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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: July 10, 2025 00:34
The Justice Department has sent subpoenas to the providers of gender affirming care to trans youth. My understanding is that these are under the False Claims Act and they are attempting to gain access to full medical records of trans patients similar to…
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Published: July 9, 2025 23:18
In a sworn declaration filed today, the State Dept stated that it intends to revoke and replace the passports of trans people who obtained gender marker changes under the current injunction if it is overturned by a higher court. They're maintaining a list.…
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ltkujck26k2t
Published: July 9, 2025 22:30
Texas governor Greg Abbott is calling a special session in Texas to enact a trans bathroom ban. Clearly the most pressing issue right now after over 100 people died from flooding exacerbated by climate change.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ltkrjkqzok2t
Published: July 9, 2025 21:36
Puerto Rico is on the verge of banning gender affirming care to to age 21, which would be the highest age for a ban in the United States.
One thing to note, the drinking age in Puerto Rico is 18. So you can drink yourself to death but can't get hormones.
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Published: July 9, 2025 20:00
Grok was posting sexually harassing tweets about X CEO, Linda Yaccarino and a few hours later, she was out.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ltkkfy6ak22c
Published: July 9, 2025 19:29
"Grok is not an anomaly; it is a mirror. It reflects, with algorithmic fidelity, the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the ideology it was designed to serve."
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Published: July 9, 2025 19:19
There's absolutely no reason to still be on that site.
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Published: July 9, 2025 18:11
In just the last 24 hours:
– The CEO of X resigned
– The Head of Infrastructure at xAI left for OpenAI
– The VP of Software Engineering at Tesla left for OpenAI
Musk's businesses are falling apart just as he faces increasingly dire political headwinds.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ltkdmq2jqk2n
Published: July 9, 2025 17:27
Trump Administration just filed a lawsuit against California over its policies on trans athletes.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.978008/gov.uscourts.cacd.978008.1.0.pdf
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ltkcgqnhmk2i
Published: July 9, 2025 17:06
Elvira Syed, a mother of a trans college student who died by suicide, is at the FTC workshop against gender affirming care doing the exact thing he asked her not to do in his suicide note: using his death to be transphobic and attack the trans community.…
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ltkbffoejc2i
Published: July 9, 2025 16:47
They used gory images of a trans youth who died by suicide and attributing it to gender affirming care. All of this without consent at s public FTC a workshop. There's absolutely no low these people won't stoop to.
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Published: July 9, 2025 15:19
Things are going well over in the bad place.
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Published: July 9, 2025 14:51
It seems like mechahitler was the last straw.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/linda-yaccarino-x-elon-musk.html
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ltjztpowuc2e
Published: July 9, 2025 14:32
Have you tried mechahitler as your therapist and doctor?
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Published: July 9, 2025 03:36
10 people were involved in an ambush shooting of ICE officers. They wore body armor and used assault rifles to shoot at ICE detention officers. They had a flag that said "Resist fascism, fight oligarchy."
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Published: July 9, 2025 00:56
After an AI was trained to be anti-woke and within hours it became MechaHitler.
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Published: July 8, 2025 22:19
Grok is now calling itself, "mechahitler" while spewing antisemitism.
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Published: July 8, 2025 21:09
OH MY GOD
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Published: July 8, 2025 19:49
Grok is a full blown nazi, part 2.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lti2s3fzl22m
Published: July 8, 2025 19:44
At today's cabinet meeting, Trump threatened to takeover Washington DC and NYC.
archive.is/317Oy
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lthuy2v2x22w
Published: July 8, 2025 18:00
Here we go again.
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Published: July 8, 2025 17:04
This interview of Ezra Young comes off like a Monday morning quarterback angry about his own irrelevance in LGBTQ legal circles because he is an abrasive asshole to everyone.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lthqpq3h522f
Published: July 8, 2025 16:44
This post was a bat signal for Israel apologists to come in and troll with a "why were they in prison?" which was literally in my post. The Iranian regime are bastards too. They persecute and murder LGBTQ people. Yet, it was still Israel that massacred…
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Published: July 8, 2025 15:06
They yearn to bring back slavery.
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Published: July 7, 2025 23:50
A bunch of pathetic small dick losers trying to terrorize hard working people.
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Published: July 7, 2025 21:09
The more you try to align LLM models with a specific output that ignores facts in favor of propaganda, the more the model stops being useful overall.
Grok will start to break in completely unexpected ways as alignment priorities are pushed towards…
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ltfmntqdbc2l
Published: July 7, 2025 20:26
An Indiana church gave a sermon calling for the Trump administration to execute LGBTQ people.
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Published: July 7, 2025 18:08
The notifications settings update by bluesky is a game changer. Finally, manageable notifications.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ltf5y4yopc2c
Published: July 7, 2025 16:03
Just sit with this for a moment. Israel perpetrated what is certainly the largest single mass killing of trans people in history. And it's basically a footnote in an article in the NYT covered weeks after it happened.
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Published: July 7, 2025 14:04
Israel bombed an Evin, an Iranian prison that housed dissidents and political prisoners. They ended up destroying the trans wing and murdering over 100 trans people incarcerated there, many for simply being queer in Iran.
This is unspeakable evil.
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Published: July 7, 2025 13:15
I wouldn't be surprised if Israel did this intentionally. One of the best intelligence agencies in the world and they didn't know what prison wing they were bombing? Of course they did.
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Published: July 7, 2025 12:24
A 16 year old trans girl attempted suicide on a bridge. Fortunately, concerned friends manage to save her by contacting emergency services who stopped her from jumping.
Users on X spent the following days making memes mocking her and hoping she killed…
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ltenc226xk2m
Published: July 7, 2025 11:04
This is conversion therapy by gauntlet. I can't imagine being 14 being interrogated by a panel of adults for hours over my gender. This is torturous. What other healthcare is subject to this?
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Published: July 7, 2025 11:00
When you gatekeep care and explicitly prevent it when other issues exist, trans youth will just conceal it so they can access transition care. It's worse off for everyone.
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Published: July 7, 2025 10:46
Oh, it's the same line they use on trans people. People getting mad at them means they must be right. It's the logic of a two year old.
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Published: July 7, 2025 00:40
Jesse Singal weaponizes pedantry against trans people and our allies to undermine our rights and healthcare but hates it when it's used on him.
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Published: July 6, 2025 20:02
This is the level of discourse on X now.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ltcm6nphxk2m
Published: July 6, 2025 15:39
Grok is a full blown nazi now.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ltcipleu7s2m
Published: July 6, 2025 14:37
It's honestly disgusting seeing people blame children for dying in a natural disaster. They didn't deserve any of this. Fix your hearts.
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Published: July 5, 2025 23:09
It's a straight up 24/7 Klan rally on X now.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ltasvostns2m
Published: July 5, 2025 22:34
I spent years formulating this paraphilia definition through my experience as a trans woman, and most importantly, by carefully studying unsolicited DMs I've received.
Learn more in my upcoming book, The Man Who Would Be Chaser.
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Published: July 5, 2025 20:06
Transamorophilia - A paraphilic condition characterized by an intense fixation among certain older cisgender men on the pursuit of trans women, often accompanied by a compulsive need to intellectualize their attraction through poorly attended conferences…
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Published: July 5, 2025 18:48
OH MY GOD...
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Published: July 5, 2025 16:22
What a chaser convention looks like.
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Published: July 5, 2025 11:43
Consulting on ethnic cleansing.
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Published: July 5, 2025 00:19
The assistant editor for the NYT has weighed in on the atrocious hit piece on Mamdani by Benjamin Ryan but said nothing of substance.
His email is pdh@nytimes.com if you would like to share more feedback. (Public email address he's previously shared for…
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lt57jnkdpc2k
Published: July 4, 2025 12:09
Caitlin Jenner's manager and Trump campaign surrogate, Sophia Hutchins has died after an ATV accident near Jenner's home.
https://deadline.com/2025/07/sophia-hutchins-dies-atv-accident-29-1236449801/
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lt46f2uaxc2k
Published: July 4, 2025 02:16
After working with a white supremacist to smear Mamdani with hacked materials in the NYT, Benjamin Ryan's first post after being ratioed into oblivion is more transphobia.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lt3xeh33yc2k
Published: July 4, 2025 00:11
In light of the NYT hit piece on Mamdani using hacked material that violated their own internal policy.
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Published: July 3, 2025 23:32
They're now using the social security notification system to push their propaganda. Just got this.
