Hello I just realized I never announced this but my most recent blog for FFRF is in fact my last one. Really after six years of working there in various roles it felt like a natural time for us to part ways and focus on my new full time job, as well as to refocus on my own blog and other projects

Hot take but I actually quite like the Spotify disco ball

This is your daily reminder that the correct name for people from Indiana is “Hoosiers”, not “Indianans” please I am begging you stop using “Indianans”

Hello life update for folks! This week I started a new position as an associate attorney at Pines Bach here in Madison, focusing on employee/union side labor and employment work!!! Things so far have been off to a great start and I’m so excited for this new life phase!!!

Being a band kid from Indiana is especially funny right now like One of my closest friends is a graduate of Westfield’s band program and I competed in that same competition circuit That is by far and away not one of the weirdest drumline shows I’ve seen

the slippery slope from “gov ID required to see adult sites” to “gov ID required for all internet access”, to “gov ID required to use a computer operating system” is happening so fast and people still don’t see it as overreach because they think porn is yucky

You know what happens if felons can't hold office? Every fucking trans person in Idaho loses the ability to hold office.

Also to be totally clear for folks Just War Theory in Catholicism is a lot more complicated than “the war that I think is good is good” It is heavily debated if literally any war has ever even met and stayed within the bounds of Just War Theory (staying within the bounds is the bigger issue)

JD Vance trying to lecture the literal Pope on theology is just the exaggerated version of the flood of Protestant converts to Catholicism who never actually deconstructed their belief that they need to “save” Catholics and instead pasted into radtradism as the only valid form of practice

Idaho has the most punitive anti-trans bathroom ban in the country, with up to five years in prison for a second offense. I spoke to the folks pushing back—over what just a few years ago led to calls for boycotts, the state legislature shamed on the national stage—on how they fight.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Also to be clear I am absolutely side eyeing any Catholics that are reacting to this news without either directly acknowledging or have a history of directly acknowledging the ways this administration has attacked our atheist, Muslim, Jewish, and basically all other non Evangelical neighbors

At this point I feel like I need to get a betting pool going to see if the SSPX folks or the mainstream but MAGA Catholics are going to hit full on schism first I was going to give it to SSPX but with Trump putting his foot on the gas…….

I just want to say that I have been saying this entire time that the MAGA support for Catholics was always conditional on political utility This alleged threat is the least surprising turn of events when you look at the long arc of things

I gave up social media for lent what did I miss

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Please do this. As a chair in a deep red district we need tons of help building a real party and you will have considerable influence.

it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf

Howdy folks! Some of you might have noticed that www.transingboundaries.com disappeared for a second there, but good news, it’s back! A bunch of new folks are following me here now, so if you’re interested in the intersections of law/politics/religion/queerness, consider subscribing! (Thread)

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?

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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.