(She/Her) 🔞 🏳️⚧️ Level 43 Bard, Actor, geek, Mariners fan, runner, Jeopardy Alum!, lesbian, pan, progressive, kinky, poly, Two-Spirit Osage with AuDHD.
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Randy Johnson and dead bird Halloween costume will always be one of my all-time favourites
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On October 31, 1993, during a Nirvana concert at the Akron Armory in Ohio, Kurt Cobain decided to celebrate Halloween by taking the stage dressed as Barney, the popular children's dinosaur.
Before the show, backstage, the band took advantage of the holiday to have some fun and take silly photos without the costume's mask.
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My favourite scene in all Star Trek.
I cried when I watched it for the first time, and still tear up.
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They keep trying to Community Note this post, but unfortunately these are facts.
Initiative 638 mandates girls K-12 PROVE they arent trans via either:
🅰️ expensive genetic testing (which most families dont have access to)
🅱️ a "reproductive organ exam" (NOT a standard physical)
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A cisgender male and a trans woman athlete who is on feminising hormone treatment or who has surgically transitioned like @Anaya_Bangar has cannot be equated.
Trans women athletes are physiologically different from male athletes, hence why I believe the basis of any blanket ban policy is flawed.
The research shows the physical fitness of transgender and cisgender women is comparable.
The most comprehensive synthesis to date, a 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis (Sieczkowska et al., British Journal of Sports Medicine) of 52 studies and 6,485 participants, shows:
1- That there is no significant difference in lean body composition or upper and lower body strength between cis women and trans women after 1-3 years of hormone treatment.
2- There are also no differences in cardiorespiratory fitness between cis women and trans women.
3- Therefore, there is no evidence that trans women are stronger or have greater muscle mass or endurance, as has been suggested in the public debate.
4- Furthermore, in comparisons between trans women undergoing hormone treatment and cis men, trans women do have lower results in terms of lean mass, upper and lower body strength, and cardiometabolic performance than cis men.
5- Trans men do have greater strength and muscle mass than cis women, but they do not reach the values achieved by cis men.
6- Although the review has some limitations, such as the lack of studies on elite athletes and the lack of studies on specific sports events, it gives us two clear messages:
1- There is no evidence to support the claims that trans women have greater strength and endurance than cis women, and that exposure to testosterone prior to hormone treatment in trans women does not lead to better physical conditions for sport.
2- Therefore, contrary to the opinion that trans women should not compete in the female category, this systematic review shows us that there is no scientific justification for this discrimination in a single female sport.
bmjgroup.com/physical-fitnes…
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centrists are so entitled despite throwing trans folks under the bus the moment we become politically inconvenient. conceding to conservatives (that will never support them anyways) only legitimatizes their transphobic narratives. human rights means all humans, including us.
Trans voter to @AOC: Trans people in America feel like they've been abandoned by the Democratic Party, that we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that?
AOC:
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Piers Morgan Says Democrats Lost Voters Over Trans Issues — Marc Lamont Hill Turns the Argument Back on Them
Piers Morgan: If you asked AOC what a woman is, we all know she’d struggle to answer, right?
Marc Lamont Hill: The only struggle would be arriving at a common definition between her and transphobic people who refuse to accept trans people as people and trans women as women.
Piers Morgan: This is where you’re so wrong. The ad attacking Kamala Harris over trans issues reportedly moved the needle by three points.
If you’re a mum with kids in women’s sports, you care about this. You want a candidate who can clearly tell you what a woman is.
I’m not remotely transphobic. Trans people deserve fairness, equality and safety. But not at the expense of women’s rights. That’s why the definition of a woman is so important.
Marc Lamont Hill: We’re not struggling to define what a woman is. You just don’t agree with us. Trans women are women, cis women are women.
There are different experiences and contexts, and we have to be honest about that when making public policy.
The problem was that Kamala Harris allowed the right wing to control the narrative, making it seem like trans issues were all Democrats cared about instead of workers’ rights, living wages and other major issues.
And turning women’s sports into a story about trans people destroying women’s rights is dishonest.
There are plenty of people undermining women’s rights right now, and it isn’t trans people.
Allowing the right to convince voters that this was the big issue in the election is why the Democrats lost.
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Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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from 5 months ago:
BREAKING: The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. apnews.com/article/fort-hood…
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I think it can never be stressed enough that even regardless of Joanne's views on trans people, her writing is filled with fascism, racism, classism, fatphobia, homophobia, anti-semitism, slavery, cruelty, anti-disability and just every imaginable form of bigotry
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"Even Batman thinks that women don't deserve their legal sex based rights" may be one of the funniest things a TERF has ever said
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Without question, Rick Rizzs has been a gift. I have been fortunate enough to work with him for 24 years and although I know he will not ever be far from the club, it is hard to say goodbye to what he brought us on the air.
How sweet it was: Rick Rizzs, the #Mariners voice of summer and hope for 41 years, leaves the microphone while still very much on his game.
(via @shannondrayer)
sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/s…
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If the fed gov just mandated free universal IDs they could easily do this. But there is a reason Republicans don't want a free universal id. Hmm 🤔
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70 bikini baristas in Washington won $1.85 million in unpaid wages and damages. I'm fascinated by this story. A ragtag crew of bikini baristas organizing to defeat a sleazy businessman who was robbing them is empowering. This should be much bigger news. These ladies are badass.
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baseball has no stoppage time. you can’t run out the clock, you have to earn all 27 outs. each at bat is a little competition in itself between the pitcher and the batter. a grand slam changes the game more drastically than any other singular play in sports. how can you not
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whats happening rn with ed sheeran is a reminder of how being silent or "apolitical" during moments of injustice sends an obvious message to everyone about where you stand. we all have a platform no matter how big or small and its our responsibility to use it.
