Notices by Parker Molloy (parkermolloy@masto.ai), page 2

That is such a Twitter thing to respond with.

Starting to see a more people over here doing the Twitter thing where they respond to someone saying "I like pancakes" by going, "So you hate waffles?!?!?"

Not great.

Hope everyone who's been shrugging off the GOP strategy to criminalize health care it doesn't like (see: abortion, trans rights) is happy with themselves, because it's not stopping there https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/capitol-watch/idaho-lawmakers-introduce-legislation-to-criminalize-those-who-administer-covid-vaccines-legislature/277-2436a514-e7da-4b31-9762-f9be10300075

One thing that never really gets said but everyone knows is true is that one of the reasons transphobes are so focused on preventing trans teens from stopping their bodies' natural puberties is that it scares them if they can't immediate "tell" if a person is trans.

They push to delay transition because it results in trans people looking more "visibly trans," which is what the transphobes want.

They see someone like Kim Petras, someone they'd have no clue was trans if they weren't told, and they get really weird. They want to be able to "mark" us as trans, so they push to make it harder and harder to transition, pushing into the 20s to ensure that we're visibly trans enough for them.

It's why places like NYT will be like, "omg, this person who detransitioned after going on testosterone for a year has a raspier voice than most women now and she has a bit of facial hair! Omg!" Not realizing/caring that forcing trans girls, for instance, to go through a testosterone-driven puberty DOES THE SAME THING. Equally bad, yet they don't see this as a cost.

It's why the theme of "omg, you hooked up with a duuuuuuuuuuddddeeeee?!?!" stuff in movies (The Crying Game, Ace Ventura, etc.) was so popular for so long: it reflects a real anxiety about being "tricked."

And so certain portions of society take it upon themselves to make sure trans people are as visibly trans as possible: they feel entitled to know if someone is trans.

It's all based on really gross transphobic tropes.

A lot of people genuinely seem to think they have some sort of right to know if their coworkers or acquaintances are trans. That's absurd. They don't. It's a wild invasion of privacy.

So they push for policies that make it easier to clock us. It's a big old sexist attack.

This is dehumanizing stuff. I really need allies to help fight back against it. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/arkansas-lawmaker-hearing-asks-transgender-woman-penis-rcna70787

There seem to be a number of pundits insisting that anything short of putting trans people in camps is not "an attack on trans people's rights."

Please understand how ridiculous that sort of characterization is.

Yes, efforts to make it impossible for trans people to get ID cards that list their updated name and gender marker are attacks on trans rights.

Yes, efforts to force people to use restrooms that correspond to their original birth certificates are attacks on trans rights.

Yes, efforts to criminalize or restrict transition-related health care and insurance coverage are attacks on trans rights.

Because here's the thing:

I do not care if someone believes "trans women are women" or not. I really, truly don't. People can believe whatever they want to believe, and others can believe whatever they want to believe about that person.

Responding "Biological sex is real!" is not actually an argument. I'm not at all interested in having a dumb, meaningless debate about that.

I wrote this in 2014. Nothing has changed other than the fact that mainstream media outlets are jumping on the anti-trans propaganda train, buying into the moral panic the right's been trying to push for years. https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/08/raising-a-trans-child-is-not-child-abuse.html

Just a reminder that using "the children" and their need for "protection" has been the basis of every horrific moral panic targeting a marginalized group.

I don't want to be in a world that doesn't want me in it; and it seems like more than ever that it doesn't.

Clarification: this happened in 2019 (Still during the DeSantis' admin)

In Florida, they're arresting 11-year-olds for not standing for the pledge of allegiance. Something something something free speech. https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2019/02/14/mother-upset-after-son-kicked-out-of-class-over-pledge-of-allegiance

Of course Elon Musk is sitting with Rupert Murdoch at the Super Bowl. Of course.

Wrote about conspiracy theories yesterday https://www.readtpa.com/p/paul-pelosi-conspiracy-theories

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