permanent effects. I have to call out this concern as lacking sincerity, in aggregate, or at least being unreasoned. there are many contradictions. Vivian put it best. She is, kids are, even now, being simultaneously treated as - a helpless victim of a master plan implemented by woke teachers who are trying to "transgenderify their students for some inexplicable reason via some inexplicable method with less than a 1% success rate," - a master manipulator who tricked her dad, one of the most well resourced people on the planet, - and the she is quite simply ignored when she speaks about her own experience, now as an adult, about the some of permanent effects of an unwanted male puberty that she avoided. about her lack of regret. rw people who talk about wanting to prevent permanent effects almost never seem to acknowledge why people would want to transition early. they focus instead on the, what, 2% (?) of people who detransition. they don't acknowledge that blockers are specifically intended to provide the time and space to avoid these effects and decide for certain. even HRT is gradual. these same people who try to deny resources for early transition attack trans people for their appearance, for their voice, invalidate them. they do not care. their concern is not genuine. what people call "social contagion" is kids seeing other trans people thriving, and for the still tiny sub-percentage of people who might be trans, under less discrimination and with some understanding and resources, more of them begin to transition. this is not adults and the woke master plan pushing kids to trans. there is still plenty of pushback from many angles. pretending otherwise is fantasy. https://t.co/uw75T9CUuj