🎶 Almost heaven, Massachusetts
  Pioneer Valley, queer folks in abundance
  Coffee shops and bookstores, rainbow flags that fly
  Dykes on bikes at Pride, under the gay sky

  Cunty roads, take me home 🎶

My take on the psychotherapy claims in the HHS report:
lots of conflation and false binaries, and the unnamed authors misused data about affirming psychotherapy approaches to try to argue that *non-affirming* approaches are supported by the evidence.

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As a practicing psychologist, PhD-level researcher, and trans man, I couldn't stay quiet on the HHS report's misrepresentation of the literature on psychotherapy for youth with gender dysphoria.

I review the psychotherapy sections and contextualize and challenge the conclusions on my substack.

I was just on NPR Member Station KCRW's "Press Play" where I fact check the Trump HHS Review targeting transgender healthcare.

Listen to me speak here:

www.kcrw.com/news/shows/p...

Yeah… this HHS review isn’t going so well for them.

Watch how CNN is covering it.

“Conversion therapy using friendlier language”

“Peer reviewed but they won’t say by who”

As a practicing psychologist, PhD-level researcher, and trans man, I couldn't stay quiet on the HHS report's misrepresentation of the literature on psychotherapy for youth with gender dysphoria.

I review the psychotherapy sections and contextualize and challenge the conclusions on my substack.

Screenshot from the new propaganda out of Trump's HHS against trans youth and evidence-based and ethical gender affirming care. There's a whole section about Laura Edwards-Leeper and Erica Anderson and their "whistle-blowing." Makes me sick. We warned them. I'm feeling so angry & sad.

Allies do not let friends and family uncritically read the New York Times' coverage of trans issues.

www.advocate.com/voices/inste...

This is why we need folks highlighting the difficult realities trans people face. Not for a one dimensional victim-oriented narrative that denies the joy and meaning in our lives, but bc NYTimes et al promote distorted stories about us & what we're dealing with. www.advocate.com/voices/inste...

We wrote this a few months ago, and I keep revisiting this question of how we can stop dehumanizing others, particularly the most marginalized among us. We have to see others’ full humanity to find liberation for all. #psychscisky

I just donated $500 from my webinar proceeds to Wildflower Alliance's LGBTQIA+ peer-based respite. Join me in supporting their fundraising for an LGBTQIA+ respite center & mobile response. This is an incredible & needed expansion of their peer support work. wildfloweralliance.org/donations/lg...

I just donated $1000 from my webinar proceeds to @southernequality.bsky.social's Trans Youth Emergency Project. Consider joining me in supporting their work. Efforts like this are a critical component to supporting trans wellbeing in the coming months/years. southernequality.app.neoncrm.com/forms/37

Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday. It was really meaningful to me & I've received positive feedback from folks in attendance.

For folks who didn't register beforehand, the recording will be available for a sliding scale fee w/a portion of proceeds going to orgs doing on the ground work.

Burning the midnight oil to get this webinar ready for y'all tomorrow. Really pouring my brain and heart into it.

When is trans week of everyone shutting the fuck up about us?

What it looked like outside Moulton's office today, curtesy of Jonathon Cohn.

Democrats should not leave LGBTQ+ people behind. They are a large part of the Democratic base, a force with real voting power, and should not be taken for granted.

Please spread the word about this webinar I'm putting together on short notice to address an urgent need. Registrants get access to recording so you don't need to attend live.

Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #trans #mentalhealth #election #Trump #stress #transgender #nonbinary #lgbtq

Hey bluesky. I am finally migrating and hoping this is a better experience than Twitter became under Musk.

I'm a psychologist and trans man. I work as a research looking at trans mental health and trans people's needs in therapy and as a psychotherapist (working w/diverse clients).