The NYT purposefully mischaracterized the position of the AMA to make it seem like they changed policy and opposed gender affirming care on trans youth. It appears they have rejected efforts by the AMA to correct the record.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

Children's Minnesota will pause providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to patients under 18 effective Feb. 27. If your family will be affected, I'd love to speak with you: [email protected] or @joyurcaba.91 on Signal.

All NSF SBE DDRIG solicitations have been archived and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Grants currently submitted will be processed, but as always, chances of funding remain very low. This means anyone aiming for the upcoming deadline will not be able to submit. 1/3

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

the massive scale of the No Kings protests, from the organizers’ perspectives, was ALWAYS about making it easy for people to people to go and meet organizers and organizations and mutual aid: “Let this be a springboard, not the end of your journey.” if you went, how are you doing so?

Gary Newman warned us about this

Y’all should read @taliabhatt.itch.io’s Verge article on trans indie publishing challenges. It’s fucking great, y’all. (The article. Not the trans indie publishing challenges 😭) www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

A new complaint from ACLU and other human rights groups details how the warden at a Lousiana ICE facility created an unofficial “work program” of manual labor and sexual humiliation for trans men at the facility. This is very hard to read. rfkhumanrights.org/wp-content/u...

New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING. It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment. It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.

@averyeverhart.bsky.social and I are SO excited to share "How to lose a culture war: Social media, trans disinformation and the authoritarian right," a paper we co-wrote on disinformation, digital authoritarianism, and anti-trans politics! Now available open access with Dialogues on Digital Society.

This matters a lot more than his tweets.

Here's a fun fact: most professors only get paid for 9 months of the year, and if you want to get paid for the rest, you have to get grants and fund it out of those yourself. So the functional ban on trans people getting grants is also functionally a huge pay cut for all trans academics! Fun!

I broke this last week! www.thestranger.com/news/2025/08...

today a UN body announced famine is in Gaza. this oped from New Disabled South connects US funding of Israel's starvation campaign to Trump's BBB cutting SNAP as fundamentally American. "The U.S. allegedly has no money to feed its children or the world’s children, but has plenty of money for war."

I saw Leah present this project at the last AAG and am so delighted that the game is finally public!

It is absolutely ridiculous that Adrienne Villa's death has basically gone unreported in local & national media An anti-ICE protester being held on $1.3 million bail found dead in a courtroom jail cell & crickets from media. Should make you question why they want this kept quiet!

It’s a common complaint to spend an afternoon reading papers in search of something that turns into half a sentence (that you delete next week) – I’d argue that the “foraging” benefits are real, only pay off if you’re engaging with the actual material, & worth the “inefficiency” to learn more.

UPMC’s move to cut gender-affirming care mirrors a broader trend. Major health systems — from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to Penn State Health — have also ended gender-affirming care for minors. Copublished with @publicsource.org:

NEW: I spoke to SJ Joslin, a park ranger and wildlife biologist who was fired by Yosemite National Park last week for helping to raise a transgender pride flag on the park's iconic El Capitan rock face. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

This tattoo, by InkedMongoose on IG, is perfect. No notes.

While Newsom pals around with Nazis and has his staffers write like just totally epic tweets mocking Trump, trans bans are spreading through California like wildfire, ignited by his willing segregation of trans girls just over a month ago. cbs4local.com/news/nation-...

I've been saying this for a while now, but anti-immigration fascism is providing a spatial fix for the slow decay of the traditional carceral state. apnews.com/article/tenn...

the thing about incarcerated trans people is that virtually no one will stand up for them & that’s fucking horrific because i literally cannot think of a worse place to be a trans person in america than prison. if you’re cis you should read this. trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.

🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

The hyperfixation is and will always be on detransitioners because cis "mistakes" are infinitely more valuable to cis people than trans pain.

What I would like to remind everyone talking about Sam Altman talking about the “PhD level intelligence” of the new ChatGPT is that Sam Altman dropped out of college so he… has no experiential construct for what grad school even is.

The feds invested ~$140k into my graduate training as a social scientist, only to ban federal funding from supporting any of my future work two months after I defended my dissertation. My academic job and funding prospects are not looking great, to say the least.

There is a concerted effort by this administration to forcibly remove the notion of trans people existing in public life. That’s why it’s so frustrating when democrats insist on meeting anti-trans crusaders on talking points like sports where they are. This is where they’re at. They want us gone.

Around 1 in 5 trans Americans are active service/veterans, which is almost twice the rate of the general population of the US.

Well, they are literally, not figuratively, collaborating with Republicans to pass legislation that will give Trump's FTC more power over the Internet at the expense of LGBT people, accurate information about abortion... (#KOSA currently has 17 D cosponsors in the Senate, including Schumer.)

see also: techcrunch.com/2023/11/21/w...

Really interesting study on referrals to gender specialists by age and gender, although I think "transmisogyny" would be a more accurate descriptor here since "AMAB femininity" could include gay or gender non-conforming cis men.

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

THIS IS HUGE! The FIRST 100% effective HIV PrEP drug, Lenacapavir, is APPROVED AND GOING GLOBAL. The makers are providing AFFORDABLE access to the drug in the United States AND beyond, signing ROYALTY-FREE licensing agreements with SIX generic manufacturers to produce AND supply it. 🧪🧵⬇️

hi if you're trying to buy my book while Duke Press is transitioning to a new distribution warehouse, you can find it at the link below, thanks for your interest! it will be available again through DUP after July 7th. folks in canada you can also buy it through the university of toronto press

“Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models.”

Worth noting that anti-crossdressing laws in US cities also came into existence during the late 19th century, often using the same language as ugly laws. The spatial governance of gender nonconformity and disability are deeply linked.

Thank you to @monachalabi.bsky.social for this powerful graphic, which starkly pictures the severity of the Israeli government’s policy of mass death through forced starvation.

Trans authors on itch.io, if this is affecting you, please share in the replies.

Extraordinarily timely policy brief from Data & Society on the push for more data centers in the US to fuel AI!