Beyond X&Y
🧬 Biomed experts mobilizing scientists to fight transphobia through education 🏳️⚧️
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- Are you a biomedical expert who wants to help fight for trans rights and evidence based medicine? Check out this thorough, extremely helpful guide on how to submit official comments to defend gender affirming care:
- CTA Defend Trans Kids: If you're a clinician, a parent, a trans adult, or just someone who cares, I wrote a guide on how to submit effective comments opposing the federal ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Deadline 2/17/26 🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149210... 🔗
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- Reposted by Beyond X&Y🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?
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- Abortion access, gender affirming care, and access to Prep and AIDS medications are all issues of bodily autonomy and founded in legitimate medical research But that doesn't matter to fascists. Enforcing strict gender binaries and destroying science maintains power among a few cishet wealthy men
- This is why it's important to vocally fight for trans rights - it works! Big win 🎉🏳️⚧️
- HUGE NEWS for trans people: We have the latest minibus, including the bill to fund the Department of Health and Human Services and it looks like there are no restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender people. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
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- Reposted by Beyond X&YIn 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.
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- Want to help our cause? If you see any 1. Anti-trans news story lying about "trusting the science" that "biological sex" is binary 2. Scientific resources explaining the complexity of sex and gender 3. Good faith questions that could use a trans geneticist's brain Send it via DM or tagging us! 🏳️⚧️🧬
- Can't promise answers to every question or commentary on every piece of news We're a volunteer team: Mainly one tired trans science communicator, helped by their queer scientist friends (also tired) But we at least want to be a resource to stay up to date about science-related trans rights issues
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- Reposted by Beyond X&Y“All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is life’s only irreducible essence”—Gould Evolutionary biology is the study of how complicated and diverse life can be; the field has its jerks, but a good evolutionary biologist learns pretty fast that life doesn’t like boundaries or binaries
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- Reposted by Beyond X&YHey, fellow evolutionary biologists: If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
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- Seems like a good time to reshare this resource: www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
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- Reposted by Beyond X&YIf any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
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- This snake oil salesman is reality rejecting There's a reason why all major medical organizations disagree with him: Because transness is innate, and nearly a century of evidence clearly shows gender affirming care saves lives He has the blood of trans kids on his hands for these lies
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- Key words: "It is the policy of the state" That policy is a lie. It denies the reality of hundreds of thousands of trans people who have demonstrably changed their sex with hormones Sex is mutable *because of how biology works*, regardless of propaganda from a fascist government
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- Call your reps, folks
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- "We remain committed to reversing harmful policies enacted by Levine and ensuring that biological reality guides our approach to public health." Since when have *names* been encoded in someone's DNA? Names are a cultural invention Transness is actual biological reality
- Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
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- Great thread summarizing a fantastic resource! Thanks to the GenderSci Lab team for their hard work creating this
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- This will literally kill children And pave the way for a national ban for adults as well We need hospitals, doctors, and researchers to take a stand for basic scientific and medical ethics NOW
- The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
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- Transphobia hurts everyone by enforcing binaries that aren't rooted in biology
- Gender affirming care saves lives by alieviating anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. It has the same scientific support as any other medical procedure Framing it as "mutilation" is nothing more than propaganda. They want to turn working class people against each other while they starve them
- I hate gay Halloween, what do you mean you're a transgenic mouse who just lost their research funding?
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