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Just another he/him in the women’s bathroom at work 💅🏽

Smoking my emotional support blunt

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-leahy-a7b5a8161

The man that killed a 19-year-old trans woman is an intelligence operative. They are stoking fires here.

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The student, a 19-year-old transgender woman, was found dead with stab wounds.

found this article

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her name was Juniper Blessing and she was just going to do laundry.

Things I’ve stopped seeing since the early 2000s:

- Cash on the ground

- Excess dandruff on shoulders

- Spinning rims

- People reading the newspaper in public

- Paperboys on bikes

- Kids playing with yo-yos

- Jai alai

- A funny comedy movie

- Rockstars

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Nothing is more brutal than the passage of time!

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“Why? Because the other kids beat me - black-eyed, bloody. Because that blood still pitter-patters. Because it’s raining. Because my clothes were sewn in sweatshops. Because I’m fat. Because I’m losing the excuse of youth. Because I’ve forgotten to take my medication. Because I’ve taken my medication. Because I can’t get out of bed. Because I’m a burden. Because of brain chemistry. Because I’ve been bred on three-act structures. Because I’m obsequious in ways I’m barely aware of. Because of greenhouse gases. Because I don’t deserve food and shelter. Because I’m sobering up. Because I want to be a baby again. Because I’m selfish. Because I hate my face. Because I could never break things gently. Because it’s familiar. Because it’s comfortable. Because it’s a cancer. Because it’s a dog I can’t put down. Because I’m tired. Because I’ve been proselytised into consumption. Because money is power. Because I’m a palimpsest for embarrassment. Because words fall flat. Because flowers only flourish from the filth.”

— Benedict Smith (via unconcernedteenblogger)

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

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Discussions of trans women in sports often focus on elite/professional sports which honestly I find it hard to care about but the more common scenario of “we’re going to legally ban a high school girl from playing sports with her friends because she’s trans” is just profoundly evil

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i remember when utah's (republican) governor ended up vetoing a law banning transgender students from playing high school sports when he looked at the numbers, and there were only four trans students in the state playing sports at all. he released a clumsily worded but surprisingly compassionate statement about the decision.

I must admit, I am not an expert on transgenderism. I struggle to understand so much of it, and the science is conflicting. When in doubt, however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy, and compassion. I also try to get proximate, and I am learning so much from our transgender community. They are great kids who face enormous struggles. Here are the numbers that have most impacted my decision: 75,000, 4, 1, 86 and 56. 75,000 high school kids participating in high school sports in Utah. 4 transgender kids playing high school sports in Utah. 1 transgender student playing girls sports. 86% of trans youth reporting suicidality. 56% of trans youth having attempted suicide. Four kids and only one of them playing girls sports. That’s what all of this is about. Four kids who aren’t dominating or winning trophies or taking scholarships. Four kids who are just trying to find some friends and feel like they are a part of something. Four kids trying to get through each day. Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few. I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live.

of course, it didn't amount to much. they overrode his veto. it's just so cartoonishly evil. an entire state's political body so desperate to terrorize this one little trans girl.