Erin Beeghly

UK puberty blocker ban causing "serious adverse" harm to trans youth, study shows A new study has revealed that the ban on puberty blockers in the UK is having serious and adverse effects on young trans people.

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How DARE I have advocated for bodily autonomy! Don’t you know you have to give up bodily autonomy in order to get rights????

Erin Beeghly's "What's Wrong with Stereotyping?" Erin Beeghly is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies for the Philosophy Department at the University of Utah....

A glimpse into my book from the 99th page!

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One bright spot for trans people in Montana: Today's SCOTUS decision does not touch Montana. That's because Montana overturned its gender affirming care ban through the state Supreme Court. States are allowed to have protections that go beyond the US constitution, and thus that ruling is unaffected.

The ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti bans health care decisions made by patient & families in consultation with their doctors. Once again, politicians & judges are inserting themselves in exam rooms. This ruling undermines doctors in delivering care to some of the most vulnerable patients in our country.

So jealous! Would love to be there.

My kid’s reaction to the news today: “things didn’t go our way, but the sun is gonna rise tomorrow.” Our state ban remains in tact. My kid is supposed to be permitted to continue care under state law, but the hospital refuses to reschedule our visit, obfuscates.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

New, gorgeous zine out today! Being trans in philosophy. Read & share.

Into the Darkness I: Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself

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Can’t wait to get my hands on this!

Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind

Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores

Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026

Details and links to submit on the website:

Human Rights Watch Issues Scathing Report on Anti-Trans Healthcare Bans in the US A first-of-its-kind Human Rights Watch report documented the impacts of trans youth care bans in-depth.

1. An international humanitarian organization, Human Rights Watch, has issued a scathing report on transgender healthcare bans in the United States.

They detail loss of care, people forced to move, and more.

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Important work by Ben Eidelson & Deborah Hellman

Opinion | Trump's message to trans people is clear: Detransition, or potentially die My question to everyone reading this is: When is enough enough?

For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid.

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Title page of “Genderfucking as a Critical Legal Methodology” by Florence Ashley

Are you a genderfucker? Are you a fucker? Do you like fucking? If so, woah, do I have the article for you!

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I love Jill McDonough’s work: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jill-m...

I can’t wait for the full issue and all the amazing work that will be showcased… it’s literally going to be 🔥🔥🔥

Erin Beeghly, Queering Ethics: Cultivating Queer Sensibility - PhilPapers This essay explores what it means to “queer” ethics. Writing from a perspective that is both personal and philosophical, I argue that we cannot queer ethics simply by expanding the range ...

Today is the U.S. pub date for What’s Wrong with Stereotyping? and I’m celebrating by dropping a new essay on queering ethics that I wrote for the upcoming edition of APA Studies in LGBTQ Philosophy. It's my first personal essay -- an experiment for me!

Writing this involved ripping my heart from my chest. Protect our kids, our loved ones. Protect our colleagues!

Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban? The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?

Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023.

They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."

black text in typewriter font on white background, as a sneak peek of the Being Trans in Philosophy zine, forthcoming in June 2025: Talia Mae Bettcher talks about the WTF of existence—where up becomes down and down becomes up. I can't begin to say how much this captures my experience as a parent of a trans kid right now. My tween is kind, funny, talented, ambitious. He is a shining light that cheers me up every single day. I don't know how anyone could find fault with him, could look into his eyes and see him as anything but authentic, as deserving of love and respect for who he really is.

text continues: When he socially transitioned in the second grade, years ago now, other kids in the class didn't blink an eye. Zero bullying. Now bullies run the show—in dominant online spaces in our discipline, in our state legislature, in the U.S. government. State law bars kids like him from playing sports. It is illegal for him to use the bathroom associated with his gender identity at school. Just last month, my kid lost access to gender-affirming healthcare at our local hospital.

text continues: Still, my child is thriving. Our community is there for us. Each morning that we wake up, go about our day, feels like an act of resistance. Increasingly I find myself staring out the window of my office in the philosophy department, gorgeous mountains rising in the background, crying. It's a lot: sitting with the cruelty, the uncertainty of how far persecution will go, what to do.

“When [my tween] socially transitioned in the second grade, years ago now, other kids in the class didn’t blink an eye. Zero bullying. Now bullies run the show—in dominant online spaces in our discipline, in our state legislature, in the U.S. government.” @beegs1.bsky.social #beingtransinphilosophy

Picture with three paragraphs of black text on white background in typewriter font: Being Trans in Philosophy is a zine collecting first-personal accounts of what it's actually like to be trans or to have trans kids as a philosopher. Our stories highlight the material, on-the-ground consequences of academic philosophy's role as perhaps the main discipline providing intellectual cover for a global transmisogynistic and transphobic moral panic -- one that has been increasingly institutionalized into laws and policies. Forthcoming June 2025

Trans people and our loved ones are not okay -- in, with, and because of academic philosophy. #beingtransinphilosophy tells these stories firsthand.

“Analytically sharp, morally sensitive, and eminently readable, What’s Wrong With Stereotyping? is a work or verve and precision.” Kate Manne, author of Down Girl & Unshrinking 💚

My baby is here!!!

Program for Day 1 of Queer AF conference @ UCSC, April 12-13. PDF version available at the bottom of this page: https://philevents.org/event/show/125782

Program for Day 2 of Queer AF conference @ UCSC, April 12-13. PDF version available at the bottom of this page: https://philevents.org/event/show/125782

Extremely stoked to be organizing this conference highlighting philosophy done from queer perspectives at UC Santa Cruz this April! Especially glad to still have this happen given, you know... everything. Registration here, with a remote option: forms.gle/bhPt4xQ2jR5q...

Erin Beeghly, Sexism - PhilPapers This essay offers an in-depth view of sexism as a psychological, social, and political phenomenon and, in the process, highlights the resiliency of feminism as a social movement. Section 1 focuses ...

Sharing an essay that was accepted for pub in 2022. Often sexism is framed as targeting women. I argue that this conception of sexism is factually incorrect and politically dangerous. The essay offers meditation on the history of feminism — and why true feminists must fight anti-trans oppression.