From 2 years ago: “It is 12 hours after I emerged from my second gender-affirming surgery. Like a lot of people, my impulse to accelerate transition goals has escalated over the past year as a growing unease fills my body every day that one day, my body and the care it needs, will soon be outlawed.”

My kids is trans. We face the real possibility they will have to leave the country to live their life with full rights and freedom. I will never stop fighting for them but it would be helpful if I didn’t have to fight so many people allegedly on my side. So, you know, happy TDOV.

Quick correction: the law itself was not struck down, just held that it was subject to strict scrutiny with the majority implying it should be invalidated. Effectively though, the law is dead. It won't be enforced going forward. Apologies, I was reading it quickly on my phone.

Since proponents of conversion therapy have chosen their language to be deliberately confusing and obfuscate their intent, I wrote this primer several years ago to help people spot warning signs. Hope it helps someone.

The refusal to learn from past frankly colossal journalistic failures is the only guiding principle they seem to consistently abide by.

Conversion therapy is a dangerous, long-discredited practice. SCOTUS got this wrong, and LGBTQ+ kids will have to pay the price. Know that Massachusetts' ban on conversion therapy is still in place. We'll stand firm to keep our state a place where our LGBTQ+ community can live without fear.

I survived numerous years of conversion therapy "camps" in Florida under the Southern Baptist church banner. SCOTUS is totally fine that kids died there, or by their own hands thereafter. For Trans Day of Visibility, I hope I continue to annoy them that I survived and the "therapy" didn't work.

Today SCOTUS, in a grave disservice to queer and trans people across the country, held that statutes banning conversion therapy are subject to First Amendment strict scrutiny. Basically, SCOTUS handed therapists a First Amendment right to torture queer people. Only Justice Jackson dissented.

I see some journalists falling for this mistake, so to be explicit: defining conversion therapy only by a strict definition that fails to include the majority of conversion therapy practiced over the past hundred years is a mistake only someone who knows nothing about this topic would make.

Conversion therapy is abuse. I would support classifying it as such and banning the practice outright. I think the abuse classification is important because it’s the first step in being able to hold perpetrators accountable for the pain they inflict on the LGBTQ community.

Today on TDOV, SCOTUS struck down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy. The entire premise of the case is a sham. Thread attached.

I love podcasts about science as much as the next person, and I don't think you need to be a scientist to talk about all scientific topics, but holy god... the second a host starts using scientific terms they only understand by colloquial definitions, I want to hurl my phone into a wood chipper.

From 2 years ago: “It is 12 hours after I emerged from my second gender-affirming surgery. Like a lot of people, my impulse to accelerate transition goals has escalated over the past year as a growing unease fills my body every day that one day, my body and the care it needs, will soon be outlawed.”

"Dicho de forma simple: cuando nadie alza la voz por las personas trans, y nuestros oponentes son algunas de las voces más ruidosas del planeta, no es difícil adivinar quién va a ser escuchado por encima del estruendo. No somos nosotros."

12000 people per square kilometer is roughly what Manhattan or London are.

It’s impossible to imagine the terror the people filming this must be feeling. The video ends abruptly as an explosion happens right near them. The dust and debris in the air alone will be lethal.

There’s no way around this: people who “just want to share HP with their kids” are teaching them that standing up for others isn’t important. Nostalgia for childhood isn’t more important than actual children.

Louder for the people in the back. www.theverge.com/report/90181...

Affirming sex, instead of someone's individual will, is an interesting anthropomorphisation of physiology. It's an exercise in teleology that hides God's will behind behind something that sounds neutral and scientific. This is classic Gender Criticality, which is all about hiding intentions.

The anti-trans bills & laws are becoming ever more extreme. It won't be long before supporting your trans kid is coded as child abuse in a red state & trans children placed in Christian foster care to "make them appreciate" their gender assigned at birth.

This is the end of any role of the state supporting trans kids in the child welfare system.

LOUDER!!!!!!

I'm used to pretty gruesome framing but this image actually took my breath away.

