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Does the Wikipedia entry give any death toll numbers on this totally real genocide?!
Do they sell any trannybreakers?
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Here's a bit of true and honest transgender representation in anime: Miyuki from Yu Yu Hakusho
They beat the shit out of it with absolutely ZERO effort. The conflict of the fight was about the morals of beating up women but after is revealed that Miyuki is really a man they conclude it doesn't count so its ok fuck him up
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Even if this thread has always been a rollercoaster of fun and horror, is it me or the last 3-ish months have been particularly out there in terms of wacky troon selfies? Some of the shit you can catch while scrolling by is nothing short of terrifying, like god damn some of these people already looked like mutants, but this
I can't parse that expression without somehow making a mental image involving the mafia and unpaid estrogen debts. And doesn't match the text at all (which would be sufficiently disturbing but seeing those angular features and that absolute state of healthiness, I'm betting he ate a frozen burrito that expired while Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was still trendy, and he's shitting blood all over, while repeatedly passing out and hitting his face on a table or something)
Between the new uggos added to the church of troon and the old ones deteriorating at a ridiculous rate, I'd be surprised if by 2025 they aren't growing tentacles lined with eyes and teeth. I've seen ugly people but some of these fucks are downright uncomfortable to even glance at, and they keep getting worse.
feels like something out of a police archive. Looks like a potato that became a clown and was then beaten to death because it broke the holy mandate that potatos can't clown, then was marinated in bleach for two days before the cops rescued him and now it can't tell if that dancing garden gnome behind the cameraman is real or not.
I can't parse that expression without somehow making a mental image involving the mafia and unpaid estrogen debts. And doesn't match the text at all (which would be sufficiently disturbing but seeing those angular features and that absolute state of healthiness, I'm betting he ate a frozen burrito that expired while Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was still trendy, and he's shitting blood all over, while repeatedly passing out and hitting his face on a table or something)
Between the new uggos added to the church of troon and the old ones deteriorating at a ridiculous rate, I'd be surprised if by 2025 they aren't growing tentacles lined with eyes and teeth. I've seen ugly people but some of these fucks are downright uncomfortable to even glance at, and they keep getting worse.
Ponzo
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"Trans women are just as attractive as real women"
Reality:
Reality:
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Is this a thing? God damn how silly.
Not gonna lie both are cringe, as the kids would say, but the difference is night and day, and the viewership makes sense. Also is that motherfucker titling his stream "another troon with daddy issues"? Wow. Truly a magnet for the audience.
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On the topic of "you'll never be a woman". I came across a very interesting fact from an interview with Dr. Ray Blanchard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEQKFIYGnFw&t=2741s
Sexologists can directly measure sexual arousal with a device called a phallometer. Scientists hook this thing up, show the research subjects a series of images, and measure blood flow in the penis/vagina. For men, blood flow increases when they see images they are attracted to. For women, it's not the case -- blood flow is the same regardless of what you show them.
However, if you perform the same experiment on a neovagina... guess what? The results are that of a man. Add that to the list.
Sexologists can directly measure sexual arousal with a device called a phallometer. Scientists hook this thing up, show the research subjects a series of images, and measure blood flow in the penis/vagina. For men, blood flow increases when they see images they are attracted to. For women, it's not the case -- blood flow is the same regardless of what you show them.
However, if you perform the same experiment on a neovagina... guess what? The results are that of a man. Add that to the list.
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OK. Pass me a hat or 20, because this particular piece of shit has infuriated me.
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why do these faggots always dress like complete autists. grown women don’t wear chokers or ugly ass fishnets anymore? that was like peak 2016-2017 fashion and even then it was on like 13-14 year old girls. How do they go out dressed in their mammy sundresses and not look at normal women around them dressed comfortably/casually and not in denim cutoffs and strappy shein tops? it’s like looking back in time with mtf fashion.
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There's a lot of "regulars" in this thread where it'd be nice to gather all their information and worst shit in one place especially since digging up stuff in this thread can be hard with search if a post is just pictures, but yeah, an ongoing thread would be pretty boring. Florence Ashley is similar to me especially since he gets platformed into actual news articles that I think it'd be nice to have something with all his posts about how he wants all kids put on puberty blockers by default but his regular content is dumb except like once a month and anybody who needs to read about this lunatic's actual views probably won't read the Kiwi Farms.
Maybe I need to be the change I seek and just make posts in this thread that can be primers on many of these, Moby Dickgirl was especially easy to find all this shit about and I didn't even go as far as you did to read some of his tweets, I just looked at his pictures he posted and his website and his name and everything were in those. I missed all the great stuff about his trash and lifestyle. Wouldn't be hard to put stuff from four or five posts into a single post with some short "dossier" written up. But there's plenty of others, lisaquestions is a nut but lots of troons love retweeting his nonsense and he claims to be an eternal "student" but looks like he's fucking 60+ which is funny.
Maybe something like a separate thread that's nothing but people posting profiles of these various degenerates with no qualifications who become Twitter/social media celebrities but don't deserve their own threads could work. Sounds like work though and that's bigotry against me. Maybe when someone finally ends capitalism I could find the spoons to do something.
Bloodborne does work pretty well as a trans narrative, but not a positive one. The church's blood ministrations are ultimately a perversion of the natural processes of birth of the Great Ones. While the paleblood can bring temporarily relief to some, it ultimately warps and twists you into a horrifying beast, a parody of your former self. The game even explicitly calls out the Caryll Runes as being a better way of going about achieving what the Healing Church sought to do with blood ministration, working as a neat parallel to therapy Vs. medication.
Yet again, trannies are masters at missing the point completely.
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Actually, you've reminded me that I have a ballpoint pen, that when you click it, instead of a nib coming out, it's a craft scalpel, a bit over half an inch long. Very discreet, would never be spotted in a bag search, but would be handy in close quarters.
Thank you!
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I'm not quite sure what somebody who has self-sterilized has to do with abortion, but here we are, I guess?
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In ‘Apocalyptic Times,’ Marching Forward Together
Melody Sage, who is queer, and Rosco Kickingstone, a transgender man, wed before the Trans March during San Francisco Pride, on the day that Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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Melody Sage, left, and Rosco Kickingstone were married June 24 at the Helen Diller Playground in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park.
Melody Sage, left, and Rosco Kickingstone were married June 24 at the Helen Diller Playground in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
By Alix Wall
July 22, 2022
While dancing around a bonfire to the rhythms of a drum circle in May 2013, Melody Christine Dankemeyer, who goes by the name Melody Sage, felt “a tingling rush of energy” course through her body.
It was at that moment when she turned around and caught sight of Rosco Kickingstone Siragusa, who goes by Rosco Kickingstone.
The two introduced themselves, but Ms. Sage could only manage a short conversation with Mr. Kickingstone before she danced away. “I was overwhelmed,” she said, describing the sensation as “such a strong feeling that I had never experienced.”
Both were camping in southern Oregon, where they had traveled for a weeklong celebration of Beltane, a pagan festival also known as Celtic May Day, hosted by the Radical Faeries, a countercultural group that for decades has maintained rural communities catering to L.G.B.T.Q. residents.
The day after the bonfire, their paths crossed again. Ms. Sage said that Mr. Kickingstone, who had jumped out of a tree and broke his foot just hours before they met, was not difficult to track down.
“I joke that he was easy prey,” she said.
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The couple met nine years ago in southern Oregon during a weeklong celebration of Beltane, a pagan festival also known as Celtic May Day.
The couple met nine years ago in southern Oregon during a weeklong celebration of Beltane, a pagan festival also known as Celtic May Day.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
Their second conversation lasted a lot longer. She told him about her pirate radio show, Chicas Unidas, which featured female guests discussing a range of issues. He talked about his participation in groups including Food Not Bombs, which distributes free vegan and vegetarian meals, and the Occupy Movement born from the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protest in Lower Manhattan.
