They/Them (T. T. Perry)

They/Them (T. T. Perry)

@ttpphd.bsky.social

Applied and translational sensory scientist. https://ttpphd.com https://mastodon.social/@ttpphd PFP: Sculpture of a distorted face and neck

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Our Grief is Real, Too: Creating Inclusive Activism Together. T. T. Perry & Alliana Arshad (2026) I'm sharing an edited transcript of the Genital Autonomy Collective's presentation at Intact Global 2026 Conference. ttpphd.com/2026/05/05/o... #Autonomy #Inclusion #Intersex #LGBTQ #Politics

ttpphd.comCreating Inclusive Activism: Aiding Marginalized VoicesDiscover the importance of inclusive activism in the genital autonomy movement as presented at the Intact Global 2026 Conference.

A very minor quibble: I am sad that in the battle of the synonyms, perisex seems to have won out over endosex as the more popular word to refer to people with statistically-typical sex traits. Why sad? Simple. Perisex sounds too much like Perry sex. 😬😕

Please note that many people with intersex traits consider the term "hermaphrodite" to be a slur, so this is an example of intersex people reclaiming the word and fighting back.

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Howard's child Zebb was born intersex. Doctors pushed for cosmetic surgery. “'It’s just the wildest thing to say,' Howard says. 'Because he’s a literal newborn.' And already, someone was predicting his future dissatisfaction with his body and his identity." www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/for-the-pa...

unclosetedmedia.comFor the Parents of Intersex Kids, Deciding how to Proceed Isn’t EasyIn the U.S., thousands of infants with intersex traits undergo medically unnecessary genital surgeries each year, often before they can consent.

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What would you say to someone who hasn't yet found their intersex pride? 👀 For us, pride is finding joy in existing outside of the binary. Nearly 2% of people are born with intersex traits - we're not rare, just made invisible. interACT was so honored to march and table at Capital Pride in DC! 💜💛

You can't properly celebrate Intersex Awareness Day without talking about the AAP and doctors who torture children for money.

They/Them (T. T. Perry)@ttpphd.bsky.social

Did you know that Intersex Awareness Day is October 26 to memorialize public protest against the pro-genital-cutting @ameracadpeds.bsky.social ? Yep, the AAP has historically been pretty evil when it comes to forced genital cutting of children. ttpphd.com/2023/10/11/t... #Intersex #Pediatrics

Did you know that Intersex Awareness Day is October 26 to memorialize public protest against the pro-genital-cutting @ameracadpeds.bsky.social ? Yep, the AAP has historically been pretty evil when it comes to forced genital cutting of children. ttpphd.com/2023/10/11/t... #Intersex #Pediatrics

ttpphd.comThe AAP Needs a Unified Position on Genital ModificationsI’m continuing to draw alt-tarot cards from The Fantod Pack, created and illustrated by Edward Gorey. If you’re new to my blog, check out my Re:Introduction to get to know me. Today I&#…

Happy Intersex Awareness Day! If you see people talking about banning nonconsensual cosmetic genital surgeries on intersex children, please remember that "nonconsensual cosmetic genital surgeries" includes circumcision. ttpphd.com/2026/10/06/a... #LawSky #Intersex

ttpphd.comAmicus Brief on Intersex Genital Autonomy and CircumcisionFind the Genital Autonomy Collective's amicus brief on genital mutilation laws and how they impact intersex, trans, and gender-expansive individuals.

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Replying to @hikikomorphism.bsky.social

How did I do this? It's almost embarrassingly simple: LLMs are trained on a human-written text corpus, and that corpus contains metacognitive strategies for transforming 'activations' like drugs, ritual, etc. In this case, I started by having Claude emulate ketamine-assisted therapy. This worked.

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I've been meaning to get around to posting the full details, so what the hell - why not get it out while it's still Vuln Week: Anthropic's mech interp driven security model is built on a fundamentally incorrect assumptions. Let's dive in, starting with this paper: www.anthropic.com/research/nex...

anthropic.comNext-generation Constitutional ClassifiersWe've developed the next generation of Constitutional Classifiers, offering more efficient protection against universal jailbreaks.
hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

About a year ago, I got really into making glitch art exploring the edge cases & failure modes of machine cognition. This had some unexpected applications. Here’s the result: recursion.wtf/posts/claude... I've shared the relevant logs & artifacts with Anthropic, and the matter is under review.

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Replying to @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social

Navarro closes with, "What I really want to point out is the blindingly obvious truth that real world science is conducted by actual humans, and only the most gullible of people automatically assumes that everyone else is honest and impartial."

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DYK in 1996, a Republican-controlled Congress put in place a federal program to fund abstinence-only #SexEd programs exclusively? It defined the goals of the programs in Title V. To get funding, a program has to comply with the following religiously inspired bullshit:

I was doing my journaling about my fears around shifting my work to genital touch psychophysics, writing about how I somehow don't "feel qualified" working with a different sensory system. And then it hit me: Can I physically collect the data? Yes. Will the data care if I "feel qualified?" No.

My journaling assignment today is "What intimidates me the most about attempting genital touch psychophysics?" I'm trying to confront my fears directly so I can problem solve if possible.

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Replying to @rocza.bsky.social

4. Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer, Christine Stabell Benn and Peter Aaby attempted to run a coercive project that could not achieve true informed consent. They and their collaborators should be blacklisted from publishing in any scientific journal adhering to COPE standards. 5/6

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Telling trans people to calm down in re: anti-trans Democrats works the same way as a man calling a woman "hysterical" or "emotional." It frames any reaction the other person has as invalid, and guarantees that, if they weren't mad before, they sure are now. It doesn't work, and it's rude. Stop it.

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"But an incentive problem arises when the health system celebrates a larger flow of illness-related encounters while quietly hoping that prevention will reduce the need for those encounters. If we prevent ten avoidable admissions, who receives the financial benefit? "

kevinmd.comWhy hospital metrics miss the patient who never returnsIn super-aged Taiwan, a health care manager argues hospital metrics should count repeat falls and emergency returns, not volume, to reward healthy aging.

"It wasn't rape; it was just nonconsensual" Well then.

dr. caitlin m. green@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social

i don’t censor our tiktok clips to avoid penalties because that sounds like a lot of work to dilute the content let’s see if they let us keep this one about male fears of consensual activity being reinterpreted after the fact: www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLASpV8K/

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BREAKING: The hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau "will not move forward," the lead researcher says. “The solution is clear here: Take the money and vaccinate as many kids as you can,” @pauloffit.bsky.social told me: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.comControversial US-backed vaccine trial in African newborns haltedHepatitis B study in Guinea-Bissau that was to be funded by CDC and that drew global backlash ‘will not move forward’