Every time i could read closer into a story like this, it turned out there was some form of animal abuse going on. Keeping the dogs caged, beating them, training them for aggression, stuff like that. This isn't behavior you see with a dog socialized to be a family dog and emotional companion, this is behavior you see with an animal that had the misfortune of ending up with humans that wanted to turn them into a weapon.

If you read the article, it doesn't interview a single trans person

At least the warning in the trans community that Guardian was trying to interview kids for a hit piece worked.

It's wild how the entire political mainstream in the UK has agreed to take the Cass report's cherry-picking quackery that gets the evidence for gender-affirming care completely backwards on purpose and openly states that it supports conversion torture seriously.

Cissies not being forced to pick pronouns is pure revisionism and needs to be adressed ASAP. If people have deliberately circumvented the pronoun selection, they should also get banned.

Posting shit like that doesn't look very flattering.

this man never washes his hands

There's a frighteningly large number of people like that, most of them are men, and their numbers have actually gone up since the pandemic began.

I am reminded of how the KPD getting its leaders murdered by Freikorps thugs during the Spartacist uprising

These Freikorps thugs were sent by the SPD. It's in the interest of both liberals and conservatives to fight leftists, both liberalism and conservatism are rightwing, capitalist, imperialist and deeply chauvinist ideologies, one is just more focussed on hegemonial control and the other more on open violence. You cannot fight for queer liberation, or the rights of any other marginalized group such as America's black community, immigrants or indigenous peoples, with Bidenite Democrats, the last 4 years with its constant onslaught of anti-queer and especially anti-trans legislation (and also the uninterrupted continuation of an ever brutalizing border regime and the steady increase of police militarization) have proven this. The only Democrat opposition to trans genocide we've seen in that timeframe has been on the state level, by individual actors, the Democrats as a federal-level institution are downright scared of being too openly supportive of trans rights, Clinton as a prototypical member of the DNC establishment has more or less stated that she views our rights as a fringe issue that poses a political liability and Biden has only started voicing support for trans people when election season went into full swing.

I'm not telling Americans not to vote for Biden in November, i honestly may do so if i was Amerikan, but i'd probably do so by mail-in ballot from abroad because if i would live in Amerika, my top priority would be to get the fuck out. These are the reasonable options for US trans people, either leaving the country or work on community organizing and prepare for mass civil unrest, because mass civil unrest is the only thing that will stop the clericofascist mob. Biden won't do that, or he would have put more effort into clamping down on a movement that tried a coup and wanted to murder leading members of his party when he got into office. He's too comfortable with fascism to actually stop it, and he doesn't even meaningfully stall it.

So yes, i'm worried about the trans-exterminationist agenda of the US far right, it's a main political concern of mine because it directly affects my life even here in Europe that Reaganite nazi orgs like the Heritage Foundation are actively financing and supporting anti-trans activism here. But none of this has gotten better under Biden, and he will not change that, because he needs a continued threat to marginalized people to browbeat them into voting for him. Democrats are not allies. All they have to offer is a false sense of safety, the illusion that you can vote yourself out of the existential threat that Republicans already pose. You can't. You can try stalling for four more years, sure, but has that stalling actually worked in the last 4? And even if Biden wins the election, will he be able to govern afterwards or will there be another coup attempt that may work better this time?

When you focus on electoralism as the core strategy, you're playing the wrong game. There is no safe option to vote for trans rights in the US. The American left needs to prepare for worst case scenarios instead of putting its hopes in an eroding system that never was designed to serve their interests in the first place. There needs to be real thought put into all possible outcomes, what to do under another Biden term, what to do when Trump gets elected and what to do when he steals the election, and all of these scenarios are dire for trans people and require strategies that lie outside electoral politics.

Honestly, i wasn't expecting otherwise. My experience with people who can afford a good lawyer is that they already care a lot less about DUIs, and i doubt this gets any better when you can just hire somebody to drive you if your license gets revoked.

@Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net a fucking AI stole your work while trying to parody chud trucks

Diphenhydramine and fluoxetine actually have major interactions, but they do not match the reports about how Nex died at all. The combo has a significant risk of causing serotonin syndrome, this would practically be a given in case of an OD, and serotonin syndrome is, among other symptoms, marked by a highly agitated, confused state of mind, an often dangerously increased heart rate, muscle spasms and cramps, sometimes also diarrhea and vomiting and especially symptoms of hyperthermia like fever and profuse sweating, as the constant muscle spasms make the body temperature rise to life-threatening levels. Serotonin syndrome sends the entire body into overdrive, potentially fatal cases are a very, very noticeable condition. Especially when somebody is known to be on an SSRI like fluoxetine, serotonin syndrome should come to mind immediately, would be easily diagnosed by looking at the symptoms and could then be treated accordingly.

The sudden, spontaneous collapse that preceded Nex' hospitalization and death doesn't match this at all. An overdose of diphenhydramine would also already be guaranteed to cause a state of hallucinatory delirium on its own, but this wasn't reported by Sue Benedict, either. Nex' grandmothers' account of how they died doesn't match this toxicity report at all. This is an obvious cover-up story, just as the entire case has been dismissed and covered up by all authorities involved ever since the bathroom fight.

Nex Benedict didn't kill themselves. They were murdered by three girls at their school and the state government of Oklahoma is making a piss-poor attempt to hide this truth from the public, because they enacted the very policies that encouraged the murder.

funny how "was an anti-soviet resistance fighter" is so inseperable from "wanted to genocide their way to an ethnostate for their people"

They were actually closer to Melnyk than Bandera. While Ukrainian nationalists will tell you that made them the more moderate Waffen SS members in the OUN, it mostly means they were more busy torturing and murdering Poles than torturing and murdering Jews and Russians.