Tucker Lieberman

Weird old uncle believes he's Teddy Roosevelt. He charges up the stairs, believing they're San Juan Hill.

'What Makes You Different From Someone Who Thinks He's Napoleon?'

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We can recognize the question as unanswerable — but that doesn't mean there's no possible retort.

Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman
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Choosing What You Won't Regret

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Ask 'Will I regret not taking this step?' and feel confident you're making the best choice for yourself.

Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman
Psychology
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People have been mad about 'cisgender' since at least 2007

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If someone wants a world where no one is marked as cis, they must simultaneously fight for a world where no one is marked as trans.

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Tucker Lieberman
Philosophy
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Trans Exiteration

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I hear an -iteration with an ex- on it. I'm bad at moving forward. I'm a hanger-on to the past.

Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman
Psychology
Book cover: black-and-white photo of an athlete in mid-jump. The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Mo

The Indispensable History of 'Sex Testing' in Sports

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Waters keeps the book focused on the 1930s, with the history told in such a way that it's crystal clear how it's relevant today. The moral panic over trans people in sports continues not to be about sports.

Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman
Psychology
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Trans Volta

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I didn't choose the word 'trans' to describe my unique life path, nor would I have chosen it, but these days, this word happens to be the umbrella that works in the rain. A word you can use alongside 'trans' is 'volta'.

Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman
Society

A little autonomy diagram: Repro rights and gender

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Bans on abortion and gender transition seem to me like arrows pointing in opposite directions: earlier and later. A ban on birth control, meanwhile, seems like an arrow that loops around from the middle of one human life to the beginning of a new one.

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Tucker Lieberman
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I'm a Gender Autonomist

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The term 'gender activist' is used to point at trans people living with dignity and solidarity, capable of saying 'no thank you' and daring to shrug at and disagree with someone who doesn't like them just because they're trans. 'Activist' is used as an insult for someone who believes in autonomy.

Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman
Philosophy
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Geena Rocero's TED Talk Reveal

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'Our spirits will always expand to fill whatever space we are given,' she says. She found her own face in the mirror, her own presence, emerging from nothingness.

Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman
Society
Detail from the book cover of Shaneel Lal's memoir One of Them, showing someone in a red shirt and pink pants

Shaneel Lal's Fight Against Conversion Therapy

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In 2022, powered by young activist Shaneel Lal, Aotearoa New Zealand banned conversion therapy. 'Stop congratulating me for being brave,' Lal says. Instead, 'annihilate the systems that force me to be brave.'

Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman
Society
Tucker Lieberman in red jacket, yellow shirt, blue hat. 42-year-old white guy with blue eyes and graying beard.

Introduction: Tucker Lieberman

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Identities move together like ripples. They're ways of being.

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