Normie ™️

They’ve got them backed into a corner and this record better be Repeater-level good or I’ll stand on Courtney Love’s coffee table and yell STOLEN VALOR for giggles

Dainty Paw 👑 new band name

@cmclymer me me me me what about me

@adamnagourney @ShawnMcCreesh God, I wish a mere fraction of this compassion were extended to trans people as our rights are stripped away by people like the Noems.

What's so good about @ShawnMcCreesh story is it would have been easy just to make fun of Bryon Noem. Instead, he writes a compassionate (and well-reported) story about the humiliation he's going through. Should teach this one in journalism school. nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/…

Trailblazing as always! Promoting Genderpalooza by confirming that Ekko Astral is NOT playing. Illuminati Hotties dodged the bullet! Lineup Refreshed, like Jael Holzman and her new brunette lewk (that NGL kinda makes her look like Miri) washingtoncitypaper.com/article/782824…

HOW GENDER MEDICINE SET ITSELF UP FOR DISASTER For @CompactMag, I report on what the 100s of WPATH conference videos I obtained tell us about this troubled field: compactmag.com/article/how-ge… 👉I 'll be publishing the conference videos on my Substack: benryan.substack.com/p/i-obtained-1… As I write for Compact magazine: This catalogue, which the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH, fought to keep shielded, provides a rich account of how leading figures in pediatric gender medicine approached scientific research, drove the evolution of medical practices, and strategized politically during a critical turning point in this field’s brief and tortured history. The two years following Chase Strangio’s 2021 address were a period in which statehouse Republicans escalated their attacks on this field. The WPATH conference presenters largely responded to the political siege by doubling down. Rather than engage in soul searching over whether their methods in pediatrics were ethically sound and whether any criticisms had merit, they overwhelmingly stuck to their guns. Presenters frequently downplayed fundamental hazards about irrevocably altering adolescents’ bodies. Meanwhile, a parade of systematic reviews—the gold standard of scientific evidence—was concluding that the evidencebacking pediatric gender medicine is weak and inconclusive. These findings have led health authorities in a number of European nations, concerned about risks such as infertility, to reverse course. They reclassified pediatric gender-transition interventions as experimental and sharply restricted minors’ access. Not WPATH. The organization remained on an inexorable trajectory in the opposite direction, toward its eventual head-on collision with the second Trump administration. For highlight clips, see the 🧵👇

@benryanwriter @compactmag BRAVO

@cmclymer serving a little too much panty creamer energy, pump the brakes yo

This is how Rahm Emanuel eats spaghetti: He spreads the scooped gravy over his pile of follicular noodles. He plunges his fork into the pile and, after lifting up a sufficient load, rotates it several times with the tines braced against the concave of his spoon. When the bite is adequately secured, he shoves that mini bolt of saturated, durum wheat into his mouth. This is material information, mind you, for his would-be 2028 presidential rivals. Because how Rahm eats spaghetti is how he does anything and everything: with intent and with verve and without mercy.

@benryanwriter Honey you are Team Afroman 100% I promise

The other day I still didn’t know who Lindy West was. And as of right now, I’m blissfully ignorant of who Afroman is.

It’s JAE Holzman Ekko Astral Ari Drennen…you outghta know!

@GBBranstetter As comforting as it is to run the conspiracy playbook, what you are facing is actually an awakened normie consensus that was happy to live and let live until the mission creep reached their front porch.

For all the punditry about trans activism the biggest and least discussed factor is we're facing the same billionaire-backed judicial, legislative, and political machinery that was fine-tuned on abortion and that's not a problem that's going to be overcome by saying "Latinx" less

@BriannaWu Elite outrage farming, here’s my engagement. Pick a lane. u are either the chill one who deserves to just exist or a fragile wannabe authoritarian ruling from the cheap seats.

A writer for the Atlantic is just openly misgendering a trans man. None of this is about policy like sports. They are bigots, they loathe us, and they are using their cultural power to encourage other people to degrade us. It’s so depressing that none of you care.

@AGoldmund Manifestly warped take. She parries with the most perspicacious pen of the period

@helenlewis You can’t see it but I am holding my lighter aloft yelling “Hell Ya”

I’ve written about the backlash to Adult Braces: “I do feel great sympathy for Lindy West. How was she to know that the great omertà of Millennial Feminism—that we had to take whatever people said about their life stories at face value—had broken?”

Fulsome brunette & bass-forward. Ekko Astral McClusky Treefort Festival Topshelf Records (whomp) Heatmap News burning beltway trax live for 1st time. Bootlegger alert: I have $100 to the gender-affirming funder of your choice to anyone who can record and share one of these sets

@benryanwriter “When you’re a transwoman, you’re the woman of women..” Like… a new genre of manosphere Idk lol wtf

112 Cesar Chavez Elementary Schools

“So I’ll wait until we announce the new album, then leverage the power of the state against the last marginalized trans woman in the band, leaving the spotlight on me and me alone, and my unwavering commitment to justice” 👑 Ekko Astral 👑 Jael Holzman 👑 Ari Drennen

Take all the time you need Jael Holzman, and I do mean allll the time Ekko Astral