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Valorie Van-Dieman

@valorievandieman.bsky.social
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 12/10/2026
Does the right of self defense come with an asterisk for trans women? @valorievandieman.bsky.social finds that a concerning implication of a decision in Tennessee to allow a man convicted of murder a new trial because he wasn't allowed to use his victim's gender identity as a defense. More here:
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Tennessee Court Allows Trans Panic Defense, Undermining Trans Safety - Assigned Media
Appellate court overturns ruling in the murder of a trans woman, opening the doors for the trans panic defense and further attacks on the safety of trans people.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 06/10/2026
Yesterday, an internal email at WSU announced the cancellation of the TERF conference, TORCH. @valorievandieman.bsky.social brings you the update to this story.
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Update: Worcester TERF Conference Cancelled - Assigned Media
The TERF conference, TORCH, has been cancelled by Worcester State University.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you! I just caught that I missed adding the link to that properly in the story (this has now been corrected as well)
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 01/10/2026
A nest of TERFs in Worcester Massachusetts? Say it ain't so! New original reporting by @valorievandieman.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Queer Community Raises Alarm as TERF Conference Comes to Worcester, MA - Assigned Media
The conference, arranged by an anti-trans radical feminist with several notable anti-trans speakers, is set to occur in mid October.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 24/09/2026
Protestors and trans youth gathered on Tuesday to picket NYU Langone for sacrificing their gender-affirming care to appease the DoJ. @valorievandieman.bsky.social brings you the story here!
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“I’ve Had to Accept This Cruelty as Just Like Normal” - Assigned Media
Protestors gather in New York City to picket NYU Langone, the latest hospital to settle with the Department of Justice and cut off gender-affirming care.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No doubt in my mind that Hegseth thinks Homelander is the hero of that story.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 14/09/2026
The midterms are shaping up to be a referendum on whether trans people should exist, with Republicans saying we shouldn't and Democrats saying maybe Republicans have a point on some of these issues. Good luck, everybody!
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Democratic Candidates Abandon Trans Folks, Are Attacked For Their Support Anyway - Assigned Media
Leading Off: Republicans set the stage for further attacks on trans rights while some democrats continue to walk back support. Our top headlines as we start off the week.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
How does he do it?
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This piece was a nice reprieve to write amidst all the daily horrors. Give it a read then check out the whole quilt online here!
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Trans Unity Quilt
A giant, collaborative patchwork quilt created by trans people and their loved ones from across the country. It is the product of many hours of work in community centres, social and support groups and...
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Sometimes it takes breaking down crying from writing about positive news for the first time in months for you to realize just how burnt out and tired you are.
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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 16/07/2026
Read it and share it! Or risk causing more harm to transmasculine people by not doing so. The choice is yours.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We did it! I love you @mosquitochaser.bsky.social!
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
After a year since our engagement, I'm excited to say that me and @mosquitochaser.bsky.social are finally getting married on Saturday at Pride!
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Big congratulations to @evanurquhart.bsky.social!!
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I, for one, am looking forward to its release tonight at precisely 11:59 PM
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The real trick is to do this when you actually don't have the counterspell
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
So the one I go off of, which is what Julie provided, is the public court record. I link to it and explain how to access at the end of the piece. What he's provided isn't something publicly accessible, maybe it's legit, but it's not something I could have had and it contradicts public record.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
But imagine if it was a thousand words, imagine how many swears it would have been then
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The largest of his claims have been responded to by Julie, but to respond to a small one, he really seems to think that the Post story wasn't just a repost from Fox. It's the same story, all you have to do is look at the NYP to know that. For him not to know that is just so incredibly sloppy.
The first two paragraphs of a news story of a detransitioner. It is clearly marked as a repost from Fox News.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 25/05/2026
If Ben Ryan complains about you, you're doing it right (hi Ben, I know you're screenshotting this through your alts to complain elsewhere)
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The New York Post published a story rife with misinformation about a January settlement in a detransitioner's lawsuit. I investigate and look at the facts of that settlement and trace the origins of the falsehoods here at @assignedmedia.org
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New York Post Misrepresents Detransition Lawsuit - Assigned Media
The anti-trans crowd has latched onto a New York Post story as a perceived victory, but what are the actual facts?
