Twitter’s an alt-right cesspool.
I’m more surprised about trans people still being there than neo-Nazis.
Lia Thomas last competed nearly 3 years ago. So today, Trump is taking away $175 million from U Penn. Note that Harvard and Yale do not seem to be having funding revoked in an ex post facto manner for having had trans men compete on their men’s swim teams.
I don’t understand how people can support conversion therapy.
Ben Gibbons, now 38, says he needed years of therapy after an elder at his church forced him to make himself sick every time he had “impure thoughts”, in an attempt to change his sexuality.
It also broke down the different ways they had experienced these practices, with some experiencing more than one type.
- 17% said they’d experienced physical assault
- 12% said they’d experienced pseudo-scientific counselling sessions
- 15% said they’d been threatened with homelessness
- 10% said they’d experienced exorcisms
Results from Stonewall’s research suggest that 38% of trans and non-binary respondents had experienced physical assault in an attempt to alter their gender identity.
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because i believe the vast majority of people don’t even understand what the phrase means and when explained it is done in a benign way with double talk
John Oliver’s most recent episode (NSFW for language):
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Canadian researchers cave in to US requirements.
Canadian musician had to cancel his US tour because his visa was denied for being trans (Canada recognizes his gender).
Where I live, PP only provides informed consent GAC to adults, so this action would only result in adults losing care.
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UK continues to deny care to kids, refers parents who want to support their kids as potential dangers to their children, and is working on expanding denial of care to adults.
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Hungary, but something that some people in Trump’s orbit would love to have happen here:
It passed.
“Another step towards authoritarianism”? Hungary well past that line.
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UK, not US, but since there are other non-US news items here…
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It seems to be a 200 page hot mess of a ruling. I haven’t found a single source with all of the problems with it, but my understanding is that:
- They have decided that sex is binary. Not sure where intersex individuals fit in.
- They do not define biological sex, so that one cannot quibble with problems with the definition. In places, the ruling seems to imply that to be a woman you have to be able to give birth, but they carefully avoid saying that infertile women are not women.
- Trans women are not women so can be excluded from female spaces. And trans men can also be excluded from the same spaces because they are men.
- It is illegal to discriminate against someone for being a woman if you think that they are a woman. So trans women who pass explicitly have more protections than trans women who don’t pass, although presumably a defense attorney would argue that any trans woman who claims discrimination doesn’t pass.
And probably more that I don’t remember off the top of my head.