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Katy Montgomerie 🦗

@katymontgomerie.com

Everyone always talks ABOUT trans kids, but they never talk TO trans kids

I interviewed Trans Kids Deserve Better. These kids are so brave. Check it out!

youtu.be/lQ-C4WqBf30

Interview with HEROIC Trans Kids Deserve Better

YouTube video by Katy Montgomerie

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June 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM

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isaac ☃️

@androgynyfiend.bsky.social

Here is my first installment of the Anti-Trans Tipping Point, a series where I seek to work through wtf has happened with the trans rights movement in the US and what comes next. I've got plenty more lined up, so stay tuned

open.substack.com/pub/thetrans...

The Anti-Trans Tipping Point

The Failures of Liberalism & the Trans Rights Movement

open.substack.com

April 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM

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American Sociological Association

@asanews.bsky.social

Deadline next week! Applications for the Annual Meeting Travel Fund Award and the Student Forum Travel Award must be received by Monday, April 28! Applicants should not register for the meeting until funding decisions have been made. https://bit.ly/3EhNCbN

April 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM

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QueerAF

@wearequeeraf.com

🏳️‍⚧️ "Let's lift up the joy and euphoria in our lives - we deserve that."

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/less-famous-transphobes-more-trans-joy-please/

Less famous transphobes, more trans joy please

Instead of the narratives that are as the fiction as the authors work? Let's lift up the joy in our lives

www.wearequeeraf.com

April 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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European Journal of Politics and Gender

@ejpgjournal.bsky.social

Start your week off right & make sure you check out our latest Themed Issue on "LGBTQ+ Politics in Contentious Times" 📖 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

It's packed with work by stars 🌟 like @honoratabogusz.bsky.social @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social @alavizzari.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social among others!

European Journal of Politics and Gender

"European Journal of Politics and Gender" published on by Bristol University Press.

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April 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM

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American Sociological Association

@asanews.bsky.social

Tomorrow! Workshop for anyone wanting tips on navigating the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting in Chicago!

ASA Student Forum @asastudentforum.bsky.social · Apr 3

1 week away!
Join us for the SFAB Spring Workshop: Making the Most out of the ASA Annual Meeting
📅 Thursday, April 10
🕖 7–8 PM ET (4 PT / 5 MT / 6 CT)
💻 Register: tinyurl.com/SFAB-Webinar

Flyer for the ASA SFAB Spring Workshop titled “Making the Most out of the ASA Annual Meeting.” It includes date and time (April 10, 2025, 7–8 PM ET), notes it’s a virtual Zoom webinar, and provides a registration link. Text highlights that the event is for first-time ASA attendees, grad students, and anyone seeking tips on navigating ASA. The flyer features a purple and white color scheme with an image of a classroom-style audience listening to a speaker.

April 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM

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ASA Student Forum

@asastudentforum.bsky.social

1 week away!
Join us for the SFAB Spring Workshop: Making the Most out of the ASA Annual Meeting
📅 Thursday, April 10
🕖 7–8 PM ET (4 PT / 5 MT / 6 CT)
💻 Register: tinyurl.com/SFAB-Webinar

April 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM

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Morten Kjær Thomsen

@mortenkthomsen.bsky.social

What defines the transgender population?
We recently had a paper come out in SSM in which we explore this in Danish population data. We find that certain groups of transgender individuals, but not all, are disadvantaged in education, labour market outcomes, and health. Keen to hear your thoughts!

Transgender lives at the population level: Evidence from Danish administrative data

This paper provides the first rigorous account of the diverse characteristics of transgender individuals at the population level, using data from Dani…

www.sciencedirect.com

December 7, 2024 at 10:08 AM

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Daniel Laurison

@daniellaurison.bsky.social

A key step in fighting the Trump admin's attacks on higher education specifically and democracy more broadly is to say as clearly as we can that we share values that are meaningful and that we will not stand by while our institutions are destroyed.

You can do that here:
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd

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Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education
To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign

We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher education in a democratic and free society, and to the values and practices that facilitate the production, advancement, and sharing of knowledge. Given the continuous and escalating attacks on higher education along with many other pillars of American democracy by the Trump administration and its allies, we call on colleges and universities to protect these values.

We affirm that:

The democratic ideals of free thought, free speech, free association, freedom of assembly and the right to dissent are worth fighting for. Democracy both honors our dignity as individuals and enables collective action on behalf of the common good.

2. Education is a fundamental pillar of a democratic society. People come from all over the world to take part in the free exchange of ideas and the depth of knowledge and expertise found in US colleges and universities. The capacity and tools these institutions provide to think carefully and deeply about politics, society, and the built and natural worlds produce scholars and world citizens whose contributions benefit us all. The value of American education has long been a consensus position across parties and ideologies; both Democratic and Republican administrations have supported our system of higher education.

3. Diversity is essential. Democracy requires that we invest fully in the rich array of our differences. We affirm the fundamental dignity and value of each person of every race, ethnicity, national origin, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, legal status, religion, identity, ideology and viewpoint. Bringing together people with different experiences, talents, and perspectives is critical to a successful learning environment and ultimately benefits society as a whole.

4. Education, knowledge, and science are intrinsically worthwhile. They improve both individual lives and the collective well-being of a democratic society. Cutting funding risks inflicting lasting damage on scholarly inquiry, from work in the arts to social policy to life-saving medical research and care.

5. Academic freedom is necessary to the pursuit of knowledge. Research must be conducted free from political threat if it is to identify and develop ideas serving the human race. These ideas, turned into action, are critical elements of any functioning society, including the rule of law, medical care, and scientific advancement.

6. No amount of accommodation or compliance will protect us. The current attacks on higher education amount to an assault on the foundational principles of democracy. If we abandon our commitments to equality, pluralism, and free scholarly inquiry we turn our backs on the most essential ingredients to our democracy: reflecting on our past, pooling our present talents, and investing in our future.

As scholars, educators, and people who care about our students and our democracy, we believe it is our duty to speak out against the attacks on diversity and pluralism, on scholarship and learning, on academic freedom, and on democracy itself. We are doing so through this statement, and will continue to do so on our campuses and beyond.

We urge the leaders of America’s colleges and universities, and every American who believes in democracy and education, to stand up for the values we share.

We call on college and university leadership to refuse to comply with the unethical, irresponsible and frequently illegal demands of the Trump administration; to join together to speak out in defense of the values of academic freedom, scholarship and research; to protect their students and faculty from government reprisals; and to fight attacks on our institutions in the public sphere and the legal arena.

March 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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Phillip Ayoub

@payoub.bsky.social

Thrilled to see this piece with Douglas Page & Sam Whitt) published in PRQ! We examine how LGBT+ activists can counter backlash by discrediting anti-LGBT+ messengers.

Huge thanks to the PRQ editors and reviewers for their thoughtful feedback.

🔗 Read it here:

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March 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴

@wamsleylab.bsky.social

This is intolerable.

Cancelling ACTIVE grants that salaries already depend on is a cruel tactic that aims, not at saving money, but at terrorizing the university system and beating us into submission.

#academicsky #edusky

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.

www.nature.com

March 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM

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Max Kozlov

@maxkozlov.bsky.social

“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,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.

“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”

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.

www.nature.com

March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM

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Beth Popp Berman

@epopppp.bsky.social

The constant illegality is exhausting. And the extended nature of all this is going wear people down, as what was initially shocking becomes par for the course.

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.

www.nature.com

March 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM

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Paige Sweet

@paigesweet.bsky.social

everyone in your life talking about narcissists these days too? my co-author and i wrote a little article about it, out now! academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

“He’s a Full-Blown Narcissist:” Tracing an Emerging Cultural Narrative in Action

Abstract. The terms “narcissism” and “narcissistic personality disorder” have skyrocketed in popularity over the past several years. What does narcissism d

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February 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder

@johnbrownbread.bsky.social

Anyone affiliated with a University in any way should start preparing for the National Day of Action for Higher Education on April 17th, 2025. Go to the website for more info — They are doing lots of Zoom organizing calls beforehand too.

A National Day of Action for Higher Ed

On April 17, higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, and student organizations across the U.S. are coming together to fight back against the coordinated assault on teaching and learning, and to mobilize for ...

www.dayofactionforhighered.org

March 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM

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Daniel Laurison

@daniellaurison.bsky.social

Right now, if I were to apply to renew my passport it would come back with an F.

I am happy to be out as trans, but traveling with an F would mean being outed every time I need my passport.

Please go register your opposition to this BS policy - (thanks @aclu.org)

action.aclu.org/reg-action/h...

Hands Off Our Passports: Stop Attacking Transgender Americans

The Trump administration is denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people – so I’m joining the ACLU to fight back. Urge the State Department to reject this dangerous attack on ou...

action.aclu.org

March 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM

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American Sociological Association

@asanews.bsky.social

Podcast! Former ASA President Joya Misra (UMass-Amherst) discusses her presidential address, “Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy," delivered at the ASA 2024 Annual Meeting in Montreal & published in the Feb 2025 American Sociological Review

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March 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM

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Michael Stambolis

@mstambolis.bsky.social

Requiring that people use incorrect gender markers on their passports is dangerous!

The ACLU has set up a portal to help members of the public comment on these changes to U.S. passport policy. Please go register your opposition if you can.

action.aclu.org/reg-action/h...

Hands Off Our Passports: Stop Attacking Transgender Americans

The Trump administration is denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people – so I’m joining the ACLU to fight back. Urge the State Department to reject this dangerous attack on ou...

action.aclu.org

March 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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Allison Chapman (she/her)

@alli.gay

🚨Texas has introduced a bill that would make it felony fraud to say that your gender is anything except your gender assigned at birth.

This an extreme bill, which most likely won’t pass, but signals the intensity is continuing to increase against transgender people in the US.

BY: Oliverson
H.B. No. 3817
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to creating the criminal offense of gender identity fraud.
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
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SECTION 1.
Subchapter D, Chapter 32, Penal Code, is amended
5 by adding Section 32.515 to read as follows:
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Sec. 32.515. GENDER IDENTITY FRAUD. (a) A person commits
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an offense if the person knowingly makes a false or misleading
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verbal or written statement to a governmental entity or the
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person's employer by identifying the person's biological sex as the
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opposite of the biological sex assigned to the person at birth.
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(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

March 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM

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UM Population Studies Center

@um-psc.bsky.social

🎊 Welcome, @sociottergy.bsky.social! 💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛

Bailey Otter @sociottergy.bsky.social · Mar 4

I am immensely grateful & excited to share that I will begin my PhD in Sociology at the University of Michigan this fall! I will also be joining @um-psc.bsky.social as a predoctoral trainee! 💙〽️

I am so honored to continue my work on nonbinary gender identities in such an amazing department.

March 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM

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Julia Gfrörer

@thorazos.bsky.social

More simply put, this means gender-affirming care providers nationwide will continue to receive federal funding, pending further litigation. It's great news.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Mar 4

BREAKING: Federal judge issues a nationwide preliminary injunction against the medical provider funding prohibitions in Trump's EO seeking to restrict gender-affirming medical care for those under 19 and the "gender ideology" funding restriction in his Jan. 20 "sex"-defining EO.

ORDER
For the reasons stated in the accompanying memorandum opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that Plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, ECF 69, is GRANTED! It is further
ORDERED that Defendants U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"),
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in his official capacity as Secretary of HHS; the Health Resources and Services Administration ("HRSA"; Diana Espinosa, in her official capacity as Principal Deputy Administrator of HRSA; the National Institutes of Health ("NIH"); Matthew J. Memoli, in his official capacity as Acting NIH Director; the National Science Foundation ("NSF"); Sethuraman Panchanathan, in his official capacity as Director of NSF; any subagencies of Defendant HHS, their officers, agents, successors, servants, employees, and attorneys, and any other persons who
are in active concert or participation with them, are ENJOINED from conditioning, withholding, or terminating federal funding under Section 3(8) of Executive Order 14,168 and Section 4 of

Executive Order 14,187, based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides
gender-affirming medical care to a patient under the age of nineteen; it is further
ORDERED that Defendants must provide written notice of the Court's preliminary injunction to all Defendants and their employees, contractors, and grantees by March 10, 2025.
The written notice shall instruct the aforementioned groups that Defendants may not take any steps to implement, give effect to, or reinstate under a different name the directives in Section 3(g) of
Executive Order 14,168 or Section 4 of Executive Order 14,187 that condition or withhold federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under the age of nineteen. The written notice shall also instruct Defendant agencies to release any disbursements on funds that were paused due to the Executive Orders; it is further
ORDERED that the preliminary injunction remains in effect pending further orders from
this Court; it is further
ORDERED that Defendants shall file a status report on or before March 11, 2025, apprising the Court of the status of Defendants' compliance with this Order

March 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM

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The Sociological Review Foundation

@thesociologicalreview.org

OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue

A new Special Section in issue 73.2 The Sociological Review journal featuring contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun, Rafeef Ziadah.

thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

#palestine #gaza

March 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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Sherrilyn Ifill

@sifill.bsky.social

“People are doing things.” Have you dropped in yet on the 24-hour livestream of Black leaders giving the “State of the People”? This is an extraordinary gathering of leaders, activists and journalists.
Will go on until midnight tonight. Get on it!

stateofthepeople.media

State of the People | 24 Hour Marathon

The State of the People is a 24-hour livestream where we will center the truth for the people instead of letting disinformation go unchecked.

stateofthepeople.media

March 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM

Bailey Otter

@sociottergy.bsky.social

I am immensely grateful & excited to share that I will begin my PhD in Sociology at the University of Michigan this fall! I will also be joining @um-psc.bsky.social as a predoctoral trainee! 💙〽️

I am so honored to continue my work on nonbinary gender identities in such an amazing department.

March 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM

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