The woman behind PITT, writer and researcher. Through essays, satire, and evidence-based critique, her work deconstructs the narratives that harm trans people and explores paths toward liberation.
Inconvenient Truths
A Response to "My Beautiful Son" Well, folks, we've got ourselves another parent who's discovered the most shocking truth of all: their child is a whole separate person with their own identity. I know, I know; nobody warned them this could happen when they
Essays
On Bodies and Power It does seem to be an odd fixation, doesn't it? I do not understand why this has to be the defining feature of a person, wherein all other attributes become secondary, or so it seems when in discussion or debate. How curious that these
Inconvenient Truths
Or: A Citation Story - How to Debunk Yourself in 40 Easy Steps Remember in school when you'd cite Wikipedia for a paper and your teacher would give you that look? That "I'm not angry, just disappointed" look? Or for those closer to my
Letters
NY Assistant AG Calls Trans Healthcare 'The Greatest Scam' - Here's an Example Letter to Letitia James you can use When a government attorney uses their platform to attack the very communities their office pledges to protect, silence is complicity. Glenna Goldis, an Assistant Attorney General
Inconvenient Truths
A Comprehensive Analysis of Glenna Goldis’s Transmisic Propaganda Introduction Friends, we need to talk about Glenna Goldis and their contribution to the anti-trans echo chamber and propaganda machine. Their article ‘Why Therapists Trans Away the Gay’ - published on their aptly named ‘Bad Facts’ Substack [52] - is indeed
Inconvenient Truths
Wherein we observe Helen Joyce's lack of self awareness (again) Hey folks, let's talk about Helen Joyce's latest piece where they discover a Spanish word and somehow manage to make it about trans people. Because apparently, everything is about trans people when you'
Inconvenient Truths
An Inconvenient Truth about Dr. Torrance Stephens' article Credentials. Historical memory. And transgender rights. Three things that shouldn’t be in conflict, but here we are. Today we’re going to talk about Dr. Torrance Stephens (@crim3j0nes), a respected infectious disease scientist[1] who studied how prejudice literally kills
Inconvenient Truths
How One Commenter Discovered the Revolutionary Concept of Consequences Friends, let me tell you a story about consequences. It's a concept that some folks find as foreign as a decent healthcare system in America, and today's protagonist is learning this lesson in real-time. Meet Darleen Lev,
Inconvenient Truths
An Inconvenient Truth About Satire Sometimes the universe delivers a gift so perfect, you wonder if it's performance art. Enter Holly MathNerd (@hollymathnerd), whose comment on my satirical piece about oblivious parents of trans kids demonstrates exactly the behavior my satire was critiquing, except they did it unironically.
How ancient philosophy becomes modern misdirection In the ongoing debates about sex and gender, it's become somewhat fashionable to invoke ancient philosophy as an ace in the hand - as if Plato or Aristotle might settle modern questions about biology and identity. Recently, a gender critical blogger writing
A response to Jason's "It's Not Possible to Be an 'LGBTQ2I+ Person'" CW: This post quotes some transmisic LGB Alliance “LGB without the TQ” crap. Look, folks. I've read a lot of arguments against LGBTQ+ community solidarity in my time,
Satire
Yet Still Somehow Confused LOCAL LIVING ROOM — In what experts are calling “the most oblivious parental response since that dad in 2003 who thought his son’s rainbow flag was ‘just really into meteorology,’” area parent Jordan Miller spent several hours Tuesday staring at a laptop screen, attempting to piece