Flan
@expandingflan.bsky.social
call me Flan | early 30s | enby shemale fagdyke thing | it/she/they | NSFW, 18+, minors DNI
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a lot of these people try to spin their retrograde attitudes about gender as a form of women's empowerment by appealing to the idea that femininity has been undervalued. but they don't want to elevate the status of femininity, they just want women to be more feminine so they can undervalue them
You might have read something about Ross Douthat’s podcast last week. Becca Rothfeld reviews the new book by Leah Libresco Sargeant, one of the guests on that show. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Review | A conservative argues we need to value ‘women as women.’ But what does that mean?
Leah Libresco Sargeant argues that we need to better acknowledge human need and vulnerability, and that valuing women “as women” is a start
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
a lot of these people try to spin their retrograde attitudes about gender as a form of women's empowerment by appealing to the idea that femininity has been undervalued. but they don't want to elevate the status of femininity, they just want women to be more feminine so they can undervalue them
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What doesn't get highlighted enough: bans on trans care almost never end just at healthcare specific to us. They're often a cover for just refusing to treat trans people period, for anything.
Broken bone? Surgery complications? Infection? Bigoted medical institutions are happy to let us die.
Broken bone? Surgery complications? Infection? Bigoted medical institutions are happy to let us die.
U.S. catholic bishops criticizing Trump's crackdowns obscured that at the same conference they tried to make sure way more trans people die due to a lack of life-saving medical care.
Catholic hospitals see 1 in 7 patients. In some areas they're the only medical system:
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
Catholic hospitals see 1 in 7 patients. In some areas they're the only medical system:
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals
The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement an...
www.npr.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
What doesn't get highlighted enough: bans on trans care almost never end just at healthcare specific to us. They're often a cover for just refusing to treat trans people period, for anything.
Broken bone? Surgery complications? Infection? Bigoted medical institutions are happy to let us die.
Broken bone? Surgery complications? Infection? Bigoted medical institutions are happy to let us die.
oh, I also love how we're implicitly conflating "non-transitioning" and "gender non-conforming". as a transitioning GNC tranny this is something I am totally fine with, naturally /s
October 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
oh, I also love how we're implicitly conflating "non-transitioning" and "gender non-conforming". as a transitioning GNC tranny this is something I am totally fine with, naturally /s
I see we're doing the "are GNC trannies holding The Community™ back?" thing yet again. this shit is why I barely go on here anymore.
October 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I see we're doing the "are GNC trannies holding The Community™ back?" thing yet again. this shit is why I barely go on here anymore.
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ive been on tumblr long enough to key in on the sort of people who like to pretend theyre merely having an anodyne discussion of queer taxonomy while at the same time tearing into their favorite tranny lolcow with the intensity of a pack of starving velociraptors just offscreen in the discord
October 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
ive been on tumblr long enough to key in on the sort of people who like to pretend theyre merely having an anodyne discussion of queer taxonomy while at the same time tearing into their favorite tranny lolcow with the intensity of a pack of starving velociraptors just offscreen in the discord
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girl who has extreme unaddressed trauma: im so sleepy, im so eepypilled, i just want to eep, im a sleepy little princess
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM
girl who has extreme unaddressed trauma: im so sleepy, im so eepypilled, i just want to eep, im a sleepy little princess
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Just gonna say this but this 'growing rift' is just entirely manufactured.
This is just straight up TruTrans shit that you would see come out of Buck Angel or Blaire White’s mouth.
Look at my queer journalism, dog, we’re not gonna make it
Look at my queer journalism, dog, we’re not gonna make it
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Just gonna say this but this 'growing rift' is just entirely manufactured.
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Remember, as SNAP is about to end, the standing rule remains firm:
If you see someone stealing diapers or formula no you didn't.
If you see someone stealing diapers or formula no you didn't.
October 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Remember, as SNAP is about to end, the standing rule remains firm:
If you see someone stealing diapers or formula no you didn't.
If you see someone stealing diapers or formula no you didn't.
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bsky.app/profile/emaj...
Hey,
I’m after a week of doing my darnest to stay afloat. Trying as hard as I can to keep it together and hang on to every little bit of joy or comfort I manage to find, and I’m not sure how long I can keep it up like this.
