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Viridian Lakes

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Writer for What The Trans?!, bnuuy fan, generally silly person

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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · Jun 5

One break leads to another. Back on it, then. 145-148 addresses protections for groups that share protected characteristics, but keep in mind, the assumption we have already arrived at is that trans people barely have this.

Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · May 19

Continuing with looking at the heart of the case, the EA 2010.

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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · May 19

OK, back on it then. I am going to use this as a repository for observations, and put it into a full article at some point. For now, on with the show. So, 94 and on goes into section 9 of the GRA 2004. They start here seemingly splitting hairs between sex and gender.

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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 2h

There is one possibility the article doesn't touch on: that he never had an actual position and instead does what is best for Trump.

Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 6h

Was Trump always against LGBTQ+ rights? Everything in his past says no.

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Was Trump always against LGBTQ+ rights? Everything in his past says no.

The president’s previous support is at odds with his anti-trans hostility now. What’s behind the shift?

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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 8h

Is up now!

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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 15h

Yet they don't want to shorten undergrad study to 3 years, as is now becoming common elsewhere.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16h

Three SCOTUS cases saw movement this week targeting LGBTQ+ people: A conversation therapy case, a shadow-docket case on trans passports, and a sports ban that will determine equal protection for trans people.

Writer S. Baum details all of them in our latest.

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Three Supreme Court Cases Targeting LGBTQ+ People See Movement This Week

From sports to passports, these cases may determine the vitality of trans rights in the U.S. for generations to come.

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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 15h

"Tokyo" is broad... A fair number of Tully's are open late if you are willing to ignore the wizard child tie ins. Some Excelsiors are open late-ish. I'll try to remember some more.

Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 19h

New piece for @whatthetrans.com to be up in a few hours (5 pm BST). Will cover another court decision on legal sex change, expanding rights for same sex couples (kinda), and Takaichi. Link below will go live then. (Might 404 before that, so hold on a bit.)

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to strike down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy by licensed therapists practiced on minors — a ruling that could affect similar laws in nearly half the country and make life more difficult for LGBTQ children at an already perilous time.”

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 21h

I've not done this exact kind of research, but typically when using human research data, you often anonymize it, but also retain it for many years in case results are questioned. This seems to have taken advantage of this very important safeguard. This is a massive ethical breach if true.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 23h

What has happened here is basically that data from the journals was collected for the sake of a "quality control" measure.

Then, that same data was used in published research, a completely separate purpose, without the consent of the people affected.

This is an EXTREME violation of research ethics

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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 1d

Sort of. It generally means less government involvement, but that doesn't fit the LDP either.

Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 1d

Two things I don't exactly expect to go together are LDP and "left". Or even "center" most of the time.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 1d

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like they moved from near Aoyama to somewhere?

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 1d

Certainly quite interesting.

If you want to learn more about the split between the Scottish greens and the greens in England and Wales. We discussed it here in this episode:

whatthetrans.com/ep135/

We also spoke to Zack Polanski afterwards too.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

8 Oct 2025 -- Trans people back before Supreme Court asking that a fed judge's order that the State Dept must issue passports with the correct gender on them be upheld after Trump admin appealed the ruling. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Transgender Americans ask Supreme Court to leave order in place allowing them to choose sex markers on passports

Lawyers for a group of transgender and nonbinary Americans urged the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon to leave in place a mandate by a federal judge in Massachusetts that temporarily […]

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 1d

7 Oct 2025 -- After shutting down GAC for kids, dozens of FOIs filed by QueerAF & TransLucent reveal that adult care is going as well. Avg estimated wait for intake for trans adults is now 25 years (not a misprint). NHS recommends 18 weeks. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

The waiting times for every gender identity clinic in the UK revealed in new investigation

TL;DR: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get their first appointment at an NHS gender clinic…

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

The waiting times for every gender identity clinic in the UK revealed in new investigation

TL;DR: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get their first appointment at an NHS gender clinic…

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 1d

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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GIC Waiting List from Shortest To Longest.

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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 2d

If you are a journalist just happening on my little post here, please PLEASE always remember that we are always in the middle of history, not in some magical land divorced from it. Do your research, get your info, put it together, and INFORM people, yourself included.

Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 2d

"But it's all about talk therapy now!" Aversion and similar treatments are also technically "talk therapy". They represent very dark times in psychiatric treatment for LGBTQ people, days nobody wants to see coming back.

Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 2d

Occasionally there are small mentions of "what we have now is better than in the past", but rarely do they get into what was done in the past: institutionalization, electroshock, drugs, lobotomy, aversion treatments... the gamut. THIS is what people are fighting against, the horrors of the past.

Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 2d

Because this is an important topic I will go ahead and give everyone a preview: the major issue I have is with the fact that almost all the narratives are ahistoric. They ignore the history of things like trans youth treatment or conversion practices, often entirely.

Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 2d

I saw it with regards to the NYT podcast, with regards to other reporting on puberty blocker bans, and now I am seeing it in regards to conversion practice bans. (PS, I refuse to call them "therapy" and if I ever do it is a slip.)

Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 2d

The thing on the backburner is turning out to be even more relevant. There are several narrative, how shall I say, "choices" that large outlets use when reporting on both trans and LGBTQ issues in general that... I am increasingly unhappy about.

Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 2d

I am going to have my next Japan article available very likely tomorrow, since doing that before the PM vote will allow me to skate by without edits. After that, I am probably going to go back and work on another thing I have on the backburner.

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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian: Lawyers trying to get the Supreme Court to overturn conversion therapy bans deceived the court about the research they cited, according to the researchers themselves.
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Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

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