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Transfeminine jurist and bioethicist | Ass. prof at @UAlbertaLaw | Clerked at @SCC_eng | BCL/JD, LLM (Bioeth) at @LawMcGill , SJD at @UofT
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🚨📚 Today is release day for my new book Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body!
Asking what we can learn from sexual arousal, the book takes an incredibly raw and thought-provoking look at community, queerness, fetishization, trauma, and hope.
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Cis people will literally call a car 'she' and then claim pronouns are about biological reality.
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In the flavour of “Nazis don’t care if you hate them but they hate being ridiculed,” I give you this genius idea of what to do with swastika graffiti.
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Setting aside the existence of trans people, you do realize there’s countless scenarios where a man may need to get a tampon or pad for someone else, right?
And that it’s presumably not a bad thing that they can do so without entering the women’s washroom?
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I am told that the headlines really undersell how rad my tattoo is. I agree.
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One thing I learned studying law is that a lot of what people do every day is illegal and much of our ability to live in society is predicated on the discretionary non-application of laws.
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I just saw someone on a dating app listed as non-binary and straight and holy fuck what does that mean.
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RIP cishet men can’t get dates if women have standards
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Society: “Let’s queer-code villains so no one will want to be queer.”
Queers: “Be gay do crimes. Step on me evil lady.”
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JK Rowling: “I am very comfortable persecuting trans people because I am rich.”
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Excuse me
@Twitter
but what the fuck? This dude is literally calling for the mass murder of Jewish people IN HIS HANDLE, and you’re telling me it’s a-okay? This wasn’t an automated message either; this is multiple days after I reported.
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That’s not what the study even says, you incompetent buffoons.
Most gender-confused children grow out of it, landmark 15-year study concludes - as critics say it shows being trans is usually just a phase for kids
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I wish discourse around the relationship of consenting adults with large age gaps would move away from the yes-or-no morality of these relationships towards a discussion of how to have ethical and empowering relationships under conditions of stark power asymmetry.
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There’s a study from 2000 that has only ever been cited 8 times, but in which 77% of police officers admitted that they would lie under oath under some circumstances (n=508). Oh and the study had evidence that a chunk of the other 23% were lying.
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AMAB/AFAB are not categories you should be using to define or allocate social spaces. I don’t care if you’re queer or trans. There’s no meaningful unity in them, no good reason to put cis women and trans men in the same social space while excluding trans women.
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In 1972, abortion was criminal throughout Canada. And there was this doctor, Henry Morgentaler, practising in Québec. He was a staunch supporter of the right to choose and a leading provider of abortion care in the country.
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How dare we hold an astrophysics panel without inviting the flat earthers.
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“We don’t let 16 year olds drink, why should we let them get gender-affirming care.”
Bitch, we give 16 year olds life sentences.
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I'm not sure how to tell you this, INTO, but I was being very sarcastic.
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Back in 1995, Umberto Eco sketched a general description of fascism. I think his list of characteristics is quite informative. 🧵
(1) Cherry-picked and incoherent traditionalism that identifies the past as a source of revelation and virtue;
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Trans movement: “Maybe don’t categorize gender by people’s genitals.”
Some queers who are totally not transphobic:
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And so it was that some twelve years before abortion was officially decriminalized in Canada, Québec de facto decriminalized abortion. Not by legislation. Not by judicial fiat. But by a population that refused to recognize the legitimacy of an unjust law.
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Society to trans men and women: “I just don’t think you’re really men and women. You’re more like something in between.”
Society to non-binary people: “There’s only men and women. You can’t be ‘something else’. Stop trying to be a special snowflake and just pick one.”
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Being trans is fun because all the anti-trans laws and media makes you want to die, but people still somehow claim that we transition because it’s ‘hip’ or an ‘easy solution’.
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Hogwarts Legacy feels like a small fish when Republicans have declared open season on trans youths. Yet I can’t help but think—if people won’t even avoid a video game they like in support of trans people, will they ever show up when more is asked of them?
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“She just did that to hide her gender and live as a man” is the cis version of “they were just really good friends.”
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I’d be perfectly fine receiving a yearly COVID shot for the rest of my life.
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Her clinic was closed over concerns that they were engaging in conversion therapy. Their publications reveal clear attempts to prevent kids from growing up trans, and only begrudgingly let a few kids on blockers. She was always a transphobe.
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Like, I’m okay with non-binary people being straight but this is a dating app—who are you into?
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The idea that homophobes are just closeted gays is so close to the point but misses it completely. It’s not that homophobes are gay. It’s that heterosexuality is a prison, an impossible standard. And ‘straight’ people hate being reminded of their failure to live up to it.
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I appreciate the sentiment behind the “people saying humanities are useless for decades is why we have Nazis” but have you considered the fact that there’s plenty of Nazis in the humanities? They’re a dime a dozen in fields like history, anthropology, law, and classics.
