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June 14, 2023
Brynn Tannehill
Trans People’s Free Speech Is Being Suppressed in America Right Now. Does Anyone Care?
It is illegal in some states for transgender people to make public presentations that would be perfectly legal for cisgender people.
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Alex Shephard
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Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.
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