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Olivia Ann Compton
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Asst Prof of Economics @ USAFA (views are my own)
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To all the reporters writing headlines about how trans people may be refused bathroom access in the UK based on appearance. It will almost certainly cause more cis women to be denied bathroom access. 1/4
Graph titled "Type 1 Error (%)." The vertical axis is labeled "# Cis ID'd as Trans / # ID'd as Trans," and the horizontal axis is labeled "Odds of Correct ID." The line is bowed outward and downward sloping with a y-intercept at (0.9,91.67) and an x-intercept at (1,0).
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Excited to read @charliejane.bsky.social's "Lessons in Magic and Disaster." She read a chapter about Mae and Serena's relationship which hit home and made me feel kind of awkward because I was attending with my roommate/ex-gf.
A drawing of a cat saying you rock on the title page of Lessons in Magic and Disaster.
October 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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It's nice to be reminded that people care about me, especially during this assault on trans existence.
4 orange roses in a clear vase and a note saying, "You Matter."
February 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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He bites his lip. Still nervous. Afraid that when he opens his eyes, in defiance of all logic, the same boy will glare back at him, the teenager broken by secrets and self-hatred. But he can’t stand here forever. Fuck it. If the women of Dorley can do this, so can he. He opens his eyes, looks himself up and down, and steps unconsciously back. It’s too much. It’s impossible. It’s unreal. But there she is: the girl the others all say they can see. A step forward again. Fingers reaching out, making contact with the glass. Making it real, making it tangible. “Hi, Stef,” she whispers, and the girl in the mirror whispers back.
January 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Sigh. Just casual transmisogyny on the front page of imgur.
Altered photo of Mark Zuckerberg with long hair
January 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Scene from Thr Venture Bros season 3 episode 13 when Hank and Dean are talking to a psychologist at a police station. Hank asks for a cigarette but gets rejected, so he puts a pretzel in his mouth. The psychologist writes down "oral fixation" on his notepad. Other notes include "paranoid delusions," "arrested development," and "crybaby."
December 26, 2024 at 1:51 AM
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Reading Joni Alizah Cohen and I was struck by the prospect that "gender is a social construct" fits neatly into Nazi beliefs. The discussions I've read center on the abstraction of sex and the ways cisgender people misunderstand the relationship between the two. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/4...
However, this process can be said to ‘simultaneously de-naturalise gender while naturalising sex.’[26] This results in an understanding of gender/sex wherein gender is understood as a social construction (an abstraction), but the naturalisation of sex is redoubled. Gender is therefore historical and mutable whilst sex forms the natural and transhistorical substratum upon which it is written. Just as the Jew becomes the concrete manifestation of the abstraction of capitalism and the law of value, the trans woman becomes the concrete manifestation of the abstraction and denaturalisation of gender. The trans woman is a woman without the concrete biological content of womanhood. She is woman in the abstract, separated from her biological foundation, and therefore her use as the conduit for the reproduction of the Aryan race in this grand Darwinian struggle. She is everything that is detestable about womankind, for Nazism, without any of the redeeming biological expediencies. Further, she represents the worst excess of the cultural degeneration of modernity and contemporary capitalism. Just as the “rootless cosmopolitan” Jew represents abstraction by being rooted in no Nation, trans people demonstrate a rootless cosmopolitanism of gender/sex - with disregard for rootedness of sex and the allegiances of gender. She is a product of a culture so abstracted and so sick, in their eyes, that it actively encourages the corruption of the purity of biological sex and the destruction of gender roles so essential in the battle for racial primary. For Nazism, the idea that Aryan men of good stock would be actively disavowing masculinity, virility and fertility - and doing so with hormonal and surgical intervention into biological sex - is too much to bare. As such, trans women, and indeed trans people in general (though the majority of the bile is directed at those assigned male at birth), are added to the list of abstractions to be eradicated in the actualization of the National Socialist project.
December 19, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Second stage of FFS got delayed til April, so I got copper highlights to give me a hit of gender euphoria. I love it so far.
Selfie of OP with copper highlights on medium brown hair.
December 13, 2024 at 2:24 AM