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as the web in the United States becomes increasingly divided by a patchwork of mutually-conflicting age-verification laws, surely at some point we’re going to have to address the fact that it’s technologically impossible to know where anyone on the internet actually lives, right?

right?

oh, sorry. let me explain. see, now that we’re legally demanding that websites hosting adult content collect the IDs of users who live in particular states, you may have made the reasonable assumption that it is (for example) possible to do that.

this is a classic error.

maybe an analogy would help. if i were to call you on the phone, your phone would probably display my caller ID. it would show you my number, and below that number would be the text “Orlando, FL”. you, seeing this, would make the reasonable assumption that i am calling you from Orlando, FL.

but in fact I’m calling you from Portland, OR. i don’t live in Orlando: actually, I’ve never lived in Orlando in my entire life. i once lived kind of sorta in the general vicinity of Orlando, which is how I got this number, but that’s not where I live now and it’s not where I’m calling from. your phone just looked up my phone’s area code, and used that to guess where I’m calling from.

IP addresses are to the internet as phone numbers are to the phone network. if you run a website, the only piece of information you can know for certain about any user who visits your website is their IP address—their “caller ID”, so to speak. that IP address is the only bit of information you can use to determine where they live.

but if guessing a caller’s location from their phone number is impossible, it is tenfold more impossible to guess a user’s location from their IP address. behold this fucking mess:

herooftime8

I work as a fraud investigator for an online bank and can confirm most of this information is true. Phone number locations are actually area code and exchange, or the first 6 digits in the North American numbering plan. i.e. 765-778-XXXX is Pendleton, IN, while 765-640-XXXX is Anderson, IN. Big cities often have their own area codes (or even two), but most areas of the country share area codes across multiple cities.

As far as IP addresses, the data collected from this is open source intelligence (OSINT), which means that this is basically like a phone book of data. However, due to factors like dynamic IP addresses (that change periodically based on other factors outside of your control), one user is not associated with a set IP address. Also, this information can be collected from a passive scan without the user knowing. If you visit a website, that website can theoretically have what IP address your device used.

IP address scanners can also vary as well. IPaddress[dot]com and Scamalytics[dot]com are two that I use, and depending on where they capture data, they can give much different locations.

A further note on regulatory compliance: if a business serves multiple jurisdictions with different laws, technically everyone would likely fall under the strictest laws. "This call may be monitored and/or recorded for quality assurance purposes." That phrase is required by only a few states, but everyone in the US who has called a toll-free number has heard it. This is because anyone who has a toll-free number has no way of knowing if a caller is from a state that requires two-party consent for recorded calls. ID laws are no different.

capacity2

There are certain privileges that come with say being in prison like you get a roof over your head and food every day. And if you are homeless you can easily die of starvation on the street roasted under the summer sun or chased and beaten to death by officers similar to the prison guards that shackle the prisoner. But would you call the prisoner privileged or tell them they’re being hyperbolic for what they’re experiencing bc it’s not homelessness? That’s what some of the conversations around privilege sound like on here sometimes it just gets really weird and misguided but whatever

redgoldsparks

The Federal Trade Commission of the US is currently accepting public comment on gender affirming care for minors until September 26 2025.

Specifically, the language from their website states: "the Federal Trade Commission launched a public inquiry to better understand how consumers may have been exposed to false or unsupported claims about “gender-affirming care”, especially as it relates to minors, and to gauge the harms consumers may be experiencing. On July 9, 2025, the FTC hosted a workshop on unfair or deceptive trade practices in “gender-affirming care” for minors. The FTC heard testimony from doctors, medical ethicists, whistleblowers, detransitioners, and parents of detransitioners. That testimony indicated that practitioners of “gender-affirming care” may be actively deceiving consumers."

BASICALLY the FTC is trying to portray affirming healthcare as a scam which has been pushed on families, harming minors, who were not given enough information ahead of time of the consequences of the care. The framing of this is all very biased. But we can comment with positive stories of care to try and destroy this framework.

