I bought bag of some generic candy corn in a greeting card shop a couple of months ago. It was still delicious.
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Iâm going to have to think about whether we are still friends⌠
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Friends shouldnât mind friends liking bad candy. It just makes it that much easier to share with them. 
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Thatâs we expect of @chenille!
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Yeah, thatâs a show-stopper. 
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The bans on gender affirming care of minors are so infuriating to me. We donât do that with anything else. Cancer treatments, plastic surgeries, hellâŚgender affirming care for kids whose gender identity does match that assigned at birth, for a number of intersex conditions or hormonal imbalances. All of those carry risks, all of them have side effects, and we donât just blanket ban any of them. Why? Because there are already medical standards governing those treatments. Just like there are for trans kids. It pisses me off so much. Weâre going to lose a whole generation of trans kids in some of these states if these laws are upheld.
And detransitionâŚjesus, donât even get me started. Trans people are rare to begin with. People who detransition are just as rare a subgroup within that rare subgroup, itâs literally a negligible number of people.
Itâs 2023. We should be done with hating people just because theyâre not like us by now.
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Terf Island wants the little children to suffer.
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I get so tired of the âthey are too young to understand things of this natureâ transphobia. I have started replying by asking how old the speaker was when they knew they were a boy/girl? The looks are amazing! âThatâs not the same thing at all!â Yes, yes it is. It is exactly the same thing. We ask kids at about 3 if they are a boy or a girl just to test their ability to communicate. Never had a parent object to that on the basis of âthey canât know that yet.â Of course they can, and do!
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I hope both Gaines and the University of Washington can be successfully sued. But Iâm not holding my breath.
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The University may have some cover since it doesnât look like either the scholarship offer or the rescinding of it were ever confirmed by UW. I doubt if Gaines could be sued at all. Presumably, she doesnât actually have to power to influence UWâs scholarship decisions. At least I hope not.
We need stronger anti-bullying laws. Gaines is literally bullying a teenager here. You can express an opinion all you want, but siccing your hate mob on a child should violate a law.
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Iâm reminded of a time when an anti trans woman ended up having a trans kid and then had to go to the community seeking help.
Not that I would wish her on a trans kid.
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Sadly, we still have the mentality in this stupid country that bullies are doing the bullied a public service by toughening them up⌠or making them go back into the closetâŚ
Yep, but it doesnât seem like anyone is taking that kind of shit seriouslyâŚ
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They arenât. I live near Toms River, NJ, and there was a girl (not transâŚthis is just about bullying in general) who was bullied at school, multiple times, with at least one incident recorded. She and her parents reported it to the school. Nothing. She then committed suicide. There was tons of attention for a few days, including national news stories, and then not one fucking thing changed. And New Jersey does have an anti-bullying law. But it has no teeth.
I donât know if bullying has gotten worse, or if I just got super lucky and avoided it somehow when I was younger. I think about this sometimes because so many LGBTQ people have been bullied, and I wasnât. But I was also in a wheelchair for 8 years, and at least where I was in the late 70s and early to mid 80s, no one wanted to be the dick who bullied the kid in the wheelchair. Iâm not sure that applies today.
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Thatâs true about far too many social problems in this stupid country. Itâs like weâve become a country of people who are paralyzed and we canât get anything done anymoreâŚ
I did not avoid it, sadly⌠My daughter went to a small private school that had very strict rules about bullying (and itâs hard to bully people when there are like 10 kids in a class) so she didnât really have to deal with that (one of the reasons we ended up putting her in the school she went to)âŚ
I donât know⌠I would think that still is the case (or kids who are special needs, too).
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Itâs still bullshit. I want to ask Dr. Littman how old she was when she knew she was a girl. And why this is different for anyone else. The answer is always âbut this is different.â No, it is not, you fraudulent huckster you, and you know it is not.
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