here's a little animatic I call "rockstar Pearl". We never see Garnet give Pearl some decent advice about Rose so I wanted to do something along those lines! I feel like even if she couldn't fully understand all their history she'd try to get them to talk to one another.
Transphobia is about to be signed into law in the UK. We can fight this.
I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.
Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand be
The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.
Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.
A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:
Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.
Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.
Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns
Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.
I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.
It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:
Worried about what to say?
Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. You will also get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.
Money issues?
Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.
Got a refusal or no response from your MP?
Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if they’re already in Parliament. Even if they don’t, they’re made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.
Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:
Organisations can’t provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination.
e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, men’s rugby group including trans men (12.68).
Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee.
If you’re a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from women’s bathrooms if you’re perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a ‘third space’ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)
Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73).
A women’s only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).
Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of ‘lesbian’, and therefore no longer have legal protections if they’re discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).
Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.
I have also made a PDF printout of QR codes for the government petition, email your MP tool, and mass lobby link to pass around your communities. DM me and I'll send it to you.
I don’t know if this is an obvious take or a hot take, but I think people need to start re-framing feminism as the fight for body autonomy as opposed to whatever this second wave revival gender essentialist bullshit we have going on right now. Once you reframe it in this way, it’s easier to understand intersectionality and why cis women are not the only people who need feminism. The lack of body autonomy effects cis women, trans people, intersex people, disabled people, poc, homeless people, sex workers, etc. and your feminism needs to include and prioritise all of these groups of people (which will include men btw) because feminism is about autonomy, not about establishing a matriarchy. Body autonomy is the biggest threat to the patriarchy, both with reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and even the right to not be drafted into military services. Once body autonomy is established for everyone, the patriarchy no longer has a leg to stand on.
And body autonomy does include things that you don’t personally like either. I was prompted to write this post after a series of bad takes from progressives, but one of them was re-hashing the Sabrina Carpenter album cover drama with “I don’t think it’s conservative of me to think that the album cover is a bad look when we’ve seen images of women being abused in this way” because I do actually think you’ve failed to understand feminism by projecting your morals onto a woman who was consensually expressing her own autonomy just because she expressed it in a way that you didn’t like or that made you uncomfortable.
Body autonomy also means unhealthy choices. Body autonomy also means regret rates. Body autonomy also means freedom of sexuality. Body autonomy also means mutilation. If you believe body autonomy has limitations and exceptions, then your feminism is most likely surface level.
TERFs are some of the biggest opponents to body autonomy, and if you find yourself thinking “oh people can do whatever they want with their bodies as long as it doesn’t harm them or make others uncomfortable” then you are far more susceptible to TERF propaganda than you think.
To use just example, the draft is antifeminist and unethical NOT because it denies the extremely true fact that women are just as strong as men, but because it is antifeminist and unethical to force someone else to risk their life or die period, much less for the military goals of the state*
*Major military goals of the state, historically and currently, include imperialism, self-enrichment, stealing oil, forcible extraction of resources, forcible acquisition of territory, inflating Donald Trump's ego, etc. etc. (with some variation depending on the particular state). All of these either
Note: I'm using state here in an international political context, meaning "a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory; especially: one that is sovereign," (source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, state, entry 5a)
And of course, the military goals of the state extremely predictable endanger and kill the most vulnerable people among us - and women are one of the most legally vulnerable classes on the planet.
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Feminism is for everyone who needs bodily autonomy - which is everyone!!!!!
Bodily autonomy is life or death, directly or indirectly, in a thousand different ways - as a hell of a lot of women, trans people, and/or disabled people can all absolutely attest
This includes all people who fall into any legal classification of "woman," including but not limited to: cis women; trans women; nonbinary people whose identities or experiences intersect with womanhood in a great many different ways, especially trans femmes; anyone with an F on any government documents currently; anyone with an F on any current or outdated government documents that the government still has official record of*
*Look, forget about tumblr trans discourse for a moment. Conservative assholes and authoritarian governments and alt-right politicians are persecuting people based on what they think that person's gender ""actually is""/""should be.""
