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https://bsky.app/profile/rikiwilchins.bsky.social/post/3ldu5ke2ces2d

Published: December 22, 2024 00:22

Unbelievable after nearly 2000 bills filed since 2016 that there are still that many legislative targets left. I guess you're now a RINO unless you have your own performatively cruel anti-trans kids bill. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 21, 2024 20:21

A note to cheer your trans heart this New Year's Eve as we look to the long night ahead: by Dec 2026, Republicans will begin announcing their candidacy for the 2028 Republican Presidential nomination. NONE will be named DJ Trump. He has just 24 MONTHS…

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Published: December 21, 2024 18:19

AXIOS [Dec 21] 4 big Trump misses already: 1) Thune elected Senate majority leader 2) Gaetz forced to withdraw as Atty Gnl 3) R's defeat of his spending deal 4) R's pass spending deal w/o his increase in debt ceiling. 2nd term Prezs always lose power &…

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Published: December 21, 2024 16:31

"Agents of Scientific Uncertainty: Conflicts over evidence and expertise in gender-affirming care bans for minors" by Joanna Wuest & Briana S. Last [summary only/paywalled] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953623008900

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Published: December 21, 2024 16:29

1) clinicians produce bogus studies & cross-cite each other to give appearance of a valid prof debate; 2) Christian med grps publish/promote bogus studies; 3) TERF websites provide moving parent stories of harm to kids; 4) prof “detransitioners” insulate…

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Published: December 21, 2024 16:27

As SPLC's Project CAPTAIN and a recent study by Joanna Wuest & Briana Last found, 4 moving parts in the Trans Disinformation Complex: 1) disaffected anti-gay clinicians + current fringe anti-GAC MDs; 2) Christian pseudo-medical grp; 3) TERF parent groups;…

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Published: December 21, 2024 14:11

NBC [Dec 20] 38 minutes after the Madison WI shooting the Christian nationalist right was already spreading lies that the shooter was trans. How the Right's online disinformation chamber transforms legitimate shooting tragedies into anti-trans propaganda.…

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Published: December 21, 2024 14:07

FAIR [Dec 20] --Good explainer (seems to be my morning for these) on the journalistic shell-game being played to make GAC seem dangerous by "exploiting real but marginal scientific uncertainties or outliers to promote public misunderstandings of the…

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Published: December 21, 2024 14:02

THE NATION [Dec 4] -- Another good explainer on how the evangelical Right work sows doubt on affirming care using the same disinformation techniques they did to overturn the science around global warming, tobacco use, and Covid-19. Same playbook, new…

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Published: December 21, 2024 13:42

THE NATION [Dec 13] -- Excellent explainer on Skrmetti & Roe parallels. Pullquote "Conservatives have a long track record of selective risk-taking, from treating Covid to refusing masks, many of the same voices warning against GAC argued FOR medical…

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Published: December 20, 2024 21:16

YAHOO SPORTS [Dec 20] -- Seven members of the San Jose State women's volleyball team, which faced repeated forfeits from other teams after one player outed another as trans, are transferring to other schools. Noe of the is the outing player. …

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Published: December 20, 2024 20:10

Boston Children's was where Norman Spack opened the 1st pediatric care clinic in 2007. Tishelman is claiming that things have changed too much since then-- younger ages, more AFAB kids, greater numbers -- essentially the whole ADF/NYT line that THIS cohort…

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Published: December 20, 2024 19:50

NYT which owns Boston Globe, continues its assault on pediatric care. Amy Tishelman is a respected physician, but her assertion that "we just don't know" despite actual teen detransitions not from social pressures at 1-2% is disingenuous at best.…

https://bsky.app/profile/rikiwilchins.bsky.social/post/3ldqw4nel7s2q

Published: December 20, 2024 17:31

APNEWS [con't] -- Many strange things here: Trump is now going around the Republican party and setting national policy online. A 1,500 page bill was cut down to @100 (how?!?). And even in the very MAGA House, his own party defied him.

