Richelle Sparrow

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Former science and math #teacher for 25 years. Tried to drive a big rig and failed. I separate adults from their money through card games of chance. Now beginning life as a #trans woman.
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Most people don’t want to be rich, they just want enough not to worry anymore
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"Late‑diagnosed adults describe finally learning they are autistic as both relief and grief: relief at having a name and community that fit, and grief for all the years spent fighting the unnecessary battles."

Yes!!! But not so much "grief" as RESENTMENT, for how unnecessary it all was and is. 😡

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-different/202603/epistemic-injustice-the-great-gaslighting-of-autistic-lives

Epistemic Injustice: The Great Gaslighting of Autistic Lives

Epistemic injustice is the assumption that people, usually those with less power, are unable to correctly understand their own lives. It takes a tragic toll on autistic lives.

Psychology Today

Tennessee Republicans Advance Bill That Will Create a Public List of the State’s Trans People

https://transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-republicans-advance-bill

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Tennessee Republicans Advance Bill That Will Create a Public List of the State’s Trans People

House Bill 754 forces medical providers to hand trans people’s medical information over to the state, allowing the state to identify them. And under the bill, the data will be released to the public.

Transitics
What is "autocratic backfire"?
"Parental Rights" and the Authoritarian Family

For advocates of "parental rights," family autonomy becomes both reward and weapon, extended to those who conform and withdrawn from those who do not.

Liberal Currents
“I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.”
Charles M. Schulz

Anti-trans hate groups petitioning FDA for registry of trans women, crackdown on transition, newly revealed document shows

https://theneedlenews.com/anti-trans-hate-groups-petitioning-fda-for-registry-of-trans-women-crackdown-on-transition-newly-revealed-document-shows/

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Anti-trans hate groups petitioning FDA for registry of trans women, crackdown on transition, newly revealed document shows

In the short term, this is not as dangerous as an outright ban on estrogen. If implemented and then combined with other methods of suppressing trans people, it might be far more destructive in the long term.

The Needle

Trump Administration Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans

https://transitics.substack.com/p/trump-administration-opens-the-door

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Trump Administration Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans

Under a new rule, the State Department will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally.

Transitics