People who do icky sex stuff are going to the mat for you all the time and you don’t even know it.

...Ms. Curth continues to deny that she engaged in any arbitrary behavior regarding the student's work, and is considering all of her legal remedies, including appealing this decision by the University."

betting the navy slow-walks this for 3 years then goes "fuck it, let's build more arleigh burkes instead" just like they did the last two times they tried to introduce a new large surface combatant

The question I asked myself was:

"What if the shitty terf fantasy school was instead written by @badambulist.bsky.social?"

and everything else proceeded from that core idea.

the reason the entire conservative political apparatus opposes comprehensive sex education is that children who understand sexuality are more likely to be able to identify and report sexual abuse, so keep that in mind next time your politicians brag about "bipartisanship"

They will not succeed — both because they are wrong and because, ultimately, such people always fail.

The only question is how many people will be harmed in the interim and what we, as people who care, will do to support and protect those being targeted. (This, to be clear, is not a new question.)

the binder IS the safe alternative. there are guidelines for safe use of these. i remember my trans friends (and cosplayers) as a kid describing painfully using ace bandages to compress their chests. this is dangerous, this causes tissue damage and can harm the ribs.

the gender/sex distinction doesn't work. there's no clear line where gender ends and sex begins, or vice versa. transphobes make use of the distinction and its ambiguity in order to impose gender norms under the rubric of a supposedly immutable "sex."