🧵1/6 Magnus Hirschfeld was a gay activist, feminist, scientist and founder of the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin (1919-1933). His support for both gay and trans people was radical and innovative. The institute was essential in the LGBTQ struggle. #LGBWithoutTheT

I have been working on the research for this piece for a really long time. There are a number of groups and individuals dedicated to producing anti-trans medical disinformation. Here is who they are.

What a huge self-own Lundberg confesses to below

Passing this on.

Transgender activist and actor Georgie Stone has spoken out about the pressures facing her community, saying dangerous anti-transgender rhetoric was being amplified across the country. trib.al/3VjrS7m

While in the closet, people become very successful at concealment & pretending to be someone they're not. Coming out & removing all that protective camouflage is incredibly difficult, & may require years to be successful: I did. Some can never do so #ClosetsAreForClothesNotPeople

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It would be quite a shame if more people saw this.

A very important read

I'm with Anne Fausto-Sterling. Gender/sex identity for the win! "Only by embracing how nature and nurture concur in shaping the unique variety of human beings can we improve our biological, psychological and even phenomenological understanding of human sex and gender."

OTD

#YesAllWomen #NotAllMenButTooManyMen That's it. That's the tweet. #YesAllWomen #NotAllMenButTooManyMen inbreakthrough.org/six-reasons-no…

Amazing thread @Helenreflects, loved reading it. You know it’s gonna be good when she starts off with “the weird digit stuff.” I think there is an underlying biological determinist argument under the GC discourse.

This date marks 3 yrs since I walked into my workplace as myself. Officially myself. 2½ months earlier I had been outed. Which I then made official as a means to take control of the situation. Explanations later, which felt as tho I was justifying my existence, I could be me.

The sky is not the limit.