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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the most cited journal: archives of sexual behavior, founded in 1971 "for the prevention of transssexualism." it has faced numerous controversies over the years and its editorial board is stacked with researchers who are hostile to trans people

most cited journals in the SEGM compendium for all articles (top) and editorials (bottom). archives of sexual behavior and the journal of sex & martial therapy are the most prolific anti-trans journals

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the most cited authors are a mix of SEGM and its grantees as well as co-authors of the SOC8. many of these researchers (including the SOC8 authors) are well known in anti-trans media

graphs showing the most cited authors in the SEGM compendium. the most cited authors are also co-authors of WPATH SOC8 and the most cited editorialists are associated with SEGM

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

the racism here is by design (reposting graph with corrected axis labels)

graph showing percent decrease in nih grants by applicant's race. the largest decreases are for black and hispanic investigators

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

this is a self-contradicting editorial trying to pass itself off as scientific fact. how disingenuous …

Viewpoint. Science does not exist in a vacuum, but interfaces with the broader world in ways that are not always overt but are becoming increasingly complex. This includes new transformative technologies, digital disruption, and emerging/growing global issues that require integration of diverse perspectives (e.g. social, environmental, economic). Options for how we communicate, discuss and debate topics relevant to the broader scientific community and other stakeholders (e.g. government, industry, the public) have diversified in recent years and will continue to do so. More traditional approaches focused on publishing peer–reviewed papers in professional journals are largely unidirectional and somewhat static – i.e. passive rather than actively promoting useful discussion and debate beyond the specifics of the science, and in fact generally don’t actively seek to engage across domain boundaries. Viewpoint articles are topical editorials linked to an online curated platform to enable scientists and others to engage transparently in dialogue around issues raised in the editorials.

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

i also found many letters to stoller from people who had read his writing and resisted his pathologies. these messages offer a window into history that often gets overlooked - trans people not just as patients but also active dissenters from sexological taxonomies made without their input

“I am a transvestist, trans-sexualist, transmutation; These are the medical terms describing my Medical Condition. However! to the uninformed; such as the self-righteous they call me Bad; the smug call me Evil; and the so-called Wise call me Sick; these are terms or similar such terms that are applied to me — that is of course if the language is kept clean; but what difference does it make to me what anyone thinks or says about me; particularly in such a matter whereby they may not be familiar with my aspect of Human Endeavor.” [emphasis original]

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

btw anyone who wants to provide input on this study (ayagdos) can contact the investigators and/or the northwestern institutional review board. details in screenshot link for screenshot: www.ayagdos.org/s/Consent-Yo...

Who can I talk to? I
f you have questions, concerns, or complaints, you can contact the Principal Investigator J. Michael Bailey at AYAGDOS@gmail.com.
This research has been reviewed and approved by two Institutional Review Boards (“IRB”), the Northwestern IRB and the BRANY IRB. An IRB is a committee that protects the rights of people who participate in research studies. You may contact the Northwestern IRB by phone at 1 (312) 503- 9338 or by email at irb@northwestern.edu if:
• Your questions, concerns, or complaints are not being answered by the research team.
• You cannot reach the research team.
• You want to talk to someone besides the research team.
• You have questions about your rights as a research participant.
• You want to get information or provide input about this research.

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

in 2020, robert trivers published a sham study on the evolutionary genetics of "transgendered belief." the project was proposed and funded by epstein because "people" would be interested. this will always be a part of trivers' scientific legacy. link for screenshot: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

From: J <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: Robert Trivers <[REDACTED]>
Subject: Re: Phone call
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 11:30:11 +0000

