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Wikipedia editor focusing on trans history, healthcare, and rights as well as the history of tenant organizing in NYC

If you know my irl identity, don't mention it here

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ @yfns-wikipedia.bsky.social · Jan 31
Hey y'all, I'm Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist!

I've been editing Wikipedia for over 3 years now, mostly focusing on trans rights/healthcare/history, the anti-trans movement, and the history of tenant organizing in NYC.

Full bio/list of works here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yo...
User:Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist - Wikipedia
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yfns-wikipedia.bsky.social
I've been following this case for a while and holy fuck this is depressing. A man cornered and started beating Jaia and she stabbed him in self defense after warning him she would if he didn't stop. She got 15 years

www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/30/j...
Jaia Cruz admits stabbing postal worker to death in Harlem deli, gets 15 years
At least 10 years was shaved off her sentence — part of a plea agreement in April — angering victim Ray Hodges’ loved ones, who felt the sentence was too light.
www.nydailynews.com
May 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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parkesland.bsky.social
OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
tinyurl.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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indiawilloughby.bsky.social
Even for the sadistic Sex Matters, this is hideous.
But they give the game away about what this is all REALLY about. The worst nightmare for people like JK Rowling is a future where trans people grow up imperceptible to c!s. Harder to mock and bully. Natch, they copy in NHS trans torturer Steeting.
April 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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floralashes.bsky.social
If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne.

The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews.

Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.
Screenshot of XML information open in notepad, showing “Alex Byrne” under the creator tag..
May 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
yfns-wikipedia.bsky.social
Unsurprising attack piece from yet another anti-trans org upset about my work... I'd thought there'd been more vandalism the last few days...

All I can say to them is:
That's so sad. Alexa, play Despacito

lgbcouragecoalition.substack.com/p/trans-wiki...
Trans Wikipedia
Activists control the "facts" on Youth Gender Medicine
lgbcouragecoalition.substack.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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reclaimingtrans.bsky.social
Fuck “detrans awareness day”, it’s a bullshit day that exists so conversion therapists & right-wingers can spread disinfo/propaganda about detransition, harming both trans & detrans people. Most detrans people are trans/pro-trans, anti-trans detrans activists are a minority amplified by the Right.
March 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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healthliberationnow.com
It is with great sadness that we must announce the retirement of Health Liberation Now! in order to focus on rest, reflection, and reassessing future goals.

Read our full statement below, along with a compilation of our resources: healthliberationnow.com/2025/03/15/a...
Black, grey, red and white statement graphic. Text reads: Announcement: Retirement of HLN After four years since our start in 2021, the Health Liberation Now! project is closing to focus on rest, reflection, and reassessing future goals. It's been a hell of a ride and we've gotten a ton of work done in a short amount of time. However, a key part of maintaining a sustainable resistance is through caring for ourselves, one another, and our collective ability to fight long term. It is clear that the momentum we had in the beginning of the project is no longer a possibility without rest. Rest will give us the energy we need to approach the future with clarity and purpose. Additionally, we are feeling the effect of mission drift away from our original goal of creating collaborative spaces where all gender diverse people can work together for a better future in transgender health care. Analyzing the anti-trans politics that affect us all is only one part of the picture - we need a more solid, collective resistance to put the analyzes to use. Balance is critical for sustainability and long-term effectiveness, and to accomplish this we need to reflect on what worked, where things went wrong, and how we can create spaces that are more balanced and effective for everyone's needs. In just four years we accomplished so much. None of it would have been possible without the support of our donors, readers, and international comrades we've networked with. Your support gave us the critical resources we need to launch and maintain HLN. There are not enough words to be able to express our gratitude and love for everyone we have connected with and who have supported us in our pursuit for collective liberation. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. Text continued in next image. Text continued reads: What happens now? We know that closing HLN during such a critical time in anti-trans politics seems counter-intuitive. Which is why we want to ensure that the material we have produced will still be available to those who need it. During that time we will take the time to rest and reflect on where to go from here. So, what happens now? We sat down and discussed what steps needed to be taken to ensure availability of HLN resources for the time being while we recuperate. - Website access: While our operating costs were already fairly minimal, we have streamlined current costs to prioritize maintaining access to the site. All of the current resources on our site and elsewhere are paid through for the next two years. This means that you can still browse and reference our website, watch workshops we've been a part of, and share them freely. Come 2027, we will assess our private resources and determine if the archive access can be reasonably extended. We are also extensively archived on Wayback Machine. - Inquiries: During this period we will not be accepting any new inquiries through HLN emails. We encourage journalists and researchers to review our current material but will be unavailable for comment for the foreseeable future. Our Contact Us page will be updated to reflect this. - Financials: As our present server and other administrative costs have been covered for now, we will be disabling donations through our Ko-Fi. To honor our recurring donors for their essential support over the past four years, we'll reach out directly to notify you and show our appreciation. End text
March 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
yfns-wikipedia.bsky.social
Did I stay up much later than I should've making a python script to map trans healthcare for youth in the US and make the resulting map creative commons? Why yes, yes I did! 🥰 #trans #transhealth #wikimedia #anti-trans
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A...
commons.wikimedia.org
March 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
yfns-wikipedia.bsky.social
Yoooooo, creative commons supports trans rights!!! Happily discovered by accident today lol
creativecommons.org/2023/05/11/c...
CC Supports Trans Rights - Creative Commons
At Creative Commons, we vehemently condemn the extensive violations of trans rights that are occurring across the world, and the current climate of fear and violence directed at trans individuals. We ...
creativecommons.org
March 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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wittywebhandle.bsky.social
Being radicalized increasingly since 2016 has just been banging my head against this post indefinitely.
Tweet from @addamschloe nazi: *blows dog whistle* leftist: wow, that sounds like a dog whistle, an expression deliberately made to have plausible deniability centrist: buy plausibly, they could deny that
February 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
yfns-wikipedia.bsky.social
Some new reporting out on conversion therapy (sorry, "gender exploratory therapy") advocates at NYU affiliated with SEGM and Therapy First
#trans #anti-trans #conversiontherapy

