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Transfeminine jurist and bioethicist | Ass. prof at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law | Clerked at Supreme Court of Canada | florenceashley.com | they/them/that bitch | ✡︎

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Apparently the new “Fuck, Marry, Kill” is “Finger, U-Haul, Ghost.” 🌈

10.03.2026 13:46 👍 39 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0

Great contribution to the conversation. Wrong, of course.

10.03.2026 03:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent joke.

10.03.2026 02:11 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Wrong Bible

10.03.2026 02:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I handmade a tallit katan from a shirt. 😊

10.03.2026 02:11 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wild to me that some rabbis are transphobic as though the word “Hebrew” doesn’t literally translate as “trans.”

10.03.2026 02:10 👍 33 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 1

…the Bible and all the mythology it’s riffing off of.

09.03.2026 22:27 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

09.03.2026 19:24 👍 10744 🔁 2421 💬 295 📌 115

It is one for people who aren’t rich to be fair. 😆

09.03.2026 19:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Besides the fact that it’s tasty, one reason we turn to hyperindividualism in our tastes is that we’re alienated and dehumanized by a capitalist society that reduces us to a number on a spreadsheet and crushes our individual human rights.

09.03.2026 19:10 👍 39 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 1

Realizing at fourteen when I heard a family friend say God had saved her brother from a plane crash by causing him to miss a flight that no adult I had ever spoken to had thought through the implications of their beliefs.

09.03.2026 17:53 👍 389 🔁 25 💬 14 📌 0

if you need a clear and well-sourced argument why this is unethical, here (unpaywalled pdf in thread)

09.03.2026 17:27 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

the weasel word here is “good quality”. you can’t do a double-blind study if the people who get the placebo drop out because they can tell they’re obviously not getting HRT. they rely on obfuscating this

09.03.2026 17:26 👍 359 🔁 147 💬 2 📌 2

@ghawinriver.bsky.social do you have other suggestions?

09.03.2026 16:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Any good one you’d recommend on Sefaria? :3

09.03.2026 15:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I want to read more about that view—where should I look?

09.03.2026 15:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I thought it was fully banned to even benefit from acts of a goyim who acted solely for your benefit?

09.03.2026 15:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

(1) What do you mean by the latter

(2) But what about prepaid cards that allow for a certain number of uses? For instance, what if I pay my barista on Friday for a coffee at 10 am on Shabbat. But then I miss some weeks so we want to switch to a system where I pre-buy many and ‘tick off’ as I go.

09.03.2026 15:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Setting aside the electronics involved, does paying for something with a regular credit card, pre-loaded credit card, and pre-bought electronic tickets (e.g. bus tickets) count as commerce for Shabbat? You're not actually exchanging money at the time, and it's not quite a regular debt either.

09.03.2026 15:35 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

It starts with a Jordan Peterson epigraph. Everything is just getting better and better as you go along. 😆

09.03.2026 15:20 👍 107 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0

Not only attorneys tho!

09.03.2026 15:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you're an attorney and we know each other, you better be preordering.

09.03.2026 14:27 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Acknowledgments
This dissertation would not have been possible without the support of many people. First
and foremost, I thank my advisors Leah Somerville, Randy Buckner, and Steven Pinker for
welcoming me to Harvard and for their years of outstanding mentorship. I am also indebted to
my professors from the University of Southern California, including Frank Manis, who nurtured
my passion for developmental psychology, and Megan Herting, whose mentorship introduced
me to research on neuroendocrinology and sexual development. I am also grateful to my high
school teacher, Mrs. E., for first introducing me to academic psychology.
I am thankful that my studies have set me on a path connecting with brilliant researchers
similarly fascinated by sex differences, including Carole Hooven, Alex Byrne, and Hollie
Hammond. Through these friendships I am grateful to have been introduced to my committee
members, Michael Bailey and Kenneth Zucker, whose support made this dissertation possible
and whose feedback has been tremendously valuable. I am also indebted to the transgender
people my work has allowed me to connect with and learn from through their lived experiences,
especially my friend Ramblin. This is a sensitive topic and I appreciate those who have
approached it with nuance and grace in the public forum, especially Lisa Littman, Helen Joyce,
Abigail Shrier, Leor Sapir, and James Morandini, all of whom I also had the good fortune of
meeting during my graduate studies.
As an interdisciplinary researcher with eclectic interests, I am fascinated by my
dissertation topic because it threads so many existing topics I have dabbled in throughout my
research career, including: hormones and brain development, evolution and sex differences,
puberty and mental health, adolescent social development, and philosophical questions of mind,
identity, and bioethics, all while addressing an ongoing public health crisis and unfortunately
ix

Acknowledgments This dissertation would not have been possible without the support of many people. First and foremost, I thank my advisors Leah Somerville, Randy Buckner, and Steven Pinker for welcoming me to Harvard and for their years of outstanding mentorship. I am also indebted to my professors from the University of Southern California, including Frank Manis, who nurtured my passion for developmental psychology, and Megan Herting, whose mentorship introduced me to research on neuroendocrinology and sexual development. I am also grateful to my high school teacher, Mrs. E., for first introducing me to academic psychology. I am thankful that my studies have set me on a path connecting with brilliant researchers similarly fascinated by sex differences, including Carole Hooven, Alex Byrne, and Hollie Hammond. Through these friendships I am grateful to have been introduced to my committee members, Michael Bailey and Kenneth Zucker, whose support made this dissertation possible and whose feedback has been tremendously valuable. I am also indebted to the transgender people my work has allowed me to connect with and learn from through their lived experiences, especially my friend Ramblin. This is a sensitive topic and I appreciate those who have approached it with nuance and grace in the public forum, especially Lisa Littman, Helen Joyce, Abigail Shrier, Leor Sapir, and James Morandini, all of whom I also had the good fortune of meeting during my graduate studies. As an interdisciplinary researcher with eclectic interests, I am fascinated by my dissertation topic because it threads so many existing topics I have dabbled in throughout my research career, including: hormones and brain development, evolution and sex differences, puberty and mental health, adolescent social development, and philosophical questions of mind, identity, and bioethics, all while addressing an ongoing public health crisis and unfortunately ix

It also comes with the most cursed acknowledgements page to have ever been written.

09.03.2026 15:18 👍 103 🔁 3 💬 10 📌 2
Thesis acceptance certificate signed by Steven Pinker, Leah Somerville, Randy Buckner, Michael Bailey, and Kenneth Zucker.

Thesis acceptance certificate signed by Steven Pinker, Leah Somerville, Randy Buckner, Michael Bailey, and Kenneth Zucker.

Pack up. I’ve found the most cursed thesis committee ever to exist.

09.03.2026 15:13 👍 334 🔁 49 💬 25 📌 12
Preview
Courtroom Science and Trans Youth Courtroom Science and Trans Youth : Ashley, Florence: Amazon.ca: Books

Huh. My upcoming book is #4 on Amazon Canada's "hot new releases" on LGBTQ2S+ issues.

09.03.2026 14:07 👍 37 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 3

"Like all propaganda, the Cass Review is not intended to stand up to scrutiny. It is intended to make a bang, a media blitz across the country saying trans healthcare is bad, which can then be used by the government to justify further restricting access to gender-affirming care."

09.03.2026 10:03 👍 776 🔁 208 💬 3 📌 1

Exactly.

08.03.2026 23:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.

Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

08.03.2026 19:23 👍 2271 🔁 566 💬 56 📌 64

What's going on in Israel re: propaganda, so ppl know:

Was talking to family there this AM & they had TV on. It was reported to me (w/eyeroll) that there was a segment on "what a tough masculine hottie" Hegseth is, "with the tattoos and everything."

"Did they mention the Nazi tattoo?"

"What?!?"

08.03.2026 20:18 👍 915 🔁 201 💬 19 📌 12
teewatterss on Threads:
“losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

08.03.2026 16:47 👍 10262 🔁 2252 💬 3 📌 31