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Mollie McQuillan

@drmcquillan.bsky.social
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LGBTQ health and education researcher, Cat Enthusiast, assistant professor at UW Madison

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
👇🎯 Your regular reminder that unfunded mandate are bad, we shouldn't have them, & the actual solution to nearly <every> problem in 🇺🇸 higher education - both real & imagined - is to... <taps mic> <John Facenda voice> ...Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To. Do.
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Education Week @edweek.org · 24/10/2025
100-Plus Head Start Programs Will Go Without Federal Funds If Shutdown Drags On: The programs were due to receive their federal funding allocations Nov. 1.
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100-Plus Head Start Programs Will Go Without Federal Funds If Shutdown Drags On
The programs were due to receive their federal funding allocations Nov. 1.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night. “Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
This tactic is in the news again because ICE agents in Colorado were filmed breaking the window of a car with a baby in the backseat coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 05/10/2025
The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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Mollie McQuillan @drmcquillan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
So glad to see this book out! Check out the multi-faceted perspectives included in this edited book on queer youth and bullying, including a conceptual chapter on administrative bullying written by Dr. Cris Mayo and yours truly!
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 26/09/2025
Between falling salaries and rising scrutiny, it's no wonder so many districts are facing teacher shortages. And of course, that's all by design.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
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Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Host: On the anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville riot, the man who helped organize that march tweeted this. 'Eight years ago you were an extremist if you protest being replaced by immigrants... now it is official White House policy. Never give up.'
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AFSCME @afscme.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Firing someone for reporting factual data is unacceptable. You can’t bury the truth — we just had the worst 3 months of job growth since we lost 1.3m jobs during the pandemic. We support our economy by investing in working families, not just the 1%.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The fact that literally zero outlets ever cover crime decline as a story is a huge reason. (And before you yell at me, we do!)
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This month marks 100 years since the Scopes Trial, when a teacher was accused of breaking Tennessee law by teaching evolution. “The great thing about the past is it’s not dusty. And it’s not irrelevant,” says Brenda Wineapple, author of “Keeping the Faith," a book about the history of the trial.
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Why Is The Scopes Trial Still Relevant 100 Years Later?
A century after a teacher went on trial for teaching evolution, the role of science in the classroom and in society remains in contention.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/07/2025
Records obtained by ProPublica show the Trump administration is preparing to shut down seven major investigations of alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including some where HUD already found civil rights violations had occurred. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
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Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under…
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is literally exhibit A for why queer joy is so profoundly subversive. Anger is important too. But joy -- "smiling and talking and crying and laughing" -- that's what the fascists want to stamp out. That's the real challenge to their reign.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/06/2025
Sotomayor points out the similarities between the Skrmetti ruling allowing discrimination against transgender people's medical care to Virginia's argument for its interracial marriage ban in Loving.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/06/2025
What this narrative conveniently ignores is that this regression on trans rights is the result of a decade long political strategy by the far right funded to the tune of over billion dollars. I'm not making this up, they literally wrote this exact strategy down in 2015. Every aspect of it.
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Mollie McQuillan @drmcquillan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
New pub with @joecimpian.bsky.social in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social We discuss how new population-based YRBS results helps bolster our ability to examine transgender adolescents’ health. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...
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Masking the Health Impacts of Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies by Political Suppression of Data and Informational Erasure | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 7
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)
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Jacqueline (Jackie) Nowicki (she/her) @k12hallmonitor.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
71 years after #BrownvBoard, US #k12 #schools are still divided along racial, ethnic, and economic lines. Our 2022 research shows that more than 1/3 of students (18.5 million) attended a school where 75% or more students are a single race/ethnicity. #EduSky Read more 👉 bit.ly/3RU4Uz6
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K-12 Education: Student Population Has Significantly Diversified, but Many Schools Remain Divided Along Racial, Ethnic, and Economic Lines
Schools remain divided along racial, ethnic, and economic lines throughout the U.S.—even as the K-12 public school student population grows more...
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Mollie McQuillan @drmcquillan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
So pleased to share this early career support from the W.T. Grant Scholars program that will further my work on improving the use of evidence concerning LGBTQ+ youth in schools. Looking forward to engaging with my mentors, the other Scholars, and the entire network.
