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At some point, liberal political discourse has to move beyond playing devil's advocate for imaginary opponents. This isn't analysis, it's trolling for a paycheque.

"Swing voter who'd vote democrat were it not for supporting trans rights" is a completely made up person. They don't exist, not even as a statistical aggregate according to mounting data. It's pure contrarianism to take that lane.

Our community is very familiar with this, there's tons of great writing from trans authors on how many parents see their children as property well into adulthood. If you want the real skeleton key though I cannot recommend this 2015 series heavily enough. issendai.com/psychology/e...

Because it's older it gets to sidestep more modern conversations about politics, MAGA, facebook melting boomers brains, etc, because none of that really matters. Narcissistic and emotionally immature parents will choose their own ego over their child's well-being every time, it's that simple.

Saw some speculation on other platforms about some stores going in and out of stock too quickly to catch. Sharing this reply we posted. @diyhrt.coffee has the same problem since naturally we don't want to share historical stock information. We recommend their tools if you desperately need notifs.

Our email notifications are being sent out correctly, but at this point the volume is so high that many get caught by gmail's spam filter. Not your spam folder, a lower layer that you never even see.

Incase anyone's worried about a bunch of brewer sites going down, don't worry about it. If you aren't in the know about IT there was a huge worst-thing-in-a-decade security issue with PHP, a technology that many brewers sites happened to use. The Verge had decent ELI5 piece on it.

Basically this week has been BOAT STUCK for computers.

I can't promise you we'll win, but I can promise you that every successful civil rights movement has faced this exact hurdle. Dr Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail covered it in his time beautifully.

Part of why this backslide feels so severe is that the gay acceptance movement of the 00s was never really a package deal for all queer people, we just got slid in as the 4th letter on some basic discrimination protections. The early 2010s is when it really got going for us.

Incase anyone's worried about a bunch of brewer sites going down, don't worry about it. If you aren't in the know about IT there was a huge worst-thing-in-a-decade security issue with PHP, a technology that many brewers sites happened to use. The Verge had decent ELI5 piece on it.

Not even getting into the other big issue that was disclosed yesterday. There's nothing to be done about it.

Incase anyone's worried about a bunch of brewer sites going down, don't worry about it. If you aren't in the know about IT there was a huge worst-thing-in-a-decade security issue with PHP, a technology that many brewers sites happened to use. The Verge had decent ELI5 piece on it.

Trans Harm Reduction's latest test set showed that at least one batch in May from Hera HRT was at half the advertised concentration. Hera have posted an update on their website indicating they're aware of it and looking into it.

Hera HRT have posted their statement. herahrt.com/on-thr-testi... This is largely what they shared with us including the eponymous Hera leaving the team, our advice remains unchanged.

This is a really important consideration not just for trans twitter, but DIY HRT on 4chan. Even if intellectually you understand many of the ideas are bad, the language and rhetorical framings of a platform are inescapable so be careful where you spend your time.

Even this post you're reading right now is inescapably Bluesky. Absolute statement > anticipated concern > one sentence refutation. In a vacuum I'd never write like but that's what discrete units of 300 characters force you into.

This is why we do it.

There's a specific person on that list who's the reason our project exists. Hearing about their death cemented my unapologetic advocacy for DIY. I am so proud of how far the community has come in a short few years. Even 5 years ago it was a taboo topic in most trans spaces, now it's so normalised.

Trans Harm Reduction's latest test set showed that at least one batch in May from Hera HRT was at half the advertised concentration. Hera have posted an update on their website indicating they're aware of it and looking into it.

Hera should be posting a longer statement of their own very soon. They've given us a more insight into what exactly they're investigating and an independent expert we spoke to agrees this all seems like a straight forward honest mistake that presents no real risks besides possible underdosing.

This isn't to say things aren't bad, but for a marginalised community where poor mental health is rampant it's so so important that we accurately assess threats and focus our energy on the fights that matter.

Not wild about that "Erin Reed uses AI" piece. It reads like someone with an unhealthy fixation asked Claude to help prove she uses AI, and then lightly reworded the output. There are a hundred issues more deserving of the time and word count than firing the starting gun on a prominent trans person.