D Dangaran (they/them)
@ddangaran.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law | constitutional law, family law & civil rights | Co-Chair, National Trans Bar Association | formerly @Rights Behind Bars https://www.rightsbehindbars.org/donate
ICYMI, trans people came up in the Supreme Court today, but not in a case where you’d expect it. In Landor, the Court will decide whether RLUIPA allows damages remedies against individual officers. Justices Gorsuch and Barrett asked hypos about another spending clause statute: Title IX.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
ICYMI, trans people came up in the Supreme Court today, but not in a case where you’d expect it. In Landor, the Court will decide whether RLUIPA allows damages remedies against individual officers. Justices Gorsuch and Barrett asked hypos about another spending clause statute: Title IX.
“Right-wing ideologies have fueled more than 70% of all extremist attacks and domestic terror plots since 2002 in the U.S. …[,] outpac[ing] all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. The study was removed from the Justice Department website in the past few days….”
September 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
“Right-wing ideologies have fueled more than 70% of all extremist attacks and domestic terror plots since 2002 in the U.S. …[,] outpac[ing] all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. The study was removed from the Justice Department website in the past few days….”
August 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Relatively rare rainbow sighting in DC this humid evening rounding out a day of dreadful reckoning with the demise of equal protection law is making me remember how natural it is to be #trans. How the rainbow is a spectrum, limitless, circumscribed only by our human capacity. We will not be erased.
June 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Relatively rare rainbow sighting in DC this humid evening rounding out a day of dreadful reckoning with the demise of equal protection law is making me remember how natural it is to be #trans. How the rainbow is a spectrum, limitless, circumscribed only by our human capacity. We will not be erased.
9pm EST tonight, National Trans Bar Association is hosting a talk by one of our founders, Alex Chen, who will be analyzing Skrmetti and holding space for group discussion!
bit.ly/4jXfZuK
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June 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
9pm EST tonight, National Trans Bar Association is hosting a talk by one of our founders, Alex Chen, who will be analyzing Skrmetti and holding space for group discussion!
bit.ly/4jXfZuK
bit.ly/4jXfZuK
April 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/...
#SomewhereBeyondTheSea referenced this beautiful and uplifting poem. Hope is the thing with feathers. It never stops.
#SomewhereBeyondTheSea referenced this beautiful and uplifting poem. Hope is the thing with feathers. It never stops.
April 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/...
#SomewhereBeyondTheSea referenced this beautiful and uplifting poem. Hope is the thing with feathers. It never stops.
#SomewhereBeyondTheSea referenced this beautiful and uplifting poem. Hope is the thing with feathers. It never stops.
I was uplifted by so many friends and chosen family who are in my Yale community during the Pierson College tea! Such a special experience. I loved and learned from our discussion! Thanks to all for taking time out of your busy schedules to join!
April 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I was uplifted by so many friends and chosen family who are in my Yale community during the Pierson College tea! Such a special experience. I loved and learned from our discussion! Thanks to all for taking time out of your busy schedules to join!
April 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Speaking at Yale this Thursday!
April 2, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Speaking at Yale this Thursday!
#missmajor #tgijp Trans liberation now. Celebrate the living heroes and keep fighting for what we know is just. We will outlast this new wave of colonial attacks on liberated genders. We were here first, and we aren’t going anywhere.
March 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
#missmajor #tgijp Trans liberation now. Celebrate the living heroes and keep fighting for what we know is just. We will outlast this new wave of colonial attacks on liberated genders. We were here first, and we aren’t going anywhere.
I’m listening to “The House in the Cerulean Sea” by TJ Klune and just heard this stunning, timely passage, and had to write it down. I’m listening on Libby. I don’t remember why or when I requested to borrow the audiobook—someone must have recommended it—but I’m glad I did. A gift from a past self!
March 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I’m listening to “The House in the Cerulean Sea” by TJ Klune and just heard this stunning, timely passage, and had to write it down. I’m listening on Libby. I don’t remember why or when I requested to borrow the audiobook—someone must have recommended it—but I’m glad I did. A gift from a past self!
