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We aren't terribly happy that a lot of reporting on this has reproduced the wording used by the Trump administration and its courtier journalists verbatim, because that normalises their worldview. Here is our description of UPenn's collaboration agreement, which we believe is more factually correct
![An excerpt from our article on UPenn, describing the ways they've decided to collaborate with the Trump administration. The text reads as follows:
"* falsifying UPenn's NCAA Division I women's 'swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions' to indicate that those which were received by a transfem athlete were actually received by the cis woman athlete who would have received them if no trans women had been allowed to compete;
* issuing a public statement that:
** trans women will not be allowed to compete as women and that they will not be allowed to use correctly gendered UPenn locker rooms and other gendered facilities;
** UPenn will 'adopt ... definitions' of the words 'male' and 'female' which treat an individual's 'male' or 'female' status as being determined by their sex assigned at birth;
* posting that statement 'in a prominent location its main website and on each of its websites for women's athletics';
* 'rescind[ing] any guidance ... [and] remov[ing] or revis[ing] any internal and public-facing statements or documents' that treat trans people as having their correct gender, and notifying 'all staff and women's athletics of all such rescissions'; and
* sending personalised letters of apology to Paula Scanlan and any other anti-trans activists on the UPenn swimming team."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nxse2nxhy5tks6wvhnfvirnj/bafkreigj5j632hxrv2rlndmpxovwzp2xyoi5gjvd4onf7zq6tbyyymii3y@jpeg)
July 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We aren't terribly happy that a lot of reporting on this has reproduced the wording used by the Trump administration and its courtier journalists verbatim, because that normalises their worldview. Here is our description of UPenn's collaboration agreement, which we believe is more factually correct
PYROPHORE already has its first entry, on the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
We promise not to be defamatory. After all, truth is a complete defence to defamation.
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We promise not to be defamatory. After all, truth is a complete defence to defamation.
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Pyrophore: Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) – Several Problems Press
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April 3, 2024 at 2:51 AM
PYROPHORE already has its first entry, on the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
We promise not to be defamatory. After all, truth is a complete defence to defamation.
severalproblems.press/pyrophore/ra...
We promise not to be defamatory. After all, truth is a complete defence to defamation.
severalproblems.press/pyrophore/ra...