“In youth gender care, we have evidence that these medications effectively treat gender dysphoria, satisfaction with gender-affirming medical treatments is high, bone density recovers after puberty-pausing medications, and that their transgender identities persist,” researchers wrote.

Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · 6h ago

Transphobes Claim Puberty Blockers Ruin Bone Density Forever. A New Study Says Otherwise www.them.us/answers-... Paper: jamanetwork.com/jour... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

I don't use AI with the exception of Google search. the main impact would be that my news feed would be more interesting because people would be talking about something else.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Fwiw @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social 's discussion, despite only being a small segment with cisgender people, correctly identified that trans men were excluded from both men's and women's toilets under the guidance. Pleasantly surprised.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 9h ago

Trans men just don't exist in this anti-trans world, do we... Fuck me.

If the desired result was actually to harass those who dared to defy Trump's version of events, they succeeded. He just wants to bully those who won't fall into line and impose costs for telling the truth.

papaesoco.bsky.social@papaesoco.bsky.social · 14h ago

All Trump’s Reflecting Pool Lawsuits End in Total Failure newrepublic.com/post/213946/... via @newrepublic.com

This 1899 clip of a little girl and her cat is the oldest surviving cat footage on film, just 4 years after the Lumiere brothers invented cinema. Now colorized and speed corrected.

Oh so having hobbies is illegal now is it

I hate this timeline & that I had to write this essay. I hate AI companies & LLMs & the randos who are now using "AI detectors" (also AI!) to smear authors they dislike: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-em-dashes... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-em-dash...

On em-dashes and “AI detectors”

and the many reasons why I don’t and won’t use LLMs

juliaserano.medium.com

@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social Enjoyed that last episode. I particularly want to thank you for the clear, informed and compassionate coverage of the new EHRC guidance, which reads as a how-to guide for transphobes. And I agree with Andrew, Thievery Corporation are great!

Since it’s late: There are two figures in modern western pop culture who people will read about, argue about such that discourse about them feels oppressively ubiquitous Their work is the poptimist Venn diagram of respect and absurd commercial success Christopher Nolan is Taylor Swift for men

@prideinlondon.bsky.social you seem to have forgotten about this account? Most of your supporters are here!

I really don't know how we can message this in a way which cuts through, but we really need to try and figure it out, because the vast majority of people are appalled when they actually understand what's going on.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · last wk.

The biggest difficulty for trans rights – the general public seems to believe the new guidance makes it possible to exclude eg trans women from women's services in some circumstances. No. This was the previous position. The current guidance requires their exclusion, always, regardless of context.

"If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

The American Transgender Refugee Crisis

If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.

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I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Here's a link to all of the photos as I'm editing them here! adobe.ly/4pCLcYJ

London Trans Pride

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Provided the guy was a member of the House of Lords

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews@thatdocphoenix.com · last wk.

Important to point out that John Woodcock/Lord Walney no longer has an official role as a government advisor and therefore his opinion should carry about as much weight and garner as much interest as that of the guy with a rat under his hat outside the Tesco Metro

I would call Lord Walney a walking advertisement for the abolition of the Lords, but he'll have to take a ticket.

BASH BACK@bashback.bsky.social · last wk.

Here is our full response to Lord Walney's article calling for us to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation:

The threshold in question being "they're bolshy and we don't like them"

Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · last wk.

The fact that this is a coordinated push with Reform is deeply deeply disturbing. This is one of those times for cis liberals with a platform to sit up and listen. This should worry us ALL removepaywalls.com/https://www....

NEt zeRo iS ToO expENsiVe

Shadow Hedgie 🌻@shadow.hedgie.social · last wk.

A Bordeaux City Council spokesperson told Sky News it is "currently studying scenarios for all possible ways the fire could evolve". This includes a total evacuation of the city, if needed.

My beef with Morrissey runs all the way back to 1986 when he said this about Black artists. Nineteen Eighty Six, while the Smiths were still active. It’s not a “later phenomenon” don’t try and lie to me www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...

Has anyone seen The Half of It on Netflix? It's a wonderful, bitter-sweet, funny LGBT teen romcom/take on Cyrano de Bergerac that transcends all its labels. And it's shot beautifully too. 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and I'd never heard of it! www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_half_o...

The Half of It | Rotten Tomatoes

Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for The Half of It on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today!

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Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

Here is a call for the murder of Home Office ministers + officials by the X user endorsed by the site owner Elon Musk.

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

Doomscroll break

Kristi Ellingsen@kristiellingsen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Spectacular lenticular clouds over Hobart now. #Tasmania

150k marchers yesterday for #transpride . And a lot more media coverage than last year www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

150,000 march through London in world’s largest trans pride, organisers say

Protesters voiced anger at the new guidance on single sex-spaces and fears that trans people are being excluded from society.

independent.co.uk

"You wouldn't steal a cis person's hormones"

Awesome Samba group back here!

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️@whatthetrans.com · 2w ago

A group carrying banners reading "Prorect Trans+ Youth" are near the front of the march.

A machine for making us lonelier and stupider seems a little harsh, but then again www.ft.com/content/bdb3...

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

Trans+ pride in London today. A good excuse to donate to those fighting for our rights goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a

I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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