Jamie Taber
@jamie-taber.bsky.social
They/them
PhD Student, Health Psychology and Clinical Science | Advanced Certificate, LGBTQ Studies | CUNY Graduate Center
Researching trans marginalization, distress, and resistance at the intersection of trans studies/mad studies/critical psychology
PhD Student, Health Psychology and Clinical Science | Advanced Certificate, LGBTQ Studies | CUNY Graduate Center
Researching trans marginalization, distress, and resistance at the intersection of trans studies/mad studies/critical psychology
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Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
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September 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Adding to the point about talks of designating trans nonprofits/activists domestic terrorism, what would this mean for trans-affirming research? If we’re labeled terrorists, new scholarship could be dominated by transphobia, providing more “justification” for anti-transness in the name of “science”
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, the far-right, led by the Trump administration, has doubled its efforts to crackdown on transgender people.
My latest article in The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest article in The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Transgender Americans are seeing a wave of hate unleashed by Charlie Kirk’s killing | Erin Reed
In the aftermath of Kirk’s death, the far-right and Trump administration have turned up attacks on transgender people
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Adding to the point about talks of designating trans nonprofits/activists domestic terrorism, what would this mean for trans-affirming research? If we’re labeled terrorists, new scholarship could be dominated by transphobia, providing more “justification” for anti-transness in the name of “science”
Also this is implied in the thread but to reiterate, negativity bias is only applied to autism and transness because people assume they’re “bad” - if they’re neutral, then there’s no “need” to identify causes. Autism/transness are being constructed as “problems” in order to then “solve” them
short 🧵 on what autism and transgender pseudoscience & disinformation have in common:
so Tylenol supposedly causes autism, but so does MMR, despite autism predating either of them – how could this be? negativity bias! this is why when ppl consider something to be "bad" they can invent hundreds of causes w/little evidence & ppl will believe it...
juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...
juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...
September 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Also this is implied in the thread but to reiterate, negativity bias is only applied to autism and transness because people assume they’re “bad” - if they’re neutral, then there’s no “need” to identify causes. Autism/transness are being constructed as “problems” in order to then “solve” them