Amanda Hunt

Such a well-considered post - a colleague and I are leading a class discussion on AI ethics in teaching next month, and this will definitely be a reading

What to Do When Your Professional Association Breaks Your Heart BY AMY HAGOPIAN Public health professionals are charged with responding to humanitarian crises. When hospitals are bombed, when children are deliberately starved, when doctors are assassinated, we’…

Wow. My University of Washington colleague Amy Hagopian was expelled from APHA for her pro-Palestinan advocacy. 🧵

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Why So Many Neurodivergent Women Discover ADHD and Autism During Perimenopause Perimenopause unmasks ADHD and autism in women, leaving many misdiagnosed and unsupported. LOVETTEJALLOW.SUBSTACK.COM

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1/3 The mask many women have worn for decades rarely survives perimenopause.
Brain fog creeps in. Tasks unravel. Emotional regulation slips. Sensory overwhelm spikes.
What looked like competence was masking. When hormones shift, the mask breaks.

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word games, attempting to regulate speech by speech by improperly relabeling it as conduct" (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)). She likewise "contests the conflation of her speech with 'medical treatment." Opening Br. at 23 n.4. In her view, "[t]he conversations she has with clients are 'not medical at all' but are 'a client-directed conversation consisting entirely of speech." Opening Br. at 23 n.4 (quoting Otto v. City of Boca Raton, Fla., 981 F.3d 854, 866 n.3 (11th Cir. 2020)). Ms. Chiles compares the professional counseling services she provides to conversations a "sophomore psychology major" could have with a fellow student, which "[njo one" would

44a label as medical treatment or professional conduct." Opening Br. at 23 n.4. These arguments are wholly unpersuasive.

Reading the circuit court opinion in Chiles v Salazar and just couldn’t get past this statement where she asserts that the skill required to facilitate her sessions is roughly on par with that of an undergrad who has taken an intro to psychology course.

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

One of the fundamental truths we need to acknowledge in this moment is that domestic violence is where fascists learned how to get away with their violence.

“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.

Saw someone call AI users “botlickers” and that is very funny

To the extent that there’s a profit function, it’s often more in creating dread among the population so that the rich and powerful can bully them into doing whatever they want.

Over a million queer women rely on Medicaid. What happens if they lose it? Lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to be low-income, more likely to be parents and more likely to rely on Medicaid. They could fall through the cracks of Trump’s new tax law.

Queer women will be hit especially hard by the incoming Medicaid cuts and restrictions in Trump's tax law.

That includes Sara Habein, a mother of two living in northern Montana, who recently learned that she has cysts in her brain.

Read her story in the latest from me and @chabeli.bsky.social

It’s worth noting however that civil commitment is primarily a state level process. There is no federal infrastructure at scale for what he describes, which begs a series of increasingly disturbing questions about how this will be carried out.

Involuntary “treatment” does not work. What it does do is permanently alienate people with addictions from potential treatment providers, drives up overdose deaths and maximizes “revolving door” use of facilities such that people who are ready to make a change and want treatment can’t get a bed.

“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic

they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned

Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…

i don’t really know what comes next for us

nobody really does if they’re being truthful with you

but having the supreme court say you can ban hrt as long as conversion therapy stays legal

and that’s not discrimination

is a recipe for such incredible hardship, pain, suffering immeasurable

😬

I am going to start thinking of metaanalyses as the science equivalent of mortgage-backed securities. Can be excellent as long as someone is carefully monitoring the stuff they're made of, but not so much otherwise.

In the case of sex discrimination, it is impossible to see how an assessment of the differential risk known to be posed by, say, (highlighting) women and men drivers (end highlighting), could possibly be made by reference to actuarial or other reliable data sources that had also to take account of certificated sex based on a GRC. There is no rational basis for thinking that having a certificate could make a difference to the risk posed by drivers of different sexes. Here too, sex can only mean biological sex.

This ruling also asserts that the characteristics of "women drivers" are biologically determined, if you want to gauge the radioactive level of sexism it emits.

Depends entirely on their belief. Gender is fake, etc, yes. But also if being emphatically That Gender makes you happy then noone should tell you otherwise.

Sigh.

I'm not trying to make myself happy. I am trying to communicate what my positionality in a patriarchal hierarchy is.

The queer academy and the discourses it's spawned have been such a fucking disaster for (trans)feminism.

Many people seem to only be able to "include" trans women if everyone is welcome, if gender itself ceases to hold any meaning.

I'd like for that to happen, too, but in this world, this patriarchal world, gender subjects trans women to misogyny, womanizes us.

Do you believe that?

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

4/20/2025

The #WomensHealthInitiative is an amazing, longitudinal study thats been following a set of women for over 30 years! I assume the "Women's" part is a big part of why it's been cut 😡
#WHI #Health #HHS #FundingCuts

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Y’all, discontinuing the WHI is terrible but please don’t use its debunked research on HRT “risks” as an example of a good thing they did. It was a terrible study that caused an entire generation of women serious harm.

Big up to my darling physiatrist mother who writes in journals citing the Cass report (we're in Canada) and whinging about the definition of conversion therapy being "too broad".

She teaches residents at one of the largest unis in the country :))))

all my post-grad-school work has been about trying to grab the nose of the media monster and pointing it away from the well-funded and attractively presented “censorious youths are destroying academia with cancel culture” towards the truth, but i completely failed and now students are being purged

What happens to health research when 'women' is a banned word? Trump's federal funding cuts are shutting down studies on Alzheimer’s care, uterine fibroids and pregnancy risks — all because they focus on gender.

Trump's federal funding cuts are shutting down studies on Alzheimer’s care, uterine fibroids and pregnancy risks — all because they focus on gender.

@shefali.bsky.social + @bcrodriguez.bsky.social report

We have to protect & support our students!

“Marie Krebs, a graduate student in the University of Iowa’s School of Social Work, is leaving the university after facing disciplinary action for a presentation she and a classmate gave on diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI”

I'm going to guess that this kind of question was designed by a helpful cis person who has been to all the right courses on diversity and inclusion and has never talked to a trans person about why it might not work in the big bad real world

A website text box reading: TO HELP US UNDERSTAND THE PHYSICAL NATURE OF YOUR BODY PLEASE INDICATE WHAT GENDER YOU WERE AT BIRTH. YOU WILL BE ASKED ABOUT GENDER PREFERNCES AND PRONOUNS LATER ON IN THE JOURNEY. MALE FEMALE Birth gender can't be blank Female is ticked

In the almost certainly misplaced hope that it will do some good, I’m going to explain why your medical thing needs to NOT DO THIS.

I really need everyone to remember that when we talk about the attacks on scientists rn, y'all need to be REALLY FUCKING CLEAR about *which* scientists are specifically under attack

the tiktok ban is like 5% of what happens if KOSA becomes law but we’re not having that conversation

I am still shocked every time I see a “cyber/privacy expert” promoting these spy glasses. Idgaf how “cool” you think some of the tech is- you are a walking surveillance machine for an adtech company and every part of “why would you wear these” reveals bad intentions or lack of community care