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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 5m

Surprise! Matt Walsh and his ilk lied.
In other news, water is wet.

Turns out, the opposite is true. Up until 2024, there’s been a steady increase, with it remaining mostly stable since.

Thank you as always @erininthemorning.com for this thorough debunking.

Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing

The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.

open.substack.com

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 1h

She did? How does she not have some cognitive dissonance joining a project for someone who engaged in holocaust denialism

Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 2h

I swear, the internet makes me want to give up sometimes…

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 4h

It is! It’s an existential threat to the people the bigotry targets. In this case, trans people are at risk

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 4h

It really is worse. The laughing and dismissive statements are worse when you see it versus reading it

Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 6h

It sucks to see those who’ve been victims of this misogyny, only to help perpetuate in some form

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 6h

Yeah, it reeks of that privilege. It honestly made me so angry to see the laugh when it’s something so serious

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 6h

Here’s Keira Knightley’s reponse to joining the new HP audiobooks and pretending bigotry’s just a difference of opinion.

I fail to see what was funny about a situation where full-blown segregation against trans people was funded by the very person she decided to help further enrich.

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 17h

I love it! Or Mr Anderson’s buddy!

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 18h

Or Neo’s family as an alternative

I believe we need a new way to refer to each other in the trans community the way queer people did back in the day.
Friend of Dorothy was a code that ended up wasting the government’s time looking for this Dorothy in their persecution of gay men.

I propose we use: Friend of Trinity 🏳️‍⚧️

In a nod to honour the Matrix and the hopes that people like Greg Abott waste their time searching for Trinity, our trantifa godmother.

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 18h

Warning to all international trans travellers :
Starting today, if you have any markers other than F or M, you may find yourself going through at least secondary screenings, if not out right denied entry.
Please plan accordingly. Avoid stopovers if you can as the US requires going through customs.

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 21h

Yeah that’s the problem when cis het people who fetishize us are in control of those algorithms

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 22h

Canada isn’t far behind with the type of rhetoric coming out of Pierre Poilievre so don’t start thinking we’re safe here.

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 22h

If not fascist, why fascist-shaped?
In a series of leaked messages, we see what is indicative of the far-right and how bad things have gotten. None of this is shocking if you’re a woman or part of a minority, but it remains atrocious.
And yet, this has been normalized by the right in many countries

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 1d

So what’ll it be Keir? Continue to act like Donald’s little puppy by harming trans people? Or stand by your obligations when it comes to people’s human rights?

Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 1d

Keir Starmer and the UK’s Labour government has a choice to make here. Either ensure segregation against trans people does not become the law of the land, or become a rogue state in Europe in clear breach of its ECHR obligations.

Trans people 'have had their human rights breached' after Supreme Court ruling

Trans people's legal gender has been 'voided of practical meaning'.

metro.co.uk

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 1d

Just a reminder that this was 3 years ago. There’s zero ways to separate art from artist here.
Transphobia isn’t a difference of opinion, as Keira tried to pretend after signing on to enrich JK. It’s a dehumanization process and the difference between life and death for some trans people.

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 1d

Meta and Bluesky are not much better unfortunately, but this silencing of voices on the left and for human decency is ramping up and it’s terrible for freedom of expression and information.

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 1d

Tiktok is definitely on its way out. How long will it have left, idk. But suddenly, comments sympathetic to the palestinian people have started being filtered and hidden automatically on the platform. Even comments from months ago that were initially visible.

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 6d

It’s international lesbian day. I’m a proud lesbian and I’m able to be here thanks to lesbians before me who fought hard for our rights.

To those who fought back then,
Those who showed the way,
And to those still around to this day,
Thank you 💜

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 6d

This corrupt supreme court though is unlikely to side with people’s civil rights unfortunately as they’d rather be on the side of bigotry.

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 6d

The SCOTUS is leaning towards legalizing “conversion therapy” AKA torture for queer people. There are also two other cases that moved forward: the WH’s request to block the passport injunction (which would bring back the ban on marker changes), as well as cases challenging anti-🏳️‍⚧️ athlete bans.

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 8d

Anti-queer legislation tracker here: translegislation.com

2025 Anti-Trans Bills: Trans Legislation Tracker

2025 anti-trans bills tracker. Explore data on U.S. anti-trans legislation including passed bills and themes including sports, bathrooms, healthcare, pronouns, drag shows, and education.

translegislation.com

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 8d

And a reminder for those who enforce authoritarian rule: “just following orders” will not be a defence once you face the courts for the actions you will have carried out in its service.

There is no line authoritarian governments won’t cross. Legality means nothing to them. They’ll do everything they want, so long as people allow them to, while they crush your rights in the process.
(i.e Ice and the Gestapo kidnapping people with little to no due process)

And while they do that, they’ll pass laws meant to criminalize whatever they please. Further entrenching the fact that legality does not equal morality.
(i.e. the 999 anti-queer bills thus far this year, of which 122 passed)

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Alice Winterland @alicewinterland.com · 8d

That’s the vibe I’m going for 😏

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