"The fact that it took them this long is totally on them" -Maia "Maia Poet" Abbruzzese in a Spaces just now, admitting that the discovery that her mother is SEGM cofounder Evgenia "Zhenya" Abbruzzese is in fact true
"You fuck with enough mama bears who are trying to protect their kids, you will start to lose your beloved trans rights" -Maia "Poet" Abbruzzese, sephiroth-posting in the space above
"That's the family I come from, highly, highly, highly rational" -Maia "Poet" Abbruzzese in the space above
"how strategically bad it is for trans activists to target kids"
She's completely unable to understand that trans kids existed in the first place, and never required any strategy. They required healthcare and treatment
It is never "strategically bad" for trans kids to exist, Maia Abbruzzese
"And they will live to regret it, that's a fact" -Maia "Poet" Abbruzzese
"The names they pick are also very socially contagious" -Maia "Poet" Abbruzzese
She is describing some names being more popular than other names over periods of decades (in reality, this phenomenon is also seen among ciisgender baby naming practices in the Social Security baby name rankings)
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@AidanCTweets I also wasn't the one who originally found this; I believe Julie Rei was the one who discovered that Maia "Poet" was Maia Abbruzzese - credit to her for that.
I think I originally found out who "Zhenya" Abbruzzese was and that she's Evgenia Abbruzzese, based on legal filings.
@AidanCTweets In fact I got a takedown notice after I first tweeted Zhenya's email address that I found in the legal filings in our court case in Florida, where she worked with the DeSantis administration to remove transition treatment coverage from our state Medicaid:
@AidanCTweets That email address was from page 20. That's a public legal filing and it's evidence of a meeting she had with state employees doing government work. It's public business and part of an ongoing lawsuit by us against them.courtlistener.com/docket/6495313…
I've had enough of people talking about just reaching for the eject button themselves and doing the fascists' job for them instead of going down fighting
What's the worst they can do? Torture and kill us? Everyone's going to die anyway
New: Flyer for anti-trans group SEGM's conference in Athens, Greece on October 2-5: "Questioning Gender: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Youth Gender Dysphoria" trans.so/files/SEGM24_A…
So Louis Appleby thinks the problem is that withholding gender-affirming medical treatment is *seen as* rejection. It's not a problem to him that this *actually is* a rejection of care for trans people. He thinks the problem is that trans people noticed! gov.uk/government/pub…
It's beyond insulting for him to suggest trans people and our "perceptions" are what's responsible for trans youth being genuinely distressed at the actual withholding of their medical care, a real thing that is in fact taking place regardless of anyone's "perception" of it
If @ProfLAppleby thinks the way to address trans people's distress at being denied medical care is for trans people to decide it's actually okay for us to be denied medical care, he has nothing of value to offer. He's facilitating NHS' institutional denial of our real experiences
Now that Finland has exported Kaltiala-style abusive anti-trans gatekeeping all over the western world, they're moving on to the next target: people who care about any injustice. Wouldn't you just be happier if you didn't care about what was happening? :') nypost.com/2024/03/17/lif…
Yes, what's happening to trans care in England and in Florida traces back to the influence of one Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala of the "tell me how you masturbate" clinic:
I've said it before: *This is a values problem.* They can churn out any amount of evidence that being aware of bad things and unremediated injustices in the world makes you less happy. Maybe it's true. You still can't get from that "is" to an "ought" of 'so just stop caring!'
At 39 minutes in, @clickforohio discusses meeting with Stephen Beck (cofounder of SEGM) and his wife Sharon Beck of Cardinal Support Network. Under the pseudonym Maria Polaris/Borealis, Sharon Beck has stated that she's "Still dreaming of running over the trans activists"
More from Sharon Beck/Maria Polaris/Maria Borealis of Cardinal Support Network, who has had closed-door meetings with Ohio Rep. Gary Click @clickforohio to discuss banning trans care