It really sucks to be seeing history repeating itself again. A reactionary wave to the civil rights movements destroying an entire generations access to medical care that takes decades to undo.

In 2021, there were roughly 101 gender clinics offering care to transgender youth offering a full range of gender affirming care. By July 2026, there are only about 31 left that still prescribe hormones and puberty blockers.

The anti trans crowd was outraged by this study because it included clinicians who actually practice gender affirming care. Yet another systematic review that follows Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Utah, and Louisiana that finds this care is safe and effective with rare regret.

The Atlantic should be ashamed to have published Jamie Kirchick's "DSA is a 'parasite'" screed. Beyond that, though, no one should credit Kirchick's thoughts on DSA or the Dems. He is a bad-faith operator here, undermining those he has always sought to undermine — because he is a neocon.

It's why there's such a freak out over DSA Democratic candidates, because they threaten the focus of culture war on politics, questioning economic hegemony of the donor class

The only parasites are the capital class who solely exist to extract the wealth built by the labor of everyone else.

They're scared. Good.

For my newsletter, I wrote about Ohio Dem governor candidate Amy Acton adopting the right wing extremist framing of trans issues. www.burnsnotice.com/amy-acton-tr...

Exactly right. Humanities costs are: salary, office space, computer. We fund lots of other disciplines across the university.

This is why gender affirming care and abortion are part of the same fight for bodily autonomy. You ignore what's happening to trans people at your peril.

Earlier this year, USA Rugby banned trans women and intersex athletes from playing. Multiple women's rugby teams are fighting back and openly defying the ban by refusing to kick out their trans teammates. www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

🚨 Bridget Phillipson remains as the Minister for Women and Equalities After FWS Phillipson publicly stated that trans women should use men's toilets. She recently signed into force harmful & discriminatory statutory guidance which will devastate trans lives. Suggests no change re. trans rights.

Erin's reporting is spot-on as always. Having been on the inside track on this story has only made it hurt worse, both longer and slower, but I can tell you every word is true. Subscribe and support EitM.

It's so difficult to get cis people to understand the jk Rowling thing isn't that she doesn't like us so you should punish her. It's if you give her franchise any kind of support you are contributing to trans people being excluded from society

I am proud of my city standing up to hate.

Accusations of bias actually have specific content that can be assessed. The left attack the BBC for justifying a genocide, the right attack it for having too many black people on screen. These aren't equivalent extremes that cancel each other out leaving only the enlightened centre.

I love how tokusatsu clearly isn't concerned with filming in quiet areas, so they'll just trim around all the dialogue audio So when characters are having a subdued, emotional conversation you'll sometimes just hear them whisper their love to one another with accompanying traffic sounds

1. In major news, the Ohio Dem Party has banned the Progressive Caucus from criticizing candidate for Gov. Amy Acton's transphobia. It has now applied more pressure to quiet criticism of anti-trans politics than it has on its own nominee to stop embracing them. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The Ohio Democratic party is censoring its own members from criticizing Amy Acton. This even includes the Pride Caucus chair who has to criticize her from their personal capacity. They've threatened to kick caucuses out that formally criticize Acton over her transphobic positions.

When ICE agents shoot and kill people, they shouldn’t be allowed to run the investigation.

"There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids,” Joseph Pollard replied, voice rising. “The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.”

God forbid people be intellectually curious or go into fields that help marginalized communities but that aren’t lucrative.

Anti-trans laws are going to cause a massive increase in trans youth suicide. The victims who are known to be trans will be the ones with supportive families who helped them access care, and this is going to be used to say that gender-affirming care is not lifesaving.

A father in Idaho, speaking to police after his child died by suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.” Please read this important story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social

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I am not sure that we appreciate how much hostility there is from the far right to the learning and speaking of languages. 1/2 www.thetimes.com/article/9a33...

🚨US Marshals arrested social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami on an extradition request from the UK following an investigation into sexual offenses reported by seven victims. Andrew Tate faces 42 charges, including rape, human trafficking, indecent images of a child and assault.

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JK Rowling paid for this woman's legal challenge because she spoke at a fascist rally headed by Kelly Jay-Keen, the same woman calling for mass deportation of Muslims.

Hey, I actually talked to some of the miners going through the transition (in Romania). Which is there to prevent formation of impoverished post-mining communities. Keep people skilled and employed. Helps to make Central Europe independent of Russian coal and gas. Saves the planet.

They wrote down that their plan is to eliminate *legal* immigration from China and India. They wrote down that university and PhD programs are a big problem, because they create large numbers of legal non-white immigrants. Guess which two countries send the most international PhD students? 🇮🇳🇨🇳♥️🕊️

I've heard the claim twice in the last 24 hours that Reform politicians are under more severe threat because they bravely call out Islamism. And this story has got very little attention. BBC News - Twelve arrested over threat to Islamic event www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As an artist, I don't care about nor want to look at ai slop, and that makes ai dudes mad. I think it's because they've never actually experienced putting art out into the world before. Sometimes people just don't wanna look at your shit and there's nothing you can do about it.

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

Just to recap: Calling Nigel Farage “an unflushable poo” = dehumanising hate speech. Calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire = guest of honour at party conference. Bless those non-racist free speech warriors.

Two notes: This contains no walkback of her support on sports bans, calling trans girls boys, etc. And then also, her added statement has "sexual orientation" but not "gender identity." Hmmmmmmmmmmmm Amy Acton needs to apologize for her harmful statement and come out against sports bans.

This story is gaining some traction, which I’m so grateful for. But I am seeing some people discuss engaging with the bot, and I really want to caution against doing that, even as a joke. Doing so is putting yourself in harm’s way. 🧵

Free speech in the UK is getting held hostage by one mean old witch in a caste in scotland

A trans woman was arrested in the UK for posting on Bluesky “I hope she was handcuffed to the bed as she screamed in agony." This was a reference to comments made by Widdecombe when she was prisons minister where she supported the handcuffing of Incarcerated pregnant women giving birth.

JK Rowling mocking a rape victim because she had PMOS and a deep voice while violating their confidentiality is beyond the pale. Rowling is a deeply evil person.

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

On the 5th August, the EHRC's Code of Practice becomes statutory guidance. It will make life even harder for many trans & non-binary people. It's unworkable & harmful. The Good Law Project is challenging & wants to hear from people affected by these exclusions. goodlawproject.org/discriminato...

Kamen Rider My-Th's action director is confirmed to be the one and only SATOSHI FUJITA! He previously directed action for Geats, Gavv, and the recent Agito movie. Can't wait to see what he does with this Tom and Jerry ass show.

Yet another reason why billionaires should not exist, because when one gets a bug up their ass about some element of humanity they don't like, they can wield the legal system like a cudgel to beat others into submission and eventual nonexistence. Fascist billionaires will be the death of us all.

This is happening despite Amnesty walking back the report, because GCs are zealous anti-rights fanatics.

Feels bad that a director of a major studio film is perfectly comfortable saying that casting non-white actors is just something you do to look woke and otherwise isn't remotely necessary

1. After pushing anti-trans laws to ‘protect women’s sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation now wants women’s sports gone to ‘assist fertility.’ Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women's sports counts, that is.

Anti trans people have been winning for years, and it’s ridiculous that they can’t accept what and who they are. You ARE anti rights. That’s what you are- you’ve removed rights from trans people. Pretending it’s for womens’ benefit is clearly bollocks