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thedailywhat: Scrabble Champion of the Day: Newly-christened British Scrabble champ Mikki Nicholson, a 32-year-old trans woman, fell in love with the game five short years ago when she began playing it online. She managed to claim the national crown by defeating Scrabble veteran and four-time winner Mark Nyman with the 86-point word “obeisant” (to show respect). [dlisted.]

thedailywhat:

Scrabble Champion of the Day: Newly-christened British Scrabble champ Mikki Nicholson, a 32-year-old trans woman, fell in love with the game five short years ago when she began playing it online.

She managed to claim the national crown by defeating Scrabble veteran and four-time winner Mark Nyman with the 86-point word “obeisant” (to show respect).

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Posted at 1:53 PM 389 notes
Source: thedailywhat

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  5. adrientalks reblogged this from and added:
    FUCK YEAH, ma’am. way to go, girl.
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  9. cbsundance reblogged this from thedailywhat and added:
    get to Great Britain.
  10. lovedarts reblogged this from genderqueer and added:
    Read about this in the Metro the other day. And wrote an email complaining about the pronouns that were used. Apparently...
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  13. supersoygrrrl reblogged this from bubonickitten and added:
    I read this and the commentary and when I got to the, “Are you trans? Are you gay?” part, it started playing to the...
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  15. emilypemily reblogged this from genderqueer and added:
    I read about this on the BBC website but forgot to post
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  18. warrenpeas reblogged this from thedailywhat and added:
    HBIC. She unfortunately looks like that guy that was in Big Brother this year though,
  19. amazingatheist reblogged this from 77825225672443 and added:
    I’m not demonizing anything. I don’t even believe in demons. And I’m agnostic about izing. I didn’t have anything to say...
  20. 77825225672443 reblogged this from amazingatheist and added:
    My original post was mostly based on the fact that they failed to use the correct pronouns consistently, but have since...
  21. amazingatheist reblogged this from 77825225672443 and added:
    You know, if they didn’t mention she was trans, you’d probably have written a giant dissertation on how unfair the media...
  22. pachypodiumhorombense reblogged this from 77825225672443 and added:
    Keep up the aggro, looks like they actually corrected themselves. That last paragraph regarding her diagnosis or...
  23. 77825225672443 reblogged this from bloodfleshbones and added:
    On the plus side at LEAST they fixed the fucking pronouns :\
  24. 77825225672443 reblogged this from bloodfleshbones and added:
    Congrats to TDW, but fail on news outlets -_-
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