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What Happened to Lia Smith, the Middlebury College Trans Athlete Who Took Her Own Life? After the deletion of her team profile and amid new national bans on trans athletes, questions remain about Lia Smith’s time at Middlebury — and about how the college supports its trans students
28.10.2025 20:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Under Communism Why I believe in preserving the liberal framework for trans equality
24.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Procrastination Is Trying to Tell You The cost of your new life is often your old one. The cost of stagnation is your life slipping by.
07.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I Don’t Want to Watch My Friends Die in 4K When the line against political violence breaks, it doesn’t just take our enemies. It takes our friends, our families, and our future.
02.10.2025 13:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Sarah McBride Was Right to Condemn Violence Sarah McBride voted to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I would have too.
19.09.2025 16:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Horror They Made Politicians who normalized mass death now recoil at its return. Pacifism in government isn’t naïve—it’s how we keep society safe.
12.09.2025 17:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You Already Won — Now Live The hardest part of transition isn’t starting.
03.09.2025 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Signs of Life in a Fractured Democracy I can’t lie: I’m really anxious about the state of the country.
29.08.2025 13:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Most People Breathe Wrong. Here’s How I Fixed It. If you think your rib cage is too big, I have good news for you
27.08.2025 14:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sarah McBride’s First Bill Shows How Democracy Should Work Delaware’s new congresswoman is already showing her strength: building unlikely coalitions to create more opportunities for ordinary Americans.
01.08.2025 13:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Project 2029: What Democrats Must Do to Protect Trans People Behind closed doors, Democratic-aligned think tanks are sketching out a roadmap for the next progressive presidency.
16.07.2025 13:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Pride Means to Me Isn’t a Parade I’ve never liked parades.
11.07.2025 13:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I Thought I Had to Choose Between Being Loved and Being Myself But next month, I’m marrying the love of my life.
09.07.2025 12:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE FALL LINE: Chapter Ten Thank you for coming this far with The Fall Line.
20.06.2025 13:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BREAKING: A Federal Court Just Blocked Trump’s Passport Policy. If You’re Trans, Here’s What To Do. The door is open—for now. Here’s how to navigate the shifting rules around passport gender markers.
17.06.2025 23:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE FALL LINE: Chapter Nine Thank you for staying with The Fall Line this long.
16.06.2025 13:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Embracing Femininity and Letting Go: Five Practices to Live Authentically So many of us spend our lives trying to control how the world sees us.
13.06.2025 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE FALL LINE: Chapter Eight Thank you for reading The Fall Line.
09.06.2025 13:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Healing Through Love: How to Stop Seeking Validation from Those Who Won’t Understand You On looking for love in all the wrong places
06.06.2025 13:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE FALL LINE: Chapter Seven Thank you for being here—for reading this story slowly, week by week, like it deserves.
02.06.2025 13:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More Than Dress-Up: Finding Joy in Femininity as a Performance There’s something undeniably magical about the act of playing dress-up.
30.05.2025 14:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE FALL LINE: Chapter Six Thank you for following The Fall Line.
26.05.2025 14:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Breaking the Silence: How Internalized Homophobia and Transphobia Keep Us Small For many of us, the loudest voice of homophobia and transphobia doesn’t come from the outside world—it comes from inside our own heads.
23.05.2025 14:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Elect and the Exiled: Wokeness, Calvinism, and the Search for Grace I once watched a colleague pause before speaking—then go quiet.
21.05.2025 14:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE FALL LINE: Chapter Five Thank you for reading The Fall Line.
19.05.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unapologetically Feminine: Releasing the Shame of Wanting to Look and Feel Beautiful For so many of us, embracing our femininity feels like a dangerous game.
16.05.2025 14:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Way Out of Detransition Panic: Cover Fertility Preservation We don’t reduce regret by limiting choices. We reduce regret by making sure people have options.
14.05.2025 14:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Obvious Agenda Behind Trump's HHS Report on Trans Youth Behind the language of science, the HHS report pushes an old political agenda: erase trans kids by pretending they’re being protected.
01.05.2025 18:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE FALL LINE: Chapter Four Thank you so much for reading The Fall Line.
28.04.2025 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Surrendering Control: Why Letting Go Can Be the Most Empowering Thing You Do Letting go is the beginning of freedom.
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