Bye mom i say as i slam the front door and step out side of the house

I am going to live in the woods for a few days again.

I love the woods i think to myself. ai am totally desensitised to ticks and they dont even bother me anymore I say

Even the one on my *beep* was fine. I wasnt in any rush to get it off

I walk doen my moms path and down the drive way and i am walking out onto the street. I am walking down the end of the streep and inturn and i walk up the street I keep going for about 3 miles wn di reach the wooded area in which i love to live in.

home sweet home i think.

I traverse deeply into the woods and i hear something. Crunch.

oh my god was whas that? i think to myself and i turn around and i see it.

in new zealand, our evil government are trying to legislate definitions of women and men, in ways that are legally incoherent but clearly trying to pave the way for more horrifically transphobic legislation. we have an election in a few months but our main opposition party, and all our mainstream news media, are so spineless and cooked that there's a good chance the ghouls will win reelection.

it took 2 whole months for local terf group 'speak up for women' to get 2,000 signatures on the petition that led to this new bill in our parliament.

it's taken five days for this pro-trans 'they don't speak for us' petition to get 17,000 signatures.

this is a show of support that is really heartening for a lot of trans people in our corner of the world.

cis/ish women, if you're from here but haven't signed yet, please do. and if you're not from here and you know any new zealanders, could you send them this petition? a full fifth of our population lives overseas, and there's a good chance they don't follow the news.