This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

The right: trans people don’t exist. Also the right: we must develop systems to identify them.

The right: trans people don’t exist. Also the right: we must develop systems to identify them.

In a new @latimes.com Op-Ed, I discuss how Kansas’s recent law invalidating 1,700 transgender individuals’ driver’s licenses raises significant questions about proportionality and administrative purpose. It criminalizes trans folks for no benefit to anyone. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Madeline Pape on sports and sex is worth a listen. Behind the rhetoric—what the science actually says. I bet you can’t guess (well, my followers probably can) which side of the research is more rigorous.

Kansas invalidated the driver's licenses of hundreds of trans people, made it a crime to drive to the DMV to "correct" them, & started keeping a list of everyone who did so. @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social & I on trans people in the state's surveillance architecture for @donmoyn.bsky.social's substack.

This is it exactly. As @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social and I wrote in a piece out today--even as these states deny the existence of trans identity, they build administrative systems to track us-- an expanding architecture of surveillance and control. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-compl...

It's all in how questions are worded and issues are framed. For example, 64% of respondents hold contradictory opinions on transgender policy. This is why Democrats should lead with a vision, not pander to the Fox News manosphere.

True story—Years ago on Twitter, before Jamelle Bouie joined the Times, I assumed he was trans because I thought (wrongly it turned out) that a cis journalist wouldn’t be posting so much stuff about transphobia.

Yesterday the Supreme Court blocked California policies protecting trans students BUT NY Attorney General Tish James told NYU that its decision to stop trans care for youth may violate the law, so continue doing it. States rights!

NEW: SCOTUS partially grants the request in Mirabelli v. Bonta, relating to California policies protecting against forced outing of trans students by teachers to parents, over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Hard-hitting reporting from the Brooklyn College student paper, with firsthand interviews from students & staff on NYU Langone’s latest decision to stop gender-affirming care for minors.https://vanguard.blog.brooklyn.edu/2026/02/nyu-langone-ceases-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-for-a-second-time/

Trump's anti-trans agenda moving along. Yesterday, the EEOC said that a federal employer can ban trans women from women's bathrooms, trans men from men's bathrooms. The Court's decision in the good 2020 Bostock hadn't addressed bathrooms. shorturl.at/IiWuE

A reminder to those who love their daily wordle but not the Times, there’s always Queerdle queerdle.com

@adamconover.net has a terrific podcast, and I don't say that just because I'm on it this week. Adam is the polymath of comedians. It's a pleasure to talk to him about trans issues. He's so well informed, one doesn't have to retread the usual talking points, so the conversation goes further.

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

I always enjoy talking to @adamconover.net, the polymath of comedians. headgum.com/factually-wi...

@judith-levine.bsky.social watched Melania so we don't have to. Techbros, Fuentes, Epstein and Musk: On women in Trumpland. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

in addition to evoking the "deceiver" trope (he "fell prey" to trans/LGBTQ+ ppl), Newsom is the LEAST CULTURALLY NORMAL prominent Dem politician right now. he owns a winery. he married Kimberly Guilfoyle. when they split up he dated 19-year-old (when he was 38). he podcasts w/Steve Bannon, etc.

There seem to be 2 paths here: (1) Class becomes a conversation between LLMs (2) Digital tools are removed from the classroom altogether

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

With the SAVE act, Republicans want to make it more difficult for married women who have changed their name to vote—and that is more likely to be Republican women. Seems counterintuitive but not if the long term goal is repealing the 19th A. By Pamela Herd. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Maybe I’ll just keep posting this every time we learn of another violation of our 1st amendment rights (from our actual government) to remind us of the 152 prominent writers who were so bothered by “cancel culture” (post #metoo and #blm that they wrote an open letter about it back in 2020.

