Grayson (he/him)
@graysongoal.bsky.social
🏳️🌈♿️🏳️⚧️ writer, researcher, educator, & leftist dog pop | SE OH
I do too many things | LGBTQ+, AuDHD, disability, SJIA, patient-involved research, rheumatology, health tech, sex & sexual health, health equity, access, games, etc.
Links: graysongoal.carrd.co
I do too many things | LGBTQ+, AuDHD, disability, SJIA, patient-involved research, rheumatology, health tech, sex & sexual health, health equity, access, games, etc.
Links: graysongoal.carrd.co
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Grayson (he/him)
@graysongoal.bsky.social
· Nov 11
#Intro thread
Hi folks! I'm Grayson (right in the picture).
I do & talk about a lot of things — sex & health education, patient advocacy, healthcare access, health equity work, patient-involved research, AI in healthcare, being trans & queer in Ohio, TTRPGs & video games, and so much more.
Hi folks! I'm Grayson (right in the picture).
I do & talk about a lot of things — sex & health education, patient advocacy, healthcare access, health equity work, patient-involved research, AI in healthcare, being trans & queer in Ohio, TTRPGs & video games, and so much more.
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Months after Trump administration officials hyped a drug as a possible treatment for #autism symptoms, one of the largest studies examining its effectiveness in this population has been retracted. #disabilities
Autism Study Of Drug Touted By Trump Administration Retracted
Months after Trump administration officials hyped a drug as a possible treatment for autism symptoms, one of the largest studies examining its effectiveness in this population has been retracted.
www.disabilityscoop.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Months after Trump administration officials hyped a drug as a possible treatment for #autism symptoms, one of the largest studies examining its effectiveness in this population has been retracted. #disabilities
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Felled? He's still rich af and free as a bird. More like sidelined for now.
Thomas J. Pritzker, a billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, stepped down from his role as executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation — becoming the latest person felled by an association with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
Tom Pritzker, Citing Epstein Connection, Steps Down as Hyatt’s Executive Chairman
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Felled? He's still rich af and free as a bird. More like sidelined for now.
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Liam was not the only child being harmed. He was not the only child being starved or left to die.
Dilley must end, all of this has to end.
Dilley must end, all of this has to end.
Dilley must be shut down and everyone inside must be freed and provided immediate medical care. www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...
Two-month-old baby 'choking on his own vomit' while detained in Dilley
'His life is in danger,' U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility...
www.sacurrent.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Liam was not the only child being harmed. He was not the only child being starved or left to die.
Dilley must end, all of this has to end.
Dilley must end, all of this has to end.
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HHS canceled $500M in novel mRNA research, narrowed criteria on who should get the mRNA COVID vaccine, refused to review a completed study of a mRNA flu vaccine.
“We reject the claim that our approach to vaccines is anti-science or hostile to innovation.”
🧪 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...
“We reject the claim that our approach to vaccines is anti-science or hostile to innovation.”
🧪 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...
Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:09 AM
HHS canceled $500M in novel mRNA research, narrowed criteria on who should get the mRNA COVID vaccine, refused to review a completed study of a mRNA flu vaccine.
“We reject the claim that our approach to vaccines is anti-science or hostile to innovation.”
🧪 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...
“We reject the claim that our approach to vaccines is anti-science or hostile to innovation.”
🧪 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...
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A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy
How many followers for a prominent Bluesky elder to host Jeopardy
February 16, 2026 at 8:29 PM
A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy
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“I asked ChatGPT” yeah well I asked my autistic friend whose pattern recognition gives her borderline prophetic accuracy even though no one ever listens to her because she’s awkward and has bad timing and says the wrong thing and has no control over her body or volume or brain or
February 16, 2026 at 5:34 PM
“I asked ChatGPT” yeah well I asked my autistic friend whose pattern recognition gives her borderline prophetic accuracy even though no one ever listens to her because she’s awkward and has bad timing and says the wrong thing and has no control over her body or volume or brain or
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A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of a man who had been in immigration detention due to "objectively unreasonable failures of care that more likely than not resulted in permanent disability, including the loss of his toe and part of his foot."
![While Respondents largely do not address the conditions of Petitioner's confinement in responding to this claim, they argue elsewhere that "the medical care [Petitioner] has received is constitutionally adequate." Dkt. No. 22 at 15. But the record here compels a finding that, on the preponderance of the evidence, Petitioner's medical care, and denial of medical care, included objectively unreasonable failures of care that more likely than not resulted in permanent
disability, including the loss of his toe and part of his foot. The Court bases this finding on the
following facts:](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifgw3hkuamuxfvezrwuuwgt43gses572ta3swqhq4ht2ebcbiwpkm@jpeg)
February 16, 2026 at 9:31 PM
A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of a man who had been in immigration detention due to "objectively unreasonable failures of care that more likely than not resulted in permanent disability, including the loss of his toe and part of his foot."
