also is the 'criminal standard' for demonstrating that he was hostile because she was trans even meetable

yeah the idea that it wasn't harassment because his statements weren't 'oppressive or unacceptable' is like. okay then what is

but hey at least he was convicted of criminal damage 🙏

i would really love to stop having to cheerily narrativise my own history of transness while sensing the Gun that could be fired at me if i do it wrong

very useful having a combined sexual health clinic and GIC. they prescribed me PrEP on the spot

o7

@gemma.transwrites.world would you like something for trans writes on this after i go

she talks about struggling with drugs and mental health and stuff as a teenager and she’s clearly more comfortable reading brianna as a kind of tragic replica of her own struggles. brianna’s supposed phone addiction must be seen as a drug-adjacent thing rather than her needing community

i’ve not read her memoir but i’ve read plenty of its supplementary materials and she is simultaneously avoiding being tarred as an abuser/predator (for being complicit in illegal childhood transness) & projecting her own adolescent struggles onto her daughter

huge!!

you don’t need to be connected to the case for saying that someone committed a crime to cause legal problems. but in any case i’m a journalist and avoid any possibilities for libel

Very weird thing to say about a child who got home from school after his sibling was murdered and narrowly escaped being murdered himself

I think you've mistaken Onyx for a trans woman

would note that i've seen a couple of people gesturing to this as an AFAB problem (anti-trans violence against us not getting picked up by media; deadnaming and misgendering in death, etc), but in my experience all trans people are subject to this

Yeah it's really fucked - the father has made erratic statements as if he thought it would be better off if he AND his kids were dead in a way that seems to most specifically be about Onyx, given that they were the one who wasn't given any chance of getting away

I'm just trying to not impact court proceedings or enter any legal grey areas by accusing someone of a crime they've not been convicted of. All the relevant reporting says that he's confessed in both spoken and written form.

very thankful to @ilyarabbit.bsky.social for picking up on this and chasing it up