It’s the little things! There was not a “Mx.” option when I filled out my admission forms for the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, but I also did not mark Mr. or Ms. Someone in the clerk’s office added Mx. to my account nevertheless. It made me smile! I’m ready to fight for RLUIPA rights!
February 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It’s the little things! There was not a “Mx.” option when I filled out my admission forms for the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, but I also did not mark Mr. or Ms. Someone in the clerk’s office added Mx. to my account nevertheless. It made me smile! I’m ready to fight for RLUIPA rights!
January 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
January 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Trans people predate the US federal government and will outlast this administration and the nationwide effort to erase us. We are stronger than their hatred, fear, and ignorance. We are real. We are here. We are queer. And we aren’t going anywhere. Posting steven universe lyrics that came to mind.
January 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Trans people predate the US federal government and will outlast this administration and the nationwide effort to erase us. We are stronger than their hatred, fear, and ignorance. We are real. We are here. We are queer. And we aren’t going anywhere. Posting steven universe lyrics that came to mind.
IOF was bombing and harassing Palestinian families waiting for hours for the release of their loved ones. Make no mistake: the ceasefire has already been violated. But the release of these prisoners (aka IOF’s hostages) is cause for celebration. @democracynow.org
January 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
IOF was bombing and harassing Palestinian families waiting for hours for the release of their loved ones. Make no mistake: the ceasefire has already been violated. But the release of these prisoners (aka IOF’s hostages) is cause for celebration. @democracynow.org
www.commondreams.org/opinion/tikt...
To make matters worse, China isn’t doing what the Supreme Court based its 1A analysis on when upholding the #TikTokBan. Again, the U.S. *is* doing it already, according to Mark Zuckerberg himself.
We should be asking why we’d trust the U.S. govt with our data!
To make matters worse, China isn’t doing what the Supreme Court based its 1A analysis on when upholding the #TikTokBan. Again, the U.S. *is* doing it already, according to Mark Zuckerberg himself.
We should be asking why we’d trust the U.S. govt with our data!
January 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
www.commondreams.org/opinion/tikt...
To make matters worse, China isn’t doing what the Supreme Court based its 1A analysis on when upholding the #TikTokBan. Again, the U.S. *is* doing it already, according to Mark Zuckerberg himself.
We should be asking why we’d trust the U.S. govt with our data!
To make matters worse, China isn’t doing what the Supreme Court based its 1A analysis on when upholding the #TikTokBan. Again, the U.S. *is* doing it already, according to Mark Zuckerberg himself.
We should be asking why we’d trust the U.S. govt with our data!
Let’s also assume everything Justice Gorsuch flags as potential actions PRC can take with #tiktok is already the precise behavior the US gov’t can take with any of the American apps listed. We need to direct our concern to the US. Note that Signal, an encrypted app, is banned by some govt offices.
January 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Let’s also assume everything Justice Gorsuch flags as potential actions PRC can take with #tiktok is already the precise behavior the US gov’t can take with any of the American apps listed. We need to direct our concern to the US. Note that Signal, an encrypted app, is banned by some govt offices.
Join me at this workshop on trans rights before and after incarceration, organized by Sky Syzygy and Dee Farmer, on March 28-29! Register and see the full schedule here: gender.network/register
January 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Join me at this workshop on trans rights before and after incarceration, organized by Sky Syzygy and Dee Farmer, on March 28-29! Register and see the full schedule here: gender.network/register
I wrote an opening letter in January’s @nationaltransbar.bsky.social newsletter, which should be sent out today if you’ve subscribed. Here it is! #mutualaid #trans #resources #healing #transa
January 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I wrote an opening letter in January’s @nationaltransbar.bsky.social newsletter, which should be sent out today if you’ve subscribed. Here it is! #mutualaid #trans #resources #healing #transa