Advocates for Trans Equality created a really good webpage explaining this situation. They also created a template to help you write up a comment. If you scroll down to the bottom of their webpage, there's a link where you can submit comments to them, and they will resubmit your comments to the FTC anonymously. If you do not care about anonymity, you can also submit your comment to the FTC directly here. This document lists a bunch of questions the FTC is asking, and I've seen some folks online say your comment will be taken more seriously if you directly address these questions. However, heads up, these questions are pretty transphobic and if you never had a bad experience with a trans affirming healthcare your answer to basically all of them will just be "no that didn't happen" or "not applicable."

Here is the comment I wrote and submitted:

The FTC commission seems to be laboring under the delusion that gender affirming care is currently easily accessible or being pushing on people who aren't sure they want it. This couldn't be farther from the truth. Every single person I know who has received gender affirming care, including myself, had to fight to access it. We had to ask over and over, jump through hoops, and pass by many gatekeepers trying to make this care harder to receive. I was only able to access care after talking with a therapist for over a year, being referred to a gender specialist at Kaiser, taking online zoom workshops, and getting on a long wait list for surgeons. Most people wait a minimum of 3 to 6 months, and sometimes over a year, before they are able to make a surgery appointment for routine procedures such as a double mastectomy or a hysterectomy. And at every step of the way, the healthcare providers I saw were extremely clear on the potential outcomes, including risk factors. I was fully and well informed. I knew that receiving top surgery meant I would not be able to breast fed in the future; I also knew it did not completely erase the potential for breast cancer, because my healthcare providers were very clear on these points. I went into my surgery with calm confidence because I knew what I wanted and was sure that the surgery results would match my expectations. Which they did! I was incredibly happy with the results and five years later I have zero regrets. Receiving this surgery vastly improved my life, including my mental and physical health. It made me feel more at home in my own body, more aligned with my own identity, more confident as I move through the world. It also made it easier for me to exercise and take care of other aspects of my health. There isn't even one aspect of harm or any adverse affects from the gender affirming care I received; it was completely and glowingly positive in every way. This is the most common experience of receiving gender affirming care: feeling affirmed, joyful, and happy.

the-real-nikki19

a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

rose-of-pollux

Reblog if you're a writer who doesn't use AI.

herooftime8

I felt bad for saying an AI autopilot navigated a ship to a destination in a sci-fi story I submitted for an anthology. I make every effort to have my work generated by my real intelligence, not some computer. Frankly, I'm not even sure I know how to use AI.

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Writing Worksheets & Templates

will update this every few weeks/months. alternatively, here are all my tagged Writing Worksheets & Templates

Chapter Outline ⚜ Character- or Plot-Driven Story

Death & Sacrifice ⚜ Magic & Rituals ⚜ Plot-Planning

Editing: Sentence Check ⚜ Writing Your Novel: 20 Questions

Tension ⚜ Thought Distortions ⚜ What's at Stake

Character Development

50 Questions ⚜ Backstory ⚜ Character Creation

Antagonist; Villain; Fighting ⚜ Protagonist & Antagonist

Character: Change; Adding Action; Conflict

Character: Creator; Name; Quirks; Flaws; Motivation

Character Profile (by Rick Riordan) ⚜ Character Sheet Template

Character Sketch & Bible ⚜ Interview your Character

Story-Worthy Hero ⚜ "Well-Rounded" Character Worksheet

Worldbuilding

20 Questions ⚜ Decisions & Categories ⚜ Worksheet

Setting ⚜ Dystopian World ⚜ Magic System (AALC Method)

Templates: Geography; World History; City; Fictional Plant

References: Worldbuilding ⚜ Plot ⚜ Character ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

all posts are queued. send questions/requests here.

eldritchbauble

The queer community needs to declare a state of emergency, especially for trans people.

eldritchbauble

I realize this post alone is not very meaningful. I don't have the energy nor clarity of mind to elaborate rn. I will.

eldritchbauble

No queer gets caught alone. We go out in packs. At minimum, in groups of 2-3.

No queer gets caught defenseless. We carry a weapon for self-defense at all times. We educate ourselves and our friends on self-defense basics.

No queer gets caught unaware. If approached or harassed by police, we start filming. We educate ourselves and our friends on how to interact with law enforcement.

