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A coalition of Blue state attorneys general have come together to challenge Trump's most extreme anti-trans policies.
@valorievandieman.bsky.social spoke with AGs and advocates about efforts to defend the rights of trans Americans.
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A coalition of Blue state attorneys general have come together to challenge Trump's most extreme anti-trans policies.
@valorievandieman.bsky.social spoke with AGs and advocates about efforts to defend the rights of trans Americans.
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These Blue State Attorneys General Are Fighting for Your Rights — Assigned
A coalition of state AGs have come together to challenge the worst assaults of the Trump regime on trans people’s equal rights.
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February 10, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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A coalition of Blue state attorneys general have come together to challenge Trump's most extreme anti-trans policies.
@valorievandieman.bsky.social spoke with AGs and advocates about efforts to defend the rights of trans Americans.
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A coalition of Blue state attorneys general have come together to challenge Trump's most extreme anti-trans policies.
@valorievandieman.bsky.social spoke with AGs and advocates about efforts to defend the rights of trans Americans.
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A coalition of Blue state attorneys general have come together to challenge Trump's most extreme anti-trans policies.
@valorievandieman.bsky.social spoke with AGs and advocates about efforts to defend the rights of trans Americans.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
A coalition of Blue state attorneys general have come together to challenge Trump's most extreme anti-trans policies.
@valorievandieman.bsky.social spoke with AGs and advocates about efforts to defend the rights of trans Americans.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
These Blue State Attorneys General Are Fighting for Your Rights — Assigned
A coalition of state AGs have come together to challenge the worst assaults of the Trump regime on trans people’s equal rights.
www.assignedmedia.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:14 PM
ONLY on Assigned:
A coalition of Blue state attorneys general have come together to challenge Trump's most extreme anti-trans policies.
@valorievandieman.bsky.social spoke with AGs and advocates about efforts to defend the rights of trans Americans.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
A coalition of Blue state attorneys general have come together to challenge Trump's most extreme anti-trans policies.
@valorievandieman.bsky.social spoke with AGs and advocates about efforts to defend the rights of trans Americans.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 10 PinkNew:
The 146 women's, gay, and LGBTQ+ orgs in Trans+ Solidarity Alliance send letter to PM warning that single-sex spaces and groups in UK must continue to trans inclusive.
The 146 women's, gay, and LGBTQ+ orgs in Trans+ Solidarity Alliance send letter to PM warning that single-sex spaces and groups in UK must continue to trans inclusive.
Protect trans-inclusive spaces, LGBTQ+ orgs tell Starmer
A coalition of nearly 150 LGBTQ+ and feminist organisations have told Keir Starmer to protect trans-inclusive spaces.
www.thepinknews.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:38 AM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 10 PinkNew:
The 146 women's, gay, and LGBTQ+ orgs in Trans+ Solidarity Alliance send letter to PM warning that single-sex spaces and groups in UK must continue to trans inclusive.
The 146 women's, gay, and LGBTQ+ orgs in Trans+ Solidarity Alliance send letter to PM warning that single-sex spaces and groups in UK must continue to trans inclusive.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 10 PinkNews:
110-y/o UK Women's Institutes announce will only allow members based on biological sex (ironically apparently opening them to trans men). Several branches close rather than comply: "[we won't] accept marginalization and oppression of trans people..."
110-y/o UK Women's Institutes announce will only allow members based on biological sex (ironically apparently opening them to trans men). Several branches close rather than comply: "[we won't] accept marginalization and oppression of trans people..."
Women's Institute branches shutting down over trans ban
Several branches of the Women's Institute (WI) have declared they will suspend activities following the organisation's ban on trans women.
www.thepinknews.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:36 AM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 10 PinkNews:
110-y/o UK Women's Institutes announce will only allow members based on biological sex (ironically apparently opening them to trans men). Several branches close rather than comply: "[we won't] accept marginalization and oppression of trans people..."
