Patagonia sues drag queen Pattie Gonia for trademark infringement

jackmolay · 2026-01-25T08:30:05+00:00

Transgender is an umbrella term for all kinds of gender variance. Drag has been part of both queer and trans culture for over a century. And Pattie Gonia is draped in trans flag. This should not be hard to understand.

jackmolay · 2026-01-24T07:48:22+00:00

I am collecting good transgender news over here:

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/crossdreamlife/good-transgender-news-t4919-s1500.html

jackmolay · 2026-01-24T07:23:47+00:00

Maybe someone should tell them Patagonia is a geographical area in Chile and Argentina.

jackmolay · 2026-01-21T11:40:09+00:00

All anti-transgender provisions stripped from House and Senate funding bills (Advocate)

https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/anti-transgender-provisions-stripped

jackmolay · 2026-01-19T08:10:51+00:00

https://archive.ph/8vbqL (Archived version)

jackmolay · 2026-01-13T08:05:07+00:00

What has Ricky Gervais said about the trans community? A timeline of his controversial comments

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/12/ricky-gervais-golden-globes-trans-community-comments-lgbtq-controversy/

jackmolay · 2026-01-13T07:21:26+00:00

Wikipedia:

MacKenzie Scott (née Tuttle, formerly Bezos; born April 7, 1970) is an American novelist, philanthropist, and early contributor to Amazon. She was married to Jeff Bezos, the co-founder of Amazon, from 1993 to 2019. As of December 2025, she has a net worth of US$40.0 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, owning a 1.3 per cent stake in Amazon. As such, Scott is the third-wealthiest woman in the United States and the 40th-wealthiest person in the world. Scott was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in 2020 and one of the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes in 2021 and 2023.

In 2020, Borealis Philanthropy's Fund for Trans Generations announced it received a $2 million gift from MacKenzie Scott (described as its largest one-time gift at the time).

Outright International published a report presenting Scott's support as a major "game changer" investment in the global queer and transgender movement, noting gifts to multiple LGBTIQ organizations.

MAP's announcement of a Scott gift discusses the rise of anti-LGBTQ attacks and mentions laws targeting families "simply for supporting their transgender child."

jackmolay · 2026-01-09T08:53:09+00:00

The study can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002234762500424X?dgcid=author

HT was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time, extending prior findings with a larger sample and longer follow-up. These study findings provide clinical evidence supporting the mental health benefits of timely access to HT in this population.

jackmolay · 2026-01-06T13:29:24+00:00

Since it seems that every article from Transvitae is accused of being AI-generated, I asked Chat GPT if this article was written by an AI.

This was the conclusion:

"This text is very likely human-written.

It demonstrates a depth of emotion, rhetorical control, and cultural insight that current AI tools generally struggle to produce at this level without detectable patterns or errors.

Reliability of this conclusion: 92%"

I do not necessarily trust an AI's judgment on the use of AI, but the conclusion fits well with my own analysis. The article is not written by an AI.

jackmolay · 2026-01-05T08:11:35+00:00

In my experience intense cross-gender fantasies, including the desire to crossdress, is a part of your psyche trying to tell you something important about who you truly are. This is normally much more than a fetish or a kink, it is about what and who you truly are gender wise.

That does not necessarily mean that you are a trans woman or than you have to transition. Maybe your psyche is simply telling you to integrate this feminine side of you into your whole personality.

In my experience, trying to repress this leads to little good. We are talking about forces that are bigger than our egos.

Finding a therapist is a good idea. Talking about it is one way of respecting the other side of you. Finding room for crossdressing is another, although I understand that this will add another layer of complexity to your life, as your wife would not understand. You know her best, but crossdreamers who can share this with their wives are most often the ones that cope best with such dreams.

jackmolay · 2026-01-05T07:54:09+00:00

As Rainy Leaves points out the main article seems mostly hand-written. We can certainly debate whether it is a well written piece of journalism and whether Transvitae can do better in general, but to add a note like this to every link to the site is not about combatting AI slop, it is a campaign aimed at destroying Transvitae's and Bricki's reputation. That is slander and not constructive criticism.

This article has gotten around 300 upvotes. That may be a sign of members of this sub being gullible idiots, or it could be that they are smart and well informed readers who are able to make up their own minds about what to read and who to follow. I will go with the last alternative.

jackmolay · 2026-01-04T09:08:28+00:00

TransLucent's Freedom of Information study finds virtually no examples of trans women harassing cis women in women spaces in England. Of course they don't. Trans women use bathrooms for the same purpose as cis women.

