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Feb 28

An aspect of the current legislative onslaught that doesn't get talked about enough is the extraordinary toll it takes on everyone involved in gender care. From patients & their families to gender care providers— to providers working in adjacent institutions. It is all pervasive.

While I am a provider, I am also a patient. And as a patient, the systems we have to navigate can be dehumanizing, and that dehumanization leeches into your bones. And yet no matter how many hoops we have to jump through, they're still not enough. It isn't more gates we need.

Gates don't keep us safe. We keep us safe. Honest and open dialogue keeps us safe. The freedom to have openness to nuance and complexity, the freedom to think big and outside of narrowly- circumcsribed models of care. These are the things we need in our care that keep us safe.

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Feb 27

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I've noticed since I started the Google News project that the index is rapidly swinging farther right, but the same is also true of ad networks. They're not targeting only right-wing users either, but everyone. Everyone, that is, who searches for keywords related to trans people.

https://twitter.com/jessdkant/status/1626069117504552960

We're watching an extraordinary influx of advertising cash precisely as Facebook's parent corporation Meta flounders. Like legacy print media, Meta and Twitter are struggling to stay float, and this makes them all extremely desperate— and dangerous. All just in time for 2024.

Ads aside, one of the first alarming signs was when the results of my three daily searches regularly included "defending ed" blog posts in lieu of actual news stories. While the FAQ is opaque at best about what constitutes "news", the dataset shows a regular torrent of misinfo.

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Feb 26

Montana SB 458 will be heard Monday. It seeks to remove ALL gender identity protections by circumventing legal arguments that prohibition on discrimination by sex includes sexual orientation and gender identity. It would remove basically all protections for trans people in MT.

The strategy is painfully obvious, they're hoping to propose laws that seem on their face mundane or administrative so as to fly under the radar while the most bombastic draw all the attention and focus. But this would impact everything, including limiting gender markers to ASAB.

Current legal understanding post-Obergefell states that that discrimination by sexual orientation must necessarily presuppose one's sex, and therefore constitutes sex-based discrimination, violating equal protection.

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Feb 22

With all these hateful bills, I see a lot of rampant speculation about "social transition" in school, and an equal number of claims around "clusters of kids" doing the same. Let's demystify this: it's completely normal for people to change how they want to be seen or referred to.

For this generation, difference doesn't need to be punished, nor does experimentation or expression. For trans kids, this is truly lifesaving, for everyone else, it causes no harm at all. Ask any kid in an inclusive school and they'll walk you through how their friends manage it.

The more formal you make these processes, the more hand-wringing adults have to do and signing on the dotted line you make them, the more you transpose meaning that doesn't have to be there. Don't want people to be "stuck" with how they chose to identify? Keep it easy to change.

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Feb 12

One thing we need to stress over and over is that the current anti-LGBTQ assault is the result of a carefully calculated strategy unfolding across a decade. The right knew they were losing on LGBT rights, so they needed a rallying point to rip us apart. This clip is from 2017.

They can livestream whole conferences outlining the entire plan years in advance, detailing every time they're going to get freshly outraged about some injustice they'll then claim they just discovered, but the news media is still running with "it's a mystery how it got so bad"

The pivot to sports, despite having single-digit numbers of trans athletes per state, was a pretext for attacking our healthcare. They knew that only once they'd muddied the rhetorical waters enough would people accept attacking children's healthcare.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017…

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Feb 9

There's a lot to say about South Dakota, but mostly that my heart breaks for trans kids throughout the state, who now join Utah in having had their healthcare brutally and pointlessly ripped away by theocrats. To them: please know we will continue to fight for you. We love you.

As to my knowledge, SD has made the audio but not yet made a transcript available: here is a link to an AI-generated transcription that I'm cleaning up now. otter.ai/u/wHSfvFnyGBE1…. The audio will play along with the transcript.
#ProtectTransKids

A handful of observations:

At one point, Novstrup claims children "as young as 8 are struggling down the path of medical transition". This is patently false. We call them "puberty blockers" for a reason. 8 year olds in GnRHa studies are experiencing harmful precocious puberty.

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