Noticing a pivot from previous bills declaring that parents are protected for “not affirming a child’s perception of their gender” — instead now using the language of “affirming a child’s sex”, appropriating the language of affirmation to mean conversion.

Dozens of people showing up at members’ town halls in 2009 was enough for The Media to declare the Tea Party Movement™️ as a key force in American politics — for years — as the Obama administration was getting going. Consider that when you see how those same papers cover today’s protests.

While they're being more careful in how they frame their defense of xAI in courts more explicitly focused on CSAM preferring instead to focus on broad claims of free speech infringement, they've been fighting against AI imagery regulation for years.

Go on and ask which legal advocacy group famously behind the overwhelming majority of anti-trans laws in the US is backing this effort.

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

Last year a middle schooler sent an adult to our local TDOV event, the question she sent in to our panelists was, "Why are they doing this to us?" I have lost count of how many times I've thought about that since last year.

Gosh it sure seems like the NYT should spend less time trying to “fact check” trans reporters, and more time fact checking their own reporting.

Wanted to share this for anyone thinking of dropping platforms like Spotify which make money hand over fist off disinfo. It’s absurdly easy and makes the process painless.

I’m suspicious of this growing tendency to adopt the “why don’t we want to talk about” article structure made so popular by literal fascists.

TDOV coming up and I’ve lost count of the number of young people who’ve told me “it feels like it was all a trap telling us they had our backs” this year. Dozens? More? And I have nothing to say other than that I’m sorry and I’m so glad they’re here. But truly, world? You do not deserve trans kids.

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

There are few people I trust as much as @alli.gay and the team at L4GG when it comes to keeping track of the anti-trans legal hellscape we find ourselves in. If you’re looking for a place to reliably get useful, non-sensationalist, easy to understand alerts, sign up below.

Scientists are fighting for the future of biomedical research in America right now. So please don’t tell me how sitting down with the architects of the destruction of a decades-old legacy of research in the United States is a good idea.

Digging into the financials of searchlight, the argument, open philanthropy, third way etc. and it's remarkable how this post-2024 blitz of calling on Dems to abandon the groups and especially trans people, is funded by the same vc and hedge fund billionaires.

We have until 2028 to get carbon emissions under control.

“‘The fact that he publicly responds to [Iran’s position] by posting a tweet is solely intended to manage the financial markets—nothing more,’ the Iranian official told Drop Site on Monday.” www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-blast...

in january 2025 i nuked the burner gmail i used for youtube & started fresh. i couldn’t escape charlie kirk (lol) + dw + prager content cos it was paid ads, so i just quit youtube. but i do sometimes need video & when i fetch it…if you’re a regular user idk if you notice the bigot gumbo you’re in.

When I posted this last week, I held off with this particular graph because I wanted to spend some time running better tests and checking the API to make sure this wasn't a fluke. It isn't, which is a problem for us all, because SNA is in the top ten on all of YouTube. jessk.org/blog/how-you...

It is absolutely recognized as a war crime.

My most milquetoast belief is that anyone who applauds Tucker Carlson for any reason at any time is neither a serious person nor acting in good faith, and it never occurred to me that anyone left of Pat Buchanan would be gullible enough to challenge that.

Any scholarship requires that the reader engage with the relevant material, which is something the artifact created does not do. When you read the text, any scholar understands this as a basic rule. Your comment underscores why papers produced by LLMs are not scholarship.

Targeting energy infrastructure is synonymous with the mass deaths of newborns, elderly, and disabled people who rely on it to stay alive. It is the same as cutting off water to the region. It is the same as sentencing huge numbers of civilians to death. Stop letting him sanitize that.

The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.

I switched to Tidal when Spotify was shilling for ICE and I’m never looking back. Better app, better catalog, better quality sound by a mile, and has my favorite feature: doesn’t make money off fascism.

Spotify pays Rogan at least a quarter of a billion a year to push some of the most vile conspiracy theories about minorities from the fringe into public consciousness. Seriously, today is a great day to cancel your subscription.

Quite a bit more than that—his Spotify deal was for $250M for 4 years. It is estimated that Rogan clears $100,000 *per episode*.