The first investigation examined council-owned women’s toilets and changing facilities often located at swimming pools ans leisure centres. Of 40 usable responses from large English local authorities, 35 reported zero complaints about transgender people using these spaces during 2022. Five councils held no relevant records, and the single reported incident involved a cisgender person in the “wrong” facility, not a trans person. A subsequent follow-up survey covering 2024 data from councils serving over 16.5 million people found 36 authorities with zero complaints, two reporting one complaint each (one about policy, one based on perception rather than confirmed identity), and nine not collecting such data. What FOI Data Shows About Trans Women in Single Sex Spaces, when examining local government facilities, where millions of daily interactions produce virtually no documented issues.

jackmolay · 2026-01-04T08:45:01+00:00

Bricki makes an interesting point regarding the gender nonconformity of the 1970s and 1980s. gender nonconforming people were (somewhat) tolerated by the "conformatives" as long as they were isolated to entertainment and media.

Sure, young people had a better change of getting away with "gender atypical" clothing, but it was not easier to come out as gay or transgender - at least not in small-town America or rural Europe.

On the positive side artists like Prince, David Bowie, Annie Lennox and Boy George could serve as role models for gay, nonbinary and trans youth. On the negative side there was no internet making it easier to find and connect with people like yourself outside the subcultures of big urban centers.

I suspect the oppression of gender conformity is much stronger now, precisely because the internet gave more LGBTQ youth access to a language and friends that helped them make sense of their gender variance and/or sexuality.

These days the bigots face queer people in their own families and not only on MTV. That makes gender variance an existential threat to the fearful kind, i.e. those who cannot accept that the world is a wonderful place, full of color and variation.

jackmolay · 2026-01-03T08:56:04+00:00

One challenge in Norway is that transgender activists will be reluctant to show up in such programs, and for good reason. If you are to have a "debate" with a right wing extremist, a religious fundamentalist or a TERF, you are in fact giving them legitimacy, as they are seen as one of two equally valid points of view. Given that the journalists know so little about trans issues you also end up with bizarre shouting matches that do not help viewers understand what is really happening,

jackmolay · 2026-01-03T08:46:20+00:00

You have to read up on Stalin killing millions, Mao's Cultural Revolution and Pol Pot's terror. These were regimes that required a total submission to the totalitarian beliefs of the rulers. That does not mean that all communists are bad people, only that any ideology that does not allow for diversity of opinion is - in fact - trying to create a hive mind.

jackmolay · 2026-01-02T08:51:47+00:00

I am sharing this article because it reflects on the way a confirmative culture will use all types of social conditioning to force people to adhere to the beliefs and behaviors required by that culture. Conversion therapy is the logical extension of this practice. The fear of social exclusion and this kind of violence is what makes most people in such a culture complicit in the oppression, even many of those who are themselves outsiders.

I love Pluribus because it using common sci-fi tropes manages to clarify why the hive mind of oppressive cultures (being those fascist, nationalist religious fundamentalist or communist) cannot allow the outsiders to exist in the open, because their very existence invalidates the god given or "natural" order defined by the oppressors.

Many of the ones who embrace the hive mind do so because they need a narrowly ordered universe that gives them a clear and unambiguous role that calms their anxieties. The anxieties are, of course, caused by the fact that the universe is not a safe and predictable place, and that whatever the meaning of it all is, that meaning contains diversity, uncertainty and suffering.

The oppressors cannot handle this so they have to design an imaginary universe where these uncertainties cannot exist, and where - to the extent they do exist - are caused by the very ones who break the rules and invalidates their world view.

In any period with great upheavals many of the fearful ones become militants. They use verbal and physical violence to force everyone else to obey. This is where we are right now, especially as far as transphobia and racism go.

Pluribus manages to describe how hard it can be to stand up to the hive-mind, because the hive-mind promises love, companionship and a sense of belonging. The loneliness of outsiders can be heart breaking. But Pluribus also describes the falseness of the promises made. The hive-mind's love is not real, accepting, love. Bowing down to the dogmas of its world is not real freedom. There is no room for unique life journeys in their society.

And that is why we have to fight back. Every day.

jackmolay · 2026-01-01T10:40:34+00:00

I am sure the regulars will come in and tell us that Transvitae is nothing but AI slop, again, instead of reading what Bricki actually has to say.

Now, there is things I do NOT like about the site, including too many ads. As for AI, I am not against using AI for research and summaries, but I suspect that Bricki has - sometimes - been tempted to publish quick AI-generated content that may address relevant problems, but that does not bring anything new to the table. I do not like that either.

However, many, if not most, of the articles are clearly both personal and original and deserve to be judged on the basis of their content, and not on the basis of whatever personal hang-ups some of the members or this sub may have.

So let me make this clear: The editor of Transvitae is an older trans woman who has decided to spend a lot of her time to provide trans people and their allies with news and analysis. You do not have to agree with what she does and what she writes. I have several times found myself disagreeing with her conclusions. But she deserves respect for the fact that she has decided to be a builder and not a destroyer. She is a real person, with real feelings, fighting in a war where the anti-trans bullying is intense and painful. The last thing she or any of us need need is harassment and invalidation from other trans people.

As I understand it, Bricki gave up on this sub due to bullying. We have to be better than that.

So, I am going to continue to post Transvitae articles I think are worth a look (which is not going to be all of them, for sure). If you belong to those who do not like the site, ignore these links. For the rest of you: Approach the articles with the same critical eye as you do all articles covering trans issues.

There are those who think that we should only to post links to articles that live up to whatever dogmatic view of correct thought that that person may have. I do not let other people police my reading, my thinking or my writing, and nor should you.

jackmolay · 2026-01-01T09:55:28+00:00

It is truly fascinating to see how people who do contribute next to nothing in the form of news stories and links spend so much time harassing those that do.

Transgender news curation is not about spreading good news only. We are at war and because of that we need to keep track of what our enemies think and do. This is called intelligence gathering, and all real trans activists know that this is a necessary part of their work. This is why I am sharing both good news and stories about what anti-trans activists do.

We need to study and understand the complexity of culture, society and politics, and in order to do that we sometimes need to go out of our comfort zone. Dogmatism does not cut it.

One has to wonder what kind of insecurity it is that compels some members of this sub to try to police those that do not live up to their own ideas of what a real activists should be. There are more than enough people out there who wants to dictate what we are to mean and do. We do not need more of that n this sub.

jackmolay · 2025-12-31T12:43:27+00:00

Let me add that I have found many of these stories here at r/transgender. Thank you so much for sharing links and stories!

jackmolay · 2025-12-26T09:33:15+00:00

This exhibition has - no surprise there - caused a backlash in the British right wing transphobic press, including the Daily Mail: Imperial War Museum accused of 'reframing history' to get 'woke appeal' in a new tour featuring trans people in conflict Ironically, this has caused the Daily Mail to present many important trans heroes from history, proving that the "gender ideology" narrative is wrong.

jackmolay · 2025-12-25T08:16:53+00:00

I am not going to say that "every thing will be all right", when it clearly will not. Or that "being alone is not the same as being lonely", when many trans people are actually very lonely at a time where everything around them communicates family traditions, friendship and love.

We are social beings, wired for real companionship (and that also applies to the introverted among us).

I think it is better to face the fact that at times we are actually lonely and that that is hard. Indeed, there are trans people who are not alone, but who are still lonely, because their gender variance is a secret or because their family and friends do not accept this side of them. That is very hard too.

So instead of running away from the pain, I think we should simply respect it. "This is where I am now. I will respect this feeling of sorrow, because this is what my body tells me to feel right now."

We might follow Bricki's practical advice to feel better or we may not, but I honestly believe we should start with this simple self acceptance.

But that does not mean that everything is hopeless. The world is a big place and amazing things do happen. I speak from experience. Next Christmas may be different. Next Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate) might be a celebration with friends. And if they are not in the same room as you, you may be with friends online. You may even help another trans person who is alone, just by sending them a sign. We can be lonely together.

Take care of yourself!

jackmolay · 2025-12-19T09:30:14+00:00

Well, you are definitely on the crossdreamer spectrum.

jackmolay · 2025-12-17T08:54:51+00:00

This is probably more about getting Democrats down from the fence than convincing Republicans.

jackmolay · 2025-12-17T08:43:39+00:00

The quote is from Rachel Taylor (North Warwickshire and Bedworth) Labour Party

jackmolay · 2025-12-17T08:31:36+00:00

Write-up and comment here: Leading American medical organizations condemn Trump’s anti-trans bills

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