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Christina Dalcher
@CV_Dalcher
Author of VOX. Linguist/phonetician, diver, dog-lover, gardener. Pro nouns, anti adverbs. Banner credit: @moleatthedoor
Feb 10 • 23 tweets • 10 min read
Okay. It’s time to talk about the difference between

BANNING a book

&

Labeling a book INAPPROPRIATE for kids

Because, truly, I am sick of this wah-wah-wah-ing over the fact that some books, no matter how well written ore noteworthy, just aren’t meant for children.

🧵 1/ Background::

The Big Five (translation: the entire publishing industry, effectively) has filed a lawsuit seeking to bar enforcement of Idaho HB 710, which requires books deemed ‘harmful to minors’ to be segregated in an adults-only area.

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Feb 7 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
If you were, say, an author of dystopian novels, you’d need look no further than the Free Speech Union’s weekly roundup of Evil Stuff That Actually Happened in the UK.

No gender ideology in this thread, but I think all my posts should mention trans stuff—just in case. 😉

🧵 1/ Image Evil Thing # 1:

Former Royal Marine arrested for ‘publishing threatening material with intent to stir up racial hatred’ – a 12-minute Facebook video urging people to stage peaceful protests about illegal immigration

Happy ending: unanimously acquitted by jury in 17 minutes.

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Feb 6 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
While we wait for the legal challenges to Trumps Executive Order keeping males out of female sports, I suspect the main argument will be that discriminating against transgender people is discrimination on the basis of sex.

i.e. arguments will lean on Bostock v Clayton Cty

🧵 1/ Image Such a challenge looks like it would mirror the Dept of Education’s previous arguments in favor of conflating ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ for purposes of rewriting Title IX, which didn’t enjoy much success if we look at Tennessee v Cardona:

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Feb 2 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Democrats in November 2024:

“Anti-transgender political ads are dominating the airwaves!”

Want to talk about dominating the airwaves? Let’s take a stroll through several years of companies pushing genderism down our throats.

🧵 1/ Image Remember when Nike thought it was a good idea to dress Dylan Mulvaney in a sports bra and film him cavorting around like a lunatic? (2023)

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Feb 1 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Why can’t we just let people be who they want to be?

I’ll tell you why:

That’s EXACTLY what we all were doing for years.

Right up until a bunch of other things started happening.

Like what, you ask? Read on dear reader. Read on.

🧵 1/ Four-year-olds are the market for picture books about ‘trans’ teddy bears (2015):

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Jan 28 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Question of the Hour:

ARE ‘TRANSGENDER’ MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY NON-DEPLOYABLE?

This veteran says they cannot be combat-deployed (he also says they are non-deployable in general). 👇

Let’s think about the issues surrounding trans-identifying people in the armed forces. 🧵

1/ First, Military Service by Transgender Persons & Persons With Gender Dysphoria: An Implementation Handbook clearly states:

“Service members will deploy if they are medically qualified to do so”

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Jan 22 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Trump’s latest Executive Action (not an Executive Order, btw) demands the Federal Aviation Administration return to merit-based hiring practices.

This is a good thing. ✈️ 😊

But…the very same DEI policies were in the FAA during Trump’s 1st term! 🧵

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“I hereby order the Secretary of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administrator to immediately return to non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring, as required by law.  All so-called DEI initiatives, including all dangerous preferencing policies or practices, shall immediately be rescinded”

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Nov 7, 2024 • 21 tweets • 10 min read
Still being called a ‘fool’ (& worse things) for my tweets about abortion, Federalism, voter turnout in state-level elections, inability to recognize that Roe v Wade spent a half-century being ripe for overturning, & bad understanding of basic civics.

One last ditch effort to engage in a *rational conversation. Read if you like. 😊 

🧵 1/ The meta-question:

To the extent one sincerely believes abortion will be completely banned at the federal level (i.e., no woman will have access to an abortion), exactly how will this ban come into being? What must happen in the federal and state legislatures or in the federal and state courts or in the executive branch of the federal government in order for abortion to be illegal throughout the United States.

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Oct 19, 2024 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
Andrew Sullivan is right.
Rachel Levine, @HHS_ASH, must go.

The Assistant Secretary of @HHSGov has been pushing the child butchery known as ‘gender-affirming medicine’ for years, but his recent interference with WPATH age limits is the final straw.

andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/rachel-levin…Image “WPATH, conferred with Levine. They gave her [sic] an early embargoed version of SOC-8, w/ lower age limits for some treatments, & her office responded, horrified. They feared the listing of “specific minimum ages for treatment…under 18, will result in devastating legislation for trans care”

#FireLevine #LevineMustResign
Aug 19, 2024 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
🎥 The film thread you’ve all been waiting for! 🎥

Here they are, the actors who didn’t need Harry Potter to make them famous (because they already were or would have been anyway), and the movies I associate them with.

Lights! Camera! Action!

🧵1/ Alan Rickman
TRULY MADLY DEEPLY (1990) ♥️ 😢

If this doesn’t drive you to tears, you ain’t human.

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Jun 26, 2024 • 33 tweets • 5 min read
A friend asked if I would compile some of the comments made specifically by publishing professionals in either their replies or their quote tweets to the announcement of the @SEENPublishing network.

So here we go. Ready?
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1/ First, I am not naming names or taking (any additional) screenshots at this time.

Rather than call individuals to account, I think it’s more important to focus on the things people in positions of power within the publishing industry have said in reference to GC authors.

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Jan 21, 2024 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Hang onto your hats.

This is going to be a long thread of embarrassing quotes from politicians, athletes, & special interest groups reminding us that the thing that’s happening in San Francisco isn’t actually happening. 🧵

#SaveWomensSports 1/ Hakeem Jeffries D-NY / @RepJeffries

“MAGA Republicans are trying to sensationalize an issue that doesn't really exist in the way that they are falsely portraying” 2/

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Mar 31, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Our fearless leader @POTUS is certainly busy today with all these proclamations, statements, fact sheets, and round tables!

A short 🧵on the government efforts to make this the best #TransDayOfVisibility ever!

1/ “Today, to hear directly about the joys, hopes, and challenges that transgender children are experiencing, the White House will host a Roundtable on Affirming Transgender Kids”

No information so far on who will be sitting at the roundtable. Feel free to guess.

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