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I love how US law goes “ignorance of the law is not a defence… unless you’re a cop, a job that’s about enforcing the law, in which case qualified immunity is expressly a defence if you violate people’s rights out of ignorance.”
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If you’re going to oppose gender-affirming care on the pretext that it’s based on “low quality evidence,” I’m going to need you to be consistent and oppose the interminable list of other medical practices that are based on “low quality evidence.”
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Calling trans people depraved freaks just for being trans are really insulting to those of us trans folk who work really hard to be depraved freaks.
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Cis followers, out of curiosity, are you aware that someone (who was recently a BBC source on a trans “story”) just called for the lynching of named trans women and generally for the death of trans women?
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Cis people: Trans women are just stereotyping women, thinking that wearing a dress makes you a woman.
Also cis people: I'm denying you access to hormone replacement therapy because you didn't wear a dress for the appointment.
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Is there a way I can use ADHD to trick myself into exercising? Any good way of gamifying it? Of turning it into dopamine?
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“Non-standard” surgeries like vagina-preserving phalloplasties aren’t a caprice. They’re not “weird” interventions that should be discouraged in favour of “standard” gender-affirming care. They’re just as legitimate. Trans care is about autonomy, not about “normalizing” bodies.
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The sheer level of transphobia involved in using a picture of surgeons during surgery for a promoted piece about puberty blockers—which are really fucking far from surgery.
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When people talk about how many kids are coming out as trans at their child’s school and contrast it to how few of their generation has done the same, I can’t help but remember the countless adults who privately told me that they would come out as non-binary if they were younger.
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“Be gay, do crimes” is not just a queer slogan. When fascists make medical care illegal, it’s also a bioethical principle.
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A group of researchers unironically made a set of “consensus guidelines” on parenting trans youths and then excluded recommendations like “don’t deadname your kid” because a bunch of transphobic parents disagreed. I can’t make this up. That’s why I don’t trust cis researchers.
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Conservatives being attracted to and having sex with those they spout hate about isn’t hypocrisy or a self-own. It’s a testament to the fact that, for so many people, sex is about domination rather than love.
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Transgender health: somehow the only field where decreased suicidality is not evidence of being ‘life-saving’.
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Whenever I tell people on dating apps that I'm trans and they reply that they're bisexual/pansexual, what I hear is “it’s okay you’re actually a man, I’m into that.”
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The main problem with “trans rights are human rights” is that people don’t actually care about human rights.
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It will soon be 10 years since Asperger Syndrome was removed from the DSM with its 5th edition (2013). How long until clinicians stop using it? The general public?
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Now ask yourself: how scary would it be if people started religiously enforcing every single law against you? How quickly would your life crumble?
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For my birthday today, I ask that nobody does a transphobia. Nowhere. No transphobia allowed.
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Transphobes: “Nordic countries are super progressive and even they are questioning trans healthcare.”
The Nordic countries in question: *forced trans people to grt sterilized to change their gender markers until recently, and have a long history of unrepentant eugenics*
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I wonder what psychiatric diagnoses would be like if they tried to capture what it feels for the person instead of the aspects of it that are noticeable to and, especially, inconvenient third parties.
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I’m ineligible for the monkeypox vaccine even though I’m transfeminine and have sex with plenty of trans folks because I’m not “a man who has sex with men” and therefore not at risk. The logic is just… *chef’s kiss*
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If you're Black, if you're marginalized, if someone decides they have it out for you, this can become your reality from one day to the next. And the legal system won't offer any protection because discretion is built into it.
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Gender expression is a first amendment right. Banning social transition is an attack on free speech.
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It’s so fucking funny that I managed to publish this footnote as part of a peer-reviewed article in a serious and well-respected law and medicine journal.
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Not to piss off TERFs, but I’m on the first page of Google Image results when you search for “woman”.
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I don't think cisgender people realize just how exhausting it is, just living in the awareness of the sheer societal hatred for trans people. I also don't think they realize how just how things have been getting progressively worse in the last few years.
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I’m glad Elliot Page is drawing attention to the difficulties experienced by trans communities because god damn do people not give a shit about trans people when we’re talking about the harassment, discrimination, and violence we experience, unless a celebrity is coming out.
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Too many white women take gender equality to mean “now it’s my turn to oppress.”
Gov. Kim Reynolds is now signing the law banning transgender women and girls from competing in female sports.
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Just realized I can make this joke now:
I’m 6 feet, 0 inches... and those are two measurements. 😏
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I’m always amused when gender conforming cis women who have never broken a gender norm in their life complain about trans women “stereotyping” and “making a mockery” of womanhood. Like okay hun.
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At this point, the government had to concede. Ahead of a fourth trial, the new attorney general dropped all charges. They had vigorously tried to enforce the law, but it was simply unenforceable. In the entire province of Québec, they could not find a jury that would convict.
