They/Them (T. T. Perry)

With much still to digest, one thing is clear: The next stage in the fight against organized transphobia in the UK will be explicitly a fight about workers' rights.

Everyone needs to pressure their union to denounce this ruling as an unworkable infringement on employee rights.

Join. Organize. Win.

I gave a quote to a Metro news article:

"This new government guidance will cause extreme harm to trans children of all ages. Study after study have shown that trans children need policies that are the exact opposite of what this Government is enforcing... 1/

Muhammad Velji, Extended Relational Autonomy: Affordances, the Meso-Level and the Internalist-Externalist Debate - PhilPapers Catriona Mackenzie in a recent essay, Relational Equality and the Debate Between Externalists and Internalist Theories of Relational Autonomy (2022), takes a look back at an intractable debate within ...

Are you interested in affordances? What about Iris Marion Young's "Throwing Like a Girl"? What about autonomy? I'm super happy to have this paper accepted by Ergo. It's sort of the centre piece in the new direction my work is headed
philpapers.org/rec/VELERA-2

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.

This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

This is what really got to me today. My partner has MS.

This is so much worse than what took down Nixon, difference was that then the media did not like Nixon and wasn't trying to help him and today the media is controlled by the Epstein-Oligarch class and so is part of the same conspiracy that Trump is and buries it

I've wondered if we're living through a different sort of epistemic closure: not one of the right cocooning itself in participatory nonsense, but rather one of billionaires grown confident that closing on—i.e., purchasing—the means of knowledge production will let them dictate what's real or true.

fwiw, one of the big things hitler took from jim crow was the insight that you can do white supremacy even if it doesn't make any sense. 1

Is it me that's conscious? I hope it's me.

Black Men Endured Sexual Exploitation Under Slavery. Their Story Is Rarely Told. Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses his new book Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men.

“Scholarly attention has rightly focused on the forced reproduction of enslaved Black women, but that focus need not come at the expense of understanding the position of enslaved Black men, who were also denied sexual autonomy, including the ability to choose with whom they would have children.”

I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out

I think the case for aoc- and the reason why I’d probably support her over people with similar positions and experience- is that she’s an incredible communicator and controlling the narrative has never been more important to political success

Close - R is good but also bad

My feelings about generative AI:

1) I'm highly skeptical it'll ever work

2) It's distracting from actual use cases for AI

3) We need a pause until it can be done without wrecking the environment or stealing IP

4) If it does have real potential then it shouldn't be controlled by ruthless people

I am one of the most published academics on the childhood social transition, with 5 peer reviewed articles that relate to the topic.

There is so much evidence of benefit of social transition.

There is no evidence of harm. Not one jot.

This will literally kill trans kids. No exaggeration.

The amount of harm being done is incalculable and won't be fully known for decades.

Every single 'gender-critical' measure boils down to more authoritarianism, treating children as the inanimate property of the parents, and policing even the smallest signs of gender-nonconformity.

I know cis people don't realize the cruelty, so with gentleness and empathy for them, let me try to explain.

Being trans is difficult. Instinctively, you already know this because you think it would be better not to be trans.

Why is it so hard for people to recognize that bodily autonomy means NO FORCED SURGERIES?

Equal rights for all has to mean banning ALL forced genital cutting.

43% of trans kids outed to their parents suffer some form of negative outcome including abuse, confiscation of property and withdrawal of internet access. 9% experience actual domestic violence.

Regret is a totally normal part of life and I think the rightwing is actively doing harm to these detransitioner by turning their regret into a political pawn.

After more than a year of paying reviewers at Becaris Publishing, we’ve gathered real‑world insights into how modest honoraria can influence reviewer engagement, speed and overall editorial efficiency, and whether the investment is worth it. scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/if-the-eco...

It's weird how quiet Obama has been ...

From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis Against the gamblification of the world.

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.

It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.

The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0

www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

How can we get cis young men to join the 🌈 bodily autonomy coalition?

By recognizing that their own bodily autonomy has been historically excluded from political conversation.

The Trans/Intersex Bill of Rights should ban forced penile circumcision along with forced intersex surgeries.

#LGBTQ

flying as a trans person, within the US or returning to it, has become so needlessly stressful and i don't feel like cis people Get It at all

T. T. Perry, Ph.D. (they/them) shares original research by the Genital Autonomy Collective, a transnational peer network of trans, intersex, and/or gender-expansive people. The poster session… Transgender, Intersex, and Gender-Diverse Experiences of (Violated) Genital Autonomy

The Trans Bill of Rights would ban forced intersex surgeries but not forced circumcision. That's so bogus! Trans, intersex, and gender-expansive people are standing up and saying that forced circumcision must end. Listen to us! 🌈

youtu.be/uNADMye4hec

#LGBTQIA #Trans #Intersex #UsPol

this is great. but I would really like to see people ban the practice of stealing people's voting rights in the first place. people in prison should have voting rights.

Seriously, this really hit me really wrong. Call her “smug” if you want but “bitch” as slur is the kind of base-level misogyny Trump engages in. Stop it.

Equal rights for all has to mean banning ALL forced genital cutting.