Elizabethe Payne Ph.D.

Just received in the mail! Our new volume on queer kids and bullying is out now! Thank you to all the outstanding contributors! @uminnpress.bsky.social

If, as expected, Democrats sweep this election,the already growing movement in MAGA to repeal the 19th amendment will get louder. It's tempting to dismiss this as just talk. But while they can't just end women's suffrage, this movement is dangerous. www.salon.com/2026/10/26/m...

Earlier this year, SIECUS joined a coalition challenging the Trump-Vance admin’s attempt to gut proven sex ed programs and replace them with an ideological “body literacy” program that promotes abstinence-only rhetoric, spreads misinformation about contraception, and erases LGBTQIA+ young people.

In 1934, we added a gender-neutral pronoun for a single third person. ‘Thon’ was short for “that one.” It didn’t catch on.

QuERI, 2006-2026.

🚨 In 2026, SIECUS tracked 39 bills introduced in 17 states to censor materials in schools and libraries—only one of which passed. This follows a record 12,000 book bans in the 2025-26 school year.

Book talk tonight, NYC.

Reframing bullying has been key in our scholarship & public policy work for over 15 yrs. These ideas anchor our new book "Queer Kids & Social Violence" @uminnpress.bsky.social. Book talk w @paisleycurrah.com and @ecpayne.bsky.social at @bgsqd.bsky.social Oct7th. Bullying is political.

"And the sign says long-haired freaky people need not apply..." I just aged myself.

Youth gang rape in history. We have centuries of ignoring the problem.

In March, SIECUS and @guttmacher.org co-authored The Fight for Facts, a policy brief detailing the anti-abortion movement's increasing focus on the classroom.

I worked on a "landmark" case w ED OCR & DOJ expanding IX to include LGBTQ students in 2009. DOJ argued school district failed to stop bullying against a gay student for not conforming to traditional male stereotypes. Case clarified IX prohibits discrimination based gender stereotypes. Heartbreaking

Bullying is political.

20 years of QuERI.

This is the freakiest gender affirming care out there.

Hey @mayor.nyc.gov !! Turn off the $&@?$&$ heat on the subway platforms!! This is ridiculous! It’s sweltering! It’s killing the environment! It’s adding city costs! It’s unnecessary!!!

Say hello to your national back-to-school sex ed guide 👋 SIECUS just released our 2026 State Profiles, a comprehensive state-by-state analysis breaking down the sex ed policy landscape in your community and how you can take action. Where does your state stand on sex ed? siecus.org/siecus-state...

We circulated these years ago. They were quotes from publications, or things we frequently said in talks, pasted over artwork kids in our QuERI in-schools arts programs had done. For our 20th anniversary, we are resurrecting them, adding a few more, and posting one a week.

Join us for a Book Talk in conversation with Paisley Currah. The work of anti-bullying is not exclusive to educational contexts but is part of the broader address of social inequalities experienced by gender & sexual minority people. @paisleycurrah.com @uminnpress.bsky.social @ecpayne.bsky.social

QuERI was founded September 2006. Shockingly, this is our 20th anniversary. We are grateful to all the graduate student researchers, fellows, interns, PD trainers, artists, educators, funders, board members, legislators, & kids who have been a part of these 20 years.

20 years of QuERI

QuERI was founded September 2006. Shockingly, this is our 20th anniversary. We are grateful to all the graduate student researchers, fellows, interns, PD trainers, artists, educators, funders, board members, legislators, & kids who have been a part of these 20 years.

Yesterday, a federal judge blocked the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to replace the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program with an ideological “body literacy” program. SIECUS will continue fighting. Read our full statement on the ruling 💡 siecus.org/federal-judg...

Contract to represent unaccompanied minors given to ex ice agent accused of sex trafficking.

The Trump administration wants to deregulate Head Start out of existence www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

In SIECUS' 2026 Legislative Mid-Year Analysis, SIECUS and the Movement Advance Project @mapresearch.bsky.social explore LGBTQIA+ wellbeing, school belonging, and inclusion in sex education. siecus.org/resource/202...

Trump’s effort to dumb down history and shave off the rough spots is not what we, the people, want, writes Eleanor Clift.

Teaching teens to have babies, rather than reducing teen pregnancy. Never in all my years of delivering teen sex ed would I ever have thought this would come from the government.

this is how dumb you sound, democrats, when you accept the absurd premise that this is an issue that you need to campaign on

Go student journalists!!!

I worry that they are moving so fast—and that the media has been so bizarrely silent—that the “new global order” (Pax Silica) will be in place (& impossible to unwind) before the public knows anything about it. Thread. #PaxSilica 1/

“The push to exclude trans girls from girls’ sports has never really been about transgender athletes. There’s a much bigger gender war that they are fighting about inherent, fixed biological difference.”

The Trump-Vance administration recently terminated 53 of 67 TPP Program grants, intending to replace proven programs with abstinence-only programs that erase LGBTQIA+ young people, spread medically inaccurate information about contraception, and promote “fertility” as a core outcome.

The regime cannot dictate how topics are addressed in university classrooms.

Journalistic restraint: “Mr. Hegseth’s focus on testosterone levels at a moment when U.S. forces are ramping up attacks in Iran is unorthodox. Defense secretaries typically focus on larger strategic questions, involving alliances, war and weapons production.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

@mta.info It is so hot in the West 72nd station It’s shocking folks are not dead on the platform. This is ridiculous!!

"Tuesday’s ruling [upholding a lower court decision against Florida’s so-called Stop WOKE Act] makes it even clearer that legislators who try to ban the discussion of ideas that make them uncomfortable aren’t just embarrassing themselves, they are also inviting lawsuits." @victorerikray.bsky.social

Gender non conforming people were fighting for everyone’s rights long before Stonewall.

As rights new and old are under threat, let's educate youth and each other about what we've gained and commit to standing together for everyone's civil rights. @250to250.bsky.social

See What's in Trump Commission's Religious Freedom Agenda for Schools: Panel recommends federal guidance on parents' opt-out rights, Ten Commandments displays, and other features.

@jamellebouie.net on the Supreme Court anti-trans ruling.

NEW: Second federal judge blocks DOJ from getting trans minors' info via grand jury subpoena. Judge Pitts issued the preliminary injunction covering a subpoena directed at Stanford. Today, at Law Dork:

Pride discounts on queer books from @uminnpress.bsky.social. Including our new book on queer kids and bullying.

Nonfiction and fiction, stories and histories so crucial to why we honor and celebrate Pride. Browse the Pride Month collection, now 30% off: www.upress.umn.edu/collection-p...

Pride discounts on queer books from @uminnpress.bsky.social. Including our new book on queer kids and bullying.