It’s not really as comforting as it sounds to say that there are people who care about trans rights when an even larger group wants us dead and gone.

You need to stop yourself for a second and realize that it’s not a larger group. It’s a louder group. Absolutely no one who mattered gave a fuck about trans people until we were turned into culture war fodder to distract people from the Right’s shitty policies. The vast majority of people do not care about trans people whatsoever, and that’s not a bad thing, because at that point we’re just like everyone else.

Sure, there are a lot of people who have been convinced they think trans people are bad, but the reality is that it’s a totally manufactured POV. They had nothing else meaningful to complain about, so they pick up on the easiest punching bags they can. But the moment they’re faced with a real issue, they will forget about you in a heartbeat.

I have family members who posted some absolutely vile anti-trans rhetoric during the election, and when they were shamed for their vote, they went on and on about how Trump was “protecting their daughters from trans people in bathrooms”. Now that their jobs are in jeopardy due to the tariffs and they’ve lost a significant number of benefits from all the DOGE cuts? Absolute silence on the anti-trans front.

I don’t mean to justify their actions or behaviors in any way, but I solely mean it as a way to protect yourself mentally from the shittiness going on in the world. It makes things just a tiny bit easier when you realize that it’s not that they hate trans people, it’s just that they are weak people looking for an easy punching bag, and unfortunately we’re the minority du jour they’ve chosen to latch onto for the time being.

That being said, it’s still a very real threat to us for the time being, and ensuring we’re all supporting each other and pushing back however we can is extremely important.

6 months in and I still misgender myself sometimes lol. It definitely isn’t a super easy switchover after decades of using something else.

It’s like in a romance language. If it’s mixed genders, then no, but if it’s only women, then yes. If I’m in a mixed group of friends, “You guys” is totally fine, but if I’m solely with my transfem friends and someone says “You guys” to us, it feels tone deaf at best and like pretty blatant misgendering at worst.

I get this when we’re at restaurants sometimes and it’s pretty clear when the waitstaff are being rude. Table of all cis women next to us? “Can I get you girls anything else?” Our table of transwomen clearly presenting femme? “Can I get you guys anything else?” kinda sucks.

Unironically, “Y’all” has become a significant part of my vernacular when talking to groups of people, but especially around my queer peeps because it covers every possible option, including those outside the gender binary.

Both my partner and parents said that, it’s quite common.

It absolutely does. Typically, all 4 wheel speed sensors are polled and averaged, so unless you’re doing lots of extended 4 wheel burnouts, you’re talking an incredibly small margin of additional error.

At a minimum they went along with it. “I was just following orders” is never an acceptable answer.

Never underestimate Tesla’s ability to cost-cut a key component that results in a fatal (sometimes literally) flaw.

It’s frustrating because it’s really not fucking hard to pull up the federal budget for any given FY, which is presented in giant labeled blocks showing relative size, and each of them break down into their components when you click on them. When you pull it up, you see the absolutely massive blocks of Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security, and Defense, then everything else, where even a literal child can point and say which blocks are really big and which ones are small.

This is sadly exactly the kind of shit they have been saying. Especially as it’s pertained to the Judiciary pushing back and them saying “How dare you! The God-King was elected by the people! Who is this judge to tell the King what to do??”

And trans people. And a large number of Latino people who use a simplified name.

I’m surprised no one has brought up Travelin’ Thru by Dolly Parton.

I don’t think you need to be female to enjoy late 90s PCI graphics card standards.

a lot of these can apply to both femboys and trans girls.

Can confirm. Am transgirl who managed a double bingo

Looking back at an old Reddit post, the agreement seems to be on Airsoft Gun, which definitely tracks.

Or sedans that heavy. Because it’s a multiple of vehicle weight, while the raw number is extremely high for a sedan of the time, the roof crush score is actually pretty mediocre even compared to a Golf from the same year, it’s just so damn heavy the roof had to be stronger to even pass.

Well, they’re taking away the bread, and the circuses cost $80/mo now. So probably won’t be able to keep it up too long.

Nuttin’ for the mutton

Yup, my “boy hobbies” are the sole evidence my parents cite to say they’re 100% sure I’m making this up and that there were no other signs.

Are they going to say that somehow the liberals crowded the place so there was no one there to back her up?

Yeah, that’s pretty much exactly what they’re doing.

I mean, that’s what chaff is.