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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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On a fight for your life, who do you want at your side?
Someone that's gonna fight like hell & all the way through or someone that covers & surrenders at the first threatening bleating?
MAGA is coming for us all, they won't be satisfied, they won't calm down. They are coming for everyone not them
Someone that's gonna fight like hell & all the way through or someone that covers & surrenders at the first threatening bleating?
MAGA is coming for us all, they won't be satisfied, they won't calm down. They are coming for everyone not them
Huge banks, corporations, and Universities bent the knee. Democratic politicians mewled in fear.
But not us. Never. We said death before detransition and fought on.
Keep your eyes on your trans neighbors, America. We can remind you what courage means. We'll show you how to resist.
But not us. Never. We said death before detransition and fought on.
Keep your eyes on your trans neighbors, America. We can remind you what courage means. We'll show you how to resist.
April 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
On a fight for your life, who do you want at your side?
Someone that's gonna fight like hell & all the way through or someone that covers & surrenders at the first threatening bleating?
MAGA is coming for us all, they won't be satisfied, they won't calm down. They are coming for everyone not them
Someone that's gonna fight like hell & all the way through or someone that covers & surrenders at the first threatening bleating?
MAGA is coming for us all, they won't be satisfied, they won't calm down. They are coming for everyone not them
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every day we see how taking a stand and being unapologetic in your values is the surest way to energize your supporters. if democrats can learn that lesson, they’ll get a lot further!
Do Dems need to throw gays, lesbians, and trans people overboard to win elections?
No. What Dems need is to look towards our community, particularly the trans community, for the sort of courage and moral leadership and American values that can get them winning again.
No. What Dems need is to look towards our community, particularly the trans community, for the sort of courage and moral leadership and American values that can get them winning again.
April 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
every day we see how taking a stand and being unapologetic in your values is the surest way to energize your supporters. if democrats can learn that lesson, they’ll get a lot further!
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The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
April 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
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Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.
Friendly reminder:
Due process is how we can be sure the people Miller and his henchmen are removing are legally subject to removal in the first place.
Due process is how we can be sure the people Miller and his henchmen are removing are legally subject to removal in the first place.
April 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.
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The US is undergoing the worst self-inflicted destruction of health, education, and knowledge creation infrastructure since the great leap forward. We will all be substantially less educated, poorer, and sicker while millions will die from completely preventable causes. It's civilizational suicide.
April 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The US is undergoing the worst self-inflicted destruction of health, education, and knowledge creation infrastructure since the great leap forward. We will all be substantially less educated, poorer, and sicker while millions will die from completely preventable causes. It's civilizational suicide.
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I swear to god there is a separate LinkedIn just for dudes with histories of misogynistic violence, how are they even finding this many scumbags
SCOOP: The lawyer working for DOGE who now leads USAID has a history of violence and racist remarks, ten people who knew him allege.
Police records show he was also once accused of threatening a girl with a knife/
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Police records show he was also once accused of threatening a girl with a knife/
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Top Trump USAID Staffer Accused of Violent Outbursts, Racist Remarks
Ten people who knew Jeremy Lewin, Trump’s deputy administrator at USAID, share concerns about his new position due to troubling behavior in his youth.
www.rollingstone.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I swear to god there is a separate LinkedIn just for dudes with histories of misogynistic violence, how are they even finding this many scumbags
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The difference between cis HRT and trans HRT reminds of the difference between getting an elective vasectomy vs. an elective hysterectomy. The former is met with little resistance, offered on informed consent; the latter is a last resort, met with a thousand are-you-sures or refused outright
It's amazing how quick a doc will give you the option of gender-affirming care if you're cis.
April 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The difference between cis HRT and trans HRT reminds of the difference between getting an elective vasectomy vs. an elective hysterectomy. The former is met with little resistance, offered on informed consent; the latter is a last resort, met with a thousand are-you-sures or refused outright
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Adam's pod is a fav of mine but this episode was next level. very informative and also hilarious
Trump’s executive orders attacking trans people will affect cis people, too.
March 31, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Adam's pod is a fav of mine but this episode was next level. very informative and also hilarious
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Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.
Diversity initiatives were meant to overcome the old patterns of nepotism, so I guess it makes sense that the enemies of diversity are big fans of nepotism.
Why is Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to top security meetings and hiring his brother at the Pentagon? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
March 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.
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1. The Trump administration has announced it will be investigating California, and will pull its school funding unless it forcibly outs transgender students.
California has a law against forced outing policies.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
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California has a law against forced outing policies.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trump Admin Threatens To Pull California School Funding Unless It Forcibly Outs Trans Students
The investigation, which will take place under the Department of Education, threatens to pull California's funding over not outing transgender kids to their parents.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
1. The Trump administration has announced it will be investigating California, and will pull its school funding unless it forcibly outs transgender students.
California has a law against forced outing policies.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
California has a law against forced outing policies.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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ABCqueer [cont] -- The 26-item scale is based on 3 themes common to trans people: social affirmation, self-affirmation and community connection. It's "the first ever scale to assess...a concept that arose from within the trans community to describe positive feelings associated with being trans."
