Again, are you respecting someone’s identity? I don’t care what you think you’re doing; if you aren’t recognizing a person as the person they are, then the conclusion is that you’re mistreating someone. The world isn’t a place where your self perceptions overwrite the person you actually are.

There are plenty of respectful debates about trans issues, and tolerance of people genuinely not understanding queer topics. What cannot be debated respectfully is whatever or not to respect a person"s identity. No amount of polite language can make such a conversation respectful, as you’re refusing to do the bare minimum required to speak to that person as an equal.

Creating a tolerant space requires not tolerating intolerance. This is not an authoritarian insight, but one centered on maximizing the freedom of everyone. If you demand a space where you can debate a basic fact about myself, then that is not a space in which I am free.

It is, but the bubble mustn’t burst or the grifters will stop making money selling “the end of skilled labor” to braindead capitalists.

It’s only a matter of time. Even if the Democrats somehow work up the courage to filibuster(Schumer seems dead set on okaying anything to keep the Republicans who want to maintain it on his side), Trump will inevitably demand they get rid of it because he has no intention of ever leaving office. He doesn’t give a shit about the long term, only consolidating his power and making the Republicans even more reliant on him. Such an act of shooting their own legislative power and independence in the foot is something Trump can demand at this point.

Only a few “moderate” Republicans like Susan Collins care enough about the legislature’s own power enough to stop him. However, he holds the supreme ability to use violence as the commander in chief, so they’ll break eventually. They cannot keep saying no to him forever, and he has every reason to take this ability away from them at some point. Eventually, they’ll simply be a rubber stamp congress for the policy he demands.

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gender affirming bullies 💖

Richard Dawkins when gender affirming care is one of the most successful mental health treatments to date, trans people display behavioral traits consistent with evolutionary theory, and people get fed up with his rigid thinking: