Harry Barbee
(They/Them)
Washington, D.C.
Asst. Professor at @JohnsHopkinsSPH. Washington, DC Board of Medicine. LGBTQ+ health and aging researcher. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Supreme Court ruling on trans athletes is a public health story
(Photo by Fred Schilling; courtesy Supreme Court of the U.S.) It was shocking to see some of the MAGA-loving majority on the Supreme Court actually voted against the felon in the White House a couple of times. Not surprisingly, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas were steadfast in their ultra-MAGA, outrageous views. They just want to help make Republican doctrine, which today means helping to make Project 2025 a reality, a success. They couldn’t care less about the Constitution.
Science said stop; the Supreme Court said no
Imagine if researchers found that coffee drinking increased your risk of death by more than 50%. The public health response would be immediate – regulations, warnings, a swift mobilization of policy to match the evidence. We would act, because protecting people from documented harm is what evidence-based policy exists to do. The same logic is why Colorado banned conversion therapy.
New research shows coming out is still risky
Coming out is often celebrated as a joyful milestone – a moment of truth, pride, and liberation. For many LGBTQ+ people, that’s exactly what it becomes. But new research I co-authored, published in the journal Pediatrics this month, shows that the period surrounding a young person’s first disclosure of their sexual identity is also a time of profound psychological vulnerability. It’s a fragile window we are not adequately protecting.
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