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POEM: The fire
The fire started in the kitchen,
Oct 10
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Ari Drennen
8
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I Knew I Wasn’t a Girl at Four. No Propaganda Made Me Trans
Ayman Eckford grew up in a devout, pro-Russian family in Donetsk with no words for being trans. That childhood is exactly the one anti-trans activists…
Oct 8
33
3
POEM: Lover and Prey
Your talons caress soft skin and tendons
Oct 3
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Ari Drennen
10
September 2026
A Senate Republican Super PAC Is Blaming Sherrod Brown for a Surgery a 19-Year-Old Had in Texas
A Texas surgery, an Ohio Senate race and a claim PolitiFact already rated Mostly False.
Sep 30
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Ari Drennen
19
3
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The Right’s “Stolen Medals” Number Comes From a Site That Counts Middle School Meets and One-Person Races
Trump’s Education Department repeated the claim that over 2,000 gold medals were “stolen.” The group that built the number never said which of the…
Sep 29
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Ari Drennen
24
1
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Right-Wing Media Made “Biological Male” Mainstream. It Isn’t Accurate.
The doctors who treat us dropped the phrase in 2017. Now it’s in a Senate hearing, a CBS standards memo, and a Democratic Senate campaign. The accurate…
Sep 28
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Ari Drennen
52
4
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POEM: Mammoth Lakes
I spent the dark of winter watching
Sep 26
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Ari Drennen
7
The Group Behind the Anti-Trans Attack Ads Says They May Not Be Enough. Its New Idea Is Charlie Kirk.
The American Principles Project told Republicans that attacking Democrats on trans issues may not win on its own. Then it oversold those attacks and…
Sep 25
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Ari Drennen
22
4
A New Study Sent 10,000 Fake Résumés to German Employers. Trans Women Who Didn’t Pass Lost Up to a Third of Their Callbacks.
Facial surgery is the gender-affirming procedure insurers deny most. A 10,000-résumé experiment shows what not passing costs.
Sep 23
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The Data Driven Trans Doc
91
4
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Who Is Actually Under the Bus?
The right said it first. We said it louder. The voters have been paying attention.
Sep 15
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Ari Drennen
35
4
7
The Best Thing for Trans Rights This Year Is Beating Ken Paxton
One candidate softened a sentence. The other one is making lists.
Sep 12
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Ari Drennen
58
7
Write for The New Transsexual
We pay for published essays. Pitch us.
Sep 5
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Ari Drennen
68
3
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