Isaac Sederbaum, PhD
@isaacsederbaum.bsky.social
Postdoc at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Admin burden, governmentality, and trans rights. @uwevansschool alum, skeets are my own. 🍉
www.isaacsederbaum.com
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hey followers please read this today and pass it along to some of the fellow cis people in your lives 🙏
NEW ESSAY: rather than reading the legalese SCOTUS used to justify Skrmetti, learn about how conspiracy theorists hijacked mainstream discourse on gender-affirming care:
on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid...
& Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...
on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid...
& Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...
What Covid “Lab Leak” and “Rushing Kids into Transition” Have in Common
and more general thoughts about conspiracy theories and negativity bias
juliaserano.substack.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
hey followers please read this today and pass it along to some of the fellow cis people in your lives 🙏
Another org to donate to so that your dollars go directly to trans people at orgs run for and BY trans people.
The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative that supports grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people in the US:
www.transjusticefundingproject.org
www.transjusticefundingproject.org
Home - Trans Justice Funding Project
www.transjusticefundingproject.org
June 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Another org to donate to so that your dollars go directly to trans people at orgs run for and BY trans people.
If you're feeling lost in the wake of Skrmetti, one thing you can do is give $ *directly* to trans people. I am raising money for @pointofpride.org as part of my NYC marathon-- 100% of money I raise goes directly to trans people. Our team is also the only all trans/nonbinary team for the marathon.
TCS New York Marathon Donation
donations.nyrr.org
June 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you're feeling lost in the wake of Skrmetti, one thing you can do is give $ *directly* to trans people. I am raising money for @pointofpride.org as part of my NYC marathon-- 100% of money I raise goes directly to trans people. Our team is also the only all trans/nonbinary team for the marathon.
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REPEAT: JUAN LOPEZ GOMEZ, AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, IS BEHIND BARS FOR NOT HAVING HIS PAPERS. AND A JUDGE SAYS SHE CAN'T FREE HIM.
🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.
April 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
REPEAT: JUAN LOPEZ GOMEZ, AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, IS BEHIND BARS FOR NOT HAVING HIS PAPERS. AND A JUDGE SAYS SHE CAN'T FREE HIM.
Everything feels pretty bad, but I became a doctor yesterday, so that's cool.
March 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Everything feels pretty bad, but I became a doctor yesterday, so that's cool.
Today in absolutely batshit, my friend took this photo this morning at DFW. So much for protecting children from seeing penises.
March 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Today in absolutely batshit, my friend took this photo this morning at DFW. So much for protecting children from seeing penises.
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some helpful reminders:
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
March 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
some helpful reminders:
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
At one point do administrative burdens become violence? Asking for a friend...
So frigging stressful. Where-ever trans people are in the world - but particularly the US and UK. The Gender Critical movement will only be satisfied by the complete annihilation of trans people. No, I’m not exaggerating. Trans hate is now a multi-million pound business. It is not “a point of view”
March 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
At one point do administrative burdens become violence? Asking for a friend...
Cis people! Please comment and share for others to comment for all three forms.
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
www.reddit.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Cis people! Please comment and share for others to comment for all three forms.
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hello cis friends
this is what people mean by trans genocide
if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported
this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order
it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist
this is what people mean by trans genocide
if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported
this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order
it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist
February 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
hello cis friends
this is what people mean by trans genocide
if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported
this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order
it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist
this is what people mean by trans genocide
if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported
this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order
it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist
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Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore
February 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore
The SAVE act would not only disenfranchise millions of cisgender women, it would effectively make it impossible to for the vast majority of trans people to vote as well.
It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.
February 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The SAVE act would not only disenfranchise millions of cisgender women, it would effectively make it impossible to for the vast majority of trans people to vote as well.
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Today the @nytimes.com sought to whitewash its central role in laundering anti-trans falsehoods and turbocharging anti-trans attacks nationwide. My reporting showed that editorial leadership was aware of this depravity which is why this disingenuous piece can’t erase the scale of what they’ve done.
February 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Today the @nytimes.com sought to whitewash its central role in laundering anti-trans falsehoods and turbocharging anti-trans attacks nationwide. My reporting showed that editorial leadership was aware of this depravity which is why this disingenuous piece can’t erase the scale of what they’ve done.
Reposted by Isaac Sederbaum, PhD
Reposted by Isaac Sederbaum, PhD
On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
February 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
I *really* cis need folks to get very angry and very loud about what's happening to trans people. Please, call all of your reps, but also talk to other cis people and make them understand what's at stake. Tell them this is a 100 alarm fire for us.
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I *really* cis need folks to get very angry and very loud about what's happening to trans people. Please, call all of your reps, but also talk to other cis people and make them understand what's at stake. Tell them this is a 100 alarm fire for us.
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BREAKING: OPM is instructing the largest federal employer health benefits program to exclude coverage for gender-affirming care for people under 19 in order to comply with Trump's executive orders, according to a document I obtained. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Administration Formally Blocks Trans Care For People Under 19 On Federal Plans
The U.S. Office of Personnel and Management has formalized Trump's executive order with health insurance carriers.
www.huffpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
BREAKING: OPM is instructing the largest federal employer health benefits program to exclude coverage for gender-affirming care for people under 19 in order to comply with Trump's executive orders, according to a document I obtained. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
what a supremely inconvenient time to be trying to finish a dissertation.
January 31, 2025 at 12:25 AM
what a supremely inconvenient time to be trying to finish a dissertation.
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I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"
If you have students who are trans no you don’t. If you have students of color who may be affected by ICE no you don’t. If anyone asks you gender or racial the makeup of your class you don’t have to tell them.
Protect your class and protect your students by not complying in advance. They trust you.
Protect your class and protect your students by not complying in advance. They trust you.
1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
January 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"
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At this point it should be incredibly obvious that the new presidential administration is obsessed with trans people and genitals and could truly give a flying fuck about the economy or whether anyone's children will live to adulthood
And the press should report on them like they are fucking creeps
And the press should report on them like they are fucking creeps
BREAKING: Trump signs an executive order that attempts to restrict all schools that receive federal funds from protecting trans and nonbinary students or supporting diversity measures, while at the same time purporting to advance "patriotic education." www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Trump-Education-EO
www.documentcloud.org
January 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
At this point it should be incredibly obvious that the new presidential administration is obsessed with trans people and genitals and could truly give a flying fuck about the economy or whether anyone's children will live to adulthood
And the press should report on them like they are fucking creeps
And the press should report on them like they are fucking creeps
We really need more cis folks to start to speak up and speak out. There are too many people who enabled thing to get this far who aren't MAGA. Transphobia is deadly and only going to get deadlier, and we have people like Jesse Singal and the NYT b/c of their "just asking questions" BS.
1. Getting word that we have another anti-trans EO tonight, this time targeting teachers.
It directs the federal government to work with state AGs to put teachers who use trans kids pronouns in jail through "sexual exploitation" laws or "practicing medicine without a license."
From a RW source:
It directs the federal government to work with state AGs to put teachers who use trans kids pronouns in jail through "sexual exploitation" laws or "practicing medicine without a license."
From a RW source:
January 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We really need more cis folks to start to speak up and speak out. There are too many people who enabled thing to get this far who aren't MAGA. Transphobia is deadly and only going to get deadlier, and we have people like Jesse Singal and the NYT b/c of their "just asking questions" BS.
Welp, this doesn't bode well.
‼️ EEOC acting chair announces that she will prioritize compliance, investigation, and litigation against businesses who allow transgender employees to use the restroom with cisgender employees of the same gender.
This will require transpeople to choose between their job or their dignity.
This will require transpeople to choose between their job or their dignity.
January 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Welp, this doesn't bode well.
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Every time you see a story in the media announcing that puberty blockers are banned, it's untrue.
They've just been banned for trans kids.
Cis kids who are in distress because of precocious puberty still get them. Trans kids who in distress, don't.
People, generally, don't know that.
They've just been banned for trans kids.
Cis kids who are in distress because of precocious puberty still get them. Trans kids who in distress, don't.
People, generally, don't know that.
January 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Every time you see a story in the media announcing that puberty blockers are banned, it's untrue.
They've just been banned for trans kids.
Cis kids who are in distress because of precocious puberty still get them. Trans kids who in distress, don't.
People, generally, don't know that.
They've just been banned for trans kids.
Cis kids who are in distress because of precocious puberty still get them. Trans kids who in distress, don't.
People, generally, don't know that.
Folks who are interested, please apply! It was an amazing experience and privilege to be last year's dissertation fellow, and the people at IRP are wonderful and supportive!
🌟Deadline extended!🌟Apply by 2/7/25 for IRP's National Dissertation Award For Research On Poverty And Economic Mobility 2025–2026. For more info on this $25,000 award & to view an informational webinar, visit: www.irp.wisc.edu/national-dis...
National Dissertation Award for Research on Poverty and Economic Mobility 2025–2026 – Call for Applications – Deadline Extended Due 2/7/2025, 11:59 p.m. CST
Application Deadline Extended: February 7, 2025, 11:59 p.m. CST View/download full RFP in PDF format | Frequently Asked Questions | Webinar Application Process Slides About the Fellowship As the Natio...
www.irp.wisc.edu
January 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Folks who are interested, please apply! It was an amazing experience and privilege to be last year's dissertation fellow, and the people at IRP are wonderful and supportive!
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Working on a Washington Post story about Trump's executive order. I know orgs are vowing to sue, and I believe E.O.s are not immediately enforceable, but I am hoping to talk to some people with X's on their passports. If you would like to talk, please DM me!
January 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Working on a Washington Post story about Trump's executive order. I know orgs are vowing to sue, and I believe E.O.s are not immediately enforceable, but I am hoping to talk to some people with X's on their passports. If you would like to talk, please DM me!