Amanda Baumle
@amandabaumle.bsky.social
Demography of sexuality, sociology of law. Views are my own.
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This new documentary about single working class men in China is compelling. But it attributes their hardship to the shortage of men, explained only as: "[China's] one-child policy left it with over 30 million more men than women." A one-child policy by itself does not affect the sex ratio...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This new documentary about single working class men in China is compelling. But it attributes their hardship to the shortage of men, explained only as: "[China's] one-child policy left it with over 30 million more men than women." A one-child policy by itself does not affect the sex ratio...
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A monumental shift from the EEOC’s earlier expansive approach to SOGI discrimination that we describe in our work on EEOC as legal intermediary:
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A monumental shift from the EEOC’s earlier expansive approach to SOGI discrimination that we describe in our work on EEOC as legal intermediary:
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‘For policy, it means shifting the question from “How can we change or reverse current trends?” to “How can societies remain prosperous, equitable, and sustainable under conditions of low fertility, population aging and, in many places, population decline?”’
Yes! That’s the right question.
Yes! That’s the right question.
The demographic future that we do not know about
The demographic future of the planet has rarely been as questioned as it is today. For much of the 20th century, the demographic transition theory provided a clear narrative: With modernization and de...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
‘For policy, it means shifting the question from “How can we change or reverse current trends?” to “How can societies remain prosperous, equitable, and sustainable under conditions of low fertility, population aging and, in many places, population decline?”’
Yes! That’s the right question.
Yes! That’s the right question.
New article with former graduate student, Nasim Koohi! We find that individual and contextual characteristics are related to sexual fluidity for sexual minority men but not women, and fluid sexual minority women (and not men) have some better health outcomes than non-fluid women.
Sexual Identity Fluidity Among Sexual Minorities: Gender Differences in Determinants of Fluidity and Health-Related Outcomes
Drawing upon the Generations Study, a longitudinal U.S. national probability survey, we examine sexual fluidity among 894 sexual minority adults over three waves of survey data. We find that pluris...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
New article with former graduate student, Nasim Koohi! We find that individual and contextual characteristics are related to sexual fluidity for sexual minority men but not women, and fluid sexual minority women (and not men) have some better health outcomes than non-fluid women.
Study participants needed for MA thesis project on gay, bisexual, or queer Latinx men from Houston or San Antonio!
October 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Study participants needed for MA thesis project on gay, bisexual, or queer Latinx men from Houston or San Antonio!
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This story is absolutely WILD. Must-read of the day.
Holy guacamole, this could be the weirdest story I ever worked on. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...
A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This story is absolutely WILD. Must-read of the day.
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Measurement strategies for sexual identity in U.S. pop data are evolving but still fall short in capturing the complexity of multiple and diverse identities. #DataInclusion #SOGIData @chrisajulian.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social @clairekampdush.bsky.social
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Visualizing Multiple Sexual Identity Responses Using a Network Approach - Christopher A. Julian, Lauren Newmyer, Wendy D. Manning, Claire M. Kamp Dush, 2024
Measurement strategies for gauging sexual identity within the United States’s population-based data infrastructure are evolving. Despite notable advancements, m...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Measurement strategies for sexual identity in U.S. pop data are evolving but still fall short in capturing the complexity of multiple and diverse identities. #DataInclusion #SOGIData @chrisajulian.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social @clairekampdush.bsky.social
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Demographers studying queer families: Please consider submitting to the session I am chairing on the topic! #demographyofsexuality #LGBTQfamilies
Papers, posters, exhibits, books, connection, community, demography -- #PAA2026 will have it all! You don't want to miss this. Make sure to submit your work by Sunday, Oct. 5. buff.ly/HoZlR1U
October 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Demographers studying queer families: Please consider submitting to the session I am chairing on the topic! #demographyofsexuality #LGBTQfamilies
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Papers, posters, exhibits, books, connection, community, demography -- #PAA2026 will have it all! You don't want to miss this. Make sure to submit your work by Sunday, Oct. 5. buff.ly/HoZlR1U
October 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Papers, posters, exhibits, books, connection, community, demography -- #PAA2026 will have it all! You don't want to miss this. Make sure to submit your work by Sunday, Oct. 5. buff.ly/HoZlR1U
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Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...
