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Ali Conn

@Ali_Conn

Pediatric genetic counselor

| Opinions plentiful and my own

| she/her

| I want to show you pictures of my dogs

connirving.blogspot.comJoined February 2012

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Ali Conn

@Ali_Conn

Sep 18, 2014

People use the word "endearing" to describe things I do a lot and I'm beginning to feel like it's not a compliment.

Ali Conn

@Ali_Conn

Jan 19

I don’t play video games. I’ve never watched a Twitch stream. So please tell me why my Twitter feed is showing me an ANDR*W T*TE tweet because of my “interest” in “Twitch streamers.”

Can’t imagine a greater government overreach than lawmakers telling the people they serve they can’t be who they are.

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Gabby Brauner Librizzi

@Gabby_Brauner27

Dec 8, 2022

Gotta say this louder for the people in the back. SYSTEMS ONLY CHANGE IF WE’RE WILLING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Multiple PDs from places I interviewed follow me on Twitter. If they don’t want me for my advocacy, then they don’t want me 😡 I’m actually so mad about this

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Ali Conn

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Nov 24, 2022

Although I finished this poster (and recorded the video I haven’t been able to bring myself to rewatch 🥴) while laid up with the flu… here is my first poster! Banning Treatment for Transgender Youth: The Effect of HB1570 on Transgender Arkansans… epostersonline.com/nsgc2022/poste

Ali Conn

@Ali_Conn

Nov 18, 2022

An unprompted comfy shoe recommendation while I’m at it - Rothy’s and Birdies I’ve found to be worth the price. Poshmark often has them secondhand! I’m recovering from a recent ankle sprain or I would be wearing them exclusively.

As a new GC with a past career, I noticed a lot of first-time attendees worrying about what to wear/bring to #NSGC2022. Here’s my list - what would you add? Hopefully Twitter will still exist to share next year 😉. #GeneChat

BREAKING: Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, has filed to run for president again in 2024.

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With midterm losses, Trump's climb to the nomination could be steeper than he'd like

Donald Trump is officially running again, trying to avenge his loss to Joe Biden, even as Trump still refuses to admit he lost. Trump's push to overturn the 2020 outcome helped spark an insurrection.

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Ali Conn

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Nov 4, 2022

Twitter trying to force me to see far right provocateurs is so clumsy. They’ve suggested 10 tweets in the last week because the same two people I follow follow those accounts. People I’ve shown zero interest in. It’s transparent and it’s scary and it’s happened since before El*n.

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Mama Doctor Jones | Danielle Jones, MD, FACOG

@MamaDoctorJones

Oct 15, 2022

Medical care for trans people is not actually up for public debate. Unless you’re trans or a board-certified professional caring for trans people, we simply don’t care about your unimportant opinion.

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WATCH THIS. Jon Stewart obliterates Rutledge, which is very easy to do re: gender-affirming care for youth because she goes against every respectable medical group in the country in her quest to harm innocents for personal political gain.

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Interview Excerpt with Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge |...

Jon sat down for a conversation with Leslie Rutledge, the Attorney General of Arkansas — the first state to pass a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. H...

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Ali Conn

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Sep 30, 2022

On this, the day that my favorite McDonald’s employee brightly told me “See you Monday!” as she handed me my morning DC

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Student Doctor Funky

@DrTobiasFunky

Sep 30, 2022

What is it with people in healthcare drinking diet coke at 7:00am?

oh great everybody online made up these people called “The try guys” and they’re all pretending theyve known about them forever in order to trick me

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i hope they’re prepared to carry my entire mental wellness on their backs this fall

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1/ 🧵Its a big day! Our practice resource for pedigree nomenclature is out in

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#JoGC #GeneChat onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/6 It is important, because in prior iterations, it was not clear whether the squares & circles we use in pedigrees represent sex, or gender...

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Hey Brits, just an outside opinion that now would be the absolute funniest time to abolish the monarchy.

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Sep 8, 2022

Charles, 73, has waited decades to become king and is the longest-serving heir in British history. He is the eldest of four children born to the queen and her late husband, Prince Philip. washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/

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Ali Conn

@Ali_Conn

Sep 7, 2022

Celeb Wikipedia really only needs “Personal Life.”

