it's so odd to me to see people go to bat for a political newcomer like platner. it's not like he's spent years earning our trust. we have very, very few data points about this dude, and one of those data points is "he has a nazi tattoo."

New Article on Trans Care 101: The Trouble With Puberty Blockers open.substack.com/pub/transcar...

Ahem the guy who invented the term "evidence based medicine" just rebuked the most prominent anti-trans health lobby group in the world www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New article: the case for dysphoria open.substack.com/pub/transcar...

never forget squishy’s response to being asked if she gets off to twelve year olds

spoken like someone with nothing to lose from losing elections

“the flag would look weird” is actually the number one most important reason

it boggles my mind that so many leftists, who broadly subscribe to an ideology that correctly points out the bad incentives of capitalism, have decided that the obvious incentive for constraining supply when you own some of the supply simply does not apply to homeowners

this is indeed extremely funny but you simply shouldn’t use these things for accurate information on images the marketing is stupid, but judging an LLM by its text accuracy on images is tying both its hands behind its back

the author of this book wants YOU to know that Straight Women Can Be AGP Too

why are you as a man saying this

Slotkin: the Democratic Party must purge the weak and woke and, well, I’m not gonna say it, okay I’ll say it, effeminate and gay parts of itself to become an alpha warrior eaglehawk party whose beliefs dominate the world Weigel: what beliefs are those? Slotkin: I forgor 💀

"don't make immigration salient" is going to stick in my craw forever. just a total demonstration of fecklessness and a piss poor understanding of the political moment.

Important to note that this is the Same Guy who is so dishonest that he will somehow say acknowledge that 94% of trans women assaulters committed the offences pre-transition, and yet somehow uses the rate from those prisoners as evidence that testosterone suppression does not reduce the risk of SA

great example of a common dynamic: anything that anyone vaguely left-coded on the internet says is associated with and becomes a problem for “the democratic party”

Genuinely horrifying that an EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL has somehow devolved into inane debate over what counts as a “real vagina” what is the possible relevance?!?

I am rapidly moving from “Trump knew his rich buddy sometimes ‘dated’ underage girls and didn’t care” to “Trump was actively participating in the sexual abuse and possibly the commercial sex trafficking”

it is imperative to remember that MTG and the far-far-right have reached the right conclusion on the genocide in Gaza essentially by accident, because they are antisemitic. You do not need to hand anything to them

I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

not really a way to do this extreme social constructionism and not eventually land on trans men being women (this is because this oversimplistic analysis doesn't work)

Sorry, does the Vice President of the United States not know if a letter by his boss is real unless a newspaper shows it to him?

Fascinating NYT article I just found headline: horseback riding is safe for trans people! article: only trans woman interviewed was publicly sexually harassed www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/s...

SCOTUS doesn’t have to come up with an excuse for allowing Obama or Biden to be prosecuted despite their ruling about Trump. They only have to refuse without explanation to intervene, and stay without explanation any lower federal court’s attempt to intervene.

this is both partially true and does not really account for Bostock the synthesis here IMO is a) there are some conservatives on the Court who could be swayed by legal arguments for strict scrutiny for trans people b) the Court is currently terrified of defying the executive so it doesn’t matter

if you think that professional sports is the *actual* motivation behind the political assault on trans people, or its success, you are a rube that is buying what the anti-trans movement is selling you

yesterday i criticized leftists who hate libs more than they hate fascists today I will criticize libs like Hakeem who hate leftists more than they hate fascists

This all looks very bad, but to be fair there's no direct evidence, verified by a court of law, that shows Donald Trump has ever committed sexual assault. [touches earpiece] Hold on, I'm getting some new information.

The New York financier?

Merrick Garland you dumb bitch

Once again: "Who was president in 2020?" Is a question so many politicians, pundits and even mainstream media have a hard time answering correctly.

Getting word that Zohran Mamdani totally choked at his 4th grade spelling bee. I heard this from my German friend, who lives in Argentina and wishes to remain anonymous

seems like it should be of note that a writer of a book that is rapidly becoming the model of Democratic governance follows a eugenicist!!

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I cannot emphasize enough how this letter is "if we make life much, much harder for trans people, they won't want to transition" which a) generally, not true, life is hard for trans people and we transition regardless somehow b) if that were true, do you not see how Disney-villain that sounds

It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.

This is a bad day for America, but this is nonetheless a huge win for trans people and I think it’s incumbent on us to celebrate McBride’s work here. This Matters

An excellent thread that takes the concerns seriously, while still being clear that this is not a major problem

hot take: this platform and the left-liberal movement it represents needs to realize yesterday that genAI is not going away, does and will have considerable impacts on society, and does in fact have uses despite its makers. To do otherwise would be like disregarding social media in the late 00s

More check ins on the smart right: this time, “defund the police” is taken to mean complete police abolition, a thing that, generously, 5% of the people who said that in 2020 meant? meanwhile, the PRESIDENT did actually try to do that first thing

how in the world can you still be doing the “most places won’t talk about this” thing about trans care in 2025

Loving the reaction to my first piece - if you haven’t read it, take a look! open.substack.com/pub/transcar... Next article: HRT - Dosing, Delivery, and how it all got determined. Keep an eye out!

necessary reading for any activists/allies in the current political moment

read my girlfriend's article she is so brilliant

Aly has a lot of familiarity with both the medical literature and the manufactured controversies concerning transition care, and I find her insight into the poisoning of this discourse to be vital. Please give her article a read!