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Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social |
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author of Whipping Girl, Sexed Up, Excluded & 99 Erics. also a musician & biologist. more at juliaserano.com. @juliaserano most other platforms. she/her
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Emily 404 Not Found
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Aside from anything else, it's *so much fun* being socialised as the gender you aren't. Yeah. Really does wonders for your self-esteem and confidence. Anyway. Julia's always worth reading 👇🏻
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Julia Serano
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whenever vague & flimsy assertions about trans women supposedly being "privileged" and/or posing some kind of "threat" crop up, it's time for me to tap the sign...👇
juliaserano.medium.com/on-male-soci...
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Benjamin Hall
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Info boost
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Alan Baxter
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"What we are dealing with here is a hundred-year-old medical field that has gradually come to the conclusion (particularly over the last three decades) that gender-disaffirming approaches are harmful and gender-affirming approaches are beneficial." Masses of receipts here.
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Caya
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Anti-trans “research” is completely bereft of any scientific, medical, or historical legitimacy, and yet this bunk and its proponents are what’s threatening to rob untold numbers of trans and nonbinary people of their rights. It must be opposed, loudly, with your chest. Julia Serano’s got the deets.
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Dr. Sheila Addison
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Julia is your one-stop shop for factual, comprehensive, well-synthesized information on affirming care for trans youth. Accept no substitutes.
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Kaptain_Kira
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One of my favorite things to ever learn was that trans, and gender-nonconforming people have been a part of recorded history since Mesopotamia… the first human civilization… If being trans is “new and trendy” just wait till they learn about the wheel!
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Rebecca Kling
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Spoiler alert: there is "current scientific consensus that gender-disaffirming approaches are harmful and gender-affirming approaches are beneficial for trans youth." Julia Serano bringing the receipts with over ONE HUNDRED citations.
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Julia Serano
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wonderful to hear, thank you!
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Nic 🍉
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We need to be smacking down every asinine anti-trans thing "just asking questions" people say every fucking time they say it.
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Julia Serano
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btw, most media outlets wouldn't have allowed me to publish this piece as is (especially w/all the references). so if you appreciate that I make essays like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month!
www.patreon.com/juliaserano
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Julia Serano
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given today's news that SCOTUS will take up bans on gender-affirming care for trans youth next session, this piece has everything you need to know about the history & efficacy of this care, & debunks common anti-trans talking points against it:
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
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Julia Serano
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I also keep no-paywall links of all my essays/articles (going back 20 years) on this page of my website: juliaserano.com/writings.htm...
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Julia Serano
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seeing lots of JKR discussion today. if you are interested in responses to her claims that trans ppl supposedly "threaten/erase/silence women" (& many other GC/TERF talking points), please check out my latest essay! (no-paywall link):
juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...
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Julia Serano
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yes, I asked for more details & explained that I've had anti-trans activists tried to "phish" me before. my email was respectful, so if I don't receive a response I'm likely to presume the worst
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Julia Serano
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question: has anyone ever received an inquiry from a journalist whose email was first-name only with no link to a website or previous writings? trying not to jump to conclusions here, but I've had anti-trans activists try to "phish" me in the past so...
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Julia Serano
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...also, in my essay, I mention Alice Echols' book Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967–1975. I think it's a wonderful history of how many of the earlier strands (e.g., liberal, radical, cultural, lesbian, & Marxist feminism) all branched off one another
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Julia Serano
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so I don't know of any good single primer that describes all the different strands of feminism and how they differ. you could start with this wiki page and from there investigate the individual pages associated with each different strand: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminis...
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Julia Serano
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also, I see a lot of my mentions here from yesterday were about the Brianna Wu incident on Twitter. I had to go private for a bit, but am unlocked now. you can see what happened in this thread: x.com/JuliaSerano/...
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Julia Serano
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ICYMI from this week, my comprehensive review & response to GC/TERFism:
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Tiram
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Nyttig lesing! 🏳️🌈
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clockwork banana
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this is SUCH a great read, a good quick rundown of feminism thought.
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Michachu
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"GC/TERFs have made their position quite clear: They are squarely on team “push trans people out of the public sphere.” They may dress it up in esoteric language but if you look at the entire body of what they are proposing, it’s a world that is utterly inhospitable for trans people."
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0r3g0n V1x3n
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This should be required reading by all politicians. Then maybe we could move forward instead of backwards.
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Julia Serano
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...also, most media outlets wouldn't have allowed me to publish this piece as is. so if you appreciate that I make essays like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month!
www.patreon.com/juliaserano
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Julia Serano
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...for those of you still on the "bad place", I made a Twitter thread of excerpts/highlights from the essay, check it out! (or else just read the essay via the link above): x.com/JuliaSerano/...
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Transgender World
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«GC/TERFism is not just a flawed strand of feminism. It is an anti-trans discrimination movement first and foremost. And it should be recognized as such.»
by @juliaserano.bsky.social
juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Helen Boyd (she/they)
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more awesome work from Julia Serano.
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Michael Hobbes
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"If you vocally oppose a minority group, you will likely come across as a bigot. But if you frame that opposition as being in defense or support of some other marginalized group, then your efforts may strike uninformed outsiders as being righteous."
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Nat Kinkle, Pink Adult
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"GC/TERFs have made their position quite clear: They are squarely on team “push trans people out of the public sphere.”
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scott dagostino
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I’ve learned a lot from Julia and it seems I will *continue* learning a lot from Julia
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Boner McGee Rides Again
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Very good read
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Julia Serano
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thanks for the kind words!
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Julia Serano
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thank you!
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Stewart Horn
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It's all so simple. Why do we have to keep explaining this?
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Claude
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Read.
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Julia Serano
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NEW ESSAY (many months in the making): A "Gender Critical" and "TERF" Primer (for readers trying to make sense of "feminists versus transgender activists" debates). no paywall, please give it lots of "claps" & share widely!
juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...
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Julia Serano
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question: do people still refer to articles & videos as "explainers"? asking with regards to my next essay, which is basically that. but I don't want to use the term if it comes off as "too 2010s"...
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isaac
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This is very good and is relevant for everyone today, because the bounds of who and what are "contaminated" are both not new and also expanding once again, right in front of our eyes.
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Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸]
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Saving this for myself to read today - sharing if you’d like to too so we can discuss :) 💜
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Gillian Gower
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'Much like accusations that trans women are “perpetually male privileged” ... constructing bisexual women as “perpetually heterosexual privileged” serves one purpose, and one purpose only: to assert that the person in question belongs to the “oppressor class.”'
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rudetuesday
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Glad I took time to sit and read this piece carefully. I'll be thinking about it for a while, which is excellent. Right amount of complexity, with a lot of room for further thought.
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Julia Serano
@juliaserano.bsky.social
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...FYI most media outlets wouldn't have allowed me to publish this piece as is. so if you appreciate that I make essays like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month!
www.patreon.com/juliaserano
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Julia Serano
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I see we're rehashing Pride discourse about bisexual women & their male partners (despite many men being at Pride). so I'm re-upping "Penises, Privilege, and Feminist & LGBTQ+ Purity Politics" – which gets to the root of this antagonism (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/penises-priv...
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Julia Serano
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...FYI most media outlets wouldn't have allowed me to publish this piece as is. so if you appreciate that I make essays like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month!
www.patreon.com/juliaserano
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Julia Serano
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ICYMI, on Friday, I published Revisiting the “Transgender Tipping Point” Ten Years Later – 9 minute read, no-paywall link, please give it lots of "claps" & shares if you like it!
juliaserano.medium.com/revisiting-t...
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Helen Lovatt
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Useful, thoughtful article. In the uk trans healthcare and education is a very polarising issue, but a lot more people know a lot more about what it means to be trans. I think we are moving towards a healthier attitude, even if slowly and jerkily.
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Julia Serano
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...FYI most media outlets wouldn't have allowed me to publish this piece as is. so if you appreciate that I make essays like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month!
www.patreon.com/juliaserano
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Julia Serano
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if you're looking for some weekend reading, I just published Revisiting the “Transgender Tipping Point” Ten Years Later – 9 minute read, no-paywall link, please give it lots of "claps" & shares if you like it!
juliaserano.medium.com/revisiting-t...
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Willem DaFOMO 🇨🇦 ϕ 6x COVID Vax, Flu Vax every year
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Worth your while, both Serano's Medium post, and Doyle's Xtra post that prompted it (linked in the Medium article)
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