There was extensive documented debate at the time 14A was drafted as to whether it would apply to Chinese railroad workers and gold rush workers' children. The answer was unequivocally that yes, it did. (5/3)

i was sure there had been one or two de-arrests, but can’t point to definitive examples

Melissa no

Every trans person who dared to object to bias was automatically categorised an “activist” and dismissed out of hand by the nyt

Think about the gutter bigotry that reflects. That’s the nyt leadership.

grotesque. did they photoshop a man’s uniform and haircut onto her too?

anti-trans attacks are never about trans people, for far too many allies. it's always about something else, and trans people are the distraction or collateral damage

pointing this contradiction out only makes many allies angry at trans people: we're difficult, or self-centered, or a "luxury" issue

we're somehow the biggest prudes on earth about sex shit while simultaneously treating every other genre of traditional sin as a to-do list

the thing cyberpunk got wrong is that it imagined the fun kind of degeneracy fluorishing instead of the "betting on which murder suspect did the hatecrime, game show style" kind

(its usually both in those depictions but yknow what i mean)

The thing about all the anti-trans sports panic: people argue this stuff while talking about elite level sports, but because there aren't actually a ton of superhuman trans women blowing away the competition, the people actually affected end up being those who play sports for fun/socialization

[insert dejected snark about s*r*h mcbr*d*]

You have the choice to sacrifice trans people. Perhaps it will save you.

But you don't get to ask trans people to accept the role as sacrifice. You cannot expect understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, or respect.

You made your choice.

a lot of people's intuition is that intellectual errors lead to moral errors, and I think it is much more common that it is the other way around.

They didn't get all of us though

So at least we've got that.

one of the things about transphobia that grinds you down on a daily basis is not the active stuff that happens to you, but the knowledge that you're almost destined to lose whatever social conflict you might have with a cis person

a top, a switch, and a bottom walk into a [spreader] bar

idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was

(but seriously, *nobody* is “exempt” from transmisogyny)