As an adult child of Disowned By Parent experience, who then of my own accord kept up no-contact when that parent simply decided to pretend the disowning didn’t happen, it’s interesting how often estrangement-disapprovers assume that the adult child is the instigator of “unfair” estrangement

Everyone deserves to live and you are part of everyone. I hope your day gets better and that you are able to feel some comfort and gentleness

The US and UK anti-trans groups certainly influence each other rhetoric-wise. It’s a bit unusual for an openly homophobic GOP politician to claim to be fighting on the side of the cis LGBs against the trans menace, though.

The idea that she cares about cis gay/lesbian/bisexual people is such a joke. Taking a leaf out of UK TERFs’ book of nonsense talking points

At the very least if you are already here, think hard before putting literally anything in writing

If you don’t concede that centrists profs like Dr Markman are “leftists,” why concede that acknowledging trans people in any way is “gender ideology”? Shockingly bad journalism in the same email that announces an LGBTQ+ newsletter. Can y’all be trusted to cover us fairly if you miss on such basics?

“A lecture that included gender ideology”? Lazy journalism, y’all. “Gender ideology” is a conservative rhetorical strategy to paint the mere mention of trans people as “promoting ideology” rather than acknowledging facts. To use this term uncritically is to let the right set the terms of discussion.

Hmm… I’m starting to suspect that insanely wealthy tech guys might be stupid

Dipshit of the highest order.

He’s like the ineffectual Senator character from Veep who couldn’t stop talking about “plugging the hole” and “staying above the hole”

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