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Goddamnit, you all called my bluff. Reach/engagement here is absolutely anemic compared to Bluesky, but we'll start posting again for you holdouts who never made the switch.
Assigned Media
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Assigned is a daily trans news website, founded by journalist Evan Urquhart.
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- Eliott Page is a good looking guy, but I am about to blow your mind right now by saying that the goal of transitioning from female to male is not, typically, to maximize our sexiness.
- Trump is reportedly going to sign a piece of paper later today declaring that the federal government defines me as a woman. If there's a better encapsulation of how stupid the whole "define woman" thing is and has always been I'd like to see it.
- A divide between (many) cis people and (many) trans people that cis folks may not realize is that trans people often actively avoid learning, and genuinely do not want to know, each other's deadnames.
- I want to slow this discourse down for a moment and be very clear and deliberate about why Armstromg's history of cheating in cycling is important and relevant here, beyond a cheap gotcha. (thread)
- Weird to see anti-trans folks hating on the Kristen Stewart photoshoot, surely one is allowed to be a gender nonconforming lesbian as long as one doesn't identify as anything other than a woman?
- In 20 years a prestige podcast will "discover" the gender-affirming care debate was a moral panic and share things like "the Cass Review found fewer than 10 detransitioners" to the scandalized delight of their audience and I'm gonna to try so hard to be gracious about it.
- Parents of trans youth spent hours pouring their hearts out to an NYT reporter. They thought she empathized with them, and trusted her with their stories.
- Replying to @assignedmediaIn the tweet, Armstrong's arguing there are nuances to trans participation in athletics that deserve discussion. And he's taking it as a given that a man who disgraced himself and all athletic competition with repeated egregious cheating, has a place leading that conversation.
- Replying to @assignedmediaA guy who didn't just cheat but pressured others to cheat, who helped make cheating the norm for his sport, casting a taint on it it still lingers under... THAT guy's voice going to be placed above ours, because he's cisgender? No. Get outta here.
- Replying to @assignedmediaThe authority Armstrong is relying on- the thing that gives him the standing to lead this conversation- is that he is cisgender. He is not even arguing it- it is assumed. He has the mantle of authority, his cheating is irrelevat, his cisgender identity is his authority.
- Replying to @assignedmediaBut because he left cycling in disgrace because he was a cheater, and he is specifically claiming a right as a cis person to decide questions of sports fairness, there's a little room here to say "No. Wait a minute. This fucking guy doesn't get to weigh in on sports fairness."
- Replying to @assignedmediaCultural divides can be hard to put into words, but I'd describe cis people's attitude towards a trans person's deadname as a deliciously naughty piece of gossip, while trans people see it as an unpleasant personal intrusion like knowing what someone's farts smell like.
- BREAKING: Missouri's largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group is circulating a highly unusual warning, advising trans people and their families not to speak with NYT reporter Azeen Ghorayshi for an upcoming NYT podcast on gender-affirming care for youth.