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🧬 Genomics PhD & As. Director of #scicomm at Tempus (All views my own) 🏳️‍⚧️ (they/he) Trans progressive atheist feminist 🎲 Gamer 🖖 Trekkie 🌱 Plant gay 😻 Cat dad 📝 Name fittingly rhymes with "they write" 🏠 Chicago https://www.linkedin.com/in/jey-mccreight/
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this piece makes very clear the relationship between narcissism, domestic abuse, and the worst forms of health crankery - a dynamic manifest in RFK Jr on a grand scale.

Slightly sad nothing I said about science got included, but I'll say it here: "Trust the science" means supporting trans rights We have existed throughout human history and culture BECAUSE transness is biological Eradicating trans people will never work because we are part of human diversity 🏳️‍⚧️

This August I'm running in Brave Space Alliance's 5k to support my fellow trans Chicagoans 🏳️‍⚧️ If you know me, you know I loathe running. But I hate what's happening to trans rights more It would mean a lot to me if you'd consider donating: give.classy.org/jey

Tragically, the original post got deleted. BUT...

This post has been doing the rounds lately, so I brought the live version to today's Skrmetti protest in Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🧬

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

This is fundamentally why this capitulation or compromise game doesn't work. The anti trans side doesn't want some "reasonable" compromise on sports or other issues. They see trans people as less than human who should be eradicated from society. You can't compromise with that.

Hey @chronicle.com, when literally hundreds of researchers have been pointing out the corporate capture and exploitation of academic publishing for a decade at least, you really don’t have to “hand it” to the antivax eugenecist who doesn’t believe in germ theory www.chronicle.com/article/what... l

Slightly sad nothing I said about science got included, but I'll say it here: "Trust the science" means supporting trans rights We have existed throughout human history and culture BECAUSE transness is biological Eradicating trans people will never work because we are part of human diversity 🏳️‍⚧️

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

This post has been doing the rounds lately, so I brought the live version to today's Skrmetti protest in Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🧬

When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine. It's the same court and lawyers.

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

"a MoVeMeNt ThAt CoUlD GrAppLe mOrE HoNeStLy WiTh ScIeNtIfIc UNcErTaInTy" Motherfuckers, we ARE scientists, and we are being actively censored by the state and pushed out of scientific enterprise in this country. Who's failing to grapple honestly with science? With reality? Pardon mon français 💕

Are all other trans people also perpetually exhausted and going go bed at 8pm, or am I just getting old?

Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.

After Getting The Ruling It Wanted, New York Times Publishes 6 Anti-Trans Articles www.erininthemorning.com/p/after-gett...

This August I'm running in Brave Space Alliance's 5k to support my fellow trans Chicagoans 🏳️‍⚧️ If you know me, you know I loathe running. But I hate what's happening to trans rights more It would mean a lot to me if you'd consider donating: give.classy.org/jey

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Not all cis men have XY chromosomes Not all cis women have XX chromosomes 🧬✨

People think gender affirming care is new/untested because Nazis *literally burnt down* the research institute pioneering trans healthcare and its associated documentation

We are not a distraction we are real people facing real existential threats

The only thing keeping my mood out of the gutter is tonight being our third "Gaymers Against Fascism" boardgame fundraiser night My friend and I started it to support local Chicago trans orgs, and we've already raised more than $4k Grassroots organizing and community will get us through this 🏳️‍⚧️

We should be able to buy adderall, testosterone & estrogen OTC at Walmart while buying a gun should require 6-12 months of intensive therapy beforehand and monthly reapproval from your psychiatrist

Ellie’s write up is must read for understanding how horrible today’s Supreme Court decision is for trans people. Don’t let the press tell you this is some limited decision. The court is putting into question the right of all trans people to simply exist. By a 6-3 margin.

BREAKING: The FDA has approved a twice-yearly injection that provided a near-perfect shield against H.I.V. infection in clinical trials. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

Look, yes it's important that trans kids know that you can still successfully transition later in life bc some really do think you have to do it before you're 18 or you'll never pass, HOWEVER that's not really the main issue bc this is clearly part of a broader push to ban all trans care...

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

My prediction for how this will play out: Most colleges will doubledown on AI even as employers realize their graduates know next to nothing. Elite colleges will market themselves as being non-AI. Not using AI will be a bespoke luxury commodity that's highly sought after.

People think gender affirming care is new/untested because Nazis *literally burnt down* the research institute pioneering trans healthcare and its associated documentation

This court decision is a terrorist attack on trans children What a horrific precedent to set that political idealogy can override scientific and medical expertise

oh my god

Right before the Skrmetti decision. This is calculated

This isn't about protecting children. It's about policing a gender system that puts everyone in a pink box or a blue one, that gives people higher social value if they're pinker or bluer than their box-mates, and that puts the whole pink box below the blue.

This court decision is a terrorist attack on trans children What a horrific precedent to set that political idealogy can override scientific and medical expertise