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Erin Beeghly @beegs1.bsky.social · Sep 10

Yes!!! So thrilled for you, Caro.

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Erin Beeghly @beegs1.bsky.social · Aug 5

My colleague has a new Substack and the first post is fierce - rest in power Ozzy!

Steve Downes @stevemdownes.bsky.social · Aug 5

I started a Substack: open.substack.com/pub/stevemdo...

Goodbye Ozzy

Recollections about my first Black Sabbath concert.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · Jun 20

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UK puberty blocker ban causing "serious adverse" harm to trans youth, study shows

A new study has revealed that the ban on puberty blockers in the UK is having serious and adverse effects on young trans people.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · Jun 20

How DARE I have advocated for bodily autonomy! Don’t you know you have to give up bodily autonomy in order to get rights????

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Erin Beeghly @beegs1.bsky.social · Jun 19

A glimpse into my book from the 99th page!

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Erin Beeghly's "What's Wrong with Stereotyping?"

Erin Beeghly is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies for the Philosophy Department at the University of Utah....

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jun 18

One bright spot for trans people in Montana: Today's SCOTUS decision does not touch Montana. That's because Montana overturned its gender affirming care ban through the state Supreme Court. States are allowed to have protections that go beyond the US constitution, and thus that ruling is unaffected.

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Congresswoman Sarah McBride @mcbride.house.gov · Jun 18

The ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti bans health care decisions made by patient & families in consultation with their doctors. Once again, politicians & judges are inserting themselves in exam rooms. This ruling undermines doctors in delivering care to some of the most vulnerable patients in our country.

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Erin Beeghly @beegs1.bsky.social · Jun 18

So jealous! Would love to be there.

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Erin Beeghly @beegs1.bsky.social · Jun 18

My kid’s reaction to the news today: “things didn’t go our way, but the sun is gonna rise tomorrow.” Our state ban remains in tact. My kid is supposed to be permitted to continue care under state law, but the hospital refuses to reschedule our visit, obfuscates.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · Jun 18

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

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Erin Beeghly @beegs1.bsky.social · Jun 17

New, gorgeous zine out today! Being trans in philosophy. Read & share.

Being Trans in Philosophy: Issue #0 Out Now @being.transinphilosophy.org · Jun 17

Issue #0 of Being Trans in Philosophy zine is out now! “We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way”. Download & print ur own 🖨️. being.transinphilosophy.org

#beingtransinphilosophy #trans #philosophy #gender #feminism #zine #diy

Being Trans in Philosophy issue #0 release. Subtitle: download, make your own. Url: https://being.transinphilosophy.org. Image of 5 zines arranged in the trans pride colors, stacked on top of well-known trans books.

Title: ‘welcome to the WTF.” Image of a biohazard symbol overlayed on a world map with lines radiating from the center of the symbol, and the spires of the biohazard symbol are impinging on two scared trans symbols. A very long list of anti-trans events since 2021 portraying the looming threats to trans life from violence, media, and governmental disenfranchisement. Footer text: https://being.transinphilosophy.org.

Text header: issue #0, june 2025, https://being.transinphilosophy.org, our stories, “we are not trans in a theoretical way”. A list of contributors with each name on a black badge over a purple splatter. The names are: Imogen Sullivan, Erin Beeghly, Ray Briggs, Anonymous, autogyniphiles_anonymous, Emmie Malone, Kelly Potter, Elin McCready, Penny Haulotte, Amy Marvin, Alex Adamson, Perry Zurn, Emil Eva Rosina, and Maximiliana Rifkin.

Text header: issue #0, june 2025, https://being.transinphilosophy.org, our stories, “we are not trans in a theoretical way”. A block of white text on a stippled purple star background reads: “being trans i not a controversial idea. it’s a lived reality.” Under the text appears a black and white image of a feminine eye.

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Talia Mae Bettcher @talia-mae.bsky.social · Jun 14

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Into the Darkness I:

Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself

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Erin Beeghly @beegs1.bsky.social · Jun 11

Can’t wait to get my hands on this!

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Jun 10

Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind

Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores

Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026

Details and links to submit on the website:

Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind - hypatia

Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores This special issue focuses on feminist philosophy of mind and cognitive science. It will offer novel perspectives on long-standing questions such as t...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jun 4

1. An international humanitarian organization, Human Rights Watch, has issued a scathing report on transgender healthcare bans in the United States.

They detail loss of care, people forced to move, and more.

The latest from S. Baum.

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Human Rights Watch Issues Scathing Report on Anti-Trans Healthcare Bans in the US

A first-of-its-kind Human Rights Watch report documented the impacts of trans youth care bans in-depth.

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Erin Beeghly @beegs1.bsky.social · Jun 2

Important work by Ben Eidelson & Deborah Hellman

Ben Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · Jun 2

Some takeaways from our new article on Title VI and antisemitism/antizionism (cc @hellmandeborah.bsky.social) in this @chronicle.com Q&A with @shenandoahkate.bsky.social. Full paper: ssrn.com/abstract=527...

kate hidalgo bellows @shenandoahkate.bsky.social · Jun 2

"It's important to me to reclaim some of these concepts," said @beidelson.bsky.social. "Title VI is a real law, and it has real demands, and here's what they are, and they're markedly different than anything the administration is claiming." www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · May 28

For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Trump's message to trans people is clear: Detransition, or potentially die

My question to everyone reading this is: When is enough enough?

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · May 27

Are you a genderfucker? Are you a fucker? Do you like fucking? If so, woah, do I have the article for you!

Link: lawjournal.mcgill.ca/article/gend...

Title page of “Genderfucking as a Critical Legal Methodology” by Florence Ashley

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Erin Beeghly @beegs1.bsky.social · May 27

I love Jill McDonough’s work: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jill-m...

Jill McDonough

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Erin Beeghly @beegs1.bsky.social · May 27

I can’t wait for the full issue and all the amazing work that will be showcased… it’s literally going to be 🔥🔥🔥

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Erin Beeghly @beegs1.bsky.social · May 27

Today is the U.S. pub date for What’s Wrong with Stereotyping? and I’m celebrating by dropping a new essay on queering ethics that I wrote for the upcoming edition of APA Studies in LGBTQ Philosophy. It's my first personal essay -- an experiment for me!

Erin Beeghly, Queering Ethics: Cultivating Queer Sensibility - PhilPapers

This essay explores what it means to “queer” ethics. Writing from a perspective that is both personal and philosophical, I argue that we cannot queer ethics simply by expanding the range ...

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Erin Beeghly @beegs1.bsky.social · May 24

Writing this involved ripping my heart from my chest. Protect our kids, our loved ones. Protect our colleagues!

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · May 24

Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023.

They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."

Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?

The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?

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Being Trans in Philosophy: Issue #0 Out Now @being.transinphilosophy.org · May 24

“When [my tween] socially transitioned in the second grade, years ago now, other kids in the class didn’t blink an eye. Zero bullying. Now bullies run the show—in dominant online spaces in our discipline, in our state legislature, in the U.S. government.” @beegs1.bsky.social #beingtransinphilosophy

black text in typewriter font on white background, as a sneak peek of the Being Trans in Philosophy zine, forthcoming in June 2025: Talia Mae Bettcher talks about the WTF of existence—where up becomes down and down becomes up. I can't begin to say how much this captures my experience as a parent of a trans kid right now. My tween is kind, funny, talented, ambitious. He is a shining light that cheers me up every single day. I don't know how anyone could find fault with him, could look into his eyes and see him as anything but authentic, as deserving of love and respect for who he really is.

text continues: When he socially transitioned in the second grade, years ago now, other kids in the class didn't blink an eye. Zero bullying. Now bullies run the show—in dominant online spaces in our discipline, in our state legislature, in the U.S. government. State law bars kids like him from playing sports. It is illegal for him to use the bathroom associated with his gender identity at school. Just last month, my kid lost access to gender-affirming healthcare at our local hospital.

text continues: Still, my child is thriving. Our community is there for us. Each morning that we wake up, go about our day, feels like an act of resistance. Increasingly I find myself staring out the window of my office in the philosophy department, gorgeous mountains rising in the background, crying. It's a lot: sitting with the cruelty, the uncertainty of how far persecution will go, what to do.

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Being Trans in Philosophy: Issue #0 Out Now @being.transinphilosophy.org · May 23

Trans people and our loved ones are not okay -- in, with, and because of academic philosophy. #beingtransinphilosophy tells these stories firsthand.

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Being Trans in Philosophy is a zine collecting first-personal accounts of what it's actually like to be trans or to have trans kids as a philosopher.

Our stories highlight the material, on-the-ground consequences of academic philosophy's role as perhaps the main discipline providing intellectual cover for a global transmisogynistic and transphobic moral panic -- one that has been increasingly institutionalized into laws and policies.

Forthcoming June 2025

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