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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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J.K. Rowling loves black Hermione, but has yet to address The Cursed Child’s actually scandalous casting decision.
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