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emma, she/her. detrans NB lesbian, transfeminist. writing about detransition for trans liberation, bodily autonomy, and informed consent.
co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social
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links: dolphindiaries.carrd.co
fiction: @mzakharuk.bsky.social
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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 😭)
tinyurl.com/35t37utt
(FYI I finished this before the fucking court case, I hate to be relevant 😭)
tinyurl.com/35t37utt
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When the media and government move to demonise a minority it’s always noticeable how that minority gets denied the concept of including children or minors, as she was 17 at the time.
Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been cleared of harassing a transgender activist, but was found guilty of criminal damage to her mobile phone.
Father Ted’s Graham Linehan cleared of transphobic harassment
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
When the media and government move to demonise a minority it’s always noticeable how that minority gets denied the concept of including children or minors, as she was 17 at the time.
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Youth transitioners being treated as de facto criminals and deviants
This is just the tip of the iceberg of over 314 questions outlined here including eg Do you start fires? Do you steal? Do you physically assault people?
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
Questioning trans kids
The UK Government and UK research councils have contributed £10 million pounds to a series of research studies on service users of the newly established Children and Young People’s Gender Services.…
growinguptransgender.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Youth transitioners being treated as de facto criminals and deviants
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“what if they change their mind later” is never asked about cis kids going through puberty, even though they might be trans, which reveals that cis people view transness as a defect
The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!"
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“what if they change their mind later” is never asked about cis kids going through puberty, even though they might be trans, which reveals that cis people view transness as a defect
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First country in the world to implement UBI: Marshall Islands! This is a fascinating article how it happened and how it's being paid for:
scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...
scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...
The Marshall Islands Just Quietly Implemented the First National Universal Basic Income (UBI)
How the Marshall Islands built the first nationwide universal basic income, funded by a US-capitalized Compact Trust Fund, and what it means for UBI everywhere.
scottsantens.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
First country in the world to implement UBI: Marshall Islands! This is a fascinating article how it happened and how it's being paid for:
scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...
scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...
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Ask yourself: without your mobility aid (car), can you:
- get groceries
- see friends
- go to the doctor's
- go to the dentist's
- go to school
- go to a community centre
- go swimming
- get a haircut
- get take away
- go to a park
- go to a therapist
- see a gig
- go to a bakery
- go to a cafe
- get groceries
- see friends
- go to the doctor's
- go to the dentist's
- go to school
- go to a community centre
- go swimming
- get a haircut
- get take away
- go to a park
- go to a therapist
- see a gig
- go to a bakery
- go to a cafe
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Ask yourself: without your mobility aid (car), can you:
- get groceries
- see friends
- go to the doctor's
- go to the dentist's
- go to school
- go to a community centre
- go swimming
- get a haircut
- get take away
- go to a park
- go to a therapist
- see a gig
- go to a bakery
- go to a cafe
- get groceries
- see friends
- go to the doctor's
- go to the dentist's
- go to school
- go to a community centre
- go swimming
- get a haircut
- get take away
- go to a park
- go to a therapist
- see a gig
- go to a bakery
- go to a cafe
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The thing with car culture is that you create a social model where every human being is, by default, disabled and cannot meet their daily needs without a mobility device. People have a relationship to their car more akin to a wheelchair than to a train. That's a problem.
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The thing with car culture is that you create a social model where every human being is, by default, disabled and cannot meet their daily needs without a mobility device. People have a relationship to their car more akin to a wheelchair than to a train. That's a problem.
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"Sometimes you have to do things you don't like" is sort of a harsh reality of life and it's concerning that reactionaries want to just opt out of community, democracy, public health, everything that makes society functional.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Sometimes you have to do things you don't like" is sort of a harsh reality of life and it's concerning that reactionaries want to just opt out of community, democracy, public health, everything that makes society functional.
