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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

🎶 Almost heaven, Massachusetts Pioneer Valley, queer folks in abundance Coffee shops and bookstores, rainbow flags that fly Dykes on bikes at Pride, under the gay sky Cunty roads, take me home 🎶

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Sebastian Barr, PhD @drsebastianbarr.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

My take on the psychotherapy claims in the HHS report: lots of conflation and false binaries, and the unnamed authors misused data about affirming psychotherapy approaches to try to argue that *non-affirming* approaches are supported by the evidence. sebastianmbarr.substack.com/p/is-psychot...

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Is Psychotherapy Really the Safest and Best Approach for Gender Dysphoria?

Contextualizing and Challenging the Psychotherapy Sections of the HHS Report on the Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria

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Sebastian Barr, PhD @drsebastianbarr.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

As a practicing psychologist, PhD-level researcher, and trans man, I couldn't stay quiet on the HHS report's misrepresentation of the literature on psychotherapy for youth with gender dysphoria. I review the psychotherapy sections and contextualize and challenge the conclusions on my substack.

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Is Psychotherapy Really the Safest and Best Approach for Gender Dysphoria?

Contextualizing and Challenging the Psychotherapy Sections of the HHS Report on the Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/05/2025

I was just on NPR Member Station KCRW's "Press Play" where I fact check the Trump HHS Review targeting transgender healthcare. Listen to me speak here: www.kcrw.com/news/shows/p...

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Politics of gender-affirming care, Russia’s pursuit of Ukrainian territories

A new report from Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services tries to discredit gender-affirming care, contradicting leading medical experts who say it can save lives.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/05/2025

Yeah… this HHS review isn’t going so well for them. Watch how CNN is covering it. “Conversion therapy using friendlier language” “Peer reviewed but they won’t say by who”

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Sebastian Barr, PhD @drsebastianbarr.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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Is Psychotherapy Really the Safest and Best Approach for Gender Dysphoria?

Contextualizing and Challenging the Psychotherapy Sections of the HHS Report on the Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria

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Sebastian Barr, PhD @drsebastianbarr.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Screenshot from the new propaganda out of Trump's HHS against trans youth and evidence-based and ethical gender affirming care. There's a whole section about Laura Edwards-Leeper and Erica Anderson and their "whistle-blowing." Makes me sick. We warned them. I'm feeling so angry & sad.

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Sebastian Barr, PhD @drsebastianbarr.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Allies do not let friends and family uncritically read the New York Times' coverage of trans issues. www.advocate.com/voices/inste...

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Sebastian Barr, PhD @drsebastianbarr.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This is why we need folks highlighting the difficult realities trans people face. Not for a one dimensional victim-oriented narrative that denies the joy and meaning in our lives, but bc NYTimes et al promote distorted stories about us & what we're dealing with. www.advocate.com/voices/inste...

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Liz Roemer @lizroemer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We wrote this a few months ago, and I keep revisiting this question of how we can stop dehumanizing others, particularly the most marginalized among us. We have to see others’ full humanity to find liberation for all. #psychscisky

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Sebastian Barr, PhD @drsebastianbarr.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I just donated $500 from my webinar proceeds to Wildflower Alliance's LGBTQIA+ peer-based respite. Join me in supporting their fundraising for an LGBTQIA+ respite center & mobile response. This is an incredible & needed expansion of their peer support work. wildfloweralliance.org/donations/lg...

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LGTBQIA+ Peer Respite Start-Up

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Sebastian Barr, PhD @drsebastianbarr.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I just donated $1000 from my webinar proceeds to @southernequality.bsky.social's Trans Youth Emergency Project. Consider joining me in supporting their work. Efforts like this are a critical component to supporting trans wellbeing in the coming months/years. southernequality.app.neoncrm.com/forms/37

Screenshot of confirmation of $1,000 donation to Trans Youth Emergency Project

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Sebastian Barr, PhD @drsebastianbarr.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday. It was really meaningful to me & I've received positive feedback from folks in attendance. For folks who didn't register beforehand, the recording will be available for a sliding scale fee w/a portion of proceeds going to orgs doing on the ground work.

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Sebastian Barr, PhD @drsebastianbarr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Burning the midnight oil to get this webinar ready for y'all tomorrow. Really pouring my brain and heart into it.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

When is trans week of everyone shutting the fuck up about us?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/11/2024

What it looked like outside Moulton's office today, curtesy of Jonathon Cohn. Democrats should not leave LGBTQ+ people behind. They are a large part of the Democratic base, a force with real voting power, and should not be taken for granted.

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Sebastian Barr, PhD @drsebastianbarr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Please spread the word about this webinar I'm putting together on short notice to address an urgent need. Registrants get access to recording so you don't need to attend live. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #trans #mentalhealth #election #Trump #stress #transgender #nonbinary #lgbtq

Flyer advertising low-cost webinar titled strategies for supporting trans & nonbinary clients with post-election distress. Live & on-demand Friday Nov 22, 3pm-5pm EST. $30

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Sebastian Barr, PhD @drsebastianbarr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hey bluesky. I am finally migrating and hoping this is a better experience than Twitter became under Musk. I'm a psychologist and trans man. I work as a research looking at trans mental health and trans people's needs in therapy and as a psychotherapist (working w/diverse clients).

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