Charlie Anne
@charlieintheory.com
She/Her | Theoretical Computer Scientist | Alutiiq | Woman | Trans (🏳️⚧️)
Opinions are my own.
Opinions are my own.
My resolution is to find joy even when it’s hard.
January 1, 2026 at 5:10 AM
My resolution is to find joy even when it’s hard.
Wouldn't it be amazing if you never had to fail students? What if instead you kept working with a student until they demonstrate mastery or decide the content/course wasn't for them?
December 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Wouldn't it be amazing if you never had to fail students? What if instead you kept working with a student until they demonstrate mastery or decide the content/course wasn't for them?
Technically, utilitarianism and kantianism are equivalent under log-space reductions.
December 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Technically, utilitarianism and kantianism are equivalent under log-space reductions.
Sometimes I forget that I don't know how to function around people outside of a few specific situations.
December 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Sometimes I forget that I don't know how to function around people outside of a few specific situations.
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Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
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Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language
EXCLUSIVE
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language
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At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Why did past Anne not do more of this grading days ago?!
December 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Why did past Anne not do more of this grading days ago?!
Seeing my name in someone's statement of purpose is very bizarre.
December 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Seeing my name in someone's statement of purpose is very bizarre.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
I've been thinking about getting back into making videos.
December 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I've been thinking about getting back into making videos.
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The US sided with regressive countries to strip LGBT inclusion from a UN disability bill 😣
The original text simply noted that persons with disabilities experience amplified barriers when their disability interacts with diverse contexts, such as sexual orientation and gender identity.
The original text simply noted that persons with disabilities experience amplified barriers when their disability interacts with diverse contexts, such as sexual orientation and gender identity.
UN Disability Resolution Passes After LGBTQ Language Cut
outrightinternational.org
December 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The US sided with regressive countries to strip LGBT inclusion from a UN disability bill 😣
The original text simply noted that persons with disabilities experience amplified barriers when their disability interacts with diverse contexts, such as sexual orientation and gender identity.
The original text simply noted that persons with disabilities experience amplified barriers when their disability interacts with diverse contexts, such as sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Our Latest: 📰 Bill calling trans healthcare “female genital mutilation” allows husband stitches for teenage girls📰
Bill calling trans healthcare “female genital mutilation” allows husband stitches for teenage girls
It’s the same people writing the same laws for the same purpose: gaining full control over sex and sexuality.
theneedlenews.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Our Latest: 📰 Bill calling trans healthcare “female genital mutilation” allows husband stitches for teenage girls📰
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The whitest person you've ever seen: "OH YEAH, WHAT ABOUT IRAN?"
I am so tired of seeing this ridiculous transphobe story about "transing gay kids."
It's offensive on multiple levels. It erases a lot of trans people, yes, but also acts like the big threat to GNC gay people is pressure to change genders, when it's punishment and VIOLENCE for our differences.
It's offensive on multiple levels. It erases a lot of trans people, yes, but also acts like the big threat to GNC gay people is pressure to change genders, when it's punishment and VIOLENCE for our differences.
December 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The whitest person you've ever seen: "OH YEAH, WHAT ABOUT IRAN?"
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Yesterday, RFK Jr. and the Dept. of Health and Human Services proposed two anti-trans rules. The rules would:
1️⃣ Prohibit federal Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care for youth
2️⃣ End Medicaid/Medicare funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care to minor patients. (1/3)
1️⃣ Prohibit federal Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care for youth
2️⃣ End Medicaid/Medicare funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care to minor patients. (1/3)
December 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Yesterday, RFK Jr. and the Dept. of Health and Human Services proposed two anti-trans rules. The rules would:
1️⃣ Prohibit federal Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care for youth
2️⃣ End Medicaid/Medicare funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care to minor patients. (1/3)
1️⃣ Prohibit federal Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care for youth
2️⃣ End Medicaid/Medicare funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care to minor patients. (1/3)
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It’s notable that Queensland today has basically done the exact same thing Aotearoa has: ignore their own commissioned report to instead align their practice with the UK, extending their ban until 2031 at the earliest. This from the Vine review’s executive summary is telling:
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
It’s notable that Queensland today has basically done the exact same thing Aotearoa has: ignore their own commissioned report to instead align their practice with the UK, extending their ban until 2031 at the earliest. This from the Vine review’s executive summary is telling:
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If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.
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Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
Watch Rep. Sarah McBride's Powerful Statement on Republicans' Anti-Trans Obsession
The first openly trans member of Congress made a rare, personal appeal as the GOP wages an all-out assault on trans youth.
www.readtpa.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
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Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.
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this has exactly as much scientific basis as their antivax garbage and is somehow even more directly aimed at killing people
fuck this absolute monster
fuck this absolute monster
I’m at HHS headquarters where RFK Jr. is announcing new restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors by spouting pseudoscience and political misinformation that goes against every major medical association.
December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
this has exactly as much scientific basis as their antivax garbage and is somehow even more directly aimed at killing people
fuck this absolute monster
fuck this absolute monster
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What bothers me more than anything about this is that many of the same people who correctly go, "This guy's a crank!" when he's talking about Tylenol causing autism or anti-vax stuff will sit there nodding along like, "Hey, if HHS said this, it must be legit!" when it involves trans care.
I’m at HHS headquarters where RFK Jr. is announcing new restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors by spouting pseudoscience and political misinformation that goes against every major medical association.
December 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
What bothers me more than anything about this is that many of the same people who correctly go, "This guy's a crank!" when he's talking about Tylenol causing autism or anti-vax stuff will sit there nodding along like, "Hey, if HHS said this, it must be legit!" when it involves trans care.
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In the last 24 hours the New York Times has run two stories on anti-trans actions by the federal government which appear to *intentionally* not mention that you can change your sex, which is a scientific fact
Instead “everyone transitions gender but can’t change sex” is now embedded in the coverage
Instead “everyone transitions gender but can’t change sex” is now embedded in the coverage
it’s like this NYT hed and sub were written by an LLM trained on TERF ideology
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
In the last 24 hours the New York Times has run two stories on anti-trans actions by the federal government which appear to *intentionally* not mention that you can change your sex, which is a scientific fact
Instead “everyone transitions gender but can’t change sex” is now embedded in the coverage
Instead “everyone transitions gender but can’t change sex” is now embedded in the coverage
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Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis voted to make it a felony for a doctor to provide a child with the only evidence-based treatment for gender dysphoria.
Republicans voting against the felony national trans youth healthcare ban were Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Gabe Evans (CO), Michael Lawler (NY), Mike Kennedy (UT).
Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
3 NVs on both sides.
Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
3 NVs on both sides.
December 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis voted to make it a felony for a doctor to provide a child with the only evidence-based treatment for gender dysphoria.
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Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
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"I didn’t have the courage to come out until I was 21, and that means 21 years of pain, 21 years of unwavering homesickness that only went away when I was able to get the care that I needed. And my biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain.”
Ask and you shall receive... MS Now literally just posted on it
Rep. Sarah McBride makes rare personal remarks in opposing anti-trans bills
“My biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain,” the congresswoman said on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday morning.
www.ms.now
December 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"I didn’t have the courage to come out until I was 21, and that means 21 years of pain, 21 years of unwavering homesickness that only went away when I was able to get the care that I needed. And my biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain.”