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Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

Helen Lewis is back in The Atlantic with "Youth Gender Medicine Is Indeed Up for Debate". It is a masterclass in manufacturing consent, framing the capitulation of medical bodies to political terror as a calm "return to reason."

These bastards at ADF are giddy at the chance to implement mandatory conversion therapy and torture trans youth. They're even gaslighting calling transition, "the real conversion therapy."

I don't know how anyone can honestly sit there and see this campaign by Trump and his allies to eliminate the existence of trans people and be like "yes, these medical orgs retreating is based on science and not the coercion of the federal government and a billion dollars in anti-trans campaigning."

New York Times is actually on here flat out lying, they're right, the statements are public and we can check this and see NYT are lying

Wrong! You stated in your headline that they endorse restrictions on surgeries now. That’s not what either of them said! In fact, ASPS made it clear that they oppose legal bans/restrictions!

If you are a current ASPS member who is concerned about their statement abandoning trans youth, please reach out to Blair Peters aka the Queer Surgeon, I think he’s doing a story about it. 👀

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

After NYT misleadingly portrayed it as a big shift, someone from the AMA (very possibly the same person) spoke to other journalists, shifted the language slightly, and recast the statement in terms of continuity, stressing that surgeries are better left to adulthood unless there's serious need.

From Evan, a veteran trans science reporter: What it looks like to me is someone from the AMA gave a comment to the New York Times that represents a slight, but real, diminishment of support for trans youth surgery. NYT then seems to have portrayed it as a much larger departure than it was.

A strange and confusing tale from the bowels of (where else) the New York Times. Has the American Medical Association changed position on trans youth care? A New York Times headline says they "endorsed restrictions" on youth surgeries. Other outlets, including NPR, report they did no such thing.

Oh! Just what the world needs! Another centrist think tank whose purpose is to prevent the Democrats from moving even a tiny bit to the left! 🤪🫠

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

Something incredible is happening in the Magic: The Gathering community. The prolific MTG Youtube channel Tolarian Community College has raised $450,000 and growing for Trans Lifeline. Read our writer S. Baum's story here and go pitch in! www.erininthemorning.com/p/magic-the-...

If these positions didn’t matter, rich people wouldn’t spend their fortunes running for them. But there *are* more of us than there are of them. My median donation is $10 & we are 1/10th of the way to funding this campaign. You can be part of the solution: bethfordemocracy.com

The ASPS has come out against trans youth surgical care. The AMA then endorsed the ASPS. Meanwhile, WPATH's president-elect testified on behalf of a detransitioner who won their case. And hospitals capitulate to Trump. I write my indictment of the American medical system on trans youth care.

"But what can Democrats do, they're out of power?" I get that question a lot. So I made this guide. Because members of Congress have a lot of power, even in the minority - especially in the Senate. AlexRikleen.us/minoritypowers

So this study was ignored by the nyt bc it didn’t comport w their prejudice. It did churn out two pieces that it saw as advancing its agenda. I’m guessing they’re reloading for more. What they ignore, what they promote is always skewed and motivated by animus.

A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Side note: None of the spending bills passed in the "minibus" had any anti-trans riders. This includes the bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Services www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The president of the ASPS is a huge Trump supporter if you're wondering why they shifted positions now to align with the Trump Administration. He's donated substantially to Trump and Ted Cruz. This was a political decision. www.fec.gov/data/receipt...

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

ABOUT TIME. California AG Rob Bonta has sued Rady Children's hospital for illegally shutting down its gender clinic and discriminating against trans youth. More of this. They can't be allowed to violate state law and discriminate against trans patients. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

Fox News poll: The Democratic Party is favored by voters on transgender issues by 22 points

Rough day for Sex Matters

Our film @127steps.bsky.social was my artistic attempt to help address transmasculine invisibility in the media. @turnerschofield.bsky.social has some great advice here for our fellow artists and activists in this moment. Your voice is more important than ever! Make yourself seen and heard! 🏳️‍⚧️

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1. In a major victory, Democrats have managed to get all anti-trans riders stripped from the final appropriations bills. This includes HHS and Ed, which had the worst provisions in congressional history. If it passes, it will be a big win for 2026. Subscribe to support our journalism.

HUGE NEWS for trans people: We have the latest minibus, including the bill to fund the Department of Health and Human Services and it looks like there are no restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender people. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

As I wrote for Rolling Stone, this was the most dangerous bill for trans health care of the Trump 2.0 era because it would potentially include a Hyde amdt for trans care without the votes to kill it. That it’s not in the bill is a big deal and reveals it was a poison pill for Dems to fund the govt

The constant questioning by Josh Hawley "can men get pregnant" is soon going to lose its effectiveness when the first uterus transplant birth by a trans woman happens. It's being investigated currently and again, it's been done hundreds of times in cis women. www.fertstert.org/article/S001...

Been thinking a lot about how many of these anti-trans laws may become outdated within a decade or two as advances in biotech may allow trans women to obtain working ovaries grown from their own cells which by their definition mean that they are a "biological woman" and vice versa.

The amount of "even the Washington Post is speaking against the trans cult" posts after Monday's editorial opposing inclusion of trans athletes was worth the price to Bezos because the lingering perception that it's a liberal publication lends credibility to the propaganda despite its total overhaul

what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS

9. Constituents can also use the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters to contact their representatives, and to demand that the 222nd Legislature make trans rights a priority from day one. www.njlcv.org/find

You may have missed it today with all the Supreme Court news, but democrat states filed a new lawsuit today to prevent Trump from withholding funds to them over their support for trans rights!

A thread of good articles related to the topics at issue in today's SCOTUS case.

This follows the news that the minibus spending bill has no restrictions on gender-affirming care either. It looks like Democrats dug their heels in on this one and won. bsky.app/profile/eric...

BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

Do it. It's a CSAM app now that should be banned.

Just updated my profile of the GLAAD Accountability Project (GAP). I try not to duplicate their efforts covering political figures. We need to create an anti-trans EGOT for people who earn spots on all the big four: GAP, SPLC, Trans Data Library, and my site. www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic...

The nyt’s grievance-filled press release this week pushed a variety of falsehoods. This was the biggest of all: “Our work has deeply and accurately covered the lives of trans people and the bigotry they face” The nyt itself put the lie to that claim in its story about Lia Thomas.

We should categorically reject and contest the assertion or implication that being an "activist" in some way diminishes/qualifies a person's perspective or positions; it's part of an insidious and reactionary project to make "passive apolitical consumer" the only correct mode of citizenship

This the favourite anti-trans tactic of the nyt: seeking to discredit every trans person who speaks up for their rights by labelling us “activists.” It’s a straight-up Jim Crow tactic. The nyt ushered in and endorsed the era of official contempt for all disfavoured Americans

Everyone should be submitting this to Apple and Google.

Just so everyone knows, the organization formed to specifically fight against the ballot measures is called Washington Families for Freedom. Go support them to help defeat these dangerous initiatives! wafamiliesforfreedom.org

Yup www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

So Gorin and Curlin have both been claiming bioethics has been silent but the vast majority of pediatric bioethicists have not been writing on GAC because it’s not novel. There are ethical considerations but we’ve not been “silent”

This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about