Hey,
I’m after a week of doing my darnest to stay afloat. Trying as hard as I can to keep it together and hang on to every little bit of joy or comfort I manage to find, and I’m not sure how long I can keep it up like this.
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
I'm really not doing well. I'm somewhere that's not good for my mental health. I'm doing what I can to change my circumstances, but there's only so much I can do.
Please help.
I'm really not doing well. I'm somewhere that's not good for my mental health. I'm doing what I can to change my circumstances, but there's only so much I can do.
Please help.
Help raise £6000 to Disability support
Iʼm raising money to Disability support. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
www.justgiving.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
bsky.app/profile/emaj...
Hey,
I’m after a week of doing my darnest to stay afloat. Trying as hard as I can to keep it together and hang on to every little bit of joy or comfort I manage to find, and I’m not sure how long I can keep it up like this.
Hey,
I’m after a week of doing my darnest to stay afloat. Trying as hard as I can to keep it together and hang on to every little bit of joy or comfort I manage to find, and I’m not sure how long I can keep it up like this.
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Nothing is wrong in this post
I would only also add a significant part of the pseudoscience was directly created to absolve white men of sex crimes
"It's not his fault, he has an addiction!"
Said by the same people who think you can beat heterosexuality and good manners into children
I would only also add a significant part of the pseudoscience was directly created to absolve white men of sex crimes
"It's not his fault, he has an addiction!"
Said by the same people who think you can beat heterosexuality and good manners into children
This will be the hill I die on, “porn addiction” is not real, that phrase specifically is used as a dog whistle and is backed only by pseudoscience which has been created by right wing fascist organisations with the intention to demonise minorities. It is not real, actual science proves it isn’t.
October 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Nothing is wrong in this post
I would only also add a significant part of the pseudoscience was directly created to absolve white men of sex crimes
"It's not his fault, he has an addiction!"
Said by the same people who think you can beat heterosexuality and good manners into children
I would only also add a significant part of the pseudoscience was directly created to absolve white men of sex crimes
"It's not his fault, he has an addiction!"
Said by the same people who think you can beat heterosexuality and good manners into children
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Make no mistake: this is part of eugenicist policy under fascism.
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
bit.ly
October 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Make no mistake: this is part of eugenicist policy under fascism.
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The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.
She is the COO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_o... of bsky. This is worrying because after the 'we are turning waffles into an anti-trans thing' by the CEO the CEO started to follow a transphobe. Shows a pattern.
Wonder when we find out one of them follows the discovery institute.
Wonder when we find out one of them follows the discovery institute.
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.
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I genuinely am shocked to think that there may be autistic people out in the world who *don't* have CPTSD because existing in our current society as autistic is so fundamentally traumatic
No shit we all have CPTSD. We've been violently depersonalized our whole lives, completely disconnected from who and what we are until we finally figure it out, and when we do and talk about it there's a chance some redditors will appear out of thin air to tell us we're delusional.
October 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I genuinely am shocked to think that there may be autistic people out in the world who *don't* have CPTSD because existing in our current society as autistic is so fundamentally traumatic
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I hate the term “bullying”. It suggests that it’s somehow less serious than what it actually is: abuse and violence.
But oh no, can’t say that a child is a violent abuser. Because children are always innocent little angels, right?
But oh no, can’t say that a child is a violent abuser. Because children are always innocent little angels, right?
October 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I hate the term “bullying”. It suggests that it’s somehow less serious than what it actually is: abuse and violence.
But oh no, can’t say that a child is a violent abuser. Because children are always innocent little angels, right?
But oh no, can’t say that a child is a violent abuser. Because children are always innocent little angels, right?
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I feel like most people haven’t quite processed how the combination of “the DOJ won’t arrest federal agents violating your rights” and “the president can pardon anyone” in combination with “anyone who tries to sue the feds will is endangered” has rendered the bill of rights functionally void
October 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I feel like most people haven’t quite processed how the combination of “the DOJ won’t arrest federal agents violating your rights” and “the president can pardon anyone” in combination with “anyone who tries to sue the feds will is endangered” has rendered the bill of rights functionally void
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Literally they've shot two people in Chicago alone, we're all unbelievably fortunate the woman they shot last fucking weekend survived
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️
October 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Literally they've shot two people in Chicago alone, we're all unbelievably fortunate the woman they shot last fucking weekend survived
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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News from Huntington Beach
Time for city council!
