Eli the trans science guy

What would Admiral Adama and the crew of Galactica do?

Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

Sooooo if this whole "biological sex" EO is really happening, biologists are going to make as much noise about it as possible, right?

Professional societies, universities, individual research groups? It's really incumbent on us (that's a "biologists us" here) to make a BIG FUCKING STINK

I am going to community science my way through these next 4 years. And take all attacks on transgender folk very, very personally. Which means I may be doing a lot of rage water quality data crunching and/or binge-watching air transport modeling youtubes......

Nancy Mace Calls Police on Prominent Foster Youth Advocate A former foster youth and award-winning advocate was arrested at the U.S. Capitol tonight after Rep. Nancy Mace accused him of assault.

The person who supposedly “assaulted Nancy Mace” was just a foster youth advocate who literally did nothing more than shake her hand.

Wow.

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Hi all -- it's totally fine to see this as a theoretical adventure but my daughter has demanded such a vehicle and has achieved high grades as required.....help!!

#agu24 being in DC this year was important. I ended up randomly speaking with someone from the EPA who had survived Trump 1.0 AND then someone from Labor who had done the same. We need to stop clutching pearls and just get on with the democratic experiment. Science is as relevant as we make it.

Too bad there aren't more earth scientists in the DC Capitol Building. Such a small but deeply respectful way to value all people -- even us transfolk -- thank you #agu24 for always having my transgender earth scientist back!

A lot of academics (myself included) are activists. Studying something horrible (you know, like climate change or gender inequality) and wanting to make it less horrible doesn’t mean your work is compromised — it just means you give a shit. Empathy is a key scholarly skill. IMHO.

Why aren't you speaking up to defend the new Congresswoman from Delaware. As the demonstrators chanted yesterday "Democrats grow a spine; TRANS LIVES are on the line". I am having a hard time getting past your silence on this issue. #transrights

On November 20th, Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a federal trans bathroom ban under the title of the "Protecting Women's Private Spaces Act." While this began as an attempt to bar newly-elected Representative Sarah McBride of Delaware from using the women's restroom in her own place of work as a legislator - which is unacceptable on its own merits - it will not end there. Speaker Johnson's decree in support of Mace's proposal reiterated the same argument: that this is an act designed to protect women, to keep us safe, because "women deserve women's only spaces." To introduce this legislation on the International Transgender Day of Remembrance - a day commemorating trans people worldwide who have died due to hate and violence - is appalling. To pretend Mike Johnson and the House GOP care about the safety of women, given the candidate they just elected and the Cabinet nominations he continues to make, is beyond naive.

Over the past several years, as trans bathroom bans have been enacted in communities across the country, we have seen firsthand the cascading negative effects. No one is made safer by this. Certainly trans youth are not, as we saw firsthand from the shocking, violent death of Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old nonbinary youth in Oklahoma who complied with exactly such a bathroom restriction and was brutally beaten by classmates in February of this year. But even the women and girls these bills purport to protect are at increased risk; this legislation empowers individuals with narrow definitions of gender presentation to appoint themselves bathroom cops, and harass anyone they do not believe is publicly performing the role of womanhood correctly.

Lesbians and butch women, women who are unusually tall, women who have short hair, women who wear baggy or "masculine" clothes, women of color in professional sports whose bodies are critiqued for their strength, even simply women who wear baseballs caps: all of this is sufficient evidence for increased harassment. This is not even a new phenomenon; there are news stories of exactly these cases going back to the bathroom bans of 2016. It will not just be Rep. McBride who suffers for this; it will be your own congressional staff - anyone who is queer, trans, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, or simply does not fit the stereotype of female physical appearance - whose workplace harassment you would be enabling if Mace's proposal is allowed to pass.

The people who make women's restrooms unsafe are people like Nancy Mace, who are banking on the silent complicity of other cisgender women to support the lie that the majority of us feel safer and more comfortable with trans people pushed out of our spaces. The end goal of trans bathroom bans is not limited to who uses which bathroom; it is a way to test the public's compliance with eradicating trans and nonbinary people from public spaces altogether. In the wake of the recent presidential election loss, it seems clear that it is also a test of the moral backbone of the Democratic Party, and whether we will choose to abandon our progressive values for the sake of expedience and permit more Nex Benedicts to suffer.

boosting the Cisgender Women Against Bathroom Bans petition again, please sign and share if you missed it the first time around! It’s at a little under 8,500 signatures now and we would love to try to get it to 10,000 by the weekend!

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Amazing amazing amazing

Trans folks held a dance party in the Capitol bathroom to protest the bathroom ban on there.

Repost if you agree that CNN should kick dishonest Trump shill Scott Jennings off their network.

the “Elonia Musk” thing rests entirely on “ha ha what if he was a woman” and that is so self-evidently transphobic and misogynistic that I do not understand calling yourself progressive and unironically using it as an insult

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social can you please, please stop with the pictures of Elon as a woman and feminizing his name as an insult??? It’s extremely misogynistic and it normalizes misgendering. It has actual consequences for some of us. Other trans users should amplify this message as well.

Just had a wonderful interview with a fellow queer at Radio Kingston re: climate, environment, and the importance of local community science as we enter Trump 2.0....https://radiokingston.org/en/broadcast/nature-nuggets/episodes/nature-nuggets-episode-30-urban-ecology-with-prof-elias-deuker

Can we have a conversation about what actions can happen NOW to address rampant transphobia? To stand with trans women while they bravely lead (as usual)? Science is clear that biology has nothing to do with this. Leftists are clear that this is a civil rights fight. Where is the action?????

Yes. That is what I meant. Will be at the Capitol building.

San Jose State’s Opponent Boycotts Game Over Transgender Player. Again. The women’s volleyball team at the center of a national debate over gender and sports advanced to the conference championship after Boise State refused to play.

The NYT is out here letting people misgender their trans teammate in the paper of record while not including any trans voices in the story at all. Just out here amplifying the hate from the bigoted side without doing anything to challenge it. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/u...

This is something I could do. Like in a week when I am in DC.

Sometimes I wonder if the fact that we (transmen) are so often invisible makes transwomen more vulnerable in the bathroom fights????

Makes sense. So what should we be doing?

I don't know-- I have actually considered this. As a trans man I do think there may be some value to having trans men make a point about the bathroom bans. The specific targeting of transwomen needs to be challenged in a concrete way.

Totally been there. I am a butch trans man who would like to engage in civil disobedience of some kind. Will be in DC in a week and curious about ways to be in solidarity with all the gender non-conforming folks who work in the capitol????

Libraries are crucial to climate resilient communities. In the Hudson Valley they are providing first-ever ground-level neighborhood air quality measurements -- cesh.bard.edu/csl/purple-a...

I agree with this work, but am I the only environmental scientist out here who is ready to turn the page on the "it's not too late" or "runaway climate change" or other doom rhetoric? On the scale of human lifetimes, it is never too late for anything. Science needs to empower people, not scare.

Sigh. This is what happens when we focus on gay marriage and not healthcare, civil rights, and respect for all people, including transgender folks like me.

New definition of "progressive tax" -- when someone triggered by your political signs puts a piece of wood with nails sticking up in your driveway and pops all the left-side tires of your household's cars. Do they know that they have now just made us get all new tires which are safer in snow? Hmmm.