It is, but I read both - the AP version, while reprehensible in its own right, doesn't put "biological females" into a subheader, and presents the "in-utero" argument in a less inflammatory way (the bar being in hell). NBC definitely put a whole extra bigotry spin on it.

The IOC’s new policy bringing back sex testing for women’s sports (& banning trans women) is a complete reversal of the framework & recommendations they put in place JUST FIVE YEARS AGO.

🧵Just five years ago, the IOC put an entire trans participation framework in place recommending that sports move away from exclusionary policies & to stop focusing on testosterone levels. I wrote about the framework when it was passed: www.si.com/olympics/202...

Don't. Print (Stenographized, Standalone Quote). Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

"AI sycophancy systematically omits the data that would naturally conflict with a user’s narrow hypothesis. [B]ehavioral science demonstrates that humans already tend towards evidence that confirms their beliefs; sycophantic AI compounds this tendency by removing the friction of reality."

Also, as I'm a trans man who is banned from sport because of life-saving necessary medicine who is currently challenging the ban of trans men in sport in a Human Rights court, dont you fucking dare say trans men are left free to compete. It's not true. Ask me how I know.

- dr oz hauls in medical orgs to pressure them to change their stances on gender affirming care - NYT covers the meeting months later, doesn't say when it took place, relies on a description by SEGM, and falsely claims the AMA changed its position great work everybody www.them.us/story/dr-oz-...

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At this point, anyone who engages with the question of anti-trans bias at the New York Times probably has to consider it fully substantiated.

Holy shit, every single aspect of this story is so tremendously infuriating. How many of these kids are there, forced to suffer?

This also gives me a headache from an international organisations law perspective. Small Committees (quorum size 8) of individuals generally do not supersede states party in the substantive interpretation of treaty terms or application. At least, not without any assessment of state views / practice.

I have many thoughts on this documents. First, the language - it is written like a transphobe's wet dream. It makes up a definition of "biological sex", which excludes all intersex people. It then suggests this cannot be changed (lol). So, not written by anyone with any understanding of science. /1

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This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

And most of these laws that are sweeping the globe exempt gaming! I'm sorry, but if you're trying to regulate my tiny little social media site with no advertising or data brokering and you except Roblox, your law is not about child safety

And @rosehorowitch.bsky.social's piece falls into Rufo's trap once again by suggesting that the genesis of the current quiescence sits at the feet of the students, rather than the far-right and willing accomplices in universities' leadership. 6/

There was some good discussion about this from an author perspective recently. My own feeling is that editors are increasingly asked to be project managers, focused on deadlines & deliverables, rather than being people who deeply critique & shape a book before publication. bsky.app/profile/kjch...

This is how I sound when I explain to people what the new york times is

A significant portion of the court's conservative justices appear to either not understand how American elections work or actively believe in conspiracy theories surrounding them. trib.al/n57JrRB

oh my god

I recently saw Nikson Mathews say about Idaho’s bathroom bill that, “every single day, when I am out in public, I have to ask myself, do I feel like going to jail, or do I feel like being attacked?” So I asked him to write about it for @advocate.com. www.advocate.com/opinion/niks...

It's actually really fucked up watching so many people clamor to watch a new television series created by a woman who has proudly bragged she'll use the money she makes to try and kill my entire community.

Librarians are an “awesome bulwark against tyranny” Right-wing radicals in this district not only wanted to ban books, they wanted to track patrons’ personal data. A librarian is resisting @alyssaur.bsky.social 🧵

We do not disbar enough lawyers, prosecute enough perjurers, or fire enough abusive enforcers.

"Estrogen makes you grow boobs" when it's an effect desired by trans women: Need more evidence before we can say anything for sure. "Estrogen makes you grow boobs" when it's an effect not desired by cis men: Indisputably obvious, immediately needs to be considered.

musk wants to create an army of musklings and he has a temu david koresh compound where he keeps some of his women and kids

I mean this is why they hate trans people, right? I'm pretty sure I'm genetically incapable of even 1/100th this degree of sycophancy.

The entire idea of white guilt as a right radicalizing force was a projection built on the idea that there was an imagined social pressure being placed on white people to feel guilt & responsibility for the sins of their ancestors & their solution was to let a whole new set of white guys ruin things

Skrmetti is so much more fucked up than people appreciate.

One clarification (not essential for this thread, but to be clear): It's not *just* that Roberts held the "ongoing debate" provided a rational basis, but he *also* (largely? completely?) insulated even that from review by holding that the legislature's "conclu[sion]" that there was debate is enough.

This right-wing-fever-dream-to-legitimate-topic-of-debate-to-law pipeline is dangerous, and it's a pattern. Stopping that progression early in the process is better than depending on this Supreme Court to stop it at the final step.

A key reason why this pushback (from @anthonymkreis.bsky.social and @evanbernick.bsky.social w/r/t birthright citizenship, the topic of the skeet embedded below the skeet embedded here) is essential is that Roberts in Skrmetti held that “ongoing debate” itself is a rational basis for upholding laws.

When I got my furby tattoo (which I will never regret because furbies are perfect), both of the tattoo artists in the room said that a) my furby tattoo was awesome & b) that Harry Potter tattoos were the most common thing they had been asked to do cover ups for & that it was an industry wide issue.

Land Back.

Dreams DO come true: my photo of the ICE teens spread so far divorced of context or credit that Snopes dot com had to write a whole story confirming that I didn't make it with AI. 🥲

Dude. Things are bad or whatever... But at least we're not those guys.

My resignation letter

Ultimately the Atlantic knows what it's doing with this bad faith headline but I would love to see some self-reflection. This is exactly what their own pundits said was happening due to left-wing censoriousness. They were wrong. It was DARVO bullshit and paved the way for what's happening now.

I have no idea why the Atlantic chose this godawful headline for this article. It's actually pretty good, and about precisely what Claire is describing. Basically university administration and Trump efforts to suppress campus protest have worked. It's very very bleak.

a) no this is 100% true. divergent is mentioned downthread but i cannot emphasize enough how this is ALL that series has going for it. the whole book is hogwarts houses as a base for a pretty by-the-book utopian YA novel. (this continues)

After Nikita defended this plan agressively for hours, Musk has stepped in and "suspended" it.

When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern

"Where have the ethics of our leaders gone? Where has responsiveness to the demands of the people gone? Where has open debate in a non-oppressive, non-violent, non-punitive environment gone?" One could ask these questions as well.

I regret to say that I fell for it on this occasion and I will do better

I have the stomach to say one more thing: as meaningful as what students saw in response to their protests (repression) is what they didn't (US shifting away from support for genocide). describing this as *their* failure as opposed to the supposed adults in the room is a joke and not the funny kind