Mansplaining like this is how you know trans women are women

If there's a holiday, Marsha P Johnson had an outfit for it! In 1991, she celebrated the New Year in Randy Wicker's lighting shop with a tuxedo, pearl necklace, and party hat.

Thanks to trans men donating their tissue, we know the exact number of nerve fibers in the clitoris.

Marsha P. Johnson in her Christmas tiara is all I want for Christmas. This Polaroid was taken in Randy Wicker's lighting store in 1988. Another treasure from the NY LGBT Community Center archives. 😍

Why is the right so scared of the term "pregnant people"? Trans men get pregnant all the time. So do girls, unfortunately. It's not just women. The term "pregnant person" isn't just about inclusivity: it's also about accuracy.

When I was 15, this pill saved my life. Estrogen (and T blockers) were the only way I could escape a puberty that would leave me permanently uncomfortable with my body. Puberty can feel like permanent disfigurement for trans teens. Forcing trans teens into the wrong development is pure cruelty.

The Trump Administration just sent horrifying warning letters to 12 companies for offering binders. These compression tops aren't usually considered medical devices, but the FDA is demanding the companies register their products. It's a not-so-subtle threat to businesses supporting trans people.

Are trans athletes anything new? Nope! With this week’s moral panic over trans pool players, I wanted to highlight the 1910s-20s women's billiards world champion, Frances Anderson. Trans women like her have just as much a right to compete - and win - as anyone else.

There is, in fact, an easy solution to the transgender bathroom problem. Bigots can use one restroom and normal people who aren't trying to inspect your genitals can get the other.

Elon Musk could donate $50 million every day for the rest of his life and still remain a billionaire, but he won't.

Textbook case of how media produces racism. "Intifada" just means "resistance" in Arabic. My heart goes out to the victims and their families. Seeing journalists exploit this tragedy to stir up anti-Muslim outrage before the shooters' motives were known was disgusting.

Best case scenario: a half-retired professor in his late 80s didn’t know who Bannon was in the 2010s. Worst case scenario: Noam Chomsky duped millions with insincere, relatively watered-down stances on issues that don’t impact him personally. Either way, Foucault wins again.

They're so desperate for Charlie Kirk's shooter to be trans that they're seeing clues that aren't there. Do you think it's possible Tyler Robinson is vying for a Trump pardon?

This is the first diagram I've ever seen with a masculine pregnant person! 😍

It's absolutely Nazi propaganda. Himmler personally ordered the creation of brothels to incentivize soldiers and enslaved laborers. He also forced "pink triangle" (queer) prisoners to visit the brothels weekly to "cure" them. Many of these institutions used children from concentration camps for sex.

A happy ending for all.

The US has a proud history of providing asylum to Nazis when it's politically convenient (just look up Operation Paperclip).

Politicians are going to increase the minimum age of trans medicine to 32 soon. This also isn't what the study says. The scientists identified average brain topography (organization of neural connections) by age, which doesn't map onto individuals or correspond with thinking.

I've never listened to a sports podcast before, but @pablo.show just changed that. His exposé on Riley Gaines reveals that she was actually supportive of queer athletes. But Riley’s changed her story so often that it was difficult to learn the truth… until Pablo spoke with her former teammates.

Trans women protesting outside Scottish Parliament this May. I love it when trans women protest topless. If they're arrested, the state must admit they're women. If they aren't, it shows the glaring contradictions of labeling trans women as legally male. It helps their cause either way.

Weimar Germany was among the most supportive societies for trans people in the history of Europe. This colorized 1921 Willie Römer photo shows four trans people standing outside Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science, 12 years before Nazis stormed the facility and burned its books.

I spoke with my friends at the Unwashed and Unruly podcast about trans history and today's moral panic. What can we learn from our transgender past that can help us now? I hope you'll learn more about historical trans resistance with us to find out. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Bookshop is having a great Black Friday sale. You can get Before Gender for up to 25% off while supporting local bookstores! Use this link to access the discount: bookshop.org/a/109067/978...