--

i can call you today if you like. my recollection is that we sat together . [highlight added] I thought that you might want to focus on transgender biology . people would be interestsesd and i would fund. [highlight end] I am a true beileiver in your talents. my understanding and of course it could be incorrect. was that honor killing work was detrimental for you. as was the knee hip ratio in sprinters etc.. little public interest where the genetics of exceptional and transgender would be helpful. I m always o f the view that i should do no harm. and said I wouldnt give you drugs. if you asked because it was bad for you. giving you money for subjects that would be in my strong view detrimental to your future. creates a problem. you said you would get back to me and then told me that chapman had offered you work. In my view. you were telling me that others would support your honor killing etc. you then asked about the markets and i said sit tight. we can talk at anytime

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

important to add that studies of queer and trans health is also being censored - at rates comparable to work on vaccine hesitancy

chart header reads: Fields Under Fire. Some research fields have been heavily affected by grant terminations implemented by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) under President Donald Trump. More than half of the active, NIH-funded projects about gender and sexual minorities (LGBT+) have been cancelled.
chart #1 shows that 50.6% of grants containing the terms "LGBT/LGBTQ/LGBTQ+" in the title or abstract were terminated.
chart #2 shows that 45.8% of grants containing the term "transgender" in the title or abstract were terminated.
chart #3 shows that 45.5% of grants containing the term "vaccine hesitancy" in the title or abstract were terminated.
chart #4 shows that 3.4% of grants containing the terms "HIV" or "AIDS" in the title or abstract were terminated.

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

in a 2016 email, trivers tells epstein that he is "getting to the end of 'transsexuality'" and i think he was referring to this insane theory! he then asks epstein for more money

From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: trivers <[REDACTED]>
Subject: Re: all the best
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:56:18 +0000

will do details to follow . glad to help

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:46 PM, <[REDACTED]> wrote:
>ill try to help

no one knows how to pick up my spirits better than you

the joke is that if getting a Fellowship requires unanimous approval by a committee you can count me out - whenever ten or more are gathered in my name, at least two hate my guts

BTW i do believe i have figured out the whole mess of honor killing, am now working on the detailed solution and will then find a venue - i am tempted to use a non-academic one

likewise, i am getting to the end of Itranssexuality'—need again only to
choose venue and adjust style—have had a lot of fun with the attraction of the new morph(s)—have your cake and eat it too—a woman with a dick—i.e. if you as a heterosexual male and have a minor desire to suck a dick then
what better organism to do it with than a transsexual? 'she' will smell
like a woman, be softer and more hairless like a woman and may, to some
degree, actually resemble one morphologically—leaving the dick for you to enjoy in a feminine setting

now back to numbers as you would say

you have been generous to a fault and i am most grateful—your recent giftsits untouched in my Foundation (-10%)

one way that might make sense is if you made the one-year contract a
repeated one, 20 or 30 a year—yes it is pro forma that i actually benefit
your Foundation but it does set up a modus annual gift which can support me for, say, the next two years after this one, at which point i should have finished the proposed topics and perhaps more
here is wishing you all the best at whatever you are up to including
making more money

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

another bit from the texts between the uva board of visitors: one member (steve long) requested that the resolution include "minors" with every reference to "gender affirming care" ... which was not incorporated. during the meeting wetmore objected to changes in language

[text from steve long to rachel sheridan]

2/21/2025 8:34:04 AM
This resolution is worded only one time about minors in the introduction. The word minors needs to be inserted ANYWHERE the resolution mentions Gender Affirming care. Paragraphs 7,8,9,10

Otherwise it implies all gender affirming treatment in my opinion???

[text from douglas wetmore to rachel sheridan]

2/21/2025 10:38:42 AM
We have to pass the resolution as written

2/21/2025 10:49:35 AM
I'm not budging

2/21/2025 11:04:00 AM
Total baloney

2/21/2025 11:17:16 AM
No way on an amendment from me

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

here is wetmore admitting that uva communications went into "full spin mode" after the bov passed their resolution

Messages - Douglas Wetmore [to Nicole Sheridan]

2/21/2025 8:03:49 PM
UVA Comms in full spin mode

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

one member of the board (douglas wetmore) walked into the meeting, noting the large crowd of protestors. his response: "ego and pride are terrible"

texts from douglas wetmore to nicole sheridan

2/21/2025 9:16:33 AM
Ego and pride are terrible

2/21/2025 9:16:58 AM
Read a Shakespeare play sometime!