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National Education Association @neatoday.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Something you might not know: school meal programs are often linked to Medicaid. So when Medicaid gets slashed, students lose healthcare AND miss meals. Congress is considering deep cuts to Medicaid—and the consequences could be huge. buff.ly/rHQ5sH2
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Healthy School Meals: What's At Stake for Our Students and Communities? | NEA
Critical programs that enable schools and districts to serve free school meals to all students, provide summer meals, and use science-based nutrition standards—are now facing cuts or elimination.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
As we point out in Science, the Trump proposal to convert NIH program officer jobs into political appointments (Schedule F) will mean, that instead of actual scientific experts, people like "Big Balls" will choose how to direct NIH funds. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The past few months at NIH and NSF preview how politicized scientific agencies would operate. Funding choices that reflected the consensus of some of the best scientists in the world were reversed by nonscientists. Program officers have, at points, been told not to communicate with the scientific community or have had their engagement limited. Scientific agencies have been directed to effectively reduce the flow of funds to a trickle by adding new layers of redundant review and red tape and even violating court orders to reinstate cancelled grants.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I won't be around today to read the HHS "Gender Dysphoria Report", but here's my comprehensive 2023 essay, "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental" (with over 100+ references) that will tell you everything that's wrong with it... juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
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Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation…
NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…
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Derek W. Black @derekwblack.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is the day every young voter should remember. For several years running, young people said they needed mental health counselors more than anything—while legislators fawned over vouchers. Washington finally listened in 2022. Trump just cut the program.
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Education Department cuts about $1B in federal school mental health grants
The department’s decision centers on funding meant to help train mental health professionals who could work in local schools.
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Mollie McQuillan @drmcquillan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
It’s been such a gift to learn from Dr. Gill, who presented a marvelous dissertation earlier this month. Congratulations, @erinkgill.bsky.social on another accomplishment!
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 17/04/2025
The State Department has deleted information for travelers about safety concerns based on race, gender, and sexual identity. That could hamstring colleges that rely on the federal risk assessments for advising students who study abroad. chroni.cl/44ttpuh
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Colleges Use This Federal Safety Guidance for Study Abroad. Now It’s Gone.
Also, students and colleges go to court over visa revocations. And proposed cuts would zero out funding for Fulbright and other academic exchanges.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 09/04/2025
This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
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Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Terrific reporting from @axios.com on Trump calling trans care “child abuse,” rightfully declaring AS FACT that this is pure stigma in opposition to scientific and medical consensus www.axios.com/2025/04/04/t...
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Trump uses child abuse awareness proclamation to bash transgender people
"Denying trans youth medical care won't change who they are," one advocate said.
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Rep. Sean Casten @casten.house.gov · 05/04/2025
Today, Trump’s 10% tariffs go into effect which serve only to raise costs for the American people. Here’s a statement the White House released today: “The President won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL, and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow.”
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haraldthebonker.bsky.social @haraldthebonker.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Trump has disappeared $9 trillion dollars. Just so you know, it would take approximately 24,658 years to spend $9 trillion at $1 million per day. Glad I could clear that up
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Trump wiped 2.5 trillion dollars out from the stock market today. Let's check in on America's most watched cable news network!
A Fox News broadcast shows a male anchor in a dark pinstripe suit and pink tie reporting live. The headline at the bottom of the screen reads, "FEMALE FENCER TAKES KNEE AGAINST TRANS OPPONENT." The U.S. Capitol building is visible through the window behind him. A red ticker on the bottom right displays the Dow Watch, showing a drop of 1,425.88 points or 3.38%, bringing the total to 40,799.44. The time reads 11:24 PT.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 04/04/2025
hi, cis folks! so, when they release the US cass review that makes the cass review look like a trans liberation manifesto, i think you should • ask who’s making the case against transition • answer whether they have trans people’s best interest at heart • listen to actual trans people instead 🧵
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UW-Madison CDE @cdeuw.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
👭CDE affiliate @drmcquillan.bsky.social describes in @edgemedianetwork.com the importance of maintaining and expanding resources to support LGBQ youth “Coming Out is Not Enough: Queer Teen Girls Need Support, Acceptance” ➡️Read more here: www.edgemedianetwork.com/story/338278
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Coming Out is Not Enough: Queer Teen Girls Need Support, Acceptance | EDGE United States
Coming Out is Not Enough: Queer Teen Girls Need Support, Acceptance
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.
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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I'm super excited to share this short brief on who has power over the Department of Education, what the ED Sec can do, and what Executive Orders can do. There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share. drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...
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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
As a share of total employees, however, the Office for Civil Rights and the Institute of Education Sciences took the biggest hits. Again, how can this not mean that services won't be compromised?
