Kory Dondzila
@korydondzila.bsky.social
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Just a trans goth software developer in the SE MI area.
Just a trans goth software developer in the SE MI area.
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any politician who wants to "compromise" away trans rights
can fuck off in to the sun
You don't have to be a huge advocate of *everyone* having human rights, esp access to healthcare, esp trans people (as I am) to understand it's fucking INSANE to pick groups of people to throw under the bus FFS
can fuck off in to the sun
You don't have to be a huge advocate of *everyone* having human rights, esp access to healthcare, esp trans people (as I am) to understand it's fucking INSANE to pick groups of people to throw under the bus FFS
I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...
September 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
any politician who wants to "compromise" away trans rights
can fuck off in to the sun
You don't have to be a huge advocate of *everyone* having human rights, esp access to healthcare, esp trans people (as I am) to understand it's fucking INSANE to pick groups of people to throw under the bus FFS
can fuck off in to the sun
You don't have to be a huge advocate of *everyone* having human rights, esp access to healthcare, esp trans people (as I am) to understand it's fucking INSANE to pick groups of people to throw under the bus FFS
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I need y'all to understand what the NYT, Dem donors, and centrists are doing here. They're pushing the narrative that trans people went too far and we deserve what is happening to us.
It's pure victim blaming and it's not done yet, there's a Confessore piece in the works with the same framing.
It's pure victim blaming and it's not done yet, there's a Confessore piece in the works with the same framing.
June 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I need y'all to understand what the NYT, Dem donors, and centrists are doing here. They're pushing the narrative that trans people went too far and we deserve what is happening to us.
It's pure victim blaming and it's not done yet, there's a Confessore piece in the works with the same framing.
It's pure victim blaming and it's not done yet, there's a Confessore piece in the works with the same framing.
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I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
June 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
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Advocate 17 Jun 25 -- Fed appeals court finds 11-year-old Wisconsin 5th grade trans girl has the right to use her middle school's girls’ bathroom, which she previously had used w/o incident since 1st grade. (This is where we're at: litigating where 11 y/o's urinate.)
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Federal appeals court says transgender girl has right to bathroom access in Wisconsin school district
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling is a win for a young transgender student.
www.advocate.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Advocate 17 Jun 25 -- Fed appeals court finds 11-year-old Wisconsin 5th grade trans girl has the right to use her middle school's girls’ bathroom, which she previously had used w/o incident since 1st grade. (This is where we're at: litigating where 11 y/o's urinate.)
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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Reskeet this if you want @blumenthal.senate.gov to stop introducing crappy censorship bills that make kids less safe while praising Elon Musk as a "free speech champion"
(we are driving this billboard around Hartford, CT right now)
(we are driving this billboard around Hartford, CT right now)
June 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Reskeet this if you want @blumenthal.senate.gov to stop introducing crappy censorship bills that make kids less safe while praising Elon Musk as a "free speech champion"
(we are driving this billboard around Hartford, CT right now)
(we are driving this billboard around Hartford, CT right now)
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This is clearly a test run for allowing doctors and medical staff to refuse to treat anyone they don’t personally agree with
June 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is clearly a test run for allowing doctors and medical staff to refuse to treat anyone they don’t personally agree with
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US Defense Department can go directly to the fucking Hague www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-troo...
Trans Troops Given A Black Mark Discharge Code Under Military Ban
“This is the kind of code that they gave to homosexuals and communists in the '50s.”
www.erininthemorning.com
June 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
US Defense Department can go directly to the fucking Hague www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-troo...
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relooted is being made by a team of developers from numerous african countries, but only its white south african creative director was able to demo it to summer game fest attendees. this was most certainly not always the plan
![“At least three people before me in the queue were denied without having their documents looked at,” they said. “In fact, as I left the consulate, someone else who had their visa approved with no issue, who had no travel history and did not provide concrete travel plans, asked me if I noticed what was happening inside. You can probably guess what the main difference between myself and this other applicant is.”
Myres believes he was only able to attend SGF on behalf of Nyamakop because of his unique history: While he was born in Australia, his parents moved to South Africa when he was just six months old. Due to their histories and his own, he possesses an Australian passport, a South African passport, and a British passport. This has repeatedly come in handy for Nyamakop, which – even prior to the past few years’ documented increase in refusal rates of visas from African countries – faced difficulties when it came to visiting Western countries.
"We had the same problem on our previous project where, if I didn't have a British passport, basically our company wouldn't exist,” Myres told Aftermath. “Because if you don't have enough lead time to go to important events, you just can't get a visa from an African country. And on [Relooted] specifically, it's kind of fucked up to be making a game about reclaiming African artifacts that are in Western countries, and Africans [on the team] can't even visit those artifacts. Hundreds of dollars in visa application fees, and then it might get declined. Thousands of dollars for accommodations and flights just to even visit your own cultural heritage, and that's a best-case scenario. But in this case, most of the people on the continent can't even get a visa to travel [to the United States]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreihle42aqaz7bqvfvn7m73hajdyp6cn4tfmzjyy2anhrderhix56ru@jpeg)
June 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
relooted is being made by a team of developers from numerous african countries, but only its white south african creative director was able to demo it to summer game fest attendees. this was most certainly not always the plan
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SO CLOSE
Just in from DC Bar - labor attorney Diane Seltzer defeats securities attorney Brad Bondi in a closely watched race with record turnout.
June 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
SO CLOSE
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BREAKING: SCOTUS conservatives give DOGE access to Social Security records, overruling lower courts. All three Democratic appointees would reject the Trump administration’s request.
June 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
BREAKING: SCOTUS conservatives give DOGE access to Social Security records, overruling lower courts. All three Democratic appointees would reject the Trump administration’s request.
