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anthro student thinking about hormones 💉, bodyminds🔮, and sex-gender🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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The first batch of HRT Toolkits is complete! 🎉

This weekend, 10 volunteers from Austin Mutual Aid and local trans-led orgs came together to assemble 120 kits. These contain the medical equipment to safely administer gender-affirming hormone therapy. That’s enough to support 120 years of care!
A photo of a number of boxes packed into the back of a box truck
August 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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doughenwood.bsky.social
The wretched, murderous aid scheme in Gaza was developed by the Boston Consulting Group—along with schemes to "relocate" Palestinians. The company blames rogue elements.

www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza
Consulting firm had multimillion-dollar role in contentious new aid scheme for shattered enclave
www.ft.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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juliaserano.bsky.social
I won't be around today to read the HHS "Gender Dysphoria Report", but here's my comprehensive 2023 essay, "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental" (with over 100+ references) that will tell you everything that's wrong with it...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation…
NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…
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May 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ket.bsky.social
i have ten pages left but the whole thing is basically like this, lmao. "we're exiling trans women from society for being men and we're exiling trans men from society for being trans." you guys i found where 4chan migrated to
236. On the other hand, a biological definition of sex would mean that a women’s boxing competition organiser could refuse to admit all men, including trans women regardless of their GRC status. This would be covered by the sex discrimination exception in section 195(1). But if, in addition, the providers of the boxing competition were concerned that fair competition or safety necessitates the exclusion of trans men (biological females living in the male gender, irrespective of GRC status) who have taken testosterone to give them more masculine attributes, their exclusion would amount to gender reassignment discrimination, not sex discrimination, but would be permitted by section 195(2). It is here that the gender reassignment exception would be available to ensure that the exclusion is not unlawful, whether as direct or indirect gender reassignment discrimination.
April 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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endoeartha.bsky.social
My speech for the Philly #StandUpForScience Protest.

Everything I do is for my community 💜✨
Hello Philadelphia! I’m Dr. Eartha Mae Guthman. I’m a Philadelphian, a trans woman, a neuroscientist, and a proud card carrying union member with UAW. I first worked in a lab 15 years ago. I fell in love then and there with the scientific method, and I've worked as a scientist ever since. Today, I want to talk to you about how this administration’s attacks on trans people and trans health research harm us all. When I began transitioning seven years ago, I was terrified! For my safety. For my scientific career. Would my colleagues find me credible? Would they see a scientist who happened to be trans, or would they only see me through the lens of my transness? I decided then, regardless of the outcome, I would dedicate my life to improving healthcare for trans people. For the past seven years I’ve worked towards this goal. I’ve spent holidays inventing new tools to study the brain and behavior. I’ve spent weeks going to work after dark, sitting with my mice to run overnight experiments, and then coming home, crossing the Delaware with the sunrise. I’ve been fortunate to have achieved success in my work: I’ve published over a dozen papers, including guides on how to develop animal models for hormone therapy; I’ve been awarded highly competitive NSF and NIH grants; I’ve been appointed a fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies and at other academic organizations. And, about a year ago, I received the best news of my career: I had been awarded a prestigious NIH grant to not only fund my research at Princeton, but to provide me funding to start my own lab. In my lab, I want to ask questions about how hormones impact the brain to influence mood, the body, and behavior. I want to apply this research to design better hormone therapies– yes, for gender affirming care, but also for birth control, menopause, endometriosis, PCOS, the list goes on! My goal, set so many years ago, was within my grasp. I had put in the work and sacrifice, taken the risks, and it had all seemed worth it. But my dream grows less likely by the day because of Republican efforts to reverse decades of acceptance for various minorities. Through anti-DEI and anti-trans executive orders and laws, the administration seeks to restore hierarchies centered around race and gender, resegregating America. A textbook example of fascism and fascist takeover of institutions. Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-trans executive orders censor me and those like me. At the State of the Union on Tuesday, Trump complained that NIH wasted money on “transgender mice”, directly attacking the work my colleagues and I do. Wednesday, a White House press release called trans health research “fraud” and “waste”. Yesterday, Nature reported that the administration has bypassed congressional control of the budget to terminate ongoing grants related to trans healthcare. They report that the NIH will terminate hundreds of already awarded, active research grants if they support DEI or trans people in any way. I don't know how or if I’ll get paid next month, and I don't know if I’ll actually get the funds that congress has already awarded me to start my lab. I don't know what's going to happen to my career, and I'm really fucking furious. I've dedicated my entire adult life to this work. But to Trump and his supporters, I am not a scientist who should be judged for the work I do, who happens to be trans. To them, I am trans, and therefore cannot contribute to science because I’m inherently biased and unfit. But I'm here speaking to you now because this moment is about more than just me. Under the guise of this anti-trans and anti-DEI moral panic, Republicans are weaponizing the state to attack all science. Their actions prevent us from making life-saving discoveries across all fields. They see science as a tool to control people and carve their desired reality into our bodies and minds, not as a way to understand our beautifully complex world. But we can stop them. Because we are many, and they are so, very, very few. Right now we need to give our legislators hell until they start standing up for us. Push universities to establish contingency funds for researchers whose active funding is terminated. And keep showing up, keep protesting. Keep standing up to cruel bullies and fascists. Don’t comply with unjust orders or demands, fight back! Fight for a world where the next scientist like me is seen for her contributions to science and human health, not seen only as trans. And lastly, fight for a world that loves and values trans people.
March 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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epopppp.bsky.social
The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
maybe 250 words describing status 250-ish social justice words smaller text -- 400 words on social justice and gender? And another 150 or so on race
February 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
thelmaw.bsky.social
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January 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
thelmaw.bsky.social
Vignette from fieldwork
Bangkok, summer 2024
January 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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birdlady.bsky.social
I cannot write at the moment about the new exec order re gender/sex because I am away from my computer. But check this out: open.substack.com/pub/holdenth...
#lgbtqSTEM #transrights
Another Science family paper of interest on sex and gender
Sex and gender may be encoded differently in the brain
open.substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM