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  I think as trans people we are acutely aware that our enemy is patriarchy. But the people openly defending patriarchy, while our enemies, are less upsetting than the people who pretend their defence of patriarchy is actually somehow feminism. Weakening feminism by capitulating to patriarchy, and allowing patriarchal institutions to declare that's what feminism is, JK Rowling is a betrayer of women.

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  When JK Rowling dies, there will be some who piss on her grave out of the disrespect they feel she has earned, and others who think the queue is too long.

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  It's definitely worth saying that false accusations of rape are rare, but I feel uncomfortable about stopping there.Because if you just stop there, you get to ignore the fact that Black men in the United States are three and a half times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of sexual assault than white men. It's no news to Black people that prejudice pervades the justice system even though it's "not supposed to." Shifting the focus away from Black men in the US, I don&#3...

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  I would hesitate to call myself an expert in AI (I mean, I am an "expert in AI," but more specifically in a different bit of AI to LLMs, so I want to manage expectations) but I definitely know more about AI than the average person. Miss me with your condescending "you just don't understand it" excuses for my resistance to it.

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  I've said before that I think an increase in children being diagnosed with autism is good actually, not bad. This is not because I think more autistic people is better (although I don't think it'd necessarily be bad), but because, although it will be decades before we find out for sure, I strongly suspect it will correspond to a decrease in people being diagnosed with autism in adulthood. Which is to say fewer people having to wait decades for a diagnosis and therefore access to supp...

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  I've talked a lot about how the government and Starmer in particular say that children at an elevated risk of abuse should be exposed to the exact people statistically most likely to be their abusers. Because those kids are trans, that could be written off as simple transphobia in isolation. But it's not in isolation. When it's combined with restricting children's access to the internet and the attacks on neurodivergent diagnosis among children, a pattern begins to emerge. All...

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  Did you know...? You have a greater chance of winning the UK lottery twice in a row than you have of taking maximum falling damage in Dungeons & Dragons. It's true!

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  JK Rowling has made another crack about the "Gender Taliban." What a group that argues for more expansive autonomy has in common with the Taliban is anyone's guess, but that's not really the point. It's not that deep. People call her a Nazi, and she figures turnabout is fair play. But the difference is that JK Rowling is a Nazi. That is an accurate and supportable characterisation of her words and actions. To give a few examples, she shares with the Nazis an assumption th...

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  How it started / How it's going

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  Remember when the transphobes said they wanted the debate to be evidence-led? Whatever happened to that? Now they're declaring that their assumptions are good enough, and going so far as to conceal or refuse to collect evidence. Case in point: the Supreme Court ruling is based on the TERF dogma that "trans women are men" are therefore occupy the same economic position as men. A report from 2018 shows that 1/3 of employers would be less likely to hire a trans person, research from...