Brie
@briagne.bsky.social
Tech-services-adjacent health sciences librarian. She/they.
See also: https://mastodon.social/@briagne
See also: https://mastodon.social/@briagne
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The basic truth is the University of Oklahoma fired an instructor because she had the audacity to do her job while trans. Media like CNN are complicit in simultaneously pushing the anti-trans narrative and covering up the brutal outcomes of this societal purge.
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The basic truth is the University of Oklahoma fired an instructor because she had the audacity to do her job while trans. Media like CNN are complicit in simultaneously pushing the anti-trans narrative and covering up the brutal outcomes of this societal purge.
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Therapists push back as the anti-trans group Therapy First has slipped its way into providing continuing education to medical professionals. @veraeikon.bsky.social provides original reporting for this story exclusively on Assigned Media.
Therapists Push Back on Anti-Trans Continuing Education — Assigned
Assigned Media investigates as the anti-trans organization Therapy First has begun offering continuing education to medical professionals.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Therapists push back as the anti-trans group Therapy First has slipped its way into providing continuing education to medical professionals. @veraeikon.bsky.social provides original reporting for this story exclusively on Assigned Media.
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This trans instructor was doing her job, giving a failing grade to a student who cynically did not comply w the assignment.
The instructor was targeted by Turning Point USA who worked hand in glove w the student in a highly orchestrated media hit job to advance its anti-trans hate campaign
The instructor was targeted by Turning Point USA who worked hand in glove w the student in a highly orchestrated media hit job to advance its anti-trans hate campaign
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This trans instructor was doing her job, giving a failing grade to a student who cynically did not comply w the assignment.
The instructor was targeted by Turning Point USA who worked hand in glove w the student in a highly orchestrated media hit job to advance its anti-trans hate campaign
The instructor was targeted by Turning Point USA who worked hand in glove w the student in a highly orchestrated media hit job to advance its anti-trans hate campaign
This thread puts into words a lot of what I've been struggling with for a while, and especially in the last 24 hours.
I don't want anyone to hate on the ppl who are trying to reassure trans ppl right now, but I also want allies to appreciate that, "Yes, GOP are constantly passing harsher and harsher laws, but they haven't made your health care a felony YET and they probably won't right now" isn't that reassuring.
December 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This thread puts into words a lot of what I've been struggling with for a while, and especially in the last 24 hours.
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all the articles you read about this will say it "would charge doctors" but there is nothing in the bill limiting the felony crime to medical providers. you could write "would charge parents" and be just as correct. news outlets downplay it because news outlets are transphobic.
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
all the articles you read about this will say it "would charge doctors" but there is nothing in the bill limiting the felony crime to medical providers. you could write "would charge parents" and be just as correct. news outlets downplay it because news outlets are transphobic.
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This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands.
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands.
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
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remember when some of y'all were welcoming her to the resistance ... please, next time she mildly criticizes trump, please remember she's still the enemy, trying to hurt my family specifically. and they aren't gonna stop with minors.
This is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill. Today she claimed, "For far too long, children have been sexually exploited under the malicious falsehood of so-called gender-affirming care."
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors.
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
remember when some of y'all were welcoming her to the resistance ... please, next time she mildly criticizes trump, please remember she's still the enemy, trying to hurt my family specifically. and they aren't gonna stop with minors.
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Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
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cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”
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great job whipping votes @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social you useless sack of shit. without three Dem defectors this doesn't pass, and now every American family with a trans kid gets to sleep worse worrying about this going to the Senate.
Breaking: House Republicans pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to criminalize doctors that provide gender-affirming care for trans kids. Her bill imposes jail time penalties up to 10 years. Now, it's headed to the Senate where it is not likely to advance as it would need 7 Democrats to sign on
December 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
great job whipping votes @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social you useless sack of shit. without three Dem defectors this doesn't pass, and now every American family with a trans kid gets to sleep worse worrying about this going to the Senate.
