The anti-trans "Gender Dysphoria Institute" is recruiting transgender youth for a new study. It's run by some of the worst anti-trans "scientists" out there. Now, our writer S. Baum has uncovered a massive dark money network from the far-right funding it. See our latest investigation.

People keep comparing this to a lot of 1. dead creators who can't harm anyone anymore 2. leaving out the fact that she is a billionaire who is currently harming trans people, directly, by funding orgs & initiatives. Separating art from artist is not more important than actual lives.

if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

Please don't even pirate it or hate-watch it this time, just let it go, starve the franchise of attention completely

To honor our community during TDOV, we’ve organized another Twitch raid train featuring 60+ trans streamers who will showcase their talents in relay to support Trans Lifeline. View the Visibility Streamathon starting March 25 at peer2peer.live.

since everyone's sharing/dunking on the latest Helen Lewis Atlantic piece, I am contractually obligated to re-up the time Helen Lewis debated AI hallucinations of my work (I contacted @theatlantic.com about it but they never provided a correction): juliaserano.medium.com/why-do-helen...

...if you don't know about Helen Lewis' latest Atlantic piece, Michael's & Alejandra's threads here provide a good overview of it: bsky.app/profile/mich...

House Republicans advance bill to ban strippers in schools despite no evidence of strippers in schools ➡️ https://bit.ly/4cUZeR5 📷 Envato

Hands-down the most thorough background on conversion therapy, its ongoing practice in the UK & the reasons why we have still to see a ban realised; despite decades of debate & legal proposal. There're moments of heartbreak & justified fury throughout, but it's a documentary well-worth your time! 🏳️‍⚧️

Every trans person who comes out makes the world that much better.

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy. Proud to expose this stuff ✊ youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

PLEASE contact your representativesvand explain to them how awful these bills are. -No to KOSA, KIDS Act, and other censorship bills -No to sec 2.0 repeal/reform -No to pro-AI legislation -No to online ID/Age verification www.badinternetbills.com

...given the topic, here's my most current & comprehensive essay chronicling every study that contradicts "social contagion/ROGD" (plus how anti-trans activists manipulate transgender statistics): on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-... & Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

This right here donate directly to a Trans person cause morst if not all are run by cis people who aren't helping. If you truly want to help feed and house a Trans person in need. Stop paying the salaries of cis people who aren't helping. #Trans

A major failing of restorative justice when it's taken out of its original context (which is as an alternative to carceral systems) is that abusers often have way more energy to spend on staying in communities that enable them than victims have for staying in communities where they're not safe.

im glad people are saying it. im so tired of everyone and everything donating to some generic large nonprofit, meanwhile almost every trans person i know is struggling to make ends meet and no one - including these very nonprofits - will hire us. ive never once felt the benefit of a glaad donation

I still managed to read it wrong, even after your explanation

So much for the Dan Dan secret lair.

The guy who has been pushing Dems to abandon trans people is also a misogynist, color me shocked.

So much for the Dan Dan secret lair.

Idaho also has a 3 strikes law so any trans people who get caught in the wrong bathroom with at least 2 previous felonies are facing life in prison if this passes.

1. The scientists behind the infamous ROGD/Social Contagion myth have released a new study called AYAGDOS, and are recruiting unsuspecting trans youth. They're operating under Northwestern. Community leaders need help spreading the word to avoid the study. Subscribe to support our journalism.

It's a tragedy that anyone with influence listens to an idiot like Matt Yglesias but so many Democrats do for some reason

I didn't believe this so I looked it up and holy shit, it's true. There is a literal pathway to life imprisonment if a trans person uses the bathroom 4 times in Idaho, if this bill fully passes.

The 4th Circuit literally ruled that states can pass laws that encourage trans adults to "appreciate their sex" and ban trans care for adults. 11th Circuit also used Skrmetti to expand medicaid exclusions. Come on.

She REALLY is!

Tilly and Jadzia are awesome, Galaxy rules, enjoy the episode!

"common sense" is a dogwhistle for "I literally never think about this, critical thinking is just not a skill that I value" and you can tell that this is true in this person's case because they actually believe that fundamental rights conflict with one another

1. In the most extreme bathroom ban moving in the nation, Idaho's House has passed a bathroom ban with a potential 5 year prison sentence for 2nd offense-using the bathroom. It even counts "offenses" of using the bathroom in other states. It now moves to the Senate.

i can't repost this enough

Wow I never even thought about it. Thank you for this

...FYI anyone non-ironically using the term "biological sex" (as Matt Yglesias does in his NY Times op-ed today) is using GOP/TERF-invented language that has no biological basis – see here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZymY...

...not gonna link to Matt Y's piece, as it's like the 37th time he's argued that Dems should abandon trans ppl (often using GOP/TERFy language/framings of us). but this essay (& video in the 🧵) explain in detail why he is wrong: bsky.app/profile/juli...

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

Wow I never even thought about it. Thank you for this

If you're a MAGA voter, you need to spend the rest of your life apologizing to every person you meet, no matter how many times you meet them, for the rest of your life. And yes, I get that you don't understand why. Your projection & victim complex bigotry is why there's an Epstein class.

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What is the consensus on Chick-Fil-A with respect to the LGBT community. I know my perceptions, but I would like more information… thx

Oh, Target. Did MAGA lie about you? Did they say you were part of a plot to recruit their children? Did they sexualize you and then blame you for it? Did they threaten you with laws that aimed at your eradication? Awww. That must have been so awful for you.

I don't think cis people can comprehend how radicalising it is to spend any significant portion of your life wanting to not be alive until the solution you find happens to be the same one that western civilization suddenly decides it wants to kill you for taking

They're gonna unironically start putting trans people in camps and not a single "ally" has spoken. And cis people have another thing coming if they think they're exempt from being transvestigated. Mass relocation is the final stage before mass murder in the steps of a genocide.

New Philosophy Tube drops on YouTube in a week. It’s a massive one about the history of conversion therapy from 1849-2026, as the British health service is bringing it back. You can see it now on Nebula, or if you’re a Patreon patron.

The ones that wanted to "protect children" were, in reality, wanting to perform conversion therapy on trans youth to turn offspring into breeding stock for the heterocentric, often pedophilic hierarchy of society.

Fuck everyone who was "just asking questions" and just wanted to "protect children."

1. Attacks on LGBTQ+ people have always been tied with the erosion of democracy. Now, a bill has just been passed in Florida that lets DeSantis remove elected officials for promoting pride/LGBTQ+ people in their official capacity. No court hearing necessary. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Seriously. Give yourself the gift of setting that down.

Fuck yes Sophie. There's a reason I follow you. You are always on point.

The FBI eventually took an interest, Because Other Reasons, but I 1000000% promise you that cops do not care about your safety AT ALL, especially if you're a woman, and triply so if you're queer, a PoC, or both.

1. A new NHS England Review excluded 97% of all trans care studies to conclude that trans youth care doesn't work. It explicitly violates several guidelines around reviewing literature, and appears to be politics masquerading as (shoddy) science. Subscribe to support our journalism.