it’s so horrible, like i think it was just a couple months ago when a driver hit a cyclist and then literally careened off the road into the 99 ranch across from my apartment and killed 3 people inside. there was maybe a bit of local media coverage and then bam it’s like no one remembers
happy birthday!
to wrap it up, i argued that if the many self-described liberals in the world want to actually commit to their own ideas, they are obliged to fight for trans childrens rights and recognize that children have autonomy that needs to be respected. otherwise your principles are incoherent/hollow 12/12
if children are not also allowed to have their own autonomous experiments in living, including but not limited to transitioning, then any society claiming Liberalism as a guiding theoretical framework has failed. 11/12
Yet there are passages in "On Liberty" where Mill makes analogies using children as examples as to why society/governments might sometimes need to intervene in expression/liberty. this to me is inherently contradictory to his own argument, as a society cannot flourish long if it squashes kids 10/12
One of Mill's guiding beliefs is that "Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing." 9/12
this notion that children are not autonomous beings with wants and desires but rather copies of their parents has a long history, as we can look back to the English legal system of coverture for its origins in the American context. Even Mill makes the mistake of not recognizing children 8/12
the kernel linking this all together is that both arguments ultimately come from the same place that Katie pointed out. "my child is my property and i will do what I want with them" governs the parents rights crowd in its religious origin as well as its evolved terf-ified language 7/12
what stood out to me with the legal battles was how the case argumentation for parents rights evolved, as it often began with attempts to contest trans children on religious grounds before evolving into bioessentialism mixed with agnostic "wont someone think of the children" wording 6/12
as both a policy-based and theoretical paper, I focused in on the legal struggle to protect trans children from 2015-24 and fortified it with J.S. Mill's "On Liberty" to expose that the convictions of many self-proclaimed liberals and opinion columnists are rotten to the core 5/12
though I am not a Liberal, I believe that in order for trans people to live their lives as they choose it is worth engaging with Liberal theory in order to show that if one does subscribe to such an ideology, there follows an imperative to support and protect trans children in particular 4/12
to be brief, i wrote the paper with the intent of proving why it is theoretically inconsistent to claim Liberal convictions without also supporting the rights of children. to ground the example I looked at trans children's rights and their biggest opponent, the parents rights movement. 3/12
worth noting that I wrote this from 2023-24 and have not really edited it since other than to cut it down for my phd writing sample, so bear with me as I summarize my argument 2/12
feeling extra motivated today so i’m going to make a thread going through the research i did on this very subject in undergrad! 1/12
trust that i will be finding a way to cite your work so that the tightpussy citation index goes up 🫡
this is essentially the core of what i wrote my undergraduate thesis about and what my phd will likely cover as well! i think it’s at its most blatant in your face “i own you” with trans children in particular
i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics
Eleanor Roosevelt’s new york state gun permit from August 5th 1957. She is elderly with a fur stole, listed as writer and lecturer
Eleanor Roosevelt’s gun permit (which she got it around the time the klan put a $25k bounty on her head). What a vibe
i need allies to understand that a man having a cross-dressing fetish and being anti-LGBT is not hypocritical or contradictory, it is in fact very congruent.
in particular, this fetish is not in contradiction with anti-trans bias, as these men predate upon trans women.
You will need it by the end regardless, but the fact that you want to do a PhD in itself raises questions worth examining in therapy
My advice for anyone wishing to pursue a PhD is to get a head start on therapy as an undergrad
some wines are actually made this way, particularly rosé champagnes where red grapes are vinified with skin contact and white grapes are also vinified w/o skin contact and the two are combined! that said it’s not the case for most rosé, which is made by vinifying red grapes with skin briefly
is this the way to convert america to the metric system?
IKEA new hot dog Fully wa past the bun A half meter hot dog Hej!
that’s my type
🚨 ICE is creating a watchlist of anyone and everyone who films them, DHS sources tell me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making...
dolls to watch out for
Disco Elysium dialogue between the MC and Kim Kitsuragi where the MC tries to learn more about the Transgender Experience.
Voices from another self? Voices from *a deeper self*? Voices from... *early gender dysphoria*?
what do you mean you hate black licorice? do you also hate picking at that itchy little bit of skin around your fingernail? do you also hate walking in the rain when a cold breeze cuts through you? do you also hate the feeling of knowing you've let down a loved one?
A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.