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title: "Notes on 2025W38"
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slug: weeknotes-2025w38
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date: 2025-09-21
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categories: weeknotes
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tags:
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- Weeknotes
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- Trans
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- japan
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- japan-tokyo
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- Trains
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- Yamanote
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- uspol
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- Travel
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- Unions
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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
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myself and for every other trans person navigating the daily terror of the
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political climate here. You are loved and valid, no matter what they say.
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:heart:
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Someone [compiled all the station ditties](https://yamanot.es) along the
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Yamanote line in Tōkyō. Via [Jonathan Wight][wight], though the link is now
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dead.
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[Jimmy Kimmel was removed from the air][kimmel] by a combination of ABC, Disney,
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and Nexstar over comments he made about Charlie Kirk. His comments were mild at
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best, and his removal portends bad things for freedom of speech and a free press
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in the US.
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The US seems poised to pass a country-wide [bathroom ban][bathrooms] for trans
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people. It would deny trans people the right to use the toilets matching their
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gender, and _also_ deny them access to toilets matching their birth sex,
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effectively preventing trans people from using the bathroom in any public space.
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If this passes, I don't think I will be able to travel to the UK for any reason
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for the forseeable future.
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Sol Elias draws a comparison to the current [moral panic][panic] around trans
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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].
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Congrats to them!
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[wight]: https://mastodon.social/@schwa/115125526450662142
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[kimmel]: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115112175537370858
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[bathrooms]: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bathroom-ban/
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[panic]: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/freak-generations-the-moral-panic-playbook-from-crack-babies-to-trans-kids/
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[diablo]: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115112175537370858
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