I wrote about traveling to Bhutan as a closeted trans person, and what happened when I got hammered with the king. https://t.co/qEZssrTHpH

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This week on Seeking: the incredible Gabriel Mac of @fwwhenever on psychedelics, sexual trauma and reckoning with his childhood history. "If I could have gotten away with not dealing with any of it...I probably would've taken that option. But containment works until it doesn't."

Make trans people, not war https://t.co/1gkCEXcVEu

…or WAS he

I just walked into a men’s room and a guy was standing at a urinal saying “Are you doing alright? I love you,” and I thought he was talking to his penis before I realized he was on a BlueTooth call

I have appealed my victims compensation claim. I wrote about it here. https://t.co/d9yM75t7pE And: How many fellow sex-abuse/rape/domestic violence/crime survivors are being told their claims CANNOT be approved, when that’s not what the VERY LAW that the denial cites says?

The Ohio Attorney General’s signed statement to me that the "law requires" denying my claim is not true. Were I not a reporter myself, I wouldn’t have fact-checked it via local news, pulling the statute myself, and calling a lawyer to confirm I was reading it right. So:

The new law does not actually “require” that my victim compensation claim be denied. Thanks to excellent local reporting by @JoshSweigart, I read that the law also gave the office the power to approve any claim it deemed worthy regardless of the deadline. Which means:

I filed a victims compensation claim, not knowing the new filing deadline had gone into effect just months before, and received a denial that “the law requires that your claim be denied.” BUT THE THING IS:

Ohio’s new law excludes anyone who was victimized as a child/teen but isn’t ready to come forward by their 24th birthday. Or domestic violence/adult rape survivors who can’t or won’t file a police report against their attackers within a strict period of time. So:

At the same time that Ohio lawmakers revised the victim compensation law to theoretically include more people, they made the deadline for filing - which previously didn’t exist at all - three years after the crime, or at age 24 for victims who were minors. Which means:

Crime Victim Services was making egregious denials, including a teenager who said she was kidnapped and assaulted because she had drugs in her system - which her kidnappers fed her https://t.co/MpXIkC4yJ1 So they revised the law to make fewer unfair exclusions. But:

There’s a crime victims compensation program in every state (PSA! FYI! The More You Know), and you can submit a claim to get reimbursed (up to $50,000 in Ohio where my rapes as a minor occurred) for expenses you paid for counseling and medical bills etc. But:

So. I spent my life savings on sex-abuse treatment, and if this were an internet headline, it’d be, “And You Won’t Believe What Happened Next!!” Basically:

The Great Transsexual Baking Cope-Off https://t.co/wsUby0qxjS

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My manicurist, pausing our sesh yesterday to pick up her phone: “Let me show you some pictures of my son working out”

I got fired from @thetimes magazine for refusing to take mostly nude pictures of my trans body.