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16 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
You don't have a right to know people are trans. And before someone asks, yes that includes sexual partners. People's histories aren't your beeswax.
For more on this, read:

digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/dlj/vol41/iss2…
Do you have an ethical and legal right not to engage in sexual acts you don't want? Absolute-fucking-ly. But that's very different from a broad, abstract right to know whether people are trans.
If your preferred legal landscape is one where trans folks have to decide between risking assault or murder for disclosing, and risking incarceration for not disclosing, you objectively suck.

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If anyone cares about my views, I’m tending towards no. You obviously can actually love it—that’s all fine. My concerns start with publicly professing love and engaging in fandoms, because that’s where it starts breathing life into her cultural power and transphobia.
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The truth is that I aggressively do not care what my gender identity is, have no idea what it really means to feel like a certain gender, and only claim words to the extent that it makes people act towards me in the ways I desire.
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Alright, everyone! I have decided that today is “Florence shows off papers and tries to get cited” day. Buckle up! All of the papers listed can be accessed for free on my website:

florenceashley.com/academic-publi…
This is my very first publication, which inspired the first special issue on trans law in Canadian history. It talks about how hate crime laws fail to protect trans people because they are based on misconceptions about the nature of transphobic violence.

muse.jhu.edu/article/684529
Some places like the UK make it a crime not to tell someone you’re trans before having sex. This paper argues that thick conceptions of privacy rooted in equality do a better job against these laws than ‘trans men are real men’.

digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/dlj/vol41/iss2…
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C'est avec grand plaisir que j'ai collaboré à cette première anthologie francophone portant sur l'approche trans-affirmative en santé des jeunes trans. Mon chapitre porte sur l'aspect légal des approche thérapeutiques.

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J'y explique comment l'approche correctrice viole les principes de la responsabilité professionnel, sort aussi voué à l'approche vigilante dans un futur rapproché. En fin de compte, seule l'approche trans-affirmative respecte tant l'esprit que la lettre du droit de la santé.
Pour écouter en version audio: anchor.fm/florence-ashle…
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Power doesn’t extend free speech to marginalized groups. I have a friend who’s facing multiple forms of academic punishment including a year of delay in their studies for standing up to transphobia. Why? Because apparently vocal self-advocacy is “disrespectful.”
Those using slurs and spreading discriminatory views are constantly defended as merely exercising their free speech, but when marginalized people complain about their oppression, merely raising one’s voice becomes disrespectful, unprofessional aggression that warrants a sanction.
Power has structured freedom of expression around tone, ensuring that those who harm can get off scot-free so long as they dehumanize with a smile. But if you are rightfully angry towards those who harass, discriminate, and harm? That falls outside the purview of free speech.
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