It is very much in the interest of the powerful to sell us a post-literate future. Programming the peasants for STEM makes them commercially productive while leaving them unequipped to control or resist sociopolitical influences.

I came out as trans in order TO grow up.

Being fully human in public isn't a club you can only belong to by meeting some arbitrary standard. That isn't the social contract. At all.

Yes! I started at age 53, and if I hadn't, wouldn't have made it to 57. Life is harder now. Life is better now.

This is how fascism grows. You take people who are hurting, and you hurt them more and more while telling them everyday that it's "those people's" fault. Then, when they're truly broken, you offer yourself as their salvation/vengeance.

The Right doesn't care about Israel except as a harbinger of the apocalypse, and it doesn't care about Jews at all. It's all just a metaphor to them.

Who tf cares what Andrew "The Indicted" Tate thinks?

You have no obligation to be the spokesperson for your oppressions. No one has to be that.

Stop playing with my emotions! And please take care of yourself, ok?

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that you shouldn't. I want all those things too! Being someone who was amab, who then takes steps to create a more fitting body is, in my view, one of those myriad forms of being. My point was: why does the world label that as it does? Why isn't it just another human form?