Riley Gaines has become a main figure in the anti-trans movement. @zeinmurib.bsky.social (Fordham) & Ronnee Schreiber (SDSU) comment on how her message fits the broader right-wing project. Learn more from @msjpauly.bsky.social, @motherjones.com & @pablo.show:

Riley Gaines claims trans athletes are the biggest threat to women’s athletics. Is that true? Or is it coaches who use power to sexually abuse young women while universities look the other way? @msjpauly.bsky.social in @motherjones.com with an excellent take: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

this was posted four months ago. the lesson? Ignore the appeasers. they are bad people. and they don’t know how to win.

For those of you who don’t know, the residents of Paterson are overwhelmingly Black and Latino. newjersey.news12.com/bomb-threats...

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

There's literally never been a trans woman who has ever competed on any US Olympic team despite trans people having been eligible since 2004.

Looking to understand how anti-trans 🏳️‍⚧️ actors mobilise against trans-inclusive healthcare? 🤔 @zeinmurib.bsky.social has you covered with evidence from the US 🇺🇸 It's ✨FREE ACCESS✨ 📖 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

Never left. Positive & negative eugenics have been consistent features of U.S. economic, social, and health policy. - Work requirements - How "families"/"households" are defined for the purpose of eligibility for benefit (e.g. tax credits) - The coupling of employment status & healthcare insurance

1. Yesterday, the FTC held a panel with anti-trans activists meant to justify charging providers of gender affirming care with fraud. It is yet another avenue the Trump administration is trying to use to target trans care nationwide. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Trump writes one of the most unhinged letters ever produced by an American president, demanding the right to interfere with Brazil’s case against Bolsinaro and threatening huge tariffs if they don’t let him walk free, and this your lede?

Wouldn’t you know it, representing both states is Alliance Defending Freedom, the far right Christian law firm instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade adflegal.org/press-releas...

🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨 @zeinmurib.bsky.social has analysed US state-level legislative debates over trans healthcare in 2023 to show that pseudoscience fuels anti-trans mobilization 🏳️‍⚧️✊ It's ✨FREE ACCESS✨ 📖 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

“Laws without morals are useless” indeed @upenn.edu

these people have literally never met a muslim outside watching Homeland

Learn more about what gender-affirming care is — and what it isn’t — our #LearningForJustice feature 🔗: www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/gen... Consider how you can support trans and nonbinary youth 🏳️‍🌈🤝 and counter legislative attacks and disinformation. #PrideMonth #LGBTQRights

Hey folks, the Cass Report has been critiqued a lot of doctors and researchers as junk science. My personal favorite is the team of doctors and lawyers at major research universities: law.yale.edu/sites/defaul... Here’s another one published by UK doctors: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

🏆 Winner of this year's Best Article Prize 🏆 @alschotel.bsky.social & @lizamugge.bsky.social use of qualitative text analysis paired with in-depth interviews bring out critical insights into trans symbolic representation in 🇩🇪 & 🇳🇱 parliaments. Available 🌟 #OpenAccess 🌟 buff.ly/4aKHQv9

Democrats who stop doing stuff like this as soon as the winds change are making it *very clear* what we knew all along: that they will only do the bare minimum and only if there are zero consequences to them. the exact opposite of having principles

I watched all the 2023 leg debates over trans healthcare 🤮 This short essay for @ejpgjournal.bsky.social shows how pseudoscience drives laws targeting trans kids for healthcare bans 1/6 s/o @payoub.bsky.social & @jennpiscopo.bsky.social Read: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Surprise surprise. A week after Sarah McBride gives cover fire for throwing trans people under the bus, some Dems are privately indicating they’ll capitulate on trans youth healthcare and citing the pseudoscientific Cass Report literally drafted in consultation with hate groups.

That sound you hear is every columnist at The Atlantic screaming into a pillow

Mamdani’s platform on transgender rights is stellar. I’m pleased to see him ahead in the polls today. A victory would be profoundly meaningful for where progressives move from here, in a time where monied interests are trying to urge a rightward movement in the Democratic Party.

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot

Garcia said he was shaken by what he heard while he was detained. “They call them ‘bodies,’ they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”

1. On Tuesday, Congresswoman Sarah McBride gave a interview with Ezra Klein at the New York Times. It has been used to seed the ground for a rightward shift in the Democratic Party on trans rights. Some allies have failed to grasp the problems with her approach. Here's what McBride gets wrong.

I want to emphasize Max's point bc the law is outrageous It explicitly grants or withholds medical treatment based on sex It expressly aims to force trans kids to conform to their sex assigned at birth It's a frontal assault on trans kids and the Constitution ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...

‬ @zeinmurib.bsky.social's (Fordham University) research focuses on sexuality, gender, & race in US politics. Murib's academic publications include work on transgender politics, LGBT politics, & intersectionality. 🔗 Connect with Murib: scholars.org/scholar/zein...

Tortured and unconvincing logic is what happens when you work backwards from an ideological goal and use pseudo science to reverse engineer your justification.

The sheer level of logical contortion required to say that banning trans care “doesn’t exclude any individual from medical treatments on the basis of transgender status” is truly mind-blowing.

Would be amazing to get a single piece of media on this topic centered on the right's firehose of bigotry and misinformation rather than "the trans rights movement's shortcomings" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

Perhaps having the feds send masked men to grab immigrant workers off construction sites is having an impact on labor costs as well, but who can say for sure.

BREAKING: In a 6-3 Roberts decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that Tennessee's ban on gender affirming care is not subject to heightened scrutiny. This decision will strip millions of trans people off their constitutional rights. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

SCOTUS upholds the anti-trans law that singles out trans kids for discriminatory treatment. How do I know? Non-trans kids are allowed unmitigated access to the exact same treatments (puberty blockers).

Cuomo’s new attack ad featuring Mamdani in a kurta and calling him a radical gives equal parts Islamophobia and scared shitless energy.

Lmao 🥰 Cynthia Nixon www.instagram.com/reel/DK-aPsy...

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

absolutely horrifying: "Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer."

"A dog can get millions of social media followers, just like Rogan." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...

"Doctors looked at my body, and couldn’t decide whether to mark M or F on my birth certificate. So instead of changing the form, they tried to change my body. "What I experienced is the opposite of gender-affirming care; it's gender enforcement... "I deserved to make those decisions for myself."

Don’t rank Cuomo

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign last month released a list with what it billed as endorsements from the heads of tenant associations at 27 NYCHA developments. But five tenant association presidents who appeared on the list say they have not endorsed Cuomo.

Maura was fired from her tenured faculty position for speaking out against genocide. Her story speaks to the decline of academic freedom that stems directly from the corporatization of the university.

If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne. The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews. Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.

Nothing changes....

The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.

Zein Murib on Outward, the Slate podcast, talking about a recent essay, “Why are Trans People Such an Easy Target” - such a good conversation, listen now! @zeinmurib.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

I had such a fun time talking with Christina Cauterucci on the @slate.com Outward podcast! 🌈 We talk about the history of splits in the “LGBT movement” and how trans people became so vulnerable to attacks. Check it out! slate.com/podcasts/out...

“our fates are all bound together.” Amen.