From then they spent most of the festival in each other’s company, with Ms. Sage often procuring meals for an injured Mr. Kickingstone. Activism, each learned, was not their only common bond.
As teenagers, both had come out as queer — Ms. Sage, who grew up in Santa Cruz, Calif., at 18 years old and Mr. Kickingstone, who was raised in San Diego, at 15. Four years later, at 19, Mr. Kickingstone, whose mixed ancestry includes Indigenous American and Mexican roots, came out as a transgender man.
“Coming out so young” helped both learn “to live and be comfortable with ourselves,” said Mr. Kickingstone, who also identifies as Two Spirit, a term that refers to gender non-conforming Indigenous Americans.
Before the end of their week in Oregon, Ms. Sage had initiated their first kiss.
After the festival, they parted ways. Ms. Sage, now 34, was at the time living in Santa Cruz, and Mr. Kickingstone, now 36, in Seattle. But a few weeks later, Ms. Sage traveled to Seattle to visit another friend and ended up staying with Mr. Kickingstone for two weeks. On that trip, they sang a lot of karaoke and she accompanied him to a 30th birthday party for his sister.
Not long after Ms. Sage left Seattle, Mr. Kickingstone visited her in Santa Cruz, in June 2013. While there, they went to the San Francisco Pride celebration, during which they participated in the Trans March supporting the transgender community, an annual event they have since attended regularly.
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Annie-Rose London, a Universal Life minister and friend of the couple, officiated.
Annie-Rose London, a Universal Life minister and friend of the couple, officiated.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
Though they saw other people in the months that followed, the two continued to grow closer, keeping in touch by phone and via text message, and visiting one another when they could.
“We were so much on the same wavelength, spiritually, emotionally and physically,” Mr. Kickingstone said.
That December, the pair went to Mexico, where they spent a month backpacking in Chiapas and Oaxaca. By the end of the trip, Mr. Kickingstone was ready to take the next step with Ms. Sage.
She, however, felt conflicted. “I’ve always been a bit of a love skeptic,” Ms. Sage said. “Very few relationships of the people in my life have been long-lasting, except for my grandparents.”
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In February 2014, Ms. Sage, a graduate of Mills College in Oakland, Calif., moved back to that city to attend a manicuring program at the International College of Cosmetology. When Mr. Kickingstone broached the subject of moving there himself, she at first was skittish, telling him she didn’t want to be the only reason for his move.
He assured her she wasn’t. “I wanted to be around more people of color and radical queer people,” Mr. Kickingstone recalled telling Ms. Sage.
That April he moved to Oakland, into a house with nine roommates — one of whom was Ms. Sage, who found out he was moving in when other housemates told her Mr. Kickingstone was their preferred candidate. (He applied for the room via Craigslist not knowing it was in the house where she lived.) Three months later, ahead of construction on the property, Mr. Kickingstone moved out and into another house.
Once living in the same city, he and Ms. Sage decided to stop seeing other people. They remained monogamous for the next year and a half, before opening up their relationship again in October 2015. Their period of monogamy was a way for the two, who had both previously been in polyamorous relationships, to “establish trust,” Mr. Kickingstone said.
“As someone who’s really flirtatious and had hurt people in the past,” Ms. Sage said, “I didn’t want to hurt him, as I loved him so much.”
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After being pronounced wed, Ms. Sage and Mr. Kickingstone slid down an extra-large slide at the playground.
After being pronounced wed, Ms. Sage and Mr. Kickingstone slid down an extra-large slide at the playground.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
That December, they moved into a new place in Oakland together. Ms. Sage, who holds a license from the California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, is now a nail artist at Fig & Clover, a local salon. Mr. Kickingstone works as a manufacturing technician at Slingshot Biosciences in Emeryville, Calif.