110-y/o UK Women's Institutes announce will only allow members based on biological sex (ironically apparently opening them to trans men). Several branches close rather than comply: "[we won't] accept marginalization and oppression of trans people..."
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 10 KCCI:
Lawmakers advance bill that would prevent cities and counties from offering civil rights protections to transgender Iowans, blocking them from enforcing any civil rights protections that go beyond state law.
Lawmakers advance bill that would prevent cities and counties from offering civil rights protections to transgender Iowans, blocking them from enforcing any civil rights protections that go beyond state law.
Iowa lawmakers advance bill blocking local civil rights protections for transgender Iowans
House Study Bill 664 would block local governments from enforcing civil rights protections that go beyond what is written into state law.
www.kcci.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:30 AM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 10 KCCI:
Lawmakers advance bill that would prevent cities and counties from offering civil rights protections to transgender Iowans, blocking them from enforcing any civil rights protections that go beyond state law.
Lawmakers advance bill that would prevent cities and counties from offering civil rights protections to transgender Iowans, blocking them from enforcing any civil rights protections that go beyond state law.
Wow I'd missed this - very plausible
February 10, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Wow I'd missed this - very plausible
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [suicide con't]: For years the UK govt had dismissed claims of increases in trans kids' suicides after NHS banned GAC, with an NHS-sponsored independent report covering the same period even claiming "The data do not support the claim..." and reporting just 12 suicides.
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Review of suicides and gender dysphoria at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: independent report
www.gov.uk
February 10, 2026 at 1:08 AM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [suicide con't]: For years the UK govt had dismissed claims of increases in trans kids' suicides after NHS banned GAC, with an NHS-sponsored independent report covering the same period even claiming "The data do not support the claim..." and reporting just 12 suicides.
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 9:
Good Law Project's Freedom of Information requests find spike in trans kid's suicide following NHS stopping GAC: from just 9 for 2019 thru 2020 to 32 for 2021 thru 2022-- an increase of 256%. [This is a correction of an earlier post which wrongly said 800%] 1/2
Good Law Project's Freedom of Information requests find spike in trans kid's suicide following NHS stopping GAC: from just 9 for 2019 thru 2020 to 32 for 2021 thru 2022-- an increase of 256%. [This is a correction of an earlier post which wrongly said 800%] 1/2
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlawproject.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:03 AM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 9:
Good Law Project's Freedom of Information requests find spike in trans kid's suicide following NHS stopping GAC: from just 9 for 2019 thru 2020 to 32 for 2021 thru 2022-- an increase of 256%. [This is a correction of an earlier post which wrongly said 800%] 1/2
Good Law Project's Freedom of Information requests find spike in trans kid's suicide following NHS stopping GAC: from just 9 for 2019 thru 2020 to 32 for 2021 thru 2022-- an increase of 256%. [This is a correction of an earlier post which wrongly said 800%] 1/2
My DMs and email are open if anyone in the know wants to point me in the right direction!
February 9, 2026 at 7:13 PM
My DMs and email are open if anyone in the know wants to point me in the right direction!
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In the media, the anti-trans idea that trans patients are medicalized and pushed into unnecessary interventions has become the dominant frame.
In that frame, the context of a larger deemphasis of surgery never occurred. Trans people are imagined to be on a conveyor to surgery - but that's not true.
In that frame, the context of a larger deemphasis of surgery never occurred. Trans people are imagined to be on a conveyor to surgery - but that's not true.
February 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
In the media, the anti-trans idea that trans patients are medicalized and pushed into unnecessary interventions has become the dominant frame.
In that frame, the context of a larger deemphasis of surgery never occurred. Trans people are imagined to be on a conveyor to surgery - but that's not true.
In that frame, the context of a larger deemphasis of surgery never occurred. Trans people are imagined to be on a conveyor to surgery - but that's not true.
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This question is weirdly hard, bc the starting place itself is a result of anti-trans propganda shaping the debate.