Not much happening at tonight’s meeting except, oh, a presentation by an election denial group on “widespread voter fraud and the need for voting transparency.”
This same group was banned from New York for violations of the Voting Rights Act and the Klu Klux Klan Act, soooo.
Not much happening at tonight’s meeting except, oh, a presentation by an election denial group on “widespread voter fraud and the need for voting transparency.”
This same group was banned from New York for violations of the Voting Rights Act and the Klu Klux Klan Act, soooo.
October 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
News from Huntington Beach
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It's getting close to a year since the failure of local authorities forced me to return to live in a household I fled from because of abuse.
I made friends that are able to bring me some happiness despite all of this, but my happiness deserves to be on it's own, and not at odds with suffering.
I made friends that are able to bring me some happiness despite all of this, but my happiness deserves to be on it's own, and not at odds with suffering.
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
I'm really not doing well. I'm somewhere that's not good for my mental health. I'm doing what I can to change my circumstances, but there's only so much I can do.
Please help.
I'm really not doing well. I'm somewhere that's not good for my mental health. I'm doing what I can to change my circumstances, but there's only so much I can do.
Please help.
Help raise £6000 to Disability support
Iʼm raising money to Disability support. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
www.justgiving.com
October 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It's getting close to a year since the failure of local authorities forced me to return to live in a household I fled from because of abuse.
I made friends that are able to bring me some happiness despite all of this, but my happiness deserves to be on it's own, and not at odds with suffering.
I made friends that are able to bring me some happiness despite all of this, but my happiness deserves to be on it's own, and not at odds with suffering.
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being trans, being fat, being disabled -- these things will teach you who people are in their heart of hearts, often within seconds of meeting them.
a cool thing about trans people is that just existing in normal every day life on social media we will cause people who would otherwise pass as just a normal liberal reveal that they were actually just insane reactionary conservatives the entire time and also total fucking cowards about it
October 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
being trans, being fat, being disabled -- these things will teach you who people are in their heart of hearts, often within seconds of meeting them.
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Everyone in EU, UK or any US state with ID laws on the books [or even ones without them] should contact their representatives and mention this data breach specifically and [link the article if emailed]
Show them the actual, tangible results of all this digshit online ID legislation
Show them the actual, tangible results of all this digshit online ID legislation
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.
buff.ly
October 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Everyone in EU, UK or any US state with ID laws on the books [or even ones without them] should contact their representatives and mention this data breach specifically and [link the article if emailed]
Show them the actual, tangible results of all this digshit online ID legislation
Show them the actual, tangible results of all this digshit online ID legislation
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September 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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between the 2020 blm protests, covid lockdown and re-emergence, shift to wfh, etc, it really felt like we were on the cusp of some major societal shifts. beyond the first year and a half of steering the ship through covid, the biden admin's response was a tacit "ok, now put everything back"
A challenge to politics-understanders: why was Biden so unpopular given the very good policy he delivered on wages, climate, & antitrust, among others? This is not an invitation to relitigate 2024, but rather explore what his political failure reveals about the underlying mechanisms of politics.
Ah, I see. I suppose I want deliverism to work, but fear Biden proves it doesn't, so I want someone to explain convincingly why some future attempt would be different. Perhaps that's not clear
September 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
between the 2020 blm protests, covid lockdown and re-emergence, shift to wfh, etc, it really felt like we were on the cusp of some major societal shifts. beyond the first year and a half of steering the ship through covid, the biden admin's response was a tacit "ok, now put everything back"
so one of the staffers here is wearing a charlie kirk t-shirt and has MAGA shit plastered all over his car. I don't think I've ever felt less safe the whole time I've been staying here.
September 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
so one of the staffers here is wearing a charlie kirk t-shirt and has MAGA shit plastered all over his car. I don't think I've ever felt less safe the whole time I've been staying here.