Erika

Erika

@erika.zone

🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her)〈Seattle〉 ◈ ᴅɪsᴄᴏʀᴅ › erika.is.awoken

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Hard to describe how significant the erasure and denial of representation of trans people in mainstream fiction is in enabling the dehumanization of trans people we see. It is almost hermetically sealed.

The almost insane lengths some cis people will go to deny a character in a work might be (or clearly is) trans is crazy. Jax, etc.

Never let anyone persuade you that evil doesn't exist, or that you don't meet with it every day, or that you are powerless to make a difference against it.

so honest q, given families of trans kids are suffering in the UK who can't get GnRh agonists and not all are in a position to flee to Ireland, how can they be helped? are people driving to Ireland to stock up or importing from look-the-other-way foreign suppliers or just suffering?

Has anyone else rewatched the mutants arc of Futurama (where physically abnormal people are forced to live underground in the sewers) and felt it basically speaks to the trans experience in society?

It's me I'm the mutant I'm gonna reclaim it Nothing wrong with being a mutant Half the things modern technology relies on were made by us, you'd be fucked without us. Nature loves experiments You can't call me one though

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Folks, this is one of our most important requests. Can you do what you can to give it traction in your various socials. Naomi Cunningham is trying to normalise abusing court process to intimidate trans witnesses, creating a chilling effect that will deny us any access to justice at all, either as..

Bottles@bottles1936.bsky.social

If we could obtain some/all of the original complaints and outcome decisions, we could take a strong case to judicial review. If any of you out there made complaints against this monster to the Bar Standards Board and got one of the 'No Further Action' replies, DM us. discretion guaranteed (more)

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Replying to @erika.zone

Also while I'm here: I have an ambition to create an online museum of old forum software someday. If anyone still has a copy of UBB.classic or other obscure CGI or PHP apps that are now lost it would be of great interest.

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Replying to @jessdkant.bsky.social

None of these anti-trans initiatives and referendums are about granting rights— all of them, every one— is about taking them away. Imagine feeling like the whole country is trying to decide if you count as fully human, and mustering up the courage to go to school. I promise you are not that brave.

new more realistic sequel: RPG which is a queer wonderland but surrounded by a border controlled by fascists trying to keep people out, not in

Erika@erika.zone

You know it suddenly occurs to me the irony is I feel like a lot of people would WANT to go through the portal and live in Exile rather than the Empire Like...

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There's no pretense left. J. K. Rowling made her hate for trans women clear in a slur-filled screed slurring them a dozen times and describing them as deceitful and dangerous. So writes @evanurquhart.bsky.social this morning on Assigned Media. *WARNING: Article quotes Rowling's hateful language.*

assignedmedia.orgJ. K. Rowling’s Extremism Escalates in Hateful “Update” on Anti-Trans Views - Assigned MediaRowling's most recent essay puts her hateful views on display for all to see.

Question. There are state compacts for interstate recognition of medical and therapy licenses, right? Can people who get involved with this be barred from ever practicing in another state? Including non conversion practices in case the culture shifts and they ever want to whitewash their careers.

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This is all true but I feel it gives Cass an undeserved pass as simply clueless rather than malicious. The review was a hit job to justify suppressing trans youth. See the inconsistent application of evidence standards, pathologization and pervasive cissupremacism. Also:

erininthemorning.comColleagues Allege Cass Recommended Book Comparing Transition To The HolocaustDr. Hillary Cass, author of the Cass Review, reportedly recommended gender clinicians read "Irreversible Damage," a book written by an anti-trans activist that compared transition to the holocaust.
The Newromancer@tehsamantha.bsky.social

Imagine if a podiatrist randomly got involved in oncology because someone in the government hired them to do an independent review. Then, a few years later, they were able to disrupt and shut down healthcare for cancer patients despite having no expertise That's Cass in the UK with trans healthcare

it is incredibly fucko to think that if the GOP proposed being needlessly cruel and genocidal to people's housecats it would probably generate more empathy and outrage in the average cis person than they feel for actual human beings targeted just as cruelly for being trans

can I get some cis empathy if I hire David Attenborough to narrate a nature documentary about trans people? would that work?

may as well point out that even if a politician genuinely believed in good faith that a trans sports ban is justifiable (it isn't), using transphobic language that invalidates trans identity to advocate that is still unacceptable and makes it quite clear what they really think about us

misinformed but respectful: "I don't think trans girls should play on girls teams because I believe they would have an unfair advantage because [argument]" never ok: "bIoLoGICaL men shouldn't be playing on leeetle girls sports teams" there's bad policy and then there's misgendering us with slurs

most of these awful betrayals by politicians somehow manage to stab us not once but twice in a single 30 second position statement, and that feels underremarked you can't reduce this to just policy capitulation, these positions are taken using needlessly inflammatory rhetoric which actively harm us