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BREAKING NEWS: The House of Representatives has just passed H.R. 3492, an anti-trans bill that would charge healthcare providers with a felony for providing medically necessary care to transgender young people,
December 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
BREAKING NEWS: The House of Representatives has just passed H.R. 3492, an anti-trans bill that would charge healthcare providers with a felony for providing medically necessary care to transgender young people,
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This is what Ezra Klein and Gavin Newsom want the Democrats to compromise with: Folks who believe there is an actual traitorous angel who is rebelling against God by creating my health care regimen. We're meant to believe those will be the folks with a lot of good ideas to move the country forward
"For too long Democrats have tried to mainstream satanic irreversible procedures which destroy the bodies of young children," said Nancy Mace (R-SC), falsely stating that taking HRT leads to disease and cancer.
She calls being transgender a "mind virus"
She calls being transgender a "mind virus"
December 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This is what Ezra Klein and Gavin Newsom want the Democrats to compromise with: Folks who believe there is an actual traitorous angel who is rebelling against God by creating my health care regimen. We're meant to believe those will be the folks with a lot of good ideas to move the country forward
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Criminal president pardons criminal representative so he can declare trans children criminals
Republicans voting against the felony national trans youth healthcare ban were Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Gabe Evans (CO), Michael Lawler (NY), Mike Kennedy (UT).
Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
3 NVs on both sides.
Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
3 NVs on both sides.
December 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Criminal president pardons criminal representative so he can declare trans children criminals
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"To be clear, the movement to ban books has never been about protecting our children. It’s about censorship, and about controlling ... young people..."
Bingo!
time.com/7341120/book...
Bingo!
time.com/7341120/book...
December 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"To be clear, the movement to ban books has never been about protecting our children. It’s about censorship, and about controlling ... young people..."
Bingo!
time.com/7341120/book...
Bingo!
time.com/7341120/book...
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Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
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NEW: Wondering how a college student's homework assignment worth 25 points becomes a national controversy?
With @joyurcaba.bsky.social we unraveled how it happened after a Univ of Oklahoma student emailed politicians and activists about her grade dispute www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
With @joyurcaba.bsky.social we unraveled how it happened after a Univ of Oklahoma student emailed politicians and activists about her grade dispute www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
How an Oklahoma student's gender essay became a national culture war fight
Conservative activists and politicians have rallied around a college student who received a zero on an essay. Some grad students said they’re worried about what happens next.
www.nbcnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
NEW: Wondering how a college student's homework assignment worth 25 points becomes a national controversy?
With @joyurcaba.bsky.social we unraveled how it happened after a Univ of Oklahoma student emailed politicians and activists about her grade dispute www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
With @joyurcaba.bsky.social we unraveled how it happened after a Univ of Oklahoma student emailed politicians and activists about her grade dispute www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Saw transitioning in your 20s referred to as "later in life transition" and im gonna transition into dust
December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Saw transitioning in your 20s referred to as "later in life transition" and im gonna transition into dust
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
I'm still holding right around 2 books/week for #DecemberTransReadathon, which is over double my normal pace in recent years. Started A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett today.
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I'm still holding right around 2 books/week for #DecemberTransReadathon, which is over double my normal pace in recent years. Started A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett today.
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Some thoughts on some things I've been dealing with lately. 1/6
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December 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Some thoughts on some things I've been dealing with lately. 1/6
On to my third book in #DecemberTransReadathon, which has me reading more consistently than I have in ages. Today's new start is Stag Dance by Torrey Peters.
December 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
On to my third book in #DecemberTransReadathon, which has me reading more consistently than I have in ages. Today's new start is Stag Dance by Torrey Peters.
Day four of #DecemberTransReadathon and I'm finally starting a new book! I finished For the Love of April French last night and am now on to A/S/L by @jeannethornton.bsky.social (whose Summer Fun I greatly enjoyed last month.)
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Day four of #DecemberTransReadathon and I'm finally starting a new book! I finished For the Love of April French last night and am now on to A/S/L by @jeannethornton.bsky.social (whose Summer Fun I greatly enjoyed last month.)
This seems fun. I just started For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes yesterday. #DecemberTransReadathon
December 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This seems fun. I just started For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes yesterday. #DecemberTransReadathon
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Thinking about the trans grad student placed on admin leave at OU. A lot of talk centers around the student, but I suspect the story's rightful center is the instructor. It feels like she is the target of a bad-faith trap. 🧵 1/?
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Thinking about the trans grad student placed on admin leave at OU. A lot of talk centers around the student, but I suspect the story's rightful center is the instructor. It feels like she is the target of a bad-faith trap. 🧵 1/?