The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.

- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.

- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

People always think I'm being ungenerous or misstating their views, but this is very explicitly what the "gender-critical" crowd says: Their *best case* against gender affirming care for kids is that the research says it works, but the research doesn't count.

(this is from the Cass report)

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

Authors include:
@michacard.bsky.social, Jed Samer,
@caelkeegan.bsky.social, Jay Szpilka, River Pruitt, Allison Anne, Jeremy P. Bushnell, Bret Hairston, Damien Hagen, Chelsea Thompto, Keaton Ireland, Jett Allen, Teddy Pozo, Joshua Bastian Cole‐Kurz, Emi Frerichs, Salvador Vidal‐Ortiz, & Finn Enke.

Excited to share that our TSQ issue on trans speculation is live! Please share/check it out: Both intros and River Pruitt's piece are currently free to dl at the link!
read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/issue/12...

Our special issue of TSQ on speculative media and literature is now out and online! You can read the introduction I wrote with @caelkeegan.bsky.social, “Trans Speculation in the WTF,” here: read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article/... @dukepress.bsky.social

1. I am raising the alarm: If you are a transgender adult, your care is under threat by President Trump.

You should prepare for severe supply disruptions and policies that amount to potential bans.

The latest CMS letter indicates an expansion to target adults.

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For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research.

en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...

Trying to get above the noise to share that our entire special issue on Queer World Cinema is currently open access!

brill.com/view/journal...

SCOOP: The US Dept. of Education and GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw will each recognize "DeTrans Awareness Day" tomorrow with events featuring anti-trans activists.

In lieu of a press release, I’m told the Dept. event will be covered exclusively by a reporter from The Federalist.

the more democrats concede to the republican war on trans people, the more that signals to the public that trans people are a problem and should be stigmatized.

🚨 The Iowa House and Senate passed a bill removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

☎️ Call Governor Reynolds at 515-281-5211 and tell her to veto this bill.

Upon this response, JK burst into a million shards and a great wind scattered her unhappy soul beneath the arc of a newly formed rainbow.

the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) appears to have removed all references to trans people from their website

Sam Nordquist should still be alive today.

This horrific, heartbreaking killing comes at a time of heightened nationwide attacks against trans people led by a federal administration hellbent on erasing trans existence.

Black trans lives matter. Trans people will not be erased.
bit.ly/41i55th

Gessen is indispensable right now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

This is New York

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.

(Scroll down.)

I mean you can wear a Santa hat soooo, yes?

Best post of the day.