*Breathes heavily*

OH NO NO NO! IT'S SO MUCH WORSE THAN JUST A METAPHOR!

[image description: a series of tweets from Cliff Jerrison @ pervocracy dated 24th of March. The tweets read:

if your child doesn't come out until they've moved out and have a strong non-family support system

they didn't JUST become trans ya dingdong

they just became safe from you

and I hope you feel every bit of what that means

and if your child starts HRT or gets a surgery date the day after they come out to you,

no, they didn't start medical transition on day one

it's day several hundred and you're the last to know

(media should REALLY stop taking parents' word on this particular point)

(sorry if this is a little unfair to parents of people who transitioned later in life for other reasons and do have a decent relationship, but if you are one of those you already know it instead of having a giant grudge around "my child didn't even give me a CHANCE to stop them")

All my love to the people replying to this with your stories, and -- please don't feel guilty. You do not owe your parents a trust they did not earn. You deserve, and did as a child, to be seen and loved as yourself. 💕 [heart emoji]

once again I must scream to the heavens that a lot of parents fucking suck and choosing not to come out to them until you near the point where you physically can't hide your transition is not "suddenly becoming trans", it is basic self-defense

"mom, I think I might be transgender, but I'm not sure, can you help me work through my feelings" - something that in some families is a reasonable request, and in others you might as well pour barbecue sauce down your shirt and climb in a tiger cage

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But I also don’t really give a shit that it means nothing to you, because all of her victims don’t need your (nor Lily herself’s) fucking permission to be angry at her for all of the abuse that she has put them through for however long that they fucking want to do so. Abuse victims don’t HAVE to ‘just get over’ their abuse Lupina, and they CERTAINLY don’t have to just suck it up and be silent about it all just for the sake of abuse apologist fucking weirdos like you.

Point 1:

It is important to note that in this specific situation a Lot of the screenshots are a long way off their dates. Like. I checked 2 months worth day by day to fact check something because these people really don't want to be fact-checked.

Zero irony, zero self awareness, completely serious.

I don't know if these "people" realize just how much they hurt their own goals by using Kiwi Farms for everything. Everyone can tell you're a fascist the moment you drop a Kiwi Farms link.

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Yeah no. Your cis and straight friends are going to say this movie was great, but that's because the gay characters reinforce a pro conversion therapy narrative, everyone is casually transphobic, the killer is cast as a villain, there's a "we'd be just as bad as them" narrative, a counsellor keeps molesting the kids, and there is a fuckton of misogynoir.

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This is the safe one:

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First of all, there are not nearly enough progressive Democrats in the Senate to reasonably expect legislation like this to pass without overturning the filibuster, and not enough candidates who favored overturning the filibuster made it into the Senate. We barely have a majority at all, nothing close to the 2/3 we would need without ending the filibuster. So there’s that.

Second, it’s a bad time to make this argument because voting literally absolutely could have prevented this outcome. 100%, without a doubt, if the 2016 election had ended differently, we would not be here today.

Third, there’s no reason you can’t protest and organize and volunteer and donate AND vote. Even if you’re not convinced, it can’t hurt. Even if your candidate doesn’t win (!), minds are changed every time a progressive campaign gains traction. Even if you can only chip away at a Republican majority in a red state, over time it makes a difference. (Please see: The state of Georgia.)

Finally, there’s no reason to reasonably expect anything to change if you don’t vote for pro-choice progressive candidates at every level of government. Staying home is the one way to guarantee Republicans win and nothing changes.

Justice Blackmun, who wrote the Roe majority opinion, had a bullet shot through his living room window. This after years of receiving letters threatening his life. The bullet occurred right after he had received a particularly concerning letter, and was at the end of a year in which DC-area clinics had been subjected to seven bombings. Not threats, bombings.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/03/05/shot-fired-through-blackmuns-window/270a0516-2c7f-4c5e-9002-d017515a5131/

For those of you aren't aware and aren't involved in NDN circles, the Supreme Court just declared that tribal territories and reservations are part of states and are under state jurisdiction, including in regards to charging someone and putting them on trial in state courts for crimes related to the tribe (as opposed to this being left up to tribal courts), undoing decades of precedent for the separation of tribal and state governments.

In a few months, the Supreme Court is also going to be giving a verdict on whether or not the Indian Child Welfare Act, the only thing keeping indigenous children with their families and communities instead of being "adopted" (trafficked) to white Christian families at every chance, is unconstitutional. This act is also dependent on the belief that tribes are sovereign nations and that giving our children to people outside of our tribes is akin to the US government taking Canadian children in the Canadian foster system and trying to adopt them out to American families.

If the ICWA falls, we're going to see a modern Sixties Scoop, with Native children being stolen from their tribes and families and cultures and assimilated into white Christian society. This is not only traumatizing for the children and their families, it's also a form of cultural genocide that has been used against us before and has devastating effects.

There are family members I never knew because they disappeared into the foster system as children.