The United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry concludes that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The most significant finding of a UN body to date on genocide against the Palestinians. Full text of the report is here: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re... Image: members of National Guard in riot gear with shields

See this related post, Is it rude to eat animal products in the presence of vegans? veganpractically.com/2025/09/02/i...

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Important news, Berlin (and nearby) people! Please join me and the amazing Juliana Gleeson, hosted by the inimitable Ben Mauk, for a free discussion and book signing of "Sex Beyond 'Yes'" at Shakespeare & Sons, evening of September 12! And please share! www.shakespeareandsons.com/pages/sex-be...

Ah god this has really got me. It’s bullying kids as state policy. It’s just evil. goodlawproject.org/what-have-i-...

Looks like an amazing lineup!

„Das Wort „Wiedergutmachung“ will die Bundesregierung unbedingt vermeiden […]. Dabei beruft sie sich darauf, dass es zum Zeitpunkt der Gewalttaten noch kein Völkerstrafrecht gegeben habe.“ Guter Trick – lässt sich sogar auf *sämtliche* staatlichen Verbrechen vor 1945 anwenden!

July 10th 4pm-6pm Blas Radi Presentation on trans Philosophy July 11th. Network Meeting on trans Philosophy with Gen Eickers and Sigmond Richli HU Berlin Please register via email to [email protected] POSTPONED (until further notice): Reading Talia Mae Bettcher's 'BEYOND PERSONHOOD'

"A 17-year-old boy who was walking with two teenage girls in the city center laughed when asked about right-wing extremism at their school. "Hitler is glorified big time!" they said, adding that the Hitler salute is now a regular part of their school life."

I am super excited to be part of this, come by if you can! www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...

My reply to Talia Bettcher's response to my paper "Epistemic Domination and 'Gender Identity Fraud' Prosecutions" is out. Check out our discussion! Thanks a lot to SERRC for making this possible.

This should absolutely be a scandal which people lose their jobs over. You'd have to assume that anyone in power actually cares though to think that would happen, which obviously would be a bold assumption in present circumstances.

This seems to be an interesting book for broadening discussions on sex work with students.

1. A transgender man was detained in South Carolina for using the restroom that Republicans want him to use. Officers allegedly hurled slurs at him for doing so. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-man-...

Trans people and our loved ones are not okay -- in, with, and because of academic philosophy. #beingtransinphilosophy tells these stories firsthand.

Much love to all the trans moms who won't be celebrated tomorrow (or won't be celebrated to the degree they should be). I hope you do something kind for yourself. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Proud to have this new article out as part of the @nursingclio.bsky.social response to RFKs policies. This is the first piece from a much larger project I’m just starting but more importantly, wellness camps are bad. nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/r...

"What we’re witnessing with this new government is a project of right-wing restoration, mirroring similar shifts in other Western countries, & in many ways echoing the realignment in the U.S.: a reassertion of ethno-identity politics, wrapped in a language of political pragmatism – and 'normalcy.'"

Ich werde am Dienstag in Basel sein, falls jemand dort ist und Lust hat vorbeizukommen. philosophie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles...

The news almost always focusses on younger trans women who came out yesterday, but that's not the majority of trans people www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I decided in college that I was never going to have children. And while I never could have articulated all the reasons as beautifully as Kate Manne does here, I knew in my bones that this country hates women and all pregnant people. open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

Vergangene Woche ist Mohamed E., ein 29-Jähriger marokkanischer Staatsbürger, in Polizeigewahrsam in Dachau gestorben. Die genauen Umstände des Tods sind bisher nicht bekannt. In einem Schreiben fordern Angehörige und ihre Unterstützer Aufklärung.

Unter anderem Bild schreibt von einem „Messer-Angreifer“ in Oldenburg. Belege, dass der Getötete ein Messer bei sich führte, geschweige denn Personen damit angegriffen hat, gibt es nach jetzigem Stand aber nicht. Die Ermittler schweigen derzeit zu der Frage, ob tatsächlich ein Messer gefunden wurde.

To achieve legal and/or medical transition in the UK, people are REQUIRED to live IN PUBLIC in their preferred gender, FOR A PERIOD OF YEARS. Or they will be refused support. CAN YOU UNDERSTAND that doing that is being made ILLEGAL? CAN YOU UNDERSTAND that it's making BEING TRANS illegal?

The center-right CDU in Germany is apparently ending its longtime policy of refusing to work with the far-right AfD. The German far-right will chair key parliamentary committees for the first time since... the last time the German far-right did that. www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Every Trans Petson should read this by barrister Sam Fowles: The supreme court didn’t rule on the definition of ‘a woman’ – this is what its judgment does mean www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. I am raising the alarm: If you are a transgender adult, your care is under threat by President Trump. You should prepare for severe supply disruptions and policies that amount to potential bans. The latest CMS letter indicates an expansion to target adults. Subscribe to support my reporting.

UK SC's definition of 'woman' is a serious affront to decades of labour in queer studies to decouple sex & gender that even WHO recognises. It's a colonial-racial chokehold to safeguard power of TERFs & GCs. Moving forward, all women will have rights curtailed. www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...

@sigmondrime.bsky.social und ich machen im Mai einen Vernetzungsworkshop zu trans Philosophie an der Universität Zürich. Für trans Philosoph*innen und andere Interessierte in der Akademie, speziell Doktorierende und Studierende. Please share :)

Indeed "Twenty of the world’s top 30 universities are American, most Nobel prizes in science are won by Americans, half the world’s medicines are invented in the US. (...) The extraordinary success that has been American science makes it especially distressing to now witness its destruction."

Queere Themen spielen im Koalitionsvertrag von Union und SPD so gut wie keine Rolle. Aus der Community hagelt es scharfe Kritik

How should we make sense of the Trump administration’s assault on Trans rights? In episode 125 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk to philosopher Talia Mae Bettcher about her new book Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy. overthinkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...

An interesting project to follow and podcast to listen too. standpointtheory.com

I am honored and truly grateful that Talia Mae Bettcher took the time to write such a charitable response to my paper, “Epistemic Domination and ‘Gender Identity Fraud’ Prosecutions” especially considering the political situation in the USA. I am very excited that we are having this conversation.

Some longer thoughts on the Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender 📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/03/19/a...

Jetzt versuchen US-Dienste die Ausforschung europäischer (!) Forschungseinrichtungen: "Researchers who have received a questionnaire containing political questions from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) or other American government funders such as NIH or ARPA are advised not to respond."

1. Incredible ruling! An Ohio appeals court has ruled that trans care is healthcare, strikes down youth trans care ban! It made the ruling using the Republican-passed "health care freedom amendment" meant to overturn Obamacare! Subscribe to support my journalism. You'll want to read this one.

The media can (and should) reject the Right's deceptive frame. This is not about "references to diversity, equity, and inclusion." It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.

This is what Gavin Newsom and the consultant class endorses when they try to play footsie with people opposed to trans people's very existence. There is no polite, liberal way to push people out of public life--you ultimately need the state to inspect people's bodies and enforce compliance.