Scholarly Shitposting: A Florencian Compendium

4 min readAug 11, 2020

It was with great pleasure that I received an invitation to compile a compendium of those passages which, hidden in the pages of my scholarly writing, some may consider humorous. I offer them with little more commentary, letting myself note only that I hoped for them to lighten the stern atmosphere that pervades the cold halls of academe. May they bring you some of the joy I had writing them.

“Qui est-ille ? Le respect langagier des élèves non-binaires, aux limites du droit”, (2017) 63(2) Service social 35–50:

“The term ‘third gender’ is to be avoided since different non-binary identities are distinct genders. Why third and not sixty-ninth? That sounds much more pleasant…”

“Don’t Be So Hateful: The Insufficiency of Anti-Discrimination and Hate Crime Laws in Improving Trans Wellbeing”, (2018) 68:1 University of Toronto Law Journal 1–36:

“Genderfucking Non-Disclosure: Sexual Fraud, Transgender Bodies, and Messy Identities”, (2018) 41:2 Dalhousie Law Journal 339–77:

“Thinking an Ethics of Gender Exploration: Against Delaying Transition for Transgender and Gender Creative Youth”, (2019) 24:2 Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 223–36:

“Science Has Always Been Ideological, You Just Don’t See It” (2019) 48:6 Archives of Sexual Behavior 1655–57:

“The Misuse of Gender Dysphoria: Toward Greater Conceptual Clarity in Transgender Health” (2021) 16:6 Perspectives on Psychological Science 1159–64:

To contextualise a bit more, these are the second and third sentences of the introduction.

“Surgical Informed Consent and Recognizing a Perioperative Duty to Disclose in Transgender Health Care” (2020) 13:1 McGill Journal of Law and Health 73–116:

“A Critical Commentary on ‘Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria’” (2020) 68:4 The Sociological Review 779–799:

“Recommendations for institutional and governmental management of gender information” (2021) 44:4 NYU Review of Law & Social Change 489–528:

“Nuancing Feminist Perspectives on the Voluntary Intoxication Defence” Manitoba Law Journal (forthcoming):

“The Constitutive In/Visibility of the Trans Legal Subject: A Case Study” (2021) 28:1 UCLA Women’s Law Journal 423–57:

“Accounting for Research Fatigue in Research Ethics” (2020) 35:3 Bioethics 270–76:

“‘X’ Why? Gender Markers and Non-Binary Transgender People” in Trans Rights and Wrongs: A Comparative Study of Legal Reform Concerning Trans Persons (Springer, 2021) at 33–48: