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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don’t mind me rising from my cave because SOMEONE was transphobic AGAIN

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I am excited for this new era and excited to show folks what I am working on!

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

There is no beef and no drama to be very clear! I am leaving on good terms, and am so grateful for everything I learned at FFRF as both an attorney and writer. It was a great way to learn how to challenge, be challenged, and work with people when you share values but not always beliefs

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Hello I just realized I never announced this but my most recent blog for FFRF is in fact my last one. Really after six years of working there in various roles it felt like a natural time for us to part ways and focus on my new full time job, as well as to refocus on my own blog and other projects

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Hot take but I actually quite like the Spotify disco ball

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This is your daily reminder that the correct name for people from Indiana is “Hoosiers”, not “Indianans” please I am begging you stop using “Indianans”

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Hello life update for folks! This week I started a new position as an associate attorney at Pines Bach here in Madison, focusing on employee/union side labor and employment work!!! Things so far have been off to a great start and I’m so excited for this new life phase!!!

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

A couple of years ago BOA had at least one Christian tent revival themed show from a public school (there were two that season, can’t remember if they were both BOA) for the record

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Being a band kid from Indiana is especially funny right now like One of my closest friends is a graduate of Westfield’s band program and I competed in that same competition circuit That is by far and away not one of the weirdest drumline shows I’ve seen

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The Bicentennial Hog On Bluesky (She/they/Peach) @librarylass.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

You know what happens if felons can't hold office? Every fucking trans person in Idaho loses the ability to hold office.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 15/04/2026

principla skinner thinking "am i out of touch? no it's the pope who is wrong"

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

TLDR someone let me weaponize my autism and put me in a room with JD Vance to yell at him about the nuances of Just War Theory

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

In my mind, the question that is actually presented by Just War Theory is not “when is a war justified?” but actually “why does every war eventually become unjust?” Which is a question that reveals to us a lot about the dehumanizing nature of war that makes it inherently unjust

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The Vatican has been addressing this tension of reality since at least JPII, and has made it increasingly clear that Just War Theory likely points us towards a framework where we should be operating under the presumption that in real life, war will (at least almost) always be unjust in practice

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Just War Theory is just that, a framework for determining how a war could be theoretically just if action is limited in an extremely precise manner And just because a hypothetical war could be considered just does not mean it has ever happened in practice

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

So even if you are relying on Just War Theory you cannot definitively state that any war that has ever occurred, especially with the added devastation of modern warfare, is in fact Just in terms of at least the Catholic understanding of God

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Also to be totally clear for folks Just War Theory in Catholicism is a lot more complicated than “the war that I think is good is good” It is heavily debated if literally any war has ever even met and stayed within the bounds of Just War Theory (staying within the bounds is the bigger issue)

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

JD Vance trying to lecture the literal Pope on theology is just the exaggerated version of the flood of Protestant converts to Catholicism who never actually deconstructed their belief that they need to “save” Catholics and instead pasted into radtradism as the only valid form of practice

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13/04/2026

Idaho has the most punitive anti-trans bathroom ban in the country, with up to five years in prison for a second offense. I spoke to the folks pushing back—over what just a few years ago led to calls for boycotts, the state legislature shamed on the national stage—on how they fight.

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Idaho Is Ground Zero of Republicans’ Escalating War on Trans People

Ten years ago, bathroom bans inspired boycotts and celebrity opposition. Where’s the national outrage now?

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

If this is someone’s awakening to how bad things have gotten, I’m glad they know now But if you’re surprised by the direction this has gone you have not been paying attention and even more likely have been ignoring what is in front of you

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Also to be clear I am absolutely side eyeing any Catholics that are reacting to this news without either directly acknowledging or have a history of directly acknowledging the ways this administration has attacked our atheist, Muslim, Jewish, and basically all other non Evangelical neighbors

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

At this point I feel like I need to get a betting pool going to see if the SSPX folks or the mainstream but MAGA Catholics are going to hit full on schism first I was going to give it to SSPX but with Trump putting his foot on the gas…….

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I have…….A Lot Of Thoughts™️ about how certain factions of the US Catholic Church are going to react on this. We‘re a lot more polarized than a lot of people realize and I am…watching to see how the persecution complex crowd reacts to the rising threat of actual persecution coming from their guy

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I just want to say that I have been saying this entire time that the MAGA support for Catholics was always conditional on political utility This alleged threat is the least surprising turn of events when you look at the long arc of things

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I gave up social media for lent what did I miss

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 21/01/2026

Please do this. As a chair in a deep red district we need tons of help building a real party and you will have considerable influence.

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steviebaby🫡 @steviebaby.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The job market has been hard on everyone but definitely for early career attorneys with what has been frequently described as “niche but deeply necessary expertise” 🫠

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Howdy folks! Some of you might have noticed that www.transingboundaries.com disappeared for a second there, but good news, it’s back! A bunch of new folks are following me here now, so if you’re interested in the intersections of law/politics/religion/queerness, consider subscribing! (Thread)

transingboundaries.com

Transing Boundaries

Your place to find trans perspectives on law, state-church separation, religion, LGBTQIA+ rights, and the fight for a better, more just world.

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Having grown up a journalist’s kid in Indiana I’m not all that surprised that the IN Senate voted no on this map A LOT of the folks in the Indiana Legislature across party lines do not care for the federal government coming in and trying to bully them into doing ANYTHING

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Not only are sex and gender different but interrelated things that sometimes overlap but legal sex and biological sex are different things that serve different functions but also sometimes overlap

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

FIRE has long been associated with the cause of “academic freedom” championed by its right-wing donors, so I wanted to see how its much-publicized expansion into free expression has played out. Among its newest stances? Support for conversion therapy on religious-based free speech grounds.

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Big day for my most annoying character trait (Indiana University Marching Hundred alumni)

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Hello five word horror story in my LinkedIn notifications this morning

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It's an actual game plan on the right. They use it for book bans as well. They start with something easy: no porn in libraries. That hooks in the low information folks. Then you slowly broaden the scope until you're yanking any YA that violates Christian nationalism.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 06/12/2025

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/12/2025

we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Like obviously this woman in this class is doing a targeted anti-trans grift, we know this but like As someone who will give even the mildest progressive Christian/Catholic take and get bombarded by radtrads demanding citations the double standard only makes this whole situation more grifty

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The whole essay thing is both horrifying and fascinating to me on a bunch of different levels, but one of those is the fact that conservative/right wing Christians absolutely do know how to demand and ask for citations…because they do it any time more progressive Christians say…anything progressive

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics. That’s…not the problem.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

There is a certain kind of Catholic convert who thinks they are more Catholic than the Pope.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Begging scholars who want to be allies of trans communities to stop publishing in Archives of Sexual Behaviour. It’s been more harmful to trans communities than the fucking Linacre Quarterly.

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

My father absolutely had his priorities when I was a kid and on Sundays it was absolutely “post-church fried chicken” and honestly I respect the shit out of that 😂

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

My father also deeply used his Protestantism to our advantage on Sundays because once my sister and I were old enough that we didn’t need both parents managing us quite as much he would dip out of mass during communion and get the car so quote “we can get to the fried chicken before the Methodists”

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Kat Grant 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katdene.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

We will never know what they would have done with the name Margaret because I was a High Risk Pregnancy and their OB told them hey maybe don’t have any more babies but I like to think it would have been an equally obnoxious double first name

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