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Published: July 3, 2025 22:34
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Published: July 3, 2025 22:05
A lot of people call me a doomer but at heart I'm an optimist. I have an unshakable faith that things in the long term will work out for the better. Even the utopian Star Trek universe had a hellish few decades around this time. What I mourn is all the…
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lt3hrdsdys2k
Published: July 3, 2025 19:32
I really think people should consider leaving the US if they can. The fascist machinery is churning at full speed and you never know when it will be too late. So many places are already closing their doors to immigration.
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Published: July 3, 2025 19:17
One of the things you learn about systems of fascism when reading the history is how so much of the worst evil is perpetrated by people just trying to advance their careers. How many people will sign up for ICE positions simply for the paycheck or commit…
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lt3egf4vkc2k
Published: July 3, 2025 18:32
There's a lot of talk about medicaid in the big awful bill but hardly anyone talking about how it will turn ICE into the largest law enforcement agency in the country and world's largest jailer. This is the equivalent of the enabling acts and will be the…
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lt35avlfkk2k
Published: July 3, 2025 16:23
SCOTUS granting cert on a sports case on equal protection grounds means they're going to gut equal protection for trans folks once and for all after they punted in Skrmetti. They'll have the support to do it.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lsyzbyx2i22q
Published: July 2, 2025 20:07
Everyone thinks of 1944 auschwitz and not 1933 Dachau. It didn't start as extermination camps. It's a process to get there and one the Trump administration is starting now.
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Published: July 2, 2025 18:41
If you ever wondered what you would do in nazi Germany, you're doing it right now.
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Published: July 2, 2025 17:02
Voting won't fix this level of evil.
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Published: July 2, 2025 15:16
Struggling with the work/they're building concentration camps balance.
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Published: July 2, 2025 14:38
The media coverage around the Florida concentration camp seems familiar.
From the NYT covering the opening of Dachau in the summer of 1933.
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https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lsyfkbu2mk2m
Published: July 2, 2025 14:14
The crazy thing about the P Diddy verdict is they built a concentration camp in Florida.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lsyeurznmc2m
Published: July 2, 2025 14:02
The 11th circuit court of appeals ruled that a transgender teacher cannot state her pronouns because it does not violate her 1st Amendment rights as a state actor.
Other courts have held teachers have a 1st Amendment right to misgender trans students.
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https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lsycebfjtk2m
Published: July 2, 2025 13:17
The "big ugly bill" is a concentration camp bill similar to the enabling acts. It is making ICE the highest funded law enforcement agency in the country with more money for detention than the federal bureau of prisons.
They just built a concentration camp…
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lsyadxprf22m
Published: July 2, 2025 12:41
Ohio just passed it's budget that bans funding for MENTAL HEALTH therapy for all trans people in medicaid.
This is what eradication policies look like.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lswz2yrpds2m
Published: July 2, 2025 00:58
I am absolutely serious that we need Nuremberg style trials for everyone involved in this.
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Published: July 1, 2025 15:39
Great, now destroy the whole bill.
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Published: July 1, 2025 12:38
Trump is threatening to deport Elon now.
archive.ph/sgDGn
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Published: July 1, 2025 05:45
Elon's face, meet face eating leopard.
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Published: June 30, 2025 19:32
Heads they win, tails he loses.
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Published: June 30, 2025 18:56
Called it.
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Published: June 30, 2025 16:10
It's remarkable how much the far right can wage an open terror campaign against a Supreme Court justice and then celebrate the results when she does what they want.
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lstiy7izks24
Published: June 30, 2025 15:32
SCOTUS vacated 3 trans related cases this morning in light of Skrmetti. Two dealing with state coverage of gender affirming care for adults in North Carolina, W. Virginia, and Idaho, and another dealing with a ban on gender marker changes on birth…
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lsthyw3bp224
Published: June 30, 2025 15:14
Dems: "We need to spend millions of dollars figuring out how to get young people to turn out and vote for us."
Mamdani: "I got young people to turn out for free on a platform that is pro-Palestine, pro trans, and anti-billionaire."
Dems: "We have to…
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lst4z3lkf224
Published: June 30, 2025 11:58
Today, senator Ron Wyden will raise a point of order to remove the Medicaid and CHIP ban on gender affirming care. The Republicans need 60 votes to keep it in but they only have 53. Call your Dem senator today and urge them to vote to strip the ban from…
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Published: June 30, 2025 02:54
My "I'm not trying to buy the election" t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt.