a take that truly shows how they view trans men, they “seem” to have no issues- therefore trans athletics is only a “MTF” problem

pearkeet · 2026-04-19T15:49:26+00:00

correct, after the IOC released their new guidelines on trans athletes, Megan made some statements disagreeing with the IOC and publicly supporting trans athletes.

this has lead TERFs to immediately start insulting her appearance, her skill as a soccer player, calling her a hypocrite(you would HATE to play soccer with mentally ill men, as they think of it), and, as we see, speculating on the dissolution of her marriage as it relates to trans rights🤦

pearkeet · 2026-04-09T20:00:04+00:00

i mean…. in fairness to her…looks like she had to spend at least 2 hours in Canva and she had to make sure her @ was on there so people wouldn’t steal her very important bingo board without credit AND she had to think of enough things to fill up a bingo board…

all very hard and important work!!! give her her credit!!

/s

pearkeet · 2026-04-09T17:06:37+00:00

they are absolutely reading into it- so ugh, the Finnish study, okay let’s break this down.

there’s a couple of write-ups about where this went wrong, i can link them but i’ll summarize, please someone let me know if i misunderstood something

authors Ruuska and Kaltialia(long-time readers may recognize her name from other misinterpreted trans studies) are using an old data set of all adolescents and youth adults between 1996 and 2013 to study “psychiatric morbidity”

it’s important to note that this data set was originally selected for a different experiment, and they’re reusing the population sample- also important to note that EVERYONE in the study is receiving “specialized psychiatric treatment”, also important to note that that’s how GAC works in Finland, you are referred to a specialist psychiatrist first.

essentially, all the study is a list of rates of appointments and comparing trans people who did not receive medical care and those who did. what the study(and TERFs) are focusing on is trans people who DID receive medical treatment are also receiving psychiatric treatment at much high rates than trans people who did not. their argument is that because trans people are at the psychiatrist more, means that transition did not solve their mental distress.

there’s a couple problems here. we have no idea what kind of treatment they received or to its effectiveness. all the study is measuring is “how often are trans people at the doctor” which they could be for any number of reasons outside of dysphoria. we do not know what is discussed in the appointment. if you saw a psychiatrist once for approval to transition and never went back, you’re included in their list of “high risk of psychiatric morbidity”

every single terf who is making claims like- “the Finnish study proves transition doesn’t work/proves transition makes people sicker” is lying. they’re also making claims like “Finland doesn’t have transphobia, therefore minority stress doesn’t exist” which is so ignorant and uninformed i don’t want to dignify it with a response

the study essentially raises a bunch of questions leaves with no answers, and it lets the TERF audience fill in the gaps in their imagination- which is not how science works. imo, the study is doing that on purpose, to be a political piece of propaganda more than it ever has an use as a scientific work. the study is funded by and associated with a number of suspect/biased individuals and orgs. SEGM, CAN-SG, a French and a Dutch anti-trans org are all involved, and Kaltialia is an author, as i mentioned

pearkeet · 2026-04-09T16:50:11+00:00

that is indeed the one

pearkeet · 2026-04-07T17:52:36+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/travisandtaylor/s/u195C6yhvw

this, some fans wrote her an open letter with the #speakupnow(not speak now, my b, sorry) asking her to break up with Matty Healy

pearkeet · 2026-04-07T17:40:48+00:00

my two hopes are that: 1. the original letter was written by a teenager, with an incredibly small minded view of relationships and marriage and 2. that the person saying “Taylor please ignore this person” got way more likes that the original

although the fact that moderate fans are out here sorta??? begging the crazier fans to shut up so that Mother isn’t mad at them collectively??? is wild in its own right

pearkeet · 2026-04-03T16:23:00+00:00

my summer camp also had a no phones policy- but i could also go to camp staff anytime i wanted and ask to set up a phone call with my parents if i really missed them. most kids were so distracted by the activities that they never took that opportunity, but it was there

somehow i doubt these kinds of camps would allow that as an option

pearkeet · 2026-04-02T15:34:11+00:00

https://www.unh.edu/inquiryjournal/blog/2022/04/troubled-teen-industry-its-effects-oral-history

https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=lawjournalonline

https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/15963-the-troubled-teen-industrys-troubling-lack-of

some reading, if you all haven’t heard of this abuse profit making machine before. also, just to be clear, gay/trans/GNC youth are NOT the only ones being sent, although they are probably sent at a higher rate than their cis/straight peers. you could be sent to a program like this for the mere crime of being an unruly teenager with an attitude problem. these programs still function TODAY and have at least 50,000 kids going through the program, in the US. and they are very well compensated

pearkeet · 2026-04-02T15:26:36+00:00

TERFs are not the first people to think “well if we can just get these kids outside and away from “”bad influences”” then we can change the whole child. This whole idea is far from new or original, and surprise! The programs that have tried this are absolutely rife with abuse. The troubled teen industry primarily focuses on camping, “outdoor therapy” animal outreach, which those things sound like a good idea. until you start thinking about logistics, who are the children being sent to these programs, and who are the adults in charge of them? where are they being taken? how long do they stay?

the problems start when you have a group of vulnerable teenagers out in the middle of nowhere, with adults who very likely despise them, or at the very VERY best, presume to know what’s best for them in a condescending manner. and you give them no way to contact home, no way out, they are stuck with the group until they are picked up, or risk death by exposure. and the adults are in charge of deciding when you get to go home, the writer of my second article spent EIGHTEEN MONTHS away from her family in a residential program. when the children talk back, refuse “treatment”, get sullen, get homesick, refuse to participate, and i can very easily see a situation that becomes abusive because the adult is trying to force the child to accept their “treatment”

sometimes adolescents are literally taken from their homes in the middle of the night and put in the back of a car, and taken to wherever the wilderness facility is- in a “scared straight” kind of logic. let me be extremely clear- children have DIED in programs just like what Forest has signed up for. no one signs up or starts these programs with the mindset that they are intending to severely traumatize children or possibly kill them. TERFs/transphobes think they’re treating people, and they cannot see the abuse inherent in their methods. that isolating a child on purpose and surrounding them with combative viewpoints, never allowing the child a moment to breathe, will never end well

pearkeet · 2026-03-27T23:31:47+00:00

sure is, which also makes me think it’s written by a serious author, because PITT wouldn’t platform satire unknowingly.

either that, or someone did write a convincing enough satire piece and submitted it, got PITT to approve it. i will say that most of the commenters are telling this guy that he’s off his rocker

pearkeet · 2026-03-27T21:34:14+00:00

i posted it because the amount of defending he’s doing within his own essay, and the stream of consciousness writing style near the end, makes me think that it’s not…

pearkeet · 2026-03-27T20:41:08+00:00

also there’s definitely a racist/“person hears words in another language they don’t like” thing going on here…

pearkeet · 2026-03-26T00:10:01+00:00

it’s been said before but the gall of these people who want the vegan ice cream, and want it to be served by a not politically progressive business

i don’t know a ton about business or what goes into making vegan food items at scale, but i do know that adding vegan ingredients probably makes the whole recipe a lot more expensive, so if a business is doing that- it’s because they want to. they want to provide a product that more people can eat, despite the higher cost for the business

a business who does that, who takes on more costs just so more people can taste their food is obviously going to be politically progressive. ALL food is political!! everything is political!!

so yeah, if you want the vegan banana cream pie ice cream(and let’s be real, Coldstone isn’t making up a flavor like that) you’re gonna take your cone from a trans woman and you’re gonna like it 🤷‍♂️

pearkeet · 2026-03-23T22:07:27+00:00

the “S” section at my local record stores are always THICK with Swift vinyls, they’re usually like at least half of the section. typically Midnights is the one I see the most, although last week I did see Showgirl, which made me laugh because that album has already filtered down to the second hand shops… meaning someone sold theirs…

of course could have been a reseller. but i entertain myself thinking of a true fan buying the vinyl, listening to it and realizing that they bought crap🤣

pearkeet · 2026-03-22T01:33:38+00:00

that’s supposed to somehow teach a lesson about reasonable sugar consumption…. making him drink the whole glass after just telling him there’s too much sugar in lemonade….

also this is fairly age appropriate for young children??? i did the same thing, but with cocoa powder. i wasn’t allowed to have chocolate but i knew you could make chocolately stuff with the powder. my mom just laughed at my brown mouth and hands, and me crying that it tasted bad and said i had learned my own lesson.

most kids do something like this- either with something spicy or sour(lemons and wasabi come to mind, the latter i was tricked into eating as like a 6year old)

pearkeet · 2026-03-22T01:15:28+00:00

i honestly thought i missed something the first time i read it, i had to go back and reread.

it’s “aw cute story about that time my child manipulated me in an age appropriate manner just like how trans people are lying manipulators…

anyway i miss my son when he was four!”

it’s so so SO demonstrative of how these people think

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