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Why there’s still an argument about NYT coverage of trans people
The New York Times is digging in its heels on institutional transphobia. The NYT open letter has been signed by ‘over 1,200 New York Times contributors and over 34,000 media workers, Times readers, and subscribers.’
A trans person is trans everywhere we go
We belong to the world. If he agrees with the ACLU statement that trans people belong everywhere, why is he arguing with it? What are ‘those heights’ that trans people cannot hit?
On trans kids, ask people who know
Try looking where the answers are. How does the New York Times know what it thinks it knows? Is it influenced by its peers? Is it what it says it is? Is it ever going to change?
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.