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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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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."


/2badfacts.substack.com/p/chase-strang…

🚨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:

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In 2023 I argued ACLU lawyers knew they were deceiving the judge in the trial over Ark.'s child gender med ban.

The post was controversial. In comments and private conversations, well-informed people said I overstated my case.

In 2024 we learned: 2/
ACLU is embroiled in an ethics scandal in Alabama. The lawyers are accused of subverting court procedures to avoid certain judges, then covering up the misconduct.

badfacts.substack.com/p/news-lawyers…

All of America's politically powerful lesbians support an "LGBTQ" agenda that hurts young lesbians by encouraging them to use anabolic steroids, accept boys in their sports, and consider dating boys.
🧵 1. Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) denounced women's sports advocates:

"As a lesbian woman, I am no stranger to prejudice and intolerance — but this legislation is beyond the pale. Plain and simple, the Protect Women's Sports Act is transphobic — and this type of discrimination has no place in the halls of Congress. Especially at a time when the transgender community is suffering from a tragic rise in suicide rates and experiencing a surge of transphobic violence, such a bigoted and appalling effort is simply unacceptable. Queer and transgender women must stand together in the face of intolerance — and I am proud to do so today by emphatically denouncing this narrow-minded and hateful legislation, which is harmful not only to transgender women but to the LGBTQ Community at-large."
craig.house.gov/media/press-re…

This time last year I was open to arguments by "moderate" trans activists.

Then I started researching history.

Mythbusting 🧵 Moderate myth #1:
Trans social contagion is a new phenomenon that only girls are susceptible to.

Truth:
Social contagion has always been a major cause of trans identity, including among boys.
badfacts.substack.com/p/the-trans-te…

Many people are shocked by the smug, foolish behavior of Justices Sotomayor and Jackson at Skrmetti oral argument.

I'm not shocked. They remind me of several other federal judges who have ruled in favor of "trans rights." These people are very confident they are heroes.
🧵 Judge Jay Moody struck down Arkansas's ban on pediatric gender medicine
lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/brandt-files…

I'm reading the Skrmetti transcript.

This 🧵is Chase Strangio from the ACLU arguing against Tennessee's ban on child gender med. Strangio says gender med is the ONLY treatment that helped her clients. What other treatments were tried? Appears none.

Since 1960s, gender doctors have insisted that if someone wants to be the opposite sex, only gender med can help them. They refuse to develop alternatives.

@NYT posted its story on today's Skrmetti rally.

The scene they paint is unfamiliar to me. Were we even on the same plaza? Yes, we were. One of the reporters @minhokimdh interviewed me.
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This makes it sound like the Tennessee side was playing Antifa. Not so! First, there's nothing remarkable about people wearing black winter coats on a freezing day.

Second, there were non-black coats on our side, not to mention our funky signs.