'Can a woman have a penis?' 'Yes' Transphobe brain: *melts* The funny thing is they have such a lack of imagination. If a cis woman wants to get a penis while still being a binary woman she's perfectly entitled to. In fact, she can have two penises if she wants Bodily autonomy isn't a complex idea

I feel like massive amounts of transphobia dialectics basically amount to denial that trans people actually exist, but even those people can't refute that intersex people exist. Yet many of the same injustices visited upon trans people are necessarily implied by being intersex.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

People will grudgingly admit that intersex people exist, then go back to insisting that "biological sex" is a binary. It's kind of crazy.

Literally the whole shtick of the excessive AI investment is that it's selling the dream of companies without the need for those annoying and costly 'employees' to people who basically ecstatically relish the notion of bringing about Laborgeddon

"Most of our tech investments are thinly-veilled and highly relished fantasies about making several million truck drivers unemployed overnight so the fueling of our yachts no longer relies on proles who have the nerve to want to be paid not getting uppity"

wombatpunch.bsky.social@wombatpunch.bsky.social

"The best form is welfare is a job, also our economic theory requires a few hundred thousand of you to not have a job at any one time and you must be punished for that."

Hold the line. Don't reward transphobic candidates even if it means Dems sit a seat out for 2 years. They must be taught to hold the line.

Will Beaman@greenbackbetter.bsky.social

Matt Yglesias should at least *acknowledge* the opposing view: You’re more likely to secure trans rights in the long run if compromise on that issue is considered untenable in the Democratic Party chip. The outcome of one race is less important than that long term stake in the party.

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correct. you aren't supposed to hold your nose and Respectfully "vote blue no matter who" you're supposed to make your political candidates terrified and desperate that they may lose your vote Even If you're going to secretly vote for them anyway. psychological warfare. etc

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

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unfortunately we have the ‘biological males’ framing here in the rest of the clip so I am going to have to rescind my ‘see how easy it is, red state dems’ this sucks! do better!

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it's *drastically* easier to build the voter will to replace a republican with a democrat than it is to replace a democrat with a more progressive democrat. if we let these motherfuckers in we lock in their transphobia. the party has to be shown this will sink their candidates.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

to be clear if you think supporting genocidal and segregationist policies against a vulnerable minority is ok you should run for the fascist party not the not-fascist party if you ran for the non-fascist party despite that because you're in a swing seat and saw an easy path to power, fuck you

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why? because then at least that seat can primary again in 2 years and we don't have to go to extra effort to remove an incumbent squatting on the non-fascist seat and have a chance of filling that seat with a person who actually believes in human rights

at least the GOP is perfectly transparent in their views: they want to eliminate trans kids if you conveniently fail to mention your contempt for trans people until after you win a primary, congratulations, you have somehow managed to be even more dishonest than the GOP (how is that even possible)

to be clear if you think supporting genocidal and segregationist policies against a vulnerable minority is ok you should run for the fascist party not the not-fascist party if you ran for the non-fascist party despite that because you're in a swing seat and saw an easy path to power, fuck you

i literally would rather see that seat stay GOP for another 2 years rather than let it go to a replicant wearing a Dem skinsuit

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repost if you will never vote for a democrat willing to harm trans kids puberty blockers are medicine hormones are medicine nobody is carving your kids up children know who they feel like

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Replying to @sexabolition.blog

Trans women are understood by this mentality as foxes in the hen houses being constructed for womanhood (and simultaneously as barren women and failing in a duty of manhood). Trans men are treated as degenerate hosts refusing to yield their reproductive capacity owed to the racial community.

Reminder that in politics, "compromise" does NOT mean "only give your opponent half of what they asked for"... and you still get nothing. This is a psyop which people have swallowed for generations. *If* you are going to compromise, it's "Fine, you want X? What do we get IN RETURN?"

GOP: "We want to eliminate all of trans rights" Dems: "Can't we compromise?" GOP: "Okay, how about we only eliminate half of them?" Dems: "Sold!" Dems: I love compromising!

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Replying to @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social

Trans people are a materially real category of person whether you like it or not, and no amount of navel-gazing word games will change the fact that the punishment society levels at those who declare their belonging to that category is blatantly unjust.