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‘Hate’ isn’t an element in H2O
Hate isn’t part of the water. We can see it. Transphobia and racism are harmful and wrong, even if they’re technically legal where we are. We can recognize them and know why they are wrong.
Jesse Singal detransitions
He’s packed up his comments, hooray. If your main gig is scaremongering about the idea that somewhere a hypothetical child is changing their sex, please detransition away from that activity.
Wanting to see and know: Positives and negatives of trans visibility
A tiny Chanukah reflection. Our terms, the formal definitions we’d give if asked, the way we informally use words: these are the detectors with which we make our way through the world.
‘Hate’ isn’t an element in H2O
Hate isn’t part of the water. We can see it. Transphobia and racism are harmful and wrong, even if they’re technically legal where we are. We can recognize them and know why they are wrong.
Jesse Singal detransitions
He’s packed up his comments, hooray. If your main gig is scaremongering about the idea that somewhere a hypothetical child is changing their sex, please detransition away from that activity.
Wanting to see and know: Positives and negatives of trans visibility
A tiny Chanukah reflection. Our terms, the formal definitions we’d give if asked, the way we informally use words: these are the detectors with which we make our way through the world.
A few drops of context: On snatching the Panama Canal
And why Trump is talking about trans people too. On Day One, it will be the official policy of the Trump administration that no one is allowed to be trans. Let’s talk about erasures.
He lied on his college applications and went to prison
‘Conning Harvard’ gives an example of what not to do. Adam Wheeler made headlines in 2010 when it was discovered he’d been admitted to Harvard under false pretenses. His prize-winning work had been faked too.
Publishing doctors’ names is a threat
The Nuremberg Files was 1990s anti-abortion doxxing. Some who presumably accessed ACLA material went on to murder abortion doctors. The court awarded millions of dollars in damages. The website was deleted.