Asher James
@asherj.bsky.social
Queer, trans, therapist. They/he.
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I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it.
So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.
So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it.
So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.
So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.
…as it turned out, the pumpkin patch also had a pick-your-own bouquet area, so ofc mostly I just photographed pollinators.
October 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
…as it turned out, the pumpkin patch also had a pick-your-own bouquet area, so ofc mostly I just photographed pollinators.
Today, we went to a pumpkin patch.
October 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Today, we went to a pumpkin patch.
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Republicans: "transgenderism must be eradicated."
Trans people: "they're trying to eradicate us."
Republicans: "Saying we want to eradicate you is violent extremism."
Trans people: "they're trying to eradicate us."
Republicans: "Saying we want to eradicate you is violent extremism."
The Heritage Foundation is going after me this morning calling me a terrorist because I am accurately stating what they are intending to do. Michael Knowles at CPAC explicitly called for the "eradication of transgenderism."
I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.
I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.
September 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Republicans: "transgenderism must be eradicated."
Trans people: "they're trying to eradicate us."
Republicans: "Saying we want to eradicate you is violent extremism."
Trans people: "they're trying to eradicate us."
Republicans: "Saying we want to eradicate you is violent extremism."
All I want is to own a safe and comfortable home, with a neighborhood association that bans lawns and lawn mowers; requires native species or/and food gardens; and collectively funds a rideshare and home maintenance.
(And universal healthcare, prison abolition, and an end to capitalism.)
(And universal healthcare, prison abolition, and an end to capitalism.)
September 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
All I want is to own a safe and comfortable home, with a neighborhood association that bans lawns and lawn mowers; requires native species or/and food gardens; and collectively funds a rideshare and home maintenance.
(And universal healthcare, prison abolition, and an end to capitalism.)
(And universal healthcare, prison abolition, and an end to capitalism.)
Me: Hey, cool, three full days of intense experiential training right when summer grades are due, and all my monthly billing is due, and I’ve got half a dozen newly former clients newly of other states who need medical referral letters; this will probably be fine.
August 4, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Me: Hey, cool, three full days of intense experiential training right when summer grades are due, and all my monthly billing is due, and I’ve got half a dozen newly former clients newly of other states who need medical referral letters; this will probably be fine.
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Not on my bingo card, but I’m sure…
July 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Not on my bingo card, but I’m sure…
You know those really lovely things Jews say, when someone you loved has died?
We’ve got other things, for the other kind of people, too.
May his name and his memory be blotted out; and may he find no rest, even in the grave.
We’ve got other things, for the other kind of people, too.
May his name and his memory be blotted out; and may he find no rest, even in the grave.
Heritage Foundation founder Feulner dies at 83
Edwin Feulner, founder and longtime president of the influential U.S. conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, has died at age 83, Heritage said in a statement.
www.reuters.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
You know those really lovely things Jews say, when someone you loved has died?
We’ve got other things, for the other kind of people, too.
May his name and his memory be blotted out; and may he find no rest, even in the grave.
We’ve got other things, for the other kind of people, too.
May his name and his memory be blotted out; and may he find no rest, even in the grave.
Her majesty reclaims her throne.
July 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Her majesty reclaims her throne.
I did not deliberately time my viewing to watch this episode of The Man in the High Castle, tonight, but watching the Statue of Liberty get bombed while spec-fic-Himmler intones “at long last, her light goes out,” and youths chant “blood and soil” in the streets… sure feels alarmingly timely.
July 4, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I did not deliberately time my viewing to watch this episode of The Man in the High Castle, tonight, but watching the Statue of Liberty get bombed while spec-fic-Himmler intones “at long last, her light goes out,” and youths chant “blood and soil” in the streets… sure feels alarmingly timely.
If this “fireworks warehouse explodes, kindling an 78-acre brush-fire, two days before the fourth of July” story isn’t a perfect metaphor for this fucking country…!
July 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
If this “fireworks warehouse explodes, kindling an 78-acre brush-fire, two days before the fourth of July” story isn’t a perfect metaphor for this fucking country…!
My maternal grandparents have always… well. To say they have “struggled” with my sexuality and gender is, mostly, a little too polite. They’ve made some headway in recent years, but it’s been slow, and there have been notable ups and downs.
June 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
My maternal grandparents have always… well. To say they have “struggled” with my sexuality and gender is, mostly, a little too polite. They’ve made some headway in recent years, but it’s been slow, and there have been notable ups and downs.
For context on the average of five older adolescents per year who received top surgery in Tennessee, from 2018, on… it’s tough to find detailed stats on underage breast augmentations in the US, because no one cares enough to count.
But there were 4,830 of those, nationwide, in 2011, alone.
But there were 4,830 of those, nationwide, in 2011, alone.
June 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
For context on the average of five older adolescents per year who received top surgery in Tennessee, from 2018, on… it’s tough to find detailed stats on underage breast augmentations in the US, because no one cares enough to count.
But there were 4,830 of those, nationwide, in 2011, alone.
But there were 4,830 of those, nationwide, in 2011, alone.
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Important context to the Supreme Court ruling is that Tennessee only has one gender clinic for kids and it performs 5 top surgeries per year.
This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries — that doesn't exist.
apnews.com/article/heal...
This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries — that doesn't exist.
apnews.com/article/heal...
June 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Important context to the Supreme Court ruling is that Tennessee only has one gender clinic for kids and it performs 5 top surgeries per year.
This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries — that doesn't exist.
apnews.com/article/heal...
This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries — that doesn't exist.
apnews.com/article/heal...
There’s an empty lot between our office building, and the still-empty one in the same complex.
June 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
There’s an empty lot between our office building, and the still-empty one in the same complex.
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i don't think most cis people know what it's like for every fun or happy or meaningful moment you experience to be overshadowed by some tragedy affecting your fundamental personhood in some way within 48 hours on either side of it
June 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Tomatoes! XS, S, M, and pending.
June 18, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Tomatoes! XS, S, M, and pending.
Tfw you have to take a Lyft home from klezmer rehearsal, and Fiddler on the Roof is the only thing your driver knows about being Jewish, and you make the mistake of telling him you were in it, in high school, and then he asks who you played, and you remember that YOU’RE TRANS, BRO
June 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Tfw you have to take a Lyft home from klezmer rehearsal, and Fiddler on the Roof is the only thing your driver knows about being Jewish, and you make the mistake of telling him you were in it, in high school, and then he asks who you played, and you remember that YOU’RE TRANS, BRO
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A win! A federal judge has ordered the government to restore hundreds of NIH grants slashed by the Trump administration, ruling the cuts were discriminatory against minorities and LGBTQ individuals. The judge said he’d have to be “blind” not to see the discrimination and declared the cuts illegal.
June 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A win! A federal judge has ordered the government to restore hundreds of NIH grants slashed by the Trump administration, ruling the cuts were discriminatory against minorities and LGBTQ individuals. The judge said he’d have to be “blind” not to see the discrimination and declared the cuts illegal.
