Worlds Least Feminine Mech Pilot

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.

Silver & gold shame mask, dyed to look like hammered metal.

Hiiiii guysss happy pride from your fav doll that never evacuated FL bc ron dipshit cant touch thisss. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

I finally gave up on insurance this year and started DIY HRT after 10 years waiting to start bc I wanted to do things 'the right way' and I'm 3 months along now. I've gotten closer than I've ever been with my community through sports which was something I had avoided intensely as a trans woman. I've kept the same restaurant job for over a year and I've been getting more opportunities in modeling! I don't always think much of myself, but for now I'd like to take a moment to be proud of myself bc being transfem here made a lot of those prospects feel out of reach for a long time!!

I've also experienced some difficult life changes this year. HUD raised the rent by another $40 effective July, and I have nobody I can split expenses with until my lease is up at the end of November. Because I don't get full 40 hour weeks and only make $16 hourly, I often have to get an advance in order to clear my rent and then scramble for the rest of the month to make up the difference on my utilities, bills, gas prices, and food. I haven't wanted to make another post like this to fundraise, but even with all of the supportive community in my life I have today, my safety net isn't very robust. when I can avoid it I do, but I've had to rely on mutual aid and survival sex work on this platform for years now. If you've read this far thank you, I'm well aware there are people suffering worse than me now and I don't want to divert resources from them, however there's no donation amount that'd be too small to make a difference for me. #paythedolls 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

"Defund God"

no one needs to make the equivalent of butch for feminine men because men and women are not dichotomies and gay men don't need an equal and opposite thing for every lesbian thing that exists, and you certainly don't need to appropriate transmisogynistic slurs because some dyke hasn't put in the effort to create a word for you.

you're right, you are getting blocked for this. you didn't need to type this out but you still did anyway, for whatever reason. my blog is not a confessional, you dont need to tell me your sins, especially when you say how you intend to make no effort to change or do better. you're just bragging about your use of slurs

"until someone introduces me to the equivalent of butch but for feminine men"

not "until i find a word that isn't a slur" or even "until we can brainstorm a new term". it always demanding the labor of others, its always making someone else (ie a woman) do the work.

they do this while also blatantly ignoring us saying "no". they know exactly what they're doing.

"i know you dont like me saying this slur, but until *you* do something for me, im gonna ignore you"

this is blatant misogyny. this is how men treat women constantly; belittle us, mock us, ignore us, demand labor of us, and refuse to take no for an answer.