Liz Casline, PhD

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

📣I’m thrilled to share that Northwestern is launching two new programs:

🔸Implementation Science Certificate (open to NU and non-NU constituents)
🔸MPH Concentration in Implementation Science

Applications for Fall 2026 now open!

It’s a privilege to serve as the Director of these initiatives.

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Are you accepting PhD applications in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2026 (U.S.)?
If so, please consider adding your name to the document linked in the comments. Our hope is to help reduce the load on applicants.

Please share widely and on X! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

Department of Health and Human Services—National Institutes of Health—Application of Impoundment Control Act to Availability of Funds for Grants Congress appropriated amounts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to carry out various research objectives for fiscal year 2025. In accordance...

BREAKING: Watchdog government agency finds the NIH and the Trump administration have illegally withheld funds in violation of the Impoundment Control Act, and rips into HHS for failing to justify its slow-walking of funds.

www.gao.gov/products/b-3...

Illinois sues the Trump administration to protect access to gender-affirming care The multi-state lawsuit says the Trump administration has intimidated providers into ceasing care with threats of investigations and criminal prosecutions.

Illinois sues the Trump administration to protect access to gender-affirming care. The multi-state lawsuit says the Trump administration has intimidated providers into ceasing care with threats of investigations and criminal prosecutions.

This morning, I joined @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov and @agwilliamtong.bsky.social to announce a lawsuit against the federal attacks on gender-affirming care. I will fight for hospitals to continue this medically necessary and lifesaving health care for trans youth: tinyurl.com/3d2vyfp6

In light of the news on my first day of sabbatical: gender is a social construct, trans women are women, no amount of complying with authoritarians who pretend they will only strip some people but not you of rights will keep you safe. And in 2025 university administrators should know all of that.

What was in the Iran nuclear deal and why did Trump withdraw the US from it? Known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, the deal followed two years of negotiations during the Obama administration.

Just in case anyone wants a reminder of how Trump helped create the situation he's now using as justification to bomb Iran. abcnews.go.com/Politics/ira...

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment.

In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community.

You have a home here always.

The #SCOTUS majority decision in Skrmetti contains frank misinformation.

No such evidence exists here.

Eating disorder research defunded despite MAHA focus on chronic conditions Experts on eating disorders like anorexia worry that research funding cuts mean patients won't get the care they need.

Eating disorders are chronic diseases. But instead of focusing on these- MAHA is terminating funding.

1 in 5 kids have an ED.

Eating disorder research has always been underfunded — about $55 million in NIH grants went to eating disorder research in 2023

www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e...

This was a fun project! Our team ran an innovation tournament to crowdsource ideas for injectable PrEP in Chicago. #impsci

State Rep Kelly Cassidy Introducing HR 221 Adopted on May 8th, HR221 celebrates Trans Day of Visibility on March 31st. This is footage of Kelly introducing the House Resolution, celebrating the work of Trans people in Illinois and making it clear, "Illinois has always been a welcoming and inclusive state for our Trans neighbors, and no amount of bluster and bullying is going to convince us to throw our Trans community under this President's bus. While he and his ilk stoke hatred to score political points, we embrace and uplift the Trans community and their many contributions to our State."

🎉 🏳️‍⚧️ The IL House adopted HR221, recognizing Trans Day of Visibility on March 31.

💬 ""Illinois has always been a welcoming and inclusive state...& no amount of bullying is going to convince us to throw our trans community under this President's bus." - Rep Kelly Cassidy #TDOV bit.ly/3S0Xpq3

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

⚖️ Terminated NIH grant litigation update:

There's a hearing on a motion for preliminary injunction today at 11:30a EDT in Mass. v RFK et al, a case brought by some states against HHS. This is 1 of 2 diff. cases on this topic.

I'll be live-tweeting it later this morning. Check back on this thread.

How Trump promotes a radical, unscientific theory about sex and gender in the name of opposing ‘gender ideology extremism’ A gender studies expert explains why the Trump administration’s claim that everyone is male or female defies science and ignores the complexity of human sexuality.

The Trump administration’s claim that everyone is male or female goes against science, according to a researcher who has studied the claims of biological determinists.

NIH bans funding to all institutions with DEIA programs or that boycott Israel. Applies prospectively to new, renewal, supplement, or continuation awards issued on or after the date of this Notice.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

"We will have more HIV cases": Chicago researcher discusses NIH cuts Leading LGBTQ+ researcher says Trump administration funding cuts could have widespread impact.

"We are on the precipice of being able to end HIV in our country," ISGMH's @mustanski.bsky.social tells @axios.com.

"We have the tools to solve it, ... but if we back off that, if we take our foot off the pedal, we will have more #HIV cases in the United States." www.axios.com/local/chicag...

Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field The administration’s cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling the LGBTQ-focused research field, built out of nothing over a quarter century.

Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBT health funding, upending research field

The administration’s cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling the LGBT-focused research field, built out of nothing over a quarter century.

My latest for @nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH

Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸

Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social

Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇

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Are terminations of NIH grants wasting billions of taxpayer dollars? DOGE argues killing grants saves money, but a Science analysis suggests more than $1.4 billion in sunk research costs may produce few results

"We spent all this money on this research and we’re not even going to be able to give taxpayers the outcomes." DOGE's cuts to NIH grants may save money on paper, but terminating studies without notice ultimately wastes money, our analysis shows. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist.

Well, I am. We are. We will.

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:

Today, many more NIH grants were terminated including many focused on HIV prevention -such as the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) research program focused on adolescents & young adults living with or placed at risk for HIV.

This is necropolitics.

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

This is a critical victory for trans rights.

U of Michigan @umich.edu set aside funds from central to support researchers with unexpected disruption in federal funding for up to 6 months.

Are any other institutions doing this? Seems like a good move.

#Medsky #NIH #federalfunding #researchfunding 🧪

record.umich.edu/articles/uni...