Unless I’m missing something, it seems like adding anesthesia to the mix also makes abortion exceedingly expensive.

There comes a time in everyone’s life when they realize that not all the things that their parents told them are true or good. Perhaps this is that time for you.

Lets not fall into the ‘blame colonialism for everything’ trap again, favouring lighter skinned people has basically been a staple of cultures worldwide for much of human history even without European influence. Just look at the Syrian fella on the far right, the Egyptians may have modelled Horus (far left) on…

“there is a valid feeling about bisexual folks and trans people (and an enduring presence of maleness in all spheres of life) “taking away” spaces.”

The Stonewall Riot was started by a trans woman. Radical Feminists threw us under the bus in the earl 80's to get in with Reagan. This is documented history. Trans people have always existed. Just because this is the first time a measurable amount of us have been able to be out doesn’t mean we didn’t exist before. It…

Yep. Transphobia, racism, bi/pan-phobia and sexism are alive and well in the LGBTIPAQ “community”.

As someone that used to clean restrooms, I can assure you that women’s bathrooms are equally as filthy as men’s restrooms, but unisex bathrooms are almost always the worst. I think it’s because they get double the usage?

I agree with you, but think it’s more complicated that that.
The confusion comes from the fact that WOC don’t want to look like blonde European women, but they DO want to look like the palest hair-dyed local women who are emulating European beauty standards.
For example, Latin American women don’t dye their hair to…

Trans women are women. Full stop. Speaking as a radical feminist who spent years and years fighting to make Canadian women’s spaces trans-inclusive, the only “enduring presence of maleness” trans women represent in designated women’s spaces is in the minds of old school feminists who still can’t wrap their minds…

1. Trans people and bisexual people were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots just like lesbians.

Are gay/lesbians straight passing when they’re single? Are our identities invalid if we’ve never been in a relationship? Do these people call closeted gay kids straight passing? Like, ffs.

Sorry, shit makes me angry.

Additionally, the OP also conveniently ignores all the fucked up plastic surgeries that are trending in East Asian to make their eyes bigger, and their noses sharper etc. This shit doesn’t happen in a vacuum. White Supremacy is everywhere.

That is the truth, but are you just going to pretend centuries of colonialism that had its basis in the supremacy of whiteness doesn’t really factor into it? Sure, fair skin indicates that you’re rich and you spend your time indoors, just like bound feet did in China. BUT, White skin in media, in the culture and IRL…

Having said that, skin lightening creams are total bullshit, and Emma is probably embarrassed and furious to have her image associated with one.

In my experience as a bi woman, I definitely found some resistance in the LG community. To an extent, I get it - I almost always pass as straight, which gives me certain privileges - but it was always frustrating to hit that wall among the people who I thought would have been the most supportive. I can only imagine…

Except many accounts of the Stonewall riots suggest they were started in part by trans women of color and drag queens who very explicitly made common cause with trans folk more so than other gay men (see Marsha P. Johnson and STAR for reference). One of the main organizers of the Christipher Street Liberation Day…

I disagree. The ladies room is ALWAYS disgusting. Can't tell you have many times I've encountered period shits floating in a toilet. You're never quiet prepared for that. Never.

It’s probably changing because there’s an age component: the internet has made us way more visible to cis people and gay/lesbian/bi cis kids are watching us suffer through the same stuff as they are through their formative years. So I’d imagine they don’t feel nearly as disconnected to our experiences as older…

I’ve heard this before about ladies’ rooms being worse, but my own life experience does NOT bear it out. Not even close.

I’m confused. If patrons at the Stonewall identified him, then why are the cops still looking for him (I would assume given that they have his name it shouldn’t be hard to find him) as well as why his name is not being reported in this story. Hope they catch this creep soon.