If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

Having grown up a journalist’s kid in Indiana I’m not all that surprised that the IN Senate voted no on this map A LOT of the folks in the Indiana Legislature across party lines do not care for the federal government coming in and trying to bully them into doing ANYTHING

Not only are sex and gender different but interrelated things that sometimes overlap but legal sex and biological sex are different things that serve different functions but also sometimes overlap

FIRE has long been associated with the cause of “academic freedom” championed by its right-wing donors, so I wanted to see how its much-publicized expansion into free expression has played out. Among its newest stances? Support for conversion therapy on religious-based free speech grounds.

Big day for my most annoying character trait (Indiana University Marching Hundred alumni)

Hello five word horror story in my LinkedIn notifications this morning

It's an actual game plan on the right. They use it for book bans as well. They start with something easy: no porn in libraries. That hooks in the low information folks. Then you slowly broaden the scope until you're yanking any YA that violates Christian nationalism.

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying

The whole essay thing is both horrifying and fascinating to me on a bunch of different levels, but one of those is the fact that conservative/right wing Christians absolutely do know how to demand and ask for citations…because they do it any time more progressive Christians say…anything progressive

Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics. That’s…not the problem.

There is a certain kind of Catholic convert who thinks they are more Catholic than the Pope.

Begging scholars who want to be allies of trans communities to stop publishing in Archives of Sexual Behaviour. It’s been more harmful to trans communities than the fucking Linacre Quarterly.

Nothing will ever be funnier to me than the fact that my father, who could best be described as “generically Protestant” has had precisely two hangups with Catholicism in his life, one when he married my mom and one when my mom was pregnant with me

Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?

1. Following EITM reporting, Michigan State Medical Society has said that anti-trans, SPLC-designated hate group Genspect has lost their CME credentials, as well as the parent organization that was supporting it. Incredible reporting by staff writer S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

An aside from the rest of the hell world but is anyone else getting a lot of ads for “waist cinching aprons” this holiday season because I am not a fan of the implications that this is apparently now a big selling feature for aprons……

I see a lot of people speculating about how Alice died and I am asking you to...please not do that. If her family wants to share information about that on their own time, they will, but the speculation and sometimes outright conspiracy theories are actually really upsetting for them to see.

I have a new essay coming out next week so stay tuned! since one of the ppl I critique in it is a hardcore "gamete truther", I figured I'd re-up this – discusses both the actual biology & the bonkers anti-trans talking point that's grown out of it (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...

The problem with elite institutions has never been leftists or wokeness or the coddling of the American mind or whatever other asinine thing conservatives drone on about. The problem with elite institutions has always been powerful, wealthy, elite people.

Yeah I’m not taking any more shit from these assholes on my work

Working on a blog and honestly there is something deeply telling about the fact that the way the Catholic hierarchy and the “trans ideology war on science” bros both misunderstand trans existence in almost identical ways

Here's FIRE bragging about how the court adopted their arguments on how bullies have a constitutional right to bully trans children.

If you sit at a table with nine people you know to be Nazis, there are ten Nazis at the table. This is about Jeffrey Epstein and so many other things too.

Very little triggers the autism motor in my brain more than the concept of “Catholic gender performance” someday I will write something in depth on the topic

Monday’s free post on Transing Boundaries will be about gender affirming care and the USCCB but for now my free comm’s hot take is that if your strategy is to make a weird gender essentialist take about fashion and priests wearing “dresses” you are not doing the trans allyship you think you are

Detransition is being used as political fodder by the Trump admin and its allies to support extreme anti-trans policies. In the process, the reality of detransition is lost. For our new series, I spoke with detransitioners who feel harmed by the Trump admin. Their stories are complex and important.

🚨 Do not hand your unlocked phone to law enforcement 🚨 Normalising the surrender of unlocked devices — esp at borders — is a dangerous precedent Apple is fore-fronting. Pushing an unlocked phone as standard-issue ID &commercialising #surveillance under the guise of “convenience” #privacy #digitalID

Turns out the real threat to women and children were the Republicans in charge. They scapegoated trans people to deflect from their own sex crimes against women and children.

An analysis of news pieces about Trump’s anti-trans decrees found that “70 percent did not include a quote from a single trans person. Instead, journalists turned to cisgender sources — mostly government officials — to speak about trans people, their lives, and how they would be affected.”

What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday? What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators? Can we make this a thing?

Ughhhhhhh I promise you this is the USCCB trying to align themselves with the Christian nationalist movement (leopards eating faces) AND also whack reactionary bullshit to Pope Leo

This week on the blog, we need to talk about how the concept of “civil debate” often isn’t about substance, but performance, and how the enforcement of that performance is weaponized to protect people in power www.transingboundaries.com/is-it-civil-...

Happy to have been wrong on my prediction with this one, but I don’t doubt they’re not itching for another case here, we aren’t out of the woods yet

This week on the blog, we need to talk about how the concept of “civil debate” often isn’t about substance, but performance, and how the enforcement of that performance is weaponized to protect people in power www.transingboundaries.com/is-it-civil-...

"Forcing women to become mothers by denying their humanity, stripping them of access to abortion and birth control, and requiring them to sacrifice education and careers to do so reduces women to their reproductive capacity."

"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?" "Rosalind Franklin's notes." "That's correct."

Working on a new blog and using the anniversary of the “What is a Woman” clusterfuck as a bit of framing (not as the focus, but man is it helpful for the point I am trying to make) and damn I forgot how quickly Dawkins and co jumped to using the word “hysterical”

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

I don’t want to hear a single person respond to my work with “you whiny trans people are why we lost in 2024” ever again

The Mandatory Transitioning Centers will begin operations next week.

Everyone in Virginia is now obligated to transition. Welcome! 🏳️‍⚧️

This week on the blog I talk about how the government is making “biological truth” dogma, and how the nebulous concept of “science” often becomes a pseudo religion that provides a convenient mask to the Christian nationalist movement www.transingboundaries.com/when-biologi...

Happy 1 year anniversary to the “What is a Woman” blog I wrote for FFRF that caused the Coyne/Pinker/Dawkins nonsense

1. The anti-trans panic is losing steam, at least when it comes to elections. New polls in battleground races in Virginia and New Jersey show voters prefer Democrats to Republicans on trans issues by double digits. This as centrist groups urge capitulation. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This week on the blog I talk about how the government is making “biological truth” dogma, and how the nebulous concept of “science” often becomes a pseudo religion that provides a convenient mask to the Christian nationalist movement www.transingboundaries.com/when-biologi...

how many times can I put "to be clear" in a blog, y'all have roughly 24 hours to place your bets