Like, it is important to recognize this plan is not envisaging numbers that are "let's have a few raids on some farms and round up 2% more undocumented workers". It is envisaging a mobilization into whole-of-society violence to deport numbers of people that will make entire cities visibly more empty
@pfrazee.com, this account has 1.5k followers and is using this platform to mock women for our miscarriage trauma. It's just outright misogynistic hate, and especially loathsome in an era where repro rights are under constant attack. Is this considered acceptable behavior on Bluesky?
As for her broader narrative, it is true that if you lie to your doctor and say that you have gender dysphoria, they will prescribe treatments for gender dysphoria. It is also true that if you tell your doctor you have a headache they will give you Aspirin! What is supposed to be the problem here
They seem to want a scenario where trans people are demonized when seeking care like so many people with chronic pain are - considered "pill-seeking" and denied care because doctors don't trust the patient's own statements about themselves.
She is middle-class and has good insurance. She gets two mental health screenings before receiving hormones and another before she's referred to surgery. Doctors ask about trauma, mental health and social transition. We're expected to believe this was a) too easy and b) even easier for children.
Incompatible date range but please refer to De La Soul Is Dead (1991)
Knew I should have been more careful in pools and ponds
UPDATE (Sat, Dec 23): We are now up to 1 in 29 people with COVID in the U.S., as the JN.1 variant surge accelerates. (Source: twitter.com/JPWeiland/st... )
This is completely true, but also just to add: actively deplatforming them, and members of the public articulating the need to, and platform owners agreeing with them, *is* defeating them in the marketplace of ideas, and debating them on their own terms is mostly not.