No queer gets left in the cold. We pull people in to strengthen the community network. All discourse and identity policing stops right now.

No queer goes without a roof, plate, or connection. We pool our community resources. We work to ensure that every queer has a safe place to stay, meal to eat, and ear to listen.

Memorize it.

No queer gets caught alone.

No queer gets caught defenseless.

No queer gets caught unaware.

No queer gets left in the cold.

No queer goes without a roof, plate, or connection.

Live it.

We cannot rely on politicians and legislation to protect us. Government does not give us the right to survive and thrive, and they do not get to take that right from us. There are more of us than them.

Queer people will always exist. They cannot kill us. They have never succeeded, and they never will.

Fascism is nothing but a fragile ideology. May it be crushed and left to rot. It has no right to exist.

You have to love each other more than you hate your oppressors, or you are doing their jobs for them.

Memorize it and fucking live it.

eldritchbauble

I have never been so angry in my life. This is what we do about it.

eldritchbauble

When communities strengthen, fascism struggles. We need to jam them up at all points.

iphysalian

Small fantasy worldbuilding elements you might want to think about:

A currency that isn’t gold-standard/having gold be as valuable as tin

A currency that runs entirely on a perishable resource, like cocoa beans

A clock that isn’t 24-hours

More or less than four seasons/seasons other than the ones we know

Fantastical weather patterns like irregular cloud formations, iridescent rain

Multiple moons/no moon

Planetary rings

A northern lights effect, but near the equator

Roads that aren’t brown or grey/black, like San Juan’s blue bricks

Jewelry beyond precious gems and metals

Marriage signifiers other than wedding bands

The husband taking the wife's name / newlyweds inventing a new surname upon marriage

No concept of virginity or bastardry

More than 2 genders/no concept of gender

Monotheism, but not creationism

Gods that don’t look like people

Domesticated pets that aren’t re-skinned dogs and cats

Some normalized supernatural element that has nothing to do with the plot

Magical communication that isn’t Fantasy Zoom

“Books” that aren’t bound or scrolls

A nonverbal means of communicating, like sign language

A race of people who are obligate carnivores/ vegetarians/ vegans/ pescatarians (not religious, biological imperative)

I’ve done about half of these myself in one WIP or another and a little detail here or there goes a long way in reminding the audience that this isn’t Kansas anymore.

hiiragi7

Not my usual content, but I made something I wanted to share...

Edit: Now with an ID from @a-captions-blog! Thank you for writing it!

[Art description: A Pokémon-themed comic featuring OP as a Pikachu. Long description follows.

1. The tips of Pikachu’s ears are shown with text that says, ‘I’m a Pikachu / My world is filled with lots of cool stuff. Sometimes it feels like anything is possible!’ Under this is a collage showing a Charizard, a Pidgeotto, a Nidoking, an Eevee, and an Ivysaur, all in the background as the Pikachu looks up in wonder. Text reads, ‘All sorts of types, all sorts of attacks, all sorts of Pokemon.’

2. Text says, ‘But...only two ways a Pikachu’s tail could look.’ Two boxes in the upper corners show the male and female Pikachu tails, respectively. The male has a rectangular end to his tale, and the female has a heart-shaped end to hers. Text continues, ‘So then, what am I?’ A large drawing of the narrator Pikachu is shown, with an arrow pointing to their tail, whose end is split somewhat like scissors and doesn’t match either the male or female drawing above.

3. Text says, ‘Too pointy to be [female], too much of a V-shape to be [male]. I thought there was something wrong with me.’ Under this are three cascading panels showing the Pikachu from below at an angle emphasizing their tail. The second panel shows mel further away, and in the final panel she have disappeared entirely. Text on the panels reads, ‘I felt / very, very, very / alone.’

4. Text says, ‘But then, something happened. I found others like me.’ The art shows the narrator reaching out to another Pikachu. Under this are three other Pikachu. One has a rounded tail, one has a tail that has been stitched up to be rectangular, and one has a tail with a slight spike at the tip.

5. Closeups are shown of each of the tails from the previous panel, with text that says, ‘Round tails, scarred tails, spiky tails.’ Under this is a drawing of the Pikachu all hugging with lightning coming from their cheeks. Text reads, ‘They told me nothing was wrong with me, and I wasn´t alone anymore.’

6. Text says, ‘There are many ways a Pikachu’s tail can look. I’ve heard there’s at least over 30 different variations.’ Under this are two panels. The first panel shows the narrator lying on their back on a background of male and female symbols. Text reads, ‘Some days are still hard.’ In the second panel, the Pikachu with the scarred tail is shown with text that says, ‘My friend tells me her tail used to look just like mine. It was taken from her.’

8. The narrator is shown sitting and looking upwards. Text reads, ‘Some trainers won’t accept Pikachu that aren’t [male] or [female]. They alter our tails without our consent. But things are getting better. We are making change. We’re fighting so that our tails will be left alone.’ Under this is a panel showing the four Pikachu running happily towards the right. Text reads, ‘We’re all on a spectrum. Every tail looks different; anything is possible.’

The final text reads, ‘This is a comic about intersex people.’ The watermark in the lower right says @ PostManic. \End descriptions

#comic #pokemon #not my art

magnoliaalchemist

herooftime8

Am I the only one who thinks this can be useful if an anti-abortion law, anti-LGBTQ+ law, etc. ends up in front of a jury?

makingqueerhistory

I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.

This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.

For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco

Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley

God Themselves by Jae Nichelle

IRL by Tommy Pico

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages

The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom

Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow

Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser

Queer Magic: Lgbt+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World by Tomás Prower

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon

Hi Honey, I’m Homo! by Matt Baume

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Homie: Poems by Danez Smith

The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun

Witching Moon by Poppy Woods

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

Peaches and Honey by Imogen Markwell-Tweed

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto

inuzukahana-deactivated20210106

Your daily reminder you can download a FREE copy of Stone Butch Blues off of Leslie Feinberg’s website

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You can also read a FREE copy of Transgender Liberation: a Movement Whose Time Has Come here

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You can also get a FREE copy of Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman here

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And here’s a bunch of hir articles for FREE about any number of things really

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And you can get a FREE copy of Drag King Dreams here <3

makingqueerhistory

So the destruction of the Institute of Sexology is in a lot of people's minds right now, which is fantastic. In a world where more and more books are being banned, thinking and talking about the extremes of this behavior is absolutely necessary. But I would really like to talk about some actionable steps you can take right now to preserve and uplift queer voices.

Request queer books from your local library (here is a massive list of queer books, it is an affiliate link).

Look into indie queer books that are coming out, the publishing industry is messy at the best times, and we are not in the best of times. I follow Queer Book Box to keep updated on recent indie releases, they are also just an all-around great project.

Do some research and see if there is a queer bookstore near you, and support it if you can.

If reading is a part of your social media presence, it might be worth seeing if you can/want to participate in Trans Rights Readathon.

Buy queer books (see massive list above).

Show up to local meetings/elections.

Email your representative to talk about your concerns if queer book banning is happening in your area.

Support queer projects running right now, I may be biased but Making Queer History is worth checking out, and so is Queer Nature and LGBTQ Reads, but also look local. See what is in your area and see what they need.

Follow and uplift queer projects on social media.

Learn and share queer history.

If you create art and are queer, keep doing that, please do not give up or hide away.

Queer history is being made right now. People are going to look at how we as a community responded to our voices being silenced, and I hope this helps you decide how you want to be a part of that story.

communistkenobi

Parents told Nottinghamshire registrar’s error on birth certificate cannot be changed

A newborn baby girl will have to go through life with the wrong sex on her birth certificate after a registrar’s error, which her parents have been told they cannot change. Grace Bingham and her partner, Ewan Murray, were excited to register their first child at the Sutton-in-Ashfield Registration Office in Nottinghamshire last week. But, after nights of broken sleep, they failed to notice the registrar had written the wrong sex on the birth certificate until after it had been submitted. “We were horrified but assumed that, as we saw the mistake just a few seconds after it had happened, correcting it would be an easy matter,” said Murray. “But although the registrar apologised for her mistake – and the area manager also apologised – it turns out that birth certificates can’t be changed.”

