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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: 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…

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…

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/

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,…

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. …

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…

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.

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. …

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/

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.

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. …

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/

Published: May 23, 2025 16:47

Really tired of Steven Pinker going to the NYT to hold up Carole Hooven as a example of the death of academic freedom when all she got was criticism from colleagues for being transphobic. For that, she quit and left to be a paid anti-trans shill at a right…

Published: May 23, 2025 16:05

A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration from blocking Harvard from enrolling foreign students. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/us/harvard-university-trump-international-students

Published: May 23, 2025 04:01

The most frustrating thing about the last 6 months is just how much my colleagues and fellow students at Harvard have consistently underestimated the threat Trump posed. I was told I was overreacting and things won't be that bad. And yet, it is and it can…

Published: May 23, 2025 03:51

Example 638,837 why capitulation never works. https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/22/us/columbia-university-hhs-civil-rights-violation https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/22/us/columbia-university-hhs-civil-rights-violation

Published: May 23, 2025 00:49

I can't stop laughing. The Calvinball nature of our legal system is on full display. It's all a joke set up to prop up billionaire oligarchs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Published: May 23, 2025 00:40

A Harvard international student was just detained for hours and had her devices confiscated by CBP at Logan airport. She was released but this comes hours after DHS ended the ability for international students to enroll at Harvard. Absolutely terrifying…

Published: May 22, 2025 22:30

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump sends Elias Rodriguez to El Salvador. It'll be the perfect test case to erode constitutional rights and set the precedent that they can rendition US citizens to foreign countries as punishment.

Published: May 22, 2025 17:55

Trump just revoked the ability for foreign students to enroll at Harvard. Every foreign student, which is in the thousands, enrolled for next year at Harvard will not be able to continue studying if this isn't challenged in court. …

Published: May 22, 2025 17:12

I'm so glad Democrats kept the filibuster to not allow major legislation while telling us we'll miss it when they're not in power. and then Republicans just blow it up first chance they get. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Published: May 22, 2025 16:24

The doors are beginning to close around the world. If you don't get out now, it may be too late when things get worse. https://ww.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/21/travel/italian-citizenship-descent-law-change-intl…

Published: May 22, 2025 15:31

I said this about Luigi Mangione and it holds true today with the horrific killing of two Israeli embassy Staffers. You can't choose what vigilante violence is moral of justified because the only person that actually calculates that is the murderer.…

Published: May 22, 2025 14:49

The House bill increases funding for ICE but $45 billion which is 5 times their current budget of $9 billion. We are seeing the rise of a fascist police state with the ICE gestapo as its vanguard.

Published: May 22, 2025 14:13

This passed 215-214. We're going to lose our healthcare because 3 senior Dems have died this year. We lost Roe because Ginsburg didn't retire. We lost the election because Joe ran for reelection. Our country is being destroyed because geriatric Dems…

Published: May 22, 2025 02:31

The new version of the House reconciliation bill expands the medicaid and chip ban on coverage for gender affirming care to ALL AGES. This will decimated access to care for tens of thousands of trans people. …

Published: May 21, 2025 23:41

The Texas state board of Pharmacy can see the controlled substance prescription records of 37 other states. All that's needed for Ken Paxton to access those records is an administrative subpoena. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Published: May 21, 2025 17:24

It's not enough to destroy the lives of trans military members, this government must out them and humiliate them at every point. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-army-change-transgender-soldiers-records-birth-sex-2025-05-21/

Published: May 21, 2025 16:26

Ken Paxton likely used a little known database that tracks RX records of controlled substances to target gender affirming care providers. Worse, he can access the prescription records of anyone without a warrant in over 37 states with an agreement with…

Published: May 21, 2025 02:26

VEO 3 Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue. This…

Published: May 21, 2025 01:15

This is where AI text to video generation was a year ago. Now it includes audio and barely any artifacts. At this rate, by next year, it'll be hard to tell what is real and what isn't. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Published: May 21, 2025 00:50

It's so clear the Trump administration is going to use criminal charges over Cuomo as leverage to get him to hand effective control of NYC to Trump like they tried with Eric Adams. …

Published: May 21, 2025 00:41

Is it the job of UI designers to make everything worse and hostile now? Google news updated their UI to move the name of the publication to the top left instead of being below the headline and next to the time since published. I'm so sick of this. Nobody…

Published: May 20, 2025 22:24

A Georgia high school kicked out a senior weeks away from graduation because she had a trans prom date. https://www.wrdw.com/2025/05/20/ga-teen-forced-change-schools-over-transgender-prom-date/

Published: May 20, 2025 19:41

The minute anything involves trans people, SCOTUS rushes to allow anything that targets us even when it violates all precedent and judicial norms. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Published: May 20, 2025 19:31

Hey all, I launched a new publication last week called the Dissident. I have a huge new piece coming out tomorrow about how prescription records can be accessed without a warrant to target gender affirming care providers. You don't want to miss this,…

Published: May 20, 2025 15:41

Enforcing rigid gender norms necessitates a gender bureaucracy to oversee every aspect of life. Ultimately, anyone non conforming to hyper feminine expression is liable to be harassed and punished by the gender bureaucracy. So much for "protecting women."…

Published: May 20, 2025 15:08

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." -Hannah Arendt [contains quote…

Published: May 20, 2025 02:44

There's no saving this system. It's too thoroughly corrupted. We need to tear down the current constitutional order and begin again. Nearly half the senate dems were bought off with illicit and corrupt crypto money. [contains quote post or other embedded…

Published: May 19, 2025 23:00

Harvard is blatantly discriminating against students of color and LGBTQ students by banning the use of Harvard spaces for affinity graduation events. They are explicitly saying they can't use campus space on the basis of their race, sexual orientation, and…

Published: May 19, 2025 19:55

Last week, I launched a new publication called The Dissident. It's an anti-fascist publication focused on the intersection of tech, privacy, and LGBTQ rights in the current authoritarian moment. Check it out! www.thedissident.news…

Published: May 19, 2025 18:51

It's no exaggeration that Trump could dismantle the entirety of trans healthcare worldwide by sanctioning WPATH or other LGBTQ rights orgs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Published: May 19, 2025 18:30

I wrote about how NGO's working in abortion access and LGBTQ rights could be cutoff from US tech due to Trump issuing sanctions against them. Liberal government's could also find themselves targeted. This is a wake up call. …