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Newly Poly Plover Dad Still Figuring Out His Time Management | Defector The animal kingdom is ruled by open sexual relationships. Bats, beetles, and bonobos all have multiple partners over a season or a lifetime. Barnacles and barracudas don’t even get to pick their partn...

which publisher will give this bird a book deal to explore his experience with ENM!
defector.com/newly-poly-p...

06.03.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

who else crying seamlessly from ethel cain winter into mitski spring

05.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

save me lightning by mitski save me πŸ˜–

05.03.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

it hit very deeply, and grateful for you and others who scribble your thoughts on this so I can understand my own experience more <3

05.03.2026 18:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

beautifully put

05.03.2026 18:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How I Became A Target For Right-Wing Freaks At The Australian Open | Defector Before I went to Melbourne in January to cover the Australian Open for Defector and a couple other publications, I spent some time in New Zealand with my family. We lived there for five years when I w...

really great story by @owensports.bsky.social
defector.com/how-i-became...

05.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Little Miss Dysphoria An essay about trans women and madness

hmm why not simply read and share my essay about how the construction of "healthy" homosexual masculinity sustained consistent malicious conversion efforts against trans youth instead of all those other essays where gay guys do that

trickymothernature.com/littlemissdy...

03.03.2026 21:21 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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Good morning! Yes, this is he

04.03.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 5287 πŸ” 1164 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 33

why would caity weaver want to work there!

04.03.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

someone the other day read an outdated bio for me that cited my clips in the atlantic and the new york times and I felt the immediate need to disavow both publications and clarify that I have boycotted them for years. shame!

04.03.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

is the atlantic the stupidest or cruelest magazine operating today or a bit of both

04.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

that's me in my dreams

04.03.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

can you imagine being a tiny parasitic bug spelunking inside a pomegranate! entering a cavern studded with delicious rubies...there must be no more spectacular experience in the world!

04.03.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Which Chimp Should Wield The Crystal? | Defector More than a century ago, the Chinese paleontologist and archaeologist Pei Wenzhong found an unusual trove in the same cave near Beijing where he found the skulls of the early hominin Peking Man. Along...

I wrote about which chimp deserves the chance to unlock the healing powers of crystals
defector.com/which-chimp-...

04.03.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
In Defense of Effeminate Boys
If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded.

By Ben Appel

In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kidsβ€”or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kidsβ€”they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, β€œthere would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.

If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kidsβ€”or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kidsβ€”they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, β€œthere would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.

Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

03.03.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 4596 πŸ” 751 πŸ’¬ 160 πŸ“Œ 188

amazing to know how easy it was to suss out that a guy who seemed shady was indeed a shady guy!

04.03.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a β€œsexist attitude”

this (good) story is very funny to me because it's like How Did These Top Scientists Avoid Working With Epstein? πŸ€” They Googled Him And Saw He Was A Bad Guy πŸ˜”
www.science.org/content/arti...

04.03.2026 14:52 πŸ‘ 156 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

happy pub day rebecca! so excited to read πŸ’

04.03.2026 05:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

omg thank you....please tell my publisher who does not like it lol

03.03.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i wish

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i wish

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Yoko Tawada Is A Genius In Any Language | Defector There’s always a song to sing, but first a silence must be created for the song to be born in. β€” Yoko Tawada, Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel The best argument I can make for why I like reading...

Yoko Tawadaβ€”exophone, master of the "poetic ravine," geniusβ€”is my favorite living author. Maybe she will be yours too: defector.com/yoko-tawada-...

03.03.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

ok wait I am obsessed with Eriptychius !!!!!!

03.03.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

suddenly remembering, as I occasionally do, joyce carol oates's foot

03.03.2026 17:44 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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Instar interviews Hi there! My name is Sabrina Imbler, and I'm a transmasculine writer. I'm working on a book of essays called INSTAR about the idea of metamorphosis, which I explore through the lens of gender transiti...

my beloved trans community: do you feel like you transitioned late? (whatever that means to you!) if so, I'd love to hear from you for an essay I'm working on πŸ™ πŸ›
forms.gle/AMd8zWnWvEro...

02.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Wasian Century On H1-B visas, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Labubu, and model minorities

charliesblog1.substack.com/p/the-wasian...

02.03.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Can You Not Be Romantic About Women's Basketball?Β  | Defector Most β€œwomen’s sports novels” are really novels about girls. In them, girlhood is something mourned before it’s over. Like the games themselves, the books are set to ticking clocks. When the high schoo...

a new WNBA romance novel got me thinking about how romance fandom and WNBA fandom can both feel like expressions of optimism: defector.com/how-can-you-...

02.03.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

02.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 786 πŸ” 551 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 9

omg what what workshop πŸ‘€

02.03.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

dying at myanmar aerobics lady moment

02.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0