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I don’t understand why the NY Times let me rant against the Times on its own website. Healy seems like a sincere person, and I give him credit for making it happen. But the NY Times needs to stop pretending this is some brief detour in American politics when, in fact, a dictatorship is descending.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 1h

One of the misperceptions about trans people choosing the bathrooms that feel safest is cis people assume that means the women's room, when honestly the men's is way lower stakes in many situations.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 1h

... he respected the what of the what now?

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

the problem is that if you read the Socratic dialogues, Socrates just comes across as one of these debate me bros, of whom we are all quite exhausted. we can have a pedagogical dialogue in which we both come away smarter and better for it, with neither of us wanting the other to drink hemlock.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

do people who use Socratic dialogue as a teaching tool know Socrates was annoying as hell?

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 2h

...and also bsky.app/profile/blur...

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 3h

Cf. also bsky.app/profile/i-ro...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23h

I once went to one of the most highly reviewed restaurants in NYC and all of their chairs were horrific and I asked if they had any options that had a back that would support me because of my chronic pain and disability and they just looked at me like I was an alien and shrugged.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 4h

(Clarifying my perspective: Of course transfems are *also* seen and treated as women when it comes time to degrade or control us. The patriarchy is flexible that way.)

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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social · 4h

"Anti-trans campaigning is a tactic deployed by reactionaries to break apart nascent coalitions left of centre" was literally the thesis of Focus in the Family's "transgenderism" thesis in 2008. 2008!! It's not even an observation or an assumption: It is a stated fact!!

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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social · 4h

The number of policy positions held by the right wing that make me look insane to normies when I try to explain them is upsetting

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Lyra 💕 @lyra-scotland.bsky.social · 5h

The BBC here tells a damning lie by ommission "NHSE data shows that the number of breaches of the previous mixed-sex accommodation guidance has been growing every year since 2021" In this article it implies trans women- this stat is actually for CIS ppl. Trans women would not be counted in this

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 4h

The NHS is already one of the biggest perpetrators of anti-trans violence in the UK. This new guidance, which refers to trans people using slurs, demands that we be segregated and abused. I’ve said it before: senior NHS managers must be sacked and punished for what they’ve done to us.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026

In contrast, transmasculine people are infantilized to strip them of agency, positioning them as reproductive and gestational resources who are being seduced, appropriated, "stolen" and led astray by the sinister [implicitly-male, implicitly transfeminine, implicitly violating] "trans agenda".

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 4h

That's it. That's the common thread. There's no separating this out. It is the same fucking fight. And we should acknowledge both halves of that - and see that our struggles are one struggle - if we want to understand and be equipped to face the challenge before us.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 4h

My radical feminist take is that the patriarchy sees AFAB-type bodies as a valuable resource belonging to the "right" men, & that both masc transition & (esp. unchaperoned) proximity to transfems (seen as deviant "other" men) are seen as threats in that they corrupt & so depreciate this resource.

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cyber disposables @twen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A lot of cis allies only have that Contrapoints bit about trans men as lost lesbian sisters* and happily say loudly that trans boys aren’t targeted. If you’re going to be an ally you need to at least be able to clock that when a bigot says “girls destroyed healthy breasts” they don’t mean girls

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 5h

The amount of hate I see this getting from folks who refuse to engage with what it's obviously actually talking about or to acknowledge the long-simmering enabling role of centrist transphobia is really something.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026

In the transphobic narrative gender-conservatives traffick in, the transfeminine spectre is a rapacious other while the transmasculine is a corrupted innocence. The dehumanization of both is distinct but linked; transmasculine people are regendered as a patriarchal resource to be protected.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026

One of the reasons for this is that the rhetorical figure of the trans child is never transfeminine. The trans girl is not a figure in the conservative lexicon because the transfeminine is a grotesquerie positioned always as a sexual threat to "real girls", and thus always adultified.

It is the latest development in a story ignited by a comment made by Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham, who said she wanted to protect young girls "who shouldn't have to go against biological men" in sport.

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I wrote a thing about this back in 2024, sucks that literally nothing has changed, if anything it's all gottten worse since then! purplepawclan.com/blog/why-tra...

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Why Trans Men Can't Grow Up

We are not victims, infants, or in danger

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Just to mention, I *did* rant about this quite a bit when I was on CMD lamenting that horrific NYT podcast series (which leaned heavily on this faux concern for ‘girls’, by which is always meant: trans boys) … www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCrL...

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The Media’s Dirty Secret About Trans Coverage (ft. Sandy Allen)

YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 5h

Like I was confused whenever folks talked as if they considered endemism to be an NBD scenario and, uh, this would explain it.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 5h

Okay I can't even tell if we are supposed to treat this as a joke or a serious hypothesis anymore. Like, this had not previously occurred to me, but as I see people suggesting it I am starting to wonder and, uh, can someone with more expertise on the situation comment?

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 6h

Just curious - are you familiar with the concept of "bantustans"? Because "oops, not technically part of our country" is in fact a classic apartheid move for trying to legitimize this shit, & although this is technically distinct in some significant ways, it's hard to ignore the very similar vibes.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 6h

Trinitarians are like "Transitive *and* symmetric? In this economy?"

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 6h

I only expect so much conceptual consistency on this kind of thing from a tradition that can't even be bothered to respect the basic mathematical characteristics of an equivalence relation.

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 6h

Administration finally blinked. Looks like they’ve begun to realize that America is not made up exclusively of the zoomer Nazis in their Twitter group chats

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe they're saying he wasn't a person at all, at least not exactly?

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 7h

Cf. this thread for God-as-nonbinary views from the Catholics, one contingent of Baptists, and Chabad. bsky.app/profile/i-ro...

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 7h

Like as I discussed in the linked thread, a nonbinary-ish God is already considered a normal theological position in a lot of culturally conservative Abrahamic communities, so they gotta do something here. bsky.app/profile/i-ro...

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 7h

It's the most obvious way for all the relatively culturally conservative religious groups who are already committed to the idea that God transcends gender to square that with their transphobia. It's just deeply disappointing that they're too lazy & unimaginative to even try it.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 7h

This election cycle had a certain amount of discourse about the idea that God is nonbinary, & I'm kinda wishing that one of the terrible people involved had had the creativity to stake out the position that *only* God is nonbinary & that we human enbies are presuming to do what's reserved for God.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 18h

writing 'arabs can vote' and 'arabs can't vote' on different parts of my map to really show all those people who think it's an apartheid state

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 8h

(...which would in fact be a bad idea.)

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 9h

Also, uh, can certain non-Arab groups vote in some of those "Arabs can't vote" places on the map? Because that ... that would be awfully apartheid-esque.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 9h

"To people calling Israel an apartheid state, please consider this incredibly apartheid vibes map! Note that technically it portrays a situation not *perfectly* equivalent to apartheid South Africa, so we're all good here."

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 16h

Feeling dangerously close to being radicalized into supporting mandatory instruction in classical Greek.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 16h

OMG what do people think "endemic" means? I don't wanna know, do I?

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 16h

Fair enough. Sorry ifd I raed too much into thigs. Good night.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you for sharing your perspective, and I hope you can stay safe out there. It's pretty fucking rough for all of us these days.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 17h

Anyway I feel like I've gestured at a lot of examples of this in the US in various branches of this thread in conversation with you and others, and written about as much about this here as I'm prepared to write here for a single stranger, so I think I'm calling it a night.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 17h

I grant that it's not a compelling majority and I am sorry that I overstated that, but it gets us well beyond the claim that transmascs are never even mentioned, and, again, see the Atlantic article or virtually the entire ROGD discourse in the respectable centrist press.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 17h

Nobody is saying trying to exclude the US. But you keep saying that transmascs never come up and while that's not even true of the US but you appear to be arguing for that by making claims about the US, thereby excluding the rest of the world.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 17h

I promise that if you scratch the surface you will see that this "mutilation" discourse is centered on anxieties about "female" fertility and to a lesser extent on a deeply unsettling fixation on underage trans boys' breasts.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 17h

Seeing a bunch of people insisting that the transmasc/AFAB-centric moral panic around youth medical transition is, like, a peripheral issue, and I am so utterly confused because it's been one of the central pieces of the whole international transphobic project for years.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 17h

"Chapter 5: First-Hand Accounts from Patients and Parents" seems like a good place to look to get a sense of who they're focusing on. Well, uh, on a quick glance, it looks like five out of the eight cases they choose to highlight involve AFAB youth. So there's that.

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