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Way back when she was a mere 3 months on HRT, Elise found herself at a dead end. The sheer amount of new options she had at her disposal for exploring her presentation had her overwhelmed! How does one even start?

By asking your friends for help, of course! ♥

Old art from 2020 ♥
February 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.
February 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.
February 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Summary of the infuriating blockade of US medical research

“This crisis...has already consumed one funding cycle” Carole LaBonne said. “But if this block to publishing in the register continues on much longer, it’s going to swallow two funding cycles, and that will put many labs out of business.”🧪⚕️
Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling (Gift Article)
Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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I am begging younger queer ppl to stop spouting right wing puritanical ideas of what is acceptable to like or dislike in FICTION
Fascism is at your doorstep in Real Life, wake up
February 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The story also had a sad epilogue. The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, where Qadri works, is one of South Asia's top scientific institutes. But it has laid off 1000 workers in response to the freeze on US foreign aid. www.science.org/content/arti...
The fight against cholera is far from over. This Bangladeshi scientist is at the front lines
Firdausi Qadri hopes widespread use of cheap oral cholera vaccines can help vanquish an old scourge
www.science.org
February 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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If I lose followers over this, why the fuck were you following me lmao

Get bent
February 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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This is infuriating and heartbreaking. As a reminder, an EO is NOT a law and not legally binding.
February 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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The fact that this Executive Order just classified ALL athletes as "female" (or sexless) due to their imbecilic 2nd grader understanding of science is endlessly amusing.
February 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Well… congrats Republican bigots. You got something that changes nothing in your lives & sold your country & future to get it.

But you managed to hurt the smallest. most vulnerable group of people, so you get to feel like you are above someone else.

Hint: You are not. You're stupid. And you suck.
February 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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The President has zero authority of private sports leagues and organizations, and he can go fuck himself.
February 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Would be dope if the Olympics said, nah, no thanks to the USA. We made the Nazi mistake once and….

Nah!

Ban the US from the Olympics. 🙏🙏🙏
February 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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The IOC should respond to this with a "hell no" and a threat to pull the 2028 Olympics
February 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Section 4d: Pressure on the IOC to enact a trans sports ban.
February 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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For me the most terrifying thing of this EO that there is now a specific ban preventing transwomen from entering the country
February 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Section 4c: Homeland security will be directed to forbid entry to transgender athletes seeking to participate in sporting events in the United States.
February 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Section 4b: Directs the secretary of state to push trans sports bans globally.
February 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Section 4A: Directs a convening of major athletic organizations to ensure trans bans go through (the NCAA, I imagine, will be one of these)
February 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Section 3: Trump will use the same powers he has used to line by line defund other things he doesn't like, to defund schools that allow trans participation in sports - a tyrannical and unprecedented coup of power that will continue here.

He also will launch title IX investigations on schools.
February 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Section 2: Refers to definitions in Trump's prior eo that ends legal recognition for transgender people in the federal government.
February 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Section 1: Boilerplate anti-trans sports language. Says that "men" should not be able to compete in women's sports, determining trans women are "men." Wide sports applicability (likely means sports like dancing, darts, disc golf, and even chess, all handled by intramural depts at many colleges)
February 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Trump's sports ban EO is now live. You can find it here. I'm going to, as I have done in previous nights, go line by line and explain it for all of you here.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
February 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation.

We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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January 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Wonder if people will be silent as hospitals comply with that too.
February 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Just wait until Trump uses the same mechanism he is using to attempt a national trans ban to do the same with a national abortion ban, mifepristone ban, etc.
February 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM