THIS WHUMPBLR IS RADICALLY PRO TRANSGENDER!!

CW: Gun Violence, Creepy Whumper

Whumper tracing the barrel of a gun down the side of whumpee's face

Whumper forcing whumpee to kiss or put a gun in/near their mouth

Caretaker teaching whumpee how to use a gun for future self defense purposes

The insidiousness of a whumper that makes sure that whumpee knows that they own a gun, or many, and knows how to use them. Whumper hunting, going to gun ranges, constantly reminding whumpee that they're a capable sharpshooter. That whumpee can run, but can they get far enough before it's too late

Animal/prey themed whumpee, and hunter themed whumper

Whumper mimicking shooting whumpee using finger guns (and making mock gun noises)

The way a body is jolted when shot, the impact contorting them, physics at play

Whump reveal, but it's a long since lodged bullet finally coming out

Caretaker tracing their fingers over bullet hole scars on whumpee's skin

A loud popping sound activating a whumpee's ptsd, who relates the noise to gunfire

I want them to have been childhood best friends, or old war comrades who survived the trenches together, or ohmygod, former lovers?! 🦋

​whumper knowing exactly what whumpee’s breaking point is because whumpee confessed it to them over late-night whispers years ago when they still trusted them.

​whumpee reflexively leaning into whumper's touch seeking comfort when they're hurt, only to flinch back and remember a second later that whumper is the one who caused them pain.

​whumper gently wiping blood off whumpee's skin with the exact same tenderness they used to use when brushing hair out of their eyes.

​"please," whumpee sobs, using that nickname no one else has ever called them, that name they haven't heard in years. And it tugs at whumpers heartstrings, makes them weak at the knees.

Orororor whumpee who, as much as they hate themselves for it, still loves whumper despite it all. Is so hurt, and angry and terrified - but they still care for whumper.

​just... I'm actually chomping at the bit for the sheer betrayal of looking up at your captor/tormentor and realising it’s the person you used to feel safe with. The person you used to love.

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"

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