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Mar 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I’ve never had anything but polite interactions with Ky so I’m not sure why they blocked me but I did a whole-ass podcast about this after Ky changed their mind and you can listen to it here: blockedandreported.org/p/episode-50-c…
Good thread about this although I can’t see any of Ky’s responses but I’m sure they’re as insightful as always
“I lied about my views to a reporter and now I’m mad at her for misrepresenting me.” Very trustworthy narrator we have here.
Fwiw if I still worked at the Stranger I would happily add a postscript to the piece but I don’t so I can’t. If they want to do it, fine by me. I will say that Ky makes it sound now like they were wholly into GC feminism (or pretended to be) at the time and that’s just not true
The piece is way more nuanced (and pro transition) than Ky makes it sound but they’ve already established that they’re ok with lying to promote their own agenda so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Mar 14
Attention, please! A piece I have been working on for many months is out now at @reason. It’s about a #MeToo case at the University of Rochester that it not what it seems. reason.com/2022/03/14/how…
The so-called “predator” in this case is Florian Jaeger— or as @MotherJones called him, a “lecherous professor” who “made life hell” for students and colleagues alike. Sounds bad, right? motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
And yet, 4 separate investigations looked into Florian’s behavior and each one found that not only did he *not* violate university policy, they did find that his accusers repeatedly misrepresented both him and the very people they claimed were his victims. reason.com/2022/03/14/how…
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Mar 12
In honor of #DetransAwarenessDay, here’s the piece I wrote in 2017 that people actually burned in the street. There’s a lot I would change if I wrote it now but at the time finding detransitioners was difficult. Today? Not so much. thestranger.com/features/2017/…
At this point I’m very sick of talking about everything that happened afterward but this was just a small slice of the actual IRL harassment I received for writing a piece about detransitioners. There are 4 versions of this sticker. One has a picture of my face. Image
Detransitioners are perceived as a threat to trans people but instead of trying to silence them or deny they exist, it may actually benefit trans health care to improve assessment so fewer people are wrongly diagnosed or choose transition when they shouldn’t. #DetransAwarenessDay
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Feb 5
Congress considering capping travel nurse salaries while HCA CEO made $30 million in 2020 fiercehealthcare.com/finance/hca-he…
The travel nurse thing is complex: travel nurses can make 4 or 5 times as much as staff nurses and this is terrible for morale (and travel nurses are often younger/less experienced than their staff counterparts). But when these CEOs are making tens of millions a year… fuck off
Wild idea: start paying staff nurses what they’re worth and you won’t have to hire a bunch of travelers on there-month contracts
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Dec 20, 2021
This story of a trans guy’s phalloplasty is quite the read but I think people who come to this issue fresh might think this is a sure sign of dysphoria but it’s actually not uncommon and the feeling often goes away with age. ImageImage
I also thought I would magically grow a penis when I was a kid and was absolutely horrified by puberty but it turns out I was just a dyke.
Anyway here’s piece and if you’re wondering why there’s a huge hole in his thigh, that’s because that flesh is now his penis. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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Sep 9, 2021
And Jesse Singal’s book review did AT LEAST half of them
Anyone who does even cursory research on the “trans murder epidemic” quickly realizes that the vast majority of these are not hate crimes. Trans people usually get murdered for the same reasons as anyone else—DV, drugs, random bad luck etc. HRC won’t say this but it’s true.
The narrative about trans murder was wrong when I wrote this in 2019 and it’s still wrong today. Journalists and editors should really stop taking activists’ claims as fact. thestranger.com/slog/2019/09/2…
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Jun 21, 2021
Seattle City Council President and mayoral candidate refuses to attend Capitol Hill Pride because the organizers objected to an event charging white people a $10-$50 “reparations fee”
This event, which is to be held in a city park, is almost certainly illegal. You’d think the people who run the city would be aware of that but hey it’s Seattle.
More here by @jasonrantz, who I believe broke this particular oh-so-Seattle story mynorthwest.com/2983308/rantz-…?
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