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@uncanny_eli I've been trying to set people straight about it all day!! Most of the anger was based on straightforward misapprehensions, so a fair bit of it does seem to have dissipated by now, thankfully (and several of the most inflammatory tweets have been deleted)

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3 months ago

@Ameeeeey25 @polypocketknife Yeah, I get you! It's certainly a much more modest 'trans win' than it would be if a trans woman won the Stella (one day 🤞). I'm just anxious to defend Lee because I'm seeing some WILD miscomprehension on Twitter (e.g. Ari Drennen calling her 'team TERF', which is just batshit)

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3 months ago

@Ameeeeey25 @polypocketknife meaningful caveat: it's not a women's award (it's been explicitly open to women and nonbinary people regardless of agab since 2017). And I think it's great that she won because her comic rocks and she deserves it!! (sincerely, an Australian trans woman who reads a lot 😋)

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3 months ago

@GBBranstetter The world is filled with examples of this, but this genuinely isn't one of them. Lee isn't a trans man, and the award (contra the misleading headline from a conservative rag) isn't 'for female writers'. It's for women and nonbinary writers, and it's fuckn awesome that Lee won 😤

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3 months ago

@burnthelilacs Totally different situation!!! The award isn't 'for female writers', but was changed years ago to be for women and nonbinary writers (no specification of agab). Lee is nonbinary – on testosterone, uses she/her pronouns, really cool person. There's literally nothing bad about this

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3 months ago

@AriDrennen WHOA WHOA WHOA – Ari, you are WILDLY off-base here. The prize is explicitly open to nonbinary people (which Lee is), and it's awesome that she won. There is absolutely nothing 'Team TERF' about Lee Lai, and you should delete this absurdly false smear ASAP.

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5 months ago

@mjcooke I gotchu bb 🤫 drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

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5 months ago

@RedDevilDawg1 @NYCMayor You have been propagandized, my guy.

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5 months ago

@rcbregman I mean, not *good* writers.

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5 months ago

@itsZ4ya Like, you can disagree with her about the value of being in a coalition with a neo-Nazi to make an amendment to a bill that she opposes and voted against ... but that's simply not the same thing as her "voting to fund the Iron Dome". That's just misunderstanding what happened.

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5 months ago

@itsZ4ya She *literally* didn't. The bill to fund the Iron Dome, she voted against. There was an amendment proposed to the bill (the bill which, again, she voted against) that she opposed for reasons she's explained — but she has literally never voted to fund the Iron Dome.