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Gwendolyn Ann Smith

@gwensmith.com
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I foster communities, I shape opinions, and I dance the dream. columnist for Bay Area Reporter and online support staff. ⚧ and proud.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 23m
He looks so fucking weak and out of his depth up there. Pacing around like a fool.
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Chase Strangio @chasestrangio.bsky.social · 1h
The latest action rescinding the Title IX regs does not change the law. It is cruel, yes, but we should not panic and instead invest in state and local protections. time.com/article/2026...
time.com
Trump's Title IX Announcement Is Cruel. But It Does Not Change The Law
“Schools can and should continue to include transgender students equally in all educational programs,” writes Chase Strangio.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 4h
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you’re in the Twin Cities, please come and see this. Trace & I will riff a short film, but that’s just a warm up to @rachellichtman.bsky.social blowing your mind with her sensational @programme4.tv show. I’m not kidding, you don’t want to miss this.
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🔞🏳️‍⚧️::515::🏳️‍⚧️🔞 ( weekly goal $5/ $500) @515art.bsky.social · 6h
Hinestly, I dunno why we even bother choosing names that arent Cassandra.
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 6h
But I don't want infinite, personalized music. I want the music I already love, and I want the music that challenges me today.
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 7h
Co-Signed
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carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 18h
Ohio Democratic Party is censoring criticism of anti-trans ads: insiders www.advocate.com/pol... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
advocate.com
Ohio Democratic Party is censoring criticism of anti-trans ads: insiders
Two posts pushing back against Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s anti-trans ads have been removed.
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 19h
Two days in a row for this one.
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Hobo Bros: Bad Day To Have Eyes
Alt: Hobo Bros: "Bad Day To Have Eyes" meme
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 20h
I may be paranoid, but there’s no way I’m pointing my browser to that website…
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 20h
Darkly hilarious
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Harlot🔞 @harlotprincess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
just so everyone knows, the title IX changes also made it even harder to report sexual assult as well as making it legal to descriminate against trans people. anti-trans means pro-rape. every time.
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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In addition to age of consent activism, Jeffrey Epstein supplicant Thomas K. Hubbard also wanted to fund “The Autogynephilia Project,” a longtime dream of chaser J. Michael Bailey. My profile of Hubbard in reply. www.chron.com/politics/art...
chron.com
Former UT professor sought money from Jeffrey Epstein Foundation
He sought $10K-$20K to cover the costs of a campus rape policy event.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
music.youtube.com
Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 28/09/2026
Former ‘South Park’ writer Toby Morton has created a website to expose information about Cornell University’s administration in response to the group sexual assault case: “Accountability should not disappear when the headlines do. And we all know this headline will disappear.”
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026
I'm telling you, things are happening.
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Indiscreet Function @homotopic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interesting comments from Third Way here
“On this issue, the dynamic has really shifted,” she said. Republicans and the right have grown far more extreme, while advocates for trans people have moved to a “more pragmatic place.” 

“The MAGA folks took from the 2024 election that this was a great issue for them, that it was one that united their base and made Democrats uncomfortable,” Erickson said. “And that was all true at that moment, but now they’re going way beyond any concerns the public had.” 

She added: “Going after healthcare for adults, kicking people out of the military, taking people’s driver’s licenses away, they can’t pick up their kids at school – these are well beyond the pale for most American voters. We’ve got an HHS secretary right now who believes the only appropriate healthcare for transgender people is conversion therapy. That’s crazy.” 

“I think protecting trans people, trans kids in particular,” Erickson added, “has become an important part of the agenda for the entire progressive movement.”

Addressing trans issues directly while refocusing attention to Republicans’ policy failures – including a war with no clear goal, economic distress and rampant corruption – is the tactic widely promoted among strategists advising the Democrats. Translating that into effective responses at the ground level in the heat of a campaign has not always gone well.