Ali Conn

@Ali_Conn

Sep 3, 2022

opposes 2A and most all the things you stood for in law enforcement. She even marched in a defund the police event. She's out there with AOC, Biden & Pelosi. Must say I'm surprised.” End

haven’t asked to put a sign in your yard. However, I was very surprised to see my opponent's sign in your yard today. She is a far left Progressive Dem. She has been leading the library LGBTQ+ battle in Jbro to promote sexually explicit material in the children section. She…

Alt text of previous tweet: screenshot of a Facebook comment made by Arkansas state senator Dan Sullivan reading “Hi Leon, this is Dan Sullivan. We've moved south of town and I don't get out that much anymore. I can understand why you might be upset with me, that's why I… cont

Seems like Dan Sullivan is feeling a little nervous about the prospect of losing to

All proceeds will be split between

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Transgender Media Program 🌈 shop.marenmorris.com/collections/hq

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Ali Conn

@Ali_Conn

Sep 1, 2022

Ali states that this was the topic of her thesis and that his “research” is not equivalent to a thorough literature review. She reiterates that experts should determine this and that the self-harm risk is not a meaningless talking point for him to weaponize.

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Jd replies “we’ll have to agree to disagree” and states that there is “no world in which what (Ali) is saying is correct.” He posits that it is highly contested even in the medical field and that Democrats are increasing the self-harm risk.
Ali replies “we do not have to agree to disagree” and informs him that his opinion on the matter extends as far as his family and no further. She requests his peer-reviewed literature to support his assertion that medical experts in the relevant fields are divided

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If you want to know what it’s like living in Arkansas, it’s having a white male with no relevant education tell you “we’ll have to agree to disagree” about the topic of your graduate thesis.

JD states that his preferred candidate for state senate opposes “transition surgeries before patients are 18.”
Ali responds that the Gender Spectrum Clinic in Arkansas does not do surgeries before 18 anyway as is standard of care. If he is voting to ban gender affirming care on that basis he is misinformed

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Jd responds that he is also against hormone blockers.
Ali asks why he feels that he is qualified to make medical decisions for other people’s children.

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Jd states that qualifications do not matter and parrots right wing talking points about transgender care that are malicious lies. He claims that radical democrats are harming people with high risk of self-harm. He once again invokes surgery despite previously acknowledging that is incorrect.

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Ali responds that he is unqualified because he is referencing political disinformation rather than medical evidence. She mentions that Democrats aren’t treating patients, highly trained medical professionals are.

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After studying for the GC board exam for 4 months, I showed up and was told there was a “glitch” and that I couldn’t take it. Now PSI said I may not be able to take it this August. All my months of studying, and I don’t even get a chance. #genechat #abgc

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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven. twitter.com/Acyn/status/15

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I am full of these! My newest: I want to be able to view results. I don’t want to have to download the PDF. Give me the option to just peek at it in the portal, please!

Finally got my pea plant framed and set up in my office and I love it so, so, so much. Thank you,

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I have more 😂. - When people clearly didn’t read my question and answer what they THINK I was asking. Favorite so far: mentioned I had worked at Epic in a service desk ticket and he told me they weren’t hiring. Sir, I did not inquire. - Sike is not a word. You mean psych.

Mine: - Syndrome mispronunciation/pluralization (“Downs,” any of the myriad incorrect ways Ehlers-Danlos can be said) - Epic in all caps - When I sign my email “Ali” and people call me “Alison”

Ok #GeneChat, it’s been a long day (starting with a third phone call to the IRS trying to get the money they owe me from 2020), so let’s do a thread of your most pedantic complaints. Just meaningless things that bother you SO deeply that you’re a little concerned.

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law sounds like a fake show from 30 Rock that Jenna Maroney would miss rehearsal to be in

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THE ISSUE ISN’T WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE “ON A BREAK” IT’S WHAT THE BREAK MEANS TO EACH OF THEM. THEY HAVE FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT MORAL APPROACHES TO THE PAUSE/END OF A RELATIONSHIP AND IMPORTANCE OF SUBSEQUENT PHYSICAL RELATIONSHIPS.

There’s nothing more nutty than that couple hours where all of MAGA is waiting silently to find out what they’re supposed to think

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A genetic counselor’s thoughts on the MTHFR gene 👇🏼

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A sitting Republican congressmen,

@mattgaetz

, decided that body shaming a teenager was okay. So to spite him I raised $1 million in donations to abortion funds in under 72 hours. Abortion is healthcare. Period. #ThanksMattGaetz

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Y'all, I'm SCREAMING, our local fascist got some cult group to make a MOVIE about him!?THE DRAMATIC MUSIC. THE TEARS FROM HIS WIFE! (He handed out a copy of In His Image after a library board meeting, which is ABOUT conversion therapy! 🤡) vimeo.com/720673421 #arpx

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If it can happen here, it can happen everywhere. So proud of the team that got this together two days in a row.

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YDAR District 1

@YDARdistrict1

Jun 27, 2022

We thought yesterday was great. Jonesboro SHOWED UP today! Thank you so much, everyone. We probably saw about 250 people protest SCOTUS’s horrific overturning of Roe. A big THANK YOU to @Kelly4Arkansas for showing up in solidarity and using her voice. You are AWESOME!