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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID. doi.org/10.1080/0958...
Reads: What is trans-exclusionary data activism? And the logo for the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab.
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baxstar jonmarie ferguson @bjthehetheygay.ca · 29/11/2025
Fourteen years ago today, my partner was headhunted for a technical writing job with a weapons and armoured vehicles manufacturer. We had a lot of tough conversations about it. He was tempted—we had never seen that kind of money before, had lived our entire adult lives below the poverty line.
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 28/11/2025
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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Good! Nobody should have peace while they destroy our healthcare.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I know Teen Vogue’s heel turn has been pretty hard but if this is true it’s indefensible. Alice Wong was a force and I will miss her voice 💔
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baxstar jonmarie ferguson @bjthehetheygay.ca · 12/11/2025
Can I throw my own in the ring? I'm the founder of @well.beings.news — queer trans health and wellness journalism written particularly for care providers, practitioners and professionals. well.beings.news
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 05/11/2025
I'm doing research for an article about post-op care for folks who have travelled for gender-affirming surgery, and I would love to include the perspective of some other trans folks beside myself. (I travelled out of state but recovered there for 2 weeks after.)
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baxstar jonmarie ferguson @bjthehetheygay.ca · 09/11/2025
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 05/11/2025
I'm doing research for an article about post-op care for folks who have travelled for gender-affirming surgery, and I would love to include the perspective of some other trans folks beside myself. (I travelled out of state but recovered there for 2 weeks after.)
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 01/11/2025
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Trans sisters. I'm pretty sure I was wrong. I
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I genuinely thought that as a trans woman, if ceded some points with the gender critical crowd we could have a healthier conversation and arrive at better public policy.
The problem is, they are getting crazier and more extreme.
If you admit "trans women don't belong in women's sports" they agree, but call you a man the whole time.
If you admit, "I understand I am a biological man, but this is how I want to live my life and talking about me like this is degrading" they scream about free speech.
If you admit that hurtful language is part of free speech but you don't have to associate with people that degrade you, they act like the victim and call you a man and then say you should be thrown in an insane asylum.
It's like this on everything. They are incapable of looking for a middle ground on bathrooms. They want maximalist policies on everything. They'd throw a fully transitioned, fully passing trans woman in male prison genpop and laugh as she got aids from being raped.
I want a middle ground on so many of these polices. BUT THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IS THEY DO NOT. They enjoy degrading us, it's fun for them.
So, sisters. I genuinely don't know what to do. I think many of our most extreme ideas are bad. But theirs are worse. So if I have to pick, I choose us.
I wish there were a political vehicle for compromise and medical safeguarding. But that just simply does not exist.Post
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2/ I consider my business settled with all trans sisters. If anyone wants to reset things, unblock and move forward, I am happy to do that.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 30/10/2025
In a wild turn of events, we've had SEVEN people subscribe to the Big Chungus tier at $1000 each. This is so amazing and way more than we expected! If we could get FIVE more Big Chungus subscribers, that'll cover our freelance writers budget for the whole of next year.
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baxstar jonmarie ferguson @bjthehetheygay.ca · 24/10/2025
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Bea Eli 🏳️‍⚧️ @msbeaeli.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Reposting over and over until y'all wake up because Rebeka's life is worth way, way more than the $2500 they need for cancer treatment ‼️ Days go by & everyone keeps scrolling past their posts. Give something now while they have a fighting chance.
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baxstar jonmarie ferguson @bjthehetheygay.ca · 01/10/2025
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 01/10/2025
The Lifetime Membership tier will be going back to regular price at the end of this week, so... If you also want access to weekly research roundups, original reporting, and interviews featuring queer trans professionals and LGBTQ+ care providers... The time is now! well.beings.news/upgrade
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 30/09/2025
Republicans are threatening a government shutdown to ban ALL federal funding for gender-affirming care—including for adults. This would strip millions of people of their access to lifesaving care.
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 12/05/2025
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 30/09/2025
What folks need to know about the pending government shutdown and what it means for trans people. www.erininthemorning.com/p/shutdown-d...
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Shutdown Day Guide For LGBTQ+ People: "Continuing Resolutions" And New Anti-Trans Posts From The White House
Shutdown day is here, and there has been a lot of competing coverage on Republican priorities, Democrat's demands, and what shutdown politics means for LGBTQ+ people in America.
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 25/09/2025
Voices to follow for this fight for trans lives and freedom.
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 23/09/2025
Brutal week: Alberta threatens to override the constitution, US feds raid patient records, Trump demands $1.2B from UCLA or an end trans care. Check out the weekly roundup, and upgrade to paid for the curated links section of all 24 new published studies! well.beings.news/p/the-monday...