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Our dog makes the absolute best faces
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Cassie (she/her) @mosquitochaser.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I love when my dog gets condescending. Hedy: *wants to go out but we just came in and it’s raining* Me: Not now H: *stares at door* *goes to door and looks from me to door several times* Me: No H: *brings leash to door* *picks up my shoe and drops it pointedly in front of me* Me: I understand
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Nooo Toasty 😭
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Squarespace was having issues with displaying text earlier, should be back up now!
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Check out my partner’s poetry!
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
America doing what it does best: dismantling democracy
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Well you see, Skibidi Toilet community goodwill is circling the drain after Hollywood studio takes over. Hope this helps.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I'm loving how differently the returning characters play without losing their mechanical identities. Defect especially has been fun to relearn, especially when discovering earlier how broken a status deck could be, played through my deck something like 9 times on turn 1 on the final boss for an otk
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This last year we have seen a radical shift in the public anti-trans rhetoric, seeing less attempts to justify attacks on our rights with palatable lenses like protecting children, and more moves like Kansas' attack on all trans people based on nothing but hate. Check out my newest piece in Slate!
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I Really Thought the Republican Attacks Against Me Couldn’t Get Worse. But One State Just Seriously Proved Me Wrong.
Who is being “violent,” again?
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
From my perspective the collision was two big lurches. I'm fine and uninjured, just rattled and stressed.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
They just announced they'd be bringing on a new engineer from Memphis, then they'll run some checks on the engine. As long as those come back ok we will hopefully be moving in the next hour or so.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
We had slowed down a good amount, but the masses involved still is a hard collision. The train has been moved slightly, so the engine may still be functional, but I don't know, I'm not a train expert. So we may be waiting for a new engine as well, depending on the damage.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
From what I have gathered from crew conversations, we were following some distance behind the freight train. However, without warning the dispatcher or the dispatcher warning us, the freight train began reversing down the tracks back towards us.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I'm on an Amtrak just south of Memphis that was involved with a collision with a freight train. It's unclear what the level of damage is. No passenger injuries in the cars adjacent to me. Some medics walking through mentioned needing to find a new driver though.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Its been a hell of a year for my queerness, just coming to terms with realizing I'm nonbinary immediately after gender affirming surgery six months ago, only to be hit this week with the realization that I am in fact bisexual as well
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Walking by past a driveway with a Ford truck with a big sticker that says: "Be American, Buy American"; immediately next to it in the driveway: a Volkswagen. Really makes you want to ask them how they define 'American' here.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
In covering the news for this last year, one thing I noticed was that the most unified defenses of trans people was coming from attorneys general, who repeatedly joined together to oppose the Trump regime.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The only way to stop a bad guy with a torment nexus is with a good guy with a torment nexus
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This was nearly a month ago now, but I'm still sad about it
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Generally, the fact that I heal fast is really nice. But I had my piercings out for 24 hours because of the surgery, and everything but my septum closed up in that time.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
It's never been about protecting children and always been about hurting people for being different
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
My quality of life has immeasurably improved since transitioning and getting on hormones, and I am so happy that I was able to do it. Half a decade is a long time already and I look forward to plenty more of them going forward to truly enjoy my life and my self the way everyone should be able to.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Drawing off that confidence and emotional range, as well as the increased comfort in my appearance, I've also found myself able to truly engage with things like kink and polyamory. Things that I was never able to do healthily before as a result of the previous lack of self confidence.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I also find that I'm more confident now than I ever was before. From things ranging from generally talking to people in non-professional contexts, to making changes to my appearance. Being more daring with things like hairstyles and colors, tattoos, piercings, and clothing choices.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Then there are the personal and emotional changes. I think the most apparent for me is that, in general, I have a broader emotional range these days. How much of that is the hormones vs the generally brighter life I live now post transition, its hard to say. But the change is there.
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Valorie Van-Dieman @valorievandieman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
get talked about as much. The big one being my height. I remember going to the doctor one day about two years in and being informed that, in shoes, I was two inches shorter than when they had last measured me before hormones. Related to that, my shoe size has also dropped by half a size or so.
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