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

these texts are pretty crazy. apparently the uva board of visitors went to a "celebratory lunch" after voting to stop uva health from accepting new trans adolescents as patients

Messages - Bert Ellis [sent to Rachel Sheridan]
2/21/2025 12:11:26PM
We are having a celebratory lunch at the White Spot.

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

one of my favorites 💜

typed poem titled "REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #63":

check Science: whose interest does it serve?
whose need to perpetrate
mechanical dead (exploitable) universe
instead of living cosmos?

whose dream those hierarchies: planets & stars
blindly obeying fixed laws, as they desire
us, too, to stay in place
whose interest to postulate
man’s recent blind “descent” from “unthinking” animals
our pitiable geocentric isolation:
lone voice in the stars

what point in this cosmology but to drain
hope of contact or change
/oppressing us w/“reason”

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

they've agreed to implement guidance (linked) that bondi released in july. the guidance is pretty clear that trans inclusion violates civil rights law. bathroom and dorm bans (at minimum) are likely www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...

While compelled segregation is generally impermissible, failing to maintain sex-separated athletic competitions and intimate spaces can also violate federal law. Federally funded institutions that allow males, including those self-identifying as "women," to access single-sex spaces designed for females-such as bathrooms, showers, locker rooms, or dormitories-undermine the privacy, safety, and equal opportunity of women and girls. Likewise, permitting males to compete in women's athletic events almost invariably denies women equal opportunity by eroding competitive fairness. These policies risk creating a hostile environment under Title VII, particularly where they compromise women's privacy safety, or professional standing, and can violate Title IX by denying women access to the full scope of sex-based protections in education. To ensure compliance with federal law and to safeguard the rights of women and girls, organizations should affirm sex-based boundaries rooted in biological differences.

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

so the university of virginia has just agreed to apply federal guidance which states that trans inclusion in "single-sex spaces" can violate federal law. here's the relevant language from bondi's guidance:

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

hart was also a writer who critiqued american society, including the practice of medicine. his life was prolific but his story is often overlooked in both medical and queer circles. read more about his life here! queersciencelab.beehiiv.com/p/trans-scie... 3/3

"The ugly things that have grown up in medicine are the result of the ugliness and falsity of society as a whole, of our American preoccupation with success and making money, of our concentration of effort on the production of things rather than their use for a fuller human life. These things are not the fault of the individual physician; and neither can they be remedied by him. So long as the American people are permeated with the spirit of 'I'm going to get mine, no matter how,' just so long will that attitude filter into all the professions." Dr. Alan L. Hart

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

hard to overstate how much anti-trans scientists lost their minds over this ioc-funded study

Researchers whose findings have cast doubt on a competitive advantage for transgender women athletes appear to have been excluded from an International Olympic Committee working group tasked with creating a new policy on female participation.

That includes the authors of a 2024 study funded by the IOC that found transgender athletes might actually be at a competitive disadvantage, and urged caution in imposing participation bans.

“I was not included. I’ll let you extrapolate as to why,” one of the researchers told USA TODAY Sports in an email confirming they were not part of the IOC’s Protection of the Female Category Working Group and had not been asked to participate.

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

as part of a proposed settlement to restore ucla's federal grants, the feds want the university to declare that trans people don't exist and to stop providing health care to trans adolescents...

The more than 7,300-word proposal outlines a three-year agreement that calls on UCLA to:

Make five years of payments — $200,000 annually — and set up a $172,000 fund for people with claims of civil rights violations.
Ensure foreign students who are “anti-Western” will not be admitted.
Pay for all costs of the settlement, including the fee for an outside monitor.
Annually release demographic data for hires as well as students who have applied or have been admitted, broken down by “race, color, grade point average, and performance on standardized tests.”
Make a public statement declaring that transgender people’s identities are no longer recognized.
End gender-affirming care for minors at medical facilities.
Give the government access to “all UCLA staff, employees, facilities, documents, and data related to the agreement” not protected by attorney-client privilege.

The document shows signs of being hastily put together. Nouns and verbs occasionally do not match in tense. There are references to the “president” of UCLA, but the top campus administrator, Julio Frenk, is a “chancellor.” A sentence about medical facilities references the “Feinberg School of Medicine,” which is at Northwestern University.

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

slider is pretty legendary

slider, the cleveland guardians mascot (a magenta yet fuzzy creature with a yellow snout and yellow eyelashes) on fox 8 news with kenny crumpton

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"health secretary upset that centers for disease control and prevention is preventing disease, fighting tooth decay, and promoting bodily autonomy"

“What I will say is President Trump has very ambitious hopes for the CDC right now,” Kennedy said on the Fox News show “Fox & Friends.” “CDC has problems. We saw the misinformation coming out of Covid, they got the testing wrong, they got the social distancing, the masks, the school closures that have done so much harm to the American people.

“Today, on the CDC’s website right now, they list the 10 top advances, the 10 greatest advances in medical science and one of them is abortion, another is fluoridation, and another is vaccines. So we need to look at the priorities of the agency.

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

pretty wild (but also entirely unsurprising) that a science agency is mandating an unscientific definition of sex

Researchers inside and outside the agency “shall not use NIH funds to request, collect, or disseminate information related to gender,” states the version of the policy seen by The Chronicle, which could change. However, data on sex can be gathered — provided that the used definitions of sex reflect the Trump administration’s view that there are only two sexes, female and male, and they are determined at birth and unchangeable.

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

setting aside that this is a poorly written executive order, it sure sounds like trans people are no longer eligible for federal grants

(i) Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities.

(ii) Discretionary awards shall not be used to fund, promote, encourage, subsidize, or facilitate:

(A) racial preferences or other forms of racial discrimination by the grant recipient, including activities where race or intentional proxies for race will be used as a selection criterion for employment or program participation;

(B) denial by the grant recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic;

(C) illegal immigration; or

(D) any other initiatives that compromise public safety or promote anti-American values.

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

not to distract from important points about the normalization of scientific misinformation but i chuckled at "furin cleavage sites"

"In addition to not being aware of their own negativity bias, most people don’t know much about these particular scientific fields. So if the faux “expert” begins talking about furin cleavage sites or 80 percent desistance, the average person is likely to take these technical-sounding arguments at face value, since they cannot determine the veracity of these claims themselves. As a result, both editors and audiences may come away feeling like they learned a lot from the author when, in reality, they were spoon-fed a one-sided rendition of the story."

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

us v skrmetti: scotus relies on some twisted logic to take health care from trans adolescents. conveniently ignores that a "qualifying diagnosis" is not the issue at hand. sb1 does not prevent a diagnosis, it prevents a treatment on the basis of one's sex assigned at birth

"The Court declines to address whether Bostock’s reasoning reaches beyond the Title VII context—unlike the employment discrimination at issue in Bostock, changing a minor’s sex or transgender status does not alter the application of SB1. If a transgender boy seeks testosterone to treat gender dysphoria, SB1 prevents a healthcare provider from administering it to him. If his biological sex were changed from female to male, SB1 would still not permit him the hormones he seeks because he would lack a qualifying diagnosis."

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

tbh i'm still thinking about the soldier on the moon right now

image of the moon's surface with earth in the background. a toy green army man stands on the moon

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

me returning to the internet after sitting down to do a 3h experiment

meme from community of troy (donald glover) returning to a chaotic scene of the rest of the study group, including an uncontrolled fire and medical emergency

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

highly recommend!! from the salacious white lotus monologue (yes, THAT monologue by frank/sam rockwell) to the intellectual hollowness of trans exclusionary radical feminism

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