it’s not only a problem because it excludes trans people (and people do sometimes intend for it to be trans inclusive) but also because we don’t have exactly 2 different kinds of people with separate social/medical/biological spheres. the problems are in the classification system.

yes!! it seems like a really hard cycle to break out of and it’s very true that restrictive gender norms are enforced by both men and women on each other including on the libleft.

vibe with and you’re actually reinforcing those divisions and alienating less normative women right now by doing gender essentialism about this? idk, I have some ride or die friendships but I’m also very lonely because of geography problems and being a fucking cripple.

about the extent to which loneliness feels like a gendered issue for them. idk, gender is interesting and I wish the information environment was more permissive of gender opinions from men beyond like “we as men need to come together as bros to be better men, for women” 😴

it all starts to sound like “men drive their cars like THIS lalalala women drive their cars like THAT lelelele” over and over forever

no I totally get it, when I was doing really bad people repeating words made me feel like I was dying. cool disease(s) 😐

well I’m happy to read the first chapter into an audio file and likely more if you want to see if you‘re interested? although I assume it’s much easier cognitively to listen to readers who do this professionally so I’m not sure if that would work for you

oh no take care of yourself!! thank you for explaining this stuff to me, I wish I could have come to this terrible situation we’re in more prepared

oh like someone specific? or just in general you assume someone is doing this

awesome thank you!

okay folks, “government name” doesn’t mean “work for the government.” it is a slang term meaning “your full name”

*Getting (negative)

probably at least try to point the current administration at those folks.

the lawsuit question was less about partnership and more about Getting some specific people; I feel like if we could do that then whatever came next would be much easier than changing the culture of the nih from outside. but there may be no path to doing that.

if I were [unnamed individual] I’d

antagonists? since so many of y’all are lawyers I assume this isn’t a thing or people would have done it already but can we like, sue them to get the research into different hands 🤔

agree with this although I’m not sure how to go about finding such a thing, open to suggestions of course! I feel two different ways here, there‘s the issue of integrating patients into research as a long term goal but there’s also like…the fact that this situation is extreme and has clear

she’s wonderful I love her

kids killed for anyone who doesn’t have a pretty nuanced understanding of the history and context

maybe bc it feels hard to do messaging around scientific agencies being accountable to the public without sounding like I support giving randos veto power over critical science in the name of anti elitism? it’s hard to even talk about this without saying stuff that maps to ideology that‘s getting