October 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...
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Demographers studying queer families: Please consider submitting to the session I am chairing on the topic! #demographyofsexuality #LGBTQfamilies
We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026:
www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...
www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...
August 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Demographers studying queer families: Please consider submitting to the session I am chairing on the topic! #demographyofsexuality #LGBTQfamilies
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Had the BEST time presenting our work “Sex and the Survey” at @bspsuk.bsky.social, on behalf of fab co-authors @heinivaisanen.bsky.social & Linh Nguyen
We analyse surveys in France, Ghana, Senegal, and UK to answer the question ‘what if everything we knew about #SRHR was what we read in surveys?’
We analyse surveys in France, Ghana, Senegal, and UK to answer the question ‘what if everything we knew about #SRHR was what we read in surveys?’
September 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Had the BEST time presenting our work “Sex and the Survey” at @bspsuk.bsky.social, on behalf of fab co-authors @heinivaisanen.bsky.social & Linh Nguyen
We analyse surveys in France, Ghana, Senegal, and UK to answer the question ‘what if everything we knew about #SRHR was what we read in surveys?’
We analyse surveys in France, Ghana, Senegal, and UK to answer the question ‘what if everything we knew about #SRHR was what we read in surveys?’
Demographers studying queer families: Please consider submitting to the session I am chairing on the topic! #demographyofsexuality #LGBTQfamilies
We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026:
www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...
www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...
August 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Demographers studying queer families: Please consider submitting to the session I am chairing on the topic! #demographyofsexuality #LGBTQfamilies
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@chrisajulian.bsky.social et al, in “Half of the Picture: Measuring the Sexual Identity Composition of Couples,” employ @nchatstudy.bsky.social dyadic data to provide national estimates of the sexual identity composition of couples using both partners’ identities. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
August 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
@chrisajulian.bsky.social et al, in “Half of the Picture: Measuring the Sexual Identity Composition of Couples,” employ @nchatstudy.bsky.social dyadic data to provide national estimates of the sexual identity composition of couples using both partners’ identities. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
theconversation.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n
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Includes infographics that clearly illustrate how the Trump admin is actively working to worsen America’s health and healthcare, which was already embarrassingly shitty.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Includes infographics that clearly illustrate how the Trump admin is actively working to worsen America’s health and healthcare, which was already embarrassingly shitty.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Today marks the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges. Explore our Fast Facts on same-sex couples and dive into our latest Family Profiles highlighting same-sex families: www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour....
June 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges. Explore our Fast Facts on same-sex couples and dive into our latest Family Profiles highlighting same-sex families: www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour....
My new edited book with Zelma Oyarvide Tuthill is now out - the Second International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality. Thank you to all chapter authors for your wonderful contributions to the #demographyofsexuality!
Second International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality
This 2nd edition of the International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality provides new insight into the developing field of demography of sexuality
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June 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My new edited book with Zelma Oyarvide Tuthill is now out - the Second International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality. Thank you to all chapter authors for your wonderful contributions to the #demographyofsexuality!
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I began this study planning to compare the experiences of asexual men, asexual women, and nonbinary asexuals.
But some people didn't fit any gender category.
They were resistant to defining themselves through gender.
You can read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
But some people didn't fit any gender category.
They were resistant to defining themselves through gender.
You can read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Does Everyone Have a Gender? Compulsory Gender, Gender Detachment, and Asexuality - Canton Winer, 2025
Feminist scholars have written for decades about the radical potential, if not the necessity, of ungendering for resisting gender inequality. Yet much of this w...
journals.sagepub.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I began this study planning to compare the experiences of asexual men, asexual women, and nonbinary asexuals.
But some people didn't fit any gender category.
They were resistant to defining themselves through gender.
You can read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
But some people didn't fit any gender category.
They were resistant to defining themselves through gender.
You can read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Really interesting article exploring how some people are more detached from the idea of gender
I began this study planning to compare the experiences of asexual men, asexual women, and nonbinary asexuals.
But some people didn't fit any gender category.
They were resistant to defining themselves through gender.
You can read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
But some people didn't fit any gender category.
They were resistant to defining themselves through gender.
You can read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Does Everyone Have a Gender? Compulsory Gender, Gender Detachment, and Asexuality - Canton Winer, 2025
Feminist scholars have written for decades about the radical potential, if not the necessity, of ungendering for resisting gender inequality. Yet much of this w...
journals.sagepub.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Really interesting article exploring how some people are more detached from the idea of gender
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"personal economic pessimism and concerns about having a good relationship in the future are associated with greater importance of avoiding a pregnancy in the short term" (controlling for economic and relationship status, etc) @karenguzzo.bsky.social, Belykh, @wendymanning.bsky.social , & Roza
Perceptions of the Future and Pregnancy Avoidance in the U.S - Population Research and Policy Review
Despite low U.S. fertility rates since the Great Recession, two-child norms remain pervasive, suggesting individuals are unable to achieve their goals. To understand what may be driving the apparent m...
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June 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"personal economic pessimism and concerns about having a good relationship in the future are associated with greater importance of avoiding a pregnancy in the short term" (controlling for economic and relationship status, etc) @karenguzzo.bsky.social, Belykh, @wendymanning.bsky.social , & Roza
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Grateful that NBC News did a feature story of our latest article in JGSS (@geronsociety.bsky.social)!
For the first time in two decades, older Asian Americans are no longer the healthiest U.S.-born aging racial group with the lowest rates of disability, according to a study from the Journals of Gerontology.
U.S.-born Asian Americans no longer the healthiest group among older adults
Among older adults, non-Hispanic white Americans have now overtaken Asians Americans as the healthiest U.S.-born population with the lowest rates of disability.
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June 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Grateful that NBC News did a feature story of our latest article in JGSS (@geronsociety.bsky.social)!
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#Freshout
As queer demography advances, SOGIESC data face both innovation and erasure, especially amid political threats. We trace the history, challenges & call for scholars to protect and shape this work. #SOGIData #soci Queer Data for Sociologists of Sexualities: via Pao, Budnick & Valesco
As queer demography advances, SOGIESC data face both innovation and erasure, especially amid political threats. We trace the history, challenges & call for scholars to protect and shape this work. #SOGIData #soci Queer Data for Sociologists of Sexualities: via Pao, Budnick & Valesco
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May 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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#FreshOut The Household Pulse Survey’s two-step gender measure offers rare insight into noncisgender populations (n=668K+). Findings show socioeconomics gaps compared to cisgender peers & key diffs w/in noncis groups. #Demo #soci #SOGIData #reallyjustgi
Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure
Article: Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure | Sociological Science | Posted May 6, 2025
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May 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
#FreshOut The Household Pulse Survey’s two-step gender measure offers rare insight into noncisgender populations (n=668K+). Findings show socioeconomics gaps compared to cisgender peers & key diffs w/in noncis groups. #Demo #soci #SOGIData #reallyjustgi
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President Trump and right-wing politicians in Europe have railed against trans rights. Britain’s Supreme Court has now added its voice to the discussion, ruling on Wednesday that the legal definition of a woman under the country’s equality legislation is based on biological sex.
U.K. Court Ruling on Trans Women Is Part of Wider Debate on Sex and Gender
President Trump and right-wing politicians in Europe have railed against trans rights. Britain’s top court has now added its voice to the discussion.
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April 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
President Trump and right-wing politicians in Europe have railed against trans rights. Britain’s Supreme Court has now added its voice to the discussion, ruling on Wednesday that the legal definition of a woman under the country’s equality legislation is based on biological sex.