Did you know there's an interactive web-based app that can tell you whose land you're on in North America? Enter your address in the Native Lands App to explore!

Just tried out my upgraded Olympic bow! Now I can keep winning matches against cis women to spite the anti-trans sports police. 🥇🏆

I restored and colorized this c.1910 photo of Magnus Hirschfeld's 4th, 6th, and 7th patients. They were three of the first trans men to receive medical care and legal support in Germany over 120 years ago. I can't help but appreciate their dapper sense of fashion.

I am always happy to provide sources and more information for anyone who wants to reach out about these stories. I love discussing them and finding ways to make these histories helpful to our communities ❤️

Trans Awareness Week is a terrible name. People are aware of us. We need material support, not a target on our backs.

Finally some good news: a few weeks ago, anti-trans activists offered $35k to the next National Women’s Soccer League player who criticized trans athletes... except the league overwhelmingly supports trans inclusion and no one took her up on it. There's never been a trans woman in the NWSL, anyway.

Wanted to share this glowing Before Gender review from a British TERF. Thank you! 🙏

For over 150 years, trans people have used courts to change legal sex. While writing Before Gender, I found what may be the first case in the US: a formerly enslaved trans woman in Georgia in 1869. Her story shows that trans people found legal support long before the word transgender even existed.

If you don't already agree that there's a moral panic over transgender care, just read the New York Times' articles on hormone therapy for cis people and compare them to their hit pieces on the hormone therapy for trans people.

One of Epstein's victims was a trans teen, but nobody paid attention because she was trans & Latina. The Post + Times of Israel even ran hit pieces on her! Epstein's lawyer claimed he wasn't gay, so Ava must have lied. He could've been stopped sooner if society listened to POC, trans folks or girls

They hate it because it's true.

Seems fair?

Like clockwork: as soon as celebrities start denouncing trans people, they’re found on the Epstein list. Gladwell, Musk, and Trump also come to mind. Funny how powerful people who deny trans bodily autonomy consistently hang out with child traffickers (it’s not funny).

🧵 When was the first queer riot in the US? Historian Denny Nevins argues it was in the Los Guilucos School for Girls in 1953. On March 19th, dozens rioted against the juvenile detention home. Over 1/3 of the girls, aged 11-17, were queer. Many were there *because* they were queer.

If Democrats were actually on our side, they would be fighting to *expand* SNAP right now, not "compromise" with it.

“They’re turning the rats transgender!” Yes, and we have been for nearly a century! The UK paid researchers over $1 million (in today’s value) to produce hormones on a mass scale. These experiments helped trans people, including minors, obtain safe & effective hormones in the 1930s.

Police have been using the Sniffies app to entrap queer men, bringing back Stonewall-era tactics for mass arrests at cruising sites and bars. They also turned in 20 migrants during the entrapment operation, many of whom could be sent to their deaths in their home countries.

Curious what top surgery looked like in the 1930s? Surprisingly similar to today. I found this photo in medical archives holding the English edition of the Plastic Surgery Atlas, v. 3. It shows an intersex man who underwent a double mastectomy nearly a century ago.

Mamdani hasn't been elected yet, but he's already making NYC a safer place

If you or your loved ones are in NYC, don't forget to vote for Zohran Mamdani on the Working Families Party line today! This helps their progressive platform gain traction, and all votes go toward the next mayor.

Anyone can order twice their regular dose of hormones and give the rest out to people in need. It's a fun (alleged) activity for trans events. And you definitely shouldn’t search the DIY HRT site to learn how to obtain and use hormones in states/regions where they’re banned 😉

The right-wing mind cannot comprehend butch trans women, apparently

Dress for the job you want, not the job you have

Remember to check your kids’ Halloween candy carefully this year! I just found 80mg of estradiol in this KitKat bar. Stay safe out there.

In zoology, there's a concept called "carcinization," which describes the evolutionary tendency for animals to develop crab-like bodies over time.

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Nothing more gender-affirming than bigots accidentally gendering me correctly.