---
title: "Notes on 2025W38"
slug: weeknotes-2025w38
date: 2025-09-21
categories: weeknotes
tags:
  - Weeknotes
  - Trans
  - japan
  - japan-tokyo
  - Trains
  - Yamanote
  - uspol
  - Travel
  - Unions
---

I'm pretty behind on weeknotes again.

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It has been a truly awful few weeks for trans people in the US. I am worried for
myself and for every other trans person navigating the daily terror of the
political climate here. You are loved and valid, no matter what they say.
:heart:

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Someone [compiled all the station ditties](https://yamanot.es) along the
Yamanote line in Tōkyō. Via [Jonathan Wight][wight], though the link is now
dead.

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[Jimmy Kimmel was removed from the air][kimmel] by a combination of ABC, Disney,
and Nexstar over comments he made about Charlie Kirk. His comments were mild at
best, and his removal portends bad things for freedom of speech and a free press
in the US.

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The US seems poised to pass a country-wide [bathroom ban][bathrooms] for trans
people. It would deny trans people the right to use the toilets matching their
gender, and _also_ deny them access to toilets matching their birth sex,
effectively preventing trans people from using the bathroom in any public space.
If this passes, I don't think I will be able to travel to the UK for any reason
for the forseeable future.

Sol Elias draws a comparison to the current [moral panic][panic] around trans
rights and the "crack baby" era of the 1980s and 1990s.

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The team behind the Diablo franchise at Blizzard has [unionized][diablo].
Congrats to them!

[wight]: https://mastodon.social/@schwa/115125526450662142
[kimmel]: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115112175537370858
[bathrooms]: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bathroom-ban/
[panic]: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/freak-generations-the-moral-panic-playbook-from-crack-babies-to-trans-kids/
[diablo]: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115112175537370858