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Olivia Ann Compton

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Asst Prof of Economics Lapsed-Catholic Disaster Transsexual she/they

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🌑 @fell.energy · 17/06/2026
you should have basic knowledge of sex hormone endocrinology if youre on hrt or want to b. this sounds hard? like wouldnt i have to go to medical school? if you have a defense of professional integrity on your tongue this means you havent been disappointed yet but you dont have to learn the hard way
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New conversion "therapy" ban signed into law in Colorado alongside an executive order barring any state funds going towards conversion "therapy." Happy Pride!
Colorado Governor Jared Polis surrounded by a state legislator and representatives from various queer organizations standing in front of murals of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Had to do a double take when Maxine described herself as a "lapsed-catholic disaster transsexual" in Ch. 32 of @badambulist.bsky.social's "When You Fell From Heaven." As far as I can tell, Shon Faye was the first to use it to describe herself in "Love in Exile." Love it.
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 05/01/2026
We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
Editors' Note, 1/4/26:

A spokesperson from The New York Times emailed Trans News Network the Sunday after publication, disputing various parts of the interview. We reject their disputes as unsubstantiated, nitpicking or willful misreads. We have added minor clarifications at two points in the interview alongside the transcript, which remains as published. We stand by our reporting of the interview with Sweeney, former editor and 11-year veteran of the Times. 

The Times also provided TNN a statement responding to the interview, which we have declined to publish due to its inclusion of overt transphobia (such as framing the existence of trans people as “fiercely contested medical and legal debates”). Even in their PR, it seems that the Times can't stop denigrating our lives and communities.

We do not have an obligation to publish damage control on the behalf of a news outlet undergoing a legitimacy crisis because of their own actions.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Just stumbled upon one of the wildest reddit threads I've ever seen. Roommate and I are trying to guess if it's real or fake.
Picture of a medium steak cut in half on a blue plate with a hand holding a vial of estradiol off to the side.

Reddit post in r/kitchencel titled "started taking estrogem - not because I'm trans, but to stop being attracted to women. Overcooked steak that is dry as hell"