this article is interesting because it demonstrates that cis people can very easily apply structural thinking to sex assignment - this couple immediately identifies that their daughter, having mistakenly been assigned male at birth by the registrar, will have administrative problems in employment, education, travel, and so on. they pretty adeptly identify the foundational role that sex assignment plays in the administrative and civil functions of a state, and how incorrect sex markers effectively produce a ‘rational’ reason for discrimination within these administrative and civil arenas:

The General Register Office (GRO), which is responsible for administering all civil registration in England and Wales, and the Home Office have both confirmed that Lilah’s birth certificate cannot be reissued, although an amendment can be made in the margin of the original document. But Bingham said this is not enough. “People reading a birth certificate might easily miss a tiny note in the margin – which means that Lilah could be regarded as male when she applies for school, her passport, for jobs – for everything that she needs a full birth certificate for.”

And given that this was published in The Guardian, this article makes zero mention as to why it’s impossible for this couple to receive an updated birth certificate with correct information (something the author notes was possible to do a year ago), but the reason is obviously transphobia.

Now one might ask why there’s no exception for cis people whose birth certificates were recorded incorrectly at birth, but this reveals the instability of cissexualism. How would you determine who is a cis person with a mistaken birth certificate, versus a trans person who wants to change their mistaken sex assignment record? Sure, you could say well, this is an infant, of course she’s “really” “biologically” female (something the parents argue in the article as grounds for having their child’s birth certificate re-issued), but 1) that certainly can’t be argued for in all cases, 2) 'biological sex' is understood by medical doctors as alterable through hormones and surgery, which trans people are often required to undergo in order to change their records, and 3) binary sex assignment is already imprecise and discretionary, particularly if infants have sex characteristics that don’t conform to binary F/M assignment standards (which is part of how the category of intersex emerges, framing this failure to conform to state census categories as a biological defect - and in fact, many intersex people do not discover they are intersex until the onset of puberty or later, at which point they are even less in luck if they want to change their sex assignment - and if they don’t, if they are cis but have sex characteristics that do not conform to cis standards, they will be discriminated against anyway).

Even setting aside the issue of transgender and intersex people for a moment, states fuck up all the time in administration! you've probably either experienced this directly or know someone who's had some kind of record fucked up by the government at some point in their life. If you get married they could fuck up changing your last name, fuck up your disability status, record your social insurance number wrong, print the wrong address on your driver’s license, fail to acknowledge you as a dependent when filing taxes, incorrectly mark you as having graduated when you’re still a student, fuck up your immigration paperwork, record your name wrong during immigration, etc etc into infinity, and this is not even getting into errors that occur when different levels of government pass information between one another. This level of administrative rigidity is purely to punish people who fail to perform cissexualism correctly, and in the case of this couple's child, the administrative error of the state is imputed to them as a personal failure that she and her parents will now have to deal with for the rest of their lives.

I think the ultimate analysis is not that transphobia will become less precise and hit more "wrong" targets as it expands its reach, but that this is the exact same operational logic as all other liberal state measures - if you encounter a systemic issue, it’s your fault for not avoiding it, fuck you, go away. You’re poor because you’re lazy, you’re unhoused because you’re lazy, you’re disabled because you’re lazy, and your daughter is now administratively transsexual because you’re lazy. In this case, we don’t even need to assume the intentions of the state - they outright say it:

The family complained to the GRO but was told the mistake was their responsibility and could not be fully rectified. “The duty to ensure that information recorded in any particular entry is true is the responsibility of the person providing the information and not of the registrar general or the registrar recording the birth,” the GRO said.

redgoldsparks

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chaoskirin

I'm not gonna tell you how to vote, BUT...

Here are some truths about the upcoming United States election.

Either Trump or Biden will win.

Our political system is designed around ensuring that either the Democrat or the Republican win. There is no "but if everyone rallies around a third party candidate..." argument, because...

Grassroots campaigns can't work. There are areas of the country that don't have internet or television. Congress just allowed the Affordable Connectivity Program to lapse, denying internet to even more people. There is literally no way for some candidates to get their message to huge parts of the country.