Great thread; yes-anding that this tends to happen with all social justice that describes something as a social construct. For ex, "if you say gender is a social construct, that must make my gender not real," or "if gender is constructed, that basically approves of conversion therapy"
There's a misconception I see a lot wrt to the social model of disability and disability pride more broadly that when we say these things we mean that disability isn't real or that our impairments don't cause real problems for us.
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Great thread; yes-anding that this tends to happen with all social justice that describes something as a social construct. For ex, "if you say gender is a social construct, that must make my gender not real," or "if gender is constructed, that basically approves of conversion therapy"
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The eu all of a sudden
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The eu all of a sudden
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WE CAN’T AFFORD TO HAVE CHILDREN BECAUSE IF THE HOUSING CRISIS, LORNA
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
WE CAN’T AFFORD TO HAVE CHILDREN BECAUSE IF THE HOUSING CRISIS, LORNA
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...also for the occasion, I updated my massive Origins of "Social Contagion" and "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" timeline – it now includes recent Kaufmann report debates, the Diaz & Bailey retraction, developments immediately after the Littman paper, & more!
juliaserano.blogspot.com/2019/02/orig...
juliaserano.blogspot.com/2019/02/orig...
Origins of "Social Contagion" and "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria"
Preface added May 2023: This post began as a seemingly simple project: to figure out where and when the then novel notion that "transgender ...
juliaserano.blogspot.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
...also for the occasion, I updated my massive Origins of "Social Contagion" and "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" timeline – it now includes recent Kaufmann report debates, the Diaz & Bailey retraction, developments immediately after the Littman paper, & more!
juliaserano.blogspot.com/2019/02/orig...
juliaserano.blogspot.com/2019/02/orig...
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...this took weeks to write, plus no media outlet would've allowed me to write such a comprehensive debunking of this theory (w/refs!). so if you appreciate that I'm making this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon (for as little as $1/month)!
www.patreon.com/juliaserano
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Get more from Julia Serano on Patreon
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November 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
...this took weeks to write, plus no media outlet would've allowed me to write such a comprehensive debunking of this theory (w/refs!). so if you appreciate that I'm making this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon (for as little as $1/month)!
www.patreon.com/juliaserano
www.patreon.com/juliaserano
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NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven:
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Transgender Statistics
plus over a dozen studies contradicting the “social contagion/rapid onset gender dysphoria” hypothesis
juliaserano.medium.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven:
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
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Here's a link to my review as well, for anyone curious.
I Read It: The Sublime Lesbian Feminism of 'Stone Butch Blues'
Leslie Feinberg's magnum opus lives up to its reputation, though not in ways one might expect.
taliabhattwrites.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Here's a link to my review as well, for anyone curious.
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I'm really proud of this episode. I wrote about SBB in 'Trans/Rad/Fem', where I talked more about the novel itself and the way it's venerated as a sort of guide on how to live a lesbian life. Here, we get to discuss and break down its politics in much greater detail.
I genuinely love this book.
I genuinely love this book.
Patreon exclusive! Emma and Talia discuss 'Stone Butch Blues', a revolutionary lesbian feminist text that remains relevant to this day. Feinberg's text reckons with epistemicide, regendering violence, and materialist transfeminism during a time when these subjects had yet to be named.
Listen now!
Listen now!
The Book Everybody And Nobody Read: Feinberg's "Stone Butch Blues" | Cracked Ivory
Get more from Cracked Ivory on Patreon
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November 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I'm really proud of this episode. I wrote about SBB in 'Trans/Rad/Fem', where I talked more about the novel itself and the way it's venerated as a sort of guide on how to live a lesbian life. Here, we get to discuss and break down its politics in much greater detail.
I genuinely love this book.
I genuinely love this book.
Tune in to listen us talk about the alleged "trans man lesbian bible"
Patreon exclusive! Emma and Talia discuss 'Stone Butch Blues', a revolutionary lesbian feminist text that remains relevant to this day. Feinberg's text reckons with epistemicide, regendering violence, and materialist transfeminism during a time when these subjects had yet to be named.
