Here’s a powerful Pulitzer Prize winning report on the cruelty of Huntington’s, by @amyharmon.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/h...

On the 10th anniversary of Obergefell, we talked to some of the same-sex marriage pioneers about the post-Skrmetti moment for trans kids. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/u...

The judge in a case challenging the Trump executive order to end gender-transition treatments for prisoners, and to house trans women inmates in men's prisons, has replaced his temporary restraining order with a preliminary injunction, signaling a more enduring pause. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

There have been three executive orders on trans issues since Jan 20. I collected some reactions here. Please send me more, if you are able to share. I'm especially looking for specific examples of how they are affecting everyday life.

Hopeful news

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/c...

It also seemed important to Kavanaugh that trans athletes could potentially still be thrown under the bus if he agreed that trans medical bans were subject to heightened review, and Prelogar assured him of that:

I guess everyone's writing off Kavanaugh but I was struck that he followed up on the West Virginia-is-actually-like-Europe idea:
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH: Do you think that West Virginia law you mentioned is constitutional?
GENERAL PRELOGAR: I think it would likely satisfy heightened scrutiny.

By my count there were 18 challenges filed in federal and state courts across the 26 states that, since 2021, have passed gender-affirming care restrictions. Tried to sum up the state of play a bit here. Map by the great @fparis.bsky.social.

The chief counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom told me he thought Skrmetti would dictate the outcome of two cases now on appeal from the Fourth Circuit re: Medicaid and state health coverage for gender transition treatments for adults.

There will be lots of recaps of the Skrmetti arguments but for me reading the live-blog helps to capture the details. Plus you get my smart colleagues' smart commentary. I was just getting the hang of it when it finished up. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

I plan to walk several hundred miles over the holidays and listen to all of them on audible. jk but maybe several hundred steps/day will do it. TY @ferrisjabr.bsky.social for the curation and wtf why weren't they all on best-of-2024. bsky.app/profile/ferr...

I haven't read thru all the other state laws on bathroom use, but a provision in the one Ohio's governor signed last week struck me as less-familiar: it explicitly prohibits schools and colleges from providing gender-neutral bathrooms that are multi-occupancy. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/u...

In case you wondered why Bluesky is good, I put in my profile that I am interested in people who are interested in ants and then I was followed by @dailyant.bsky.social aka, The Daily Ant.

I've been using @blueskyfeedcreator.com to turn Starter Packs into feeds. I find it easier to keep up when my follows are sorted by topic. Maybe eventually I'll do my own lists, but this seemed good for now. If anyone finds them useful, you can follow or pin them too.

I wrote a little bit about what it was like for trans people to see transness deployed in Republican campaign ads as a symbol of absurdity and/or disgust, and the fear that more of that is coming. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/u...