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Look, just consider all y'all upvoted by me.

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This is awesome. Congrats!

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Happy to have you on the staff (staph?) at Wonkette, CD! Let the perversions begin!

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Enjoy the warm & fuzzies that come from your first byline here! I can relate.

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Consider yourself upvoted by me for the rest of your life, CD.

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I'm glad to see you getting a bigger audience for your work.

This FL rule is insanity.

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Huzzah! :D

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Yay! Also too congrats!

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Listen - you be careful out there - from a concerned LGBTQ+ ally, who happens 2 B an almost 60 year old Black male, a Miami, Florida native born and raised, still living in enemy territory...

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Can't forget that Florida is where the Trail of Tears started.

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Hey, welcome aboard!

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*DOOT*

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spincirclespincirclespincircle, falldownneckstretchedbellyup

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scritch scritch scritch

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Extra upvote for proper use of “all y’all”.

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It would be both exceedingly remiss and extremely RUDE not to do so, esteemed Crip Dyke.

Your prose is music to my ears, gorgeous.

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Congrats on the byline, ami!

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:cheekkiss: :cheekkiss:

Merçi, amie.

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You just did this to get your own upvotes to a RECORD

Which it will

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Well, duh.

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Mazel Tov!

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Another fine mess. I have noted. the "gender/sex" mix up on forms for years. I just figured people were ignorant. AND I AM RIGHT!!. This is a BS problem made worse by people who should not be anywhere near positions of authority.

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Another fine mess. I have noted. the "gender/sex" mix up on forms for years. I just figured people were ignorant. AND I AM RIGHT!!. This is a BS problem made worse by people who should not be anywhere near positions of authority.

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Wait'll they start pulling this stunt on out of state drivers. I know a number of trans truckers. And they think there's a shortage of truck drivers now?

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Wait'll they try and pull this horrible stunt with out of state drivers such as truckers. I know a number of trans truckers.

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I think the Latin term you want for not good is malum in se (bad in itself) as opposed to malum prohibitum (bad because it is prohibited).

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This is fucking hideous. They may as well just make trans people wear a pink, white and blue star on their clothes and be done with it.

Are there organisations that help trans, NB and GNC people flee fucking Florida? I wanna donate.

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Good idea there. I will be better about including such things in the future.

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Ta, Crip Dyke. This is insane, and I foresee lawsuits galore.

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Ooh Granny those are some “Evil Villain” level shoes and I am here for it!

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Florida has to try hard to hold its place as America's worst state.

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The cruelty etc, etc... (sigh) 😞

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DeSantis is probably furious, and his wife even more so, that they just spent months picking their way through icy cowflop and trying to swallow greasy horrors of food with absolutely nothing to show for it but derision and humiliation. So he's going to take it out on the same people he's been targeting and bashing and pushing around for years -- the ones he built his (now thoroughly crippled) political career persecuting.

What a spiteful, contemptible, soulless little man.

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Oh he built a whole network around himself from the sounds of things. That way it’s self sustaining in his absence.

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I hope his political career is morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably, and reliably dead (not to mention not just merely dead, but really most sincerely dead). Thoroughly crippled is not enough. I still have family in Florida.

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So sorry to hear. Hope they're OK.

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Well, they're all white cishet except for one sister-in-law, who's Indian (from Guyana), and her son who's not biologically related to my brother (his older sister lives in New York, I think). She finally figured out that the Republicans were not good people (never voted for tfg, to my knowledge, and I hope she never voted for DeathSentence). My other sister-in-law is a college professor in the state university(?) system and is worried about all the things you would think about. She and my brother have an adult child with special needs, and that's a concern.

I can visit (not racing to do so), but my kid and daughter-in-law (both trans) are afraid to, and I don't blame them. My husband probably doesn't really want to, not that he doesn't like my family, but he doesn't have my ties to the place.

So, yeah, I want that pustule's political career in flames so hot it's vaporized, and I want a blue wave to drown the remaining molecules and every other politician who's supported him.

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This is a late response, but: Yeah. May it happen. A thousand times over, may it happen.

And there's a good chance it will. A lot of Trump's supporters are PISSED that DeSantis dared to defy him, and they will stay pissed in 2028.

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Did I ever tell you about the Riot Grrl activist group, "Young Activist Radical kNitters"?

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No, but I love the idea.

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These things always make me think of my sweetie's trans son and how these idiots would react if they looked at bearded, male-pattern baldness developing Sebastian's id and it said "Female". They'd lose their shit.

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Best of luck to you and your son, and say a prayer of thanks (if that's your thing) that you're not down there.

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Thanks, I don't know how I'd survive outside of the lovely Pacific North West.

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I was just reflecting on all of Trump’s claims of, “IF THEY CAN DO IT TO ME THEY CAN DO IT TO YOU!” seeking faux solidarity with your everyday asshole, and just how extremely unlikely that situation would be for anyone that wasn’t an irredeemable grifter and liar like Trump.

In this situation that statement is not only true, it is predictive of precisely what the fascists intend to do, target all of us.

Even the fascist adjacent won’t be safe, for how could anyone ever be sure that they are fascist enough?

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"misrepresenting one’s gender, understood as sex, on a driver license constitutes fraud"

dafuq? this is a meta-strawman, as this is by itself a misrepresentation.

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I always read your posts. You are educating me about topics the usual suburban, white, cishet dude would never hear about or be exposed to. Your posts have also helped me navigate interacting with my kid's friends who pretty much cover the whole gender spectrum. Thank you again.

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What Land Shark said.

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