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The Monday Roundup | September 22, 2025
This has been a difficult week marked by unprecedented escalation in both rhetoric and policy attacks. The coordination and escalation is breathtaking in its scope and terrifying in its implications.
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 19/09/2025
73% of trans youth avoid public bathrooms, which can lead to UTIs, kidney infection, chronic constipation, and pelvic floor dysfunction. "Bathroom bans turn a basic human function into a site of risk," says Dr. Syd Young. This is public health, not politics. Read this month's free feature story!
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Transgender Bathroom Bans are a Growing Public Health Issue
A survey of 12,596 trans youth reveals that bathroom avoidance can cause serious health problems. This is how anti-trans bathroom ban laws create both lasting trauma and medical complications.
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 19/09/2025
73% of trans youth avoid public bathrooms, which can lead to UTIs, kidney infection, chronic constipation, and pelvic floor dysfunction. "Bathroom bans turn a basic human function into a site of risk," says Dr. Syd Young. This is public health, not politics. Read this month's free feature story!
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Transgender Bathroom Bans are a Growing Public Health Issue
A survey of 12,596 trans youth reveals that bathroom avoidance can cause serious health problems. This is how anti-trans bathroom ban laws create both lasting trauma and medical complications.
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baxstar jonmarie ferguson @bjthehetheygay.ca · 15/09/2025
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baxstar jonmarie ferguson @bjthehetheygay.ca · 06/09/2025
If there is actually a correlation between using painkillers during pregnancy and autism, you know what I bet it is? There is a known correlation between autism and hypermobility, and I can only imagine that being hypermobile and pregnant fucking hurts.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I know we call a lot of things Nazi shit these days but this is pure Nazi shit. "Don't show the Fuhrer in an unflattering light!!!"
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 04/09/2025
Systems frequently only acknowledge hormones, top, and bottom surgery, and treat everything else as cosmetic. There are procedures many providers don't even know exist: - Voice feminization or masculinization - Hairline restoration or feminization - Scarless tracheal shave procedures
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 02/09/2025
This week's trans health research reveals a prevalent genetic clotting disorder, unique cardiovascular patterns and new quality of life measures. Plus essential reads on state protections, transfem fertility science and the psychology of transphobia. Full roundup: well.beings.news/p/the-monday...
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baxstar jonmarie ferguson @bjthehetheygay.ca · 01/09/2025
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 01/09/2025
After a week of "creators need to get paid" and "get dark money out of the news" in the zeitgeist, this Back Indie Media drive timing is perfect. Well Beings News does not have any outside funding. I rely on subscribers to cover costs and hopefully someday soon, pay myself for this important work.
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 01/09/2025
Well Beings from @bjthehetheygay.ca Pride is over, but we're still here: cutting through political noise to deliver the evidence-based reporting on queer and transgender health research, policy developments, and clinical best practices Back Well Beings: well.beings.news/upgrade
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 29/08/2025
How to build peer support groups that actually empower communities? Start with self-awareness, add proper training, focus on organic growth. Subscribe and upgrade today to read more about the frameworks and core competencies recommended by experienced facilitators. well.beings.news/p/how-to-sta...
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No Safe Space: LGBTQ+ Support Groups Done Wrong
Why the best intentions often cause the most harm—and how to build truly supportive spaces for marginalized communities
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 26/08/2025
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 26/08/2025
Monday Roundup drop: 📈 New population data says 2.8M Americans identify as transgender. Research reveals direct links between political attacks and mental health outcomes. 20+ studies covered this week from cardiovascular disparities to fertility preservation. well.beings.news/p/the-monday...
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The Monday Roundup | August 25, 2025
Healthcare systems collapse under federal pressure, new population data emerges, and research reveals the mental health toll of political attacks—your weekly queer trans health roundup.
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baxstar jonmarie ferguson @bjthehetheygay.ca · 22/08/2025
A follow-up on my essay last week about my own dysphoria being misread as "reasonable" discomfort with my weight, this week we're talking about dysphoria, dysmorphia, disordered eating risk, and how practitioners can address each of these issues without exacerbating them.
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 22/08/2025
Almost half of gender-incongruent youth referred for mental health care are at increased risk for eating disorders. But here's what providers often miss: the motivation behind the symptoms matters as much as the symptoms themselves. New piece breaks it down. well.beings.news/p/behind-bod...
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Body Dissatisfaction, Discomfort, and Disordered Eating
A transgender health practitioner's guide to understanding the complex intersections—and critical differences—between gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia
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baxstar jonmarie ferguson @bjthehetheygay.ca · 20/08/2025
I'm so grateful to have met @lexroman.com and to have had their support in the launch of @well.beings.news. The new world we want to live in needs our creative work and I for one can't wait to see what y'all are going to make. www.revenuerulebreaker.com/no-monopoly-...
It's a no one is coming to save us moment. And I think PART of the answer to our current crises is building back up independent writing, podcasting, and video. Whether you're making a funny show about what it's like to be a parent in 2025 or reporting on ICE raids in your neighborhood, you're playing an important role in how we all see and navigate the world. Maybe, in the past, we could rely on institutions to offer that, but we can't anymore. It's on us now. And I believe we can do it. Or at least that we can DO SOMETHING.
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 20/08/2025
Thank you for sharing this and thank you for putting @well.beings.news into the world, BJ 🏳️‍⚧️
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 22/08/2025
Almost half of gender-incongruent youth referred for mental health care are at increased risk for eating disorders. But here's what providers often miss: the motivation behind the symptoms matters as much as the symptoms themselves. New piece breaks it down. well.beings.news/p/behind-bod...
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Body Dissatisfaction, Discomfort, and Disordered Eating
A transgender health practitioner's guide to understanding the complex intersections—and critical differences—between gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/08/2025
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 19/08/2025
This week in trans health, among some truly awful developments: ✅ Communities fight back with protests against clinic closures ✅ Massachusetts strengthens protections for care providers ✅ BC College of Nurses & Midwives censure anti-trans posts ✅ New research offers practical tools for providers
A young person in crisis on the phone, with title text for the Well Beings News Monday Roundup for August 18, 2025:

https://well.beings.news/p/the-monday-roundup-august-18-2025-dc7448f0a99b9fdc
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 19/08/2025
This week in trans health, among some truly awful developments: ✅ Communities fight back with protests against clinic closures ✅ Massachusetts strengthens protections for care providers ✅ BC College of Nurses & Midwives censure anti-trans posts ✅ New research offers practical tools for providers
A young person in crisis on the phone, with title text for the Well Beings News Monday Roundup for August 18, 2025:

https://well.beings.news/p/the-monday-roundup-august-18-2025-dc7448f0a99b9fdc
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 11/08/2025
Another week, another reminder that access to trans healthcare is being shaped more by politics than science 📊 The weekly roundup of news and new research is essential reading for healthcare providers and advocates who know that trans lives deserve investment. well.beings.news/p/the-monday...
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The Monday Roundup | August 11, 2025
Courts clash over care access, states double down on restrictions, and communities organize beyond the legal system to survive.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/08/2025
They made Robbie Starbuck, the guy who calls LGBTQ people groomers and campaigns to get companies to eliminate support for LGBTQ people, an advisor on their AI. Of all the models, Meta's Llama has the most anti LGBTQ bias and especially anti trans bias baked in.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 11/08/2025
Other outlets are starting to cover this story, but they simply cannot do it like @autonomynews.co. We break down the two far-right activists involved, explain similar lawsuits filed recently, and put it in the context of bills Texas Republicans are trying to pass in their special session
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 11/08/2025
Another week, another reminder that access to trans healthcare is being shaped more by politics than science 📊 The weekly roundup of news and new research is essential reading for healthcare providers and advocates who know that trans lives deserve investment. well.beings.news/p/the-monday...
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The Monday Roundup | August 11, 2025
Courts clash over care access, states double down on restrictions, and communities organize beyond the legal system to survive.
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 07/08/2025
Legacy healthcare software has binary sex assumptions baked into everything: clinical decision algorithms, lab reference ranges, screening protocols. Retrofitting inclusivity into systems that assumed M/F forever is a nightmare. We dig into it. well.beings.news/p/x-files-th...
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X Files: the Nonbinary Struggle with Healthcare Data Software
How outdated healthcare software creates barriers for transgender and nonbinary patients—and what developers and providers can do about it
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 07/08/2025
Legacy healthcare software has binary sex assumptions baked into everything: clinical decision algorithms, lab reference ranges, screening protocols. Retrofitting inclusivity into systems that assumed M/F forever is a nightmare. We dig into it. well.beings.news/p/x-files-th...
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X Files: the Nonbinary Struggle with Healthcare Data Software
How outdated healthcare software creates barriers for transgender and nonbinary patients—and what developers and providers can do about it
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Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 05/08/2025
🚨 URGENT: FTC opened a 60-day comment period on gender-affirming care for minors. We can flood them with data. We have nearly a century of it. Submit your evidence. Share your research. Tell your stories. Get the full LGBTQ+ health news + research roundup here: well.beings.news/p/the-monday...
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Gender-Affirming Care FTC Comments: What Providers Need to Know
The FTC is seeking comments on the "false claims" about the efficacy of gender-affirming care. This is what you need to know about LGBTQ+ healthcare news this week, and how to respond.
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