US government officially declares "radically pro-transgender" and anarchist groups to be domestic terrorists, with the goal to "ultimately destroy established threat group"

https://quokk.au/c/usa/p/885763/us-government-officially-declares-radically-pro-transgender-and-anarchist-groups-to-be-domes

#PennedPossibilities 1009 — Do any of your characters wear glasses?

Bolt, the MC, should have as she points out...

I'd made myself up as prim and proper as I could, including putting my hair up, spreading a covering paste on my cheeks to hide the piercing holes, and wearing a gauzy white shift tailored for any kind of angel, with snap closure wing cutouts. The seller promised it would wick perspiration, not become transparent, and would keep me cool. I even bought blue-rimmed reflective glasses to further confuse recognition should I encounter someone I'd delivered a mob missive in a blue envelope to. I ought have bought glasses that would correct my sight back to 6/1, but such things required visiting Health Services and submitting my civil ID, which [could get her identified].

Day angels have hawk-like sight, but Bolt's is barely 10/20, which makes things on the ground from altitude very hard to see. As a teenager she lost enough glasses that her mother stopped buying them. As a jock she didn't want to be mistaken for a scholar! Turning 30, she realizes how stupid she had been.

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#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
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People think transition is about gender. For me, it was about the freedom we lose by silencing and losing our truths. Accepting systemic patterns towards professional and economic success, we lose our truth.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-body-that-broke-the-script-894424439dc1?sk=7e82727eacaf10917c9079d6f7b7e0c9

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Gender #Freedom

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/116537610780265134

Yes!

#gender #children #education

The previous post, in english, in my formulation, might add the literal translation later..

On the freedom of having a naked torso independent of your anatomy while visiting a reabilitation water gimnastics session.

State of Brandenburg, Germany.

Court decision favours gender non binary self determinaton, and no, you don't have to cover your torso, as in it would discriminate.

I wonder if this sets precedent, as german law is a bit weird on that.

https://tinrechtshilfe.de/archiv/1844

#gender #feminism #germany #brandenburg #queer #ninbinary #trans
#depol #bodypolitic #tin

#PennedPossibilities 1008¹⁵ #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot One or more of your characters, of your choice, are about to sneak into 'something'. Why are they sneaking and what are they sneaking into, are they successful?

Bolt is a courier for the mob, but occasionally she's also sent to trade for supplies to make 'products' the mob sells. Owning those products isn't illicit, but transporting them is, which is one of the few criminal acts Bolt commits (delivering anonymous mail isn't a crime, per se). Blackmailed, Bolt transports the herbs unwilling because she's been ordered to do so. She needs to sneak in and out of a city that was built like a fortress on a mountainside before siege warfare became obsolete. It has few roads in and out. She and her helper, the devil-girl, must sneak out of the city with their wagon-load of trading cargo, then return without getting stopped. It helps that Bolt is a day angel. She can fly.

Since I won't comment about spoilers, I'll say only that it is part of a scheme to gather blackmail to control the devil-girl. The devil-girl is a very expensive extremely capable independent contractor. The events constitute major plot worsening. It's the beginning of the end of the novel.

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