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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 31m

I’m incredibly biased because I work for Claudia, so rather than give my 2 cents, I’ll leave you with @theurbanist.org’s endorsement write-up of her.

2025 General Election Endorsements » The Urbanist

# The Urbanist Elections Committee is excited to announce our 2025 general election endorsements, which span the region from Tacoma to Everett. Be sure to vote by November 4.

www.theurbanist.org

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 52m

She co-chairs the King County/City of Seattle joint committee on responding to federal overreach.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1h

Ok, but if they wrote this headline my first instinct would be that they’re just getting in to your game.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 19h

it's been an open secret that some (def not all) anti-trans activists seem driven by trans feelings that they themselves possess but are trying to suppress. but this right here it's completely batshit!

Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 21h

Cis women in anti-trans religious communities are literally fucking medically transitioning, and the NYT buries this fact 1000s of words into the article.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 19h

Here's the thing. A doctor could prescribe off-label testosterone to adolescents assigned female at birth for "low energy" and not be in violation of any of the laws upheld in Skrmetti. The thing is that they'd still absolutely be prosecuted under said laws if any of those kids were trans.

eli shroom's altered ego @shroompunk.com · 19h

so if HRT is banned for trans reasons, can i just claim I need T for whatever the hell this is? or is it a prerequisite to be a transphobic shitbag?

Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 21h

Cis women in anti-trans religious communities are literally fucking medically transitioning, and the NYT buries this fact 1000s of words into the article.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 19h

NYT comments section validating the strong correlation between testosterone levels and starting a podcast.

I started testosterone pellets because I was having alarming brain fog, combined with the loss of energy and motivation that is common for a middle-aged working mother. I had accepted the latter, but needed something for the brain fog. The pellets took care of all of it. I was no longer forgetting why I had opened a computer browser right as I did it. I also started a podcast, which I absolutely would never have gotten around to doing without my increased motivation for life. I suppose I’m just on a regular dose because my libido improved but not like described in this article. I pay about $1200 a year, which is worth the life improvements I am experiencing.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 19h

Look, I know the Supreme Court is going to rule that it’s unconstitutional to ban conversion therapy. But very curious where they stand on outsourcing your Freudian quackery to AI.

Membership now includes
RepairBot, your 24/7 Al assistant trained on the approach.
ROGD Repair and RepairBot were created by a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over a decade of experience working with trans-identified youth and their families, who now exclusively guides parents that know there must be a better path than
"affirmation."

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, they made a graphic for this back in the late 2010s.

Circle graphic contained all of the alleged causes for gender dysphoria, with transgender” being a bubble tinier than all of the others.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20h

As I also said after the Reddit posts, "Not vetting these people is how you get more Fettermans."

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20h

There's no good evidence that testosterone causes a high. But every gender critical hack claims it's the cause of mental health improvements in short term studies done on trans men starting T.

Their source? "It's common sense! Ask any dude at the gym on gear and they'll tell you about roid high!"

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 20h

People are missing the strong undercurrent of anti-transmasc moral panic from this weird cautionary story that continually suggests testosterone causes a "high" without any sort of scientific justification for using that word.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/m...

‘I’m on Fire’: Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive — and Then Some

www.nytimes.com

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20h

Ultimately, I think that's correct. I also think there's a line of thinking that goes something like: "We've tried electing the perfectionists and the nepo babies and the result is what we have now. Let's try electing the fuck-ups, because, at least we haven't tried that yet."

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20h

All of this is maybe a little bit harder of a story to swallow with Platner, though, because he didn’t have the same limited options coming out of high school as a lot of people who enlist. Then again, he was 18, 18-year-olds do rash things.

Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20h

My (very limited) understanding is that it’s a common experience for enlisted vets not to be able to succeed under American capitalism, partly because of trauma, partly because the military it just different than the civilian world, so they end up doing what they know.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20h

I mean, the Nazi tattoo he still had till yesterday is a dealbreaker. I argued last week we should still give this guy a serious look after his Reddit history was leaked. That “serious look” was about demonstrating he’s changed. Clearly he hasn’t.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20h

He doesn’t exactly have working class roots, but doing three combat tours, not being able to hack it in college (likely because of PTSD from said tours), and then spending a decade trying to recover from his trauma and make a living however he can is not a typical politician story.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20h

Yea, another reason why I’m meh on the guy. I’m just saying the vibes are appealing if your mentality right now is, “Can Democrats please just run anybody other than more of the same fucking people who got us here?

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20h

I mean I don’t really care because Nazi tattoos are disqualifying, but I think the answer is because the Democratic Party has no shortage of sons of college professors who went to Harvard, but we do have a shortage of enlisted vets who never went to college.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 21h

By the way, I have my critiques of postmodern gender theory and its applications. But the headline of this article really should be, “We interviewed a bunch of women who have never read Judith Butler, but are proving her right about everything.”

Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 21h

Cis women in anti-trans religious communities are literally fucking medically transitioning, and the NYT buries this fact 1000s of words into the article.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 21h

Dutasteride is a really good workaround for two of those, not the voice though.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 21h

I have just one question for them like a year from now: "How are you handling getting constantly challenged when you go to the bathroom?"

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 21h

Cis women in anti-trans religious communities are literally fucking medically transitioning, and the NYT buries this fact 1000s of words into the article.

Enthusiasm for testosterone cuts across political lines. Several of the women I interviewed belong to religious communities that strongly oppose gender-affirming care, and yet were taking testosterone in amounts comparable to those taken by some trans men. Marcella Hill, one of the most popular testosterone

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Brady! 🏳️‍⚧️ @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 22h

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”

when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

NYT Magazine headline “‘I'm on Fire': Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive - and Then Some
There is no F.D.A.-approved testosterone product for women. Insurance won't cover it. Many doctors won't prescribe it. It's become a cultural phenomenon.”

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

I dislike the word transgender and pretty much only use the word transsexual provocatively or in a historical context. In most instances I literally just say, “trans”, “trans people” or “trans person”.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

I’m incredibly biased, but I’d submit that there’s an obvious answer to your question in the County Exec race because one of the candidates very much wants to be Governor, and the other doesn’t.

Instead, our leverage is the two figures that set the tone for Seattle representation:
Mayor of Seattle and (especially) King
County Executive. As it gappens, both are up for election this Fall. A willingness to alienate a faction to build the system, as Nickels once did, is not a quality that obviously falls on the left/right spectrum that usually frames elections. I won't pretend to know which two of the four candidates are most likely to make hard decisions that anger sympathetic constituencies. But keep it in mind when
you vote.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I’m as woke as they come, but no Google AI, trans women are not born with Skene’s glands. Nor is there any known medical procedure for us to acquire them, for that matter. Why in god’s name is this thing so bad?

Key Takeaways

Skene's glands are a part of female anatomy: All transgender women are born with Skene's glands, and their presence is not a side effect of medical transition.

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