intersex? isnt that where the sex is supposed 2 be

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.

This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.

for some reason both people who prefer S AND people who prefer Z say they think Z would be kind of mean

people who Don’t pick the T overwhelmingly assume people who do chose it because it looks like a dick, actual given reasons for picking T lean more toward gameplay versatility, sex toy safety (i.e. they ALL look like dicks but T has a flared base), and personality

there’s a fairly even split on use of gendered pronouns for I, O, T, and Z, but people tend to use she/her for L, J, and especially S

there have been multiple unconnected instances of the phrase ‘triple t spin in the pussy’. this doesn’t really matter it just feels worth mentioning

by and large S and Z fuckers are MUCH more passionate about their choices than L and J fuckers

flag id: two flags with 6 stripes. the left flag’s stripes are very dark purple, medium dark faded purple, soft pink, pinkish-white, light turquoise, and turquoise. the right flag's stripes are very dark indigo, purple, soft purple, purplish-white, light purplish-pink, and purplish-pink. end id.

banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.

lilaemasc | violaefem

lilaemasc: being both lilaen (lilae lesbian) and lesbimasc; a lilaen masculine-gendered person; a lesbimasc person who is exclusively attracted to women and those who do not primarily identify as men

violaefem: being both violaen (violae veldian) and veldifem; a violaen feminine-gendered person; a veldifem person who is exclusively attracted to men and those who do not primarily identify as women

[pt: lilaemasc: being both lilaen (lilae lesbian) and lesbimasc; a lilaen masculine-gendered person; a lesbimasc person who is exclusively attracted to women and those who do not primarily identify as men

violaefem: being both violaen (violae veldian) and veldifem; a violaen feminine-gendered person; a veldifem person who is exclusively attracted to men and those who do not primarily identify as women. end pt]

wanted to coin these to go along with lilaeboy/violaegirl! the top four stripes of each flag are inspired by the lilaen/violaen flags and the bottom two represent being masc/fem.

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

I'm super glad you haven't seen it! That's awesome!

The false diagnosis that I was lied to as a youth/young adult until I received control over my own medical records was literally ovarian cancer induced infertility.

I have personally been called a hermaphrodite by a marriage counselor when I explained that my then husband was abusing me for being unable to bear children due to cancer.

Like, first of all, it's not "weasel words" to say the intersex community gets to decide our boundaries for our selves without people who openly refuse to engage with us dictating to us from on high.

Secondly, your shitty little definition about how we should offload our decision making from our own community on to the fucking bigots who hate us the most instead of being allowed to self-define?