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Trans-focused analysis and commentary in the era of hate. Posts by @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social unless otherwise noted. 🌏 severalproblems.press

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Several Problems Press @severalproblems.press · 22/05/2026

Our editor-in-chief, Isabelle, today sent a letter to her local Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. We republish it here for visibility.

Dear [redacted],

I hope you are well. I had the pleasure earlier today of speaking to one of your office staff, [redacted], who was very polite and helpful.

You may be aware that the Full Court of the Federal Court recently decided a case with the memorable name of Giggle v Tickle [2026] FCAFC 64. The judges in that case unanimously reaffirmed that the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) protects transgender women from being discriminated against for being trans.

As reoprted by the STAR OBSERVER, on 19 May, Chris Minns, Premier of New South Wales, responded to that case by suggesting that the law needs to reflect "biological differences between people who are born male and people who were born female". Mr Minns disagreed with Angus Taylor rewriting the Act but suggested in-principle support for doing so regardless. He further stated his support for his existing positions of excluding transgender people from playing sport with members of the same gender, and for placing trans women in men's prisons.

Mr Minns' positions are ethically abhorrent and, to the extent that they rely on claims about reality, they have no basis in fact. I am also aware that they are enabled partly by an increasing tendency for centrist and liberal parties worldwide to abandon trans people or actively discriminate against them, justifying doing so on the basis either of pragmatism or of the popular will (invariably not one whose existence is backed by any kind of evidence). Giggle seems to have been a particular flashpoint in that regard.

I am a left-wing swing voter. Sometimes I vote 1 Labor. Sometimes I vote 1 Greens, 2 Labor. I moved here after the most recent state election, but people I've spoken to seem to like you as a state MP. For my part, I started caring about trans rights fairly late in the Palaszczuk Government, but was satisfied with what I saw, particularly the 2020 conversion therapy ban and the 2023 reforms making it easier for trans people to change their legal gender. I have no particular antipathy toward you and very little toward the Party. But I also know that the Minns Government enacted similar birth certificate reforms less than a year ago, and here we are anyway.

If I detect even a hint that Queensland Labor is moving in the same direction as Chris Minns, then I will have no choice but to make Labor my enemy. I haven't canvassed at an election for several years, but, if Labor sells out trans people, it will have successfully mobilised me. In the event that Labor adopts a position of political transphobia — tactical or otherwise — I will canvas for the Greens, or, if I'm not satisfied with the Greens option, I will canvass for any other party which chooses to preserve trans people's civil rights. I will also preference Labor below the LNP, and I will encourage everyone else I know to do so as well. I will do so because at that point the only value I will be able to extract from the electoral process is making it more difficult for a party to win by throwing minorities under the bus.

I'm not sending this to make you read a long letter, or out of hatred for you as a human being. I'm sending this because I see every reason to like you, and I would prefer to continue doing so. I hope you take that into consideration, and I hope any action you might take on transgender rights will be ethically sound and well-informed.

Sincerely yours,
Isabelle Moreton
[further personal details redacted]

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Several Problems Press @severalproblems.press · 08/05/2026

Isabelle (@eigenvectrix.myatproto.social, moby dickgirl) advises that, after prodding the Bluesky Moderation Service, she now has the official notification regarding her suspension. Here it is.

Hi,

We've reviewed a Post on your account @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social and found it violates Bluesky's Community Guidelines on Anti-Harassment. We create space for everyoen to express themselves by prohibiting harassment and toxic behaviors.

For example:

— Do not stalk, persistently target, or create malicious content designed to humiliate or degrade individuals, including through coordinated campaigns;

— Do not abuse Bluesky features (lists, labels, community moderation tools), enage in bad-faith mass reporting, use automated harassment systems, or create single-purpose harassment accounts.

The following Post was removed:

Remember when Aaron Rodericks was liking barely legal porn from his official account?

Your post was classified as a Serious Violation, adding 4 strikes to your account. You now have 4 total strikes.

Because you reached 4 strikes, your account has been suspended for 3 days. You will be able to access your account again on 9th May, 2026.

If you believe this action was taken in error, you can appeal within 14 days by emailing **moderation@blueskyweb.xyz**. Please include context about why you believe this decision was incorrect.

Bluesky Moderation Team

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Several Problems Press @severalproblems.press · 26/02/2026

... Digg? How long has this spambot been running?

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Several Problems Press @severalproblems.press · 26/02/2026

If we wanted to receive hundreds more ads for gambling and crypto we'd just make another Gmail account

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Several Problems Press @severalproblems.press · 02/07/2025

We aren't terribly happy that a lot of reporting on this has reproduced the wording used by the Trump administration and its courtier journalists verbatim, because that normalises their worldview. Here is our description of UPenn's collaboration agreement, which we believe is more factually correct

An excerpt from our article on UPenn, describing the ways they've decided to collaborate with the Trump administration. The text reads as follows:

"* falsifying UPenn's NCAA Division I women's 'swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions' to indicate that those which were received by a transfem athlete were actually received by the cis woman athlete who would have received them if no trans women had been allowed to compete;
* issuing a public statement that:
** trans women will not be allowed to compete as women and that they will not be allowed to use correctly gendered UPenn locker rooms and other gendered facilities;
** UPenn will 'adopt ... definitions' of the words 'male' and 'female' which treat an individual's 'male' or 'female' status as being determined by their sex assigned at birth;
* posting that statement 'in a prominent location its main website and on each of its websites for women's athletics';
* 'rescind[ing] any guidance ... [and] remov[ing] or revis[ing] any internal and public-facing statements or documents' that treat trans people as having their correct gender, and notifying 'all staff and women's athletics of all such rescissions'; and
* sending personalised letters of apology to Paula Scanlan and any other anti-trans activists on the UPenn swimming team."

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Several Problems Press @severalproblems.press · 04/05/2025

Well ... as spam we've received goes, this is definitely among the more worrying

A screenshot of a comment waiting in our comment moderation queue. The original entry contains the author, IP address, provided email, and provided website URL as metadata, all of which we've redacted.

The comment body reads:
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