i'm tired of this bit

Staring at the Sun

In ace discourse, the warped view was that this was a discussion about whether asexual people deserve to be newly welcomed into the LGBT+ community—inclusionists said yes and exclusionists said no. And, if this is how someone was introduced to the discourse, it seemed to either convince them that asexual people were intruding in our community, or they thought, “this shouldn’t be for me, a non-asexual to decide, so I’m neutral.”

And this is because this warped view was one pushed by exclusionists in order to make their position seem more reasonable. If you actually dug into what ace discourse was you’d learn that asexuality had historically already been considered part of the LGBT+ community, and that there were a group of people trying to push them out of a community which already had welcomed them. And when you know that, the position, “asexual people should be the ones to decide this,” stops being a neutral stance and starts looking more in-line with the inclusionist stance, now that you have the knowledge that asexual people were already part of LGBT+ communities before the discourse started.

This is mirrored in discourse around the term transandrophobia.

So often now, I see the take, “I’m neutral in this whole discourse because I believe both transandrophobia and transmisogyny are real and important forces of bigotry to be discussed.”

Which (probably inadvertently by the individual saying it, not inadvertently by the people portraying the discourse this way) leans into a “transandrophobia isn’t real” constructed viewpoint that the discussion of transandrophobia was started to overshadow discussion of transmisogyny.

so the United Kingdom just banned fictional incest in porn. this includes video games & anything that ones mind can relate to incest in a realistic fashion. fictional art of fictional characters that’s anywhere near realistic in art could potentially incriminate you.

you and your partner are into incest fantasies and post clips of content you’ve posted? aye, you are now posting illegal content that can get you several years in prison. if anyone was to own those clips? they can get incriminated for possession.

this is fucking scary and nobody is giving a fuck, or even knows this was secretly snuck in over a day ago.

there was no official press release and are trying to play it off because it’s “sensitive”. NO ONE KNOWS. THEY KEPT IT HIDDEN. — you can read the whole document here.

fictional content in the UK is now a criminal offence.

You're banning orthodontic appliances now? And specific hairstyles? When tons of actual grown-ass adults get braces and put their hair in pigtails for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with "pretend[ing] to be children"?

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"

hey, i really hate to do this, but i’m currently in that period between starting a job and actually getting paid and it’s kind of killing me financially. i have been able to get support from family but i don’t wanna drain their savings since i know they’re struggling as well, and so i’m hoping to get a little outside help too if i can ^^;

i’m hoping to raise at least $150 to cover credit card fees and utility bills, but any little bit helps. anything extra will go to help pay for rent and groceries until i’m making a stable income again. i can’t offer much in the way of incentives but i have cat pictures and eternal gratitude for anyone who can pitch in. my ko-fi is listed below if you’re able to help, but no pressure if you can’t, i know it’s tight right now. thank you for taking the time to read this regardless, it means a lot to me and cookie 🙏