For my newsletter, I wrote about the killing of Juniper Blessing and ruminated on who the media thinks deserves attention in death. Friday newsletters are usually paywalled, but I have made the mini-essay portion of this post free to all: www.burnsnotice.com/her-name-was...

Juniper was from Santa Fe so I'm donating to the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico in her memory and if you are able you should do the same. tgrcnm.org/donate

At this point in my career I genuinely don’t know what else I could be doing to get interviews at places that ask for expertise on reporting on the transgender athlete fights at the school level in America. I just get crickets.

I don't think it's a good thing in media when you let a war criminal handpick his own interviewer (who just happens to be a former Fox News guy) nypost.com/2026/05/12/m...

This King's Speech is not good enough. Labour's manifesto said they'd give trans people "recognition and acceptance" and that they would "remove indignities" from daily life. They keep sliding further from these claims. With another drop in our ILGA-Europe 🌈 map score yesterday, we must do better.

It’s the most FIFA thing they could do after all the conversation and criticism. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Historians, take note: all wars are ongoing, except the 8 that Trump ended. The Peloponnesian War now enters its 2,457th year, with no end in sight.

No men in women’s sport you say?

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and was it just a coincidence that all the Univ. of Georgia MEN flanking him wore red ties that day?

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

None of this is normal.

Abolish the 2nd Amendment. Times have changed. Guns have changed. Kids are not to be slaughtered by a fucking "well guarded militias."

In AL and some people have asked me how I feel about this and I feel pretty good that Democrats actually get rid of our sex pests instead of electing them president

And here's Monica Rodriguez's letter to LA28 in motion form: "formally establishing a 'Zero-Cost Principle' for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, ensuring the City is fully reimbursed for all costs associated with hosting the Games." “LA taxpayers should not be asked to subsidize the Games"

Eligibility to compete in sport is organised principally around 2 binary distinctions: ‘clean/doped’ & ‘M/F’. These distinctions are challenged both by steroid users who wish to return to competition following a period of suspension, and trans women athletes who wish to compete in women’s events.

If greater height was truly an unfair advantage in fencing, darts or snooker fairness would demand that Dutch Fencers, & dart & snooker players are banned from competing against Indonesian athletes.

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It's an irony to see this coming from The Guardian, given the crap their UK arm has been spewing over the past decade. ...almost like it's a coordinated & well funded, intentional attack on trans on people, as the sex discrimination commissioner suggests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Nice to see this from the Dem account. But oh boy, are the replies on this post of theirs on Twitter a straight up superfund site.

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IOC's new policy - SRY test not fit for purpose theconversation.com/world-athlet...

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The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

“Rather than ‘protecting’ the women’s category, these regulations reinforce harmful gender norms, disproportionately target women from marginalized backgrounds, and risk severe personal and professional consequences for women athletes.” www.commondreams.org/opinion/worl...

Here @theguardian.com hides the fact that IOC is mandating sex testing of all women athletes. This policy is not a trans ban: it is a ban against sex variance in women's sports. Nothing like this is done to men. Sex testing normalizes medical abuse. It's not just unfair. It is evil.

I just spoke to Australian Broadcasting Company’s AM radio show about this -for 2 quick Qs. I offered other journalists’ & scholars’ info but I don’t know if they reached out to those folks. I hope they talk with former 🇦🇺Olympian and scholar Madeleine Pape if they want to actually dig deeper

INCREDIBLE STUFF!! “And while the IOC says the SRY gene "represents highly accurate evidence that an athlete has experienced male sex development,"… the scientist who discovered the SRY gene in 1990, Andrew Sinclair, has publicly opposed using the test to determine biological sex.” MY GOD

The full story of the situation in Florida. 1. Universities will no longer have (already censored) Intro to Sociology as general ed course. 2. Colleges will have far-right version of Intro to Sociology as general ed course.

Here’s a link to the short bit they quoted from our brief conversation: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

There's a respectful version of this conversation. You could say: "This woman may have a genetic trait that confers a competitive advantage, and we should figure out how to handle that fairly." That's a real discussion. Have it.

Been thinking about it since I saw JK Rowling posted this yesterday about the IOC's new policy, calling Imane Khelif a man. Imane Khelif was born female. She was raised as a girl. Her original birth certificate says female. She's always been a woman. But sure. "Men punching women."

JK Rowling seems very concerned about domestic violence. I wonder how many of her billions she's donated to domestic violence orgs. Wait. None? She's just pretending consensual competition between two cis women is domestic violence? The most insane possible take? Yeah. That tracks.

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