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I, um, I’m not sure actually 😅
Message me and let me know what you were wanting to learn about me here and I’ll consider putting it in my bio.
- no, I’m not named after the character in The Witcher, I’ve never played
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3·2 hours agooo, thanks - that’s good to know.
oh, sorry - didn’t mean that as a critique, just was thinking out loud and wondering if there was a reason I wasn’t seeing to moderate from a single open instance (like you) vs the approach of having a moderator account for the instance of the community you moderate 🤔
right, but wouldn’t it be best to have an account on the instance the community you moderate is on? Presumably this is the best way to have exact parity - the the community won’t support comments or users from instances it defederates from, right?
2·4 hours agoContraPoints, she only charges on months she produces content- it’s not even every month if she isn’t productive. Her Tangent videos are worth it.
hi, thanks for your witty comment 😄
unfortunately this community only allows women to comment and post, so I’ve removed your comment. Hope you understand 🧡
1·4 hours agoit’s still debated whether the anti-trans movement in the US has genocide as a goal, but I think it’s a fair characterization since the movement has explicitly stated their goal is “the eradication of [trans people] from public life”:
since the goal is total elimination, it makes it a candidate for genocide more than other kinds of oppression, e.g. the enslavement and oppression of Africans in the US (another case some have argued as being a genocide).
the Lemkin Institute is one of the organizations arguing the anti-trans movement is genocidal:
either way, methods like legally removing a concept of a group is a method of genocide used in the past, which is why I bring it up.
in particular it’s an example of social death:
ah, yes - that one basically doesn’t allow the state to recognize anything but assigned sex at birth (or some other reality-denying fabricated definition of “biological sex”), thereby eliminating trans identity - this is a form of genocide, called social death. Other states already have passed laws like this:
Looks like the bill passed the house in TX (waiting to see what the Senate votes):
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/10/texas-house-trans-bills-advance/
yes, the TX law is to declare trans people as committing the crime of “gender identity fraud”
yes, exactly - criminalizing porn and the obscene is the first step in Project 2025 to genocide trans people:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17416590241312149
Pornography, he writes:
[is] manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children [. . .] It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed (Roberts, 2023: 5).
This invocation of pornography is intentionally broad, vague, and amorphous. By equating trans issues (“transgenderism” and “transgender ideology”) with pornography, child abuse, and misogyny, this vision takes one step toward the outlawing of trans people altogether. Roberts (2023) goes on to detail the draconian and restrictive mechanisms necessary for eradicating pornography and all that comes with it: “The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered” (p. 5). Such extreme rhetoric signals a no-holds barred approach to regulating gender, sexuality, and privacy. Aware that more left-leaning states would be unlikely to arrest trans people on such counts, the document later details a wider plan through which the Department of Justice would intervene and prosecute any local officials not willing to bring criminal action against LGBTQ people (Hamilton, 2023: 553).
yeah, except this is the first step in Project 2025 to genocide trans people:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17416590241312149
Pornography, he writes:
[is] manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children [. . .] It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed (Roberts, 2023: 5).
This invocation of pornography is intentionally broad, vague, and amorphous. By equating trans issues (“transgenderism” and “transgender ideology”) with pornography, child abuse, and misogyny, this vision takes one step toward the outlawing of trans people altogether. Roberts (2023) goes on to detail the draconian and restrictive mechanisms necessary for eradicating pornography and all that comes with it: “The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered” (p. 5). Such extreme rhetoric signals a no-holds barred approach to regulating gender, sexuality, and privacy. Aware that more left-leaning states would be unlikely to arrest trans people on such counts, the document later details a wider plan through which the Department of Justice would intervene and prosecute any local officials not willing to bring criminal action against LGBTQ people (Hamilton, 2023: 553).
🤢🤢🤢 yikes
a therapist I had helped me rethink problems in terms of pragmatically adjusting my environment or conditions to nudge my behaviors rather than relying on willpower or behavioral changes that were slow or simply not happening
a small example was moving my computer out of my bedroom and developing a night-time routine that included reading a book before bed to help reduce compulsive computer use
realizing I am somewhat deterministic in my behavior, and my behavior is caused by conditions I have some influence over, was a helpful insight and got me past just constantly failing to live up to my expectations for myself and never moving past that - I can treat my psychological problems like puzzles to solve
oh I know exactly what you mean 😵 the brodude types can be awful even to one another, the incessant talking over one another makes me want to scream, lol
36·16 hours agoI think this is why it’s so common in the LGBTQ+ community to prioritize chosen family - your story is tragic, and also unfortunately very common.
It’s a hard lesson to learn, but eventually some of us realize we have to find better people to surround ourselves with rather than kill ourselves to please the less than ideal family we were born into.
You’re starting a new life, a better life - congrats 💕
EDIT: btw, I had an orchi a few months ago and I highly recommend it - great experience. I can’t wait for you to enjoy it too 💖
7·16 hours agoI can’t even find the ad referred to in the article, and it looks like Dove created an ad featuring a trans women back in 2017, and it doesn’t seem to be up anymore either.
I wonder if that’s intentional damage control, just enough to rile up the right-wing headlines and get publicity, but removed so the damage doesn’t get out of control like it did with Budweiser?
I swear the higher incidence of neurodivergence among programmers has something to do with the increased likelihood of their mansplaining, something about the pedantic, socially-unaware, info-dumping often comes across that way 🫠
thank you for your contribution, but this community is for women only, hope you understand ❤️
Thank you for your contribution, but this community is for women only, hope you understand 😊
Are you trans yourself?
Why are you writing essays about trans people?
I suggest reading a lot more before deciding to write about us (unless this is for a school assignment and the goal is precisely to learn, rather than influence).
Particularly I suggest reading first:
For non-fiction and memoirs to help you understand trans experiences:
For trans novels that should help you understand the trans experience better: