Michelle MacLean

Flaming Liberal, Gemini, Dork, Nerd. Lives with crazy fur babies, a somewhat patient wife and a very unique mother-in-law. She/her.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

WOW THIS IS A VERY THOUGHT-PROVOKING PERSPECTIVE

[Maryam @hell_line0]

My nephew is trans. He started telling us at about age 3 that he was a little boy, not a little girl, and he wanted to be called "son" by his dad. No one ever suggested this to him or encouraged him to do it despite him not wanting to. We all just said "sure if that's what you want" and didn't fight him on it. He'll be 18 soon and still living as a boy. Trans kids exist. They deserve to live safely.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe. https://t.co/P4ZNeIfvPV

[Michelle MacLean @shellmacl]

My heart breaks at the truth of this.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

when my 4-year-old’s daycare held a “lunch with mom” event, every single mom showed up. we all have other jobs, which is why our kids are in daycare. but we took off work or found a way to get there in the middle of the day. now, they’re doing an event for the dads … at 6:30 in the evening. it’s a small example, but the double standards are real.

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

this is not a joke

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

Trump has 5 kids with 3 women he cheated on. Elon Musk has 14 kids with 4 women he cheated on. Pete Hegseth has 7 kids with 3 women he cheated on. RFK Jr has 7 kids with 3 women he cheated on. The Republican Party protects pedophiles. Family values - my ass.

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

Went to the grocery store this morning

Bread, milk, eggs

$47.63

The screen asked if I'd like to round up to support a children's hospital

I pressed no

The cashier looked at me

The woman behind me looked at me

My wife looked at the ceiling

Again

This company made $14 billion last year

They can round up

Went to get gas after

The pump asked if I'd like to add $1 to support veterans

I support veterans

I pressed no

A $200 billion oil company asking me to fund their charity while I'm paying $3.89 a gallon

That's not philanthropy

That's outsourcing

Drove through for lunch

Taco Bell

The screen said "round up for education?"

A fast food company asking me to fund scholarships while paying their employees $11 an hour

I pressed no

My wife said "you know you're arguing with screens today"

She was right

But the screens started it

Went to the pharmacy

Picked up a prescription

$340 after insurance

The screen asked if I'd like to donate $1 to help families in need

I just paid $340 for a medication that costs $4 to manufacture

And now you want a dollar

I pressed no

The pharmacist said "it's just a dollar"

I said "it's never just a dollar"

She didn't respond

Got home

My wife said "you said no to a children's hospital, veterans, education, and families in need today"

I said "no. I said no to four corporations who want me to fund their goodwill so they can put it in their annual report"

She was quiet

Then she said "you're not wrong"

I said "I know"

She said "but you're still going to look like a monster"

I said "I'd rather look like a monster than quietly fund a billion-dollar company's PR strategy at the register"

She didn't disagree

But she didn't look at me either

Plz fix. Thx.

Sent from my iPhone

[jezz @JezziiB]

"Male privilege isn't real because men get sent to war". Sent to war by other men. Specifically, by rich men.

That's an example of classism. In order for it to be misandry, it would have to be women sending men to war. Your anger should be aimed at capitalists, not feminists. Hope that helps.

[Winter 🖤 @thewinterdollx]

A trans woman may not know what it’s like to menstruate or carry a pregnancy

but she knows what it’s like to leave the house
and wonder if she’ll make it back alive.

That, too, is part of being a woman.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

We don't have a functioning constitution right now. Frank was a very intelligent man.

[RB @rbisrb]

Idea of the Day...

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

One of the strangest things about the gender-critical movement is the level of science it relies on.

Not advanced biology. Not medicine. Not endocrinology or neuroscience. Basic school-level biology. The kind most people last encountered around the age of 13 or 14.

Chromosomes. XX. XY. A neat diagram. Lesson over.

That is where the learning stops.

Everything that comes after is ignored. Developmental biology. Prenatal hormone exposure. Brain differentiation. Receptor sensitivity. Intersex variation. Neuroanatomy. The reality that human sex development is a process, not a single moment.

Modern medicine does not treat sex as a light switch. It treats it as a cascade.

Here is the part that is almost never explained in public debate.

All human embryos start from the same template. In the early weeks of pregnancy, every fetus develops along a default pathway. That is why men have nipples. They form before sex differentiation begins. No mystery. No ideology. Just timing.

Genital development begins later, driven largely by hormones. If certain hormones are present, external genitalia masculinise. If they are not, they do not. This process happens in a specific window of pregnancy.

Brain development related to identity, body mapping, and self-perception happens on a different timeline. It is also shaped by prenatal hormones, but not at the same moment as genital development. These processes are separate. They can align. They can also diverge.

When they diverge, you get transgender people.

This is not speculation. This is documented across endocrinology, developmental biology, and neuroscience. It is observed across cultures and throughout recorded history. It is why gender identity has a neurological basis and why attempts to suppress it consistently fail.

The same biological reality that explains why men have nipples explains why trans people exist. Development does not happen all at once and it does not always line up neatly.

Gender-critical arguments depend on pretending none of this exists. They collapse complex human development into a primary school diagram and then insist that anything beyond it is fantasy.

That is why their explanations feel so confident and so shallow at the same time.

They are arguing from a stopping point, not a starting point. From what they were taught before the science moved on.

Medicine has moved on. Biology has moved on. The evidence is not new. What is new is how loudly people are insisting on staying behind.

When people finally see the timelines laid out side by side early fetal development, genital differentiation, later brain differentiation the reaction is almost always the same.

Oh. I didn’t know that.

And once you know it, the idea that trans people are “pretending” or “ideological” stops making sense. This is not belief. It is biology playing out over time.

You cannot argue human development back into a worksheet.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

And if you ask a child for $20, the child doesn't have the maturity to understand the value of that $20‼️

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

This RIGHT HERE is the WORST THING about the SAVE Act.

You could be WRONGLY purged from the voting rolls AFTER it is too late to re-register.

This WILL happen to some.

WATCH THIS.

Repost it.

Steal it if you want.

The important thing is this truth NEEDS to be shared.

[Michelle MacLean @shellmacl]

And I add my voice to the cacophony....

Fuck. Ice.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

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[Yves ౨ৎ @yvessirae]

If we cannot, legally, force people to use their organs to "save another life" then we should not, legally,
force pregnant people to use their organs to "save another life"