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emma, she/her. detrans lesbian for trans liberation. my writing seeks to reframe issues of detransition through a radical transfeminist lens. co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social links: dolphindiaries.carrd.co fiction: @mzakharuk.bsky.social
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dolphindiaries.bsky.social
A case of competing needs (or are they?) and a synthesis of dominance transfeminism and disability justice.

(FYI I finished this before the fucking court case, I hate to be relevant 😭)

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A stark, almost black-and-white image of a gavel rested atop a table. Over it there is a title and a subtitle of an essay from dolphindiaries.substack.com. Title: "Detrans Women v. Trans Men, Or: The Sanity Of Sex Change." Subtitle: "What madness lies at the heart of patriarchy?"
dolphindiaries.bsky.social
Nooo not a silly post of mine breaking containment, I do not care about Obama conspiraciiiieeessss
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artemis-98.bsky.social
PSA: You are not an ally if you think trans kids shouldn't transition medically.
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taliabhatt.itch.io
Asserting that a woman is by default sexually available to men and it's "exclusionary", "biphobic", or even "TERFy" to say that she's a lesbian is common in discussions of queer media.
faerynnistired.itch.io
sexuality discourse in fandom is hardly pressing but the whole thing is really fucking difficult as a lesbian (especially when you consider that artists and writers have been harassed and doxxed for “getting it wrong”) who likes art and media.

Lesbian is the “bi-erasure” sexuality to fandomites
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crackedivorypod.bsky.social
Episode Four is now out wherever you get your podcasts!

Give it a listen for amusing discussions on made-up slurs, and much less amusing discussions on how a religious studies dissertation from the 70s was turned into a book whose transphobic policy prescriptions are largely followed today.
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sjklapecki.itch.io
It is always right and just to loathe anthropologists, we're a wretched class of know-it-alls who refuse to take people at their word in favour of our own pet theories.

Being a trans woman in anthropology is a fucking trip every time gender comes up though man it's SO bad.
dragonsaffron.bsky.social
I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists
Muxes identify with lo femenino or
what is feminine and many dress in traditional female attire, but they are not gen-
erally seeking to be transgender, or to be accepted as women. The gay men I interviewed were even more emphatic and quick to differentiate
themselves from muxes. Mario, an articulate twenty-four-year-old gay man, for
example, said that
For me a muxe is a man who identifies as a woman and likes to dress like a woman. I
am not muxe. I am gay because I have never wanted to dress like a woman or to be one.
They work in female trades. I know I am a man.
dolphindiaries.bsky.social
Hm yes but they don't stink as powerfully
dolphindiaries.bsky.social
Is there a more unpleasant smell of the not-obviously-disgusting variety than bubblegum
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jessothomson.co.uk
It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case
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itsmeio.bsky.social
honestly fu** you if you think gazans are only allowed to ask for help to cover their very basic necessities when they’re starving or being killed, calling a gazan a grifter for trying to secure her education proves that you don’t see gazans as humans who deserve to live equally.
dolphindiaries.bsky.social
Don't get dicked around on a merry-go-round of absurd premises! Do not appeal to shame! I believe in u
dolphindiaries.bsky.social
Classic mistake ppl make in the art of Talking To Idiots Online is they go "okay you believe Absurd Premise A. But would you also honestly claim a similar Absurder Premise B?" To which the other person of course just says "Yes!" and now congerts you're stuck arguing the sky isn't green with them
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ciara2001.bsky.social
And remember, this woman is trying to illegally (it's generally illegal for a third party to fund court cases here) export her brand of hatred to a country that has had problem-free self-id for ten years
The J.K. Rowling WOMEN'S FUND

A legal fighting fund for women protecting their sex-based rights

Eligibility Checklist

To help you determine whether your case meets our funding criteria, please fill out the checklist below. If you can't tick any of the boxes, the Fund is probably not for you. Please select either Individuals or Organisations which will take you through to the correct application form if you can answer yes to all the questions.

FOR INDIVIDUALS

FOR ORGANISATIONS

Are you based in the UK or Ireland?
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captaindisillusion.bsky.social
That’s... insane.
theserfstv.bsky.social
Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to  his Patreon subscribers. 