DOGE comes to higher ed: Proud of my friend @lisalmoore.bsky.social, of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UT Austin, who does not pull her punches, on demoting WGS and other "woke" departments. www.austinchronicle.com/news/ut-head... 1/

More than almost anyone else Sodha’s faux-reasonable anti-trans diatribes in the Guardian - claiming *concern* about women’s rights - contributed to undermining the Equality Act. If Reform gets in cis women will lose every gain they fought for since the 1960s, thanks to “journalists” like her. 1/3

Better to be a beard than a sacrificial lamb, but we can do better. Newsom turns on trans people, part of an agenda whose primary aim is to protect billionaires Neoliberal Dems of the 20teens helped trans people, a progressive sheen on a political project aimed mostly at …protecting billionaires

Bans on puberty blockers, hormones…and now haircuts that don’t align with gender norms? The anti-trans agenda was always lurching toward this.

Read Melinda Cooper on Epstein and the tech bros: primal fathers, the backlash against #MeTo, and the return of master-servant relationship. (One has to create a free account to read) www.equator.org/articles/eps...

And if you want a 5500 word deep dive into the connections between the Trump administration’s anti-trans positions and the rollback of feminism, read this. (DM if you can’t get beyond the paywall) www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Guardian piece by the redoubtable Joan Scott explaining the connections between Trump’s Defending Women EO and shutting down women’s and gender studies prograns. archive.is/2026.02.13-1...

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

Ezra “Doing Politics the Way Right Way” Klein: “underage women”: The Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s Power [depends on elites like Klein using language like that] www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

Over-complying: "There is no state or federal law prohibiting instruction on race, gender or sexual orientation at universities." .Also--"If this was about too much fragmentation or small majors, then why are departments like Religious Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Classics unaffected?"

Fox News posts more articles on trans people than any media outlet in the country. Even queer ones. - buff.ly/je5OXnH

Our collaboration with the @transjournalists.org has been using public records and FOIA to see how the current administration has impacted the trans community. www.muckrock.com/project/the-...

CFP for a special issue on the global politics of anti-trans moral panics from transfeminist perspectives. Timely and necessary. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

NEW: It’s difficult to account for the abuses trans immigrants face in ICE custody after Trump destroyed safeguards, oversight agencies, and data about detainees. But 3 trans migrants told me what it’s really like: Medical neglect. Solitary confinement. Harassment. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In this piece for the New York Review of Books, I explain how today’s anti-trans agenda doesn’t just target trans people—it quietly (mostly quietly) dismantles the legal foundations that protect cis women from discrimination. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

@juliaserano.bsky.social provides an excellent rebuttal to the idea that Dems need to triangulate against trans people in order to win moderate votes. (Calling Pete Buttigieg and Gavin Newsom). Lots of receipts for her argument.

In this piece forNew York Review of Books, I explain how today’s anti-trans agenda doesn’t just target trans people—it quietly (mostly quietly) dismantles the legal foundations that protect cis women from discrimination. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Mandating a binary, immutable definition of sex in research is epistemic vandalism. It doesn’t just erase trans people, it wreaks havoc on the tools of knowledge production, leading to less nuanced, less accurate, and less rigorous science.

An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.

According to the latest Epstein file dump, Rowling’s team personally invited Epstein to the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child—including a private dinner between shows—AFTER Julie Brown’s exposé made his crimes public knowledge.

Todays Fox news poll that says people trust Dems more than Republicans on transgender issues. I put together some thoughts on collision between affective polarization and actual policy. Just thinking aloud. paisleycurrah.substack.com/p/how-anti-t...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

We didn't make everything about us. They did. Compare the Advocate, the oldest and largest LGBTQ newspaper in the US, to Fox and the NYT. Both have been publishing more about us than our own newspapers for 3+ years.

nice piece about the early #trans internet and community making back in the day. i'll always be proud of the communities we created with the Betty Boards, providing space for trans people to talk about family and relationships. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new... thanks @assignedmedia.org !

We become the people capable of changing the world by acting as if we already are. Seems like Minnesotans are doing this. From an essay by Amia Srinivasan. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Justice Coney Barrett begins to get that anti-trans policies will harm cis women. “Your whole position in this case depends on there being inherent differences. I’d be concerned about what the ramifications of that might be.” I wrote about exactly this in @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...