28 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- 3-judge panel of Ninth Circuit Court has temporarily blocked last week's ruling by a judge known for his conservative views allow CA teachers and schools to out trans kids to their parents.

America is at an inflection point. We can't wait 3 more years, we need to stand up now, while there's still something salvageable.

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This Judge? www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Outing trans kids to parents is evil and WILL lead to abuse, homelessness, suicides. If it was safe to come out at home, the kid already would've done so.

this month in Clippings: your favorite graphic journalist takes a holiday from the hard stories and draws you all some very trans Christmas monsters of myth and legend . . . look, they can't *all* be super heavy, okay? coming soon to @assignedmedia.org #writing #research #makingcomics

Here’s our story on FIRE in @assignedmedia.org www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

26 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- HHS targets Seattle Children’s Hospital w/ investigation for providing GAC saying GAC fails to meet "professional standards of health care" altho all relevant med organizations recommend it. 19 Dem states sued HHS over its stance this week.

A southern California judge has ruled that the feelings of parents matters more than the safety and wellbeing of trans kids. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you the story in this week's TWIBS.

“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome

This essay by @sandyernestallen.bsky.social is excellent and mirrors so much of my own experience re: estrangement and my queer and trans identities. Also I'll say I found it to be careful with how it discusses trauma. I felt comforted and relieved reading it, rather than overwhelmed or triggered

icymi, I have a new essay out today ...

The holidays are hard when you're estranged from your family, but it gets easier, and you are not alone. From @sandyernestallen.bsky.social some counter programming for trans people who may be struggling today. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Whatever they may have provided you in the past, if they're hurting you now and refusing to stop, they don't deserve you. You aren't obligated to let them into your life forever just because they took care of you before, which, might I add, is the bare minimum, not praiseworthy.

Great essay from @sandyernestallen.bsky.social, expressing a sentiment that I'm very familiar with. I've said it before, I'll say it again: Whether or not it's difficult or painful, you are well within your rights to cut off your family permanently. Nobody in this world is owed access to you.

"In my mind’s eye, my being out as trans now is like a chair holding shut a door of my prior estrangement." This is such an apt distillation of my own experience, even as a cis queer person. It's a blessing that also feels like a shared scar: Grief for our pain, gratitude for your perfect words.

I'm super pleased to have a short new essay live on @assignedmedia.org this morning. It's about surviving the holidays while estranged. Huge thanks as always to my wonderful editor @evanurquhart.bsky.social ... www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new... Grateful to all who read and share this one.

The holidays are hard when you're estranged from your family, but it gets easier, and you are not alone. From @sandyernestallen.bsky.social some counter programming for trans people who may be struggling today. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Government small enough to fit in your underwear drawer…

These people are deeply weird and obsessed with controlling other people's bodies.

The FDA says tight underwear is a medical device if trans people enjoy wearing it. More on the nonsense from our federal government by @alyssaur.bsky.social www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

"For my third Christmas behind bars, I proposed a new tradition to my friends: a holiday feast. Our sources of income varied from legitimate jobs to various side hustles, and together we pooled what we could from the canteen and kitchen."

the united negro college fund is unconstitutional... but not the ku klux klan? not the proud boys? not ice? fuck all the way off with that old bullshit.

Merry Christmas! I got you Discourse: jude-doyle.ghost.io/rea/

"history summons us all to become advocates for freedom and democracy — whether it’s running for the local school board, speaking up at public meetings, volunteering for candidates and causes we believe in, helping our neighbors under fire... Every moment matters now."

The judge also ordered that teachers have a right to misgender trans youth even when the parents know of and are supportive of their trans child. Just in case you thought this was actually about parental rights.

23 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Coalition of 19 states file suit against Dept of Health & Human Services and Secy Robert F. Kennedy Jr over new policy that threatens to withhold Medicare/Medicaid payments from any hospital that provides pediatric affirming care to trans kids.

The Texas AG is compiling lists and pix of trans ppl. The Trump admin defies the law to attack trans kids. Trump’s AG designates trans ppl enemies of the state. The Supreme Court dispenses w lower courts to impose his bigoted passport decree Are we headed toward a police state - or have we arrived?

