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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️

@danielle-actually.bsky.social
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Older than I look - doctor, public speaker, musician. Suing for workplace discrimination. Writes about Trans Liberation, Marginalised Communities, LGBTQI+ issues, Politics, Autocracy, Health Tech. #IDSky #WomenInMedicine

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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Trans on Trams 🚃 My trans agenda is getting to my hairdresser and having a good ol’ catch up
Danielle, a trans, on a tram, wearing sage top, camel skirt and simply existing
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Melbourne, winter, 2025
A simple photo of a city building - Art Deco style, straw coloured, strong lines and squares, against a bright blue clear sky
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
@marciebianco.bsky.social Saw this today, instantly wanted to forward it to you
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
He’s in great company
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Someone was SUPER keen to wear their new pants to work today
Person on a train wearing a pair of trousers with the size sticker still stuck to the side
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
More of aesthetic! *Alt-text: 4 more paintings of women reclining on day beds and chaise longues, in various states of bliss and/or mind-body-dissociation*
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I think this whole aesthetic needs a revival *Alt-text: 4 pictures of women reclining on day beds and chaise longues.*
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Representing LFC down here in Melbourne/Naarm! 🎶 Weeeee are the champions my frieeeeend🎤⚽️
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
So: you see these sitting invitingly on a bench at the train station. They look freshly laid 😂 What do you do?
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Post an ad for your car. There she is.
1967 print ad for a VW Beetle - “We made the car go faster. And the engine go slower”
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Aaaand it was great. Important discussion
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
😁 It’s giving
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Trans people have been accused of erasing women, erasing this and erasing that. Guess what? THIS is erasure. It is ALWAYS done by men. #Stonewall
Photograph at Stonewall with a placard that says “you can’t spell history without a T”Photograph of lots of people protesting outside Stonewall with pride and trans flags
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Today was Pride Cup day! It’s such a great social, fun and casual way to try to relax after the rally yesterday and all the MALARKEY that’s going on worldwide. #PrideCup #QueerJoy #Community #Connection
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I love this reflection by Erin Reed. Stonewall - the quiet before the storm. “May we find the strength they had” #TransSky #PhotographySky #MedSky Thank you @erininthemorning.com
Picture outside Stonewall of 8-10 gay and trans people about to be arrested, but smiling together. 

Erin Reed wrote that it’s her favourite picture of Stonewall, symbolic of the strength our forebears had.
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Jasmine’s oh-so-cute thank you’s on Instagram for the reception of her album
Instagram screenshot of Jasmine.4.t’s thank yous. She says

