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Mar 9 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
A small but extraordinarily petty thing twitter has done.

#BlackLivesMatter and #BlackTransLivesMatter both used to have little icons when the hashtags were used (for quite some time). At some point in the past week, Twitter got rid of the one for BTLM (see: screenshot)
As you can see, I took this screenshot on the day the tweet was posted, so this is a change that Musk & Co. seems to have pushed through the removal of the icon within the last week, following the right-wing call to "eradicate transgenderism."

Unbelievably petty and gross, Elon.
How a tweet using that hasthag looked in June of last year () vs. how it looks this week ()
Is this a very, very small, tiny, symbolic thing? Absolutely.

Is it still gross that someone seems to have heard the Republican call to "eradicate transgenderism" and made the change (for a hashtag about black trans women who get murdered)? Yes. Musk is a ghoul.
I'd be really interested in understanding why Twitter *went out of its way* to change that. There are a lot of temporary hashflags (as I think they're called) linked to promotions, but this seemed to be a permanent one that was manually turned off.
Anyway, I took that screenshot just to see how long until Musk would change it, figuring that it was inevitable once the right came out and said "eradicate transgenderism entirely."

He is just the worst human being on the planet.

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Hey, did anyone mention during CNN's forum of slow-pitch softball questions for Youngkin mention that Youngkin's policies about restrooms are against the law? Or...?
Seriously, the way that Youngkin has just ignored the years-worth of rulings in the Gavin Grimm case and not been called out on being a lawless ghoul because he wears a sweater vest is such an indictment of the media.
Youngkin's party is now calling for the "eradication" of people like me, but sure, just float that uncharismatic crash test dummy some questions about saying the pledge of allegiance, instead, and letting him dance around challenging topics.
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another perfect example how the reactionary centrist "just asking questions" crew will hold up example after example of people being mean to them on the internet, but never respond to direct questions about their beliefs. 1/2 ImageImageImageImage
See? No response. As soon as @benryanwriter gets asked a direct question from a trans person about his beliefs, he disappears and pretends he never saw them. 2/2 Image
But hey, if some account with 2 followers tweets, "you are a poopy head," he'll screen cap it and be like, "see? The transes are relentless and only engage in ad hominems!"

Thank you, @benryanwriter for proving my point about how you, Chait, Yglesias, etc. dodge real questions.
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Been kind of 👀 to see how few outlets have picked up on this genuinely explosive story...
2,600 pages of leaked emails showing a coordinate effort on the right to purge trans people from society, confirming what so many of us have long thought... and... has anyone other than Mother Jones covered this??
Like, people will be like, "Hey, how dare you say major media outlets are biased against trans people?!" but the fact is that major media outlets ignore this stuff.
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Hmm... wonder if the disproportionate and obsessive media coverage has anything to do with this. 🤔 Image
But sure, let's just keep running front page stories being like, "Hey? Think there are too many of these people around these days? Like, we're not sayin' anything 😉 but sure seems like there are more of them... and that, for reasons we won't ever quite articulate, that's bad."
And all of this is people talking *about* us, not *with* us. And it's certainly not as the result of us, speaking for ourselves, in media.

For real, I'd love for never have to write about this topic ever again. I just need lawmakers to stop targeting us for dubious reasons,
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Lol, Ben Shapiro is the only person who actually has autogynephilia, lol.
"Look, I just hire sweet, sweet, sexy, lady clones of myself, what can I say?"
Also, I don't know why it's so unnerving to me that her voice is deeper than his, but it is.
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Hey, look, the reactionary centrist argument that many children who socially transition go on to medically transition later on, so it's fair to frame social transition as quasi-medical and be very skeptical about, too.... turns out to be a workshopped right-wing talking point.
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Because they view that as a bad thing.

They sort of gesture at stories about detransitioners, without explaining what that's supposed to tell us.
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