Q. McLamore
@ghawinriver.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology (They/Them). Views expressed are strictly my own and not those of my employer.
For that matter, depathologizing being gay was a bitter pill to swallow for many when it happened incrementally through the 70s and 80s; and that effort only happened with aggressive protest as well. I mention this because these folks? They were around for that! They're freakin' old!
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
For that matter, depathologizing being gay was a bitter pill to swallow for many when it happened incrementally through the 70s and 80s; and that effort only happened with aggressive protest as well. I mention this because these folks? They were around for that! They're freakin' old!
Particularly given the blatant double standard this court selectively, and arbitrarily, creates. State-level bans on gender-affirming care, those are A-OK, but state-level bans on conversion therapy, those are unconstitutional because gaslighting isn't electroshocking someone's nuts.
October 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Particularly given the blatant double standard this court selectively, and arbitrarily, creates. State-level bans on gender-affirming care, those are A-OK, but state-level bans on conversion therapy, those are unconstitutional because gaslighting isn't electroshocking someone's nuts.
We know this because SEGM's cofounder calls Guyatt a liar and says he knew full well what SEGM was and what she wanted from them in an email she sent Jesse Singal:
September 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We know this because SEGM's cofounder calls Guyatt a liar and says he knew full well what SEGM was and what she wanted from them in an email she sent Jesse Singal:
There's also the part where this chatbot was permitted to groom children and be blatantly racist until Reuters asked about it:
Like, for all them "groomer" conspiracy theories targeting me and mine, this was right here!
Like, for all them "groomer" conspiracy theories targeting me and mine, this was right here!
August 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
There's also the part where this chatbot was permitted to groom children and be blatantly racist until Reuters asked about it:
Like, for all them "groomer" conspiracy theories targeting me and mine, this was right here!
Like, for all them "groomer" conspiracy theories targeting me and mine, this was right here!
So...what, banning trans women from not being housed with randomly selected men? You realize that even if there's a mutual agreement between a cis woman and a trans woman to be roommates and they've been friends for 10 years, them rooming together would be a fineable offense under this settlement?
August 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
So...what, banning trans women from not being housed with randomly selected men? You realize that even if there's a mutual agreement between a cis woman and a trans woman to be roommates and they've been friends for 10 years, them rooming together would be a fineable offense under this settlement?
I mean, this bit right here? What, someone who's literal job it is to look for fineable offenses, in a landscape where NOT misgendering a trans student is a fineable offense?!
August 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I mean, this bit right here? What, someone who's literal job it is to look for fineable offenses, in a landscape where NOT misgendering a trans student is a fineable offense?!
It's not even implicit. Jackman got shredded for that role because when he looked like an actual, functional strongmen, male viewers bitched about how he didn't look like the musculature of his comic counterpart. This was Wolverine in X-Men (2000). Guess which women preferred.
July 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It's not even implicit. Jackman got shredded for that role because when he looked like an actual, functional strongmen, male viewers bitched about how he didn't look like the musculature of his comic counterpart. This was Wolverine in X-Men (2000). Guess which women preferred.
Look at this bit right here:
July 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Look at this bit right here:
Also again, not for nothing, but if you wanna talk predatory Jewish finance figures, why not start with Stephen Miller, Donald? Y'know, this grasping sociopath?
![Jean Guerrero, who wrote a book on Miller,[12] noted that this conversion coincided with family upheaval; with his father Michael facing financial difficulties, Miller moved out of a wealthy neighborhood and was forced to go to Santa Monica High School, a diverse public school.[10] Miller riled his classmates multiple times with statements and stunts,[13] many of them targeting students of minority populations.[14] He told Latino students to speak only English.[15][16] Early on, Miller began to appear on conservative talk radio;[8][4] Elder reportedly invited Miller on his radio show as a guest for a total of 69 times.[17] Miller wrote in 2002 a letter to the Santa Monica Outlook to complain about the school multiculturalism and its response to the September 11 attacks.[18]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gwwxkssw53avo23ltb3aokz7/bafkreidau5z7p2g32j2bmcdv7q3bhdipozmjc6v7oqw7p4lgviv3cd3eoy@jpeg)
July 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Also again, not for nothing, but if you wanna talk predatory Jewish finance figures, why not start with Stephen Miller, Donald? Y'know, this grasping sociopath?
I'm serious, this guy? This guy. Complaining about Mamdani?
Maybe he should stop defending this 20 years on:
www.theguardian.com/science/2005...
Maybe he should stop defending this 20 years on:
www.theguardian.com/science/2005...
June 28, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I'm serious, this guy? This guy. Complaining about Mamdani?
Maybe he should stop defending this 20 years on:
www.theguardian.com/science/2005...
Maybe he should stop defending this 20 years on:
www.theguardian.com/science/2005...
This is, just so you know, what they mean when they say "Gold standard science." What? They're higher on the EBM Pyramid so that means higher quality which means more betterer science, right? This is legitimately how they explain their case about trans kids, too. This is a figure in that "report".
May 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is, just so you know, what they mean when they say "Gold standard science." What? They're higher on the EBM Pyramid so that means higher quality which means more betterer science, right? This is legitimately how they explain their case about trans kids, too. This is a figure in that "report".
I'm not even 100% sure where in the hell they CITE the letter. But I know that SEGM was angry about it, and they cite SEGM whining about it as evidence of "suppression" of their junk science:
May 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I'm not even 100% sure where in the hell they CITE the letter. But I know that SEGM was angry about it, and they cite SEGM whining about it as evidence of "suppression" of their junk science:
So about that HHS Review. All you really need to know about it is that not only is it just the Cass Review, but American and Worse, but here's it unironically trying to tell you that psychodynamic conversion therapy is evidence based.
May 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
So about that HHS Review. All you really need to know about it is that not only is it just the Cass Review, but American and Worse, but here's it unironically trying to tell you that psychodynamic conversion therapy is evidence based.
I'm not kidding. That's the fucking argument. "Kids will be harmed by the policy we rammed through once they grow up, so do conversion therapy on them."
May 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I'm not kidding. That's the fucking argument. "Kids will be harmed by the policy we rammed through once they grow up, so do conversion therapy on them."
Basically, they can steal whatever they want now and get away with it. I mean, cops already do that with civil asset forfeiture, but this is on a whole other level of making excuses for just straight-up robbery.
April 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Basically, they can steal whatever they want now and get away with it. I mean, cops already do that with civil asset forfeiture, but this is on a whole other level of making excuses for just straight-up robbery.
Or, in his own words:
April 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Or, in his own words:
The horrible part here was not just how interconnected the watershed anti-woke crowd is, but that I agree with Chris Rufo about its milquetoast liberal members. It's actually illuminating that they SOMEHOW thought they'd never translate their ideas towards their fascistic conclusion.
April 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The horrible part here was not just how interconnected the watershed anti-woke crowd is, but that I agree with Chris Rufo about its milquetoast liberal members. It's actually illuminating that they SOMEHOW thought they'd never translate their ideas towards their fascistic conclusion.
This was, at the time, presented as a "gotcha" to *REPUBLICANS.*
March 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This was, at the time, presented as a "gotcha" to *REPUBLICANS.*
Script annotations that apply equally to this dataset and to why trans issues and anti-science issues are not partible:
March 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Script annotations that apply equally to this dataset and to why trans issues and anti-science issues are not partible:
All refusing to take a stand does is lose trust from the left--and heck, from scientists ourselves. Why would I ever trust an organization purporting to be "scientific" that allows this idiot to be a fellow?
February 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
All refusing to take a stand does is lose trust from the left--and heck, from scientists ourselves. Why would I ever trust an organization purporting to be "scientific" that allows this idiot to be a fellow?
And as for this bit...Yeah, sure. But they ALREADY thought that about scientists. They already think science is partisan because impartial science is incompatible with conservative worldviews, and if it doesn't match their worldview, it must be a lie.
February 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
And as for this bit...Yeah, sure. But they ALREADY thought that about scientists. They already think science is partisan because impartial science is incompatible with conservative worldviews, and if it doesn't match their worldview, it must be a lie.
Also, this bit. It goes...understated, how much conspiracy theories rhat originated in liberal circles can be used to wedge folks into voting for authoritarianism. Trump knows how to exploit this.
February 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Also, this bit. It goes...understated, how much conspiracy theories rhat originated in liberal circles can be used to wedge folks into voting for authoritarianism. Trump knows how to exploit this.
But y'know who DOES know what they're doing? The boys from Project 2025 (www.bbc.com/news/article...)
February 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
But y'know who DOES know what they're doing? The boys from Project 2025 (www.bbc.com/news/article...)
When Republicans hold power:
February 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
When Republicans hold power: