Sitemap - 2024 - gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen

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"My body is a temple and I will decorate it to feel at home"

Monomaniacal

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"People online suggesting I’m trans. Scared and upset. Will I regret transitioning?"

Skrmetti and the Supremes

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Splitting, rejection, and feeling 'wrong': Borderline personality and trans

Return to sender

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Did our side win?

Shaming voters for caring about trans issues probably isn't a winning strategy

Prints for the holidays

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Talking detransition in Gender Rebels

Next book-club meeting is December 3!

Book-club scheduling: How to Have Impossible Conversations

Can Democrats moderate on trans issues?

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"The right to regret" with Jamie Reed and Benjamin Boyce

WPATH, part IV: "Nuances within the rainbow"

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Good vibes only

WPATH, part III: "If I were a fairy and I could change you with my magic wand..."

Athens, Nafplio, Delphi, and Epidaurus

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WPATH, part II: The gist

WPATH, part I: "The dignity of risk and the right to regret"

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Wishful thinking and bullshit-laundering

Rebel Girls

Lisbon and Porto

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The underside narrative surfaces

An autogynephile walks into a reality check

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Open thread: What's the best book you've read this year?

"I'm actually quite alarmed/scared of how fast this is increasing from day to day."

ICYMI: Trans thought experiments

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Tell me about your first/early experiences online

From the archives: Female-to-Male Transsexualism

Don't-know seekership, radical departures, and bounded choice

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Next up for book club: How to Have Impossible Conversations

ICYMI: The secret life of gender clinicians

The parent trap

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Forgive me for not seeing things your way

The return of the girly girls

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Talking about the female body

Now for something completely different: Prints

I wish I didn't have to be the one to tell you this

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The Adolescent and Young Adult Gender Dysphoria Outcomes Study

Misinformation and disdain are a dangerous combination

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No post today

A conversation with two of the parents behind ROGD Boys

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"My woman’s body was so new to me..."

Don't you dare keep that woman prisoner!

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What questions do you have about boys and men who identify as trans?

Cognitive dissonance and the good progressive

Veränderlich

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Boxing chief questions eligibility of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting at Olympics

"Mourning the version of me that never got to exist"

Palermo, Monreale, Agrigento

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Discussion thread: 2016 vs. 2024

Inscrutability: "Confusing the Karens"

Lost in cyberspace: Girls, boys, and The Anxious Generation

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Lies, darn lies, and journalism with Lisa Selin Davis and Benjamin Boyce

"Why can't there be men who wish they were women?"

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Neil Gaiman's dark 'gift' for normalization

Book-club scheduling: Who's Afraid of Gender?

"I've had other obsessions, even very bad ones, but they've been easier to disprove.”

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Testosterone for me, but not for thee!

"Quitting isn't an option"

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California's foster-care collision with Laura Wiley Haynes and Benjamin Boyce

Book-club update: Who's Afraid of Gender?

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ICYMI: Lost in the Mindscape

Trans time capsule

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Now what?

About that mass egg-cracking event

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Book club: Pride summer goes up for a vote

Status update from the Czech Republic

“I still hate that I just want to be everyone else.”

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My testimony for Quebec's Comité de sages sur l'identité de genre

Putting yourself on a medical leash in the name of bodily autonomy...

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Discussion thread: How to accept what others reject?

“What am I without her?”

The UK moves forward. And the US splits down the middle.

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Book club scheduling: Sex, Science, Self

"Woman: you have said enough to burn ten heretics."

"We just don’t sabotage our lives for no good reason."

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Natalie and Noah

But it won't make me happy!

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PEN America’s new president is no free speech champion

When being a “boy” and being a “girl” are seen as equally performative and self-falsifying...

Next book-club read (Sex Science Self) + looking ahead to Pride month

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If only women could be more like men!

Online trans communities as zero-gravity chambers

Discussion thread: Making Monsters

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"So like I understand it because I experience gender feelings but I don't understand it because it's meaningless."

Asking the big questions about polyamory, like "Who the @$#&%* has time for this?" and "Is this really what Emma Goldman had in mind?"

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Questioning gender on the Road to Wisdom podcast

Long read: Lost in the Mindscape

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Processing the Cass Review

Writers' roundtable on WPATH

Cracked eggs and "baby trans": Trans infantilization

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Sasha White and I talk about teen girls and identity development

My conversation with Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender

La Musardeuse

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Who's afraid of KQED Forum?

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time

Fan fiction "tenderized my brain"

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My conversation with Lydia Perovic

Some girls really, really want out

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Andrea Long Chu's greatest hits

Typhoid Mary vibes

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"Gender, like genitalia, is represented by diversity": WPATH's bizarre response to leaked messages

Since everybody's finally talking about WPATH

What recruitment looks like

Discussion thread: Trouble with Gender

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'Girl influencers,' Instamoms, and sexual predators

Meanwhile, on Reddit...

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"They should have helped me accept my body"

About that 94% satisfaction rate...

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Where did all the weird nerd women go?

Transparency podcast: The "opinion" piece and the "medical" conference

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The New York Times ventures beyond the "complexities" of gender-affirming care

The Vital Spark

Guest review of Ånger: Ett reportage inifrån transvården

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Sadists and masochists

Strict orthodoxy sinks late night

Trouble with Gender meets March 4 + discussion thread

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We've always been at war with Byzantine transmisogyny

Pathological body projects in the pages of Teen Vogue

Discussion thread for The Sleeping Beauties

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What kids are looking for—and finding—online

Activists and gender clinicians are deceiving the public on youth gender transition

Just for fun: Havana

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Have Americans had their fill of gender?

Very human problems in the field of gender medicine

Book club meets January 21 to discuss The Sleeping Beauties

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The SPLC and the no good very bad white Christian nationalist but also just unpopular anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network

WHO's afraid of public comments?

My 2023 reading list