Listen now!
Listen now!
The Book Everybody And Nobody Read: Feinberg's "Stone Butch Blues" | Cracked Ivory
Get more from Cracked Ivory on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Tune in to listen us talk about the alleged "trans man lesbian bible"
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I really think the people who say "anyone can call themselves trans these days" imagine some kind of past where you'd go to the doctor feeling poorly, men in white coats run a battery of tests and then, eventually, the doctor says solemnly "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I have to diagnose you with trans"
"Letting trans folks Self-ID is a problem!"
How the fuck else do we determine we're trans if not through self-identifying? You have to figure out you're trans (or might be) before you can even begin the process of fighting through the system to transition. This is fucking stupid.
How the fuck else do we determine we're trans if not through self-identifying? You have to figure out you're trans (or might be) before you can even begin the process of fighting through the system to transition. This is fucking stupid.
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I really think the people who say "anyone can call themselves trans these days" imagine some kind of past where you'd go to the doctor feeling poorly, men in white coats run a battery of tests and then, eventually, the doctor says solemnly "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I have to diagnose you with trans"
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BBC linking to an anti trans group in this article is typical.
Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
BBC linking to an anti trans group in this article is typical.
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undercover journalism without journalistic training and without any independent editorial team behind it is such bullshit I didn't even make it any further into it
Thank you Dead Domain for your work "researching detransitioners" wherein the only ''''detransitioner'''' you platform is the Pissed On Lawyer. What important work you've done, spotlighting a narcissist of a man having a Rowling-endorsed tantrum. What would we do without you
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
undercover journalism without journalistic training and without any independent editorial team behind it is such bullshit I didn't even make it any further into it
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What's happening to Ana Valens is a frankly disturbing assault on speech.
Spoke to a second source familiar with what’s going on with paypro censorship toward me. It seems I’ve been blacklisted among paypros as a creator, particularly for mommy domme content. This could escalate into debanking, I learned
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
What's happening to Ana Valens is a frankly disturbing assault on speech.
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Hendrix is a pathetic fucking worm who is detrans only in name, who is openly thirsting after a TERF he befriended, and who started up the "TRANS WOMEN ARE AGP I'M A POOR MUTILATED BUTCH LESBIAN" bullshit because he'd rather do that than disavow his revenge porn buddy.
That's kind of important.
That's kind of important.
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Hendrix is a pathetic fucking worm who is detrans only in name, who is openly thirsting after a TERF he befriended, and who started up the "TRANS WOMEN ARE AGP I'M A POOR MUTILATED BUTCH LESBIAN" bullshit because he'd rather do that than disavow his revenge porn buddy.
That's kind of important.
That's kind of important.
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The video on Hendrix's bullshit really, actually says that the reason he ran to TERF circles in the first place, because he was catching heat for being friends with a sex pest, "isn't important".
Saying that Hendrix was 'radicalized' hinges on ignoring this inciting incident, this vital context.
Saying that Hendrix was 'radicalized' hinges on ignoring this inciting incident, this vital context.
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The video on Hendrix's bullshit really, actually says that the reason he ran to TERF circles in the first place, because he was catching heat for being friends with a sex pest, "isn't important".
Saying that Hendrix was 'radicalized' hinges on ignoring this inciting incident, this vital context.
Saying that Hendrix was 'radicalized' hinges on ignoring this inciting incident, this vital context.
Thank you Dead Domain for your work "researching detransitioners" wherein the only ''''detransitioner'''' you platform is the Pissed On Lawyer. What important work you've done, spotlighting a narcissist of a man having a Rowling-endorsed tantrum. What would we do without you
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Thank you Dead Domain for your work "researching detransitioners" wherein the only ''''detransitioner'''' you platform is the Pissed On Lawyer. What important work you've done, spotlighting a narcissist of a man having a Rowling-endorsed tantrum. What would we do without you