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#SCOTUS 's stay in the Idaho transgender medical care case is the seventh grant of emergency relief so far this term.

And it's also the seventh time that the three Democratic appointees have publicly dissented from a ruling respecting an emergency application.

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As the proud grandmother of a young trans man, I know that gender-affirming care can help transgender youth live openly and authentically as their true selves.

All people deserve access to the care they need, including gender-affirming care.

LGBTQI+ rights are human rights.

I'm so exhausted with debates about this care that pretend we're all participating in a med school seminar while a movement explicitly devoted to erasing transgender people from public life is allowed to run roughshod over our bodies and our families based on lies and half-truths

This is correct. The history of legal protections for patient records, in the US at least, stems from privacy violations of HIV and AIDS patients, particularly gay men for whom the exposure of HIV status doubled as outing.

Everyone read Jesus & John Wayne by Kristin Du Mez

Respectfully, there have been 32 trans athletes who have competed at the NCAA level, ever. Most have been trans men. None in women’s basketball. 1 in WNBA history.

Meanwhile, under-funding, under-resourcing, under-promoting, under-marketing, and utter disregard for women’s…

Cass uses a definition of 'low-quality evidence' that, as a federal judge in Georgia noted while blocking that state's ban on care, would implicate >80% of the entire field of medicine. I wonder what the evidence looks like for cis kids when they get the exact same treatments?

As I understand it it's not merely the ethical issues of a blind study--it's the impossibility. As someone who spent much of her own childhood trying to will her body into a shape it refused to take, I can assure you there is no placebo effect that will do the trick.

This is really all you need to know about the Cass Review

'The Cass Review was hyped as the nail in the coffin for a lawless cult of child mutilators. After all that, what we got was a 400-page GCSE sociology essay that ignored decades of research in favour of pure vibes. How embarrassing.'

Anyway here's what it looks like when actually existing trans kids and their families speak for themselves

The Cass Review was so committed to disregarding the perspective of trans people it used exclusively AI-generated images of trans people 404media.co/uk-gender-affi…

Lee Edelman:

Some breaking news: The EEOC has finalized the rules for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which means pregnant workers now know exactly what new civil rights they can expect on the job. thenation.com/article/societ…

I wrote about the shared history of Arizona's abortion ban and the UK's Cass Review