The thing is almost nobody starts an identity thinking they’ll have to disavow it later. That’s the trap. Maybe you make some dumb novelty Twitter account for three dumb posts about heartbleed and then 10 years later you have 400k followers.

Neutrality and conservatism are the same thing. Both entail treating the status quo as some kind of essential ground state of lowest risk. Neither facilitate an understanding of reality which is accurately descriptive, explanatory, or predictive in any way.

When stories like this pop up, I’m often reminded of this tweet

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In 20 years a prestige podcast will 'discover' the gender-affirming care debate was a moral panic and share things like 'the Cass Review found fewer than 10 detransitioners' to the scandalized delight of their audience and I'm gonna to try so hard to be gracious about it.

This is academic malpractice by motivated anti trans activists

A half point was deducted because in addition to over a dozen validated scales, it also used an un-validated one. What does this have to do with the data gathered using validated metrics? Literally nothing! It just gathered more data that may or may not be useful. /2

The systematic review on HRT for Cass claims that no conclusions can be drawn about the effects of HRT on gender dysphoria. Notably the review excludes the landmark de Vries 2014 study for being 'low quality'. It misses the cutoff by half a point. The reason is wild... /1

Kicking kids off the Internet by spreading moral panic about porn is the oldest trick in the book. And it's the completely wrong approach to addressing the very real harm being done by Big Tech and surveillance capitalism.

We need to regulate biz models, not censor and surveil

We’re pretty rapidly and consciously heading towards a future where everything you do on the Internet requires government ID, with basically no attention paid to the consequences of that (indeed, the consequences of that may be the whole point.)

This is HUGE news! In a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients, an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida quickly reprogrammed the immune system to attack glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal brain tumor.

Let’s talk about that! 🧵⬇️

🚨RED ALERT🚨 There is a serious attempt to include the Kids Online Safety Act ( #KOSA ) in the must-pass FAA funding bill.

Amendments to KOSA have not yet fixed the deadly flaws with the bill. It is still a threat to LGBTQ youth & human rights.

Call now! badinternetbills.com

Just an FYI for people referencing the Civil Rights Movement as the ideal and legal means of protesting, students sitting in at lunch counters, in movie theaters, in bus terminals and marching in public parks were violating laws and ordinances and agents of the state were also…

Well folks don't know what else you can do but call your Senator and urge them to vote this down. Preferably right now. This thing could come for a vote today. Capitol's switchboard is (202) 224-3121

Fun little aside, the guy who wrote the IHRA 'definition' of antisemitism did so solely as a means of collecting data for a project. He is horrified at it being used as a legal justification to outlaw criticism of Israel
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I have also been evicted from my home on campus. My suspension comes during Cornell University’s “Freedom of Expression Theme Year,” where they have held numerous events celebrating the right to protest. More thoughts to come

I have been suspended from Cornell University alongside three others for my presence in our encampment. Cornell thinks that picking off four students will be sufficient to destroy our movement. They’re wrong — all they have done is enraged our community.

Y’all. This is the notice of suspension that one of the UGA students received. I have redacted their name. But take a note of the timestamp. Email sent at 5:09 PM, they have to contact her office by 5:10 PM, or else they are suspended at 5:11 PM. You can’t make this up. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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