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What will the U.S. Supreme Court decide about our genders?
Yesterday’s SCOTUS hearing on trans belonging (and sports). Will they let us keep autonomy and privacy to live in our genders, or will they transfer more power to institutions and laws to verify and enforce our sex?
Arkansas lawmakers want you to sue over your childhood haircut
Behold! I espouse my gender identity with scissors and comb. Or lack thereof. Will the people who all this time had only ‘reasonable concerns’ please speak up? Surely they wish to allow girls to roughhouse and boys to play with dolls.
Sylvia began fighting for gay and rights
No, it’s not a typo. It’s 🏳️⚧️ erasure. Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and transgender rights. Hold the flickering candle of that sentence. We know what the Stonewall National Monument said.
New York Times ‘Daily’ podcast talks about gender-affirming care ban
Here’s more audio explaining U.S. v. Skrmetti. The court steered the discussion back to sex discrimination which is the narrow question on which it’s able to rule.
The Tennessee law tells us: They want to stop people from being trans
Chase Strangio talks with Zach Stafford about the Supreme Court case ‘U.S. v. Skrmetti’. They aren’t trying to protect kids or keep trans women out of sports. They do not want anyone to be trans, and that’s why they’re banning gender transition.
Tennessee ‘isn’t hiding the ball here’
Chase Strangio talks with Imara Jones about the Supreme Court case ‘U.S. v. Skrmetti’. Please listen to this great discussion about bans on gender-affirming care. The legal reasoning is learnable and is so important to understand.
Will SCOTUS let parents and doctors support trans kids?
The case over youth gender-affirming care: United States vs. Skrmetti. Tennessee still claims science backs its position when demonstrably it doesn’t. The ACLU & Biden admin say this is discrimination against trans people.
Once again, it’s not about sports
Why trans allies objected to Seth Moulton’s comments last month. This ‘idea’ is not fully baked because it’s not consistent even about whether it would regulate adults or children. This is not about sports.
Too much ‘noo’ in the sphere (all spin, no facts)
Steve Bannon describes MAGA narrative in terms of Teilhard’s ‘noosphere’. Bannons says that liberals get sucked into fact-checking while Trump’s followers don’t let themselves be distracted by questions of truth.