The Republican and Democrat candidates are backed by huge donor machines that enable them to tour a campaign trail. Independent candidates do not have this luxury.

Our country still uses a First Past the Post (FPTP) voting system, which is specifically designed to support only two candidates.

Our country uses an electoral (all or none) system, which is why you hear that voting for a third party candidate "takes votes away" from one of the major party candidates. For example, if Trump gets 48,999 votes, Biden gets 50,000 votes, and a third party candidate gets one single vote, Biden takes all the electoral votes in the state. All of them.

I really hope you make your peace with this now. Please, vote how you want, but with one candidate saying he will essentially outlaw transgender people, I can't imagine NOT voting for the only other candidate who can possibly win. Right now the polls are 50/50, which is absolutely insane to me.

In my experience, it's usually younger people who talk about either voting their conscience, or not voting at all to "send a message." I assure you, not voting doesn't send a message to the candidate who loses. Your message is only received by the millions of Americans who will suffer as a result.

I don't want to argue. I have no desire to fight with anyone over this anymore. And if you want to ask me "so I have to choose between two killers?" as a gotcha, then I'm sorry to say... The answer is yes. Those are the choices we've been given. And because the United States is no longer a true democratic republic, there's not a whole lot we can do to change that right now.

#politics neutral

cityelf

this poem is about being nonbinary.

stunflsk

the issue with this poem is that nonbinary people are harmless whereas werewolves traditionally mangle and kill people. I don’t think the right analogy has been used here

cityelf

First off, you are allowed to have an opinion about poetry, but I'm going to point out what you appear to have missed. Secondly, I am nonbinary and this is my poem. I wrote it to represent how it sometimes feels being nonbinary in a hostile environment. I don't appreciate being told there's an issue with how things resonate with me or the others who have shared this post. In future, I would recommend you be kinder in your phrasing.

The werewolf has not harmed anyone. The werewolf's apparent only crime is living in the town. There is no evidence or past experience that any werewolves - or the men and wolves in the town - have ever actually hurt anyone. No mangling or killing, and no intention to do so. He just lives there, and apparently has for some time without issue. The townsperson who has approached the speaker refuses to admit this in as many words, but that is literally the text. If there was evidence of harm, it would have been provided when the speaker asked, "has he actually done anything wrong?"

I am a trans person living in the UK. The media and transphobes treat trans people of all kinds like they are predators ready to mutilate and defile children as though there is any evidence of it, when in fact there is absolutely none. And a significant portion of the public, who perhaps don't consider themselves to be transphobic - or at least, would never admit it - believe what they are being told. That is the analogy.

The werewolf isn't the issue here.

thetragicallynerdy

[Image description: a poem written like a text game, with alternating prompts and responses.

There is a werewolf in the town.

Is that bad?

There is a werewolf in the town.

I'll take that as a yes.

How do you suggest we resolve this?

Well, what exactly is the issue?

There is a werewolf in the town.

Yes, okay, I heard you the first time. Is the problem that he is sometimes a wolf, or that he is sometimes a man?

A werewolf is a werewolf. How do you suggest we resolve this?

Work with me here.

The problem is that there is a werewolf.

What do you expect? Do you want me to un-make him? There are many men in the town, and a good number of domesticated wolves. What is the problem? That he was first a man, or first a wolf? Does that even matter? Why is the werewolf an issue?

He was first a man, and now he is a werewolf. There is a werewolf in the town.

Has he actually done anything wrong?

There is a werewolf in the town.

Was this forced upon him? Or did he choose to become a werewolf?

A werewolf is a werewolf.

I see. I think I understand now.

How do you suggest we resolve this problem?

You do not want there to be a werewolf in your town. As I see it there are three options. You could force him to pick between wolf and man, an agonizing divorce from his true being, simply so you do not have a werewolf in your town. You could force him from the town, which may come to be a blessing in the long run - for him, not you. Or you could allow him to integrate and accept that, in our society of men and wolves, there also live werewolves.

There is a werewolf in the town.

Yes, there is. Isn't that beautiful?

How do you suggest we resolve this?

I am beginning to believe that the werewolf is not the problem here.

End image description]

ID by @thepastisaroadmap, thank you for it!