Avery Everhart

Submitted a commentary with @tsdav.bsky.social called “How To Lose A Culture War” so fingers crossed it’s well received. More to come from me/us on trans disinfo and the ongoing moral panic one way or another 🤓

Has anyone written something that links FOSTA/SESTA and the uptick in anti-trans legislation in the US?

Already in print please only because I’m on a deadline.

If you’re ever in Vancouver and want a really great tea tasting experience gotta see Daniel Lui at The Chinese Tea Shop. Super kind and extremely knowledgeable. Can’t recommend enough

A persons hand pouring pu’er tea into the first in a row of three small tea cups. He reaches across the tea tray where a yixing tea pot can be seen.

A persons hand pouring pu’er tea into the second in a row of three small tea cups. He reaches across the tea tray where a yixing tea pot can be seen.

A persons hand pouring pu’er tea into the third in a row of three small tea cups. He reaches across the tea tray where a yixing tea pot can be seen.

Had a GongFu Cha tasting and tea lesson yesterday thanks to my friend Allie and it was so fuckin cool. Had never had pu’er before and it was such a different experience. One shou and one sheng and came home with some aged white peony tea to try 😇

Terrifying how often someone in our very busy alley seems not to be breathing and we check on them. More terrifying is how nobody else in our or any other building ever checks.

Congratulations Assistant Profs Avery Everhart (@averyeverhart.bsky.social) & Kate Hale, recipients of the 2024/25 Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award! 👏Their exceptional research spans transgender healthcare access and snow hydrology.

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Also was wearing a rash guard for several days to protect the new tattoo and nobody laughed at my joke about it being T boy coded

A white woman stands at the shoreline of a beach with mountains in the background.

My job is beach

Wow this vacay was so necessary. Wow I’m so screwed getting back to work lol. Like…the backlog is absurd.

New work by same artist as the piece it connects to. Session one of probably three to finish the arm/hand. By Matty DeVita at Dwelling Tattoo in Chicago 😇

Got really good news yesterday that i can’t announce for a bit. Also got an invite to two really cool Big Things. Last week got cool news too. Pretty much over being sick. Shit is nice sometimes.

Of course while I’m trying to wrap up one big project where analysis and writing are 90% on me, and another that’s been a labor of love among around a dozen people that I’m senior author on is when i came down with strep.

At least i have some travel to look forward to in a few weeks.

Maps Have Always Been A Colonial Tool of Expansion—Techno-Fascism Is Making It Worse How are the colonial applications of cartography, mixed with growing techno-fascism, helping Donald Trump's expansionist agenda?

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Looooooove this. Thanks for tagging me sis 😇

Pic of a white woman with calico hair looking into the camera. She holds a clear glass plaque in a tear drop shop with the university of British Columbia logo that reads faculty of arts, dean of arts faculty research award, Dr Avery everhart. Her shirt is black and sleeveless and she wears two silver necklaces. She stands in front of a brick wall.

Won an award at work to focus on my research project called “Beyond Binary Data: The Role of Data, Statistics, and (Mis)Information in Shaping Transgender Life”

Did three peer reviews today, drafted results from that analysis thing that finally worked, reviewed a co author manuscript, submitted an abstract for an invited commentary, met with my masters student, and sketched some details for the book.

I’m SO back. And i need tenure like yesterday

lol only worked for 349/379 respondents

Have to redo it for the last 25 😭

Wow an analysis thing I’ve been fiddling with out of sheer lack of ideas for how to deal with it JUST worked for me. It took off and on trying for basically a year and a half?! And my god if i weren’t so nit picky about details then i could’ve had this out a year ago.

I forgot how long OD matrix takes to process and i am Extremely Over It

Hey so if nuclear annihilation is back on the table, is this a good time to just go for it? In the ways that people started revealing secret crushes when they thought Twitter was dying

Duke University Press to publish open access monographs through MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O) The partnership between Duke University Press and the MIT Press will begin in 2026, greatly expanding the reach of quality open access scholarship through Direct to Open.

We are proud to announce that beginning in 2026, @dukepress.bsky.social will join our Direct to Open (D2O) program. This collaboration marks the first such partnership with another university press for the D2O program and reaffirms our shared commitment to #openaccess publishing:

Anyways enough science back to emo/shit/posting sporadically

If gender is an ideology, and sex is a reality, and moreover if sex is defined in narrow and ill-informed ways, then even the phrase legal gender recognition falls flat. What then?

We now have some compiled evidence to show LGR improved trans peoples lives just as gender itself is under attack.

So what we did find is that LGR is associated with lower rates of gonadectomy, lower suicidality, and increased economic well being. Go figure!

But some governments are trying to make it legally impossible to have one’s gender recognized if it differs from ones ASAB.

Finally some places require gonadectomy for LGR. This amounts to forced sterilization. Even if it’s a procedure a trans person wants, accessing it with discordant identity documents, or while struggling to find and keep a job due to mismatched ID documents, and it becomes a serious catch 22.

Couple this with discrimination in healthcare because of poor clinical interactions and the knowledge of having to show ID to access services and you get patterns of avoiding care reinforced by experiences of care denial and poor treatment. Yet another cycle that’s difficult to break.

The discrimination, especially in hiring, is particularly insidious. Employment issues have cascading effects and can push trans people into participating in illicit economies, but even more so prevents them from getting out even if they want to. A vicious cycle based on one letter in an ID.

These are such routine things but are also things many people avoid when they have discordant gender markers on documents. And in some cases it opens you up to even more discrimination or even violence. It can prevent you from getting a job, healthcare, benefits, or even accessing your own records.

First is that LGR often shows up in identity documents. When your gender expression and/or identity don’t match the gender marker on your ID it opens up a host of issues, whether you’re buying a lottery ticket, boarding a plane, using a washroom, accessing services, or getting stopped by police.

Rather than parroting results here I’d recommend reading the full paper as it’s open access.

Instead I’ll highlight some of the cascading issues related to legal gender recognition in hopes of highlighting why it’s so important, especially in light of the UK decision and related efforts.