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A great read from someone who used to be inside NIH sharing why those of us still there may be quieter than expected:
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-nih-s...
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-nih-s...
What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters
The people who understand most clearly what is being lost at the NIH are also the people least able to say so.
elizabethginexi.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:26 PM
A great read from someone who used to be inside NIH sharing why those of us still there may be quieter than expected:
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-nih-s...
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-nih-s...
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Happy for this one to be out today! this piece is particularly important to the folks profiled here, an amazing prison LGBTQ+ affirming organization called Be the Change, and I'd love to be able to share any reactions with those folks <3
truthout.org/articles/thi...
truthout.org/articles/thi...
This Tennessee Prison Is Leaving LGBTQ People Unhoused Behind Bars
The South Central Correctional Center leaves LGBTQ people defenseless, so they’re organizing to fight for their safety.
truthout.org
February 16, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Happy for this one to be out today! this piece is particularly important to the folks profiled here, an amazing prison LGBTQ+ affirming organization called Be the Change, and I'd love to be able to share any reactions with those folks <3
truthout.org/articles/thi...
truthout.org/articles/thi...
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Gonna cite the shit out of this tbh
It took a hot minute, but I can finally share my new paper on evidentiary pragmatism in transgender health care!
In it, I propose a new principle for evaluating scientific evidence based on the best reasonably achievable evidence, avoiding the ‘catch-22’ where trans care can never be justified.
In it, I propose a new principle for evaluating scientific evidence based on the best reasonably achievable evidence, avoiding the ‘catch-22’ where trans care can never be justified.
Evidentiary Pragmatism in Transgender Health Care | AJPH | Vol. 116 Issue 3
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)
ajph.aphapublications.org
February 16, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Gonna cite the shit out of this tbh
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And you see this manifest, endlessly, in the way centrists and those to their right (and even many liberals) talk down to and condescend to anyone they perceive as being a leftist or having leftist views.
It’s the exact language & style our culture teaches us to shut down and stifle mouthy women.
It’s the exact language & style our culture teaches us to shut down and stifle mouthy women.
One of the things language like this does is conveys the way that leftism is seen as feminized in america. Leftists are called “hysterical,” told we “throw tantrums,” and “are shrill and unreasonable.”
This is the language of cultural misogyny, used to denigrate and silence women.
This is the language of cultural misogyny, used to denigrate and silence women.
This is—ironically enough—what I am talking about.
RW voters who demand their bigotries be accommodated are never "radical" or "throwing a tantrum." No—those are "swing voters" to pursue, even as they fail to show up time & again. The goal here isn't a bigger tent, but to prevent movement leftward.
RW voters who demand their bigotries be accommodated are never "radical" or "throwing a tantrum." No—those are "swing voters" to pursue, even as they fail to show up time & again. The goal here isn't a bigger tent, but to prevent movement leftward.
February 16, 2026 at 1:07 PM
And you see this manifest, endlessly, in the way centrists and those to their right (and even many liberals) talk down to and condescend to anyone they perceive as being a leftist or having leftist views.
It’s the exact language & style our culture teaches us to shut down and stifle mouthy women.
It’s the exact language & style our culture teaches us to shut down and stifle mouthy women.
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A recent court decision allowing ICE to use states’ Medicaid data to identify where people live could have profound implications for patient trust, access to care and public health reporting. healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/02...
Is ICE undermining patient privacy by using Medicaid data?
A December court decision allowed federal ICE agents to use Medicaid data to identify where people live as part of enforcement actions.
healthjournalism.org
February 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM
A recent court decision allowing ICE to use states’ Medicaid data to identify where people live could have profound implications for patient trust, access to care and public health reporting. healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/02...
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Calling all disabled poets! Submit your poetry to the Our Right to Thrive Poetry Competition. We're looking for poems that explore disability, identity, resistance, and thriving.
Closes - 23rd Feb
disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...
Closes - 23rd Feb
disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...
February 16, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Calling all disabled poets! Submit your poetry to the Our Right to Thrive Poetry Competition. We're looking for poems that explore disability, identity, resistance, and thriving.
Closes - 23rd Feb
disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...
Closes - 23rd Feb
disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...
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Maybe an interesting research setting?
if noted disinformationista & back-to-normal enthusiast jay bhattacharya ordering NIH to deprioritize pandemic preparedness fills you with dread, i urge you to look toward the work of anti-covid & clean air activists, whose organizing has been increasingly essential as denial has become mainstream.
February 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Maybe an interesting research setting?
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Picard management tip: Make it sound like you know what you're doing, even if you're just picking a direction.
February 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Picard management tip: Make it sound like you know what you're doing, even if you're just picking a direction.
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Trump administration formally denies Minnesota investigators access to evidence in Alex Pretti shooting
Trump administration formally denies Minnesota investigators access to evidence in Alex Pretti shooting
Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota BCA, said the FBI has formally denied his agency access to evidence and information from the killing of Pretti at the hands of federal officers.
www.startribune.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Trump administration formally denies Minnesota investigators access to evidence in Alex Pretti shooting
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people really want a magic method to know what's AI and what isn't, but the reality is that AI is mimicking humans: there is no tell. the "tells" are either being a really bad mimic (obvious) or being TOO good (professional-level). this is what a detector is really telling you, which is...not useful
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
February 16, 2026 at 5:14 PM
people really want a magic method to know what's AI and what isn't, but the reality is that AI is mimicking humans: there is no tell. the "tells" are either being a really bad mimic (obvious) or being TOO good (professional-level). this is what a detector is really telling you, which is...not useful
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Well now, would you look at that?
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
February 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that?
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
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This is very timely, & a recommended class for anyone who wants to understand how sports is intrinsically connected to politics - despite what a lot of people want to believe. Also, Karen is brilliant.
NEW:
One of the most progressive institutions in the U.S., The New School, has begun destroying its humanities departments.
They have cancelled one of their most popular classes, "Global Soccer and World Politics."
We are going to teach it anyway.
karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...
One of the most progressive institutions in the U.S., The New School, has begun destroying its humanities departments.
They have cancelled one of their most popular classes, "Global Soccer and World Politics."
We are going to teach it anyway.
karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...
The New School Cancelled Their Class on Global Soccer and World Politics. We Are Going To Teach it Anyway.
When institutions abandon critical thinking, we build our own classrooms.
karenattiah.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:57 PM
This is very timely, & a recommended class for anyone who wants to understand how sports is intrinsically connected to politics - despite what a lot of people want to believe. Also, Karen is brilliant.
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Through out her life, Alice Wong was encouraged to feel like a burden, to just go away. She refused.
Disability is often the result of a "terminal disease." But people with disabilities can, and do, lead lives of dignity. Death should not be seen as the most noble or "dignified" option for them.
Disability is often the result of a "terminal disease." But people with disabilities can, and do, lead lives of dignity. Death should not be seen as the most noble or "dignified" option for them.
December 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Through out her life, Alice Wong was encouraged to feel like a burden, to just go away. She refused.
Disability is often the result of a "terminal disease." But people with disabilities can, and do, lead lives of dignity. Death should not be seen as the most noble or "dignified" option for them.
Disability is often the result of a "terminal disease." But people with disabilities can, and do, lead lives of dignity. Death should not be seen as the most noble or "dignified" option for them.
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I don’t want a society where it’s easier to be sick and get a meeting about getting help for ending your life than it is to get a meeting to get help to stay in your home, find a therapist or get healthcare. (This seems to be happening in Canada with MAiD)
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I don’t want a society where it’s easier to be sick and get a meeting about getting help for ending your life than it is to get a meeting to get help to stay in your home, find a therapist or get healthcare. (This seems to be happening in Canada with MAiD)
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Also, as a scholar of disease (and the criminalization of disease) I am DEEPLY skeptical of when the law deems someone as having a “terminal disease.” In much of the world, having HIV is legally considered having a “terminal disease.” But w treatment & housing, it need not be!
December 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Also, as a scholar of disease (and the criminalization of disease) I am DEEPLY skeptical of when the law deems someone as having a “terminal disease.” In much of the world, having HIV is legally considered having a “terminal disease.” But w treatment & housing, it need not be!
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This thread went a bit viral, which led to the filmmakers of LIFE AFTER inviting me to watching their documentary abt assisted suicide from a disability perspective (in front & behind the camera). It's free to watch on demand this week. Can't recommend it enough, kinema.com/events/Life-...
February 16, 2026 at 9:09 AM
This thread went a bit viral, which led to the filmmakers of LIFE AFTER inviting me to watching their documentary abt assisted suicide from a disability perspective (in front & behind the camera). It's free to watch on demand this week. Can't recommend it enough, kinema.com/events/Life-...
Book 3 of the year down (after not finishing one for years, thanks to autistic burnout).
"Unlearning Shame" by Devon Price hit pretty hard.
"Unlearning Shame" by Devon Price hit pretty hard.
February 16, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Book 3 of the year down (after not finishing one for years, thanks to autistic burnout).
"Unlearning Shame" by Devon Price hit pretty hard.
"Unlearning Shame" by Devon Price hit pretty hard.
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This is infuriating. American Studies programs produce some of the most innovative and compelling work out there.
Which is, of course, why it must go. 🤬
Which is, of course, why it must go. 🤬
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 16, 2026 at 12:35 PM
This is infuriating. American Studies programs produce some of the most innovative and compelling work out there.
Which is, of course, why it must go. 🤬
Which is, of course, why it must go. 🤬