In the early years of their relationship, neither had much of an interest in marriage. Mr. Kickingstone’s parents divorced soon after he was born, Ms. Sage’s parents were never married and both said the Supreme Court’s June 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage didn’t feel particularly relevant to them.
“This system has never served us,” Ms. Sage said. “We queer people have never been seen as fully human.”
As their romance developed, though, Mr. Kickingstone became more convinced that what they had found was worth celebrating.
“We have to build our own families, often because our own don’t accept us or are just not emotionally available to be the support we need,” he said. “I always wanted a primary partner to maybe build a family with, even though I don’t agree with the whole marriage system, and Melody is my person.”
But when he shared his thoughts about their future with Ms. Sage after her 30th birthday in 2018, she balked. Throwing herself a party that year had been overwhelming enough. “Bring it up in another two or three years,” she recalled telling him.
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The wedding took place just before the Trans March kicked off as part of San Francisco’s 2022 Pride celebration.
The wedding took place just before the Trans March kicked off as part of San Francisco’s 2022 Pride celebration.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
He didn’t have to wait that long. In 2019, while the couple helped Ms. Sage’s family plan an 80th birthday party for her maternal grandmother that March, she came around to the idea of marrying Mr. Kickingstone.
As Ms. Sage put it, “The world is so turbulent and full of grief and sadness. That Rosco and I can hold and process that together, but also have so much joy together and laugh every day and be able to grow together and make space for each other, is really special.”
Two months later, in May 2019, Mr. Kickingstone proposed while the two were on vacation in Hawaii. In thinking about an engagement, he said that presenting Ms. Sage with a ring as part of a traditional proposal was important to him.
“To have found love and made it into our 30s is kind of a big deal,” Mr. Kickingstone said. “So many trans people don’t make it that far. People outside the queer community don’t really understand the daily struggle to live in this world that is actively trying to kill you or take your rights away.”
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After the ceremony, Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage, holding an umbrella that said “Just Married,” walked in the Trans March.
After the ceremony, Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage, holding an umbrella that said “Just Married,” walked in the Trans March.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
After some initial delays caused by the pandemic, they began to plan a wedding — or “celebration of love,” as they called it.
At first, the event was only going to be a symbolic union. But as it neared, the couple decided to incorporate a legal ceremony for purely practical reasons: So Ms. Sage could become entitled to the health benefits offered by Mr. Kickingstone’s job, and so she could make his doctor’s appointments for him.
On June 18, the couple held a symbolic ceremony at Fern Cottage on the grounds of the Kennedy Grove Regional Recreation Area, in El Sobrante, Calif. Led by a friend, it included a blessing with crystals and the pagan ritual of invoking the four elements: earth, air, fire and water.
At a reception that followed, they and 50 guests sang karaoke and enjoyed salads and agua fresca from Understory Oakland, a worker-led kitchen and restaurant, along with a spread of charcuterie and cheeses.
Less than a week later, on June 24, the two were married at the Helen Diller Playground in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park, just before the Trans March kicked off as part of the city’s 2022 Pride celebration. Annie-Rose London, a friend of the couple and a Universal Life minister, officiated.
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Guests at the ceremony cheered the couple on with ribbon wands.
Guests at the ceremony cheered the couple on with ribbon wands. Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
Both Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage wore white denim vests customized with gold studs, rhinestones and rainbow-colored patterns on the back. He paired his with a fedora and matching white jeans; she paired hers with a white bathing suit, a pink tulle skirt, pink knee socks, platform sneakers and a veil.
Ahead of the ceremony, Ms. London acknowledged the Indigenous Ohlone people — the first inhabitants of the land now known as the Bay Area — before reminding the roughly 30 friends of the couple in attendance of the reason they had gathered that day: So Ms. Sage could get Mr. Kickingstone’s health insurance.
