Good news is I got a paper accepted. The bad news is I’m freaking out because I don’t feel safe traveling and I don’t want to risk being away from my wife. So, hopefully one of my coauthors can present.

The one choice that's always in your hands is to live a principled life

The Supreme Court appears ready to side with Trump in bringing back “gay conversion therapy.” This practice involves physically abusing teenagers to try to turn them heterosexual, including with electric shocks and chemically-induced nausea.

There is an exam tomorrow, and no one is coming to my office hours... this is not a good sign.

The same court that allows bans on medically supported treatments like HRT is going to strike down bans on the medically condemned practice of torture that is conversion therapy.

all it takes is for someone with workplace power over you to hate trannies or think women can't do math and you're gone. every trans woman with a good job is at a cis person's mercy

However small you think you can be, they'll ask you to be half that size, and they'll demand you be grateful about it.

I hope people understand just how horrifying this is as a trans person. You could just be getting in with your life, not doing anything to hurt anyone - and suddenly you find yourself dragged into a horrible legal case where the press is painting your going to the toilet as somehow predatory.

My piece from this weekend applies also to Azeen Ghorayshi's work at the NYT. truthout.org/articles/ant...

“Biological sex” is intended to sound sciencey and authoritative, just as “gender critical” invokes academic rigour. Don’t be fooled. They’re phrases invented by weird genital obsessives who believe that a quick glance between your legs at birth defines the rest of your life.

Bluesky tried to force me to verify my age.

Proud to announce the project I've been working on 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Had hoped to have more ready, but the events of the last week stressed the importance of speaking up against fascism NOW I'd appreciate your support in spreading the word, esp if you work in life sciences research, healthcare, or biotech

I somewhat underestimated how much the bigoted would demand others share their bigotry. I completely underestimated how a demand to be bigoted could be made to sound as reasonable as a plea to stand against bigotry.

Me: And what do we do with these numbers to get the final answer? Class: ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Me: I'll give you a hint. You have to do sum....thing.

From a transcript of a faculty meeting discussing this: Faculty are being told to not teach on gender and sexuality at all, regardless of their field, and the Dean isn’t even sure if the faculty *can accept papers from students that discuss these topics*.

The Government mandates you teach students incorrect information in your classes This isn't, like, K-12 basic biology classes either. This is college, upper-level Human Sexuality and Advanced Physiology classes too.

Texas full-on fascist anti-science bc reality and facts are the enemy of fascism. New communication at Texas Tech (and likely other publics). Instructors being forced to teach literally incorrect information under threat from the state

Them: "What are your long-term research goals?" Me: "Be alive to keep doing my research." Them: 😐

I need more time to do math.

in retrospect, it was a mistake to teach algebra and geometry but not "statistics for everyone" in high school we are drowning in lies, partly because we never learned to swim

"you are the ones with the most to lose. My colleagues & I may have to leave this cherished institution & that would be a great loss for us. But we have already lived lives of consequence and can find other pursuits. You, however, would lose the education you deserve." 🔥 thebatt.com/news/anonymo...

Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood. According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings since June 2024. In one case, strangers joined in. The kicker? www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.

1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people. His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This has got to me a bit today so here we go. No Rebecca we can't have a calm discussion for the way forward when one side's intention is to eliminate us, secondly the heat is coming from one side, it's the side accusing trans people of being paedophiles, rapists, cheats and predators. 1/26

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

NEW: Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX has told faculty that they can't discuss trans people in curriculum. When I asked the justification for the policy, they referenced Texas state law - but Texas law doesn't forbid discussions of trans people in higher ed. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

in response to kamala harris' bullshit.

The new reality that is emerging in Texas is that certain topics or ideas are simply off the table in the classroom. The censorship of academic speech and entire fields of knowledge in service to an ideology poses an unprecedented danger to the future of higher education. #AcademicFreedom

I should be decorating my office, not thinking about how I can help my department be better prepared if I'm kidnapped by the government or forced to flee the country.

I’m switching from “Charlie (Anne)?” to “(Charlie)? Anne”.

I promised a younger me that one day I would give a lecture in a dress. Yesterday I made good on that promise.

I hope that humanity survives. Not just the species but the quality.

"Why are you more scared now than last November" man I don't know what to tell you other than I had a whole lot more civil rights back then

Just in case any of y'all thought they'd actually filibuster the appropriations bills coming with all the anti-trans provisions and shut the government down. Call your senators, demand no anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in appropriations bills.

As a trans professor in the United States, I’m terrified. I think the last three days have aged me ten years.

"biological" womanhood and manhood are pseudoscientific, cisgender fictions that were invented by people who are scared of transness and its possibilities. but it's ok. you don't need to be scared.

UC Berkeley gives 160 names - including Judith Butler - to the Trump Administration in 'antisemitism probe' www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

And now we get to play the waiting game of "how will they blame trans people?"

man I just don’t think anything that comes out of this is going to be good

A reminder to all the cishets who dont keep up on everything happening with trans rights None of the people who are in the papers or on tv are actually experts in biology, psychology, psychobiology, gender, s£x, or any other field They are not qualified to speak on these issues as if they were

I really need people to stop saying X is happening to trans people to distract from Y/hurt some other group. They are attacking trans people because they want to attack trans people. They are hurting trans people because they want to hurt trans people. Thank you.

"The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest."

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

Spot the difference:

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material. Administrators caving to this is terrifying.

Every professor at Texas A&M should start their next class with a 30 minute discussion on how “trans people exist and the president doesn’t make laws.”

Total mass shootings from 1946-present: Canada: 98 Germany: 112 France: 125 UK: 127 Italy: 147 Total mass shootings in 2025 so far: US: 293 Total mass shootings perpetrated by known transgender people since the invention of the first firearm around 950 AD: Outside the US: 0 US: 4