Just finished the last chapter of my dissertation. Now to finish editing.

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

Look folks, I know more than the average person about the refugee system in Canada and I really want to emphasize this. If the US designates all trans people terrorists, just come. 1/

Great study by Nicola Martin on autistic researchers finding higher education employment. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Brad Dourif is living his best life.

Fuck bill C-2 and fuck Mark Carney. Don't let him turn Canada on the xenophobic hellhole the US has become. migrantrights.ca/equalitynote...

His bank accounts here in the UK have been frozen. This is his home country. Never shut the fuck about this.

First meal in Taiwan

What a month. Paid off half of my student loans and purchased my first house.

Finally, finally I am done collecting articles for my literature review. I finally have the definitive collection (w/i specific parameters) of all 1471 academic publications ever produced on the intersection of autism and transgender identity. Now to make something of it.

Pigeon nest on bus station sign

In a bold push for medical privacy, Hawaii's House of Representatives has introduced HCR 144/HR 138, a resolution calling for the Hawaii Attorney General to investigate whether crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) are violating patient privacy laws.

Two years ago today, trans woman Eden Knight died at 23 after being trafficked out of the US and forcibly detransitioned in Saudi Arabia by her father Dr. Fahad Ibrahim Alshathri. In her final message, Eden named the individuals responsible for luring and capturing her: trans.cx/in-memory-ed...

“We must be prepared to defend our sovereignty-not just with military spending, but with a population that is engaged, trained and ready.” Great piece by @petermacleod.bsky.social about how Canada needs a Civil Defence Force where every Canadian has a role to play. 🇨🇦💪 thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

Fuck SeaWorld. podcastaddict.com/swindled/epi...

As a former asylum determination officer in NZ (decades ago) I automatically filter US anti-trans measures through a 'would it meet the threshold for refugee status' part of my brain, and damn I gotta read through this new fascism more carefully but I think it's getting close

Look, if you're trans and a US citizen, especially if you have a trans child, your chances of a Canadian refugee claim just went up. My DMs are open on this.

Leave the US if you can. If you need advice dm me.

"When you became Denise, I told all of your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die.” Rest in Peace Mr. Lynch. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/09/25/f...

"Mutual aid is political but does not require politics. It is built with the understanding that we are on our own, but not alone. It is building a community with no regard for politics or expectations of repayment. It is, at a minimum, knowing your neighbor." - @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social

New article with myself and @inanna-nalytica.bsky.social bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art

I once worked with a patient who, the gossip went, had as a children brained his little brother with a Tonka truck. So, they gave him a lobotomy. It was a real-life "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" tale.

My article, Promoting trans patient autonomy in surgical preparation for phalloplasty and metoidioplasty: results from a community-based cross-sectional survey and implications for preoperative assessments, is out. You can read it @ link.springer.com/article/10.1... @3l1jah.bsky.social

Got some actual work done on my dissertation today. Feeling good.

My friend who’s watching Syrian news channels as this heated up tonight said countless journalists were coming on air and reintroducing themselves like “I’m known by X, but my real name is Y” because they had to use pseudonyms to protect their families. Really astonishing stuff.

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”

🧵There are 45 days until Inauguration Day, and I’m working on updating the Capitol Riot Map—an interactive visualization of the more than 1,500 individuals arrested or charged in connection to January 6th. Follow this thread for updates, and explore the interactive visualization: capitolriotmap.com

info coming out that Bashar and family have fled Syria. wherever he lands, i hope he dies angry, in pain and soon.

This is relevant to my interests. New dissertation by @lisannemeinen.bsky.social on Neurodivergent Perspectives on Video Games: On the Representation, Understanding, and Speculative Imagination of Neurodiversity Through Interactive Virtual Narratives repository.uantwerpen.be/docman/irua/...

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

Check out the amazing zine on phalloplasty and meyoidioplasty outcomes I helped make for the PROGRESS study. progresscolab.net/zine/

Let's just get one thing straight. Every time Nancy Mace mentions a specific trans person's penis, it's sexual harassment.

#ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged #Gaza war crimes www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

On my way to Vancouver and the #CBRCsummit.

"From margins to mainstream: A history of transgender medicine in the United States" is coming out in Feb 25. I co-wrote chapters on ethics in trans health research and on trans pioneer Jeanne Hoff. You can pre-order it for 50% off until Dec 6 with code HOLIDAY24 @ sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi....

The RFK Jr. pick is demoralizing AF to autistic people (& those who care about them). “Now, autistic people will just have to hunker down & endure an administration that sees us not as people but as evidence of the evils of vaccination.” By @ericmgarcia.bsky.social: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The Māori people in New Zealand have lit the spark of revolution felt around the world

I know that back in the day some of us on the far left had complaints about the UN, don’t know if that’s still true, but this is very very fucked up

Photo below shows a Ryukyuan (native Okinawan) child forced to wear a sign reading “I spoke in dialect” b/c he spoke Okinawan. Such punishments were a common tactic Japan used to eliminate native languages from the Okinawan islands and replace them with Japanese.

Hi folks, keep an eye out for a forthcoming book that I wrote for. A History of Transgender Medicine offers a comprehensive history of transgender medicine, as told by more than forty scholars, physicians, psychologists, and activists. Available for pre-order @ tinyurl.com/trans-history

this is monstrous.

my favorite Kris Kristofferson story remains this one townhallmeeting.org/2021/01/18/h...

My book chapter is out a little early. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...