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Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We have a deeply conservative Supreme Court, so strategy matters. Litigation is only one tool. We need to invest in stronger coalitions across women's and men's sports, athletes, and professional associations in every state. Despite this setback, trans athletes matter and belong in sports.

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Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New study on Economic Hardship in Employment, Housing, and Finance Among Transgender Populations In the Context of Federal Protection Rollbacks - Now live on Finance Research Letters. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

📣 Open call: Erase Erasure. ✍🏽 hi, we made a thing 🤍 For transgender & nonbinary writers, artists, poets, visionaries, this is a national creative anthology of our lives in the U.S. No résumé required. Just your story and art, in your form. 🔗 Submit below. #EraseErasure #TransHistory #TransPride

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 04/04/2026

This blurb is underselling this piece by @drrestar.bsky.social and I loved reading it

There is a concept in epidemiology called the
"healthy survivor effect": populations facing extraordinary adversity sometimes appear more resilient than expected in the data, not because hardship is beneficial, but because surviving long enough to be counted is itself a kind of selection.
Which means every trans person and woman I find on this train is already, statistically, extraordinary.
Here in part because something held: a city that has not yet abandoned trans rights, a clinic that stayed open, a policy that protected long enough to make it to Friday night. In the years ahead, when policies are hostile and the data is vanishing, the job is to keep every individual that way. In view. Alive and safe.

She looks at me. And what follows is so small it would register on a security camera as nothing. A micro-expression, a not-quite-smile, a gaze sustained for the length of time it takes to detect or clock someone trans and be clocked in return. It is also, not coincidentally, the length of time it takes to decide that someone is safe. And yet, I will be thinking about it for the rest of the week.

We do the thing. A not-quite-smile, but let's-keep-each-other-in-view, for the rest of the ride at least.
The trans gaze is not pity, which requires one person to be suffering and another to have noticed. It is not quite solidarity either, which, however sincere, has always carried a slight satisfaction of having shown up. The trans gaze is what you get when no one is the tourist. When you look at her and think not I see what you're going through, but we are still in view.
Warmer than pity, more honest than solidarity, and on a good Friday, more fun than either. It says, in the seconds available: safe.
I do not know her name. I will have my Monday, and I only hope, with the stubborn hope of someone who has looked at the data and decided to hope anyway, that she will have hers. Walking into a hard-earned job, competent and present, in view of people quietly rooting for her to succeed. Waking up, in 10 years, to the life that was always supposed to be available to her.
The doors open. One of us steps out. Somewhere in this city, a trans woman of color is on her way somewhere, and another trans woman of color, good earrings, overthinking memory, and a night that defies every epidemiological odd, felt the trans gaze.
Not to catch each other. Not to read each other. Just to

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Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Just crossed the finish line at the #TokyoMarathon in my bpr. This time, it meant more than a record. I ran & cheered with athletes from every continent & raised funds for charity along the way. 🗼❣️ If you’re a trans kid wondering if you belong in sport: you do. #TransAthlete #Inclusion #TransJoy

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Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Hi all 👋 restarting this platform for timely transgender health & policy research outputs/evidence. Who should I follow / what groups? (recs in policy space would be most welcomed) (I miss the Twitter age, & LinkedIn feed seems more useful/proper for job opps, es those impacted by rifs). #Trans

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Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The Uncontrolled Policy Experiment on Trans Youth “The US is conducting a large-scale, uncontrolled policy experiment on trans youth. At the same time, federal actions are dismantling the systems needed to measure the consequences.” w/ @kgamarel.bsky.social & doperario tinyurl.com/4kb389dv

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Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I felt it was more important than ever to make sure we’re still talking about, thinking through, and reminding ourselves that micro-moments of joy and progress toward flourishing futures 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦. So, let me introduce you to the Feb issue of AJPH. 1/

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The DISCERN Collaborative @discerncollab.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

In our latest article in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social, we contend that gender-affirming research upholds rigorous scientific and ethical standards. The scientific community must urgently confront disinformation and advance evidence-based interventions. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

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Gender Affirmation Research Is Not Gender Ideology Extremism, It Is Science | AJPH | Vol. Issue

American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

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