“I’ve implored folks to practice talking about it,” Erickson said of the candidates. “You know, practice saying ‘I trust parents in my district to make decisions for their kids more than politicians.’ Practice saying, ‘sure, we need rules but politicians aren’t the right ones to make it.’”
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026
Oh bsky.app/profile/ecmc...
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Ellie Dawn 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥺😏💜 @awkward.gay · 29/09/2026
The pay me in shoiks
The famous "they pay me in woims" Nancy comic but edited.
First panel is Nancy talking to teams femme Sluggo with shoulder length hair with a bow in,  and wearing a she/her badge: "I hear you're working at the Ikea". The bait shop has been edited to have 2 IKEA logos on it.
Second panel: Nancy asking "Do they pay you well?"
Third panel: Sluggo saying "They pay me in Shoiks" and holding up 2 different sized blåhaj shark plushies
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 29/09/2026
Gretchen Whitmer to Democrats questioning their support for trans rights: ‘I’ve never wavered’ www.advocate.com/pol... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
advocate.com
Gretchen Whitmer to Democrats questioning their support for trans rights: ‘I’ve never wavered’
In an exclusive interview ahead of the Human Rights Campaign's National Dinner, the Michigan governor highlighted her wins in a swing state and urged allies to stand with the entire LGBTQ+ community.
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 29/09/2026
The Democrat here, Blake Gendebien, is facing off against Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino. Constantino is literally running on "detransitioning America" and generally just hating trans people. Gendebien could've called Constantino out for being insane. Instead, he chose bigotry. Shame.
transiticsnews.com
Republican Wins Competitive New York House Primary—and Likely a Seat in Congress—After Running on ‘Detransitioning America’
With Trump’s backing, Anthony Constantino won the primary to succeed outgoing Rep. Elise Stefanik. His repeated calls to ‘detransition America’ must be a warning to us all.
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ChaoticRambler She/Her @chaoticrambler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m about 80$ short of what I need for rent and insurance this month. If anyone can help me I would really appreciate it. paypal.me/chaoticrambler
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 29/09/2026
The "Bernie in a room talking to a cell phone on a tripod across the table from him" meme, but the tripod and phone are replaced by the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey
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cristanwilliams.bsky.social @cristanwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Have you ever noticed how anti-trans hysteria doesn’t know what the closet is? If you come out, then it’s “rapid onset” and if you’re in, it’s proof you don’t exist.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Also like we're five years into a conservative cultural project to keep kids from learning that LGBTQ even exist in the first place.
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We've been saying it for over a decade, but the goal is to erase trans people from society. Completely lying about the science behind gender-affirming care is a significant step in that direction.
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 28/09/2026
11:11. Wish.
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 28/09/2026
Finding beauty in an ugly world.
Two bright magenta wildflowers in Sutro Park.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
For my newsletter this morning, I found a small glimmer of political hope for trans people in the US and wrote about it: www.burnsnotice.com/we-may-have-...
burnsnotice.com
We May Have Just Seen the Tides Turn on Trans Rights
Some conservative PACs have backed off from running anti-trans ads. Is this a sign of what's to come for trans people?
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fernuzz @fernuzz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'd say dems should listen to the guy who won a statewide election in kentucky, twice, but maybe that's too woke
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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
50 years ago today one of the greatest albums of all time was released. Thank you Stevie Wonder for this masterpiece "Songs in the Key of Life"
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 28/09/2026
Literally no one asked for this. Not one single person.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Called it again
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
x.com/AnthonyAguero/…
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Kathryn Salamander 🦎✨ @transsalamander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is going to SHATTER the MtG fandom, @magic.wizards.com. One of the few fandoms in the world where I can say with pride that me and my trans siblings are welcomed and uplifted, and y'all think you can callously discard that? We will boycott the game if you do this. And you will feel it.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 27/09/2026
So this is a lie.
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
RT if u agree #Caturday
Photo of a resplendent, wide silver tabby on his back presenting his glorious belleh of spots but also staring downward crazily at the camera over his little clutched paws
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 27/09/2026
1st Circuit Declares States Protect Non-Binary People’s ‘Privacy Rights’ By Not Recognizing Their Identities in Horrific Ruling www.transiticsnews.c... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
transiticsnews.com
1st Circuit Declares States Protect Non-Binary People’s ‘Privacy Rights’ By Not Recognizing Their Identities in Horrific Ruling
In response to the shocking decision—which came from a panel of 3 Democratic-appointed judges—Puerto Rico also decided to make it harder for binary trans people to change their birth certificates.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the "abandoned parents" movement is one of the most loathsome groups of people imaginable, freaks intent on tormenting and controlling their adult children and losing their minds at the slightest pushback.
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Psynwav @psynwav.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey! I’ve had a lot of requests for a physical release of Musical Transients, well, now we can make that happen! Pre-orders for Musical Transients on Vinyl, CD, and Cassette are now live! Remastered by someone who actually knows what they’re doing!! shrecords.bigcartel.com
Musical Transients - Vinyl LPMusical Transients - CDMusical Transients - Cassette
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 26/09/2026
Paste-Pot Pete finally gets his chance to shine!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can tell, with all of the explicit ethnic cleansing making everything worse and more expensive, the GOP's next target is just to go all out on gender wars. Everyone on X or Rumble is complaining about nagging women 24/7, with brief respites for holocaust denial. Full 4chan incel GOP incoming.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 26/09/2026
This is the author of "Irreversible Damage" so you're not going to get anything resembling a reasonable opinion that reflects reality out of her.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 21/09/2026
Forests on our public lands are under attack. The U.S. Forest Service took action to rescind the Roadless Rule, one of the most important land and forest protection measures of our lifetime, but we have a chance to stop them. There's a public comment period open now until October 6. Take action! ⬇️​
earthjustice.org
Protect forests from massive expansion of logging
Protect forests from massive expansion of logging
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 26/09/2026
Trans activist Roxxy Astaiza killed in Colombia after fighting transfemicide www.transunitedfund.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
transunitedfund.com
TRANS ACTIVIST ROXXY ASTAIZA KILLED IN COLOMBIA FIGHTING TRANSFEMICIDE
The student and human-rights defender was stabbed in Popayán on September 17. Advocates want investigators to examine whether her identity, activism, or leadership were connected to her killing.
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 26/09/2026
::shakes head:: Some days I feel like I nailed a column. Other times, I wonder where my head even was. This next one feels like the latter.
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