Ginny [they/she]

I think the difference between EfreetSK’s example and the situation to which MLK’s quote applies is that MLK already had enough people on his side to force others to take him seriously.

In the UK, demonstrations for trans rights are fairly common. It is also almost exactly as common for them not to be reported on at all in any major news outlet. With the laws in the UK as they are, any trans person participating in a “disruptive” protest is liable to end up in a men’s prison (and if self-medding, as many must, deprived of HRT) for a long time, so there aren’t many takers for the Just Stop Oil brand of protesting either. It sucks, but sometimes softly softly is what’s required.

Rule 1. Be happy.

Rule 2. Don’t be unhappy.

Few people here think it would’ve solved any problems, however it might have prevented some trans people being dead over the next few years.

ITT: People who think “liberal” means any one single thing.

ITT: People who think “leftist” means any one single thing.

He did murder a lot of people with drone strikes.

Because using what little influence you have to prevent a trans genocide means you are endorsing Palestinian genocide, and are therefore a fascist. /s

It’s true. REAL anti-fascists only live in safe, non-fascist places. If you stay and try to fight the fascists, then you’re really just a fascist. /s

I’ve been using minoxidil and finasteride on and off for some years (on and off roughly correlating to hopeful and hopeless periods of mental health).

I’ve been informed by some hair loss people that at this stage they don’t think there’s any point wasting money on PRP or LLLT or anything like that, but I did recently buy a derma roller anyway, since they’re cheap and one can always hope for a miracle.

I think I’ll try to stick with a “delulu is the solulu” outlook until I’ve at least been on full dose HRT for a year or so and then cut my losses.

Why is the mash brown? And why does it look too gloopy? I have a theory that this lunatic has mixed gravy directly into the mash.

He can’t be the pigeon lady because it turned out the pigeon lady was likeable.

Hey, no worries! It just seemed like a funny response to post. I appreciate you going out of your way to educate.

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The gay aunt is transition goals for me. Too bad I’m going to have to spend a lot of money to have a chance of growing back enough hair to make that hair style viable.

I don’t think the argument does fail. OP is not arguing against killing in the heat of the moment in self-defence or whatever. OP is arguing specifically about executions after the fact. The only way “maximizing who survives” would be relevant is if you believe capital punishment is a deterrent, and that is arguable.

In my case there was only ever the one excuse, which is that I thought the pain of being a social outcast (I’m never gonna pass) would be worse than the pain of dysphoria. I knew trans people and thought: “Damn, they must have been in a lot of pain. Unlike me; I’m only in a bearable amount of pain. I hardly want to unalive myself at all except sometimes.”

If you wanted to crack your egg, you ought simply to have walked between 1280 and 10240 steps, depending on your egg group.

But seriously, same. I knew I was trans as a teen but I stuck it out pretending to be cis until my 30s “for an easy life”.

Bell did prove mathematically that a local hidden variables theory is unable to explain observed quantum mechanics. This doesn’t rule out nonlocal hidden variable theories, but a) that is called superdeterminism, and b) that would mean that there would be faster-than-light interactions, and that is in many ways weirder.

If only Marcus Aurelius had bothered to form an opinion on whether or not Commodus would make a decent successor as emperor.

The problem is that the noun class that is used to refer to you is based on your gender. As long as that is the case, grammatical gender will probably be the most apt name for the concept.

* That’sh for blashphemy!