nyunews.com/features/new...
At least 2 NYU affiliates involved in organizations that promote anti-trans practices - Washington Square News
nyunews.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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emilystjams.bsky.social
This is so, so, so fucked. And the only immediate end is cruelty.
February 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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esqueer.net
The highest ranking trans person in the federal government was fired last week amid the broader purge. It was certainly political and targeted. 19thnews.org/2025/02/amy-...
She pioneered change over five presidencies. The Trump administration just fired her.
Amy Paris, a transgender official who worked at the highest levels of the federal government, suspects her termination was politically motivated.
19thnews.org
February 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.

You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.

My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.

www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
www.reddit.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
I spent today trying to encapsulate how I felt about the Trump administration's concerted campaign to remove transgender people from existence across the federal bureaucracy, what may be coming next and what steps if any can be taken to push back. I'll be updating this regularly.
Once more down the memory hole — Jessica Kant
Within less than 24 hours, the Trump regime began doing exactly what it promised and enacted an immediate and comprehensive campaign of erasure of transgender people unlike anything in United States h...
jessk.org
February 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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thewikipedian.bsky.social
1/ The Media Research Center (MRC) is pushing a new attack on Wikipedia, claiming it "blacklists" conservative media. In reality, right-wing groups have been escalating their war on Wikipedia for over a year—because they can’t control it. 🧵👇 www.thewikipedian.net/p/right-wing...
The Right’s War on Wikipedia is Just a Repackaging of its War on Journalism
In its exaggerated critique of Wikipedia's standards for reliable sources, the Media Research Center attempts a striking feat of false equivalence
www.thewikipedian.net
February 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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transadvocate.com
From DFW airport bathroom stall.

Poe's law achieved.
SECURITY NOTICE Electronic Genital Verification (EGV) Your genitalia may be photographed electronically during your use of this facility as part of the Electronic Genital Verification (EGV) pilot program at the direction of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. In the future, EGV will help keep Texans safe while protecting your privacy by screening for potentially improper restroom access using machine vision and Artificial Intelligence (Al) in lieu of traditional genital inspections. At this time, images collected will be used solely for model training purposes and will not be used for law enforcement or shared with other entities except as pursuant to a subpoena, court order or as otherwise compelled by legal process. Your participation in this program is voluntary. You have the right to request removal of your data by calling the EGV program office at (512) 463-0001 during normal operating hours (Mon-Fri 8AM-5PM).
February 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
yfns-wikipedia.bsky.social
This fucked me up to learn - via somebody trying to update her wiki bio citing glinner gloating...

In 2022, she requested her wiki article be updated to reflect her retransition and I helped with that. Never knew her personally but respected the hell out of her for rejoining the good fight. Fuck.
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 11
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.

She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.

RIP Elisa.
Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
The suicide letter they won't publish
zerodoesntsleep.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Honestly, I think this is true. Even some of the fake both-sides anti-trans "centrists" are sort of mumbling and upset with the way Trump is enacting the same policies they've been calling for for years.

Trump just makes bare exactly what's behind anti-trans sentiment.
February 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
yfns-wikipedia.bsky.social
Check out this wonderful article from my friend and colleague Pax! I get some honorary mentions 🥰
assignedmedia.org Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Feb 11
New and only on Assigned Media:

Wikipedia editor Pax Ahimsa Gethen writes about transphobic harassment, defacement, and attempts to turn Wikipedia into a source of anti-trans disinformation, and of the determination of trans editors to preserve the site as a vital source of unbiased, truthful info.
On Trans Issues, Wikipedia is a Bulwark Against Disinformation — Assigned
In the wake of the anti-trans legislation by the Trump Administration, Wikipedia stands as a reliable source for information on trans topics.
www.assignedmedia.org
February 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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erininthemorning.com
1. Today, the New York Times Editorial Board published a piece titled "Trump's Shameful Campaign Against Transgender Americans."

I criticize the paper's attempt to wash away the paper's own culpability in ushering in an era of eradication-based policies.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
NYT Hypocrisy: Outlet Criticizes Trump's Attacks On Trans People That They Helped Usher In
The New York Times Editorial Board today released an opinion piece calling Trump's attacks on transgender Americans "shameful." The paper has been influential in fueling those attacks.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
yfns-wikipedia.bsky.social
Last night I added the fact Marsha P Johnson was on hormones and planned to get surgery to her Wikipedia article, which somehow hasn't been mentioned until then...

That's Wikipedia folks
February 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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jael.bsky.social
calling any journalists who need high res editorial quality photos of the rally at dc children’s national:

i’ve got a giant drive folder for you. feel free to use these.

photo credit: john lee

drive.google.com/file/d/10zpP...
Giant crowd of protestors in front of the Children’s National Hospital sign protestor wrapped in rainbow pride flag holding a “protect trans kid” sign underneath a trans pride flag Giiiiiiiant line of trans rights protestors Giiiiiant line of trans rights protestors in front of Children’s National
February 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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socialists.nyc
🚨TRUMP IS TRYING TO BAN HEALTHCARE FOR TRANS KIDS🚨

NYU Langone is one of the few hospitals in the country that's begun withholding life-saving healthcare for trans kids. Join us for an emergency rally tomorrow. Demand NYU Langone reverse this decision! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
actionnetwork.org/events/prote...
February 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM