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Dr. Arjee Restar

@drrestar.bsky.social

Social & Legal Epidemiologist | Health & Policy Has written for The Advocate, Out Magazine, Health Affairs, & The Hill. And works interviewed in New York Times, The Atlantic, Teen Vogue, & NPR. #TransPinay 🇵🇭🏳️‍⚧️

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Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We have a deeply conservative Supreme Court, so strategy matters. Litigation is only one tool. We need to invest in stronger coalitions across women's and men's sports, athletes, and professional associations in every state. Despite this setback, trans athletes matter and belong in sports.

NPR@npr.org · 2mo ago

JUST IN: The Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes participating in women and girls' sports

Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The conversation the whole movement is grappling with right now: what visibility costs." New essay on "strategic visibility": www.advocate.com/opinion/stea...

The case for 'strategic visibility' this Pride

Opinion: Pride often celebrates being seen. But trans communities have long practiced a different kind of wisdom: knowing when visibility serves the work — and when it puts it at risk.

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Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New study on Economic Hardship in Employment, Housing, and Finance Among Transgender Populations In the Context of Federal Protection Rollbacks - Now live on Finance Research Letters. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On Medical Necessity: "Medical necessity is a clinical determination, not a political declaration, [it is] made on a patient-by-patient basis... [However] judicial guardrails are in serious peril." Our newest @discerncollab.bsky.social piece is out now in Health Affairs.

The Medical Community’s Obligation When Politics Undermine Evidence Standards | Health Affairs Forefront

If an HHS Secretary can seek to unilaterally overturn an evidence-based standard of transgender health care, the same can occur in any contested medical field. When medical necessity is politicized, t...

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Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 Open call: Erase Erasure. ✍🏽 hi, we made a thing 🤍 For transgender & nonbinary writers, artists, poets, visionaries, this is a national creative anthology of our lives in the U.S. No résumé required. Just your story and art, in your form. 🔗 Submit below. #EraseErasure #TransHistory #TransPride

Jessica Amelia @loveandcrossbones.org · 5mo ago

This blurb is underselling this piece by @drrestar.bsky.social and I loved reading it

There is a concept in epidemiology called the
"healthy survivor effect": populations facing extraordinary adversity sometimes appear more resilient than expected in the data, not because hardship is beneficial, but because surviving long enough to be counted is itself a kind of selection.
Which means every trans person and woman I find on this train is already, statistically, extraordinary.
Here in part because something held: a city that has not yet abandoned trans rights, a clinic that stayed open, a policy that protected long enough to make it to Friday night. In the years ahead, when policies are hostile and the data is vanishing, the job is to keep every individual that way. In view. Alive and safe.

She looks at me. And what follows is so small it would register on a security camera as nothing. A micro-expression, a not-quite-smile, a gaze sustained for the length of time it takes to detect or clock someone trans and be clocked in return. It is also, not coincidentally, the length of time it takes to decide that someone is safe. And yet, I will be thinking about it for the rest of the week.

We do the thing. A not-quite-smile, but let's-keep-each-other-in-view, for the rest of the ride at least.
The trans gaze is not pity, which requires one person to be suffering and another to have noticed. It is not quite solidarity either, which, however sincere, has always carried a slight satisfaction of having shown up. The trans gaze is what you get when no one is the tourist. When you look at her and think not I see what you're going through, but we are still in view.
Warmer than pity, more honest than solidarity, and on a good Friday, more fun than either. It says, in the seconds available: safe.
I do not know her name. I will have my Monday, and I only hope, with the stubborn hope of someone who has looked at the data and decided to hope anyway, that she will have hers. Walking into a hard-earned job, competent and present, in view of people quietly rooting for her to succeed. Waking up, in 10 years, to the life that was always supposed to be available to her.
The doors open. One of us steps out. Somewhere in this city, a trans woman of color is on her way somewhere, and another trans woman of color, good earrings, overthinking memory, and a night that defies every epidemiological odd, felt the trans gaze.
Not to catch each other. Not to read each other. Just to

The Advocate@advocate.com · 5mo ago

Opinion: In an increasingly hostile world, New York City subway nights become a space where trans women of color keep each other in view and safe. https://mrf.lu/6-Cx

Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Just crossed the finish line at the #TokyoMarathon in my bpr. This time, it meant more than a record. I ran & cheered with athletes from every continent & raised funds for charity along the way. 🗼❣️ If you’re a trans kid wondering if you belong in sport: you do. #TransAthlete #Inclusion #TransJoy

Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hi all 👋 restarting this platform for timely transgender health & policy research outputs/evidence. Who should I follow / what groups? (recs in policy space would be most welcomed) (I miss the Twitter age, & LinkedIn feed seems more useful/proper for job opps, es those impacted by rifs). #Trans

Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Uncontrolled Policy Experiment on Trans Youth “The US is conducting a large-scale, uncontrolled policy experiment on trans youth. At the same time, federal actions are dismantling the systems needed to measure the consequences.” w/ @kgamarel.bsky.social & doperario tinyurl.com/4kb389dv

Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I felt it was more important than ever to make sure we’re still talking about, thinking through, and reminding ourselves that micro-moments of joy and progress toward flourishing futures 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦. So, let me introduce you to the Feb issue of AJPH. 1/

AJPH@amjpublichealth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our February 2026 issue is now online! It features a special section on LGBTQ+ health and well-being with select articles covering sex-positive disease prevention messaging, mental health of gender-diverse adolescents, and adoption in the LGBTQ+ community. 🔗: buff.ly/cEoL1EE

AJPH February issue cover includes an image of local cheer groups perform during the Gay Pride Parade on June 29, 2025, in San Francisco, California

The DISCERN Collaborative @discerncollab.bsky.social · last yr.

In our latest article in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social, we contend that gender-affirming research upholds rigorous scientific and ethical standards. The scientific community must urgently confront disinformation and advance evidence-based interventions. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

Gender Affirmation Research Is Not Gender Ideology Extremism, It Is Science | AJPH | Vol. Issue

American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

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Dr. Arjee Restar @drrestar.bsky.social · last yr.

Follow our new collab 👇🏽

The DISCERN Collaborative@discerncollab.bsky.social · last yr.

Disinformation erodes trust in science. The DISCERN Collab unites experts to assess disinformation, promote evidence-based communication, and support research that centers the public interest. Check out our website for more information preventdisinformation.org