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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From a Texas prison, she built a menopause support network from scraps of paper. Please read the story of Kwaneta Harris and the women behind bars coming together to support each other, by the unparalleled @candicenorwood.bsky.social

19thnews.org

In a Texas prison, Kwaneta cultivated a menopause support network from scraps of paper

The incarcerated population is getting older, but correctional facilities lag in menopause care. Kwaneta Harris is working to fill the gaps in women's prisons.

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i’ve been getting multiple texts per week with the same message… and i’ve only been to texas once (12+ years ago)

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Transgender voters in Kansas! I want to talk about your plan to vote this November — are you not voting, out of ID/safety concerns? Voting by mail? Getting registered to vote? Doing in-person advance voting? Text me on Signal @orionr.80 or DM me! I'm a trans reporter working at The 19th News.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

sfchronicle.com

Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad

Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

talked this weekend with my ohio parents (former republicans) about anti-trans messaging from the state democratic party. they won't vote for kaptur, acton etc bc hateful candidates don't reflect their values. they plan to abstain from these races instead...

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

maybe y'all should listen to us when we tell you what motivates politicians to say transphobic shit and what it means for us instead of throwing tantrums about how unfair it is that we get to be the arbiters of transphobia

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.

npr.org

Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas

The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 19/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep The 2,000+ anti-trans laws passed recently can cause trans people more psychological distress than personal experiences of discrimination, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research study. news.vcu.edu/article/anti...

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Anti-transgender legislation causes psychological distress even in states with trans-friendly laws, according to VCU research

Transgender study participants viewed the more than 2,000 laws proposed in the U.S. since 2020 ‘as an existential threat’ to their lives and the lives of other transgender people

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...

juliaserano.medium.com

On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads

and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hate that I have to re-up this today. as I detail in this piece, abandoning trans rights is not only immoral, but it's also BAD POLITICS for Dems, as it will turn away their own pro-LGBTQ base without winning over a single new voter: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

bostonreview.net

Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats.

Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

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Rolando Valdés Aguilar @rvathz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This should be a scandal. Mathematicians (and scientists in general) should stop using these tools just because it seems from this story that these companies are reaching into people's projects and getting ideas for things to work on to then claim credit.

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Before I started hormone therapy, I studied all the side effects and knew what to expect long before my first doctor’s appointment. But it wasn’t until I put my reporter hat on that I realized how much more there is beneath the surface. And it’s really cool.

19thnews.org

The surprising ways hormones can change your body

Hormone therapy can have profound effects on our immune systems, gut bacteria, our brains, senses and sex lives.

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

really great rundown of the biology of sex hormones by @oriion.bsky.social. most of your day-to-day physiology is influenced by sex hormones, not chromosomes or anatomy. really proud to be quoted here :)

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

thanks for the kind words :)

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

i would go as far as saying that SEGM is doing this with academic writing writ large (not just systematic reviews). the vast majority of their work is actually editorial pieces - low quality opinion to provide a semblance of controversy while introducing no new data-driven evidence

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

a couple months ago, i noticed that SEGM kept a list of academic articles that makes up their evidence base against youth transition. i took a closer look and was mildly surprised that less than half were data analyses. and most new works since 2020 are editorials ...

queersciencelab.beehiiv.com

What evidence? Anti-trans scientists and academic journals fueled concern about youth transition with opinion, not data.

inside the $1.5 million pseudoscience mill, cw: medical transphobia

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 28/08/2026

🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...

wearequeeraf.com

NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect

Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place

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litho @lith5.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

important thread

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

theres a lot more to look through in the post above and i've put all the data and code in github for anyone who is interested github.com/evln77/pseud...

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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 · 27/08/2026

i decided to scrape the list of articles and extracted the authors, journals, and funders of these works. all the data is openly available and i did some initial analyses in the link above. some highlights:

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queersciencelab.beehiiv.com

What evidence? Anti-trans scientists and academic journals fueled concern about youth transition with opinion, not data.

inside the $1.5 million pseudoscience mill, cw: medical transphobia

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Take care everyone. Live your life in such a way that people are genuinely sad when you pass on.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 21/08/2026

"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.

transnews.network

Boycott The New York Times

For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

year 1: there's still grant funding, but we may need to change how we talk about our work, or what we work on year 2: the government has disappeared one billion dollars of science funding. it is unclear why they did that or where that sits within concepts like "the rule of law"

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 20/08/2026

If you're confused by the conversations around sex testing and trans athletes and all that, I made a podcast that traces the history of this debate from the very beginning. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts: www.tested-podcast.com/listen/

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"...professors at my mini-viva questioning my use of the term 'Asian American canon', insisting that 'canon' was the remit of white authors (and reciting names to me as I fought back tears)..." www.vogue.co.uk/article/camb...

vogue.co.uk

I Aspired To Get My PhD At Cambridge – I Left Because Of The Racism

“I could write a second memoir solely on the racism I experienced at Cambridge University as a Master’s and PhD student,” writes Jill Damatac, a Filipino-American author who was a student at Cambridge...

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 19/08/2026

60 yrs ago, sex workers, drag queens and street youth held a landmark riot against police in SF's Tenderloin—the world's 1st Trans District now that space is held by Geo Group. trans people are still arrested at SF Pride—over tagging Flock cams. the trans fight against police in '66 and today:

theguardian.com

The fight to protect a trans landmark in California from ICE’s biggest contractor

Compton’s Cafe is one of the earliest examples of LGBTQ+ resistance. Today, a prison company occupies the site

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"...findings that 3 [insts] violated civil rights law by tolerating antisemitism were predetermined by political priorities that blew past the evidence and cast aside standard investigative procedures..." Reading the whistleblower statement and taking rage breaks www.ms.now/news/frame-u...

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Whistleblower says probes into antisemitism at colleges were ploys to harass and strip millions

A former Justice Department lawyer says the Trump investigations squeezed Ivy League universities for millions before they were even concluded. A top Democrat is demanding answers.

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s. baum @transvestigations.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I have a dire update on this story. I have reason to believe my source, Aurora Rush, was taken by the federal government as a political prisoner. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

erininthemorning.com

Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

404media.co

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

Mother Jones

"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm pretty upset. Accountability is not to be found in a media and big social media accounts hounding someone to death.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

they're making hit lists of children. they're making hit lists of children. they're making hit lists of children. they're making hit lists of children. they're making hit lists of children. they're making hit lists of children. they're making hit lists of children.

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