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I think when it's all told, self-hatred is probably the biggest thing fueling any fascist movement, past, present, future.

As a therapist, I've spent so much of my life witnessing firsthand what unchecked self-hatred does to the psyche. It's not pretty.
If having a trans partner is supposedly radicalizing people into leftists, why are a huge portion of DC Republicans having sex with trans women?

They demonize trans people on socials, podcasts, and the floor of the House by day then proceed to solicit sex with them at night.
These people are so obsessed with us, it's really sad. Imagine if this was all you had in your life.
1. After the shutdown fight, Republicans promised Democrats a vote on extending enhanced ACA subsidies, which cover 20 million Americans.

Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension.

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Republicans Privately Pushing Anti-Trans Funding Ban For ACA Subsidy Deal After Shutdown Compromise
The proposal, which was first detailed in the Wall Street Journal, could harm transgender people even in blue states if it becomes part of the negotiated deal.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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TRANSGENDER FOR EVERYONE

Except you. Not you. You have to go sit in that chair over there and watch the rest of us get transgender.
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I'm not sure who Will Tanner is, but he definitely sounds like a sociopath
musk agreeing with an explicitly eugenicist post
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
You know what it means when you think that everyone else is the asshole . . .
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Could someone please ask Kamala why, months into the election cycle, she was unprepared for an attack line that it was patently obvious Trump would make one of his primary modes of aggression?
The Kamala Harris book is so excruciating
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The level of institutionalized bullying of trans women in the UK is just staggering.
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is just disgusting.

"Biological man" is a completely made-up term that was not used more than 10 years ago and has solely attained prominence as a way to antagonize trans women.
In the span of a hour, they stealth edited the article from trans woman to "biological male who identifies as a woman." The BBC isn't fit for purpose.
It looks like that BBC page has been updated in the last few minutes, so that's no longer the last sentence. I think part of it has been moved to this paragraph in the middle of the article, and the age is no longer mentioned:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
For what other marginalized group would a judge actually condone and be complicit in bullying right in the courtroom?

Cis society has such a long way to come on trans rights, they don't even realize how far off they are.
It feels worth mentioning that Graham Linehan’s harassment literally continued in the courtroom, as he repeatedly misgendered Sophia, and referred to her as “Tarquin”, a fictional deadname he made up for her as part of his harassment campaign. The judge was complicit in this harassment happening.
I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?

And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Really. Men can go ahead and spend a while hearing from all the groups they've stepped on over the years. If it hurts their feelings, they can think about how we've felt.
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The transphobic vote that Democrats are chasing is actually rage-bait farms in the 3rd world
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.

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NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
As a therapist, I see just how much it can make or crush a kid's spirit when teachers use their proper named and pronouns. These people hold huge power over kids.

There's a special place in hell for those who simply won't treat a child with a little kindness and respect.
A trans teen in Iowa completed suicide after severe bullying by classmates and teachers.

"Miles’ death came a day after a substitute teacher refused to use his preferred pronouns."

It's the type of bullying @thefireorg.bsky.social and @aricohn.com support.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/17/m...
Heartbroken family of trans teen speaks out about how bullying led to his death
The family of trans Iowa student Miles Phipps has spoken out about bullying following losing their son to suicide. He was just 15-years-old.
www.thepinknews.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is so disgusting. So the "research" to support trans kids maybe eventually getting medicine is unethical garbage that's guaranteed to traumatize them.
The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
In addition to just being disgusting, this is based on degrading stereotypes about trans women.

How about instead of trying to figure out if someone's gender is a sexual fetish, you just let them do what they think is right for their own body?
Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The GOP believes in getting government out of your life, such as weaponizing the DOJ to go through your child's medical records
BREAKING: Federal judge rejects DOJ's effort to subpoena the names and medical records of children who have received gender-affirming medical care from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Lmfao, this is hilarious. The new LGB line is "bathroom police are all good just flash a genital or perform some other feat of cisgenderness to get your right to pee restored."
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Here's a reddit thread with 200+ comments from tall cis women who are being challenged when they try to use the bathroom.

Transphobia is absolutely idiotic and pointless.

www.reddit.com/r/TallGirls/...
From the TallGirls community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the TallGirls community
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November 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
State-mandated misgendering like what's now happening in Texas is really child abuse, and the only reason we don't say so is because it's being done to trans kids. They're purposely traumatizing a generation of our kids.
Cw: suicide
This article is devastating.

Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.

Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
ICE is really just the refuse of society. They absolutely would be unemployable in any other capacity and are fortunate to have found a job that matches their skills for higher level sociopathy.
Oh look, a Libs of Tiktok reply guy who turns out to be a ICE agent who threatened to shoot people.

Abolish ICE, prosecute their agents.
Major content warning for some of the commentary we found on Donahue's account. He's opposed to mixed race relationships and women voting, and he cheers on a gay bashing and makes a death threat against a drag queen.

He's not a big poster, but follows exclusively far right influencers.
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I think in general Americans don't have much of a clue what they want but are happy to provide opinions on issues that they don't really understand!
I think the debate over what people "want" is a distraction given two basic facts:
1) America vastly over-provides suburbs and under-provides dense walkability;
2) Suburbs are hideously bad for the environment and harmful to numerous markers of well-being.

That's enough! We should do more density!
as will notes, people tend to *say* they want suburban living. they want a big house and a big yard and etc. this is not however what is suggested by their actual purchasing practices, which invariably result in something like this:

raincitymaps.com/maps/inspect...
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Hero
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We tried to warn you that they were coming for your healthcare next, but y'all didn't care about us
This is the exact phrase used on trans people and our healthcare. Now it's being used to eliminate access to vaccines and kill children with preventable diseases.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Wow, well this is certainly fascist in nature
I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered.

The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo.

apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is long overdue. I'm old enough to remember when this piece of work declared that women are biologically inferior at math.
Larry Summers cozied up to the rich and powerful — including a convicted sex offender. He cannot be trusted in positions of influence.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I really do think that Ben got into transphobia as a sweet side gig to suck off some billionaire money. But clearly it's gotten the better of him and just completely corrupted his brain. Sad.
He seriously needs help. He framed the entire article around Erin. It's a sick obsession.
I think it's absolutely hilarious that Ben Ryan made me the lede in his story trying to preempt criticism of the wild reveal the HHS report's authors.

More on that later.

But this is absolutely hilarious.
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM