I love this! Thank you for sharing, Anja (and thanks for inviting me on to this!)

I was lucky to have the chance to work alongside her and many other colleagues to bring her story to light (in the very same journal that published Kosky's piece nearly 40 years ago).

Give it a read, won't you?

His study had a lot of problems. This article highlights many of them from an interesting perspective: one of a previous "participant." Jayne Fayden, the first author on this paper, was one of those "patients." Her experiences, and her actual outcomes, run incredibly contrary to Kosky's claims.

This paper highlights one of those reasons. In 1987, Robert Kosky published an article about his attempts to use in-patient psychiatric treatment, without actively trying to engage in conversion therapy, to get kids to stop being trans. He claimed to be successful

If this were true, that might be really important to know! But... that quote came from a blog post. It was based on a cursory glance of 11 studies that range in quality, and there is reason to believe that this rate may be less than accurate.

One of the oft quoted "statistics" when it comes to gender affirming healthcare for transgender youth relates to the rate of transgender identity desistance. The claim goes like this: "Roughly 60–90% of trans- kids turn out no longer to be trans by adulthood" (Cantor, 2016).

I'm okay with this

For those interested in reading my article:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36736052/

10/10, no notes

That's completely legit. Most of the tenure track jobs become available in the Fall (which is not to say that I haven't been looking at, being interviewed for, or working non-tenure track positions)

Related: Is your department hiring this fall? Do you have a program that is willing to push back against the current administration's anti-science agenda?

This talk may or may not be a preview of future talks I would love to give at your university!

I will be talking about the impacts of the threat of anti-trans legislation on trans folks, susceptibility to medical misinformation about gender affirming healthcare, and then showing how we can use issues impacting trans folks as a means by which to understand broader issues

I'm tired. I had hoped to be writing today rather than dealing with this bullshit. But here we are

Berrett suggests in her concurring opinion that transgender individuals have not "suffered a history of de jure discrimination." She is explicitly wrong in this statement (as was noted during court proceedings), and she will continue to be wrong as additional anti-trans laws are passed

They deserve the best care that they can get, including puberty blockers. Trans youth deserve support and kindness, not the cruelty that is clearly present in this ruling

Trans youth deserve to live their lives and not have to suffer through first puberty (a harrowing experience). They deserve to be able to play sports and go to gym class without the risk of constantly being late because they are sent to a separate "but equal" bathroom that is across the school