@runafjord
@MaegrenOfWithy
And now trans people get treated like they are a recent trend. Even when, despite the book burning, they existed well into the past.
Thinking of when Grace Tame gave Scott side-eye disdain and all of the turds that thought she was disrespectful - just because he was PM.
Even then, he’d already disgraced the office of PM.
Of course those people will never admit how totally en pointe Grace was.
I’ve changed the ability to reply. I’m sick of arguing with strangers about their anti-trans bigoted opinions.
Trans people are tired of having to hear the endless uninformed ignorance. Our lives are not for you to debate.
The newest resident has placed a crucifix in the kitchen. It’s a sharehouse. You aren’t supposed to do this. It’s likely not worth my energy. She’ll think I’m anti-Christian, but I’m just annoyed that she assumed 5 other people were good with it.
Trans people in Australia are allowed to use facilities that they feel match their gender. This has been the case since 1977.
Bigots are discussing this issue as if they - or anyone else - have some kind of say in this. They don’t.
I’m furious.
This was on the back of the door in the Ladies’ toilets at my local shopping centre.
Hate speech. Implying that LGBT teachers are problematic around children.
@Mousketeer
That’s what the anti-trans bigots are somehow believing. What’s more, the story with T has more to it, as individuals can have high levels but it does little due to poor receptor efficiency.
Pell presided over the same church that removed me from a teaching position simply because I’m an LGBTQIA+ person. I nurtured and protected kids. As adults, they still contact me, as do former colleagues. This is the Church’s rank hypocrisy.
@Bronwen85
How about:
‘Women who used the pill as teenagers 130% more self-aware as to their current mental health status’.
So many ways to spin things.
I have seen misrepresentations about the Giggle v Tickle judgement.
Women did not ‘lose’ any rights. The judge was correctly restating existing law.
If you thought that you were previously free to discriminate against trans people, you were mistaken.
Can’t begin to describe how disappointing it is to see young trans women that got to transition at a young age - precisely because others paved the way - making fun of the appearance of older trans women that transitioned at a later age.
Seriously, check your fucking privilege.
Some takeaways:
* the law recognises a spectrum of sex and gender
* the law recognises that people can change sex
* people who change legal sex are entitled to be addressed correctly
I’ve decided to just let go of school teaching. I’ve been grieving. The truth is that I live in a small town and bigotry has won. I’m great at what I do, but fear and hatred have overtaken decision makers.
@KatyMontgomerie
I can’t overstate the significance to the psyche of many Australians that it was a bigot from England refusing the voice of a First Nations woman, at an anti-trans event. Their culture was systematically attacked, including a more diverse approach to gender.
I got granted DSP!!! Great and life-changing news 🥰 I was composing a somewhat more sombre post and they called before I posted it.☺️ Funny, as today I took Chris to the JSP and they were on-time and quick for a change. So now we’re subsisting a little better.🥰
Welcome new followers! Probably time I retold a few key parts of my story.
I’m an Australian woman and I live in a regional town in NSW with my cis male straight partner. I have 3 biological kids and 3 step kids. My career for the past 34 years was school teaching.
I’m actually still in shock that yet again we have Nazis marching in Australian streets. Tolerating open racism and white supremacy is not healthy. That’s not merely an opinion, it’s an ideology that seeks elimination of people based on colour.
It’s not only about the books.
It’s the very public activity of suggesting that anything mentioning Rainbow Families is somehow ‘sexualised’ material.
That it could be age-inappropriate JUST because of it being about that kind of family.
It’s public bigotry being validated.
Good morning. My daughter’s school was just in lockdown for the most Aussie of reasons. Large kangaroo on site.
Ended fairly quickly, he hopped back into the bush.
I’d say the feared scenario would have been a student silly enough to annoy the roo.
This is the guy that looks after me, Chris. He’s incredibly patient and has never once said a word wrong about trans people or feminism. He understands trauma and knows what to say when I’m having a rough time. I’m real fishwife when I’m pissed off, but we always work it out.
* the law recognises that sex is more than what was registered at birth
* domestic law is harmonious with International agreements Australia is a signatory to
Sir. I was just fucking called ‘sir’ - in front of two classes of kids by another staff member.
