The UK Supreme Court has overruled Scottish Courts and declared the Scottish Government was wrong to include trans women in the definition of 'woman'.

Scottish Government needs to grow a spine and tell them to get fucked as far as I'm concerned. The UK can shove their 'Family of Nations' schtick up their arse.

This doesn't change anything about the average person's capacity to recognise people for who they are.

Gay love was recognised and existed long before equal marriage was recognised by law.

Biological essentialism is a fucking step back, and these hate groups funded by some of the worst cunts in society have been able to continually escalate their legal case until they've found a court who can undo everything else.

Important note here from @tgraywrites

Not a single trans person was heard from at any point by the Supreme Court before they made this ruling.

[ID: a screencap from author Tristan Grayford that reads as follows:

“An important reminder as the Supreme Court makes it’s judgment - not a single trans person was heard from at any point during this case before them, even a trans judge who applied was refused.

This is as usual, the British state acting as cis people to impose their will on trans people.”

The rest of the screenshot shows a link to the Supreme Court case detailing the latest ruling in the UK.]

Unfriendly reminder, there is no trans debate. There are trans people who exist and fascists who wish to eliminate them. That’s all there is to it.

1$ flea market score. Tiny glass 1960s perfume bottles. I love them.

Can you swap their heads ?

omg you can

Their meeting was foretold in the ancient texts

fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

disabled people should not have to pay to live their lives like everyone else. and in the case of insulin, disabled people should not have to pay to Not Fucking Die

hey americans there is a recall on testosterone gel because they found benzene in it! please check the lot numbers on your batches, benzene is really not something you want to be rubbing into your skin, also you might be eligible for compensation because this is just insane what the fuck

more on this page:

not only testosterone gel has been recalled - if you click on the link above, you’ll see that there are a lot of other medications affected, ranging from ibuprofen to thyroid medication to psych meds and a whole bunch in between. i’d say usamericans who use ANY medication should check this list just to be safe

All throughout childhood, while my peers were socializing and making friends, I studied the blade read so many books that I am now almost legally blind, which left me with vast and deeply instinctual understanding of English grammar - and next to no ability to explain how it actually works. Friends will often ask me to proofread their writing and then get very mad when I say things like, "You need to completely reverse this sentence and cut this clause entirely; no, I'm sorry, i don't know why, I just know that the way it is now ITCHES 😭"

Now, what I want to see is a fantasy story where this plays out with MAGICAL grammar. Someone from a backwater town deeply steeped in folk magic arrives at Wizard Uni where all their fellow students are like "What do you mean, we should add another '𝞯∘⋇𝞿' to the incancation because it 'sounds better'? What do you mean, 'it could just be a regional thing'?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'THIS SPELL JUST FEELS LIKE IT NEEDS A LIVE RAT'????"

"I mean, on the plus side, there's live rats in a lot of places, so the odds of you casting that spell within close enough range of a live rat to work is pretty high? Like, if you've ever had that spell just randomly fizzle out on you, then you tried it again ten minutes later without changing anything and it suddenly worked, a rat probably just wandered into range in that time."

disclaimer: spell does not work in Alberta

Had to ban the phrase “tricky dick” from my classroom during watergate lesson because saying the word dick in front of 30 fifteen year olds is like lighting a bomb and throwing it through the doorway but now they’re just calling him Richard the Treacherous like they’re all medieval peasants. gonna lose it

Bear in mind that this is a technique that anyone can use on anyone about anything.

For example, you probably want to be suspicious when megacorporations start rebranding themselves as "diverse" and "sustainable".

"Vegan leather" replacing "pleather" as the most frequent term for the material, as the greater populace began thinking that anything vegan is good and anything plastic is bad, is another good example if you want something specific.

Pool # 27 -  Ann Goldberg , 2016.

Canadian , b. 1970s

Oil on canvas , 30 x 48 in.

OIL PAINTING.

I found lots more on the artist's website, and then came across Percy in the Pool, which almost did me in 🥺🧡

hey! donate to uk trans charities today because it’s gonna be a rough one

Folks in the UK, could we have some trusted links to charities?

There's Mermaids which is always a great option, and then Scotland-specific there's LGBT Youth Scotland, to give you just a couple. There will absolutely be more that other people can suggest though!

A couple I donate to: TransAid Cymru, to support Welsh trans people, and The Outside Project, which helps queer people in London struggling with homelessness (and as trans people make up a disproportionately large number of unhoused people, it feels very relevant.)