https://bsky.app/profile/rikiwilchins.bsky.social/post/3ldqifs2dts2k

Published: December 20, 2024 13:26

AXIOS Pull Quote: "The winners are those who control the flow of information to the largest numbers of people — or the right people at the right moment on the right topic. Right now, Musk controls both for the R party, allowing him to tweetstorm (150+…

https://bsky.app/profile/rikiwilchins.bsky.social/post/3ldqiccum6s2k

Published: December 20, 2024 13:24

AXIOS: excellent explainer on diff between media (everyone posting on TikTok is "in media") & reporting (which means standards for fact-based journalism...except at the NYT of course). The loop we're caught in is more & more media & less & less reporting …

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Published: December 19, 2024 20:55

**CORRECTION** According to Erin Reed, there were 21 not 24 Senators backing the Baldwin NDAA amendment. And they didn't vote against their own amendment, Schumer pulled it at the last minute. But they did vote with R's to pass NDASA so you wonder what…

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Published: December 19, 2024 20:27

Great quote from a servicemember in Erin's piece: "It's very hard for me to reconcile the idea that the country trusted me to fight in combat, to be shot at, to lead young sailors into combat, but they won’t trust me to make a medical decision for my…

https://bsky.app/profile/rikiwilchins.bsky.social/post/3ldooqwbe722a

Published: December 19, 2024 20:14

TRANS MENACE SATIRES -- Said Disney through a spokesperson, "We feel this compromise is best for all parties involved and and are glad to see this matter finally put to rest in a way that respects both our deep commitment to trans inclusivity AND 'parents…

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Published: December 19, 2024 20:12

TRANS MENACE SATIRES -- However, in the new Hit or Miss version, the opposing middle school hires Alliance Defending Freedom who then sue Pickle Middle School, and Martina Navratilova and JK Rowling fly in to personally say rude things to Brooklyn...(2 of…

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Published: December 19, 2024 20:11

TRANS MENACE SATIRES [Dec 19] -- Facing increasing heat for axing a trans character named Brooklyn from Pixar's "Hit or Miss," Disney backtracked and announced that Brooklyn will once again represent Pickle Middle School in their championship softball game…

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Published: December 19, 2024 18:04

THEM [Dec 19] -- One of first Congressional acts enshrining discrimination against transgender Americans into federal law. HALF of the 21 Dem Senators who supported Sen Tammy Baldiwn's (D-Wis) amendment stripping out the anti-trans language bailed on…

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Published: December 19, 2024 15:49

Disney has long had a tortured relationship with trans characters. This is the 2nd one they've developed and then axed. But now they're parroting the Christian Right's "parental rights" msg in which even showing trans characters impinges on parents' right…

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Published: December 19, 2024 15:35

TRANS MENACE NEWS [Dec 18] President-Elect Trump today declared his intention once in office to ban all women over 5' 4" tall (U.S.'s average) from playing intercollege basketball, explaining: "This isn't about discrimination--it's about ensuring no woman…

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Published: December 19, 2024 15:29

FOX NEWS [Dec 18] White evangelical women's group Independent Women's Forum collects 7,000 signatures petitioning NCAA to change its policies. [Since there are <10 trans athletes in college sports according to the NCCA, that comes out to 700 signatures per…

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Published: December 19, 2024 01:50

Banda the 2nd cisgender woman of color falsely accused by Rowling of being a man (i.e. trans woman) after also attacking Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif. (We always said it wasn't about trans women, it was about enforcing white western standards of…

https://bsky.app/profile/rikiwilchins.bsky.social/post/3ldlngmt4ks2w

Published: December 18, 2024 15:12

The fact that Odessa TX has just repudiated white Christian nationalist attacks on trans pp & elected its first openly gay person with 56% of the vote is hard to read as anything other than a flag from the redstate grassroots that there are limits to this…

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Published: December 18, 2024 00:08

Black trans actor Chanel Stewart on Disney's WIN OR LOSE: "[A]uthentically portraying a transgender teenage girl made me really happy....Trans stories matter & they deserve to be heard....I was very disheartened...[M]y character will now be a straight cis…

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Published: December 17, 2024 20:29

Disney is adopting the "parents' rights" frame pushed by the evangelical right and ADF, in which parents' intolerance trumps queer kids right to see themselves represented and their stories told. Following the same logic, we may see gay storylines pulled…

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Published: December 17, 2024 19:23

Montana judge blocks law preventing trans people from updating their legal documents. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/montana-judge-blocks-rule-prevented-transgender-people-changing-116868597 This comes right after the Montana Supreme Court allowing…

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Published: December 17, 2024 17:09

GALLUP: Confidence in US courts collapsing among Rs & Ds. Across other OECD nations it's 55%; in US it's just 35%--dropping 24% in last four years. The legacy of overturning Roe, packing SCOTUS with 6 evangelical extremists, & (for Rs) lawsuits against…

https://bsky.app/profile/rikiwilchins.bsky.social/post/3ldjdd4akcs2d

Published: December 17, 2024 17:06

To put Gallup's findings in context, this is the worst 4-yr decline in confidence in a judiciary ever recorded in a developed nation, comparable only to countries like Myanmar (when the military re-took control), the collapse of Syria under Assad, & the…

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Published: December 17, 2024 16:33

You can't even make this up. A major mainstream publication has decided that critical reporting is unwelcome...unless it is accompanied by un-critical reporting. That sound you hear is subscriptions being cancelled. [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: December 17, 2024 14:40

Democracy isn't the only thing that "Dies in Darkness." So does fact-based journalism at the WashPo when it comes to trans kids medical care. https://medium.com/@rikiwilchins/washpo-editorial-board-sh-ts-the-bed-on-pediatric-care-6ba351b32365

https://bsky.app/profile/rikiwilchins.bsky.social/post/3ldhinbhck22x

Published: December 16, 2024 23:36

One of The Atlantic's resident transphobes has at it again. "The Push for Puberty Blockers Got Ahead of the Research" Open season on pediatric care in all the majors now. Anticipatory obedience. At least wait tl he takes office 😕 …

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Published: December 16, 2024 21:29

Trump is about to defund ATF and now US grocery stores are stocking ammo dispensers. In an advanced democracy this is a) normal b) somewhat unusual c) batshit crazy. https://www.npr.org/2024/07/11/nx-s1-5033748/ammunition-vending-machines-grocery-stores

https://bsky.app/profile/rikiwilchins.bsky.social/post/3ldgsrg5ohc2f

Published: December 16, 2024 17:05

Another standard Right tactic: since Breen, about 2k trans kids have had top surgery (@300/yr). Find one out of THOUSANDS and imply the whole system is broke. Trans care is the MOST UNREGRETTED non-mandate procedure in medical hx: lower than cis top…

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Published: December 16, 2024 16:55

This is now the standard Right playbook: pick some alarming stat but ignore the 5x cis kids getting same care. Also all the intersex/DSD kids who having similar care _forced_ on them. As if trans care was some kind of weird outlier. *Everything* we get was…

https://bsky.app/profile/rikiwilchins.bsky.social/post/3ldgrs43zuk26

Published: December 16, 2024 16:47

For a couple hundred years, the prevailing conviction of print journalism vs print tabloids was that people actually wanted news, not outrage and mocked-up conspiracies. Turns out the tabloid model is closer to the truth in this new Eyeball Economy we have…

https://bsky.app/profile/rikiwilchins.bsky.social/post/3ldgnvgqx2c2k

Published: December 16, 2024 15:37

Great quote: "Consider Finnish cross-country skier Eero Mäntyranta who dominated four Olympics. Hhe had a genetic condition that allowed his body to produce more red blood cells than average humans and better endurance. 'Should we have drained his blood…

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Published: December 15, 2024 19:48

We have lost Gov Andy Beshear (D-KY) -- about as good a friend as we have -- on trans prisoners' surgical care. Yet another sign he's positioning himself for a 2028 run? Nice he at least noted the high rates of violence against trans prisoners. …

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Published: December 15, 2024 19:43

This will come as news to the MAGA base. According to YouGov, voters now believe that about 1-in-5 Americans is transgender. If only! https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population one in 5 tran

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Published: December 15, 2024 19:39

Clementine Breen is represented by right-wing detrans law firm Campbell Miller Payne that specializes in suing GAC medical providers www.cmppllc.com TransgenderMap lists Breen as an anti-trans activists who first gave her story to anti-trans troll Jesse…

https://bsky.app/profile/rikiwilchins.bsky.social/post/3ldbicahvmk2c

Published: December 14, 2024 14:14

WashPo notes that about 2.5k kids estimated to be impacted by NDAA exclusion of pediatric care for servicemembers' children. And of course, given the white evangelicals fetishizing of procreation, the bill uses fertility as its rationale. …