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Hex Anderson

@dexanderson.com

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I've written a few books, and I like to rant about gender and hyperlocal Minneapolis politics. Cat Dad. They/them. linktr.ee/dexanderson

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 7h

"budgeting lessons."

is she a fucking republican (the answer to that is yes)

Kelly is ranking Fateh, Davis, and Hampton @kellyrogers.bsky.social · 10h

Shelley Madore just said a food bank and budgeting lessons is her approach to the food desert around the U 😭😭😭😭

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h

I really like Jason Momoa as a villain

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h

watching Fast X but will pop on when it's done!

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h

Roman would have pocket sand

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h

I was busy with the pies so I forgot to post: tonight is Tuesday movie night and we're watching FAST X

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h

I was busy with the pies so I forgot to post: tonight is Tuesday movie night and we're watching FAST X

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 9h

I went with tiny lattice crust as that freezes better as I’m holding off on baking them until tomorrow

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 9h

Just put these in the freezer to bake tomorrow.

A blue muffin tin with small apple pies. 8 have lattice tops and four have the regular top with slits.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10h

I just got a mailer for Frey touting this program *today*.

Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 10h

You may have seen an ad from Mayor Frey in the last month lifting up Minneapolis’s Stable Homes, Stable Schools program.

What you probably didn’t know is that he’s actively defunding it.

It turns out, the Mayor’s 2026 budget sends the program over a “fiscal cliff.”

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10h

oooooh

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h

i'm trying to decide if i want to do an apple crisp topping with oats, or try my hand at a tiny lattice crust.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h

anyway, my new neighbors are hosting a potluck tomorrow so I'm going to bring mini apple pies? Pies made in a muffin tin.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h

oh this is gonna be interesting

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h

no, i think that's a good impulse.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h

are a lot of the prominent trans users verified? i gotta look

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h

weird that i'm not verified yet, @bsky.app

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h

weird that i'm not verified yet, @bsky.app

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h

Thanks for tracking down the piece for me! I figured there was something hinky but was concentrating on just a close read of the study.

Marie @marie.tech · 13h

Can't imagine why students at Brown this year would want to not ID as non-binary as much as they used to.

www.advocate.com/news/transge...

Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement

“Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

www.advocate.com

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h

lol i have him blocked so he's not gonna see this

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h

have a thread get clicks and views during October means I'm getting a lot of people meeting me as "hex."

It's Dex.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h

YEAH

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14h

transphobia rots your brain

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14h

Pretty much!!!

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14h

Why put out this study at all?

Anti-trans policy requires a belief that being trans is a trend. If the numbers of people ID'ing as trans is shown to have major fluctuations, it can be used to argue that trans identity is fake and social contagion. That's the point of this whole project.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14h

Indeed, the "changes" he's noting in the data can basically be accounted for as statistical noise considering the amount of people surveyed varied *drastically* between years, and he tossed out data that didn't agree with his conclusions.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14h

This simply isn't supported by the data. He cherrypicks data from "elite" schools, does not do any controlling for representative samples, ignores larger studies for specious reasons, and draws a much bigger conclusion than any data suggests.

Conclusion
Trans, queer and bisexual identities are in rapid decline among young educated Americans.
This does not appear to be the result of a shift to the right, the return of religion or a rejection of woke culture war
attitudes. Despite high correlations between sexual/gender identity and political attitudes within individuals, the
over-time trend in gender and sexuality seems relatively independent of political, cultural and religious beliefs.
Improving mental health, however, appears to be part of the explanation for the decline of BTQ+ identification

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14h

Like, if I decline to give my identity on a survey that's going to a known conservative action group, that doesn't mean my politics have changed? My politics would show consistent year over year. Just my consideration for my own safety would change.

There is a massive trans survey he could look at.

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