As I wrote in Sex Is as Sex Does, in the past, even "red" states let people change the sex marker on their ID--because it's in the state's interest to do so. @mashagessen.bsky.social's column today is on Trump's shift to using sex markers to enforce social hierarchies. nyupress.org/978081471710...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Supreme Court lets Trump put birth sex on passports because, a majority of justices say, "the Government is likely to succeed on the merits" when they hear the case. Apparently, they think the United States (& not trans people?) will suffer "irreparable injury" www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Headline change from this morning, I see. Probably meant what they said the first time. Liberal feminism doesn't really work as a euphemism for women.

Dems following Carville’s advice I see: “It’s time for the Democrats to embark on the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party: roll over and play dead.” (February 2025)

Turns out Trump's "Defending Women" executive order is not, in fact, about defending women's health. It has led to the removal of of a lot of crucial information about women's health. This just out in a peer reviewed article by Patricia Homan and Susan Short. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

Or, as @lornab.bsky.social put it, don't let UT Austin succeed in its bid to become the University of Austin

This decision by UT’s administration is not driven by any educational reasons--UT administrators are bowing to a national political attack on the freedom to learn by censoring subjects and silencing departments. The state should not be telling administrators what their students can study.

Politico reports on Cuomo's record of defunding CUNY--devastating. A vote for Cuomo in this year's mayoral race is a vote to decimate CUNY and affordable public higher education once again. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Love this guy. The kind of Democratic we need.

This is amazing--The Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia tells University of Virginia leadership that if UVA signs Trump's Compact for Higher Education, “there will be significant consequences in future Virginia budget cycles" bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/cbs19news.co...

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Make a plan now to join the PSC, a growing number of other unions, & community groups to protest ICE’s abuses in the courtrooms & in our communities, resist the deployment of federal troops in our city, & demand state legislation to protect immigrants. tinyurl.com/NYersAgainst...

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

This is really great reporting from Mother Jones - the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine disavows the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for misusing his work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I think of pronouns as part of grammar of civility. It's simply common courtesy to use the pronoun someone prefers. "These codes of neighborliness or of common decency are...the bare minimum for us to exist peacefully as profoundly different people who nevertheless share the same time and place."

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

The sickening feeling when you realize the institutions of civil society are much worse than you thought—Berkeley handing over 160 names, & what will ensue now that the FBI is targeting trans people as “violent extremists”? Excellent column by @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

A powerful op-ed about MAGA's fixation on trans issues from @polgreen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

NEW @teenvogue.com: a Texas bill passed this summer mandating schools deadname trans students, leaving enforcement to districts. @kitoconnell.com speaks to trans students in TX: “I’ve never felt more at threat here. I can’t stop thinking that everything would be so different if I detransitioned.”

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

A personal story, from a child's vantage point, about what it's like to live under never-ending state surveillance and persecution. Also to survive that through resistance and solidarity. From Joan Wallach Scott, who I was lucky to have as a colleague last year. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender

Too many people seem to believe that “wokeism” has killed art, rather than enriched it. And yet trans people have been underrepresented in major institutions even before Trump’s suppression of so-called gender ideology, Grace Byron writes.

I've posted a draft article on the Supreme Court's Skrmetti decision on SSRN. I argue that this harmful decision represents the worst sort of legal formalism, but does not predetermine the results in other transgender rights cases or eviscerate sex discrimination law. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Chaos as governing…comparing Brazil 2019 with the US in 2025, from the Sexual Politics Bulletin: sxpolitics.org/spw-library/...

There are less trans woman History Professors in the US than I have fingers on one hand, and one of them was just FIRED 🚨 Why? Anti-trans alumni/donors threatened to pull support form the university... substack.com/home/post/p-...

Institutions sacrificing trans youth and student protesters in the hopes appeasing an angry god. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Theda Skocpol puts the creation of Trump's secret police force, which is the centerpiece of the OBBB, in historical perspective. It has close precedents in Europe between the wars.

Good morning Brooklyn.

Watch my talk on “Sexual Democracy, Moral Panics, and Trans Politics,” virtually live, Saturday, July 5th, 7:00 p.m. @socialismconference.org (Chicago time).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8HTgoHqW7o&list=PLcqXhvSDf0z1h6gfcz5WM3IPbuBIm1C9F&index=3

Trump helping Eric Adams the way he helped Pierre Poilievre. Carry on.

A terrible decision from the 11th Circuit. (Linked here if you don't want to set up a pacer account: www.paisleycurrah.com/document)

Perhaps the centrist Dems will stop taking their cues from Trump--agonizing over "trans issues" as a way to avoid economic issues--and realize campaigning on "affordability" isn't that hard. Or perhaps not.

This is an image maga is posting to stoke fear of Mamdani. A list of things that sound awesome

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.

Department of State announcement from last week: "To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for F, M, and J nonimmigrant visas will be instructed to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media profiles to “public.”" www.state.gov/releases/off...

I talked with @chuckmertz.bsky.social about the larger effects of Trump’s anti-trans policies. The war on trans people is a war on gender which is, yes, bad for all women, bad for everyone in fact. Being on “This is Hell” has been on my bucket list forever—Chuck is a great interviewer.

IT'S A FREE FOR ALL! Today, @paisleycurrah.com on his @newyorker.com story, “Donald Trump’s War on Gender Is Also a War on Government." Keep thisishell.com free and the show completely listener-supported by becoming a subscriber.... but this is free! www.patreon.com/posts/new-fr...

Didn’t realize someone on Bluesky could get ratioed so badly so quickly.

Re-upping this for no particular reason.

Today, I'm on a Zoom panel about the Trump 2.0. English and Spanish translation available. Short presentations and group discussions. bit.ly/dialogos-pendientes-emergentes-1706

Trump's war on the science that could make people's lives better hits a snag--a judge has found that cutting research because of "DEI" or transgender is discriminatory and reinstated the grants. www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n...

NYC people--early voting is on! May I suggest you include Zohran Mamdani in your choice of five candidates. And it's especially important that you not rank Cuomo at all. Unlike Cuomo, Mamdani LIKES New York City and its residents.

Re-upping this. Let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/UAtsVTH

Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me. His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard. This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

tomorrow: I'm so excited to be in conversation with the great @paisleycurrah.com at the Upper West Side Barnes & Noble! come join us at 7 pm! stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...