TJ
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I’m a trans person looking to get involved in advocacy. I’m new here and hoping to find others who advocate for trans rights 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I wait to freak out until Chris explains big SCOTUS cases. We are lucky to have his writing. You should subscribe.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW: What Monday’s Supreme Court election order ruling is and is not. The Republican majority gave Trump a temporary win. It could be short-lived — or it could “foment chaos,” as Justice Jackson wrote, calling out the majority in unusually direct terms. Tonight, at Law Dork:
It's very revealing that Seth Moulton, despite representing MA-06 for over a decade, has managed to get only four sitting elected officials in his district to endorse his Senate run.
Today, CEC Chair @repmarktakano.bsky.social, @baldwin.senate.gov, & @merkley.senate.gov led 179 Members of Congress in filing an amicus brief at SCOTUS in St. Mary v Roy, urging the Court to defend preschoolers from discrimination. Read the full brief & see all signers at the link in our bio. (1/2)
I’ve updated my overview of the Amnesty International UK anti-rights reports to include multiple alternate archives + profiles of all listed groups. They’re actively attempting to suppress them, excluding them from Internet Archive, & sending DMCA takedowns.  www.transgendermap.com/issues/group...
2026 Amnesty International UK anti-rights reports – Transgender Map
In 2026, the United Kingdom's national entity for Amnesty International released two reports which listed many prominent organizations engaged in anti-transgender activism, focusing on UK-specific gro...
transgendermap.com
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
If you see mainstream journalists citing/relying on this prejudicial HHS report attacking virtually the entire medical profession, point them here www.importantcontext.news/p/new-hhs-re...
New HHS Report on Gender-Affirming Care Rife With False Information
“As soon as you politicize any sort of healthcare it's a really slippery slope.”
importantcontext.news
Billie Jean Sweeney@billiejsweeney.bsky.social · last wk.The new report resorts to flamethrower language from its title page though its 64 pages. Its focus is entirely on demonising the medical profession and asserting without any substantiation that major medical groups, doctors and advocates are all engaging in a broad conspiracy.
Talking to voters, it is clear @aoc.bsky.social is right. Regulation can't wait. We are going up against huge money, but voters are on our side. I have faith that democracy will win: bethfordemocracy.com
Beth for Democracy | Bethany Andres-Beck for Congress
Bethany Andres-Beck is a Democratic Socialist running for Congress running to represent Massachusetts' 6th District.
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Tim Karr@timkarr.bsky.social · last wk.Data centers have caused a national backlash that is set to affect voter decisions in midterm elections, reports @davidmccabe.bsky.social. "In more than a dozen cities & towns [people] are so angry about local elected officials’ approving the energy-guzzling warehouses, they are not waiting."
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The “Wolves” report, starting with its incendiary title, appears intended to intimidate providers and medical administrators by making veiled (and not so veiled) threats to retaliate against them for any care that MAGA opposes, which is effectively all care for trans people.🧵
Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: Last week, HHS released a new report alleging that gender-affirming care is a hotbed of fraud by predatory doctors. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social and I dug into it and found numerous problems. This piece was done in partnership between @accountabilityji.bsky.social and @assignedmedia.org.
Washington secured a major victory on Friday protecting gender-affirming care from federal overreach. A court struck down a key provision of a Trump administration final rule that would have excluded coverage of certain types of gender-affirming care as essential health benefits under the ACA.
One thing about systematic reviews of gender-affirming care emphasizing their “low quality” is that the tools used to develop that metric were designed for interventions whose outcomes have a much smaller base rate. Going from 70% depression to 40% is way better than from 2% heart attacks to 1%.
Trump has hidden the White House entrance behind a tarp for more than a month. In Congress, I will make sure you know what is being done to our national monuments. bethfordemocracy.com
Beth for Democracy | Bethany Andres-Beck for Congress
Bethany Andres-Beck is a Democratic Socialist running for Congress running to represent Massachusetts' 6th District.
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Checking in on the state of Democrats running for Congress, and... Jesus Christ.
There seems to be a lesson people on both sides have failed to learn from 2024: Being Anti-Trans in and of itself will not win you an election as a Republican, but it will lose you one as a Democrat.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2w agoChecking in on the state of Democrats running for Congress, and... Jesus Christ.