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As trans folks have been saying all along, anti-trans bathroom policies aren’t about where people should pee but about who gets to exist in public spaces at all.
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He openly defied the law; there was no doubt about it. And so the government charged him, threatened him with prison. In court, he admitted to violating the law. The jury ignored the plain text of the law and rendered a verdict of not guilty.
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Someone asked about what trans conversion practices entail, in light of the UK’s plan not to ban them. I thought I would share my answer here for everyone’s benefit.
What are trans conversion practices? A thread.🧵
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What if we add laws of sufficiently vague and case-by-case application that you need to go through a whole trial before the claim against you fails?
What if we add claims that are ludicrous enough to be rapidly dismissed—but not before you’ve sent tens of thousands of dollars?
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Can we stop pushing detrans folks out of trans spaces? They need community and support that trans folks can give and broader society won’t. This isn’t a “no boys allowed” treehouse. Are we caring or are we not?
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TERFs: I can always tell when someone is trans.
Michael D. Cohen:
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Why is it that when trans care comes up, it’s all “you haven’t proven their benefits beyond the shadow of a doubt” but when it’s about intersex surgeries on non-consenting newborns it’s all “you haven’t proven their harm beyond the shadow of a doubt”?
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PSA: If I explain something to you, it doesn’t necessarily mean I think you don’t know it. I’m just autistic and really like explaining things.
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“People are identifying as trans because it’s hip.”
Right because there’s nothing I wanted more in life than seeing people like me relentlessly persecuted by governments across the globe and feeling like nowhere is safe. Nowhere.
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What does it say when society can only function when our system is laws is discretionarily applied to none but an infinitesimal proportion of all cases?
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TERFs: “But what about the rights of women and girls!”
Also TERFs: *never do anything for women and girls except to spread transphobia*
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Genderfluid implies the existence of gendersolid, gendergas, and genderplasma. I think that’s beautiful.
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Curious how “my body, my choice” suddenly disappears when it’s about gender-affirming care. 🧐
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But this time, the acquittal was upheld by the court of appeal. The government wasn’t done, though. They went after him again, and a third trial was held over him performing abortions.
Guess what happened? Yes—a third jury yet again refused to convict him: not guilty.
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Remember all the times we were told that nothing can be done about anti-trans activists on campuses because of free speech? And we pointed out that they didn’t actually care about free speech, they just happened to agree with that particular speech?
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I feel like nobody outside of trans communities is aware of the worrisome escalation of anti-trans attacks over the last few months and even weeks.
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After they received a standing ovation, the WPATH staff called the police on transfeminine people for peacefully reading a text calling for greater availability to trans care and support.
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Detransitioners should be welcome in trans communities if they want to be.
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Displeased, the government appealed. The court of appeal overturned the trial ruling, and sent him to jail.
He served his sentence, but the government was after him and laid new charges while he was in prison. And a new jury rendered a not-guilty verdict, again.
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My pronouns are whichever you’re the least comfortable using.
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Cases so egregious that they attract protection are few and far between. For everyone who has been wrongfully convicted, how many others were targeted, selectively charged and convicted in accordance with the law?
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“You can’t be a trans woman. You wear graphic t-shirts and jeans!” -Way too many health professionals
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“I’m not a fascist, I just think children being aware of the mere existence of certain groups of people is going too far.” -Someone who is definitely a fascist
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Casual reminder that “I just want to explore because your trans identity may be due to trauma” is literally the same line used by prominent anti-gay conversion practitioners.
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This was before the Canadian Charter was adopted, before there was a robust system of human rights in place. Knowing it to be illegal, he publicly admitted to having performed over 5,000 abortions and even filmed himself performing one.
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This time, however, the court of appeal couldn’t substitute a conviction. You see, outrage over the first decision was such that the government had to change the law—not to legalize abortion, but to make it so that appellate courts can order a new trial but cannot convict.
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Repeat after me. There is no evidence of ‘social contagion’ of trans identities.
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(2) Anti-intellectualism and rejection of the Enlightenment turn to rationality;
(3) Cult of action that prizes action for action’s sake and devalues reflection;
(4) Hostility towards critical thinking, and characterization of disagreement as treason;
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I really love how TikTok has begun using “she and theys” to mean “women and non-binary people I see as women.” Truly a sign of our collective progress.
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I don't like the expression "cancel culture" because it merges "fascists don't like when there are consequences for their action" and "marginalized communities engage in lateral violence due to trauma and powerlessness" into the same category as though they're similar.
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It doesn’t help me to know dating someone older is ‘bad’ if I still want to date them. I want to know how to protect myself and mitigate the effects of those power dynamics.
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I’m just saying, if my entire job was editing the crossword of the New York Times, I would make extra sure I don’t accidentally publish a fucking swastika a second time. Perhaps extra so on the first day of Hanukkah during a year of rising antisemitism.
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