I have a new and improved (read: can actually accept donations) GoFundMe if anyone would like to help a kindly trans lady afford some surgeries that feel like they’ll never happen at this stage. Here’s me saying “cheers” and being eternally grateful:
Imagine being a trans woman in Melbourne who just wants to go hang out at a pub or something with their friends tonight, with the overhanging fear that you might be beaten up by a Nazi. All just for trying to live your fuckin’ life. Utter insanity.
This bill amendment is such a cruel, thoughtless and callous step backwards. My partner has just become a high school teacher and a number of students have asked her to use different pronouns this week. (1/5)
In order to change my sex on my birth certificate I have to have had some form of gender confirming surgery. It should be as easy as ticking a box, not as hard as getting one
A cool thing to do this Mardi Gras season is to make your bi friends in opposite sex relationships still feel as valid and welcome as anyone else. Theirs is a queer relationship too. There’s a queer person/people in it.
Hey
@AlboMP
make sure this one doesn’t go through, yeah? Be on the right side of history and if it has to come to a culture war then be on the right side of that too
I had a dream that two of my friends from separate groups were a couple and I woke up and thought it was a good match, so last night I took them for drinks and they made out so my subconscious is an amazing matchmaker and I am a genius
I couldn’t have dreamed of having the balls to do that at my Catholic high school. There is so far to go with trans rights, but if teenagers now feel comfortable doing that then progress is being made. (2/5)
@PatrickLenton
I think it started in bad faith and now they just believe it. Very scary and upsetting. I comfort myself that despite the escalation, the ones that are that militant are in the minority
Kids will be piling trauma upon trauma on top of themselves by delaying talking about something they need to simply because they’re afraid of expulsion or judgement or whatever. We absolutely cannot let someone’s belief in God get in the way of progress. (5/5)
I came out at 29 because of a litany of external factors on top of the internal ones and I have a shitload of related trauma and plenty of therapy to get through. If I felt comfortable to come out then, I would’ve had an easier life living as myself. (4/5)
If this bill amendment goes through, imagine how many children will no longer feel comfortable doing this and delay coming out or just living more freely as themselves. (3/5)
As someone who used to drive a forklift regularly as a fully functioning adult, I can provide this bit of insight on today’s news: it’s a terrible idea
Hughesy slowly walks from room to room at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, turning out the lights. He reaches the very last room and pauses, sighing.
“Thanks for coming out and supporting live comedy.”
He flicks the switch. Complete darkness.
My sister recently had a little girl, so as revenge for the gender reveal video she sent me, every time she says it’s a girl, I say in a menacing voice, “For now…”
I work for a food company and they asked me to write jokes for a Christmas cracker type thing we're doing. I got started then they rejected all of them. This thread will contain all the rejected jokes
For trans reasons, I’ve been people’s boyfriend before, but I’d never been anyone’s girlfriend ‘til I woke up this morning. It’s a Mardi Gras miracle! 🏳️🌈🥰
Got a mate who always misspells “definitely” as “defiantly” and it makes everything they say they’re doing sound so punk rock.
“I’m defiantly going to the supermarket.”
Fuckin’ righteous, dude
This isn’t a date of any significance in my transition or anything (trans awareness week though!), I’m just finally starting to see how far I’ve come. I look way better, more female and tellingly, so much happier. Hell yeah 🤙🏻
Labor has proposed $300 for everyone who has been fully vaccinated by 1 December as a way to speed up the rollout.
Shout out the local business where you would spend yours.
For no reason I can put my finger on, TERFs in Australia have such an obsession with calling us “blokes”. Which I think undoes their argument. They never say men. And I know plenty of cis women who are great blokes.
2 years out and proud today ✌🏻🏳️🌈 It’s tough but y’all make it better. Endlessly grateful for everyone’s love and support. Here’s a photographic representation of how happy this all makes me ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Hate to play the trans card, I’m gonna play the trans card: these election results are fucking terrifying. Awful to think this country can still elect a party led by a homophobic, transphobic, pants shitting cunt
Also a guy at the bar said “this lady was first” and no one’s ever assumed I was a woman when I don’t have makeup or a skirt or something on and I damn near cried ❤️
Shane Warne, for all his flaws, was the most immensely skilled ever at what he did. A complex man with a phenomenal cricketing brain. He is one of the most interesting characters to ever grace Australian sport and media. RIP Warnie. I bet he’ll be bowling God around his legs.
I started standup 10 years ago today. According to Jerry Seinfeld, that means I’m good now. Also according to Jerry Seinfeld, in 6 years, it will be OK for me to date a 17-year-old
I make light of a lot of my experience as a transwoman, but I’m the friend Lucie’s talking about in this thread and shit like this really doesn’t make it fun and makes me afraid to go to certain places. Lucie was a gem about it though
Not sure which bathroom someone should go into? Here’s a quick way to tell! The bathroom they just went into? That’s the right one for them. Now stop perving on the bathrooms you grub!
Hey
@AlboMP
, I’ve got a joke for ya: how many prime ministers does it take to change legislature so that gender affirming health care is available on Medicare thus saving thousands of lives?
Not sure I have to walk you to the door on this one…
When the first Mardi Gras march was held in 1978, you could still be arrested for being gay.
In the decades since, people dedicated their lives toward the campaign for equality.
I tell ya,
@thefootywithbro
has quickly become my favourite podcast. Immaculate vibes from Broden, Tom and Marnie, genuinely good footy chat but with the funny vibe that’s missing from so much sports coverage. If you like footy and you’re not listening you should really start
A really cool thing about Elliot Page coming out as trans is that trans men don’t really seem to get the press that trans women do and it’s awesome to see more awareness and representation for them ❤️🏳️⚧️
Lots of insecure guys think being attracted to transwomen makes them gay. If looking at a beautiful woman makes you think you might be gay, then you might be gay.
Always see people on here being like, “stand up is shit, there are no good Australian standups”. Yeah, sick, can’t wait to hear you tell me how good Cum Town is
I’ve never fully recovered from the time I turned up to a gig with a red bandana in my hair and another comic asked me sincerely if I worked at Grill’d