My fiancée's presentation was lovely, and I loved her poem about the stick bugs that pick on our dog ❤️

Love waking up to $400 of fraudulent charges 🙃

Time to celebrate the new year with an edible and Backstroke of the West

Just got bottom surgery part 2 Monday, so I'm spending new years recovering in a hotel with my best friend.

New hair! Decided I'd try something a bit less femme, so I went for a side shave mullet

Today marks five years since the anxious conversation with my best friend where I accepted that I was trans. I had had the epiphany three days prior, and had spent the intervening days researching transition and looking up trans experiences, trying to find a reason why I was wrong to think I was.

I had a lovely chat with @tekla.bsky.social in writing this story, and the memorial itself I found quite moving, especially seeing someone from my hometown among the people we've lost this year.

Big day tomorrow!

I wonder who at Team Cherry watched Kill La Kill while writing the story for Silksong.

It's wild to me that no one beat me to this story.

Hell of a piece to have written Tuesday night. My newest piece in @slate.com follows up on my August piece, looking at the right-wing anti-trans ideology and how that leads us into a rapid descent towards out and out fascism.

Sure love writing a story drawing parallels between the right's treatment of transgender people and the German descent into Naziism that was meant to go up yesterday afternoon 🙃

Writing a follow-up to last my last piece in Slate, but someone has decided it's time for a break.

I suppose I ought to finally play Hollow Knight

At a drive-thru with @mosquitochaser.bsky.social and she stops in the middle to get out and catch a neat looking mayfly. I love this woman ❤️

Thank you @valorievandieman.bsky.social for raising the alarm on what the implications of Trump's move to institutionalize homeless and mentally ill people could mean for members of the trans community. slate.com/life/2025/08...

Trump's recent executive order calling for the criminalization of drug addiction, homelessness, and mental illness stands to disproportionately affect the transgender population of America, and sets the stage for some nightmarish scenarios. Read my newest article published @slate.com

Oh wow I almost missed it, today officially marks twelve weeks since surgery!

On my way to the airport to pick up my wonderful fiancé @mosquitochaser.bsky.social after not seeing her in two months!

Please, support us if you can! Your support allows us to do all sorts of cool and impactful things like the Stay With Us package, the DC trip to cover US vs Skrmetti, and the Trans Stories short videos just to name a few I've been involved with. Not to mention all our usual news throughout the week!

My first piece outside of Assigned came out this morning! I discuss Skrmetti and the OBBBA and how they drive an urgency for gender affirming care.

Genuinely so good!

My newest article! Conducted the interview and wrote it from bedrest post surgery.

A great way to learn Riley Gaines' origin story is this video, which puts the rage-inducing Gaines' biography over some soothing Minecraft parkour. Check it out, and help out channel grow by giving us a like and a follow! www.tiktok.com/@assignedmed...

Assigned's newest video just released! This week our videos will be focusing on some key figures and organizations from Assigned's reporting last week, starting off with a recurring figure in our reporting, Riley Gaines. Please give this and our other videos a watch and a share!

Hey hey, we have finally released our video project! I'm the voice and editor behind these! We will be releasing a good number of short videos about anti-trans people and organizations throughout the month, so please watch and share!

Also today: Majorities of both Dem and GOP Americans say trans ppl face bigotry, Pew says.

If you can, please support @evanurquhart.bsky.social and his work at @assignedmedia.org. He is one of the most driven, caring, and intelligent people I’ve ever met and I firmly believe that we all need him to keep doing well.

Ever since my egg cracked four years ago, I have had a lot of imposter syndrome about being trans. After seeing the results of my surgery for the first time, that is all dispelled. There is no longer any doubt in my mind that this is what I wanted, and I am so happy to be here.

Stupidest way I hurt myself? Was welding TIG and the filler metal was starting to melt to close to my fingers. I decided to adjust where it was in my hand like I would a pencil, by tapping it against my thigh. Effectively, I threw a molten steel dart into my leg.

I saw the results of my surgery today! The incisions are pretty gnarly and its all pretty swollen down there. But seeing myself with the parts I've wanted was incredible! Everything finally feels right.

I am exhausted, but I made it through surgery! Now to begin recovery

It is officially one week until bottom surgery! I have been working towards this for three years, navigating insurance, delays in care, and tons of changes in my life along the way. Now I'm just one cross country road trip away.

Watching Taskmaster with @mosquitochaser.bsky.social, Series 19 is off to a good start!

Got the kittens their first full size cat tree today, Ray seems to like it!

I love that my hometown is considering this, it would be amazing if they did!

Harry Potter and the Transexual Menace

Rewatching Chernobyl, just finished The Happiness of All Mankind, had to hug my dog after.

@mosquitochaser.bsky.social proposed! I'm so happy to have a life with this wonderful woman ❤️

Very happy to have been asked to contribute. Between this and speaking at the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, this week has been pretty good :)

My newest piece! It's truly awesome to see the ways that people are resisting these historically discriminatory laws.

This is an old friend of my partner's who needs support with her gender affirming care, donate if you can, or atheist share?

Replaying Prey (2017) and I would give so much to be able to erase the memory of it from my head temporarily just for the feeling of experiencing it for the first time again.

Quite proud of this one! Also this'll be the first of more regular reported pieces by me!

Stories with reporters on the scene, taking photos and conducting interviews, weren't always part of our repertoire. It takes much more time, effort, and money to do these stories. We do it because we care, but we can't do it without your support. Here's where you can go to become a member:

Assigned was on the ground and in the Discord, reporting on the historic return to the streets of foundational trans rights activist group Transexual Menace, @transexualmenace.bsky.social @valorievandieman.bsky.social has our story, with photos and additional reporting by Simon Feisthauer Fournet.

I was supposed to take a flight in a couple weeks, but clearly that's not safe right now. The alternative is a nine hour drive each way and I am not excited about that.

Among the most important things right now, for those of us Americans who want to understand our world and our place in it, is to shift from understanding ourselves as citizens of a democracy to members of a captive, restive, rebellious public an autocrat is seeking to consolidate control over.

I'm one of the hosts, come check us out!

Thank you so much to everyone who contributed and shared, I can't fully express my gratitude to you all for your help in making this goal in just one day! I just got off the phone with the electrologist in town and I'll be getting back to appointments starting this coming week!