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NireBryce
@NireBryce

This is like that but in the best of ways.

this deposition by a lambda legal lawyer to exclude a transphobic expert witness with bad qualifications is just.

I have no eloquent way to describe it: it's 307 pages of someone with no qualifications leaning on his statistician credentials, being nailed to a cross over and over again until there's only metal left

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hootOS
@hootOS

i mean this asshole is getting absolutely dismantled in much more substantive ways but this just feels so good right here after having read 106 pages up to now of just substantiating everything this chuckle fuck has legally said in his quest to destroy the rights of queer people across the world, for the sake of completely annihilating his ass in a fucking deposition.

transcript:


NireBryce
@NireBryce

(Q.) Jennifer Altman (lambda legal): Do you believe gender dysphoria exists?
(A.) Michael Biggs, PhD: Yes.

(Q.) JA: Do you believe people can be transgender?
(A.) MB: Yes.

(Q.) JA: Do you believe that being transgender is a choice?
(A.) MB: I'm struggling to answer that question

(Q.) JA: Why?
(A.) MB: Because in some ways, everything is a choice, isn't it?

(Q.) JA: No. Do you have an answer for the question, sir?


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Every time she says "and we'll talk about that more later" it's so intimidating and ominous I love it. Also the part where she shows her hand Columbo style how much research she's done like when she brings up a testimony he hadn't mentioned in his report and she's like "you sure spend a lot of your time on this" and he says "well, only eight minutes" and she says "actually it was twelve minutes, I've listened to it. Anyway—"

Oh so very satisfying

I was just gonna read a few pages into it and then skim over the rest, but then three hours later I realized I'd read the whole thing. She really did give the dude the Caine Mutiny treatment, and it was SO satisfying to read.

My favorite part is on page 189-191 where he basically tells her "just Google it" and she asks him why he didn't include his Google searches in his documents.