27, US expat in Toronto, transmasc, chronically ill/immunocompromized, neurodivergent, arospec, nonmonogamous. i guess i'm a furry now? that's a recent development though. i'm not a programmer but i am a computer nerd and a linux user (apparently that's a thing people like to list here).
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art page: calico-art
can't wait for people to increasingly narrow what they say what counts as normative womanhood to try to keep trans women out, with the side effect of also disqualifying more and more cis women from their weird ideal
hey sorry we measured your adams apple with calipers and you don't count as a girl any more. it was just 1 mm over the threshold too. so sad
don't let the terfs get you twisted, there have always been cis queers who have had our backs
torrent and magnet link in original article: https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/the-emails/
These emails are a treasure trove for journalists. It basically reveals that the current moral panic about trans youth has in many ways been engineered by Catholics partly as part of a personal vendetta against the main American Endocrinology professional association.
It's 2600 pages of full faced collaboration between various right wing forces discussing what language they'll use in their speeches to deceive people and manipulate people into hating us and using that as a tool.
It's absolute proof of what we already knew.
Joseph Ratzinger, the guy the Catholic church gave the title "Pope Benedict XVI", died yesterday. There's one thing I'll always remember Mr. Ratzinger for, his 2012 Christmas address. This was his final Christmas address, and since he did voluntarily retire he probably knew it would be so at the time. He decided to use this last precious opportunity to speak out against what he apparently viewed as the biggest and most pressing danger in the world, which was… transgenderism, and tolerance of transgenderism, which he called "gender ideology". The resulting tirade was bad-faith, eliminationist, and contains many intellectual errors from misreading Simone de Beauvoir on up, but I'll always remember it for this one accidentally incredible paragraph, in which Mr. Ratzinger attempts to summarize the position of his enemies (i.e.,us); and accidentally manages to make trans people seem both heroic and incredibly metal:
The words of the creation account: “male and female he created them” (Gen 1:27) no longer apply. No, what applies now is this: it was not God who created them male and female – hitherto society did this, now we decide for ourselves. Man and woman as created realities, as the nature of the human being, no longer exist. Man calls his nature into question. From now on he is merely spirit and will. The manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our environment is concerned, now becomes man’s fundamental choice where he himself is concerned. From now on there is only the abstract human being, who chooses for himself what his nature is to be.
I do not think I could have written a more inspiring declaration for transhumanism, or rationalism, or my own inherent dignity if I had tried. For this, Mr. Ratzinger, thank you.
new pope is pretty good at complimenting us too
But he then says that every historical period has "Herods" that "destroy, that plot designs of death, that disfigure the face of man and woman, destroying creation."
"Let's think of the nuclear arms, of the possibility to annihilate in a few instants a very high number of human beings," he continues. "Let's think also of genetic manipulation, of the manipulation of life, or of the gender theory, that does not recognize the order of creation.
No, what applies now is this: it was not God who created them male and female – hitherto society did this, now we decide for ourselves.
Great summary of Butler et al., thanks popie-dopie-kins ❤️
