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Closested Crisis 🏳️‍⚧️

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Pronouns: She/They(?) Trying out the name Jazz A nervous wreck of a closeted trans artist still trying to figure things out

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Closested Crisis 🏳️‍⚧️ @closetedcrisis.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey I'm Jazz (at least that's the name I want to try out) and a couple of months ago my egg cracked and now I'm stuck in the closet. So I'm going to explore my gender the only way I know how to... through silly comics and venting on the internet!

#comic

Panel 1: a woman standing in the center with the words *EGG CRACKING NOISES* on top

Panel 2: the woman says HOLY CRAP! I THINK I MIGHT BE A TRANS GIRL!!! CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T REALIZED SOONER!

Panel 3: a random guy says THAT'S GREEEEAAAAATTTT...

Panel 4: the guy pushes a button and the woman falls

Panel 5: the woman falls into a dark room

Panel 6: the words WELCOME TO THE CLOSET appear in bright neon lights and the woman says YAY...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 1d

Joy is just as important as survival.

The world might be cruel, but that doesn’t mean you should only exist in a state of struggle.

You deserve laughter, comfort, adventure and love.

Seek out things that make you happy, no matter how small.

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Closested Crisis 🏳️‍⚧️ @closetedcrisis.bsky.social · 8h

I don't plan on telling my family that I'm trans until I've moved out and financially independent from them because my family has expressed a lot of transphobia and it has been exasperated in recent years

I believe it's very likely I'll lose my relationship to all my blood relatives when I come out

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8h

1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.

And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.

This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.

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Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11h

We please give what you can to help my dear friend sama'a and her family. Israel's genocide grows worse by the day.

gofund.me/db56c7ce3

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Closested Crisis 🏳️‍⚧️ @closetedcrisis.bsky.social · 11h

Complete coincidence that I shared a comic about my younger self's desire to be a lesbian on international lesbian day lol

Tbh, I'm not sure if I'm comfortable calling myself a lesbian just yet since I'm still pre-transition, but I think lesbians are cool and would like to try to be one someday

Closested Crisis 🏳️‍⚧️ @closetedcrisis.bsky.social · 14h

CW: Mentions Depression

An actual thought/fantasy I had when I was a young teen

Panel 1: A depressed teen thinks to himself "If I were to fake my death and get a new identity, I would get a sex change and become a lesbian"

Panel 2: thought continues "That way no one would know it was me"

Panel 3: a girl looks concerned

Panel 4: the girl says "Y'know... that might not've been a very cis thought in hindsight"

Closested Crisis 🏳️‍⚧️ @closetedcrisis.bsky.social · 14h

CW: Mentions Depression

An actual thought/fantasy I had when I was a young teen

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Closested Crisis 🏳️‍⚧️ @closetedcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Decided to jump into the Dead Domain stream and I entered the right time for them to be talking about kaiju films and the Gamera trilogy especially. As a big kaiju/toku nerd I feel truly blessed

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Dear White Democrats:

The word you're looking for is GENOCIDE. That's what Israel is doing. You won't spontaneously combust if you call evil by its name. It feels good to have a spine.

Sincerely,
Sheryl

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PC @proteasomec.bsky.social · 2d

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Closested Crisis 🏳️‍⚧️ @closetedcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Conversion therapy can't turn anyone cis or straight. But what it CAN do is torture and abused kids to where they're afraid to come out, or worse. What the supreme court is deciding is whether or not to make torturing queer kids again under the guise of "religious freedom"

This will kill people

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Conversion therapy isn't "voluntary" for children when their parents are the ones deciding to do it.

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Lesbian of the Tistina🏳️‍⚧️ @thepurplepancake.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very cool how “if the government gives everyone a little bit of money, everything gets way better by almost every metric” has been proven multiple times and yet the government hasn’t given me money.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Cis people aren't angry enough about the conversion therapy case for my taste.

They'll legalize it, and then States will pass laws requiring it, and that will be how they try to exterminate us.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. A new poll shows that Virginia voters prefer Democratic Governor candidate Abigail Spanberger's approach to trans issues over Republican Earle-Sears by a wide margin.

She's ahead 10 points in the race now, and voters prefer her 50-37 on trans issues.

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New Poll: Voters Prefer Spanberger For Virginia Governor On Transgender Issues By Wide Margin, Despite Anti-Trans Ads

The issue also ranked lowest among issues polled. The CNU poll is the second poll showing Spanberger pulling ahead.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

So if conversion therapy should be legal is it okay for me to waterboard or eletroshock a child until they renounce Jesus? Or is that only for queer and trans kids? Just wondering. Because that sounds like viewpoint discrimination to me if I can't, Justice Alito.

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Closested Crisis 🏳️‍⚧️ @closetedcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Many homeless people pay taxes. Many homeless people have full or part time jobs. The gov. providing shelter, a human right, would improve the quality of life for everyone. Valuing one's worth based on whether or not they're homeless is fascist ideology. So fuck off with that shit!

Caught In A Bad Romance @whatdoyoumean89.bsky.social · 1d

No homeless person has right to ruin quality of life of hardworking city people who pay taxes. Homelessness has reduced in California over last year, for good! You can keep homeless people in your home if you are so concerned, but you just virtue signal.

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Closested Crisis 🏳️‍⚧️ @closetedcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats like Homeless Hater Newsom here are fascists themselves, they're just not the ones in power

We need to get democrats like Newsom out of the party and out of office if we ever hope the dems to actually fight against fascism

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

The New York Times exists at this point to launder hatred for trans people. Today's coverage includes a citation to this law review article that says conversion therapy bans are anti-religious discrimination and it's not illegal to ban queer behavior, only queer identity. 🙃

Religious practitioners were exempt from the bans, and they have continued to provide most conversion therapy, according to researchers who track it. But the bans, the legal historian Marie-Amélie George has argued, created “a social norm against conversion therapy writ large,” which influenced even the practitioners not directly regulated by them.

LGBT rights groups have recently made bans on conversion therapy, a
practice intended to reduce or eliminate a person’s same-sex sexual
attractions, a primary piece of their legislative agenda. However, the
statutes only apply to licensed mental health professionals, even though
most conversion therapy is practiced by religious counselors and lay
ministers. Conversion therapy bans thus present a striking legal question:
Why have LGBT rights advocates expended so much effort and political
capital on laws that do not reach conversion therapy’s primary providers?
Based on archival research and original interviews, this Article argues that
the bans are significant because of their expressive function, rather than
their prescriptive effects. The laws’ proponents are using the statutes to
create a social norm against conversion therapy writ large, thus
broadening the bans’ reach to the religious practitioners the law cannot
directly regulate. LGBT rights groups are also extending the bans’
expressive message to support the argument that sexual orientation is
immutable and to reverse a historical narrative that cast gays and lesbians
as dangerous to children. These related claims have been central to gay
rights efforts for much of the twentieth century and continue to shape
LGBT rights battles. While the expressive effects of the bans are important,
the laws and the campaign around them may have a negative effect. LGBT
rights organizations working on the laws do not distinguish between
conversion therapy efforts aimed at changing sexual orientation and those
targeting behavior. This is troubling, not only because it fails to
acknowledge the needs of same-sex attracted individuals who wish to live
in accordance with their religious beliefs, but also because it reinforces a
limited view of gay identity. Many within the LGBT movement contest the
identity model that legal advocates have championed, and that conception
of se…

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CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 1d

yes yes yes, the purpose is doing harm to cause trauma that locks a person into a small, conforming personality for the benefit of others, and in THAT sense it does work

just like religious indoctrination also "works" to create religious zealots in the next generation even tho it's ethically shitty

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

I need people to stop referring to conversion "therapy" as something that's been discredited or doesn't work. That's like saying torture is "discredited" or doesn't work. That they don't work for their stated purpose is secondary to the fact that they DO work for their REAL purpose:

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JLuma 🏳️‍⚧️ ON VGEN | COMMS OPEN 4/10 @jlumalee.bsky.social · 13d

I’m nearing 2.8k followers and would like to celebrate that, so I’m thinking I’m gonna do an outfit challenge featuring the Oliva Sisters! (Levy, Frossy, and Maggy) :3

Until then, thank you for the support you’ve all given me. I truly do appreciate it :>

#OCArt #OCSky #Art #FatGirlFall

Levy, Maggy, and Frossy in a space background with their eyes closed. There’s text that says “Knowing where we are now… Would you have done things differently..?”

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Nyxis @nyxisart.bsky.social · 1d

Day 16 of reposting my old old comics because i wont be able to draw for a while

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Closested Crisis 🏳️‍⚧️ @closetedcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so sorry you've been dealing with that

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 1d

Fourze4eva

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Actually, I think the far-right is accurately identifying an existential issue.

So many of the most vehement far-right were either heavily bullied or did the bullying.

Teaching empathy to the next generation is fundamentally at odds with conservative political philosophy.

That's why they hate it.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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Wanderjegson @wanderjegson.bsky.social · 1d

You can't ride Angewomon or LadyDevimon in Digimon Time Stranger (It's over)

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