HeyJaredDebi Downer
Holding it down for trans and non-binary youth and their families. Essays, stories, and straight talk on advocacy, policy, and building a more inclusive world.
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Bait and Switch, Missouri Style (opens the original)
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I’ve been meaning to write about Missouri’s Amendment 3 for a few days. (Flash floods hit, though, and we lost some precious items that we carried across the ocean with us. That has taken my attention, and I’ll post about that another time.) Before I get to the particulars of the proposed amendment, one other thing you should know: there’s a legitimate question whether Missouri’s elections this year are even going to be trustworthy. That’s the backdrop for everything else, so let me explain…Whic
So You Want to Talk About Grooming? (opens the original)
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Over two weeks this August, the federal government ran a coordinated campaign to recast trans kids, their doctors, and their parents as criminals. Four pieces, four different formats, same argument.Piece one, August 13–14 Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of “Gender Medicine.” HHS commissioned it. Advocacy staff wrote it — peopl
The Messages I Don't Show You (opens the original)
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Content warning: this essay includes a message referencing suicide and violence. I don’t swear, so quoting it directly is already uncomfortable for me — but people need to see, unfiltered, what “concern for children” sounds like from the people fighting hardest against trans kids’ rights.This one arrived Saturday:“Old cunt Debbie can’t even get her fucked up son to appear on camera any more. A J will probably commit suicide. It will be entirely the fault of his asshole mother Debbie. A J’s pussy
A Machine Thinks I Didn’t Write My Own Emotions (<-- AI title) (opens the original)
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Substack has integrated an AI detection tool called Pangram. Every new piece gets a score — a percentage indicating how much of the writing a machine believes was generated by AI versus written by a human.I copied several of my previous Substack essays into new drafts to see how Pangram would score them. Two of my most personal essays — written in the d… Read more
If Spain Is the Dream, but Documents Are a Worry — Here's What Just Changed. (opens the original)
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Two weeks ago, a Madrid court did something Spain’s trans rights law had promised since 2023 but never quite delivered: it forced the government to actually let a foreign resident correct the gender marker on their ID when their home country wouldn’t. (Hello, Americans!) On July 13, the Dirección General de la Policía published a new protocol implementi… <a href="https://debijackson.substac
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