Excited to see Aven Peters' innovative & rigorous study of embodiment and trans identification out in the latest AJS. Aven's study adds an essential new piece to our understanding of contemporary population patterns of trans identification and announces @avenpeters.bsky.social as a major new talent.

public comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit & strip care from DACA recipients ends at 23:59pm EDT tonite if you haven't commented, it won't take long & is worth doing. context & guidance in-thread ⬇️ if you have commented, thank you💜🏳️‍⚧️

For a general strike, we’d need at least 3.5% of the population—be one of the 11 million people needed to set a date! generalstrikeus.com/strikecard

I’m a few days behind on #fishyfeb, but here’s my #hawkfish!

Quick #shark with sunlight poking through for #FishyFeb. #pastels

Watercolor and colored pencil #jellyfish for today’s #FishyFeb!

Tiger ray in colored pencil for today and yesterday #tiger #stingray #fishyfeb

Lion fish for #fishyfeb! #coloredpencil

I had a lot of fun with this one! Oscar fish in #coloredpencil for #fishyfeb

Still learning watercolor, but I think this #catfish is cute. #FishyFeb

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Quick sketch of a grouper for #fishyfeb

My wife says I should make art for my mental health, so here’s my attempt at #fishyfeb

From a census employee

Federal data update: BRFSS has been taken down and a lot of the census website is “unavailable due to maintenance,” although data.census.gov still works.

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.

Maria Moe (pseudonym), a trans woman in federal prison, is suing Donald Trump after his executive order resulted, horrifyingly, in her being removed from the general population, locked in solitary confinement, and told she’d be transferred to a men’s prison because of the order.