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Gregory Mansfield

@ghmansfield.bsky.social
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Disabled lawyer. Disability Rights and Disability Justice. Email: Gregoryhmansfield at gmail

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Disability is sometimes a challenge. Disability is not inferiority.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Access for disabled people is not a privilege. It is a right.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
RIP, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf Alice was not only an oracle. Alice was a force.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
When you equate disabled people with burden, the lives of disabled people are always in jeopardy.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Don’t assume that you know the access and accommodation that are needed by disabled people. Ask disabled people.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Access for disabled people is not a burden. It is the excluders rightfully bearing the cost of the barriers that exclude disabled people.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Once you have called disabled people a burden, you have facilitated the devaluation, dehumanization and death of disabled people.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Limited or partial access for disabled people is not access. It is exclusion.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
“You don’t need your wheelchair. We have wheelchairs.” Note to airline carriers, terminals, transportation providers, hospitals, medical providers and all others who need to hear this: Wheelchairs are not interchangeable. Wheelchairs are not one size fits all.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
It is a sad commentary on our ableist society that, these days, the only access for disabled people that is prioritized is access for disabled people to die; assisted suicide and medical assistance in dying.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Nondisabled people should not be the arbiter of access for disabled people.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Tru*mp’s Answer to Homelessness? Lock Up Unhoused and Disabled People. truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org
Trump’s Answer to Homelessness? Lock Up Unhoused and Disabled People.
New coalitions are forming to protect those targeted by Trump’s move to institutionalize unhoused people.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Q&A: Why physicians struggle to care for patients with disability www.statnews.com/2025/01/16/a... via @statnews.com
statnews.com
Q&A: Why physicians struggle to care for patients with disability
STAT spoke with researcher Carol Haywood about her new study that looked at the persistent ableism in medicine and its root causes.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It is coercive for disabled people to be asked over and over again: “Do you want a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) Order?” Nondisabled people are asked once. Disabled people are asked repeatedly. It is devaluation. It is ableism.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Medical assistance in dying is not a medical treatment. It is the infliction of death.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The fact that disabled people face challenges does not mean that disabled people are a burden.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The point is not that everyone is going to die sometime. The point is that no one should die because their health benefits have been terminated.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Ableist language is not harmless. It is a lack of empathy, the attribution of inferiority and expression of cruelty.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame. - ProPublica
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
How can we facilitate the death of disabled people when we have a government and a society that does not facilitate life for disabled people?
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
For far too long, nondisabled people have defined access, accommodation and equity for disabled people.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Ableism is not just a belief. It is a weapon of destruction targeting the lives of disabled people.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Access for disabled people is not an advantage. It is an equalizer.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
HHS firings undermine federal government’s ability to care for vulnerable Americans and put disabled people at risk www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h... via @statnews.com
statnews.com
HHS firings undermine federal government's ability to care for vulnerable Americans
Layoffs across health agencies could disrupt the flow of millions of dollars in grants and critical services for Americans with disabilities.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
If you were a prospective client, would you rather hire a law firm that is willing to fight to defend you from clearly lawless action, or one that sells out your interests out of fear and greed?
nytimes.com
Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump
If law firms won’t defend the rule of law, who will?
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Disabled people are more than 25% of the population. It is a cruel blow when government tries to disappear 1 out of 4 people who have disabilities.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The lack of access for disabled people is not accidental or inadvertent. It is a choice. A knowing choice to exclude disabled people.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The government “guidance” to make the word “disability” disappear is not just semantic. It is the precursor to making disabled people disappear.
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hijade2madre.bsky.social @hijade2madre.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
35 years ago 1000 people marched from the White House to the Capitol to demand Congress pass the ADA. Activists left their mobility devices & crawled up the Capitol steps in protest of inaccessible architecture. The ADA was signed into law 4 months later. I honor them today ♿️✊🏽
Then eight-year-old Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins crawling up the stairs with a group of activistsAnother view of the crowd in various locations on the stairs, some being assisted by other people
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I’m disabled. I’m terrified about what Medicaid cuts could mean for my life www.statnews.com/2025/03/03/m... via @statnews.com
statnews.com
I’m disabled. I’m terrified about what Medicaid cuts could mean for my life
Medicaid cuts could force disabled people out of the public sphere and into nursing homes. People like me.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Others should not be telling disabled people what it means to live with dignity.
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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
For years, #disability communities have fought for inclusion alongside other historically underresourced constituencies in corporate & government #DEI efforts. #Disabled advocates fear progress in #employment, #education & #independence will suffer in sweeping cuts. www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
indystar.com
'Utterly terrifying:' Disability advocates fear rollback of DEI under Trump, Braun
The disability community fought for inclusion in corporate and government DEI efforts. Now they're worried they'll be on the chopping block.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
When others control access for disabled people, they control every aspect of a disabled person’s life. It is the control of opportunity, freedom and humanity.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Inaccessibility is not caused by disability. Inaccessibility is caused by ableism, barriers and exclusion.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Hospital staff: “Can you park your wheelchair in the corner so you’re not in the way.” One way or another, disabled people are assumed to be “in the way.”
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
When you call disabled people a burden, you assign inferiority and unworthiness to the lives of disabled people.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Rest in peace, Roy Ayers.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The access barriers that keep out disabled people do not arise from ignorance or inadvertence. Inaccessibility is the product of a desire to exclude, isolate and segregate disabled people.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Disabled people should not have to make a deal to get access.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It is a travesty of justice that legislatures debate whether to expedite the death of disabled people and disabled people are largely excluded from that process.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Access for disabled people is not optional.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
If I, as a disabled person, post something referring to “disabled people,” don’t correct me by arguing that I should say “people with disabilities.” My identity is my choice.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Access for disabled people is not preferential treatment. Exclusion of disabled people is punitive treatment.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Disabled people are not a waste. Disabled people are not parasites. Disabled people are not a burden. The ultimate waste is the devaluation and dehumanization of 25% of the population.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Disabled people are not a waste. Disabled people are not parasites. Disabled people are not a burden. The ultimate waste is the devaluation and dehumanization of 25% of the population.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
I'm actually pretty angry about this idea that people "going off" about inaccessibility are in the wrong. Telling Disabled people to ask nicely for accessibility or fix it ourselves is how we got 33 years out from the ADA in the US and compliance is still considered optional.
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Why are disabled people villainized and demonized for wanting access to everything others have and take for granted?
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The access of disabled people should not depend on the assent of nondisabled people.
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