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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él)

@ftmathteacher.bsky.social
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Associate Professor #USUAggies | queer/trans studies in K-12 education, STEM, critical quantitative methods | #TexasLonghorns ('06,'12), #TAMU ('18) | introverted, but very willing to discuss Texas (especially tacos, queso, and BBQ) | all views mine 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.
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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
TRANS STUDIES IN K-12 EDUCATION edited by @ftmathteacher.bsky.social and @melindamangin.bsky.social argues for the design of education research, policies, and environments that honor all gender experiences and identities. Find out more: bit.ly/4kvCxDl
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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
@drjgutz.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your abstracts due at the end of this month!
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McKenna Horsley @mckennahorsley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Saying it’s ‘about hate,’ Beshear vetoes ban on DEI in Kentucky public higher education kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/20/s...
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Saying it's 'about hate,' Beshear vetoes ban on DEI in Kentucky public higher education • Kentucky Lantern
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear issues expected veto of a Republican-backed bn on diversity, equity and inclusion in Kentucky’s public colleges.
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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The amount of damage to education that this administration is doing is irreparable. All the folks at NCES are in my thoughts
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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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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2025
Incredible news! The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order. The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care. ACLU statement here:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 13, 2025

 

CONTACT

Gillian Branstetter, gbranstetter@aclu.org

Tom Warnke, twarnke@lambdalegal.org

 

BALTIMORE – In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19. The decision by Judge Brendan Hurson was issued from the bench with a written order to come soon.

 

The nationwide restraining order prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen.

 

“Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care canceled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s executive order did to PFLAG families with trans youth and young adults nationwide,” said Brian K. Bond (he/him), Chief Executive Officer of PFLAG National. “Today’s decision rights a grievous wrong to our nation's families and children, and PFLAG families will be vigilant to ensure our transgender loved ones receive the healthcare they need—as this legal ruling demands.”

 

“Forcing providers to withhold medically-necessary, evidence-based care not only threatens patient health and well-being, but also undermines the integrity of our healthcare system in its entirety,” said Alex Sheldon (they/them), GLMA executive director. “Today's intervention by the court underscores the cruelty and recklessness that is embedded in this order and affirms our commitment to resist the administration’s extremist agenda that targets trans and non-binary young people and privileges political ideology over medical expertise. We are hopeful that…In the first week after the order was signed, some hospitals across the country — in Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia at least — abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under age 19, canceling appointments and turning away patients, including some who had been receiving this care for most of their life. This prompted protests of support for transgender youth and in opposition to the order nationwide.

 

On Feb. 4, a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells on behalf of transgender young adults and adolescents and their families whose health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s order. Also joining the case as plaintiffs are PFLAG National, the nation’s largest organization supporting LGBTQ+ people and their families, with over 550,000 members and supporters and nearly 350 chapters across the country; and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals.

 

"Across the country, this unlawful order from the president has sown fear among transgender youth and confusion among their providers,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But today’s decision should restore both their access to healthcare and protections under the Constitution. Providers who’ve suspended healthcare for their transgender patients should be left with no doubt that they can lift those suspensions and continue to provide healthcare and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funding or worse.

 

“The president’s orders sought to take away from transgender young people the very care that they, their families, and their medical providers all agree is best for them – medical care that is evidence-based and well-established. But these decisions are for patients, their families, and their doctors to make, not for politicians or Washington bureaucrats,” said Omar Gonzale…
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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Congratulations to the five institutions receiving funding to improve their collection and use of SOGI data using best practices! Read more about our mixed-methods national study by QTPiE! We will be presenting some results at the AAAS annual meeting. If you'll be attending, stop by and see us!
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?”
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Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
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Logan S. Casey, PhD @loganscasey.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The CDC website for the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) has suddenly disappeared. YRBS provides invaluable youth health data, including for LGBTQ youth. Trump admin is trying to enact harmful policy AND take away key tools to measure that harm. Like a crime + cover-up. www.cdc.gov/yrbs/results...
Screenshot of the CDC's page for YRBS, showing that "The page you're looking for was not found." Screenshot as of 8:30am CT, 1/31/25.
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Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education (JQTSIE) @jqtsie.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🥳📣 Call for abstracts for an upcoming Special Issue of JQTSIE: "Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education" edited by @drjgutz.bsky.social and @ftmathteacher.bsky.social! Abstracts due May 30, 2025! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.jqtsie.com @kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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Critical Quantitative Methodologies SIG #186 @criticalquant.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Hi Bluesky! Follow us on here now!
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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Looking for a QuantQueer postdoc position with an amazing mentor?!? Look no further! Apply to VCU to work with Dr. Strunk!
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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Amazing leadership by Lee Iskander on this new paper out from the Trans Workers in Schools Project!
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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Super proud of our 2023 QTPIE Emerging Scholars cohort---here's their latest publication led by Arsene Frederic, Jr.! www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/14...
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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
it's that time of the year when so many of you will bake pecan everything, so here's a brief video on its pronunciation www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYLKLhjv/
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The word #pecan comes from the native people who speak Algonquin languages. Learn more about word nerdy with @dr.language on Otherwords! #language #learnontiktok #english #nativetiktok
TikTok video by PBS Digital Studios
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David Feldon @dffeldon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So pleased to share a new study of rightful presence for queer youth in STEM through Making by @colbytg.bsky.social, me, @ftmathteacher.bsky.social, and our other co-authors not yet on BlueSky! It takes a mixed methods a blending social design experiment and queer theory. doi.org/10.1080/1050...
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“I can be the weird STEM kid who is also gay”: Queer rightful presence in STEM making
STEM participation is often associated with the disenfranchisement of historically marginalized individuals. Disrupting these standing injustices to establish rightful presence with equitable oppor...
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Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education (JQTSIE) @jqtsie.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
If you engage in queer and/or trans educational research, consider submitting your scholarship to #JQTSIE, a fee-free open-access academic journal! www.jqtsie.com Journal Editors: @kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social
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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Community for Education Scholars in all areas and concentrations looking to find each other! Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/BaXvoap
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Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 14/11/2024
Hey, I started a Trans Studies starter pack, but it needs more names. I can add them, I think. Here it is, so far: go.bsky.app/UAtsVTH
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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Want to join of a community of Latinx/a/o Scholars broadly throughout academia? Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! Shout out to @larrylafountain.bsky.social for bringing us together! go.bsky.app/NrJs1Hr
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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Figuring out ways to build community as we transition to this app. Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #QTSE go.bsky.app/VitwfUt
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