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@dolphindiaries.bsky.social
emma, she/her. detrans NB lesbian, transfeminist. writing about detransition for trans liberation, bodily autonomy, and informed consent.
co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social
links: dolphindiaries.carrd.co
fiction: @mzakharuk.bsky.social
co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social
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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Doctors, famous for having no problems giving trans people treatment
It's very simple: you struggled to access your bodily autonomy, and eventually got it, and trans people did the same. Now you're using the arguments that were used to harm you, to harm others. That last part I cannot make sense of.
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Doctors, famous for having no problems giving trans people treatment
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#MilkTeaAlliance Thailand, Solidarity Collective TH & Thai 4 Palestine are running a digital sticker sale to raise funds to support the victims of the flooding in Southern Thailand.
Available here:
friendii.art/milkteatha
Available here:
friendii.art/milkteatha
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
#MilkTeaAlliance Thailand, Solidarity Collective TH & Thai 4 Palestine are running a digital sticker sale to raise funds to support the victims of the flooding in Southern Thailand.
Available here:
friendii.art/milkteatha
Available here:
friendii.art/milkteatha
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Just 65€ away from the goal! I’m really grateful to everyone! 🧡 Every bit helps to pay this month’s rent. 🙏
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Just 65€ away from the goal! I’m really grateful to everyone! 🧡 Every bit helps to pay this month’s rent. 🙏
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Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
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I wish policy makers could given even half as much thought and compassion to the subject of trans youth and their support.
This is very much worth a read
This is very much worth a read
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I wish policy makers could given even half as much thought and compassion to the subject of trans youth and their support.
This is very much worth a read
This is very much worth a read
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Really, really good interview on the issues with restricting transition care, creating adversarial relationships between patients and providers and advocating for trans-hostile standards that harm trans people and detransitioners alike.
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Really, really good interview on the issues with restricting transition care, creating adversarial relationships between patients and providers and advocating for trans-hostile standards that harm trans people and detransitioners alike.
Had a great conversation with Aly and @androgynyfiend.bsky.social about trans healthcare, please check it out!
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Had a great conversation with Aly and @androgynyfiend.bsky.social about trans healthcare, please check it out!
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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
www.patreon.com/juliaserano
Get more from Julia Serano on Patreon
creating Writings!
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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"