u/NoNutsPls

• "Osis should have beat King Inertia, K.I. was sloppy and repetitive as usual"

Delusional as fuck, as if K.I. didn't have the crowd moshing and the judges (Codfish, Madox, and Chezame) going mental on their feet his entire second round.

• "Osis should have been allowed to go to GBB, not the 10th place wildcard runner-up (EXALLOS)"

Osis didn't even make a GBB26 Solo wildcard. Straight up said in public that he didn't have any ideas at the time.

If a competitor wasn't bothered enough to make a solo entry, why in the world should they get priority over the wildcards actually trying to get in? EXALLOS is a fantastic addition to the competition.

As soon as I saw the mom head to the exam rooms, without taking her giggle-screeching little goblins back with her? I should have known.

At first it was loud horseplay. Playfights, tag, singing all that mess. Annoying, but I switched on the positive thinking.

- "*Well, better this than two preteens sitting in a hot car."*

- "*Wait, why didn't the mom just leave them in the car with the AC on?"*"

- "*Oh. Ruining the peace of the only research-level LGBTQ+ clinic in the entire state wasn't worth 'wasting' the gallon of gas, I guess."*

- "*Or, mom didn't want to risk these sterling examples of unplanned parenthood doing dumb shit in the car and driving off. So here they are, doing dumb shit in a medical clinic lobby."*

Positive thinking didn't work for long.

Then I heard them get louder. Look over, and they're dancing in front of an iPad. I thought they were dancing to a video.

The tablet screen was large enough to be seen across the lobby. I did a double-take when I saw that the kids in the video had similar clothing to the girls dancing in front of the tablet.

Clicked right then that they weren't playing a video. They were *filming* a fucking TikTok dance. In a lobby with LGBT-identifying/allied patients and staff, including two trans folx (a patient and a POC staff member). With the clinic front desk in the background.

I have a hesitation towards admonishing other people's kids. Even when they're being monsters, I prefer to keep it to only when the child's safety is at risk.

I learned today that my policy also extends to when two vapid preteen girls, with all the mannerisms and tact of future frat party groupies, decide that vulnerable patients in a LGBTQ+ primary/mental health/physical therapy make a great TikTok video background.

In full earshot of the front desk, where trans and gender diverse people have to confirm names and info for their appointment check in.

About 2 seconds of "verbal prompting" with a stadium voice got the girls shushed and shut down. The volume wasn't intended to scare, as much as it was for making sure mom could hear.

If a male stranger is putting an arena-volume Southern Baptist fire-and-brimstone castigation on your unsupervised young daughters, and the medical clinic's front desk and staff are letting him do his thing instead of calling security? Your kids are fucking up, and you've already fucked up.

Kids. Ruining every space imaginable, including the **formerly** safe spaces trying to provide LGBTQ+ community members the resources to keep them out of an early grave.

FYI:

> "The number of trans people who were murdered in the U.S. nearly doubled between 2017 and 2021, according to data released Tuesday by the non-profit Everytown for Gun Safety."

> "Of the total victims, 73% were killed with a gun."

> "Everytown's Transgender Homicide Tracker found that there was a 93% increase in tracked homicides of trans and gender-nonconforming people in the United States and Puerto Rico over the last four years. In 2021, 56 people were killed, compared to 29 reported deaths in 2017."

> "Notably, while only 13% of the transgender community is estimated to be Black, according to UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, Black trans women accounted for nearly three-quarters of the known victims."