Researchers take a more positive approach to trans identity
Australian researchers have developed a world-first scale to measure an almost universal experience for trans adolescents and adults – gender euphoria – that could have significant implications for me...
www.abc.net.au
March 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
ABCqueer [cont] -- The 26-item scale is based on 3 themes common to trans people: social affirmation, self-affirmation and community connection. It's "the first ever scale to assess...a concept that arose from within the trans community to describe positive feelings associated with being trans."
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"Tests executive power" Is one way for NPR to type "illegally ignoring a judge's orders."
March 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"Tests executive power" Is one way for NPR to type "illegally ignoring a judge's orders."
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Two Harvard medical school professors have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration where they allege their research was pulled from a public government website because it referred to the LGBTQ community.
March 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Two Harvard medical school professors have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration where they allege their research was pulled from a public government website because it referred to the LGBTQ community.
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I'm one of many trans people who found relief from depression through HRT.
I haven't needed psych meds since transitioning, and have only sought therapy a couple times, to handle major life shifts.
Pre-transition? In and out of inpatient for suicidality and eating disorder. It's that real.
I haven't needed psych meds since transitioning, and have only sought therapy a couple times, to handle major life shifts.
Pre-transition? In and out of inpatient for suicidality and eating disorder. It's that real.
ABC [Mar 17] -- New study in JAMA of 3,592 trans adults over 4 years found that those on gender-affirming hormones had significantly lower rates depression. CDC has found that trans people in general are 2-3 times more likely to have depression.
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Gender-affirming care may lower depression risk, study finds, but many are losing access
A new study finds gender-affirming care may lower depression risk, as access to such care is diminishing.
abcnews.go.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'm one of many trans people who found relief from depression through HRT.
I haven't needed psych meds since transitioning, and have only sought therapy a couple times, to handle major life shifts.
Pre-transition? In and out of inpatient for suicidality and eating disorder. It's that real.
I haven't needed psych meds since transitioning, and have only sought therapy a couple times, to handle major life shifts.
Pre-transition? In and out of inpatient for suicidality and eating disorder. It's that real.
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Maybe the big story isn’t “Texas midwife charged with alleged illegal abortions” but “Texas attacks and closes three clinics providing prenatal care for low income Spanish speakers.”
March 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Maybe the big story isn’t “Texas midwife charged with alleged illegal abortions” but “Texas attacks and closes three clinics providing prenatal care for low income Spanish speakers.”
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Gender dysphoria often doesn't feel like it's about gender. It can feel like your always watching a movie of somebody else's life or an emotional pain that never goes away. For me it was a filter of emptiness and disconnection that was laid over everything. It felt like not being a person.
March 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Gender dysphoria often doesn't feel like it's about gender. It can feel like your always watching a movie of somebody else's life or an emotional pain that never goes away. For me it was a filter of emptiness and disconnection that was laid over everything. It felt like not being a person.
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If apartheid was wrong in South Africa, it is wrong in Israel. If ethnic cleansing was wrong in Bosnia, it is wrong in Palestine. If genocide was wrong in Rwanda, it is wrong in Gaza. There is no principled way to support human rights in one context while excusing their violation in another.
March 18, 2025 at 6:22 AM
If apartheid was wrong in South Africa, it is wrong in Israel. If ethnic cleansing was wrong in Bosnia, it is wrong in Palestine. If genocide was wrong in Rwanda, it is wrong in Gaza. There is no principled way to support human rights in one context while excusing their violation in another.
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ABC [Mar 17] -- New study in JAMA of 3,592 trans adults over 4 years found that those on gender-affirming hormones had significantly lower rates depression. CDC has found that trans people in general are 2-3 times more likely to have depression.
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Gender-affirming care may lower depression risk, study finds, but many are losing access
A new study finds gender-affirming care may lower depression risk, as access to such care is diminishing.
abcnews.go.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
ABC [Mar 17] -- New study in JAMA of 3,592 trans adults over 4 years found that those on gender-affirming hormones had significantly lower rates depression. CDC has found that trans people in general are 2-3 times more likely to have depression.
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NYT [Mar 15] -- Massa Gessen out w/ big op-ed: "[lL]ong before [ppl] could be herded into death camps they had to be 'denationalized' - excluded from a society that guaranteed their rights [bec] w/o a state to claim them, people have no laws no courts to protect rights
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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
NYT [Mar 15] -- Massa Gessen out w/ big op-ed: "[lL]ong before [ppl] could be herded into death camps they had to be 'denationalized' - excluded from a society that guaranteed their rights [bec] w/o a state to claim them, people have no laws no courts to protect rights
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it does make sense that the Cass Report is embraced by transphobes even tho it's obviously shoddy science. the point isn't that they have a case, it's that they can pretend (if to themselves) they are motivated by anything except the desire to eradicate trans people, children yes but also adults.
March 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
it does make sense that the Cass Report is embraced by transphobes even tho it's obviously shoddy science. the point isn't that they have a case, it's that they can pretend (if to themselves) they are motivated by anything except the desire to eradicate trans people, children yes but also adults.