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Erin Reed
Personal blog · erininthemorning.compoliticsculture
Erin Reed writes Erin In The Morning, a personal blog at erininthemorning.com about politics and culture. Since 2023, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Erin Reed's Substack as a source on anti-trans politics, legislation, and research, mostly as links supporting their own points. One calls it a go-to resource on LGBTQ+ politicization.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
News and discussion on trans legislation and life.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/marco-rubio-may-have-just-banned3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-21
- /p/this-must-stop-tpusas-charlie-kirk2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-11
- /p/we-must-not-posthumously-sanitize2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-14
What Hacker News says?
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-woman-and-computer-...
Comment linking /p/trans-woman-and-computer-pioneer
on “Lynn Conway has died”Submitted Florida Deploys Police at Crosswalks, Stop Them from Being Painted Rainbow as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHere he is citing the bible quote about stoning gay people, referring to it as "God's perfect law". I guess some people are bending over backwards to interpret this in a non-horrific way. That's fine, I guess. We've got plenty of other reprehensible things he's said. https://xcancel.com/patriottakes/status/1800678317030564306 Here he is using innuendo to suggest we should have "took care of" trans folks like we did…
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on “Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah”Submitted Groundbreaking Study: Anti-Trans State Laws Increased Suicide Attempts by 72% as a story · 6 points
HN discussionKirk didn't deserve to die for having or expressing hateful ideas, but his views were not merely "different." Charlie Kirk speaking about a trans athlete: "Someone should've just took care of it the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s or 60s[0]. And [1]: > America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unaf…
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on “Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah”Submitted Opinion: WaPo Editorial Board Misleadingly Attacks Care of Trans Youth as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIt is fascinating to see how many people are projecting their own best beliefs onto Kirk, while ignoring all his worst ones. It's a reflection of how they see themselves, not of how he was as a man. Given his comments on the Pelosi attack, it's clear that he didn't believe that people should be safe from violence for their political beliefs. Given his comments on trans people[1], it's clear that he didn't believe th…
Comment linking /p/this-must-stop-tpusas-charlie-kirk
on “Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah”Submitted Texas A&M Bans Philosophy Prof. From Teaching Plato Because of "Gender Ideology" as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://www.cntraveler.com/story/what-to-know-if-you-are-a-t... https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/marco-rubio-may-have-just...
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on “Boycott IETF 127”Submitted Senator Admits “Kids Online Safety Act” Will Target Trans Content Online as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> What's the basis for the claim that the Cass Review was written with political goals directly in mind? Is this just based on the conclusion of the report, or is there actual substance for this statement? Cass meeting with DeSantis staffers [1], for one [1] https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/cass-met-with-desantis-pi... > Notably, Hilary Cass met with Patrick Hunter, a member of the anti-trans Catholic Medical Asso…
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on “Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science”Submitted Federal Court Upholds Forcibly Detransitioning Transgender Inmates in Florida as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI was under the impression that guidance from the state department allows border agents to deny visas to visitors whose “apparent sex differs from sex at birth.” Moreover, “misrepresenting sex” (whatever that means) could be grounds for permanent refusal of entry, by this guidance. Are you saying this is no longer the case? See https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/marco-rubio-may-have-just...
Comment linking /p/marco-rubio-may-have-just-banned
on “I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA”If you're curious about this, Erin in the Morning is a fantastic resource on the resurging politicization of LGBTQ+ people. Knowing about her Substack made it trivial for me to find the issue. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/florida-misrepresenting-g...
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on “The Importance of Fact-Checking”The sex designation on my birth certificate has changed since the last time I got a work visa. Am I at risk for trying to enter the US on a new work visa as an engineer, or on personal travel? https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/marco-rubio-may-have-just...
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on “I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA”Hate is calling for violence against transgender people and other minorities "like in the 1950s and 60s". https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/we-must-not-posthumously-... Are you really this unfamiliar with his work? Because if you agree with his ideology then just be honest and say that, don't try to drag people into these quasi-intellectual debates about what constitutes hate.
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on “Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting”I'll take the bait and assume that you're engaging in good faith. I hope you assume the same of me in return. Trans healthcare is far from a settled science, and there is a lot we don't know yet. Part of the reason for this is how new this is as an area of active research, a history of science on this topic being intentionally quashed[1], and frankly the relative low numbers of trans people in general. This is all d…
Comment linking /p/yale-researchers-international-experts
on “The Bethesda Declaration”a fact check from Erin Reed https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check-new-york-times...
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on “U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says”Actually, the anti-trans candidates have lost most of the recent elections where they made trans rights the main focus, and most people polled either do not care or object to restricting those rights. 1. https://www.ettingermentum.news/p/the-continuing-electoral-h... 2. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-shows-massive-ba...
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on “There have been several public library bomb threats this week”This was interesting to read but didn't pass the sniff test for me. I strongly believe there are secular trends in sexual and gender identity, and it's worth noting that the trends they discuss — real or spurious — predated the current US administration. At the same time I'm not sure I trusted this data and it seems to be misinterpreted a bit. First, the surveys in the article are kind of odd and idiosyncratic in te…
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on “Transgenderism Is in Rapid Decline Among Young Americans”Another source, that I will quote from: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-t... > The Legislature, the letter notes, "did not include a grace period for updating credentials," and anyone operating a vehicle without a valid credential "may be subject to additional penalties." > Under Kansas law, driving without a valid license is a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and…
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on “Kansas invalidates driver's licenses, birth certificates for ~1k transgender”> There is nothing wrong with any of the comments linked to by him in that thread, in my opinion. Then there is no meeting of the minds that can be had. > In my experience, this is always arrived at by some sort of absurd logic that goes "he denies that I am really a woman, and when you do that you make transgender people more like to kill themselves, therefore it is genocide" which is obviously nonsense. What is ha…
Comment linking /p/this-is-what-transgender-eradication
on “The first conformant M1 GPU driver”https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-randomized-trial-show...
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on “She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity”
