I will be following up this piece with another on 'gender critical feminism as a hostile environment'. I have communicated with 20 + folks thus far who have been harassed by 'g-c' colleagues. It's harrowing stuff. If you would like to contribute email [email protected].

There is no universe in which a repeal of protections for trans people doesn't harm the rest of the community, and anyone who believes the current legislative and judicial focus on gender is anything but transitory is a fool. Give them an inch, and they'll take a mile.

boring work q sorry but I seem to remember a paper from somewhere showing that public perception of corruption in a country tended to actually get higher as that country tried to tackle its corruption problem - does that ring a bell to anyone? google just not helping

Anti-trans advocates can't name one single rule trans athlete Aayden Gallagher broke en route to her Oregon state championship.

Yet they insist on falsely and cruelly claiming she and other trans women in sports 'cheat.'

outsports.com/2024/5/20/2409…

Jaw-dropper in Montana: the AP is reporting that the Republican attorney general admitted on recording that he recruited a challenger in the primary so he could raise more money and skirt campaign finance rules.

apnews.com/article/montan…

Re: Scarlett Johansson and AI, she has been one of the celebrities at the forefront of the nonconsensual deepfakes issue for longer than most people knew they existed. She spoke out about the legal impossibilites of fighting them back in 2018 washingtonpost.com/technology/201…

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Just a reminder that Harrison Butker also said these things.

You are, in fact, their punching bag. That's how it works: despite what you say, or do. You will forever be one of the bad ones in their eyes, even if you are one of the good ones in your own.

Wake up, you wally. 👍

Two domestic cats have died of bird flu. They didn't live on farms. If they're outdoor cats, my guess is they were infected by eating H5N1-positive birds.

Several types of mammals have likely been infected by eating birds w/H5N1. Those are now common US. aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poul…

Absolutely damning criticism of The Cass Fiasco by WPATH and USPATH. The reality is that Cass is neither scientific nor reliable. It is not at all the 'Gold Standard' that Yvette Cooper and Wes Streeting MP believe it is.

wpath.org/media/cms/Docu…

What an incredible tale: “Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals…she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world” propublica.org/article/3m-for…

“Free Speech” @ElonMusk bans ‘cisgender’ - an innocent dictionary word, while allowing bullies and bigots to wantonly misgender trans people, send them death threats, and call them groomer, paedophile etc. advocate.com/news/cisgender…

I don't call myself a 'war reporter' but I reported on a war and 'my fixer' paid a price. This is how news is made in the West. TY to Jessica Reed Pulitzer Center's Tom Hundley my friend 'Zleke' for letting me tell his incredible story. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Fixers are the backbone of the western news industry, negotiating on-the-ground logistics and tasks for journalists who do not live locally and come to the continent to write about a specific issue. ...Their work is absolutely vital to the American and western news ecosystem.

Due to the large number of articles I'm writing now that I'm one of the go-to daily contributors for LGBTQ Nation, I'm not going to be able to share them all here or on my website. If you want to check out what I've been up to, see my author's archive here lgbtqnation.com/author/miralaz…

'It’s necessary to take a step back and acknowledge that any ambitious strategy for unionizing millions will entail lots of losses along the way... Winning big and winning at scale require taking many more risks and relying less on staff.'

laborpolitics.com/p/to-win-big-l…

I’m a photojournalist. ‘Civil War’ gets war photography dangerously wrong. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

In this case, Reeves denies qualified immunity to a detective who falsely accused Desmond Green of murder on the basis of an implausible tip and manipulated testimony, leading to Green's 22-month incarceration in a cell infested with rodents and snakes. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2467…

Judge Carlton Reeves has a new opinion out condemning qualified immunity as unlawful and egregiously unjust. He calls the doctrine a 'perpetuation of racial inequality' and 'an extra-constitutional affront to other cherished values of our democracy.' s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2467…