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Mollie McQuillan @drmcquillan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
So proud of all the service Ben does for our professional associations! Thanks for highlighting some of it! @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @divisionagsc.bsky.social @ucea-leadership.bsky.social @uceagsc.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social @balebo.bsky.social
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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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how u gonna be on the wrong side of history while it's repeating itself like bro ur failing an open note test
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2025
This is a campaign of eradication. www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...
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CDC will no longer process transgender data
The agency's decision will likely affect a number of federal health surveillance systems that serve as critical resources for researchers.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Now every day is trans day of visibility
DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity
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All directions surveillance camera

The DHS quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the section prohibiting surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.
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February 26 2025 1:56 PM EST
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Breaking story early this evening, NCES Commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr was placed on administrative leave, as a further blow to this statistical agency's capacity to collect, analyze, and report on high quality education data with objectivity and integrity. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Courts rule on Trump administration initiatives including DOGE, DEI
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
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Joe Cimpian @handle.invalid · 16/01/2025
New study with @drmcquillan.bsky.social - suicidal ideation in HS girls rose, from 23% in 2015 to 29% in 2021 - Girls' LGBQ identification rose 15% -> 34% To address suicidality, reduce stressors on LGBQ youth, now over 1/3 of HS girls @aeraedresearch.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
Figure showing rising LGBQ identification among high-school girls from 15% in 2015 to 34% in 2021, and smaller increases among high-school boys, from 6% in 2015 to 9% in 2021. Data Source: YRBS 2015 to 2021, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Cimpian, J. R., and McQuillan, M. T. (2025), Educational Researcher.Figure showing rising rates of suicidal ideation, planning, and attempts when looking among all high-school girls 2015 to 2021, in the first row of the figure. The second row of the figure shows that LGBQ-identified girls have higher rates for reporting all outcomes than heterosexual-identified girls. The third row shows that after accounting for the rising LGBQ-identification rates among girls, there is no longer any significant difference in any of the outcomes across the years. Data Source: YRBS 2015 to 2021, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Cimpian, J. R., and McQuillan, M. T. (2025), Educational Researcher.
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Janel Anderson, PhD @janelanderson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
@drmcquillan.bsky.social McQuillan and Cimpian call attention to the toll the toxic patriarchy and regressive education policies are having on our kids. #EduSky #AcademicSky #EducationPolicy
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Janel Anderson, PhD @janelanderson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
So proud of my latest publication w the brilliant Mollie McQuillan and Lydia Gandy-Fastovich. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🍎 #EduSky #AcademiaSky
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“Sometimes It’s Hard to Do the Right Thing”: The Gender-Inclusivity Leadership Spectrum of How PK–12 Administrators Understand Gender Diversity Laws, Policies, and Implementation - Mollie T. McQuillan...
PK–12 district-level administrators have been asked to navigate an increasingly complex policy landscape concerning gender-diversity reforms. We apply sensemaki...
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UW-Madison CDE @cdeuw.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
📄New #publication in JAMA Pediatrics from CDE affiliate Mollie McQuillan & colleagues ➡️"Transgender Adolescent School Climate, Mental Health, and Adult Social Support" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Transgender Adolescent School Climate, Mental Health, and Adult Social Support
This cross-sectional study describes gender differences in adolescent school climate, health, and social supports, including who depressed or anxious youth seek help from.
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Institute for Diversity Science @idswisc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
New research by @joecimpian.bsky.social and IDS affiliate @drmcquillan.bsky.social suggests that stress around sexual identity might contribute to increased risks of suicide among teen girls. theconversation.com/teen-girls-a...
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Teen girls are facing an increased risk of suicide − and stress related to sexual identity might be contributing to it
While more young people openly identify as LGBQ, many still face substantial challenges that can contribute to a greater prevalence of mental health concerns.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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Mollie McQuillan @drmcquillan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Thanks @aeraedresearch.bsky.social for highlighting @joecimpian.bsky.social and my research. This paper calls attention to the need for MORE not less support for LGBTQ youth.
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
To put the OMB grant freeze in context, roughly 17.5% of Wisconsin’s revenue comes from federal grants in aid last I checked. Overall, federal grants account for roughly 36% of all state government budgets in US. In a number of states the federal share is even higher.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
LRTs: this essay 1) provides a brief history of how gender-affirming care for trans adults & youth came to be 2) debunks the most common anti-trans talking points & tactics 3) provides a list of over 100 studies & reviews showing how established this field is: juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
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Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation…
NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…
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