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We are not beating the "median system" allegations any time soon.

This does create weird issues, like in the recent Shogakukan article, where we have to talk about ourself in the majestic plural when talking about decisions we took as an editor, and then I have to talk about myself in the singular for decisions I took as a writer.

Our pronouns are marked as "editorial they/them" because, while SP Press is usually just one person (Isabelle), sometimes it's not (for instance, we had a guest article from Andrea Fogel a while back), so we're keeping the personae separate in case it becomes more relevant in future.

We published a new article today, slightly out of our usual scope: we're covering the Shogakukan affair, a massive media blow-up around a major Japanese publishing concern's continued employment of two men convicted of child sexual abuse. severalproblems.press/2026/03/06/t...

A new PYROPHORE entry has been published for 🟨 the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, a United States-based professional society which is opposing the scientific consensus on trans healthcare and supporting the Trump regime apparently against its own will. severalproblems.press/pyrophore/as...

A new PYROPHORE entry has been published for 🟥 Senator Leah Blyth, an Australian federal politician who appears determined to follow the well-travelled track of trying to make a career out of hating trans women. severalproblems.press/pyrophore/le...

A new PYROPHORE entry has been published for 🟥 Dr Andrew Amos, a psychiatrist based in Queensland, Australia who is a vocal commentator against the scientific consensus on trans healthcare. severalproblems.press/pyrophore/an...

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If we wanted to receive hundreds more ads for gambling and crypto we'd just make another Gmail account

You'd really think that if Akismet were an effective anti-spam plugin, we wouldn't have to personally sort and filter so much spam.

Hey everyone. The site was down for a while because I'm a broke bitch and went delinquent on payments to my webhost. It's back now. Thanks for your understanding. — Isabelle @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social

> the survivor for coming forward publicly, especially given how extensively and relentlessly nav has already punished the survivor and everyone around her for daring to even name the abuse *in private.*

but it's become clear that keeping quiet only gives nav license to keep punishing her and me.

the survivor is being extremely brave. she knows that nav is in possession of all her PII, and especially her intimate images, and that nav has already shown a willingness to use them to hurt her. up until now we have kept quiet out of concern about how nav will escalate and retaliate against >

please read the thread and attached document. it’s short and mostly images. some of you already know this because navreen tagged you in their harassment and stalking efforts, but nav is the reason i deactivated my account and have been gone the last several weeks.

drive.proton.me/urls/PA2ZND5...

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The following Australian psychologists are listed on the directory:

—Petra Bueskens
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PPMD Therapy), Melbourne, VIC

—Anne Eaton
PsychZone, Bungalow, QLD

—Peter Greasley
Peter Greasley Counselling, Sunnybank, QLD

—Rachel Hannam
North Brisbane Psychologists, Aspley, QLD

It came after a similarly fiery motion was debated and passed on Saturday, expressing support for young transgender people affected by the state government's pause on public doctors prescribing puberty blockers for new adolescent patients. An amendment called for people diagnosed with gender dysphoria to be given counselling before accessing treatment, but that was ultimately voted down.

The Queensland Labor right faction attempted to pass a motion during the Queensland Labor conference to impose the criminalised act of conversion therapy in Queensland upon all new trans people. They were voted down.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

To preference cis people at the expense of trans people in this way is cissexism. It demonstrates just how entrenched this bigotry is within academia and medical professional spheres even within trans people in those fields and I think they should be ashamed of themselves for pushing this on us.

While the ABS guidance suggests caution when inferring sex from sex-at-birth because it can change over one's lifetime, I have never seen a single academic or clinician apply this caution in practice (because the categories are usually interchangeable for them, their subjects, and their patients).

The reason for doing so per the Australian Bureau of Statistics guidance is that split sex/gender categories confuse cis people and they treat the categories as interchangeable (because the categories usually are interchangeable for them).

Sample page for the 2026 census showing "sex at birth" and "gender" questions

The new questions for the Australian census next year really aren't any better than the last mess regarding trans people. In fact, they will more effectively erase the lives of trans people. The sex question has been replaced with "sex at birth". I'll explain why this is an issue. 🧵

Just externally confirming that our managing editor, Isabelle (yes, that's actually me, I'm just using the editorial "We") has migrated from @epistemophagy.bsky.social to @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social.

An excerpt from our article on UPenn, describing the ways they've decided to collaborate with the Trump administration. The text reads as follows: "* falsifying UPenn's NCAA Division I women's 'swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions' to indicate that those which were received by a transfem athlete were actually received by the cis woman athlete who would have received them if no trans women had been allowed to compete; * issuing a public statement that: ** trans women will not be allowed to compete as women and that they will not be allowed to use correctly gendered UPenn locker rooms and other gendered facilities; ** UPenn will 'adopt ... definitions' of the words 'male' and 'female' which treat an individual's 'male' or 'female' status as being determined by their sex assigned at birth; * posting that statement 'in a prominent location its main website and on each of its websites for women's athletics'; * 'rescind[ing] any guidance ... [and] remov[ing] or revis[ing] any internal and public-facing statements or documents' that treat trans people as having their correct gender, and notifying 'all staff and women's athletics of all such rescissions'; and * sending personalised letters of apology to Paula Scanlan and any other anti-trans activists on the UPenn swimming team."

We aren't terribly happy that a lot of reporting on this has reproduced the wording used by the Trump administration and its courtier journalists verbatim, because that normalises their worldview. Here is our description of UPenn's collaboration agreement, which we believe is more factually correct

A new PYROPHORE entry has been published for 🟥 the University of Pennsylvania, a US university which recently decided to collaborate with the Trump administration in a direct anti-trans attack, stripping gender-diverse students of honours and basic rights. severalproblems.press/pyrophore/up...

We've contacted a number of Download XXV attendees by email to get their views on this situation and whether they support Download Festival's action

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Well ... as spam we've received goes, this is definitely among the more worrying

The US entry is intentionally basic. We don't live there, so we'd like to hear from US-based contributors about what they consider to be major events in domestic trans affairs. Feel free to drop us a DM. We can give you an on-page credit or not.

A new PYROPHORE entry has been published for 🟥 the United States of America, a North American sovereign state which with the recent re-election of a previous fascist president has jumped on the anti-trans hate train and opened the throttle to full. severalproblems.press/pyrophore/un...

A new PYROPHORE entry has been published for 🟥 Paul Sarlo, a New Jersey Democratic state senator who has joined his party's rising tide of opportunistic scapegoating of trans people. severalproblems.press/pyrophore/pa...

In which we examine HR Res 1579 and the bizarre fascination it reflects on the part of US Rep Nancy Mace (SC–01) with trans women's capacity to piss. severalproblems.press/2024/11/20/p...