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D Dangaran (they/them)

@ddangaran.bsky.social
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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 www.rightsbehindbars.org/donate

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’ve flown to give talks often, even before academia. I decided to count them as I feel the toll on my body increasing, esp when I fly from Hawai’i. (I included virtual talks) While litigating, Feb2023-Apr2025: 45 AY Aug2025-July2026: 32 My rate increased by *150%* this year. I need to do less!
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A big lesson from my first law professor summer: -teach summer school class -complete multiple writing projects -extended travel / vacation *pick 2*
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/04/2026
When you go online, your rights should go with you. X is no longer where the fight is happening. Our work protecting digital rights is needed more than ever before, and we’re here to help you take back control. eff.org/donate (5/5)
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Defend Privacy and Free Speech
Donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and support the mission to defend civil liberties and human rights online.
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
On this trans day of visibility, I was misgendered during a 9am faculty committee mtg, then very kindly reminded the group of my pronouns (because no one made the correction for me) then shared this graphic as a witty reminder. Esp after reading Chiles, today was not the day! But really, no day is.
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Conversion therapy—yes, even when it consists of talk therapy only—does harm. Full stop. It is medical malpractice. It should be regulated by any licensed profession that has been made aware of those harms. Chiles v. Salazar shows the Court will not halt the right’s purge of queer and trans identity
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
We need more journalists who don’t pretend the rising wave of right-wing inspired transphobia, racism, misogyny, predation, authoritarianism, homophobia and corruption is something they should shrug at and say “we can’t take sides” Which ofc is taking a side.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
He too, btw, is not journalist himself It’s yet another short step to disqualify queer journalists who don’t toe a political line from covering issues all about us. Condé Nast and NBC did just that, laying off queer journalists en masse and eliminating the v few remaining platforms by and about us
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
It’s a v short step then for any news org to disqualify, say Black ppl, from covering issues of race. WaPo fired one of the world’s preeminent opinion journalists for daring to quote Charlie Kirk’s own words. In an interesting convergence, the ceo of FIRE found a way to scold this journalist.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The nyt has had a de facto ban on hiring/assigning trans journalists to cover trans issues. It’s been true for at least five years. It’s the exemplification of bigotry. Our being trans automatically disqualifies us from being involved in coverage that is all about us.
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Thank you for your great journalism @walkerbragman.bsky.social ! It’s far too easy for cis judges and their law clerks, attorneys and staff at civil libertarian orgs, and others who are (nominally) committed to free speech to ignore the harm/disruption trans students experience when misgendered.
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill makes it a *federal crime* to provide trans youth with gender-affirming medical care or transport to get that care. Skrmetti facilitated the downward spiral to this awful destination. This is an *extremely* fascist use of criminal law. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/12/2025
One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.
A screenshot of a news article header featuring circular portraits of three authors: Azeen Ghorayshi, Amy Harmon, and Reed Abelson. The dateline is Dec. 18, 2025. The opening paragraph reads: "The federal government on Thursday acted to put an end to gender-related care for minors across the nation, threatening to pull federal funding from any hospital that offered such treatment."A paragraph of text from a news article discussing medical interventions for minors. The text reads: "Questions over the evidence to support medical interventions for minors have been central to debate worldwide as demand for the treatments has increased. An influential report released in Britain last year found that the scientific evidence on the benefits and risks of the treatment was 'remarkably weak,' and concluded by recommending that puberty blockers be restricted to research trials only. Several European countries, and most recently New Zealand, have imposed restrictions."
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
More on the non-binary animal world. www.prosocial.world/posts/lets-t...
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Let’s Talk About Sex and Race
Dismantling the sex binary requires confronting the racist and heterosexist foundations of sexual selection theory.
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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.
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
youtu.be/vcSHMkyM0aE?...
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Fired Justice Department lawyer blows the whistle on what he describes as abuses of power at the DOJ
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 19/10/2025
“This Jewish self-determination is coming at the cost of my self-determination as a Palestinian.” Mahmoud Khalil joined Mehdi to discuss the conflation between anti-zionism & anti-semitism & his hope for a land where everyone can co-exist peacefully. Watch the discussion: zeteo.com/p/mahmoud-kh...