In her remarks, their officiant recognized that Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage were exercising their right to marriage on the same day that the Supreme Court revoked another long-held liberty, the right to abortion, by issuing its decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
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Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage each wore white denim vests. He paired his with a fedora and white jeans with rainbow colors; she donned a pink tulle skirt, pink knee socks, platform sneakers and a veil.
Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage each wore white denim vests. He paired his with a fedora and white jeans with rainbow colors; she donned a pink tulle skirt, pink knee socks, platform sneakers and a veil.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
“It’s an honor to show up for love and pride even though you have a broken heart over a million different reasons,” Ms. London said.
The couple then climbed to the top of an extra-wide slide, where two witnesses signed their marriage license using the newlyweds’ backs as hard surfaces. Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage then slid down as their friends waved ribbon wands on either side of them.
“Melody is the one I want to be with in these apocalyptic times,” Mr. Kickingstone said. “I love her with every thread of my being.”
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Where Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco.
Undress Code Attendees of the couple’s legal ceremony dressed more for the occasion of Pride than their wedding. One friend showed up in a leather harness with rainbow-sticker-covered nipples, and another in red boxer briefs.
Post-Marriage March Following their nuptials, Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage, who was holding an umbrella that said “Just Married,” walked in the Trans March, earning congratulations from fellow participants who included one of Ms. Sage’s former professors.
Correction: July 22, 2022
An earlier version of this article referred imprecisely to the couple’s parents’ relationships. Mr. Kickingstone’s parents divorced soon after he was born, not when he was a child. Ms. Sage’s parents also did not divorce when she was a child; they were never married.
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In ‘Apocalyptic Times,’ Marching Forward Together
Melody Sage, who is queer, and Rosco Kickingstone, a transgender man, wed before the Trans March during San Francisco Pride, on the day that Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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Melody Sage, left, and Rosco Kickingstone were married June 24 at the Helen Diller Playground in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park.
Melody Sage, left, and Rosco Kickingstone were married June 24 at the Helen Diller Playground in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
By Alix Wall
July 22, 2022
While dancing around a bonfire to the rhythms of a drum circle in May 2013, Melody Christine Dankemeyer, who goes by the name Melody Sage, felt “a tingling rush of energy” course through her body.
It was at that moment when she turned around and caught sight of Rosco Kickingstone Siragusa, who goes by Rosco Kickingstone.
The two introduced themselves, but Ms. Sage could only manage a short conversation with Mr. Kickingstone before she danced away. “I was overwhelmed,” she said, describing the sensation as “such a strong feeling that I had never experienced.”
Both were camping in southern Oregon, where they had traveled for a weeklong celebration of Beltane, a pagan festival also known as Celtic May Day, hosted by the Radical Faeries, a countercultural group that for decades has maintained rural communities catering to L.G.B.T.Q. residents.
The day after the bonfire, their paths crossed again. Ms. Sage said that Mr. Kickingstone, who had jumped out of a tree and broke his foot just hours before they met, was not difficult to track down.
“I joke that he was easy prey,” she said.
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The couple met nine years ago in southern Oregon during a weeklong celebration of Beltane, a pagan festival also known as Celtic May Day.
The couple met nine years ago in southern Oregon during a weeklong celebration of Beltane, a pagan festival also known as Celtic May Day.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
Their second conversation lasted a lot longer. She told him about her pirate radio show, Chicas Unidas, which featured female guests discussing a range of issues. He talked about his participation in groups including Food Not Bombs, which distributes free vegan and vegetarian meals, and the Occupy Movement born from the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protest in Lower Manhattan.
From then they spent most of the festival in each other’s company, with Ms. Sage often procuring meals for an injured Mr. Kickingstone. Activism, each learned, was not their only common bond.
As teenagers, both had come out as queer — Ms. Sage, who grew up in Santa Cruz, Calif., at 18 years old and Mr. Kickingstone, who was raised in San Diego, at 15. Four years later, at 19, Mr. Kickingstone, whose mixed ancestry includes Indigenous American and Mexican roots, came out as a transgender man.
