Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️

Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️

@danielle-actually.bsky.social

Older than I look - doctor, public speaker, musician. Suing for workplace discrimination. Writes about Trans Liberation, Marginalised Communities, LGBTQI+ issues, Politics, Autocracy, Health Tech. #IDSky #WomenInMedicine

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By condensing a range of anxieties into a single enemy, the phrase ‘gender ideology’ produces “existential fear”—your core values are under attack!—that “can then be exploited” by authoritarians (as described by Judith Butler)

motherjones.comHow the right uses "gender ideology" to blame trans people for everythingMAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear.

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“Anthony Spirito, 28, came in from Hoboken to join the pro-Zohran crowd, holding a sign that said “MAGA Italians vanfunnculo,” Italian for ‘go fuck yourself.’” EPIC 🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽

Michael Luongo@michaelluongo.bsky.social

this is fantastic - yeah, Danny Devito is a good idea for a statue - and don't forget Madonna nygroove.nyc/italians-for...

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Funny how when Rogue One was first announced, I wondered if something as diaphanously light as Star Wars could support a more grounded exploration of war and fascism, and now the franchise has found its true voice (and relevancy) again in exactly that.

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Happy Birthday, Cyndi Lauper! 22 June 1953 From pop queen to fierce LGBTQ+ advocate—you’ve always let your true colors shine. #CyndiLauper #80sMusic #TrueColors #QueerIcon #QueerAlly

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Today the Supreme Court used the greatest hits of discredited anti-trans, pseudoscientific ideas in order to rule against the equal access of trans kids to healthcare.

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Excellent work from Natacha. This section on new NHS gender services for children is really worrying. “We (a healthcare service for trans children) may not be gender affirming”

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social

TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

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Replying to @erininthemorning.com

This entire rhetoric of "Oh, maybe we're just being too confrontational towards the people who very openly want us to not exist" really isn't a winning strategy. Ask Victor Klemperer how well trying to be nice and quiet and complying works.

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This is EXACTLY why the US Christo-fascist right-wing poured so much money into funding ‘gender critical’ transphobic litigation in the UK - to legitimate transphobia-tainted rulings and so they can then export the trans-hostile judgements to use back in US States! 😣 It’s Laundering transphobia! 😖

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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Happy 1 month anniversary to the release of my debut book, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman. Thank you to everyone who has grabbed a copy, read it, written me about it, posted about it, listened to the audiobook, and more. Thank you everyone who helped get me here, here's to the days ahead.

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Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."

sltrib.comUtah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?

The best thread 🧵 on old-school self-promoting A-holes

Movies Silently@moviessilently.bsky.social

DW Griffith directed BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), a virulently racist film (and neither his first nor his last one of those) that saw racist violence follow wherever it was screened. So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon. Thread

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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect