On second read, the NYT story on the trans legal movement makes the moderates look worse than the radicals.

My notes on that and more...🧵
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NYT implies trans advocates should have avoided debates over sex or made up a palatable theory.

But how can you argue trans people are not the sex they seem to be, without making up a novel theory of sex? And why should voters accept a made-up theory of sex?

Trans activists are scapegoating Chase Strangio for their loss in Skrmetti, to convince Americans that their movement is fundamentally sound.

No. The perfidy predates Strangio and is intrinsic to the argument that we should pretend some people are the opposite sex.

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Today, NYT eagerly transcribes the anti-Strangio argument of trans activists and anonymous ACLU attorneys while minimizing the bodily injury caused by gender med
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THE PROTOCOL - Episode 4

NYT covers Jamie Reed's explosive affidavit, but only the driest parts. Not the desiccated vaginas ripping open, e.g.

NYT asks Jamie whiny questions. "There are so many people who are going to feel so hurt" by Jamie's testimony against gender med. 2.
Jamie responds to NYT brilliantly. But because all the horrifying details of medical harm are stripped out, it sounds like she's engaging in a fuzzy abstract debate about how to evaluate a treatment's efficacy.

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THE PROTOCOL - Episode 3

NYT sets up Laura-Edwards Leeper as a hero of careful assessment, and Johanna-Olson Kennedy as the villain who opposes assessment.

JOK is a villain but not because of her stance on assessments. Those are, in fact, bogus. Here we go... 2.
LEL spent a week in the Netherlands learning.

She was a young shrink hired by Norman Spack, who'd started transing "street kids" in the 70s and "salivated" at the thought of blocking puberty to help boys pass. (NYT doesn't report this.)
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THE PROTOCOL - Episode 1

NYT introduces us to FG, whose puberty was blocked by Dutch doctors in the late 1980s. She's now in her 50s and spends her "whole life being covert."

Here are my notes on this haunting episode. 2.
NYT tells us "trans" patients were often viewed as psychotic in the 1950s-60s, implying doctors were wrong.

In fact many were psychotic - this is evident when you read primary sources.
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Chase Strangio never explains why it hurts women for the law to acknowledge there are two sexes.

Always just mumbo jumbo about self-determination and colonialism.

So let's figure it out ourselves.

https://twitter.com/boysvswomen/status/1906795927664222234

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In a recent lawsuit against the Dept of State, Strangio suggests passport agents will beat up nonbinary women if their passport indicates they are female (rather than nonbinary).

Hm, this can't be the real reason sex classifications hurt women.

https://x.com/glennagoldis/status/1891727482740461797

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Andrea Long Chu's "Females" (2019) argued "getting fucked makes you female because fucked is what a female is."

Having been castrated before publication, he wrote that "sissy porn did make me trans."

Chu now reflects on Females in a new afterword. 2.
I agree that elevating trans-ID people's "stories" leaves them open to grift.

But Chu doesn't name the grifters: gender doctors.

When they're pressed about the science behind gender med they say, "Don't be so cold, listen to my patients' stories!"

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In 2019, the Harvard Law Review published a 95-page article in support of nonbinary rights. It's been cited by 3 federal appeals courts (5th, 9th, 10th Cir) & the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Lawyers, feminists, athletes, rape victims - buckle up. 2.
The author does not define sex or gender. She thinks those terms should be "culturally contested."

Sex should be defined differently in each legal context, she says. The ACLU is now pushing that idea in Orr v. Trump, a lawsuit about passport gender markers.

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The notorious Judge Reyes has struck again.

She's presiding in Talbott, the lawsuit challenging new military restrictions on trans service.

She is now helping the trans activist lawyers draft an amended complaint and motion for preliminary injunction. 2.
New Defense Dept regs bar people with gender dysphoria and detransitioners from service.

Waivers are permitted but it's unlikely trans-ID people would qualify or even seek them, as the military would treat them as their real sex and deny them hormones, etc.

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Federal Court Censures Trans Rights Attorneys in Judge Shopping Case

Carl Charles, formerly of Lambda and later of US DOJ, is ordered to pay $5,000. Her matter is referred to federal prosecutors to investigate possible criminal conduct (lying under oath).
The other 2 censured lawyers are Melody Eagan and Jeffrey Doss, both of the law firm Lightfoot. They served as local counsel in this Alabama lawsuit.

ACLU and other orgs were involved in the case but not censured.

I wrote about the scandal last year
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Secret school transitions got the green light from the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals (Boston) this week.

They sat on this hot potato for 17 months after argument and now issue it per curiam (not ID'ing the author among 3 judges).

1 of the original judges, Lipez, recused. 2.
Foote v. Ludlow concerns Baird Middle School in western Mass.

Court says pronouns, like sex, are given to babies at birth.

The court uses "gender-neutral 'they/them'" for the girl, who was 11 at the time of secret transition.

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Washington AG filed about 100 declarations in its lawsuit challenging Trump's gender med EO.

Doctors, parents, and trans-ID kids speak in their own voices.

Feels like an oral history of a community in crisis. But what caused the crisis? 2.
This mother is talking about her 8-year old son whose therapist has been helping him pretend to "have babies."

Tomorrow Dem AGs will argue in a Seattle federal court that Trump's "Protecting Children from Mutilation" EO should be blocked.

Their brief is a scathing expose of gender medicine that thinks it is a scathing expose of Donald Trump.
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The Dem AGs start with a sensational threat.

There is no evidence for the claim "transgender children will die" because they can't disrupt their endocrine systems. The only study on point showed gender med doesn't prevent suicide.

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Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, and 3 anon doctors have sued Trump for restricting child gender medicine.

In the past, blue state AGs have taken a back seat to ACLU, etc., in gender med lawsuits. Now these government lawyers are stepping into the limelight. 2/
The complaint starts with a lie. Gender med doesn't "often" prevent or reduce suicide.

The research shows zero effect on suicide rates, as ACLU conceded before the Supreme Court.

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Trump's 2-sexes order savages "gender identity."

Here's why that matters to the future of "trans rights" litigtion. 2/
The ACLU is the legal genius behind trans. In its lawsuits, it defines gender identity as one's sense of one's gender, with M and F as examples.

ACLU does not define gender. Judges assume it means sex, but it could mean anything.

🚨Long Island judge upholds law that protects women's and girls' sports

The matter concerns a man named Bratzilla who wants to play roller derby against women.
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Last year Nassau County (Long Island, NY) passed a law requiring sports teams using public facilities to identify as mixed-sex or male if the team includes a male player.

A "women's" roller derby team, the Roller Rebels, objected because one of its players is a trans-ID man.

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I'm reading Trump's executive order (EO) on gender ideology.

It's brilliant, legally and rhetorically.

The intro doesn't mince words. 2/
Feelings will be hurt.

Why does President Trump need to declare there are two sexes?

In 2017, the Endocrine Society claimed the term biological sex was "imprecise and and should be avoided."

Really it was just 10 doctors who said this, but they controlled a key ES committee. /1 The ACLU soon began quoting this ES Guideline in its trans lawsuits to "destabilize" the judges' understanding of sex -- sex being the word that unlocks rights in law.

The idea was to let people identify their own sex by declaring a "gender identity."


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🚨Corruption

NYT published a story today about GOP state bills "targeted at the LGBTQ population."

@nytimes says GOP opposes "deference to gender nonconformity." Doesn't mention detransitioners or boys winning girls' trophies.

The piece comes with ads for the ACLU.
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So the ACLU pays NYT, NYT publishes a news article that adopts ACLU's framing, and readers can click from the article to the ACLU join page.

Here's the backstory.

Pitching to media buyers, NYT promises "intentional ad products."
advertising.nytimes.com

Two law professors are trying to scare doctors.

They argue in JAMA (med journal) that if the Supreme Court sides with Tennessee in US v. Skrmetti , medical practice having nothing to do with gender med "may be in peril."
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The piece by Boston U Profs. Nicole Huberfeld and Michael Ulrich is titled "US v. Skrmetti -- Testing the Transition to Politicized Medicine"

It's a slippery slope argument that letting states ban gender med will lead them to ban real med.

Remember the Cali judge who ordered that Tremaine Carroll, a trans-ID male inmate accused of raping female inmates in women's prison, be referred to as she/her?

Transcript of oral argument 🧵 2/
Prosecutor does his job. In part: