Noa Ben-Asher (@nbenas) — Bluesky Profile

2 weeks ago

My new work in skrmetti and transgender rights is now on ssrn. It is about the Court’s Gender Trouble and the possibility of recentering transgender rights on “sex”
Comments welcome!

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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5 months ago

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 09/28/2025 · 1h 9m

I was moved by Coates here. I guess learning through pain makes you wiser.

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6 months ago

A flyer for the event with similar infomation as our post. Inundations: Permeable Bodies and the Law - Weds Sept 17 in Jeffries Hall 1020

Join us as our Environmental & Energy Law Program kicks off its 2025-26 lecture series.

Professor @margotpollans.bsky.social will discuss "Inundations: Permeable Bodies and the Law."

📆: Wednesday, September 17
🕑: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
📍: Jeffries Hall 1020

This event is free and open to the public.

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6 months ago

What an honor to receive this award alongside @margotpollans.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social @darapurvis.bsky.social @ddangaran.bsky.social

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8 months ago

Today's Skrmetti opinion is devastating to transgender children and families who live in states with cruel laws barring gender affirming care. But it is very important to recognize this opinion does not give private entities, legislatures, or the President carte blanche to discriminate! 1/x

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10 months ago

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

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10 months ago

honored to be included.

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10 months ago

Trans Healthcare Bans in a White Nationalist Political Economy The persecution of transgender people, though often treated as a niche concern, is central to today’s political and economic realignments. These attacks are not ancillary but entangled with broader…

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1 year ago

Exactly! Suspend the rule of law to encounter dangerous terrorists..

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1 year ago

Ha?

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1 year ago

Sounds fascinating and important. Can’t wait to read.

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1 year ago

Online poster calling for an Economic Boycott on 2/28. The background is teal blue. It features a red, mildly alarmed-looking rabbit, and text that reads:

Economic Boycott
Don't buy stuff Friday Feb 28.
We have power.
No Amazon
Walmart
Target
Fast-food
Gas

Ok
Small business
Use cash

Don't forget!

Friday (12:01am-11:59pm)
‼️#EconomicBlackout‼️

No spending money, ESPECIALLY no Amazon, Target, or Walmart, for 24 hrs, unless you absolutely have to (& if you have to, pls shop local & use cash).

Image @martharich63 (IG)
h/t @katiewhittemore22.bsky.social & @jesscraven101.bsky.social

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1 year ago

The idea that courts will stop all of this is evidence of the crisis, not a reassurance that it wont arrive

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1 year ago

Denmark please..

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1 year ago

Rally for Trans youth NYC!
“Stand up fight back”!

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

Couldn’t agree more

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1 year ago

happy to participate in upcoming Virginia Law Review symposium on legal, cultural, and political aspects of gender affirming care (February 6-7).
@jessicaclarke.bsky.social @katieeyer.bsky.social @kredburn.bsky.social @tyroclem.bsky.social

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1 year ago

‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".

The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.

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1 year ago

This cert could explain why the Court refused to consider the Due Process parental rights claims in the gender affirming care case..

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1 year ago

Gender Regrets: Banning Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care <span>Conservative politicians, lawmakers, and media have generated a national moral panic about transgender children and youth that has resulted, as of early 2

This was a terrific interview! Here’s a piece I co-authored about the gender regrets piece that comes up in this episode (and in the oral args)

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1 year ago

Opinion | The Tennessee Trans Treatment Case Is About Age, Not Sex The state’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors passes the constitutional test.

While his heart breaks for those families facing gender dysphoria, mine breaks for those families who treat a binary order of sex and gender ideology as divine gospel

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...

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1 year ago

Important point of clarification from Chase Strangio: there is a history of de jure discrimination against transgender people, in terms of exclusions from the military, criminal bans on cross dressing, and other laws. (Don't forget marriage restrictions).

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1 year ago

Gender Regrets: Banning Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care <span>Conservative politicians, lawmakers, and media have generated a national moral panic about transgender children and youth that has resulted, as of early 2

Such “concerns” about gender regrets are mostly thinly disguised patriarchal ideology

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1 year ago

just got this in the mail. Congrats @profbcrawford.bsky.social and @linniss.bsky.social

I am honored to be in conversation with this group of thinkers

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1 year ago

Opinion | The Legal Battle Against Trump Was a Miserable Failure A few victories made it easy for Democrats to forget that the law is just another domain of politics where their enemies enjoy power too.

Absolutely! Legalism has never been the way to defeat Decisionism.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...

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1 year ago

Opinion | The Secret Behind America’s Moral Panic Trans rights aren’t just trans rights. They’re reproductive rights.

trans-blaming for recent election results is cowardly and misguided

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...

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1 year ago

What Southern LGBTQ History Can Teach Us Podcast Episode · Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast · 11/20/2024 · 47m

Listening to this episode about histories of queer and trans folks in the south is simply inspiring. Thank you Jules Gill-Peterson @slate

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