Goes without saying, but don't donate to Pride Cymru, because they're complete shit.

YOU hate JK Rowling!

hey americans there is a recall on testosterone gel because they found benzene in it! please check the lot numbers on your batches, benzene is really not something you want to be rubbing into your skin, also you might be eligible for compensation because this is just insane what the fuck

more on this page:

Number one problem with being a trans guy who only passes most of the time is that around strangers I never know if something is a man situation or a woman situation

Does that woman look uncomfortable because she thinks I’m a lesbian or because we happen to be going the same direction and she thinks I’m a man that’s following her? Am I not being asked to help move things like the other guys because they think I’m a woman? Am I being stared at in this bathroom because I have boobs or because I’m wearing a my chemical romance t shirt

There’s a lot of ways people go about social interactions that they don’t realize are gender specific. Most people go through the world operating on autopilot knowing how to react to the way people see them in general. When you don’t know what gender people see you as, that can get tricky. Like how do I come across as nonthreatening in this situation? How much do I have to work to make myself heard? Am I okay to start up a conversation with this sort of person in this sort of situation? No idea most of the time when dealing with strangers at least.

Do you want to experience both man problems and woman problems simultaneously? Try transitioning today! Only costs however many hoops you need to jump through to get your goddamn prescriptions this month! Forever!

I've been on T for 7.5 years and I don't always pass at work - I work in healthcare, so the uniform is set for me (somehow our particular gender neutral scrub shirt still says HIPS) and the mask covers up my shadow of a beard. My patients get told they are seeing Jeremy (by the receptionists) or Mr Surname (by the computer check-in) and still I get people who come in and go "oh! I thought I was seeing a man today?" and I am like "yes that's me".

(They don't clock me as trans, it's not on their radar - they tend to think I am very young and possibly very gay and they are embarrassed about misgendering a "cis" person, not that they know the word cis. My trans lanyard gets very nearly 0 recognition from anyone.)

So that's a mild awkward but at least it's clear. What's much less clear is when I have someone who's a bit nervous, a bit private, a bit uncomfortable with the intimacy of an ECG or even a blood test. Sometimes that person is a woman, and sometimes that woman declines a chaperone but then says how glad she is to be seeing a fellow woman.

(That's not the phrase used, of course - it's more likely to be a comment expecting solidarity about skirts and stockings and bras, or relief in presuming we have the same body parts, or declining to see any male staff about whatever issue she has.)

And like. I still have not worked out what to do in that situation. What will make her feel safest - I keep silent and she's happy for now but might find out later? I tell her, half dressed and halfway through her test, "surprise, I'm a man!"?

Maybe there's a perfect theory answer out there, but I don't much care about the theory of it, I have one instant to make a choice with the real person really in front of me and every single time is going to be different.

oh how the turns have tables

The behind the scenes makes it clear that both the cast and the crew knew this was very illegal and did it anyway

As far as I can tell, technically his wife put the camera in her own kitchen.

Perfectly legal, no?

Shenanigans.

But legal.

It depends where you live but in many places that's absolutely still illegal without informing him.

yeah california is a two party consent state

#illegal but they obviously know Sam well enough that it was gonna work out fine#fucking hilarious holy shit

Presumably Elaine knows what would be too far for her husband, and she probably went through the footage and only handed on choice clips to the cast, omitting anything that Sam would find objectionable. And not only does Sam have control of the show's final edit but the company already have a veto policy where cast members can refuse to allow things about them to air if they decide it makes them uncomfortable, so there was no way in hell anything he'd find objectionable would make it out of the studio even if it somehow got past his wife and his friends' own moral sense. Given that Grant O'Brien has made Sam drink urine on camera before in revenge for Sam making Grant drink toilet water, this probably barely rates on the Dropout Cast Troll Scale

#Grant did what

He made him drink pee on camera what's confusing

Was it his own pee or Gant’s pee? Because there’s dominating that challenge then there’s dominating that challenge.

It was a bag of sterilised safe-to-drink pee and I have absolutely no idea where he got it. I wasn't aware you could just buy sterile pee.

STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.

Animated Goncharov.

Definitely that one.

unless, hear me out...

Muppet Goncharov

Look at these idiots who haven't seen Gonzorov (1993).

Reblogging entirely for Gonzorov.

Okay so I found the most incredible horse statue while doing research for my job and guys. Are you ready for this. Are you sure you're fucking ready for this thing

*sees 2 notes* FUCK yes let's fucking GOOOO

Behemoth

I saw the opposite of this horse

HONSE & hrse