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juliaserano

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writer. performer. biologist. author of Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us & How We Can Fight Back, plus Whipping Girl, Excluded, & 99 Erics. current music project is soft vowel sounds. more at juliaserano.com. she/her

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juliaserano, to trans
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I just wrote about KOSA: A Nationwide Anti-Trans/LGBTQ+ Bill in All but Name. It has everything you need to know + how to contact your congressppl about it. 4min read, no-paywall link, please share & give it lots of "claps" (up to 50) so others see it!
https://juliaserano.medium.com/kosa-a-nationwide-anti-trans-lgbtq-bill-in-all-but-name-d6d9f8b8ec6c?sk=0bfad95c1ed6da0a82cd67bef8659ce1

juliaserano, to trans
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since "AFAB" was trending on Twitter earlier (for reasons I'm pretty sure why), I will re-up this essay (no-paywall link), which towards the end discusses my issues with how these acronyms are often used...

https://juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-amab-trans-people-denied-the-closet-7fd5c740ce30?sk=cf69ee32967059ff0e1c6ac54effd8de

juliaserano, to trans
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NEW ESSAY: an explainer on detransition that discusses the many nuances & diversity that get left out of media coverage, and reveals the unconscious biases that lead anti-trans voices to dominate. no-paywall link, please share & give it lots of "claps" (up to 50)!
https://juliaserano.medium.com/spotting-anti-trans-media-bias-on-detransition-a9a782a46894?sk=ce5108bdcddbf075b776e81f05c4a788

juliaserano, to trans
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since the NY Times is doing it's thing again – quoting anti-trans groups to make gender-affirming care for trans youth seem dubious – I will re-up this essay, which includes over 100 peer-reviewed studies and reviews:
https://juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth-is-neither-new-nor-experimental-a-timeline-and-compilation-b4bb8375d797?sk=bc6099a519dff7fdeecc2b2038b0f2fb

juliaserano, to trans
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so I was provoked into writing a response to the ridiculous "What Is a Woman?" question. it's a 5 min read, no-paywall link, please share & give it lots of "claps" (up to 50) so other folks on Medium see it! https://juliaserano.medium.com/what-is-a-woman-a-response-8f91aaf3a971?sk=e3493a6676c0e8373b311da8bd4a950a

juliaserano, to random
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day 4 of not spending time on Twitter & perhaps the best part is I have no clue what GC/TERFs are mad about today...

juliaserano, to trans
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lately I've seen stories about how anti-trans activism is increasingly cloaking itself under the guise of "parental rights." but it's also crucial to note the many parallels between this movement & the anti-vaxx parent movement (especially spreading medical disinformation):
https://juliaserano.medium.com/understanding-the-anti-trans-parent-movement-90d126de1fc9?sk=a3ab3891f321dbd49d00774cee6a8a27

juliaserano, to LGBTQ
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last night I watched "The Core," which is yet another disaster movie that goes out of its way to destroy San Francisco! I've long had a theory of why this is (passage from my novel "99 Erics": https://juliaserano.com/99erics.html)...

juliaserano, to trans
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I was finally compelled to write: On “Male Socialization” and the “Trans Masc Versus Trans Fem” Discourse. I hope everyone on all sides can get something from it (even if you don't 100% agree).
on Substack: https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-male-socialization-and-the-trans
& Medium: https://juliaserano.medium.com/on-male-socialization-and-the-trans-masc-versus-trans-fem-discourse-14bccb196a63?sk=12a747a2a052c0877f805887dc360b51

juliaserano, to trans
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NEW ESSAY (building upon the last one): “Gender Ideology” Is a Conspiracy Theory – it displays all the hallmarks & I believe we should explicitly call it that. no paywall, please give it lots of "claps"!
https://juliaserano.medium.com/gender-ideology-is-a-conspiracy-theory-3cd8b837bb2b?sk=6ddb483e5b424b0ffacc1fae95be318a

juliaserano, to random
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for those interested, on the hellsite (aka Twitter) I did a short thread on so-called "trans widows":
https://twitter.com/JuliaSerano/status/1665065335618191362

juliaserano, to science
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if you are a journalist (or YouTuber) & you push the notion of "transgender social contagion" without addressing any of the counter-evidence that I've compiled here, that either means 1) you're shitty at doing research, or 2) you're an anti-trans activist:
https://juliaserano.medium.com/all-the-evidence-against-transgender-social-contagion-f82fbda9c5d4?sk=00d1347269d63762493cc79d17699b69

juliaserano, to random
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for the record, I just planted a proverbial flag on Threads, although I don't plan to use it at the moment. same handle as on most platforms: @juliaserano. a comprehensive list of where I can be found on social media can be found here: https://juliaserano.com/socialmedia.html

juliaserano, to random
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TIRED: Is "Die Hard" a Christmas movie?

