You can read more about SEGM on the SPLC report linked here, www.splcenter.org/captain/defi...
Anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience emerged from a movement to provide scientific justification for the political priorities of conservative Christians.
I've been looking at Google's AI overviews recently, and found a disturbing and utterly expected result on a query related to gender affirming care. The AI Overview approvingly cites the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), which the SPLC calls a "key hub of anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience."
![SPLC Quote: "Since its founding, members of SEGM have undertaken a global media and public policy blitz to challenge the affirming care model, advocate against gender-affirming care, and lend scientific credibility to legal claims against LGBTQ+ civil rights. Specifically, SEGM has helped foster resistance to the idea that adolescents can be capable of exerting agency over their own care. This strategy was first seen in the Bell v. Tavistock case, before carrying it over more in the U.S. SEGM, for example, has indicated its belief that exploratory psychotherapy should be a first-line treatment for gender dysphoric people age 25 and under.[11] The groupâs endeavors are helped largely by its scientific façade, a general lack of information about its political activities and its membersâ affiliations with the anti-LGBTQ+ far right, as well as its extensive connections and substantial personnel overlap with another powerhouse group founded in the U.K. called Genspect."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:tsuexertapdaedikorpy27ck/bafkreighrgdnl65rcu276bi3abeos2oll42ripfqmajhhm7s5ky3rlvngi@jpeg)
This article is going to be a million times more destructive than any of the unspecified deepfakes that are supposedly out there apnews.com/article/a1bb...
Among images of the bombed out homes and ravaged streets of Gaza, some stood out for the utter horror: Bloodied, abandoned infants.
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hi Bluesky sorry itâs been a minute, *gestures at news environment*, I went to Florida for 5 days and wrote the kind of long magazine essay that jschool students dream of, and I genuinely think you might learn something new from these young Floridians @teenvogue.bsky.social
âThe obstacle is just living, at this point; trying to make sure that everybody lives in peace, and [can] get Florida back to what it was.â
Donor-Advised Funds are a pox that allow rich people to hide their funding of extremist groups, like anti-vaccine organizations. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
How Childrenâs Health Defense and other anti-vax groups quietly raked in money from anonymous donors through some of the country's largest charities
Listened to the Dax Shepard/JVN clip and all it reveals to me is how someone with genuinely little knowledge about gender-affirming care or the political attacks against it can nonetheless be left with the impression they're deeply informed about it because they read the New York Times
I had lunch taken out of my hands and thrown away in front of me in middle school because my account was overdrawn. The concept of "school lunch debt" is a reminder that a kid's biggest bullies are often adults.
School lunch debt is skyrocketing with the expiration of Covid-era subsidies. With it come humiliating debt-collection tactics served on children. That + more in this week's MomLeft (a new newsletter for moms on the left): open.substack.com/pub/momleft/...
School lunch debt is skyrocketing with the expiration of Covid-era subsidies. With it come humiliating debt-collection tactics served on children.
Check out @beeeeeers.bsky.social's paper on science communication for and against masks. "We find that scientific publishers and authors are unprepared for how their work is being misused by science communicators to advance scientific misunderstanding" Important message for #MedSky #EpiSky đ§Ş
New paper from our team (led by PhD student Andrew Beers) takes a network approach to exploring the "social construction" of (opposing) consensuses around the science of masks during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...