I'm reviewing the Cass Report on a tight deadline (that I set lmfao) and man this really is the kind of shit that someone is going to, one day not too far away, face a court over. A constitutionally established court or a people's court. Up to them Cass says admissions to GIDS rose exponentially in 2014. I can quite clearly see it's a slightly higher rate of linear increase you're not fooling anyone lol

So the thing about "there's no high-quality evidence for gender transition" is they're actually using "quality" in a specific technical sense, knowing that it will be mistaken for the common meaning, which is quite different

https://twitter.com/epistemophagy/status/1777839280288878661

The evidence for gender transition is plentiful, rock-solid, and near-climate-change-levels of "pointing in one direction," which are the properties that you would quite reasonably *think* the word "quality" would imply

On 14 February 2024, @FinancialReview republished a piece from @nytimes, "As kids, they thought they were trans. They no longer do," by Pamela Paul.

I am coming out of my well to tell you that this piece has several problems. Here are a few. 🧵

archive.md/8qwjp Headnotes:

— This is the longest Several Problems I have done yet. In the past, the median SP probably had about 30 points of contention. A long one might have 50. My draft that I am writing this thread from has 93. I'm hoping to lose a few dozen. Strap the fuck in nonetheless.

Hey man just a quick fact check: "as a Catholic" is false because as there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that the content of this Tweet is schismatic, you incurred a Canon 751 latae sententiae excommunication through the act of posting it! Hope this helps

https://twitter.com/nelsonrangel/status/1746341452865511465

Like I'm the furthest thing in the world from a Catholic but you guys chose to have canon law so I'm just pointing out what it says. By the way that one comes from your boy Karel

I am, remarkably, about to run out of HRT again and it's my own stupid fault this time I'm back on patches because I tried to arrange pills through my doctor and she never got back to me. I'm having to try to find new patch placements because the old one, which mostly worked, now gives me what feels like intracranial hypertension

I predicated this entire setting on the resident alien species using mines to hide from floods because I'm a fucking idiot (They're evacuees from an apocalypse two centuries ago, the world they evacuated to is habitable but resource-poor and has horrifically extreme weather, they decided the best use of their resources was just to use phaser artillery to mine out a fucking arcology in the earth)

Developed a Star Trek universe scientific term of art for rubber forehead alien: "Hodgkin's allomorph" Hodgkin's law is the in-universe Minovsky-physics exosociological handwave for why all the aliens are physiologically and psychologically just humans with rubber foreheads, and amounts to basically "it be that way sometimes"

Please consider helping me eat. ko-fi.com/epistemophagy Also please consider having a conversation in the comments of this post as the publicised portion of the algorithm suggests it will boost it effectively.

Personal note 🧵 A Twitter user of my acquaintance blocked me at some point between 21 March and now. I thought we were friends, and they shared research data with me that I'd gotten the impression they weren't sharing with anyone else.

Watching "The Serene Squall" and very much enjoying watching Aspen, who is a trans woman (Jesse James Keitel) sceptically questioning Spock about whether Kolinahr is worth it Almost everything about how SNW has characterised Spock and Vulcan fits extremely well into my "transfem Spock" narrative. They are clearly not going to trans Spock so I think there must be some deeper cultural narrative commonality here that I'm missing

SNW is interesting because it recontextualises TOS as the middle of the characters' careers, rather than the beginnings, and it gives them room to be tired and weary in the TOS era as a result Sarek says something about "So many dead friends" in TNG: "Unification I", his last episode before he dies (in the prime timeline), and it definitely adds more depth to the TOS characters knowing what they've gone through, experienced, celebrated, and lost

Headcanon: Given that the Star Trek timeline has to stay as close as possible to ours — the Eugenics Wars started during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, they just haven't gone overt yet. Khan is or was some no-name oligarch in Eurasia, like Kadyrov but more competent Khan is described by Spock as controlling a quarter of the planet, which works fine if you assume that Khan covertly controls the government of India, where he was canonically born

I accidentally deplatformed Sall Grover a while back and the retaliation was getting deadnamed, having an embarrassing kink outed, and having a picture of my tits I took for a @angel_0f_deathx thread spread all over the internet

https://twitter.com/JackieMaeTurner/status/1638336255607074816

Ever had someone Tweet "Did you know this biological male gets off to [graphic, hostile, dogwhistle-filled description of the most extreme possible form of my kink]?" at Senator Janet Rice? I have. Repeatedly. 4/10 experience, wouldn't do again

Shit. I need to run this blood pressure monitor back to my cardiologist ahead of time and I'm double booked. Please help me get there! ko-fi.com/epistemophagy I have to make three travel legs today: home to cardiologist (Sunnybank), cardiologist to doctor (CBD), doctor to home. I have a little leeway on the doctor because she's literally been up to four hours late in the past but the cardiologist needs their gear back

I like that TERFs fucked themselves by running afoul of the linchpin of their strategy: the dominant group's "ew, gross weirdo" reflex They're supposed to make other people think we're the gross weirdos! Instead, they unmasked themselves as the gross weirdos! Unbelievable!

Wait a minute, is "Waltzing Matilda" an allegory for the founding of the Australian Labor Party? Labor didn't unify in a federation until Australia did, in 1901, so for the first ten years of ALP history "the Party" was actually a semi-cooperating gaggle of state Labor caucuses. The first state Labor caucus was Queensland Labor, founded 1892 in Barcaldine

Something that occurred to me is that the social precept that men's sexuality is inherently dominant, proactive, acquisitive, and predatory, actually leaves trans women — who aren't "male socialised," but still have that drilled into our heads — sexually vulnerable A huge part of how TERFs interact at me on this website has been insanely constant sexual harassment and degradation intermixed with revenge porn. I obviously don't like it but I felt very odd trying to refer to it as sexual harassment, even though it clearly was

It does seem that this specific brand of fascism thrives best in the places where empire originally sprouted, rather than the places it grew out to — they're going to have to develop a colony-compatible fascism soon enough though

https://twitter.com/PPantsdown/status/1638082536386723841

Honestly wonder if Australians' inferiority complex and awareness that we'll never be important is actually working against the fascists on this one. We just don't have the self-confidence to believe gender is something we can forcibly control

On 21 March 2023, Andrew Conley's Substack, GREEN IDEAS, published an article, "A short history of Nazi enabling in the Party," by Linda Gale @lindagale.

The article has several problems. I am climbing out of my well to name a few.

drive.google.com/file/d/1UiyCKM… 1. "Where would the safe spaces be if predatory men were able to enter women's spaces simply by asserting that they were women?"

Banning trans women from women's spaces on the basis that they might be predatory men would fail to actually stop predatory men.

1. "Where would the safe spaces be if predatory men were able to enter women's spaces simply by asserting that they were women?"

Banning trans women from women's spaces on the basis that they might be predatory men would fail to actually stop predatory men. It would do so because when predatory men enter women's spaces universally do so without asserting that they are women first. jaapl.org/content/46/2/2…

In a strange coincidence, however, it would effectively keep trans people out of public life. I'm sure this was unintentional.

The thing about transphobia is it's an ideology of the oligarch class, the people who have enough resources to decide how everything works. They don't have to convince you that their option is the better one — they just have to make sure you have no options that aren't theirs

https://twitter.com/somewherein84/status/1637732271171203072

If I were an anti-trans lobbyist working behind the scenes of Australian politics, I would know I could rely on the Coalition to be transphobic — but one of the most useful assets I could possibly acquire would be the leader of the Labor Party. If they're PM, even better