“Coming out so young” helped both learn “to live and be comfortable with ourselves,” said Mr. Kickingstone, who also identifies as Two Spirit, a term that refers to gender non-conforming Indigenous Americans.
Before the end of their week in Oregon, Ms. Sage had initiated their first kiss.
After the festival, they parted ways. Ms. Sage, now 34, was at the time living in Santa Cruz, and Mr. Kickingstone, now 36, in Seattle. But a few weeks later, Ms. Sage traveled to Seattle to visit another friend and ended up staying with Mr. Kickingstone for two weeks. On that trip, they sang a lot of karaoke and she accompanied him to a 30th birthday party for his sister.
Not long after Ms. Sage left Seattle, Mr. Kickingstone visited her in Santa Cruz, in June 2013. While there, they went to the San Francisco Pride celebration, during which they participated in the Trans March supporting the transgender community, an annual event they have since attended regularly.
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Annie-Rose London, a Universal Life minister and friend of the couple, officiated.
Annie-Rose London, a Universal Life minister and friend of the couple, officiated.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
Though they saw other people in the months that followed, the two continued to grow closer, keeping in touch by phone and via text message, and visiting one another when they could.
“We were so much on the same wavelength, spiritually, emotionally and physically,” Mr. Kickingstone said.
That December, the pair went to Mexico, where they spent a month backpacking in Chiapas and Oaxaca. By the end of the trip, Mr. Kickingstone was ready to take the next step with Ms. Sage.
She, however, felt conflicted. “I’ve always been a bit of a love skeptic,” Ms. Sage said. “Very few relationships of the people in my life have been long-lasting, except for my grandparents.”
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In February 2014, Ms. Sage, a graduate of Mills College in Oakland, Calif., moved back to that city to attend a manicuring program at the International College of Cosmetology. When Mr. Kickingstone broached the subject of moving there himself, she at first was skittish, telling him she didn’t want to be the only reason for his move.
He assured her she wasn’t. “I wanted to be around more people of color and radical queer people,” Mr. Kickingstone recalled telling Ms. Sage.
That April he moved to Oakland, into a house with nine roommates — one of whom was Ms. Sage, who found out he was moving in when other housemates told her Mr. Kickingstone was their preferred candidate. (He applied for the room via Craigslist not knowing it was in the house where she lived.) Three months later, ahead of construction on the property, Mr. Kickingstone moved out and into another house.
Once living in the same city, he and Ms. Sage decided to stop seeing other people. They remained monogamous for the next year and a half, before opening up their relationship again in October 2015. Their period of monogamy was a way for the two, who had both previously been in polyamorous relationships, to “establish trust,” Mr. Kickingstone said.
“As someone who’s really flirtatious and had hurt people in the past,” Ms. Sage said, “I didn’t want to hurt him, as I loved him so much.”
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After being pronounced wed, Ms. Sage and Mr. Kickingstone slid down an extra-large slide at the playground.
After being pronounced wed, Ms. Sage and Mr. Kickingstone slid down an extra-large slide at the playground.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
That December, they moved into a new place in Oakland together. Ms. Sage, who holds a license from the California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, is now a nail artist at Fig & Clover, a local salon. Mr. Kickingstone works as a manufacturing technician at Slingshot Biosciences in Emeryville, Calif.
In the early years of their relationship, neither had much of an interest in marriage. Mr. Kickingstone’s parents divorced soon after he was born, Ms. Sage’s parents were never married and both said the Supreme Court’s June 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage didn’t feel particularly relevant to them.
“This system has never served us,” Ms. Sage said. “We queer people have never been seen as fully human.”
As their romance developed, though, Mr. Kickingstone became more convinced that what they had found was worth celebrating.
“We have to build our own families, often because our own don’t accept us or are just not emotionally available to be the support we need,” he said. “I always wanted a primary partner to maybe build a family with, even though I don’t agree with the whole marriage system, and Melody is my person.”
But when he shared his thoughts about their future with Ms. Sage after her 30th birthday in 2018, she balked. Throwing herself a party that year had been overwhelming enough. “Bring it up in another two or three years,” she recalled telling him.
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The wedding took place just before the Trans March kicked off as part of San Francisco’s 2022 Pride celebration.
The wedding took place just before the Trans March kicked off as part of San Francisco’s 2022 Pride celebration.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
He didn’t have to wait that long. In 2019, while the couple helped Ms. Sage’s family plan an 80th birthday party for her maternal grandmother that March, she came around to the idea of marrying Mr. Kickingstone.
As Ms. Sage put it, “The world is so turbulent and full of grief and sadness. That Rosco and I can hold and process that together, but also have so much joy together and laugh every day and be able to grow together and make space for each other, is really special.”
Two months later, in May 2019, Mr. Kickingstone proposed while the two were on vacation in Hawaii. In thinking about an engagement, he said that presenting Ms. Sage with a ring as part of a traditional proposal was important to him.
“To have found love and made it into our 30s is kind of a big deal,” Mr. Kickingstone said. “So many trans people don’t make it that far. People outside the queer community don’t really understand the daily struggle to live in this world that is actively trying to kill you or take your rights away.”
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After the ceremony, Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage, holding an umbrella that said “Just Married,” walked in the Trans March.
After the ceremony, Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage, holding an umbrella that said “Just Married,” walked in the Trans March.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
After some initial delays caused by the pandemic, they began to plan a wedding — or “celebration of love,” as they called it.
At first, the event was only going to be a symbolic union. But as it neared, the couple decided to incorporate a legal ceremony for purely practical reasons: So Ms. Sage could become entitled to the health benefits offered by Mr. Kickingstone’s job, and so she could make his doctor’s appointments for him.
On June 18, the couple held a symbolic ceremony at Fern Cottage on the grounds of the Kennedy Grove Regional Recreation Area, in El Sobrante, Calif. Led by a friend, it included a blessing with crystals and the pagan ritual of invoking the four elements: earth, air, fire and water.
At a reception that followed, they and 50 guests sang karaoke and enjoyed salads and agua fresca from Understory Oakland, a worker-led kitchen and restaurant, along with a spread of charcuterie and cheeses.
Less than a week later, on June 24, the two were married at the Helen Diller Playground in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park, just before the Trans March kicked off as part of the city’s 2022 Pride celebration. Annie-Rose London, a friend of the couple and a Universal Life minister, officiated.
Image
Guests at the ceremony cheered the couple on with ribbon wands.
Guests at the ceremony cheered the couple on with ribbon wands. Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
Both Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage wore white denim vests customized with gold studs, rhinestones and rainbow-colored patterns on the back. He paired his with a fedora and matching white jeans; she paired hers with a white bathing suit, a pink tulle skirt, pink knee socks, platform sneakers and a veil.
Ahead of the ceremony, Ms. London acknowledged the Indigenous Ohlone people — the first inhabitants of the land now known as the Bay Area — before reminding the roughly 30 friends of the couple in attendance of the reason they had gathered that day: So Ms. Sage could get Mr. Kickingstone’s health insurance.
In her remarks, their officiant recognized that Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage were exercising their right to marriage on the same day that the Supreme Court revoked another long-held liberty, the right to abortion, by issuing its decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
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Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage each wore white denim vests. He paired his with a fedora and white jeans with rainbow colors; she donned a pink tulle skirt, pink knee socks, platform sneakers and a veil.
Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage each wore white denim vests. He paired his with a fedora and white jeans with rainbow colors; she donned a pink tulle skirt, pink knee socks, platform sneakers and a veil.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
“It’s an honor to show up for love and pride even though you have a broken heart over a million different reasons,” Ms. London said.
The couple then climbed to the top of an extra-wide slide, where two witnesses signed their marriage license using the newlyweds’ backs as hard surfaces. Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage then slid down as their friends waved ribbon wands on either side of them.
