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A 3/5ths Compromise for the 21st Century There’s something almost admirable about the confidence, arrogance, or ignorance of a cisgender, heterosexual man sitting down to write 4,200 words explaining how an entire marginalized community should gracefully accept partial personhood for the sake of political convenience. Teed Rockwell
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A Response to Carolina Courier's Nostalgic Revisionism In light of my most recent essay, I thought to visit this series of articles if only to make the point that “When We Police Ourselves,” though written from the lens of “from trans people to trans people,” the framework put
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Supporting Politicians Who Want Them Dead Local parent revolutionizes child welfare by voting for candidates promising to eliminate their son's healthcare access. Child development experts hate them! In a stunning display of what George Orwell would call "protective rejection," a parent has bravely shared their innovative
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Well, folks, I've just finished reading what might be the most spectacular example of someone learning all the wrong lessons from their clinical experience. Dr. Dwight Panozzo, a PhD and LCSW who should definitely know better, has written "From Respect to Understanding," where they want us
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On Medical Ethics, Natural Function, and Constitutional Analysis Or: How to Spot Philosophers Who Should Maybe Stick to Trolley Problems Look, I get it. Philosophy can be hard. You spend years pondering whether chairs exist, arguing about zombies, and trying to figure out if a ship is still the same
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A Response to "My Beautiful Son" Well, folks, we've got ourselves another parent who's discovered the most shocking truth of all: their child is a whole separate person with their own identity. I know, I know; nobody warned them this could happen when they
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Or: A Citation Story - How to Debunk Yourself in 40 Easy Steps Remember in school when you'd cite Wikipedia for a paper and your teacher would give you that look? That "I'm not angry, just disappointed" look? Or for those closer to my
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Glenna Goldis’s Transmisic Propaganda Introduction Friends, we need to talk about Glenna Goldis and their contribution to the anti-trans echo chamber and propaganda machine. Their article ‘Why Therapists Trans Away the Gay’ - published on their aptly named ‘Bad Facts’ Substack [52] - is indeed
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Wherein we observe Helen Joyce's lack of self awareness (again) Hey folks, let's talk about Helen Joyce's latest piece where they discover a Spanish word and somehow manage to make it about trans people. Because apparently, everything is about trans people when you'
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An Inconvenient Truth about Dr. Torrance Stephens' article Credentials. Historical memory. And transgender rights. Three things that shouldn’t be in conflict, but here we are. Today we’re going to talk about Dr. Torrance Stephens (@crim3j0nes), a respected infectious disease scientist[1] who studied how prejudice literally kills
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How One Commenter Discovered the Revolutionary Concept of Consequences Friends, let me tell you a story about consequences. It's a concept that some folks find as foreign as a decent healthcare system in America, and today's protagonist is learning this lesson in real-time. Meet Darleen Lev,
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An Inconvenient Truth About Satire Sometimes the universe delivers a gift so perfect, you wonder if it's performance art. Enter Holly MathNerd (@hollymathnerd), whose comment on my satirical piece about oblivious parents of trans kids demonstrates exactly the behavior my satire was critiquing, except they did it unironically.