Raise your hand if you're a trans person who's been denied access and couldn't find a single lawyer willing to help you.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
If this has happened to you, I recommend contacting
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Replying to @emily_esque @TLDEF and
And hopefully they won't tell you "Sorry, this case isn't big enough for us" like they did to me!
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
That's weird because I wasn't kidding about the phone helpdesk misgendering thing, and that's a) relatively smalltime and b) hard to win.
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Replying to @emily_esque @EmilyGorcenski
To be frank, I started the private admin practice because I felt the big guys weren't doing enough, so I do see your point.
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Rights are only as meaningful as their ability to be secured. And when we delegate things to "small time" we lose what matters.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @emily_esque
Being banned from an important local business by a prominent local business owner may be small time, but for me I lost friends over it.
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I couldn't go to charity events at the space. I lost a connection to a huge community.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @emily_esque
So preach all you want about "technically the rights still exist." No one was there to protect them. There's not enough resources to.
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What we can't hold on to isn't really ours. I stand by my statement. There is no track record of success.
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