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Katelyn Burns
@transscribe
Freelance journalist Columnist: @MSNBC & @XtraMagazine Co-host: @cancelme_daddy Formerly: @voxdotcom Feminist @transscribe@mastodon.social
Dec 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It appears to me that swaths of James Somerton's video "An Overemotional Look at why JK Rowling is Bad" was lifted from my Dec 2019 article about her for Vox. vox.com/identities/201… He does not mention me, but he mentions Vox before lifting quotes from one of my main sources. i'm checking the rest of the transcript now for hints of any of my other work about JKR's transphobia.
Apr 14, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I hold the controversial opinion that trans people should be able to live lives unbothered by the government. It didn’t use to be that that take would get you called a “radical” or an “activist.” Yet here we are.
Mar 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Trans day of vengeance” has long been a trans community meme meant to exercise frustration with the way the rest of society constantly tramples on us. It’s not a call for violence, ffs. We came up with it because visibility is a double edged sword, so some of us said “we don’t need visibility, we need vengeance.” But if you read it as trans people seeking vengeance in a violent way, do you think it might be violence we are responding to?
Mar 10, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The governor mentions gender neutral bathrooms, which seems like a sensible compromise. But let’s say you have a set of gendered bathrooms and then a separate gender neutral space… Let’s also say that the GN bathroom is 3 minutes further away from the classrooms than the gendered bathrooms. This means a trans child misses 6 minutes more of classroom time than their cis peers when they need to use the bathroom.
Mar 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’ve frequently heard from parents who observed that their young kids exhibit gender non-conforming behavior or interests but haven’t said anything about their own gender.

I tell them that it’s normal and to make sure their kid knows they’re loved and supported. They’ll ask me if I thought their kid might be trans later and my honest answer is always “only your kid can to you that.” And then I tell the parent about the persistent, consistent, and insistent standard that a therapist would look for in evaluating for gender dysphoria.
Mar 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I know of probably 300 trans women who IDed as gay men before transition who were born around the time period in question here. It’s actually incredibly common for closeted trans girls to get socialized into a cis gay identity. Even today this happens. Image The lines between these identities are often fuzzy and kids and adolescents should be allowed to work through it all and come to their own conclusions without adult dickheads like Andrew Sullivan dictating that cis gay outcomes are naturally superior to trans outcomes.
Mar 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There are few guests better than Gillian for this I didn’t interact much with Ezra at Vox but he was always very cool and professional with me when we did.
Jan 22, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The Times positions this radical parents group as the truly sympathetic party in this piece. I would have approached this story by centering trans adults who weren’t accepted by their parents as kids and tell the story of how they navigated that at school.
Nov 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One potential takeaway from tonight is that the US is a center left country with a gerrymandering problem.

If republicans are going to turn in a historically poor midterm performance now in this moment, a lot of talking heads need to re-evaluate their priors on this stuff. Notice how statewide races are mostly breaking for Dems and the only GOP pick ups are coming from micro-dissected, newly gerrymandered districts? That’s no coincidence.
Nov 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Haven’t been to the Mullins Center in at least a decade and I’m legit getting emotional over being here again. Last time I was here they didn’t have the center Jumbotron and still had parquet floors lol
Nov 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Classic case for how disinformation gets spread on this website. This bus was put out by a right wing group in Spain that is actually associated with anti-trans activism. More specific details here
Oct 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I spent six years working on this and he just... tweeted it out can you imagine if even one of these major newspaper reporters who wrote panicky both sides pieces grounded their work in facts like Stewart does here?
Aug 9, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
While we’re talking about Catholicism, have I ever told the story about the holy water fight I got into when I was about 10? So growing up in the summer we would go to like a day camp at our local church in upstate NY. It wasn’t a summer long thing but I have a lot of memories from it.

Most of my friend group, with a few exceptions, also went to this church, including my best friend Steve.
Aug 7, 2022 • 15 tweets • 1 min read
I’m watching the Woodstock 99 documentary I remember Woodstock 94. I was 12. I lived in Hillsdale, NY then, just across the county, and we could faintly hear the bass reverberate off the Taconic Hills and ponds around my house.
Jul 31, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Ah yes the weekly Ana flogging. I used to work at one of the most evil commercial banks on the planet.
Jul 3, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Imagine you’re a guy on your way to an extremely high stakes medical procedure. It’s so high stakes in fact that you had to travel out of state for it. You’re nervous because without this procedure your life will never be the same again. You can’t wait for it to be over so you can move on.
Jul 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Brave claim to make in a little noticed article that mentions the word “women” more than two dozen times. Trans people: Hey y’all it would be nice if you could sometimes remember that trans men and non binary people sometimes need abortions too

Room temperature IQ writers: These disgusting trannies have literally outlawed the word women!
Jul 2, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Currently watching the worst WWII movie Winner:
Jun 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The quote tweets are full of liberals looking in the mirror, taking a deep breath and saying to themselves, “we have to be more transphobic” “The key to fighting fascists is to give in on everything that fascists ever get mad about”
Apr 14, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
In 10 years we’re going to get a wave of essays from trans adults who were trans kids who were forcibly detransitioned by the state and the devastating effect that had in their lives. Banning puberty blockers for trans kids means even more surgeries and therapy as adults to deal with the resulting dysphoria.
Mar 13, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I’m going through my phone trimming my contacts and reliving some truly embarrassing dating experiences Image 🥴🥴🥴 Image