And they are persecuting people on that basis using three main types of documents: People's birth certificates, people's applications for a change of gender marker, and, if relevant, people's immigration documents. (That last middle one applies to multiple types of documents, but especially to a person's passport, driver's license, and birth certificate.) That is how Kansas invalidating trans people's driver's license en masse: application/approval records for a change of gender marker on a person's driver's license
Being a woman, being TMA/having to deal with transmisogyny, having an F on your birth certificate, and having an F on any of your current identity documents all make people legally disadvantaged and politically vulnerable in distinct but highly overlapping ways
And then we circle back around to one of feminism's biggest, longest fights, and another major point of legally and material vulnerablility: Anyone who can be forcibly impregnated, forced to bear children, or forced to give birth.
Even without any government involvment, those are material conditions that can make you physically In the last of those cases, one example of the dire stakes when it comes to bodily autonomy, feminism, reproductive rights, and women's rights is the horrific story of Adrianna Smith, a young Black woman who was declared brain dead following racist medical neglect in February 2025 - while pregnant.
Thanks to Trump's hand-appointed judges destroying abortion rights and overturning Roe v. Wade, the Georgia legal system forcibly kept on life support for over 4 months without the input or consent of her family, until the fetus she carried was born. At which point, the US and Georgia stuck her family with all of the enormous medical bills for 4 months of intensive life support, high-risk pregnancy, high-risk delivery, an emergency C-section, and at least another 8 months of NICU support - to start!! All under United States health care price regimes!!!!!!! For a fetus that was frankly highly unlikely to be born alive, and ultimately delivered prematurely via emergency C-section weighing less than 2 pounds (0.9 kilograms), who was "clinging to life in the NICU" for 8 months, before his grandmother brought him home while still on oxygen, as of the latest update I found (March 5, 2026). His family asks for continuing prayers for his life and health.
The infant, named Chance, was born Friday, June 13, around 4:41 a.m. by emergency Cesarean section.
Oh and then Chance's father was forced to sue his dead wife for custody of his own son in order to avoid the state of Georgia dumping Chance in foster care while he's literally not even off oxygen yet.
Adrianna Smith's family has created a fundraiser to cover medical, legal, childcare expenses, which you can donate to
Link to the official fundaraiser is sourced from the news article with the latest update from her family (March 2026):
This journey has been deeply saddening and heartbreaking since F… April Newkirk needs your support for Help Adriana's Family During This Hea
So, for all the reasons state above and more:
Without bodily autonomy, there can be no true women's liberation
And so bodily autonomy must be a core pillar of feminism
Or, put another way (I am paraphrasing someone but for the life of me I can't remember who, and it was a tumblr post, sooo it's not like a search engine will help me find it. but pls drop the link if you know the post I'm talking about):
If you don't own yourself completely, you own nothing at all. All other freedoms can be traced back to that.
Sometimes I really want to take everyone under the age of 24 (as of 2026) by the shoulders and say:
"I'm really sorry that lockdown and the ongoing pandemic interrupted pivotal educational and social/emotional development moments for you. You have an uphill battle towards adjusting to a lot of community based efforts because you experienced a mass trauma during an incredibly important time in your life where you should have physically been around your peers learning to engage in shared community. There is no "but" here, I'm genuinely really sorry. Something many of us consider key points in our interpersonal growth as youths was taken from you, not without reason but without care for its impact on you. I hope you know we are eternally allies in our struggles and if that is something you struggle to know I hope you can learn it someday."
Because so many of the angriest, most disenfranchised people I see on this website are under 24 and I often try to put younger people's behavior in the context of where they might have been 2020. I've seen the impact on my siblings and their peers+friends first hand, all ages 18-24. We've talked about how its impacted them, the isolation, the attachment to the internet, the anxieties and phobias and fears it developed in them due to the pandemic, the political unrest, and the responses to both that we've seen since. I know they're not the only ones and I know how much being marginalized also influences that impact too.
It's terrifying. I know it must be terrifying for a lot of the young people on Tumblr too. I hope one day we're able to bridge all of those complex feelings into something collective and positive so we can do our best to prevent similar traumas from happening to future generations.
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