Post reads "Even though it made my attraction towards women greater, I don't get horny anymore, which is great. I read that bottom surgery can help so I want that next. But now I kinda fucked myself because no women would want a guy with boobs who also wants bottom surgery. If anyone knows a drug or surgery that would make me stop being attracted to women I'd love to read about it. It's important that it doesn't just change it to men, but turns attraction off like a demagnetizer."
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
To all the reporters writing headlines about how trans people may be refused bathroom access in the UK based on appearance. It will almost certainly cause more cis women to be denied bathroom access. 1/4
Graph titled "Type 1 Error (%)." The vertical axis is labeled "# Cis ID'd as Trans / # ID'd as Trans," and the horizontal axis is labeled "Odds of Correct ID." The line is bowed outward and downward sloping with a y-intercept at (0.9,91.67) and an x-intercept at (1,0).
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Fyi, don't sneeze after bottom surgery 💀
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Bottom surgery recovery has gone a lot better than I expected. Steeled myself for tremendous pain or something. Instead, it just feels like I got electrolysis this morning.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I've now gone full circle: straight > transitioned > lesbian > queer > bisexual > straight, so I guess I can tick off the G retroactively bringing my lifetime score to LGBTQA.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I appreciate that @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social at least considers trans men and the hypocrisy of the trt push for cis men. www.businessinsider.com/young-men-te...
businessinsider.com
Young men are getting testosterone boosts to feel stronger, sharper, and anxiety-free
A booming industry of men's health clinics offers men in their 20s, 30s, and 40s testosterone therapy to optimize their bodies. Doctors are skeptical.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... New working paper from my colleague and I reviewing the current state of trans econ and formalizing a model of gender identity and expression. #econsky
papers.ssrn.com
Transgender Economics
This paper reviews the state of transgender economic research and labor market data, compiling global data on transgender labor market outcomes, representing ha
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Excited to read @charliejane.bsky.social's "Lessons in Magic and Disaster." She read a chapter about Mae and Serena's relationship which hit home and made me feel kind of awkward because I was attending with my roommate/ex-gf.
A drawing of a cat saying you rock on the title page of Lessons in Magic and Disaster.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Journalists and those with institutional power have completely ceded control of framing. "Parent's" concerns are already addressed in most instances, making those concerns unfounded. In the instances where their concerns might be founded, the solution exists. They just don't like it and never will.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I've said this before and will I guess just keep saying it, but: It has been literally easier for me to sell multiple novels and break into writing for TV on an Emmy-nominated show than to sell one (1) piece about trans issues to a major publication.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Really? We get 5 mins of sweaty, dirty, bloody dick and balls, but Ellie and Dina cuts to black after 5 seconds?
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Does Tommy Tuberville think Lady Ballers was a documentart / biopic?
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
How do we get cis people to stop saying "trapped in the wrong body?"
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I was trying to convince a cis friend to read Woordworking by @emilystjams.bsky.social, and I ended up spending 20 minutes explaining trans moms and heterotemporality.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I'd go back to 2004 when I was 13. I told my therapist I wanted to be a girl, but I quickly reeled it back in because I was worried that she would tell my mom and my mom wouldn't love me anymore. I would tell my younger self that my mom still loves me and how much happier I could be.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Does anyone else see Luigi Mangione in their head when they imagine Aaron in the Dorley Hall basement? Or is it just me?
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Cis people keep asking me how they can help and expect me to tell them exactly what to do. Honey, I'm tired. I'm trying not to be rude, but go ask a civil rights org or read this www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/02/its-... or something.
lgbtqnation.com
It's time to dial up your trans allyship. Here's how. - LGBTQ Nation
Here are six ways you can put your trans allyship on steroids (pun intended).
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
It's nice to be reminded that people care about me, especially during this assault on trans existence.
4 orange roses in a clear vase and a note saying, "You Matter."
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Ezra @ezrawade.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Great action today in Colorado Springs!
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I really like the specificity of nsfw/adult content filters on bluesky. Other sites will just flag something as adult content, which is useless if you follow a lot of queer people. Am I about to see full-blown porn, surgery scars, or a boring discussion about transition? Spin the wheel to find out.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is an appallingly discriminatory document. This not only seeks to define transgender people out of existence, as with last week's order, today's executive order states that being transgender "conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle."
Consistent with the military mission and longstanding DoD policy, expressing a false "gender identity" divergent from an individual's sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.  Beyond the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved, adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual's sex conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one's personal life.  A man's assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/01/2025
Major news: Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth. It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle" I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades. Shameful.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I cried at the end of Dorley Ch. 19. It was really cathartic after months of feeling alienated from myself as a result of hormonal imbalance. Iykyk. Spoilers in comment.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Sigh. Just casual transmisogyny on the front page of imgur.
Altered photo of Mark Zuckerberg with long hair
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
the thing about “trans women are women” is that if you truly believe that — and you should — then you will become horrified beyond measure at what we as a society are willing to put young girls through, just because they are trans it’s not just a statement of fact; it’s a recognition of brutality
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Starting the new year by giving up on estradiol valerate injections and going back to pills. My hormone levels have been in the toilet for months, and increasing dose hasn't helped. I just want to stop dissociating and feeling irritable all the time.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Wait, are the grinch's parents lesbians?
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
At a certain point, we're done educating. The anti-trans panic is 10 years old, so any information or strategy gaps are willful. At some point, you get an F, and you fail. If you come back angry or incredulous that you got an F and ask why, be prepared for some pushback.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I'm sex-neutral ace, so I genuinely find this whole debate over transsexual vs. transgender perplexing. Just ask what people want and respect their choice. Does either word matter in politics where concrete needs take importance over the semantics of my identity?
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Is @aaron.bsky.team a wife guy or something? Why else risk his career over @queen-of-the.pelf.ie?
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Reading Joni Alizah Cohen and I was struck by the prospect that "gender is a social construct" fits neatly into Nazi beliefs. The discussions I've read center on the abstraction of sex and the ways cisgender people misunderstand the relationship between the two. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/4...
However, this process can be said to ‘simultaneously de-naturalise gender while naturalising sex.’[26] This results in an understanding of gender/sex wherein gender is understood as a social construction (an abstraction), but the naturalisation of sex is redoubled. Gender is therefore historical and mutable whilst sex forms the natural and transhistorical substratum upon which it is written.Just as the Jew becomes the concrete manifestation of the abstraction of capitalism and the law of value, the trans woman becomes the concrete manifestation of the abstraction and denaturalisation of gender. The trans woman is a woman without the concrete biological content of womanhood. She is woman in the abstract, separated from her biological foundation, and therefore her use as the conduit for the reproduction of the Aryan race in this grand Darwinian struggle. She is everything that is detestable about womankind, for Nazism, without any of the redeeming biological expediencies. Further, she represents the worst excess of the cultural degeneration of modernity and contemporary capitalism. Just as the “rootless cosmopolitan” Jew represents abstraction by being rooted in no Nation, trans people demonstrate a rootless cosmopolitanism of gender/sex - with disregard for rootedness of sex and the allegiances of gender. She is a product of a culture so abstracted and so sick, in their eyes, that it actively encourages the corruption of the purity of biological sex and the destruction of gender roles so essential in the battle for racial primary. For Nazism, the idea that Aryan men of good stock would be actively disavowing masculinity, virility and fertility - and doing so with hormonal and surgical intervention into biological sex - is too much to bare. As such, trans women, and indeed trans people in general (though the majority of the bile is directed at those assigned male at birth), are added to the list of abstractions to be eradicated in the actualization of the National Socialist project.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
How many drone sightings are the product of AMC's decision to turn off their transponders? McGuire in NJ operates the C-17, KC-46, and C-32. Stewart in SE NY operates the C-17, and Dover in DE operates the C-5 and the C-17. They have unique light configs, and their size makes them look slow.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Any other dolls experience dysphoria as a teen or adult from smelling like a man, causing you to develop negative coping strategies? Or just me?
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
LGBT+ and DEI training can't engage with the issues beyond a superficial level without threatening the world view of those with power, which alienates workers and makes it seem frivilous. The so-called elites then congratulate themselves on doing almost nothing.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I talked about this a bit in my working paper. "Trans men, on the other hand, face a more subtle form of transphobia. Girls and women are generally allowed to explore masculine gender expression because masculinity is valued more than femininity. 1/3
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Second stage of FFS got delayed til April, so I got copper highlights to give me a hit of gender euphoria. I love it so far.
Selfie of OP with copper highlights on medium brown hair.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Ugh. No wonder I've been feeling so shitty the past month and a half. I switched to injections in October, and I finally got blood work done. My t is 195, and my e is 16. I must be doing it wrong.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Jesse Singal touts his scientific literacy in his work and in response to criticism. To his credit, he is competent to a point. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a rigorous scientific background with research experience, which makes him dangerous as a source of expertise.
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
If someone is asking in good faith or from ignorance why Jesse Singal is unwelcome, have them read this juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-j...
juliaserano.blogspot.com
my Jesse Singal story
Note added March 16, 2021: Back in late 2017, I wrote “my Jesse Singal story,” which was a 4,000-ish word essay about my experiences with hi...
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I wrote a guide for economists and public policy researchers on how to write about trans people in a productive and respectful manner. #econsky #EconSky mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/122855/
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A Transgender Economists Guide to Writing About Transgender and Gender Diverse People Munich Personal RePEc Archive
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/12/2024
Some have asked me what they're supposed to do if debating transphobes is pointless, and like ... I think most missed that when I made my little thread about "cis people, can you justify trans women's womanhood" I wasn't asking them to saddle up for debate club. Most of you don't see us as women.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/11/2024
Advocate's for Trans Equality have released a statement on yesterday's New York Times story, stating Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen's quotes were taken out of context by to imply support for those who misgender, and ceding ground. They state the organization will refuse to cede any ground. Full statement:
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Olivia Ann Compton @olivia-ann.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
These laws are generally not enforceable and often lack a direct mechanism for enforcement, but ... if you are a federal employee found in violation of the law, you can face punishment. Is that legal? Not under the standard set by Bostock, but self-censorship will push people out of gov't work.
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