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My latest: Leading Trans Litigator Debates Andrew Sullivan about pediatric gender medicine, and I respond benryan.substack.com/p/leading-tr...
Shannon Minter, legal director at the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, held a spirited debate about pediatric gender medicine with Sullivan on his podcast. Then I gave critiques of their arguments.
Boydâs book, as you point out, was about teenagers.
@jonathanhaidt.bsky.social and his colleagues wrote about a survey of 8-12 year olds.
Do they owe her credit for similar findings about a different age cohort?
Klinenberg faults Jon Haidt and his coauthors for failing to credit a book about teenagers in an article they wrote about a survey of 8-12 year olds.
In 2014, @zephoria.bsky.social (danah boyd) published Itâs Complicated, an ethnographic study of why teens spend so much time on social media. Her key finding: Adults limited their free time and ability to hang out.
Itâs a famous book by a major scholar. Infuriating to see her work ignored here.
The New York Timesâ revenue and paid subscriptions continue to increase.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...
Very thin is in in Oz.
Examples include body-positivity social media influencers who lost weight on GLP-1s and changed their tune about weight loss.
The Daily Beast has deleted an article where Michael Wolff alleged that Jeffrey Epstein was involved in introducing Donald Trump to Melania.
NEWS: England to Launch Large Observational Study Of Gender-Incongruent Kids open.substack.com/pub/benryan/... The study, which plans to recruit 3,000 gender-incongruent youths, is expected to be complemented by a study of puberty blockersâone that has yet to receive regulatory and ethics approvals.
The 6-year study, which plans to recruit 3,000 gender-incongruent youths, is expected to be complemented by a study of puberty blockersâone that has yet to receive regulatory and ethics approvals.
Some wild assertions in the EPA's proposed rollback of the endangerment finding:
âHeightened Scrutinyâ Scapegoats The New York Times For the ACLU's Loss In Skrmetti
The documentary is the centerpiece of Chase Strangio's campaign to blame NYT for the Supreme Court's ruling upholding Tennessee's ban of pediatric gender-transition treatment.
benryan.substack.com/p/heightened...
The documentary is the centerpiece of ACLU litigator Chase Strangio's campaign to blame the Times for the Supreme Court's ruling upholding Tennessee's ban of pediatric gender-transition treatment.
