Sofia Melendez Ron, M.Ed., M.A.

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We’re the Advancing Research for Culturally Aligned Interventions (ARCAI) Lab, based in the Department of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU).

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Hi! I have four law degrees and teach law. Can confirm. Is extremely bad.

Trans people are fucking amazing. Don’t you forget it.

Gatekeeping gender-affirming care is detrimental to detrans people Gender assessments are often required to access gender-affirming medical interventions. These assessments are typically defended as a way of preventing regret, offering a compromise between the int...

Our article on how gatekeeping is actually harmful to detrans people has been assigned an issue!

Free link: www.florenceashley.com/uploads/1/2/...

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

Breaking: A federal judge sides with Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota and has just blocked Trump's anti-trans EO banning care under the age of 19 via a TRO.

This is the second federal judge in a row to conclude that the President's EO is likely unconstitutional.

As promised, here is the audio version!

Screenshot of the first page of an article titled “Gatekeeping gender-affirming care is detrimental to detrans people” in the International Journal of Transgender Health

Gatekeeping does NOT benefit detrans people.

Our paper on gatekeeping and detransition is now out! I’m immensely hyped for this paper, written in collaboration with wondrous scholars and including co-authors who have lived experience with detransition.

Official link: doi.org/10.1080/1553...

El sangriento origen del pozole, uno de los platos más tradicionales de las fiestas patrias de México - BBC News Mundo El pozole es una de las comidas favoritas por los mexicanos para celebrar su independencia cada mes de septiembre, pero ¿sabes cómo se preparaba originalmente su antecedente prehispánico?

Pozole (then called tlacatlaolli) used to be cooked with human flesh as part of a ritual offering by the elites of the Mexicas (aka Aztecs) to Xipe Tótec (god of fertility, maíz, and war). Like in other cultures that had human sacrifices, it was a great honour to be the one sacrificed

Major breaking trans news: The ACLU has launched a lawsuit on behalf of 7 transgender people affected by Trump’s passport ban.

Incredible filing. The Trump admin is now swarmed with lawsuits over discriminatory and illegal executive orders.

Please consider doing this survey. We'd love to hear from people all over the world. Queer or not queer, you'd have thoughts on seeing queer representation.

BREAKING NEWS: We’re SUING TRUMP! 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧵

This left me thinking about the origins of pozole

Our paper titled “Gatekeeping Gender-Affirming Care is Detrimental to Detrans People” was accepted for publication!

Gender is messy and that’s the entire beauty of it! ✨

Hey, so I just gave a lecture titled “A Healthy Disrespect for the Law” at UBC in Canada, and I’d be happy to do a virtual version for U.S. law schools, which are full of students that probably need to hear it.

The history of Zionism is peppered with examples of antisemites who supported the Zionist project first and foremost on antisemitic grounds. You think the British supported Zionism out of the goodness of their heart? Because they loved Jewish people? No.

I guess some people don’t realize that a majority of Zionists throughout history were antisemites who (a) wanted Jews to leave their country and/or (b) bring about the end times?

J. Donald Mawhinney Lectureship in Professional Ethics In this talk, it is argued that disrespect can be an effective tool for challenging injustice and that jurists should entertain a healthy disrespect for the law given the widespread and foundational n...

Welp, my “fuck the law” lecture on Thursday just became even more timely.

Hey Canadian PSYC folks! Some incredible students are working with me to create a free online resource re: career pathways in PSYC in Canada. We are looking for all kinds of folks (esp non academic) who might be willing to have a brief bio included. Please share! forms.office.com/r/RhQRS4QMyg

Thank you to everyone that’s taken part in the Trans Lives Survey 2024/25 so far. We’re really keen to hear more from Black and brown trans people.

If you’ve got any questions about the survey, send us a DM or email research@transactual.org.uk

“It was a Roman salute.”

Wouldn’t change anything. Unless you’re playing a Roman in a movie, doing a Roman salute is still Nazi shit.

ADL: “Pro-Palestinian advocacy is antisemitic and anti-Zionist Jews are self-hating.”

Also ADL: “We don’t think it’s antisemitic for Elon Musk to do a Sieg Heil shortly after defending the a German far-right party frequently accused of being neo-Nazis and Holocaust denialists.”

The passport page about changing your gender marker is now down.

I'm expecting trans people's passports to be a major battleground of this administration.

travel.state.gov/content/trav...

Hi BlueSky! I want to introduce myself

🇲🇽🍁 Mexican Canadian living between Guadalajara & Toronto
🧠 Neurodivergent
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Bi & genderqueer
📚PhD student in clinical & health psych
🎓Master of Education
💜 Passionate about critical theories, pedagogy, gender affirmation, decoloniality, & disability

Forcibly displaced Palestinians return to what’s left of their homes across Gaza after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire comes into effect.

— in pictures aje.io/axybur

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Beyond the trans/cis binary: introducing new terms will enrich gender research We need terms such as ‘gender modality’ that are flexible enough to capture the nuances of human experience but pragmatic enough to serve science.

Still so wild and cool that I got to publish in Nature. We’re going places. Places, I say! ✨