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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 1d

A true legend. Rest in power.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Miss Major has passed away. We've lost an icon for the ages. Rest in power.

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Miss Major with long wavy gray hair sits outdoors in a chair, wearing a brightly colored geometric-patterned dress. She looks thoughtful and serene, with her hands resting in her lap. Trees and plants surround her in the background, giving the scene a peaceful setting. The image appears as a social media post with text and engagement icons below.

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 3d

Allyship at its finest! Grateful for this statement of solidarity.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks to Quispe López at @them.us for citing my profile of Bari Weiss in this excellent summary of Weiss' grifty rise to power. Weiss is a key historical figure in the oppression of trans and gender diverse people. www.them.us/story/bari-w...

Bari Weiss, the Anti-Woke, Anti-Trans "Zionist Fanatic," Will Now Lead CBS News

Paramount Skydance also bought The Free Press, a publication founded by Weiss, for $150 million.

www.them.us

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 7d

A rough watch. It’s going to get much worse. youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 7d

UK waitlists of years, decades, and even centuries. DIY is the way. www.transgendermap.com/guidance/med...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 8d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 10d

Updated my profile of Genspect advisor "Shannon Thrace" (aka Shae Ramsey), a "trans widow" who wrote '18 Months: A Memoir of a Marriage Lost to Gender Identity.' Unaccepting spouses & parents rarely have their versions of things countered by trans loved ones. www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic...

Shae Ramsey / “Shannon Thrace” vs. transgender people – Transgender Map

www.transgendermap.com

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 11d

Reed Erickson is the most consequential and influential trans person in history. This nice summary touches on the basics of his wild and remarkable life. We need a 21st century Reed Erickson!

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 12d

In 1992, a millionaire playboy died in Mexico in the ruins of his Love Joy Palace Ashram. Almost thirty years prior, he handed Dr. Harry Benjamin a blank check and set the stage for trans healthcare as we know it today.

(Alt text: A balding man stares shocked at a leopard looking at him curiously through a glass enclosure window.)

On a hot summer afternoon in 1964, Dorr Legg, a representative from ONE Incorporated, a gay rights activism group from California, landed in a wooded clearing deep within the Louisiana swampland to meet someone he hoped would assist his organization with funding.

About a day into his talks with the mysterious potential benefactor, the young man, who Dorr thought must have been a teenager, asked if Dorr would like to meet his lover. Door acquiesced, and the man brought him to his personal estate and to a glassed-in porch enclosure.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13d

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned

Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 21d

It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics

That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people

Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 19d

In my excitement yesterday, I included an error in the first post above: Guyatt called the SEGMxMcMaster student group “extremist,” not SEGM. I have deleted the original. Sorry about that! I will have a lot more to say on all this in the near future.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown

The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

www.motherjones.com

Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 21d

Activism works! Congrats to all student activists at SEGMxMcMaster: "Until student activists at McMaster spoke out about the collaboration, [Guyatt] hadn’t been fully aware of SEGM’s involvement with the university’s research on transgender health care."

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 26d

A lay reader glancing at the headline and image would think 20% "changed their minds" and "detransitioned." Here's the monograph, which has a lot of interesting info on siblings and cisgender groups in comparison
: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library

As increasing numbers of transgender, gender diverse, and queer youths come out to their friends, families and communities, their rights to express their identities in public life have become the sub...

srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 26d

Here's how SEGM's embedded reporter Jesse Singal spins data. Of 317 children who socially transitioned, 81.6% had stable identities. ~2.5% reverted to their birth-assigned gender, in line with other studies. ~16% more changed identities, often from trans to nonbinary. Singal's FUD version of things:

Jesse Singal spinning data about "detransition" in The Economist

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 26d

So glad @guyattgh.bsky.social finally connected with a medical peer with shared goals/values. Guyatt discussed realizing that SEGM is not impartial. I hope Laura talked Dr. Guyatt out of doing more media with SEGM/Genspect propagandists like Jesse Singal & Mia Hughes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=720Q...

Episode 12 - An Interview with Dr. Gord Guyatt

YouTube video by TransNormal

www.youtube.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 14

1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth.

Many complied and shut down their programs.

Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care.

And now, they just beat Trump in court.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Boston Children’s Fights Back For Trans Kids: Judge Quashes Trump Subpoena

Around 2,000 BCH employees and untold numbers of patients were targeted by the DOJ. A judge just told them, “No.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · Sep 13

I can’t believe I’ve reached the point where I am profiling anti-trans Groypers. Toxic online communities like Groyper Army are a MAJOR source of anti-trans rhetoric. Brainrot is real, and we are completely unprepared as a society for what is about to go down. www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic...

Nick Fuentes vs. transgender people – Transgender Map

www.transgendermap.com

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@[email protected] @demo-ticker-berlin.bsky.social · Sep 12

💥Announcement! Saturday 13.09.2025💥

🔥✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️Together for self-determination – against transphobia!🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾🔥

Saturday, 13.09.2025 | 2 p.m. | Oranienplatz, 10999 Berlin

Arrival: U8, bus 248 Moritzplatz | M29 Oranienplatz | U1, U3, U8 Kottbusser Tor

📣 Call: asanb.noblogs.org?p=13029

#b1309 #noTERFS #noSWERFS

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · Sep 11

Another poster near the SEGM conference: "Rapid Onset Gibberish Diarrhea? ROGD isn't a diagnosis. It's a dogwhistle. Trans healthcare saves lives. Against transphobic misinformation in psychology, psychotherapy and medicine." At right, the trans antifascist symbol.

Poster near Berlin SEGM conference: "Rapid Onset Gibberish Diarrhea? ROGD isn't a diagnosis. It's a dogwhistle. Trans healthcare saves lives. Against transphobic misinformation in psychology, psychotherapy and medicine." At right, the trans antifascist symbol.

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · Sep 11

Spotted near the SEGM conference: "Transfeinder aus de stadt jagen! [Chase trans enemies out of the city!] Trans healthcare saves lives. Against transphobic misinformation in psychology, psychotherapy and medicine." Background is a person waving a flag, and at right, the trans antifascist symbol.

Berlin poster that says "Transfeinder aus de stadt jagen!" [Chase trans enemies out of the city!]

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · Sep 11

SEGM has now imposed strict media rules on attendees: no photos, and posts about attendees must be done with express permission. So much secrecy! You'd almost think they are trying to hide something. I guess we'll have to wait for their embedded reporters to post after the embargo.

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · Sep 11

SEGM didn’t announce their venue until shortly before starting. I was dismayed to learn Klaus Reinhardt of Bundesärztekammer (BÄK) [German Medical Association] addressed the SEGM audience in the opening session. Grifters seek to establish their credibility at the expense of yours. Ask Gordon Guyatt!

Klaus Reinhardt of Bundesärztekammer (BÄK) [German Medical Association] addresses the SEGM audience.

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · Sep 10

I should put a bet in on Manifold Markets about SEGM Berlin attendees. I bet I’d clean up on Jesse Singal, probably Ben Ryan, and maybe even Azeen Ghorayshi!

Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · Sep 10

Tilly’s on the to-do list!

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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · Sep 10

please do!

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