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Mar 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Listen I know everyone's dunking on this trash fire of a book but I can't cope with the sheer fantasy that only *months* after half the world's population disappears, things are somehow stable in any way.
Like? How sheltered was this author from COVID and covid deaths? I'm gonna guess extremely.
Has anyone asked her if there are any intersex women in her book (or disappeared from it, due to chromosomes)? I would eat my hat if there are.
And you know, the only reason (besides straight up TERF sympathies) to specify by chromosome rather than gender would be that you're super into the interesting medical science and the repurcussions that has.

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My feed today should be a wake up call. It should show you that trans lives are under threat right now in the US. You should be afraid. God knows we are.
Even if you don't give a flying fuck about trans people, you should care, because I promise you; it won't stop here.
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