Reminder: Anti-trans hit list sites like SheWon & HeCheated wanted to remain anon, but I was able to trace them back to their real origins: online TERFs so extreme, they were banned from Reddit. NYT cites them anyway. Do not let them hide in the shadows. www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check...
Fact Check: Lists Claiming Hundreds Of Trans Women Are Dominating Sports Are Dangerous and Incorrect
How dubiously-sourced lists like “HeCheated” and “SheWon” made their way from the anonymous backwaters of the internet to mainstream media, the United Nations, and statehouses across the country.
erininthemorning.com
I wrote a newsletter yesterday for this morning, but in the back of my mind I knew I was rehashing things I've said before in an uninteresting way. This morning I woke up and deleted it. Then I wrote this story, which was after "schedule newsletter" on my to-do list for the day.
Viral Post by Anti-Trans Activists Claims WPATH “Conceded” on Standards of Care - Assigned Media
The group’s filings cite legal precedent stating published medical guidelines are protected speech.
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Here’s the truth, from WPATH: “SEGM’s characterization of WPATH’s legal position is a clear misrepresentation of an established legal distinction by the courts. For more than 50 years, WPATH has been committed to developing guidelines informed by established scientific standards…”
The transphobic propaganda machine, led by the hate group SEGM, kicked into high gear to outright fabricate WPATH’s position. Leor Sapir of the right-wing Manhattan Institute was among those boosting its falsehoods on X. 🧵
Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · 2w agoI wrote a newsletter yesterday for this morning, but in the back of my mind I knew I was rehashing things I've said before in an uninteresting way. This morning I woke up and deleted it. Then I wrote this story, which was after "schedule newsletter" on my to-do list for the day.
Anti-trans group SEGM are up to their usual tricks, this time pretending that WPATH citing legal precedent on 1A protections for medical guidelines means they've conceded that their Standards of Care are "merely" an opinion. Those jokers will never change. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Viral Post by Anti-Trans Activists Claims WPATH “Conceded” on Standards of Care - Assigned Media
The group’s filings cite legal precedent stating published medical guidelines are protected speech.
assignedmedia.org
Here's an article from @mmfa.bsky.social from exactly one year ago today about right-wing commentators cheering on the people throwing dildos at WNBA players.
Anti-trans pundits who championed the idea of protecting women’s sports now say that throwing sex toys at women athletes is hilarious
MAGA media personalities can’t stop talking about the WNBA — not because of the players’ athleticism, but because people keep throwing adult toys onto the court during games. After degrading transgend...
mediamatters.org
New Investigation Out: New evidence in our long-standing investigation into McMaster University in Canada and SEGM, a US-based pseudoscience research group branded a "hate group" by SPLC reveals just how much control SEGM had over anti-trans research performed by McMaster faculty.
How a Hate Group Funded and Controlled Research from McMaster University
We obtained internal communications between SEGM and McMaster University detailing what SEGM wanted out of anti-trans medical studies, and why it was willing to pay over CAD$300,000 to produce them.
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Wtffff shameful news in my state. I hope AG Tong is ready to fight this.
TJ@tjd6130.bsky.social · 3w agoShameful news! Connecticut Children’s Hospital has reached an agreement with DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors following similar settlements by Texas Children's Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic 👇🧵
Shameful news! Connecticut Children’s Hospital has reached an agreement with DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors following similar settlements by Texas Children's Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic 👇🧵
Connecticut Children's hospital to end youth gender-affirming care in Trump administration settlement
The hospital has also agreed to provide $500,000 to former patients as part of the settlement.
ctinsider.com
If you become a member of Assigned Media you get a Thursday members-only essay written by me every single week. This week I'm writing about... um... well... kinda trying to figure that out still. Any suggestions?
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 4w agoHey! We're a scrappy little trans news site, and we need your help to keep bringing people news about the trans community by journalists from the transgender community. We're trying to add 50 new members in August. Join us - or help out by sharing this message. Thank you!! <3!!!
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The Massachusetts 6th District deserves representation that represents us. The Democratic Establishment is ashamed of progressive districts like ours. That’s why it got behind a centrist from the richest seat in the district. In Congress, I will be as progressive as we are.
Beth for Democracy | Bethany Andres-Beck for Congress
Bethany Andres-Beck is a Democratic Socialist running for Congress running to represent Massachusetts' 6th District.
bethfordemocracy.com
