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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️

@celestefinally.bsky.social

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Pro-justice, anti-bully. Christian-ish, trying to follow love. Writer. Married. 2 kids. Survivor. She/her, trans/lesbian, polyamorous 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Substack: https://www.celestefinally.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Celestial-Navigation

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 13h

RIGHT?!?! And AOC has been out there doing her "Fight Oligarchy" thing, and Walz has been good, too, and and and... we have options, and again I say... we have more than two years, we do not need to coronate a winner right now. Let's make would-be candidates work for it!

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 13h

(oh and I also voted in W v. Gore, but honestly don't feel confident characterizing Gore the candidate - I was 18 at the time and didn't know much)

Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 13h

In my voting life, the dems ran Kerry, HRC, Biden, Harris; all were perceived to be centrist liberals whose whole campaign was "I'm not the republican." Other than Biden 2020 which was a wild year, they all lost.

Obama was at least seen as "progressive" and won easily.

Why can't we learn this?

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 13h

I'm thinking it might finally be time to do a reaction series to the witch trials of jk rowling podcast, though! I've been wanting to since it came out.

Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 13h

Agreed - I signed up for the free trial and then immediately cancelled, and then got through them before the trial period expired. but that still means I can't go back and listen to them again and, like you said, they're unsharable.

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 13h

It does still look like he has until the end of the week to pass a bunch of LGBTQ+ protections, and I'll be calling him this afternoon to encourage him to do so. Still, the one veto is unconscionable already.

Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 13h

And they tell us that we literally have to support him without question *NOW*, when there's over two years until the primary and he hasn't even declared yet and primaries are literally about finding the best option and he is *NOT* it and I just want to scream.

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 13h

I just got done listening to all of the @ifbookspod.bsky.social eps about her last week and it's hard to disagree with your take here.

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 13h

Absolutely true. All my life I was told "it's a free country." And I know it never was, but my goodness - it's awful to see people with "freedom" bumper stickers cheering the demolition of those freedoms we did have.

Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 14h

If only...

But they seem to be focused on "talk therapy" not being "medical care" which has *far* reaching implications.

Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 1d

I was today years old when I learned she's queer 🤦‍♀️

Makes her throwing trans people under the bus even that much more of a betrayal.

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 1d

YES!

a man with a beard looks at a woman

ALT: a man with a beard looks at a woman

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 1d

omg yes.

Also I'm seeing somehow people missing that she was behind the horrible "Witch Trials of JK Rowling" podcast, in which it is argued something along the lines of "JK Rowling isn't transphobic, but if she was that'd be good."

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Jordan Emmons @joremmons.bsky.social · 2d

The venn diagram of people who think Bari Weiss is a fair/balanced journalist and people who think Charlie Kirk was a fair/skilled debater is a circle.

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah - I have no words. Hannah, I'm so so sorry. 🫂💜

Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 1d

literally no idea - but i hope you get to write a book!

Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 1d

Read this as many times as you need to!

Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 1d

If you can do nothing else, you must survive as your full, gorgeous, authentic, God-given queer self.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 1d

When you'd rather have a dead kid than a queer one, allowing conversion therapy practices makes total sense. They don't want to deal with a living queer kid; they want to mourn the imaginary one they don't have.

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 1d

So SCOTUS apparently is going to say a state can ban care that is recommended by every major medical organization (gender-affirming care), but can't ban care that is condemned by every major medical organization (conversion therapy).

They're legally mandating/protecting medical malpractice.

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 1d

It's out: www.celestefinally.com/p/trans-day-...

Trans day of (p)remembrance

A short reflection on grieving those we will lose

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, those sound about right. 🫂

Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 2d

Publishing at 7:30am Pacific time today (link in bio), I don't know what to call the emotion I'm trying to process with this, but the simple fact is that there are people with us today whose names will be on the list we read on November 20th.

"Trans day of (p)remembrance", subtitled "A short reflection on grieving those we will lose". Image is of a ghostly man walking along a trail in the woods.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

who could forget when TFP published a totally dishonest hatchet job on a youth gender clinic from a bilious transphobe that (again) turned out to be bullshit, and she refused to take that down too prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

The Useful Idiots Fueling the Right-Wing Transphobia Panic

Today on TAP: Prominent center-left journalists were swindled by obvious nonsense about a St. Louis gender clinic.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI - ever wonder why the infamous "Rapid-onset gender dysphoria" study is not worth taking seriously? Or why "but kids should work on their mental health first" is an awful way to treat kids with gender dysphoria?

I wrote about it (and more) here!

www.celestefinally.com/p/the-sweete...

The Sweetest Poisons: Part 10C

Dr. Lisa Littman and the (heavily corrected) study on "ROGD"

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