Ben Lippi 🏳️‍⚧️

How it feels right now

I wrote for @thenation.com about why people need to stop acting as though the dramatically escalating bigotry on display in US politics is just an unserious sideshow.

its really funny how willingness to throw trans people under the bus is a 100% accuracy indicator for exactly the kind of guy a politician is and yet every single time we have to go through the "noooo hes not a spineless opportunist who'll say whatever is convenient its different this time" cycle

reminder

A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.

the Ohio Democratic party is purging its ranks by forcing trans people to either resign or go along with politicians who threaten their existence and calling a pride group an "unwelcoming distraction." If we're just a distraction, then win without our votes and get rid of the fake "pride" orgs 👍🏾

reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.

Losing my fucking mind at these piece of shit Dems who insist that their bigotry is some sort of pragmatism. It's pretty clear that a lot of people on the Dem side want to throw trans people under the bus and then insist we should be thankful

The number of cis liberals and "leftists" who take the approach of "Shut up and do what you're told. We know what's best for you" is infuriating but somehow not surprising

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

If guys are getting interested in video games I've yet to see it tbh, I've only ever met a few guys who were into games and half of them turned out to be girls even then

13-year anniversary of Subway getting really mad at us.

I was pretty young immediately post 9/11, but there was an immediate uptick in American flags and overt racism. Like, the Bush administration blatantly lied about WMDs and then vaguely gestured at the Middle East as a whole and hoped no one would notice.

Seeing cis people debate whether Rocky Horror is "problematic towards trans[sic]" is melting my brain. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

New secret lair kinda goes

A lot can happen in five years 🏳️‍⚧️ #comic #art #trans #transgender #lgbt

Yesterday my endo tried to tell me that the graduation lines inside a syringe already account for the volume of a needle and that it was fine to just go ahead and inject air directly into myself. Okay.

No fuck off we're not calling this "Millennial grey" this shit was dictated completely by boomer retiree house flippers we absolutely had NO say in this

Shit like Graham Platner and support for Gavin Newsome just shows how much mysoginy, transphobia, ableism, homophobia and racism is still ingrained in white leftist discourse.

new metaphor just dropped

hey trans folks, have any of your cis friends checked in on you?

It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.

Trump: It's not working! Why don't they love the fair? How do I make the crowds cheer? Oracle of DC: If you test your strength against the heat with a very long speech, the nation will celebrate harder than they ever have. They will party in the streets. No one will ever forget the night.

“Unfortunately, in each of those cases, I did not have any open mana,” said Schumer, laying his elbow on the table to cover up his two untapped Islands, which had been gathering dust.

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

So the thing about being trans is you go from barely existing to loving life and then everyone who isn’t trans wants us to be quiet and polite at best while we’re exploding with the first real joy we’ve ever experienced So Anyone who thinks we need to be civil and quiet can fuck all the way off

Trans people are under attack. They are trying to make them going out in public illegal. They are taking away their licenses. If you cannot see that the moment you unpeople one demographic, you create a gray area for every other demographic, you're beyond hope. Trans rights are human rights.

I hold firm to the idea that new people are learning old information for the first time all the time, and it’s normal not to know things. If you’re a journalist (lmao with a Substack, no less) pretending the NYT is fair and balanced about trans people, you’re being malicious. Nobody is that stupid.

This is eugenics. Genocide. An attack on science, medical ethics, bodily autonomy, and human rights. Where is the outcry from the biomedical community? Trans people aren't just abstract patients and research participants: We're your friends, family, and co-workers. Speak up before it's too late

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

it just gets more and more bleak doesn’t it? square up and throw a punch for your trans friends today

Good morning to everyone in the Trans community, and to us only. I am sending each and every one of us love and hugs today, tomorrow, and everyday after that.

“I’ve never felt more welcome at my LGS, and I’ve developed quite a taste for confetti foils too! I love my Ygra deck, and this really lets me lean into the theme. I really hate the triple-sleevers though, their cards take forever to tear into, but it really does lock the freshness in!”

It's incredible how it was revealed that the anti-trans push over the past decade was concocted in no small part by a literal PEDOPHILE CONSPIRACY and the reaction of transphobic lawmakers, journalists, academics has been a shrug and a "well, we gotta carry out the orders from pedophile island"

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...