Ryan Thoreson

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

The Anti-Trans Playbook | Paisley Currah The current crusade against trans people imperils not just their rights but the survival of the legal doctrine built to protect all women from discrimination.

I have a piece in the current issue of the New York Review of Books on the anti-trans agenda and the dangers it poses for the rights of cis women. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’ When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...

Lots to say here but as a gay man it once again occurs to me that there are in fact many men who are acculturated to be both very sexual and very social, often alongside fairly progressive gender norms. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Honestly surprised it didn’t think I was a child, because thanks to our toddler *both* the Idina Mendel *and* the Demi Lovato versions of Let It Go were in my top five songs.

Spotify wrapped saying my listening age is 53

How do you do, fellow kids?

(After not going to the movies in like a year, I saw Wicked For Good at 1:30 and am seeing Wake Up Dead Man now.)

How Much Popcorn Can I Eat Today? A Knives Out Mystery

Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.

I know exactly the place you’re talking about and hard agree.

I’m so sorry, Corey.

start line of turkey trot in Cincinnati

person wearing shirt that says “I ran today, I’ll eat as much pie as I want”

28 degrees but we got it done!

My law school superlative was “most accomplished without being pretentious” and it weirdly meant a lot to me.

Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE

Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.

Texas A&M Was Wrong to Fire Professor Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules

A crucial first step. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

Donald Trump smiling up at Zohran Mamdani.

Gretchen Whitmer hiding behind a folder.

Who can really say which approach is most effective

This is amazing!

My office bookshelf:

“The new version reveals that many of the authors and reviewers have been outspoken critics of gender-affirming care, are affiliated with anti-LGBTQ+ groups, and have little-to-no experience providing clinical care for young trans people.”

*cracks knuckles in gay dad in Ohio who teaches First Amendment law and is still salty about Mahmoud v Taylor*

Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide

Proud to sign this letter in support of Jessica Adams, whose removal from her human rights course for discussing white supremacy is a grave threat to academic freedom and honest instruction about racial injustice. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Navigating new scales of queer Southasia IT WASN’T THAT long ago that queer Southasian studies – perhaps especially work centred on India – seemed to be intensely preoccupied with the frame of the nati

I reviewed some new books on queer Southasia for @himalmag.bsky.social

www.himalmag.com/politics/que...

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department The department will shift responsibility for several of its core functions to other federal agencies.

There's a lot about this that's fucked up, but moving children's education to the Labor Department underscores such a warped idea of what education is actually for www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants

This is far worse than anyone expected.

Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.

All as mass internment camps are being built.

This is the same artist whose Piss Christ set off a conservative furor against arts funding, if you need yet another illustration of how truly fucked our politics have become.

Kazakhstan: Reject ‘LGBT Propaganda’ Legal Proposals - IPHR Parliamentary Vote on Draft Amendments Imminent Lawmakers in Kazakhstan should reject a draft law with amendments that would ban “propaganda of non-traditional sexual orientation,” seven international...

Kazakhstan’s parliament has voted to ban so-called LGBTI propaganda. If approved, the law would silence LGBTI voices & restrict freedom of expression for everyone. We stand with LGBTI people in #Kazakhstan & call on the Senate to reject this harmful law #HumanRights #Equality https://bit.ly/4rcRpLk

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:

"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."