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites @evanhill
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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.
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voice-quills.com
VOICE ACTORS FOR PALESTINE IS BACK BABY!!!

Donate and get some voices lines/messages from me as:

Anya Mouthwashing, Raiden Revengeance, Patrick Star, SHODAN, Special Commander Haigos, and many more!

LET'S DO SOME FUNDRAISING Y'ALL
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bloomfilters.bsky.social
happy international lesbian day
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taliabhatt.itch.io
turning the mundane horror of queer life into a dunk like it proves something
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ajcalvin.bsky.social
#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 8
Spooky book recs

Here are a few indie books that are not only spooky, but ones I really enjoyed:
A Song for the Void by Andrew C Piazza
BestGhost by CJ Daley
Imago by Matthew Zakharuk @mzakharuk.bsky.social
Mystery of the Pale King by Sam Flynn @samflynnwrites.bsky.social
A Song for the Void by Andrew C Piazza BestGhost by C.J. Daley Imago by Matthew Zakharuk
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taliabhatt.itch.io
Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.
tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social
Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.
aninehartmann.bsky.social
Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
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tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social
Disgustingly, the published 'research" in question was used to inflame discourse about a "rapid increase" in trans youth, harming the patients whose data it used!

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aninehartmann.bsky.social
Om du hører noen si at det har vært «skarp økning» i antallet ungdommer som søker kjønnsbekreftende behandling er det denne ulovlige forskningen de viser til. Vi kritiserte den i tidsskriftet i januar: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Population-adjusted numbers, demographics and mental health among children and adolescents referred to the Norwegian National Center for Gender Incongruence over two decades - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Over the last decade, there has been a sharp increase in young people seeking medical treatment for gender dysphoria/gender incongruence (GD/GI). The aims of this study were to calculate yearly population-adjusted numbers of children and adolescents referred to the Norwegian National Center for Gender Incongruence (NCGI) at Oslo University Hospital (OUS) from 2000 to 2022; to describe the demographic characteristics and prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses, self-harm and suicide attempts among the referred from 2000 to 2020; and to investigate time trends. The study used data from the Gender Incongruence Registry for Children and Adolescents (GIRCA) in Norway. All persons under 18 years (n = 1258) referred to the NCGI between 2000 and 2020 were included: 68.4% assigned female gender at birth (AFAB) and 31.6% assigned male gender at birth (AMAB). We found a sharp increase in referrals to the NCGI favouring AFAB over AMAB. Nearly two in three (64.5%) had one or more registered psychiatric diagnoses. Self-harm was registered among 35.5%, and 12.7% had attempted suicide. Registered psychiatric diagnoses were significantly (p ≤ 0.001) more prevalent among AFAB (67.8%) than AMAB (57.4%). The number of registered diagnoses per person decreased significantly over time, with an average reduction of 0.02 diagnoses per person per year. Although there was a downward time trend in registered diagnoses per person, the total mental health burden among children and adolescents with GI emphasizes the need for a holistic approach.
link.springer.com
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tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social
What has happened here is basically that data from the journals was collected for the sake of a "quality control" measure.

Then, that same data was used in published research, a completely separate purpose, without the consent of the people affected.

This is an EXTREME violation of research ethics
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tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social
Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.
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bundleofstyxx.bsky.social
If I never ask for anything again

My girlfriend is getting bottom surgery in a month please donate to her so we have the finances to easily get through her recovery.
bagsundereyes.bsky.social
Hi everyone my surgery is coming up at the beginning of November and so I'll be going 6 weeks without pay. I would appreciate any donations to my gfm to help me with expenses while I'm recovering. It will be tough without pay from my job.

gofund.me/f608d1dcc
Donate to Kassi's Surgery Fund, organized by Kass Tape
My name is Kassi I am raising money because I will unable to earn money while I am recovering from surg… Kass Tape needs your support for Kassi's Surgery Fund
gofund.me
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ts-eliot.bsky.social
I really think this book is a rallying cry. Because we need to fight, and we need to fight on grounds that we can actually win on, not ground that is pre-ceded to our oppressors. And Talia opens a path for us to do so with her writing.