Alisa Garner

States sue DOJ over rule requiring citizenship proof for sexual assault services New York Attorney General Letitia James says Trump's rule change is “endangering families, silencing survivors and threatening public safety.”

It’s absolutely heartless to deny a victim services to anyone and this will also hurt victims who are citizens since abusers have been known to restrict a victim’s access to their legal documents to retain control over them.

www.courthousenews.com/states-sue-d...

Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for kids, a setback for transgender rights An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer says the Supreme Court decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors is “a devastating loss for transgender people” and "e...

The Supreme Court’s decision is an affront to equal protection and parental control over medical decision-making. Transgender young people and their families shouldn't have to fight to make the most personal medical decisions in consultation with their doctors.

NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment - Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment

Economic effects of slashing the NIH indirect rate. $1M of money spent by NIH generates $2.5M for the economy.

What is the purpose of cutting this engine for innovation and economic activity?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

My dissertation is published! We examined risk factors among college men for consensual versus coercive hookups.

This you, APA?

My annual psych internship rant, now with even more 🔥. The pre-PhD internship is an outdated model that devalues the expertise psych students bring. Now, we may be requiring students to move to unsafe cities and unstable positions, during a stage when healthcare and reproductive rights are critical.

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1. Three sexual abuse nonprofits have removed all or nearly all references to trans, queer and non binary people (h/t @devtesla.bsky.social)

I wrote a second article today to document and archive some of the impacted pages.

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‘Fear and Frustration’: North Texas Rape Crisis Centers Face Funding Uncertainty Organizations aimed at preventing sexual violence have reported delays in funding from the CDC’s Rape Prevention and Education Program.

‘Fear and Frustration’: North Texas Rape Crisis Centers Face Funding Uncertainty

Federal Office on Violence Against Women removes funding opportunities from website The office, part of the Justice Department, is a key source of grants for nonprofits that work to help victims of domestic violence.

The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) has removed from its website all information on current funding opportunities and directs visitors not to finalize any applications.

“While I had previously supported the leopards eating people’s faces, I have been recently informed that the leopards are planning to eat *my* face, so I am asking for a new strategy where they do not do so.”

My small victory this week is that I finally read and got to closed two browser tabs on articles I’ve been telling myself that I would read for about a year now.

Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it.

It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.

How Texas’ War on Drug Users Fueled an Austin Overdose Disaster A mass casualty event last spring lays bare the state’s backward approach to the ongoing crisis spurred by fentanyl and other super-potent substances.

Featured story: “The closet is a very dangerous place for people who use drugs. It’s where stadiums full of people die every year.”

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I understand that there are well meaning, thoughtful people on the APCS executive committee, but this statement is so thoroughly and deeply disappointing. This falls short. I can't say it any other way. We need a movement that seriously considers the total abolition of internship. Full stop.

I believe University of Michigan SOM has a T32 that has cannabis research involved.