“l don't even know what to say. I can't believe this is happening. My album You Are The Morning is out. The love so far has been phenomenal. I could never have hoped for this.
New video out now by @dir.harvfrost for Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation, a song I wrote about thinking about KMS in Tesco a few years ago, where I imagined the next chapter where I found "connection next to true self/something larger than my life". Wild to be living that now with this album out in this form, featuring a stellar cast. Thank you so much to everyone involved in this project including @phoebebridgers @lucydacus @julienrbaker@_eobr@phoenix_rousiamanis
Today is my wonderful theyfriend @stone.grunge's birthday and it's an honour to use their name on the track Roan, written about the night we met thank you to my chosen family and the borderless
anarchism of trans people thank you thank you
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Looks what arrived in the post. @jasmine4t.bsky.social’s new album - You Are The Morning. Produced by the boys of boygenius It’s a magnum opus and I just love it. It’s about beauty from pain, hope from suffering, and sweet production 😁 #MusicSky #Jasmine4t #boygenius #TransSky #QueerSky
Picture of Jasmine’s album cover
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
www.metacritic.com/music/you-ar...
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Jasmine.4.t’s album has just been released and I’m downloading it into my mind on this gorgeous summer morning. First track Kitchen is amazing. Such a beautiful opening, firmly declaring the influence of Elliot Smith 🤯🩵🩷
Danielle blissing, listening to You Are The MorningJasmine.4.t’s track list open for the first time
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Detail : Meta ensures women and trans people get TROLLED with no recourse.
Zuckerberg's statement was timed with the release of a post by Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan:
We want to undo the mission creep that has made our rules too restrictive and too prone to over-enforcement. We're getting rid of a number of restrictions on topics like immigration, gender identity and gender that are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate. It's not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms.
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Robin, Steve, and Dustin
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Just me blasting Gay Anthems to collect my kid… in The Mornington Peninsula… Melbourne’s answer to The Hamptons #JimmySomerville #SmalltownBoy #BronskiBeat
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Posting this with the following comment: - HYN from Naarm Melbourne - yea, it’s a bit silly - also a bit fun, can’t lie - helped me commit to being my happiest, most active, loving self in 2025 despite what the assholes of the world want to throw my way ❤️ 🏳️‍⚧️ ✊ #TransSky #MedSky #IDSky
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I see your 20 or 30 years question and raise you Condundrum, a memoir by travel writer and journalist Jan Morris Published 1974, Cover quote from the first chapter, referring to her first memory as a child in the 1920’s
“I was three or perhaps four years old when I realised that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl. I remember the moment well, and it is the earliest memory of my life.”
Cover of Jan Morris’s book, Conundrum
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
We’ve always been here. The science is all there for you - if you actually have an enquiring and open mind. Signed: Dr Danielle 😉
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
“No trans kids” 🤔 Me in the 1970’s: #Euphoria
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I love the photo of little you 😊 All I knew at the age of about 2, was the absolute joy , the euphoria, when I said to my mum, “Make me a girl” And it never changed
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Follow her on Insta Hey, my comment got clipped 🤣
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The way he applied the Bullet Journal Method was unexpected
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I don’t know who did your maths. 6000 out of 70 million is
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
By the way, someone tell Jake Tapper @jaketapper.bsky.social about this renowned writer knowing she was trans at “3 or 4 years old” in the 1920’s We have always been here 🏳️‍⚧️👋🏻
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Jan Morris’s title was perfect 👌🏻
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My response to people in power today: I won’t let you tell my story. I have trans joy and you don’t. #Trans #Joy
Danielle at a book launch - trans joy, age 50Danielle with a medical friend - trans joy at 50Trans joy at 2 years old. Gender euphoria!
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Not wanting to go out #DogsOfBlueSky
“Not wanting to go out” - my dog hiding in the closet looking very suspicious of humans’ motives
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Cracked 1000 🥳 I guess that’s significant In less than 2 weeks… 🤘🏻
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The blurb - commenting for reach 😁🏳️‍⚧️
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I’m currently staying at my aunt’s house and came across this in a living room book pile. 🤗🥰 My heart swelled, simply knowing she sought to learn more about my experience. ❤️
Spine of a book entitled, “Before We Were Trans” by Kit Heyam
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Johnny and Vera. #DogsOfBlusky
Two dogs, Johnny and Vera, looking divine with overlapping paws
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
It’s Sunday - here’s a photo Cairo 1994 #Photography
Black and white photo of 2 men sitting and drinking tea at an outdoor salon in Cairo, 1994
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Great piece. This bit about outlawing queers in Putin’s Russia:
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
2/ - Key points - Carl’s LI summary
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I can personally attest to this: “#LGBTQ+ physicians and trainees are not doing well. … we found higher rates of burnout, anxiety, and depression among #LGBTQ+ physicians in academic medical centers. Intent to leave an institution was also higher among #LGBTQ+ physicians.” - Carl Streed #Medsky
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Please tag me when you do 😊 #medskypets
Dawgs Johnny and Vera watch the house being packed into a truck 😮Dogs lie on the human - Johnny the white and tan greyhound x kelpie, Vera the brindle kelpie x Staffy x cattle dog
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Trans on trains - selfie of Danielle
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
By Anne Applebaum: “I asked her whether she could identify among her cohort a set of circumstances that had inclined some people to collaborate with the Stasi. Almost everyone was a collaborator; 99 percent of East Germans collaborated.”
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Time to dust off the mid-20c classics
Original film poster of The Conformist
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It’s the weekend. Here’s a calming photo Old Cairo 1994 #photography #B&WFilm
A black and white photo featuring an old wall, an archway with a closed gate, and many dangling lanterns - the interior of a mosque
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
New #Trans #GAC paper Randomised controlled trial shows testosterone 💉 gender affirming hormone therapy improves self-reported health (EQ-VAS) compared to those on a 3-month standard care waitlist. 😊 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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