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Republicans have gotten a *lot* more regressive on gender in a very short period of time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...
June 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Republicans have gotten a *lot* more regressive on gender in a very short period of time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...
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University of Michigan paying cops to secretly follow students on and off campus. I'm sure everyone will feel really safe on campus now.
“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned”
University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters
Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
University of Michigan paying cops to secretly follow students on and off campus. I'm sure everyone will feel really safe on campus now.
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Note: Now that the Pride flag is an official city government flag, many schools and cities across the US with Pride flag bans can now fly it.
Many Pride flag bans have an exception for “city” or “government” flags.
And those exceptions do not specify that they are your local government flag.
Many Pride flag bans have an exception for “city” or “government” flags.
And those exceptions do not specify that they are your local government flag.
1. Missoula, Montana has cleverly voted to defy the Pride flag ban by making the it "an official city flag."
This comes after a law banned the flying of the flag but made an exception for "official flags."
Now, the Pride flag will fly defiantly in the state.
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This comes after a law banned the flying of the flag but made an exception for "official flags."
Now, the Pride flag will fly defiantly in the state.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Missoula, MT Adopts Pride Flag As "Official Flag," Legally Defying Ban On Flying It
Montana HB819 was intended to ban Pride flags from flying on city property, but had an exception for "official flags." So Missoula made the Pride flag an official flag.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Note: Now that the Pride flag is an official city government flag, many schools and cities across the US with Pride flag bans can now fly it.
Many Pride flag bans have an exception for “city” or “government” flags.
And those exceptions do not specify that they are your local government flag.
Many Pride flag bans have an exception for “city” or “government” flags.
And those exceptions do not specify that they are your local government flag.
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if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights
June 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights
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Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.
I'm so angry.
I'm so angry.
June 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.
I'm so angry.
I'm so angry.
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The FBI is seeking to criminally investigate gender affirming care providers, even in blue states with shield law protections.
www.thedissident.news/fbi-posts-om...
www.thedissident.news/fbi-posts-om...
FBI Posts Ominous Call for "Tips" on Gender Affirming Care Providers
This is an alarming escalation by the Trump administration and it's campaign of eradication of trans people.
Today, the FBI tweeted a call for the public to report hospitals or clinics performing gen...
www.thedissident.news
June 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The FBI is seeking to criminally investigate gender affirming care providers, even in blue states with shield law protections.
www.thedissident.news/fbi-posts-om...
www.thedissident.news/fbi-posts-om...
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The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.
June 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.
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Graph of intense pain and suffering
June 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Graph of intense pain and suffering
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I am telling you right now, and I've said it before, I'm not voting for Democrats who move even a centimeter towards the right on trans issues.
To win centrist voters, Dems must meet Americans where they are, not where advocates want them to be. Swing voters understand the complexity and believe Republicans can be cruel, but are also exasperated with many Dems, who dismiss this vulnerability at their electoral peril.
May 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I am telling you right now, and I've said it before, I'm not voting for Democrats who move even a centimeter towards the right on trans issues.
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The first duty of a transgender person is to survive.
May 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The first duty of a transgender person is to survive.
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Charlotte Fosgate, a 17-year old trans girl completed suicide earlier this month. Over the weekend, Twitter users found her final post and began mocking her and making memes about her dying.
The level of duhumanization of trans people is so thorough, they're celebrating a teenager killing herself.
The level of duhumanization of trans people is so thorough, they're celebrating a teenager killing herself.
May 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Charlotte Fosgate, a 17-year old trans girl completed suicide earlier this month. Over the weekend, Twitter users found her final post and began mocking her and making memes about her dying.
The level of duhumanization of trans people is so thorough, they're celebrating a teenager killing herself.
The level of duhumanization of trans people is so thorough, they're celebrating a teenager killing herself.
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The Telegraph going after the Quakers because the Quakers won't be assholes to trans people.
That opening paragraph by Daniel Martin is lol. It's Helen Joyce doing the accusing.
That opening paragraph by Daniel Martin is lol. It's Helen Joyce doing the accusing.
May 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The Telegraph going after the Quakers because the Quakers won't be assholes to trans people.
That opening paragraph by Daniel Martin is lol. It's Helen Joyce doing the accusing.
That opening paragraph by Daniel Martin is lol. It's Helen Joyce doing the accusing.
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“If treatment for gender dysphoria is not considered an essential health benefit, transgender people — including those in job-based private health insurance — could face higher out-of-pocket costs for care that would otherwise be covered,” one expert told me.
www.advocate.com/news/gop-bil...
www.advocate.com/news/gop-bil...
Why experts say Trump's budget bill strips health care from nearly all transgender people
The Republican-passed House bill goes beyond limiting access for Medicaid recipients.
www.advocate.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“If treatment for gender dysphoria is not considered an essential health benefit, transgender people — including those in job-based private health insurance — could face higher out-of-pocket costs for care that would otherwise be covered,” one expert told me.
www.advocate.com/news/gop-bil...
www.advocate.com/news/gop-bil...
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Wrote an essay about things I've been feeling as a trans person at Harvard, especially this week.
I launched my publication last week, please subscribe and support.
www.thedissident.news/how-do-you-e...
I launched my publication last week, please subscribe and support.
www.thedissident.news/how-do-you-e...
How Do You Explain Water to a Fish?
In the months after the 2024 election, America still felt fundamentally stable and familiar, the water they had always swum in. I remember walking into class after the election and seeing my queer his...
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May 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Wrote an essay about things I've been feeling as a trans person at Harvard, especially this week.
I launched my publication last week, please subscribe and support.
www.thedissident.news/how-do-you-e...
I launched my publication last week, please subscribe and support.
www.thedissident.news/how-do-you-e...