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 18/10/2025
“Donald Trump, the man who uses Palestinian as a pejorative, as a slur, has no plan for Palestinian freedom.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social slams Donald Trump at the ‘No Kings’ rally in Washington, DC over his Gaza ‘peace-plan.’ Watch his full speech: zeteo.com/p/no-kings-p...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/10/2025
"This is about a handful of the wealthiest people on Earth who, in their insatiable greed, have hijacked our economy and our political system." Bernie Sanders speaking at the No Kings rally in DC. Watch here.
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Bernie could have been president if neoliberals like Obama didn’t meddle in the primaries + ruin his chance. Polls said Bernie had a better shot at beating Trump in 2016 than Hillary. When neoliberals beg not to vote for leftists candidates bc we will lose GOP to the moderates, don’t listen to them.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
A rule of thumb: when they come for a specific practice despite adopting it themselves, it’s a sign of fascism. Unlawful for thee, not for me. Fascists love to point the finger at things they’re actually doing. Remember when cops unmasked activists from campus Gaza encampments in front of media?
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Historian here No Kings is the most American thing you could say and the people opposing it simply don’t believe in our republic or constitutional democracy.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/10/2025
Suffice it to say, these are not kids. These are full grown ass adults, many of them in their late 20's and early 30's. At least one was a elected state senator in Vermont. And even if they were, it's never ok to make antisemitic and racist jokes like that.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/10/2025
JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer." JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Things are really hard right now, and sometimes words are insufficient balms, but when artists add a melody and a beat, their words help me a lot more than they otherwise would. I collected some songs that bring me hope / bring me into a mindset of hope. It was a salve tonight, so I decided to share
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Bad news feels inescapable. There’s a lot of it, it goes viral, and things are getting worse. But resistance is also everywhere, and it doesn’t get the same attention. We need to share mass resistance, to inspire hope and so that more and more people join in. www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...
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Resistance is everywhere — it just isn't getting enough attention
Nepal, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Madagascar, and the United States
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This witch hunt is so obviously forced and disconnected from reality. I should not be shocked anymore by how low the heritage foundation is willing to stoop, or the fact that they got their cronies into positions of power to regurgitate their baseless talking points. But we should be VERY concerned.
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
“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….”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2025
In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Remember when the right and the centrist dems kept rallying around the evil that was progressive “cancel culture”? We’ve seen it before, but this moment is shining a spotlight on their hypocrisy. When they decry terminations for racist or sexist speech or acts in the future, just remember Sept 2025.
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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 11/09/2025
“News organizations should be as transparent as possible about how details… are being confirmed, both to increase accuracy in reporting and build trust with audiences in a breaking news environment.” Our full statement: www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...
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TJA urges caution in reporting on details of Charlie Kirk shooting investigation
Various outlets have reported that authorities have found ammunition engraved with expressions of “transgender and antifascist ideology” alongside a weapon purportedly associated with the killing of C...
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
www.politifact.com/article/2025... Note well: This was published YESTERDAY.
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What data shows about trans people and mass shootings
After a transgender person opened fire on a Minneapolis school Mass, some Republicans connected the violence to the perpetrator’s gender identity. But no data shows a trend of violence or mass shootin...
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Noa Ben-Asher @nbenas.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
What an honor to receive this award alongside @margotpollans.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social @darapurvis.bsky.social @ddangaran.bsky.social
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My new publication in the American Criminal Law Review is out! www.law.georgetown.edu/american-cri... My piece argues that incarcerated trans people have a disability claim for access to medical services.
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Interwoven Remedies: The Healthcare-Disability Overlap in Gender-Affirming Care Behind Bars
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
There and back again…. It’s so good to be home. #HI #bornandraised
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Just recently finished The Pitt. I just had a random thought. It’s funny, telling, classist, and more that the medical field invented a special term—“bedside manner”—for what is truly just “customer service.” In the legal field we may call it being client-centered, but even that doesn’t capture it.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
“What seemed to draw them together, according to those who knew them at the time, was a common interest in hitting on — and competing for — attractive young women at parties, nightclubs and other private events.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...
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Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Whooo boy. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...
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Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
www.democracynow.org/2025/7/18/he...
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
So proud to be friends with Dee Farmer and to see her life story documented so thoughtfully by @journo-beth.bsky.social !
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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
@joshuaerlich.bsky.social such an important perspective / reminder!
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