[Angela, I can't resist making this my pinned tweet for awhile! I promise I'll exchange it soon for something more substantive!]

Just when I think California’s political class cannot push further to the edge on gender policy, it manages to surprise me. Senate Bill 934 just cleared the Assembly Judiciary Committee 7-3 along party lines. It would allow former "gender conversion therapy" patients to sue their therapists for monetary damages — with a statute of limitations of 22 years if the patient was a minor at the time of therapy, and 10 years for adults. The real-world effect? Exactly what Sen. Scott Wiener, the bill's author, wants: a total chilling effect on "watchful waiting" — the careful, evidence-based approach most appropriate for gender-confused minors. Therapists will rush kids into the medical pipeline rather than risk a lawsuit two decades later for practicing... traditional psychotherapy. Clinical psychologist Joseph Burgo said it plainly at Tuesday's committee hearing: "In supervising therapists today, I constantly hear their anxiety over their legal exposures or risks to their license if they do just that — practice traditional exploratory psychotherapy. These are not conversion therapists. These are honest clinicians who want to practice traditional psychotherapy with gender-distressed young people, but they're afraid to do so." This Senate Bill will now bake that fear into the law. This isn't protecting vulnerable kids. It's using the legal system to enforce a single medically contested ideology on every therapist in the state, under penalty of ruinous litigation. And it will hurt the children it claims to protect.

“We need to allow therapists to work with these kids in an open ended way to explore what it means to them, rather than threatening them with a lawsuit if they don't affirm” - @drjosephburgo 👀California Senator @Scott_Wiener

“Gestating parent”—so how would we rewrite a typical (alas) NY Times crime headline: “87 year old formerly gestating parent bashed over her (or his?) head with broomstick?”

Vincent Munster, a high-level researcher at NIAID, was arrested yesterday for smuggling potential pathogens into the U.S. He's also a co-author of Ron Fouchier's famous revised 2012 paper "Airborne Transmission of Influenza A/H5N1 Virus Between Ferrets." See my repost below.

I wonder if Kamala has learned her lesson. #Ebola

My Facebook ban has been lifted. THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who helped - especially @mattjcan and @BillboardChris. I appreciate it so much. We have to be able to state the truth. Men are not women.

Today, I was given a permanent ban of posting on my Facebook page, @Meta. The page can exist - apparently - but I am not allowed to post on it anymore. The page has been deemed controversial due to the Giggle v Tickle case and increased popularity of 25,000 new followers in a week. I don't want to labor the irony of being banned on a social networking platform while fighting in court for the right to ban men from a woman only social networking platform, it is what it is. Frankly, I'd love to have the same right that you do, @Meta. Women are routinely punished for not accepting men as women. It doesn't turn those men into women. Nothing will.

"The convergence of late case identification, insufficient contact tracing capacity, population mobility, insecurity constraining case detection and response, and limited access to healthcare indicates that actual transmission levels likely exceed confirmed case counts" #Ebola

This statement of disgust and dismay from @WSJopinion is newsworthy in and of itself. I'm a close reader of the opinion section and this is the strongest, most negative language I've seen to date. wsj.com/opinion/trump-has-lo…

SCOOP; White House resisted letting doctor with Ebola return to U.S. Our story. Me and @Laurenweberhp washingtonpost.com/health/20…

From the Everything Old is New Again: some notes from my first Ebola risk comm work in 2014. Some of this may be or become relevant this time too. science.org/content/article/… From Science (Science Insider) by Kai Kupferschmidt (I want to emphasize: this is FROM 2014, not 2026.)

A falsifiable proposition: If nicotine significantly harms developing brains, then between the drastic reduction in childhood lead exposure and the dramatic drop in adolescent smoking, standardized tests and SAT scores should have increased hugely by now. And the answer is...

Please tell the public what @CDCgov/@US_FDA surveys actually show. US teen nicotine vaping dropped 74% over the past six years to a 12-year low. Middle & high school “current use” (≥once/month) 2019: 4.5% smoked; 20% vaped nicotine (3.7% daily) cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/ss/s… 2025: 1.4% smoke; 5.2% vape nicotine (1.4% daily) fda.gov/media/191376/downloa… tobaccocrst.org/data-briefs