WIRED: Is "Jaws" a 4th of July movie?

juliaserano, to science
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just updated my Origins of "Social Contagion" & "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" timeline to include a bunch of new entries from @jackturban, @judedoyle, & @zinnia, plus the recent Bailey ROGD paper retraction, & a few new essays of my own!
https://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2019/02/origins-of-social-contagion-and-rapid.html

juliaserano, to trans
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since "X" is promoting a PrəgerU story on the topic, I will re-up this recent piece: "Spotting Anti- Media Bias on Detransition." it discusses ideologically motivated detransitioners who garner all the media attention, shares statistics showing how rare the “mistaken and regretted transition” narrative actually is, plus evidence & research that stricter gatekeeping won't do anything to decrease the frequency of detransition & may actually increase it (no paywall)...
https://juliaserano.medium.com/spotting-anti-trans-media-bias-on-detransition-a9a782a46894

juliaserano, to trans
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about once every other month, we get a day or two where there are more anti-trans & trans-skeptical news stories & op-eds than you can shake a stick at. since we're in this cycle yet again, it's time to vent frustration! & play bingo!
https://juliaserano.medium.com/anti-trans-op-ed-news-story-bingo-a4fa2a8409c9?sk=9c3f4829a1d036bc96a82f3ff32dcf24

juliaserano, to trans
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looking for something to watch this weekend? "Trans People & Biological Sex: What the Science Says" started as a talk I've given at colleges & conferences, now updated & free for YouTube! addresses virtually all trans-skeptical talking points, as well as intra-community debates about "born this way" & "true trans":
https://youtu.be/ZymYiwoRoC0

juliaserano, to trans
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taking the occasion of famous author lady referring to trans women as “rapists' rights activists" to re-up a few relevant essays (all no-paywall). "Transgender People, Bathrooms, and Sexual Predators: What the Data Say" shows how wrong & old this trope is: https://juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-people-bathrooms-and-sexual-predators-what-the-data-say-2f31ae2a7c06

juliaserano, to random
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while Mike Johnson seems like the worst (or one of the worst) possible house speaker candidates to have won, at least I can take a tiny itty bitty solace in the fact that I will no longer be barraged by "GOP can't agree on a new speaker" news stories. for now, at least...

juliaserano, to trans
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I know most ppl outside trans communities aren't paying much attention to anti-trans bans, but you might want to read about this one – it could lead GOP to make "approval from a bioethicist" a requirement for any healthcare (e.g., reproductive) they do not like:
https://truthout.org/articles/dewine-orders-ohio-to-create-new-rules-restricting-gender-affirming-care/

juliaserano, to trans
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happy to announce the 3rd Edition of will be released in March! it has a new cover & Afterword about GAC for trans youth & the current anti-trans moral panic – read all about it on either Substack: https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/whipping-girl-3rd-edition-to-be-released
or Medium: https://juliaserano.medium.com/whipping-girl-3rd-edition-to-be-released-in-march-2024-2d6fffa258b8?sk=78f08e3f9762bc2164c97b8a200511f1

juliaserano, to trans
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if you're tired of anti-trans activists who don't care nor know anything about biology wielding "biological sex" & "sex not gender" against us, this video addresses all their specious talking points. biology is far more complex than their cheap slogans...
https://youtu.be/ZymYiwoRoC0
#trans #transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #science #biology #sex #feminism

juliaserano, to trans
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hey, if you're still on the bad place, I just did a thread of excerpts from my new essay, "Why Are “Gender Critical” Activists So Fond of Gametes?": https://twitter.com/JuliaSerano/status/1757814704540651643

or if you wanna avoid the bad place, you can just read the essay directly on Medium:
https://juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gender-critical-activists-so-fond-of-gametes-b76bdd116331?sk=7314aa02f201dd17b0a4ce9d45259e27

juliaserano, to trans
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ICYMI yesterday, I was on one of my favorite podcasts, Cancel Me, Daddy! we talked about the 3rd edition and how the internet has shaped both the trans and anti-trans movements over the last 2 decades...
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/canceling-trans-and-anti-trans-discourses-ft-julia-serano/id1550508625?i=1000646361910

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