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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · 9d

The best thing on this app is seeing so many trans women and trans men living their best lives. Revelling in their new bodies and showing themselves to the world. It makes me so happy seeing their joy.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Sep 14

Meme; far right extremist shoots another far right extremists and then says "Why did trans people do this?"

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Sep 12

So very disappointed.

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · Sep 10

Fuck them all.

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Sep 12

I used to be a big fan of Simon Pegg, James McAvoy and Matt Berry. They can all go fuck themselves now.

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Aug 11

Please don’t send me DMs. As I am unable to go through the age verification process, I cannot access DMs.

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Aug 4

I may have eaten too many chocolate biscuits.

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Jul 24

You know when you’re in chronic pain and dare speak about it only for people who don’t even know you to call you an attention-seeking liar? Yeah, that’s not fun. I suppose this is probably me attention-seeking, too. I just want to crawl into a box somewhere and cry.

Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Jul 15

Anyone else believe in reincarnation? I have a vivid memory of being in deep, freezing water, in the dark, next to something incredibly massive. I fully believe I was on a ship that sank and I drowned. I’ve always had a phobia about choking/being unable to breathe. I suspect I was a woman then, too.

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Jul 11

If forced to choose between keeping my identity secret or being able to use BlueSky going forward, my privacy will win every time.

Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Jul 9

If Trump orders its destruction, who’s going to disobey? Anyone threatening to use blackmail will wind up shooting themselves in the back of the head from a great distance, several times, before wrapping their own body in plastic and jumping in a river.

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Jul 9

I’m sure there was a client list at some point but it has since been destroyed to protect the guilty.

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Jun 30

I hate having to do it and I hate the thought of the genuinely needy missing out because of the greedy, but truth is I simply don’t have the money to spare to help. There is a danger of this app becoming a digital begging bowl. Pretty much the only interaction I have these days is folk begging me.

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Jun 30

After careful consideration I have had to make the decision to block the many, many accounts that are messaging me daily, asking for money to help their struggle in Gaza. It’s not that I don’t care - I truly do. It’s just that there are so many that it is impossible to determine which are genuine.

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Jun 10

Full of admiration for the women, braver than me, who are living their lives as their true selves in an increasingly hostile world. You go, girls!

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Jun 6

So I grew a beard during lockdown because I ran out of razors and couldn’t get any. But my family all loved it and told me how much it suited me and I should keep it. So here I am, stuck with a fucking beard and short hair, instead of beautiful long locks and a lovely smooth face.

Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Jun 3

Every day of my life, the same thought runs through my head - ‘I want to be a woman’. Every. Single. Day.

Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Jun 2

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. We don’t need permission.

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Jun 2

Happy Pride Month!

a rainbow flag with the words " happy pride " below it

ALT: a rainbow flag with the words " happy pride " below it

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · May 23

Can we start our own country, just for trans folk and allies? We can have socialised healthcare and all the bathrooms we want. Free Blahaj for every citizen.

Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · May 19

One of my friends who, like everyone else, has no idea I’m trans, is constantly posting the most wonderful things on FB in support of Trans Rights. She is an amazing ally. If I ever did decide to come out, she’s someone I can totally trust to support me. She’s the best!

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · May 18

Sitting, relaxing, in the sunshine today and trying desperately to contain my jealousy of all the women wearing pretty summer dresses.

Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · May 8

Didn’t take long.

Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · May 1

Events of the last week or so have reinforced my decision not to transition. I have been very upset by all the anti-trans rhetoric and vitriol, and I’m not even out, so none of it is directed at me personally. I can only begin to imagine how those who are out are feeling right now.

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · May 1

Note to self: never ever ever read the comments on news reports about trans issues. They will just make you want to cry at the levels of bigotry and ignorance on display. They will just make you despair at the society we live in now. Well done to the fascists who have thrown us under the bus.

Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · Apr 22

All the insistence that people’s safety is paramount, but exactly how safe do they think trans women will be in a pub’s men’s room? I’d suggest the odds of a trans woman being assaulted in a men’s room are far higher than the odds of a cis woman being assaulted by a trans woman in the ladies’ room.