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Answers to Some Questions about Autogynephilia
Readers of Galileo’s Middle Finger have been asking me some questions about autogynephilia, particularly since Vanity Fair’s coverage of Caitlyn Jenner. I encouraged one reader who contacted me by...
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Even I Make Mistakes
A stranger (with whom I’ve since been corresponding) wrote this to me:I'm having trouble putting into words how much I loved Galileo's MiddleFinger. It's like every cell in my body suddenly decided to...
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Twitter Is Now My Rolodex, and Other Things I Learned from Hope Amantine
What happened yesterday has me thinking about Twitter.Yesterday, before I got out of bed, at about 7:30 am, I took a look at Twitter and found a post by Dr. Alison Barrett (@DrAlisonBarrett). It read,...
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My Dream Date with Donald Trump
Last night I dreamed I had a date with Donald Trump. We were in the Trump International Hotel and Tower® in Chicago, in a ballroom that looks out over the river. I was wearing my black Banana Republic...
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Pinker Said What Now about Research Ethics?
Since I’ve been asked about this on Twitter….Today, my colleague Carl Elliott posted a short note at his blog that surprised me. By way of background, I have long supported Carl’s quest to bring...
View ArticleFAQ on my resignation from Northwestern University
Here are some FAQ based on questions I've been getting from people I've been telling about my resignation from Northwestern University. Why are you resigning? In short, I can’t work at a medical school...
View ArticleSaint Frances, Walking to Her Car
When I told a colleague a few days ago that I was resigning over my dean’s censorship, he said to me somewhat pissily that no one would remember it in a week.Paradoxically, he said it because he cares...
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How to Be An Ally to Cis-Women
I’m getting lectured lately on how I am “failing to be an ally” to transgender people, especially transgender women. This charge has been leveled at me recently because I have (a) referred to a...
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Opioids: an "n of 1" reflection
Once I sobered up, the mate (an internist) and I had an interesting philosophical discussion on pain.This was a few days ago. I have what has finally been identified by x-ray as a separated a/c joint...
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Toxic in Small Doses
This right here is a story of longing, jealousy, and how maybe now is the time for me to give up on the Pollyanna routine. I’m sorry it’s rather long, because it would be good if toxicologists read all...
View ArticleThe Cutting and the Vibrators Continue
This is an excerpt from a manuscript version of Galileo's Middle Finger. A lot of this got cut when we shortened the book by about a third, so only a part of this appears in the published book. I'm...
View ArticleRejecting the Tranquilizing Drug of Gradualism in Intersex Care
Note: Tiger Devore and I have decided to release joint statements; read his here.For twenty years now, I’ve been trying to help intersex people push for the rights of children born with intersex...
View ArticleTalking to the Wall
I should have gone to a conference where most people could be trusted to be assholes.But I came to the History of Science Society (HSS) meeting in San Francisco specifically because the people in HSS...
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Rewarding Money-In Instead of Knowledge-Out
The New York Times, this week: “Coca-Cola spent $1.5 million last year to support the group [‘Global Energy Balance Network’], including a $1 million grant to the University of Colorado medical school,...
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Terrorism: When the Second Amendment Kills the First
Today, after the murder of three people in Colorado Springs yesterday, everyone stepping into a Planned Parenthood must do so with an extra level of fear.Planned Parenthood clinics operate primarily to...
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Trumping the Academy
Today, Donald Trump decided we should keep all Muslims out of our nation, and Inside Higher Ed reported that Erika Christakis will no longer be teaching at Yale University because she upset some people...
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Gender Mad
A group of transgender activists has achieved a major victory—the shutting down of the Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Even...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the Lambda Literary Foundation
March 24, 2016Tony Valenzuela Executive Director Lambda Literary FoundationDear Mr. Valenzuela,I’m writing in response to your March 24 email informing me that, “After reviewing Galileo’s Middle...
View ArticleBruce Henderson's to the Lambda Literary Foundation
Note from Alice Dreger: Prof. Bruce Henderson of Ithaca College shared with me the letter he sent on March 25, 2016, to Tony Valenzuela, Executive Director of the Lambda Literary Foundation, about the...
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My Constance Holden Address
In September 2015, I was honored to give the Constance Holden Memorial Address for Distinguished Science Journalism at the annual meeting of the International Society for Intelligence Research in New...
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