24 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- For 2 months the FL state Atty Genl has tried to cancel “anti-Christian” Pensacola stop on Ru Paul's Drag Queen Christmas tour Pensacola officials have resolutely refused and 1600 seat theater is sold out. ("We are family/I got all my sisters..")

24 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Judge overturns CA school policy on outing trans kids, rules parents have right to know & teachers a right to tell them but no mention of child's rights. Case likely bound for Supremes. Weirdly CA law allows abortion w/o parental notification.

An authoritarian movement, led by the president and reaching into Republican-led state governments and the judiciary is chipping away at American democracy. Trans people are among the first, most often targeted - but it won't end there. Read the full analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

If you missed this, reporter Veronica Esposite took us inside a fight at the APA over whether the conversion therapy lite group Therapy First should be allowed to offer continuing ed classes to therapists. It's an important, original story only on Assigned Media.

years ago, i saw a therapist who falsely advertised herself as trans friendly so she could diagnose trans people with disorders that would preclude access to transition care by casting our judgment into doubt. that was a decade ago. they're even more organized now.

You all: I’ve been talking about this for a year. What is your license worth when conversion therapy CEU’s are eventually required (currently accepted) in order to sustain it?

If you missed this, reporter Veronica Esposite took us inside a fight at the APA over whether the conversion therapy lite group Therapy First should be allowed to offer continuing ed classes to therapists. It's an important, original story only on Assigned Media.

America “is on a “trajectory toward competitive authoritarianism: a system in which elections, courts, and other democratic institutions persist in form but are systematically manipulated to entrench executive control.” This is the assessment of hundreds of former US intelligence officers.

1. New federal rules were released last week banning gender affirming care for youth at hospitals nationwide. Those rules don't go into effect until public comment, months from now. But it appears Sec. Kennedy is using an arcane process to try to implement them immediately. Our latest story.

From me: The right wing’s determination to create an autocratic state is more evident by the day and comes in multiple forms Anti-trans bigotry, racism, antisemitism, misogyny, homophobia, predation. Their goal is to create a white Christian nationalist state

An authoritarian movement, led by the president and reaching into Republican-led state governments and the judiciary is chipping away at American democracy. Trans people are among the first, most often targeted - but it won't end there. Read the full analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

any woman who thinks she can dismiss the extraordinary advances of the feminist movement and still enjoy rights and freedoms like owning her own house, having her own credit cards, not being sexually assaulted by her spouse, having any rights to her children, voting, working in the professions,

GenderBender is a WONDERFUL company and it is truly a nightmare to hear the FDA no longer exists to protect citizens, only to make them less safe

Good explainer by Mermaids for those of us in the colonies (and elsewhere) who are unfamiliar with the Tory's Sullivan Review, published earlier this year. Sullivan is also associated with the anti-trans group Sex Matters.

23 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Alice Sullivan, author of Tory's anti-trans/bio-sex-only Sullivan Review, is threatening to sue the U of Bristol after a talk she tried to give was interrupted by pro-trans protesters banging on windows, yelling through megaphones & pushing fire alarm.

23 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- U of OK teacher removed who failed Bible-quoting psych student fired. The student had ignored the assignment & submitted attack on gender instead, incl that “pushing the lie that there are multiple genders” is “demonic and severely harms American youth."

23 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- GenderBender, 1 of 11 companies FDA is trying to force to register chest binders as "medical devices," fires back: "Chest binders aren't a medical device in the same way that scissors used to give someone a gender-affirming haircut aren't a medical device."

23 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- UK court rules that a trans man with full Gender Recognition Certificate issued by British government still cannot be registered as father on the birth certificates of the children he and his wife have. The decision does not preclude him adopting them.

23 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- An NSA employee named Sarah O'Neill is suing the Trump administration over its enforcement of two "immutable" legal sexes, saying it "denies her very existence.”

Great reporting by @veraeikon.bsky.social on this.