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Transgender Menace 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷. Famously, not a liberal. Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Bylines: Wired, Slate. Views = my own. She/Her.

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Published: June 3, 2025 22:30

A New York Times investigations editor logs onto bluesky for the first time in 5 months to defend a virulently transphobic journalist who works beneath her knowing she'd provoke a reaction. She then uses that disapproval as a smug reassurance of her…

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Published: June 3, 2025 19:47

Ukraine has relied on Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a trans former journalist as a spokesperson for years. Russia convicted her **in absentia** for terrorism for pushing back against their propaganda. Trans folks get the job done. …

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Published: June 3, 2025 18:57

With the New York Times continuing its attack on trans people, I wrote about its failures and how Azeen Ghorayshi has led the charge to weaponize their coverage against the trans community and launder anti-trans talking points into the mainstream. …

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Published: June 3, 2025 17:52

"When a government operates on selective enforcement and double standards, it corrodes the public’s belief that laws have moral weight. Laws become seen as cynical tools of power, which, under an authoritarian, they truly are. This breeds cynicism and…

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Published: June 3, 2025 03:18

There's some stories that make you physically ill and make you question humanity. This is one of those. I have no words. https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1418236/transgender-woman-killed-in-thailand-tourist-cut-out-heart

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Published: June 3, 2025 03:06

The level of casual violence against trans people right now, even in blue states, is unlike anything I've ever seen. https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/06/02/crime/berkeley-hate-crime-transgender-woman-shot-pellet-gun/

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Published: June 2, 2025 21:26

It's darkly funny that the MAGA base is so deeply lost in the sauce of conspiracy theories that they're swarming the FBI twitter post asking for tips on gender affirming care and bashing them for not releasing the Epstein files.

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Published: June 2, 2025 19:40

The FBI is seeking to criminally investigate gender affirming care providers, even in blue states with shield law protections. https://www.thedissident.news/fbi-posts-ominous-call-for-tips-on-gender-affirming-care-providers/

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Published: June 2, 2025 17:42

"The pattern of selective enforcement is not merely a series of hypocritical incidents; it is a governing philosophy. Its thesis is simple: In a society run by strongmen, laws and norms exist to control the populace, not the powerful." …

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Published: June 2, 2025 16:27

Trans people and their families are fleeing the United States. This country is making refugees of its own citizens. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/families-say-leaving-us-anti-transgender-climate-rcna206560

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Published: June 2, 2025 15:48

There's a lot of talk about why lawyers continue to get caught using AI generated court documents with hallucinated citations and probably one of the biggest reasons is how shoehorned it is into Westlaw. It's right there on the front page. Co-counsel is…

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Published: June 2, 2025 12:10

The film is called "What it Feels Like for a Girl" and it's a coming of age story about a trans teen. They can't even let us tell our own damn stories without turning it into an opportunity to be transphobic.

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Published: May 31, 2025 19:00

This is what happens when Democrats shift right on immigration, they legitimize the lies. They could've run ads defending immigrants along with ads showing masked men taking away mothers and their babies. It would've pushed back on the blatant lies that…

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Published: May 30, 2025 12:32

There were a bunch of tells that the HHS report on trans care also used AI but the credulous press bought it because they hate trans people. Now it's a problem because the hackery is focused on cis people. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 29, 2025 14:07

Harvard president Alan Garber received a massive standing ovation at commencement and another when he highlighted how many are here from around the world. Night and day difference from Columbia's boos for their president.

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Published: May 29, 2025 10:47

Every economics expert will tell you how the rule of law is the most important thing to economic prosperity. Between the SCOTUS about the fed and the international trade court, it's clear they won't let him blow up the economy but not immigrants. They…

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Published: May 28, 2025 23:11

This is a massive grave injustice by judge Farbiarz. It essentially greenlights bureaucratic witch hunts where the government can target people based on their speech but use the pretense of a de minimis mistake on their immigration paperwork to deport…

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Published: May 27, 2025 22:45

I started this publication two weeks ago. I'm already at 500 subscribers and hoping to get to 1000 within the first month. All my content will be free but I do appreciate anyone who does a paid membership to help support. Please subscribe! [contains…

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Published: May 27, 2025 21:08

"By cloaking vendettas as high-minded contrarianism, reactionary centrists have helped create a public discourse where good-faith standards are dismissed as 'political correctness,' and raw resentment gets a rebrand as heroic candor." [contains quote post…

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Published: May 27, 2025 20:37

I wrote about how reactionary centrists and the "heterodox" crew are the ushers for fascism. Subscribe to support my work. https://www.thedissident.news/crackpots-fools-and-the-modern-sympathetic-elite/

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Published: May 27, 2025 18:54

Charlotte Fosgate, a 17-year old trans girl completed suicide earlier this month. Over the weekend, Twitter users found her final post and began mocking her and making memes about her dying. The level of duhumanization of trans people is so thorough,…

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Published: May 26, 2025 05:11

So much of reactionary centrism is the belief that you can be a "polite bigot" and not enable fascism. They want their transphobia, racism, and sexism but hold the authoritarianism. The problem is that authoritarian movements are built on bigotry. …

https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lpzmowkidk2o

Published: May 25, 2025 21:39

When the Cass Review came out last year, the NYT rushed to cover it complete with post notifications. After reviews in Germany and Utah came out supporting gender affirming care for trans youth, dead silence. You can be just as biased in what you don't…

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Published: May 25, 2025 15:35

Beyond being insanely stupid about GDPR requirements, JK Rowling is a massive cowardly bully who uses lawyers and legal threats to silence her critics while tweeting from her massive yacht.

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Published: May 25, 2025 15:24

The biggest problem with this logic is that it's fundamentally regressive. Following it would mean democrats would not have been supportive of interracial marriage until the late 1990's, over 30 years after the Loving decision by SCOTUS legalized it. …

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Published: May 24, 2025 20:43

Kady Grass, a lesbian teenager in Illinois, was severely beaten after trying to use the bathroom in a McDonald's. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/news/kane-county-prosecutors-hate-crime-investigation-mcdonalds-attack-carpentersville/

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Published: May 24, 2025 12:53

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

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Published: May 23, 2025 18:46

In case you missed it, public records requests I sent to the Texas State Board of Pharmacy revealed that Ken Paxton likely used warrantless access to a database of prescription records to target gender affirming care providers. …

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Published: May 23, 2025 18:28

Wrote an essay about things I've been feeling as a trans person at Harvard, especially this week. I launched my publication last week, please subscribe and support. https://www.thedissident.news/how-do-you-explain-water-to-a-fish/