Antimatter explosion - level fury. I’m meant to carry on teaching kids, falling apart.
There goes Twitter. I just got an email from Twitter, insisting on a copy of my ID in order to action an abuse report.
Framed as an ‘additional information needed’ letter.
The abuse that I reported was incredibly vile and it should be irrelevant who I am, it clearly broke rules
This is 57.
Thank you dear friends for all of the birthday messages! I had my bestie drop by, then a psychologist appointment, so I had a little break before posting. I will try and respond individually soon! Happy Birthday to those that share the day! I know quite a few!🥰🎂👶🏻
@diannaeanderson
It’s not even the only species that does this.
I’m really tired of this crap. I’m intersex and regularly get told off for simply saying that humans do not have two discrete sexes. And I’m trans and bi. Any more erasing and I’m the Invisible Woman.
I was just told I did not get the job.
No information or feedback.
This is how it is. It could have been mundane reasons, it could have been for good reasons. It could have been discrimination. I’ll never know. I never do.
A detransitioner has cooperated with a Murdoch newspaper. I don’t wish to attack them, but here’s some of my story as an alternative anecdote.
I knew who I was at 3yo. It was 1970. No ‘influence’ existed. I hid it, I feared not being believed and institutionalised.
The person who threw away 30 years of knowing me over a book that no one is forced to buy blocked me. This is the result of the outrage merchants. Societal division.
Fake Christians that can only be kind to each other.
@nordacious
@Lisaisalooseun1
Should be a few self-owns happening. They’re still sharing that photo of a trans man wrestling a cis woman (because of regulations in Texas) and blaming it all on trans women.
Who let giant pickups be sold in Australia?
They do no work out so well in car parks. Less if driven by a guy who’s sole problem-solving strategy is ‘just go forward’.
FFS, is *thinking* now ‘woke’? 🤪
@gothcowboybf
Bi trans woman with a straight guy here. Rather bemused at the comments that sound like ‘it could theoretically be real’. Sounds like some of you need reminding that the ‘2’ in ‘bi’ is two types of attraction. Heterogender and homogender.
@IndiaWilloughby
The hospital was insisting on treating anorexia before dealing with gender. It is not unknown for trans boys to starve themselves in an attempt to stall puberty. A good team would have know that. But the good ones were pushed out by ‘watchful waiting’ people. My take.
Absolutely repulsive the number of times that I have been called a ‘groomer’ or ‘pedo’ this week, with a side-dish of ‘filth’. All I’ve done is defend Rainbow Family existence as not being an inherently sexualised type of family.
It’s particularly disgusting to me because …
@IndiaWilloughby
Because it’s really strange to indicate membership of a hate movement in public and expect universal respect?
It scares me that they walk amongst us. I would think ‘I wonder if that person had a hand in harming me?’
Happy 21st to my 2nd daughter! I haven’t seen her in 6 years. I won’t see her today. I still love her very much. I’ve been dealing with very tough emotions today. Choosing to be the best I can be and grow continually is more healthy than succumbing to darker paths.❤️
Merry Christmas from Chris and Gen!
(Or what your celebration is, ours seems to be solstice)
We are off to a social event. Very rare for us, as we are really poor, but sometimes it’s doable.
Last time I went out, I didn’t tell anyone and some were worried about me. Later! 🩷
Basically … if you take an issue to a judge, don’t expect them to give anything besides a legal answer.
If you don’t like a law, you don’t get to just ignore it, you obey it or you engage in the legislative process.
I met a woman that recognised me from having worked casual last year at a school. She wondered why she hadn’t seen me, as the kids had enjoyed having me, and I’d enjoyed it.
They didn’t call me.
A terf in the executive made sure of it.
* anti-trans beliefs that lead to a refusal to use language developed to talk with more precision about issues concerning sex and gender ultimately go against them being understood properly. The judge said that they couldn’t tell when the Giggle side said ‘men’ who they mean.
Good morning! Happy Easter to those who celebrate! It’s also Trans Day of Visibility.
We’ve always existed.
I make a point of being visible because I’m also here to counter misinformation.
The ‘expert’ submissions (Helen Joyce was regarded as not expert) by Colin Wright and Kathleen Stock ultimately weren’t regarded as helpful because they didn’t assist with the legal aspects. In a sense, this is almost like there was too broad an ambition about the case.
Thank you so much to the lovely people who expressed support and solidarity. I have picked up some followers that really look like my tribe, despite the weird strangers that get a kick out of hurting people. I hope to get to known you better.
*Direct discrimination is harder to establish, as you have to prove that the party accused knew of the trait existing in the party being discriminated against.
Indirect discrimination is more easily proven by actions taken.
So. Now I’ve been paid about $70 less less rental assistance by Centrelink because my landlord doesn’t use an agent and I couldn’t get him to sign a Centrelink paper form. This is despite uploading a copy of the signed lease. All of this isn’t made clear. They pretend
Oooh. Sometime during the day, I passed 3000 followers. That’s beyond expectations for a nerdy queer science lady.🥰
I don’t follow people often, I’m wary of rejection, so this is lovely. Thank you.
It’s so weird how some people sexualise transness.
I knew I was a girl at 3yo. I didn’t even know that people had ‘sex’ the activity at that age.
I just knew that I wasn’t being seen for what I knew I was.
Bigots project adult sensibilities onto kids.
Chromosomes are usually very thin and strung out. You can’t usually see them in a cell with a normal light microscope. To see them, you have to catch them preparing for cell division, (they coil up and are thick enough to see) and add a stain.
There’s a two bedroom house for rent - not far from me. Regional town.
$780 per week.
Impossible on JobSeeker, but even if I worked full-time, that’s crazy. It’s 62% of the median wage.
Pennsylvania sheriff’s deputy, James Buckley, has been arrested at his New Jersey vacation home for possessing & distributing images of children being sexually abused.
Now that Kelly-Jay Keen Minshull (aka Posie Parker) has left Australia, I have some thoughts and reflections to share.
Although most of the meetings were poorly attended, her presence in the country has stirred up and polarised many around an issue that very few know well.
I’m still here. Poor Chris, my partner, what a shit birthday for him. We have to find somewhere else to live. I have no idea what I will do. I have nothing. I have work tomorrow, I hope that I don’t cry in class. I never thought I’d end up homeless.
Today!
I’m a trans woman. I’ve made a point of being visible because I’m an educator and that’s how I respond to ignorance.
There’s a deliberate disinformation campaign at the moment. Are you getting information from a reliable source?
Cookers carrying on about ‘the trans agenda’.
There isn’t one. They aren’t an organised group. I’m lucky to see another trans person IRL every two years. It’s recycled homophobia.
Pretending there is one makes us targets. Enemies. That’s the point.
Tbh, I struggled today. I’m facing so many challenges and witnessing so much ongoing hatred in the world, and the effects it has as it ripples out, that it’s an enormous, oppressive weight. I will overcome it, but sometimes it overwhelms me. Of course, I am entitled to be here.
I’m losing it atm. The sheer madness and utter cruelty of the amount that JobSeeker gives me to live on. It’s so insidious. You get bigger bills because there’ll be a fee on late payment but you had no choice. So absolutely evil.
Yesterday I got news that a former student of mine is now a Science Teacher. 🥰
So proud of her!
I would say there’s at least 12 former students of mine that are teachers. Another is a Mathematics lecturer, there’s a Medical Researcher as well.
NYE here, just enjoying a little drink of stout. We have the house to ourselves again. Thanks to all of my family and friends for your support. It’s been a very tough year, but also enormous personal growth. Hoping you all find 2024 a satisfying year.❤️
@CourtneyMovies
@GBBranstetter
@lawprofblawg
I’m a teacher. The thought absolutely has never crossed my mind. Same as I never read my daughter’s diary. I actually turn down requests from kids (which we are supposed to do).
The ‘X’ and ‘Y’ labelling was just a borrow from algebra. (‘X-rays’ is also). They don’t physically look like it. The confusion may be from photos where a cell is at a certain stage and the chromosomes are paired and attached (usually near the centre) ‘chromatids’. Here’s both:
Those who like to pick on unemployed people:
You do realise that our national economic mechanism for dampening inflation is literally to put people out of a job, right?
I just estimated the kinetic energy of that ship to be the equivalent of 500kg of TNT exploding.
It was travelling at about 17km/h and had a mass of 100 000 tonnes.