This is a great example of why “transmisogyny” matters as a distinction, and is also a demonstration of Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectionality analysis inaction. The two concepts reflect the same intuition.
After she was outed by an anonymous tip, armed officers showed up at the family's home. Her mother was fired from her job. She no longer attends school in person. This is the future they want for all trans children.
Over the last few years, half the country, including Florida, had banned trans girls from playing on girls teams. For all that fury, though, no one had been punished yet under one of the bans. Jessica Norton feared she might become the first.
Half the country has banned trans girls from competing in girls sports. Jessica Norton didn’t suspect she’d be punished under one of the bans.
"It's non-discriminatory to specifically exclude trans women. Just doesn't count when you do it to 'em!" -U.S. District Judge Roy Altman wow does Roy post here
My mom and oxygen-dependent stepdad have been without power and cell service outside Asheville for almost 36 hours. It's officially called Fletcher but closer to Fairview, off of Emma's Grove Road, up a dirt road not far from Emma's Grove Baptist Church, between Gravelly Creek and an unnamed creek.
Armed police interrogated a family of a trans child because she played volleyball. They drove a vibrant young girl who was the class president into a spiral of depression and could no longer attend school. This is the family values of Ron DeSantis. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
Half the country has banned trans girls from competing in girls sports. Jessica Norton didn’t suspect she’d be punished under one of the bans.
It's September 2024, and a swarm of spammy X accounts is spamming people's replies with oddly repetitive attacks on Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris. conspirator0.substack.com/p/these-kama...
In which a low-effort spam network floods the replies of popular X accounts with duplicate attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate
"CBS excited to have lies on their airwaves"
CBS News Says It Will Be Up To Vance And Walz To Fact-Check Each Other In Veep Debate In other words, Vance will be allowed to spew a firehose of lies with no pushback from “moderators,” who won’t actually moderate anything because CBS is scared of the right wing reaction.
CBS News says it will be up to the candidates, not the moderators, to fact-check each other.
Scotland has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13. Vaccines are incredible.
In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.
Update from a family member who works for this hospital system (northeast TN). Names/places in the first text are all major hospitals; name crossed out in blue is my brother’s partner, a family MD. As he says, it’s very bad