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It's wild how the entire political mainstream in the UK has agreed to take the Cass report's cherry-picking quackery that gets the evidence for gender-affirming care completely backwards on purpose and openly states that it supports conversion torture seriously.

It goes further than that. They're straight up protecting anybody who has committed any form of SA long enough ago that they can only be charged under "lookback window" laws, because they think being tried after such a long time frame violates the right to due process.

Some of them are chuddy merch grifts specifically intended for fundraising. Now, you could argue that printing shirts and stickers and posters and flags in a co-op is something leftists have done forver, and you'd be right about that, but when you start a store for thin blue line merch or an agitprop site selling reprints of public domain theory or a food supplement grift or whatever these bozos are doing, it makes a difference when you have the funding to start out with several full-time employees, can afford advertising to make yourself known, can data mine information on potential donors and get additional funds if it takes longer to get everything going. It's much easier to scale this kind of stuff up when you go in with more capital than a used screen printer.

I'm glad there's a ton of queer nerds so i can enjoy my nerdy hobbies without these dweebs, but it also means that the only places where i can talk about RPGs without neckbeards yelling about wokeness ruining their favorite game are trans discords.

Yeah, it's tough shaking that off.

Unfortunately she's also a bit of a transmed, enbiephobe and translesbophobe sometimes. Like, i get that she's called out Blaire White over and over again for her bs, or that she's made an entire video debunking Ray Blanchard's quackery, and these are actually good takedowns of transmedicalist concepts, so i don't think she's ideologically committed on this truscum shit, but she's got a ton of brainworms and internalized bigotry from the time she posted on /tttt/ and there's moments where it really shows how deeply she has been harmed by that and how it still infests her views on gender in subtle, but awful ways. I didn't notice that when i watched these vids as an egg and had no idea about struggle sessions within the trans community, but i went back to her Cancelling and Shame vids some time ago to see if there was something i had missed when pre-transition me originally saw them and they're full of yikes moments, it's just that these moments are very easy to miss when you haven't seen much of her stuff.

I hate to say that, because she is talented, she's funny, she's charismatic, she's as smart as somebody can be who's stuck at "taking Judith Butler's early ideas about gender as drag literal and ignorig that they moved beyond that later after they talked to trans people about this and understood concepts like gender identity", but there's moments where she sneaks in real nuclear takes.

The main focus of queer rights campaigning in the post-AIDS years where marriage equality and being allowed in military service, and the common non-assimilationist-but-still-within-the-liberal-framework criticism of that was that campaigns should have focussed more on protection from discrimination in employment and housing. That's traditionally the spectrum of approaches focussing on legal rights. Nowadays, you can also add legal rights like access to (but not coverage of) trans healthcare, self ID laws, trans women being allowed to compete in women's leagues or bathroom access (but no free public bathrooms).

A material approach would be employment, housing, education and healthcare guarantees. These aren't even strictly LGBTQIA+ specific, it's a core part of already existing socialism that everybody gets these, but queer people are often much more likely to be reliant on such guarantees of material rights than straight people - think of queer kids being kicked out of their home by homo- or transphobic parents and having to live on the street; think of discrimination in the workplace and housing market where, even if it is illegal, you need to be able to afford better lawyers than a potential boss or landlord to assert your rights; think of the cost of trans healthcare and how few trans people in the US can get stuff like bottom surgery. Queer people, especially those who aren't male, cis, monosexual, binary, and endosexual, especially if they are also PoC and / or immigrants and live with disabilities, are a lot more likely to be materially marginalized.

A socialist, intersectional approach towards queer rights recognizes this precarity and uses the justified anger of queer people for radicalization, turning queerness into a part of vanguardism.

A liberal approach instead offers limited legal protection in exchange for assimilationist fealty to the patriarchal, cishetnormative, binarist system.

that's almost word for word like the English one, it's just missing the useless betweenwordblankspaces.

One advantage of AmeriKKKa's democracy simulation has always been that Dems and GOP can play a good cop - bad cop routine when it comes to NATO. Trump (and Dubya before him) does a unilateralism to bully Europe into more military spending, then Biden (and Obama before him) comes into office and reassures the countries that have just gutted their welfare and education systems a bit further to field another anti aircraft brigade that the benevolent hegemon in D.C. will ofc always have their back and that it will pay off for them to remain loyal vassals.

for a lot of transfems, the trick with skirts is at which height you wear them. They just don't look very good on me when they sit on my hips, but they're fine above my belly or at the height of my belly button. Where to put the waistline is a huge decision when you're dressing femme and if you have an "apple" shape like me, wearing things that run low on the hips just doesn't work well.