“Melody is the one I want to be with in these apocalyptic times,” Mr. Kickingstone said. “I love her with every thread of my being.”
On This Day
When June 24, 2022
Where Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco.
Undress Code Attendees of the couple’s legal ceremony dressed more for the occasion of Pride than their wedding. One friend showed up in a leather harness with rainbow-sticker-covered nipples, and another in red boxer briefs.
Post-Marriage March Following their nuptials, Mr. Kickingstone and Ms. Sage, who was holding an umbrella that said “Just Married,” walked in the Trans March, earning congratulations from fellow participants who included one of Ms. Sage’s former professors.
Correction: July 22, 2022
An earlier version of this article referred imprecisely to the couple’s parents’ relationships. Mr. Kickingstone’s parents divorced soon after he was born, not when he was a child. Ms. Sage’s parents also did not divorce when she was a child; they were never married.
A version of this article appears in print on July 24, 2022, Section ST, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: In ‘Apocalyptic Times,’ Marching Forward Together. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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On the plus side, it's fun to watch these idiots slowly but inevitably alienate each and every one of their allies because of their own narcissism and demands to be centered and rewarded while doing zero work. How likely to you think it is that "Mary Beth" is going to go out of her way to defend transwomen again?
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Others have posited it’s because they become the girls they jerk off to and this follows. Loads of them are at least vaguely pedophilic (sorry, hebephilic
) and are coomers attracted to egirls (such as that one oncloudE troon skinwalking Belle Delphine) who themselves tend to dress quite “young” or skew younger in age. A lot of mtfs are also into larping as “goth girlfriends” and pretending to be alt girls, prolly to cope with being rejected by one goth girl too many in middle school.Semi-late but you’ll sometimes see mtf trannies who ape ftms/butches (binding, presenting “masc”, not shaving, wearing menswear, etc) and some even go as far as packing and/or using straps, whether or not they’ve had the cock chop. An online example is peteseeger. It seems convoluted but in a way it makes sense - ftms/butches are by necessity female, a man can’t be butch or “transmasc” by definition. So for some, particularly the hardcore lesbian fetishizers, co-opting butch aesthetics (the troon in question even goes out of his way to buy a rodeoH harness which is popular amongst ftms - and to my knowledge some butches - because they mimic briefs instead of traditional harnesses) is a reinforcement of their ~true and honest~ womanhood. Irony being that they just look like weird men wearing plastic dongers and their ideas of butchness and lesbianism come from porn and/or hentai, so they fail to recognize that a man living in squalor with a strap over a permanently ED-riddled penis does not a butch lesbian make.
You see the inverse occasionally with ftms who try to become femboys (though in this case they tend to just look more “fem” than “boy” lol and they are often overshadowed because men into femboys, surprise surprise, want a penis attached).
This fucked up logic also plays into why mtfs tend to be tickled pink at being mistaken for ftms (and sometimes vice versa) even though by tranny logic this should be a grave sin.
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Trannies deny that Monkey Pox is being transmitted by anal sex between men so they can feel better.
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lmao they're trying to be nice and say "faggots hold off all banging each other anonymously for a little bit" without offending them and this lunatic can only see it as an "attack" on the "queers" that's going to kill all the heteros as karma or something
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I really don't know how this is even an unreasonable demand.
How "Hey guys, stop having anal sex so much so we don't have another pandemic" leads to "THEY'RE PREPARING A QUEER GENOCIDE" is a mystery to me. They just can't control themselves.
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Lmao I went and looked up Miyuki here and the comments are great
What is monkey pox anyway? All I've heard online is the gays screaming that the straights think it's a gay disease but that actually it's totally NOT you guys!!
So, lesbians or spicy straights?
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It's what it says on the tin. It's some new pox spreading around. That's all I really know, don't know the side-effects except that it arguably gives you worse-looking pox than things like smallpox.