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iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · Apr 17

Tired: Sex is biological, gender is social.
Wired: Sex and gender are different but related, both are spectrums, both have biological and social components, medical transition is literally a sex change, and transmedicalism is shit because everyone’s own experience of gender is valid.

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · Apr 17

we made a critical error allowing reactionaries to make-up concepts like “biological sex” and frame them as non-ideological when it’s the exact opposite: people who undergo HRT *are literally changing their biological sex.* this is not some philosophical distinction, it is actual biological reality.

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Kenny Akers @keneakers.bsky.social · 22h

If you don't support reparations, and you're a white American, you are benefiting from the wealth and infrastructure built on the backs of enslaved Black people. Today, you’re living off stolen labor. You don’t deserve to profit from, or even claim, the nation our ancestors were forced 👇🏾

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iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 1d

Tangible, material care that predates the Heimlich maneuver and has among the lowest regret rates in medicine?

❌ BANNED😡 (Because lawmakers didn’t know about trans people during the era when folks whose skin was a different shade of brown weren’t allowed to touch the same plumbing fixtures)

iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 1d

Religious-flavored psychobabble quackery which browbeats children into pretending to be what their parents find most palatable?

✅ CONSTITUTIONAL😊🇺🇸🦅✝️🙏🏈 FREE SPEECH!

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to strike down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy by licensed therapists practiced on minors — a ruling that could affect similar laws in nearly half the country and make life more difficult for LGBTQ children at an already perilous time.”

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

www.lawdork.com

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 1d

If you're still not sure about what's going down, I'd, like, really appreciate it if you acknowledged that transgender Americans are in the process of witnessing our own genocide, and act accordingly, okay?

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

In a press release, Texas Attorney General calls "transgenderism" a "corrupted ideology" that is "a cancer on our culture."

This is openly genocidal rhetoric about trans people from a sitting AG.

A press release dated October 7, 2025, with the headline: “Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Undercover Operations to Infiltrate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence.” The statement claims rising left-wing violence, referencing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and outlines Paxton’s directive for undercover investigations. A highlighted quote from Paxton reads: “Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people.” The text further accuses the radical Left of fostering political violence, referencing incidents involving Antifa-like groups and a supposed assassin tied to transgender movements. It also notes that President Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, with Paxton vowing sweeping investigations into radical leftist groups.

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Boymoder J. Edgar Hoover @p4wst.bsky.social · 1d

I love this State's insistence that its the most "free" or whatever when it appears to be the exclusive freedom to be just a cis white guy named Reagan or Kyle who lives in total suburban misery with his giant truck that grinds the skulls of children into powder.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

In a press release, Texas Attorney General calls "transgenderism" a "corrupted ideology" that is "a cancer on our culture."

This is openly genocidal rhetoric about trans people from a sitting AG.

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iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 1d

Semi-regular reminder that fascism is largely a pathological dislike of contemporary aesthetics, such as cutting-edge infrastructure and newly visible demographics. These are the most persnickety people on earth and they make it everyone else’s problem.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 1d

I hate to be the one who uses these right-wing screeds as an occasion to call out democrats and centrists. But.

The next time I hear some Newsom or Buttigieg mumbling about sports when merely prompted with the word “trans”, I’m gonna think about how we’re literally being hunted in places like Texas

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 1d

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

"Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people," said Attorney General Paxton. "The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America.
There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."
The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Alvarado, Texas. On September 10, 2025, a leftist assassin connected to the radical transgender movement murdered Charlie Kirk because of Kirk's bold support for truth, love of country, and unshakable faith. Two weeks later, another deranged leftist opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas.
President Donald Trump has officially designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and instructed his administration to "utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa." Building on President Trump's bold actions, Attorney General Paxton has instructed his office to initiate sweeping investigations into radical leftist organizations engaged in or providing support to those performing political violence.

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iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, so if we just let Nazis run everything unimpeded, the trad chuds will grace us with their presence downtown again?

Nah, we’re good.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Chitownhawkeye @avollme.bsky.social · 6d

Turns out, Americans primary motivation is bigotry and hate.

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iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 5d

Whhhhhhhyyyyy has he not signed your bills yet, @scottwiener.bsky.social ?? Is there any hope that he’s going to?

iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 7d

Hey @scottwiener.bsky.social , is anyone in Sacramento prodding Newsom forward on this?

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iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 7d

Hey @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov , can you explain why you didn’t sign this letter with your Democratic AG counterparts?

illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/News-Room/Cu...

illinoisattorneygeneral.gov

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 8d

Not A Disease To Be Cured

Taken at Exeter Pride 2025

Person holding up a cardboard sign saying "not a disease to be cured".

There is a crowd behind them and a next shop in the background

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iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 12d

How much of a tantrum we throw about it before we accept what was always true—that no one belongs anywhere—is up to us.
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iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 12d

The burning of fossil fuels has already locked-in mass human migration for the next several generations. We WILL eventually, painfully, let go of the insipid need to think of groups of people as belonging on the other side of a line.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 12d

They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter

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QuyetPawz @quyetpawz.bsky.social · 13d

A guide for LGBTQI+ asylum seekers crossing the Canada-U.S. Border by the University of Toronto.

A GUIDE FOR LGBTQI+ Asylum Seekers Crossing the Canada-U.S. Border – Haven

haven.utsc.utoronto.ca

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iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 14d

Huge if true. Holy shit.

iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 14d

My position on “the sports issue” is that most people have a relationship to sports that is unhealthy in some capacity, and this has been collectively hurting society since basically the Victorian era.

Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 14d

The absolute craziest thing of sport being the locus of animosity towards the trans community is what you just pointed out: they're fucking games. Children's games. They mean **nothing** in the real world.

Imagine trying to eugenics away 1% of the population over a D&D game or Magic: The Gathering.

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🏴‍☠️ Maddox 🏴‍☠️ @maddox.xmission.com · 14d

I know for a fact Tylenol doesn't cause autism. My mom took a shit-ton of it while pregnant, and I looked up every individual ingredient and put it in a multi-variable comorbidity matrix where I cross-referenced it with the most common diet foods and supplements in each decade broken down by regi...

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iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 15d

A Perfect Circle is for late autumn

Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 15d

Do you have an artist or album that is weirdly seasonal/holiday specific?

I have a strong preference for Morris Day during Thanksgiving prep, for ex.

(I AM on that Tylenol, if you were wondering)

iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 16d

I have absolutely no intention of returning until company leadership is gutted, at minimum. Same with Target.

iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 16d

When they come to take us, it’ll be illegal for the universities to say it is happening

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16d

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people.

conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

Alt text: Screenshot of a document outlining a new university policy. The bullet points state:

No discussion of transgender topics or anything suggesting more than two genders.

All information in syllabi about transgender topics must be removed.

Instructors must use students’ given names, not preferred names.

Safe-space stickers, LGBTQ flags, etc. are banned and must be removed.

Employees must remove pronouns from email signatures.

The university will not support faculty who teach or discuss these topics in class.

iraylavent.bsky.social @iraylavent.bsky.social · 17d

Everything they’re doing is teaching me the opposite