The “death do us part” thing is a tradition, but marriage is a legal status. Not everyone is going to follow that tradition, and surely you wouldn’t argue this ought to bar them from the legal status

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The problem is that, for many, their “political agenda” is to take a position that’s supported by scientifically backed research. If some research appeared tomorrow unequivocally and clearly invalidated the existence of trans people, the BMA and others like them would change their tune to match that research. However, there’s over a hundred years worth of clinical and scientific studies supporting the validity of trans people, including studies showing that

• Gender is a real thing that exists in the brain.
• Multiple means by which a person’s body may develop as one sex but the opposite gender.
• The brains of trans people match those of cis people who are the same gender identity (ie trans women’s and cis women’s brains work the same, ditto for trans men and cis men).

Meanwhile the research against trans people is just… Bad research. One of the most famous studies on whether trans kids persisted as trans conflated transgender with gender non-conforming people, meaning that cis gender people were labeled as trans because they didn’t fit the researchers’ assumptions about how a man or woman should look/behave. That same study assumed outcomes of subjects that they lost track of instead of omitting them from the study.

Another that coined the phrase “rapid onset dysphoria” had serious selection bias issues, only interviewing parents who were in support groups for folks who don’t want their kids to be trans. Additionally, the phrase given above was only mentioned in the conclusion of the study as one possible explanation for the observations made about trans kids, with the caveat that more research was needed to confirm/deny this explanation. Of course the right wing media leaves out that part.

My third favorite example wasn’t a research study at all, but basically an opinion piece published as research. In it the author insists that trans women are “gynophiliacs” who transition ONLY because they get turned on by vaginas. No evidence was given to support this assertion, just some twisted logic by the author going “well the other reasons don’t make sense to me.”

But no, it’s the people who are supportive of trans folks who keep getting accused of having a political agenda. My dude, it’s the opposite; they just care about the truth.

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Basically, cognitive dissonance. They simply refuse to believe the truth, and make up their own fantasies in which everything is backwards from reality. It makes them feel like they have some power over their life, and/or that they’re special.

99% of the time people like this are just deeply freaked out at the idea of a cold uncaring universe with nobody in control.

Afaik he was being detained by the state, initially under suspicion of breaking the law but then later they continued to hold him just because ICE asked them to.

Reporting on this story hasn’t been very good, it’s been difficult to follow the more nuanced details of what’s going on. But the bottom line is very clear: he was detained illegally, and the fascists wanted to deport him anyway.

You know what they say, go woke go broke!

Wait…

Related to this, there’s a Google translate button at the top that reads, in Turkish, “translate to Turkish”

Which could be evidence that the screenshot comes from somebody who speaks Turkish, which increases the chances that the person receiving the email is in Turkey.

That doesn’t answer your question, but it suggests that Bluesky may only be honoring requests regarding accounts they believe are subject to the local laws.

Two very important points:

• This is proof of nothing
• I personally will continue to use Mastodon instead of Bluesky

Well, you’re wrong. And this is the internet, and you’re not allowed to be wrong, so…

Only if you’re assuming benevolence on Trump’s part. What if we assume malice? Undermining a country’s water security is a big accomplishment.

They’re supposed to be nice, calming letters but I always found these letters quite panic inducing which makes for a pleasant bit of irony.

“stuck on it” is an egregious hyperbole, they just gave it as an example.

That’s so fucking rage inducing, and then I read the article.

First paragraph

citing the 24-year-old’s future as a gynecologist

Holy fucking shit that’s fucking EVIL

Tall

Big hands

Square jaw

Adam’s apple

Basically any physical feature that the transphobes associate with masculinity/being male will get cis women accused of being trans.

For the asshole, I would have gone with Dawkins

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He’s setting up a go at the presidency. He knows that the DNC will want him to lean conservative, but he doesn’t want to be painted as flip flopping or pandering, so he’s leaning into it early. Now when the GOP inevitably calls him a woke far left extremist (or whatever buzz words they’re using by that time) he can point back to this period as proof that he’s “always been a centrist” who can appeal to non-MAGA conservatives.

Of course, he and the rest of the DNC haven’t figured out yet that conservative voters are NEVER going to vote for the LESS conservative party.

Haha I know 🫠

2026

The midterms are going to be brutal; Republicans can’t afford to lose either chamber of Congress.