The parents of trans people are notoriously unreliable figures in our lives. The phrase "deadname" arises from our communal knowledge that our own parents will erase our transition and very lives for their own narrative convenience when the world conspired to kill us before our own parents die.

Dems even more likely to cave.

Thing is, when you teach a bully that they can get what they want by bullying, they don't just stop.

They go back to that well over and over again.

now i'm thinking of a deus ex game set in the jetsons

"And he said 'I think that New York is the model for the new Frankenstein lab, where the people are both the creatures and the scientists, and they won't leave because they take this pride in the mad science they've created'"

I inadvertently drew this early this year!