No link as it’s an email newsletter- so please excuse the longer pics.
They wanted the girl to expose her genitals and for the officer to touch them.
“Sure. But first I get to touch yours with this here baseball bat. Repeatedly. With force.”
I think at this point we can agree that TSA stands for The Sexual Assaulters.
challengers claimed that schools and libraries should not “put books in a child’s hand that require discussion"
Jumpin’ Jehosephat.
They do know Dumbledore is only gay in Rowling’s mind, right? Like, there’s less evidence in the text that gay people exist in the Potterverse than that they exist in the MCU…
No words…
Interview with trans veteran Reggie Bell:
Not sure if this should go here, but I’ll put it in a couple of other places, too:
It only took 40 years into the global epidemic to consider keeping data on trans people.
Yep- this is who you want to hire as a “Democratic consultant.”
I hope the ignorant fuck gets shitcanned. Can we just be done with this stupid transphobic bullshit?
“I was distracted…?” WTF? I would have to be rather more than distracted to refer to a woman as “sir” repeatedly. Does it take that much concentration to be a not-an-asshole? I don’t think it does.
“I came into this to fight homophobia. It wasn’t about hating trans people, for me,” Amy says.
“So once I started to see these people be more and more blatantly homophobic, and conservative, and retweeting neo-Nazipropaganda papers…” she trails off.
In the beginning, she tells me, it seemed more respectable; something she was comfortable with. “But I didn’t know what I was getting into at the time,” she continues. “I was sold that what we were doing wasn’t anti-LGBT+. But a lot of the anti-trans arguments sound a lot like anti-gay ones to me.”
A lot of the anti-trans arguments sound a lot like anti-gay ones.
Amy also began to notice the role that the messaging of the Religious Right was playing in the “gender-critical” movement – and that many of the things the movement she was a part of was pushing for were actually anti-gay.
“They really don’t even care about gay people, which is the bottom line [for me],” she says. “They’re going for gay rights too, including marriages, the rainbow, LGBT+ clubs in schools.”
She was also uncomfortable about the right-wing direction the gender-critical movement was going in; and had bad feelings about the alliances between feminists and anti-LGBT+ organisations.