Just because The Onion bought Infowars doesn't mean Alex Jones is going away, unfortunately.

hug a trans dude today. tell him he looks good. tell him you see him and value him. ask him about his gender. ask him about his day. ask him about how he's doing. ask him about his hopes for the future. connect with him. please.

Honestly please don't ask me about my gender. I'm very tired of talking about my gender. It is among the least interesting things about me, much like my hair color or my height.

Ask me about my sheep. Ask me what I'm learning lately. Ask me about my reptiles and how the Tropiocolotes steudneri are doing. Ask me what the desert smells like at sunset.

I have a whole ass life that does not actually revolve around being transgender no matter how much the world tries to make that the only salient fact about me. I am a whole person, not just A Controversial Gender.

I'm tired of talking about my gender and I'm tired of other people talking about my gender and if you want to actually connect with me then talk to me like I'm a human being and not a gender. Do you ask your cis friends about their genders?

I watched an animated villain song playlist and this clip jump scared me with the new-to-me information that Playmobil tried to make its own Lego movie.

Then I learned it begins with the main character's parents dying, and then I learned that part of the movie is live action because the playmobil part is an isekai.

If the rest of this movie is half as good as this villain song I might have to check it out.

THIS!!! REBLOG IT EVERYONE, IT COULD SAVE LIFES ☝️☝️☝️☝️

Them [the news website] having a lot of articles on top surgery and bottom growth but like no info on the affects of estrogen/progesterone on your genitals and bottom surgery is so...blatantly a bigotry issue.

good lord, the difference in register in this article on transfem HRT vs this article on bottom growth on transmasc HRT is just so gross?

like, the bylines:

good lord.

the transfem HRT article is fucking full of half-truths and outright mis- and dis- information

jesus christ that's also an effect of estradiol! ESTRADIOL LITERALLY CAN DO ALL THAT ON ITS OWN.

SHUT THE FUCK UP. SHUT THE FUCK UP.

"patients will begin by taking anti-androgen drugs to reduce T levels before beginning to take estradiol" WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

THAT'S LITERALLY JUST BAD FUCKING PRACTICE YOU FUCKING ASS.

there is no evidence for any of this being the case at a higher risk than just a given cis woman existing.

for who asshole. for who??

and you know what, i'll give them credit, at least the writer and the medical provider, Dallas Ducar, they got to do this crap are both transfeminine, but jesus christ. this article fucking sucks ass.

A more fair comparison is between their article on masculinising HRT and the one mentioned above.

bylines:

"Feminizing HRT, or hormone replacement therapy, is a common treatment for gender dysphoria"

and

"Testosterone HRT, or hormone replacement therapy, can leave people feeling more confident, alleviate gender dysphoria, and in many cases saves lives"

Make of that what you will

Following this both describe their HRT in broard strokes, in terms of physical effects both speak plainly. However their concluding sentences are phrased diffrently

"For some people, feminizing HRT can make their body feel more in line with their mind."

"People who take masculinizing HRT have reported feeling less psychological distress, experiencing more sexual satisfaction, and otherwise help them feel more comfortable in their body and mind."

Now one difference that will immediately jump out at you is the length difference, I don't know and won't guess why that is the case.

What I will say is that one of these articles seems much more interested in emphasising how few people benefit from it then the other and, that one of these seems less willing to elaborate on what the tangible benefits are.

But something I find quite interesting is on the preceding line in the mHRT article:

"Taking HRT has been shown to greatly improve the mental health of many trans people and in many cases save lives"

A plainly stated sentence that emphasises the life saving nature of HRT? I'm sure they had something like that in the fHRT article, I mean this sentence even talks about HRT generically so they could even just copy and paste it!

They don't say even once that feminising HRT saves lives. Not once. So that's an interesting decision.

Of course that isn't the only interesting thing. Both articles do state that one doesn't need to take HRT to be trans, however I, just for fun, decided to count how many instances of that sentiment were stated in each article:

the fHRT article states that you don't need to take HRT to be trans seven times. the mHRT article only says it once.

7 to 1

Now that on its own wouldn't be an issue if the fHRT article didn't seem to spend every other moment talking about how few people benefit from feminising HRT.

Now also for fun I decided to count how many times each article says that there is only a chance that HRT provides any benefits.

8 to 1

I'm starting to see a pattern.

humour me just one more time, how many times does each state HRT is life saving?

0 to 4

I hope this isn't to poorly written, I came into this trying to do my usual unfeeling disection of articles, but these articles managed to quite piss me off.

While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.

Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Clickhole, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.

Holy shit I did not know this

Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

"Reinterpreting" here means "completely undermining." Basically, the bill proposes getting rid of co-governance w/Māori, and deliberately erases Māori identity, lumping both Māori and colonial descendants under the term "New Zealanders."

Love to all my friends and family and readers We're strong and we will get through this

I’m so mad that a t4 bacteriophage actually looks like that and that it’s appearance isn’t made up

this is how they look in all the models

this is how they actually look

like they really fucking look like that. in real life

viruses are literally such bullshit they have the nerve to look like this and they aren’t even ALIVE

I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE SHITTY AND ARBITRARY DEFINITION OF LIFE THAT MAKES VIRUSES NOT ALIVE. FUCK YOU THEY ARE ALIVE

Things are heating up in the virus fandom

thats called a fever

She’s sooooooo pissed off

there are only two genders btw. people who are alive and people who are fucking dead

And I'm STILL nonbinary

I can't believe nobody else has linked the commercial this is from. I've thought about this every day for my entire life since I was 4.

https://youtu.be/gbPNYWbzF6M

....you can't not hear it

fuck

cannot not hear small children talking about who they watch penis videos with goddammit who directed that video goddamn

Jesus fuck it's rough out here

Just so like... it's clear... anyone who censors words that contain "man" or "men" to anything like "xxn" that's TERF shit.

Any reference to women/womanhood that solely revolves around having a uterus or "womb" is TERF shit.

Any sentence where the OP says they support people being "trans identified" with quotes around ""transwomen"" or ""transmen"" is TERF shit.

I'm seeing a lot of you baby Tumblr gays out there not knowing what these specific TERF dogwhistles look like.

"Wombxxn" is an incredibly dumb way of spelling "woman" that treats the word "man" like a slur and also reduces women to their ability to give birth.

"Trans identified" is their way of saying "this person calls themselves trans, but I don't believe they are."

Saying "People should be allowed to identify however they wish, but we still need to protect women/children" IS TERF SHIT.

Learn to identify this garbage, because not all TERFs are going to spell out their intolerance for you. Some of them are going to try and seem reasonable and polite and normal, and it's fucking dangerous to our community.

Also unpack any internalized transphobia and your transmedicalism, because both those things will have you quickly siding with TERFs and bigots.

"Males" is a dogwhistle that should raise your hackles just like "females" does when it's a shitty dude.

What cheerleaders dress in Glinda themed prom dresses?

Listen, it was the late 80s. I note you're not commenting on Meggan's Barbie-esque perpetual high heel foot pose (and you really should because as much as I love Meggan she's got this whole "designed specifically for dudes to ogle" thing about her).