Gillian Branstetter

On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself. Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end

"We’ve locked ourselves in the stupidest possible version of Plato’s cave...what looks like the spontaneous consensus of the hive mind is often just shadows on the wall, put there by marketers, political operatives, foreign-influence campaigns, or anyone else with a few hundred bucks"

He's the crooked urologist they brought in to treat gunshot wounds on The Sopranos

"The general consensus I see from Bluesky users is a sort of indigence or confusion as to why the rest of the world is trapped in a right-wing echo chamber that they don’t care about. It’s because their little doomsday bunker has not really affected the apocalypse raging beyond their walled garden"

Soon after this post was created Floosh pivoted to AI and built a data center that will drop the SAT scores of every high school in a 200 mile radius

I've returned to Bluesky to yell at you about books

I think these criticisms are easily misunderstood - he's talking about candidates for office and it's a critique of shallow representation over redistributive politics; I don't see this as saying we shouldn't fight for the safety and dignity of marginalized people.

Three weeks ago

Everyone read Judith Herman

Transgender adolescents who were unable to access gender-affirming hormone therapy were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could, according to new data from the Trevor Project. 87% of those currently on hormone therapy are very concerned about losing it

Under Idaho state law a trans person would now face less of a penalty for peeing on the steps of the state capitol than using the "wrong" bathroom