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Kyan Lynch

@kyanlynch.bsky.social
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Co-editor of “A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States: From Margins to Mainstream”, author of free newsletter, The MedEdge. Sci-fi fan

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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Is Sean Hannity now to the left of dem leadership on immigration reform?
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I don’t think I can name a single software product I use that was made better by the rush to incorporate AI. But I can name a bunch that have gotten worse
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Why does “minor” now mean <19? And I wish these articles would include data on the number of surgeries actually performed on “minors”. In 2019, of 151 breast reduction procedures performed on minors nationally, 97% were for cis boys. www.latimes.com/california/s...
latimes.com
Stanford Medicine ends surgeries for transgender minors amid pressure from Trump administration
As Children's Hospital Los Angeles scales back healthcare for trans youth, Stanford Medicine has stopped performing gender-affirming surgeries on patients younger than 19.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I don't really know how to interpret this other than the Republican party is now pro-fascism. 86% of Republicans support "Trump sending the National Guard and Marines to respond to the L.A. protests" Marines doing domestic law enforcement is illegal! How is it so popular? wapo.st/4e5mhr2
wapo.st
We asked 1,000 Americans about the L.A. protests. This is how they responded.
Americans are divided on Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and Marines to L.A., Post-Schar School poll finds.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/05/2025
1. Terrifying news for transgender people across the United States. In a late night development, the House Spending Bill was amended to ban transgender coverage for transgender ADULTS on medicaid! A manager's amendment removed the words "for minors." Subscribe to support my journalism.
erininthemorning.com
House Spending Bill Now Bans Medicaid For Transition Care For Adults
The provision was stricken late at night to appeal to hardline conservatives.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Let’s imagine that @brucespringsteen.net and Taylor Swift were putting together a protest/Americana album. Who else would you want making an appearance?
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Apparently April is Stress Awareness Month and good job everyone - I am very aware. #StressAwarenessMonth
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Wait, what about that plush tiny screw gig I was promised by Lutnick?
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
CJ: Sam, I’m going to need you to remember I’m a very smart and sophisticated woman who graduate summa cum laude from Berkeley Sam: I *do* think you’re a very smart and sophisticated woman CJ: Good, because now I need you to explain tariffs to me as if I’m an idiot …
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Actually *being* trans is a less significant part of my personality than having once competed against a trans woman is for these "influencers". And yes, I played D1 (pre-transition) so I get elite competition. Being a former D1 player is also a less significant part of my personality ...
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This might be the most terrifying thing I've ever read. Truly, this reads like the prequel to a dystopian novel set a few years later, in which all speech, movement, relationships, task completion, and interactions are tracked and used by a vindictive, malevolent govt. And yes, we were warned.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
How is MS Word still SO BAD when it comes to CV and other formats? Trying to update mine and it's like a comedy of errors. I delete one entry and suddenly have 2 new blank pages inserted. Try to add a bullet point and suddenly the margins are all over the place. So frustrating
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Way to go, Rochester
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Chris: CJ, why isn’t POTUS receiving the fallen US soldiers from Lithuania? CJ: The president doesn’t like to use our troops as political props Danny: But he’s ok with hosting a Saudi-backed golf tournament instead? CJ: ok, anyone but Danny Danny: C’mon CJ… CJ: That’s a full lid, everyone
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Donna: my cousin says it gets worse every time he looks at his portfolio Josh: tell him to stop looking Donna: but Joooosshh - Josh: I don’t know what to tell you, he should’ve voted for the other guy Donna: he did! Sam: Josh! Drudge has a pic of POTUS playing golf while the market crashes
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So THAT'S why it's called Standard and POOR
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thank you, @booker.senate.gov
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Jeepers
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I’d be fired if I started a group chat with a bunch of colleagues and sent protected patient information they didn’t need… and accidentally included the hospital’s HIPAA Compliance Officer. And I’d deserve it.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This Signal story is a good illustration of what happens when the dog finally catches the car. Which is to say, nothing good.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Avg life expectancy in 1776 was 38. Maybe that’s why the founding fathers didn’t anticipate that old dudes overstaying their welcome would ruin their whole project
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Watching the Schumer interview with @chrislhayes.bsky.social. Other people have made the real points, but: - Schumer starts by complaining that the book is "upside down" on screen (it wasn't). Sounds sniveling and also NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE BOOK, CHUCK!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/03/2025
INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Hi the economy is going to implode. The only way out is taxing the rich.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing (Gift Article)
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/03/2025
The VA has ceased all gender affirming care for trans veterans. This is a campaign of eradication. www.advocate.com/news/va-stop...
advocate.com
Trump administration announces end to gender-affirming care for transgender veterans
The announcement comes days after the VA denied it was rolling back policies for trans people’s dignity.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
All while Musk and Vance trot their kids out for photo opps
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The golden age of preventable diseases and futuristic nonsense. I wrote about how we could've had it all, but instead we got... this. mededge.aloemeded.com/p/we-could-h...
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We Could've Had it All
... now we're rolling in deep $%*#
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
@jamellebouie.net I could've sworn you posted or responded to a picture/story about a fast food restaurant investing in some dumb technology extension. I want to include it in something I'm writing. Can you help me out? Am I just misremembering? I can't find anything when I search for it here
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NPR @npr.org · 15/03/2025
In an internal VA memo seen by NPR, the VA says it's rescinding a directive that contains detailed guidance on the kind of care transgender veterans can receive at VA facilities.
npr.org
Transgender veterans' health services in question as VA rescinds guidance on care
In an internal VA memo seen by NPR, the VA says it's rescinding a directive that contains detailed guidance on the kind of care transgender veterans can receive at VA facilities.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Is it remotely possible that Schumer is taking the hit so the other Dems get a big bump for "fighting"? Trying to control the news narrative on this as opposed to letting media do its thing?
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Would a government shutdown adversely affect Trump’s lifestyle in anyway? Like fewer golf trips or something? If so, he won’t tolerate that very long.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I don’t like that @schumer.senate.gov is giving in to the framing that Dems either vote for the CR or a shutdown. No. You either vote to advance the GOP’s radical anti-constitutional short-term budget, or you vote to not do that. The rest is up to the GOP.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Stunned by @schumer.senate.gov's interview on @chrislhayes.bsky.social's show just now. "We have plans to conflict them with all of that."? I don't know what that means! He's going to hold the bank vault door open so Trump, Musk, and DOGE can grab everything in sight.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I have sent several texts with the “shake” effect. Never once intentional. Thanks, Apple
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I get that President Thanos’ policy to disintegrate half the population is causing temporary pain. But remember, under a Harris administration you would be *begging* to be disintegrated.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Wine moms assemble!
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
thelancet.com
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"
Three people in sky blue shirts and jeans climbing the steps of the US Capitol, including a young blonde girl wearing a red and white bandanna around her head and turning to look at the camera
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Education is officially a form of resistance. Teach others, teach yourself. They say “knowledge is power” for a reason.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Sort of strange to watch a historical figure become a historical figure. If they have textbooks/history class in 50 years, Rep McBride will be one of the lessons. Like many historical figures before her, she didn't want to be an civil rights icon. The moment found her.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
So the economy can transition but I can't?
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"A renowned medical school whose faculty helped treat a young cancer survivor honored this week by President Donald Trump is facing potentially devastating funding cuts because of the White House."
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Trump honored a cancer survivor. The boy's doctors now face his budget cuts.
President Donald Trump honored a child cancer survivor during his joint address to Congress amid proposing vast cuts to medical research.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
JFC Spotify! Why would you want your brand associated with a known rapist and human trafficker?
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us
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Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Sec and gender are separate things and not fixed. There is no gene telling you to wear a skirt or jeans. Vaginas do not contain the secrets to removing stains from clothing. Your body can’t tell you to use the bathroom on the left or right, because it was programmed to go in the woods.
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Kyan Lynch @kyanlynch.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"rapid unexpected disassembly" is to "the rocket exploded raining down hellfire" as "sudden arboreal stop" is to "president rode bike into tree". #westwing
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology… For all this talk about free speech, this is direct censorship of scientific research.”
nature.com
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 06/03/2025
"Scientists who study LGBTQ+ communities are reeling after the National Institutes of Health cancelled their funding, citing their focus on “transgender issues,” as the Trump administration cracks down on what it calls “gender ideology extremism.” www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
chronicle.com
The NIH Is Canceling Grants for Research About Trans People
At least a half-dozen research grants were terminated last week by the NIH, which said that “programs based on gender identity are often unscientific.”
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