Lyra Tempest
scunner.bsky.social
Lyra Tempest
@scunner.bsky.social
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In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.
January 16, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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"Vivian Taylor, a climate policy expert who co-authored the analysis, said the fossil fuel industry has a real interest in funding panic over transgender people: It distracts the public from 'the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.'" heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
heated.world
June 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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"The gender hierarchy is natural and unbreakable! That is why maintaining it requires CONSTANT VIGILANCE."
December 13, 2024 at 9:20 AM
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it is not trans women’s responsibility to create the social conditions required for cis people to stop abusing us
December 2, 2024 at 5:11 PM