Trans surgeries, for all ages, are vastly rarer than hormone therapy only, which is itself rarer than social adjustments alone.
Youth trans surgeries are *incredibly* rare.
Trans surgeries, for all ages, are vastly rarer than hormone therapy only, which is itself rarer than social adjustments alone.
Youth trans surgeries are *incredibly* rare.
Genuinely curious: I thought that was the general guidance all along? Puberty blockers or hormone prescriptions for youth, but surgery later on?
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
This question is weirdly hard, bc the starting place itself is a result of anti-trans propganda shaping the debate.
Trans surgeries, for all ages, are vastly rarer than hormone therapy only, which is itself rarer than social adjustments alone.
Youth trans surgeries are *incredibly* rare.
Trans surgeries, for all ages, are vastly rarer than hormone therapy only, which is itself rarer than social adjustments alone.
Youth trans surgeries are *incredibly* rare.
The above represents my best guess/expert analysis - I haven't personally spoken to anyone involved.
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
The above represents my best guess/expert analysis - I haven't personally spoken to anyone involved.
After NYT misleadingly portrayed it as a big shift, someone from the AMA (very possibly the same person) spoke to other journalists, shifted the language slightly, and recast the statement in terms of continuity, stressing that surgeries are better left to adulthood unless there's serious need.
February 9, 2026 at 1:57 PM
After NYT misleadingly portrayed it as a big shift, someone from the AMA (very possibly the same person) spoke to other journalists, shifted the language slightly, and recast the statement in terms of continuity, stressing that surgeries are better left to adulthood unless there's serious need.
From Evan, a veteran trans science reporter:
What it looks like to me is someone from the AMA gave a comment to the New York Times that represents a slight, but real, diminishment of support for trans youth surgery. NYT then seems to have portrayed it as a much larger departure than it was.
What it looks like to me is someone from the AMA gave a comment to the New York Times that represents a slight, but real, diminishment of support for trans youth surgery. NYT then seems to have portrayed it as a much larger departure than it was.
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM
From Evan, a veteran trans science reporter:
What it looks like to me is someone from the AMA gave a comment to the New York Times that represents a slight, but real, diminishment of support for trans youth surgery. NYT then seems to have portrayed it as a much larger departure than it was.
What it looks like to me is someone from the AMA gave a comment to the New York Times that represents a slight, but real, diminishment of support for trans youth surgery. NYT then seems to have portrayed it as a much larger departure than it was.
A strange and confusing tale from the bowels of (where else) the New York Times.
Has the American Medical Association changed position on trans youth care? A New York Times headline says they "endorsed restrictions" on youth surgeries. Other outlets, including NPR, report they did no such thing.
Has the American Medical Association changed position on trans youth care? A New York Times headline says they "endorsed restrictions" on youth surgeries. Other outlets, including NPR, report they did no such thing.
Did the AMA Release a Statement Cooling Support for Trans Youth Surgeries? — Assigned
Leading Off: The New York Times and NPR release contradictory American Medical Association statements, and California AG Rob Bonta sues a children’s hospital for ending gender affirming care.
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February 9, 2026 at 1:49 PM
A strange and confusing tale from the bowels of (where else) the New York Times.
Has the American Medical Association changed position on trans youth care? A New York Times headline says they "endorsed restrictions" on youth surgeries. Other outlets, including NPR, report they did no such thing.
Has the American Medical Association changed position on trans youth care? A New York Times headline says they "endorsed restrictions" on youth surgeries. Other outlets, including NPR, report they did no such thing.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 9: DOE finds new CA law allowing schools to not forcibly out trans students to hostile parents violates federal law/policy on parental rights. A fed judge had ruled against the law, but was overturned on appeal. CA maintains it is not violating any fed laws.
February 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 9: DOE finds new CA law allowing schools to not forcibly out trans students to hostile parents violates federal law/policy on parental rights. A fed judge had ruled against the law, but was overturned on appeal. CA maintains it is not violating any fed laws.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 9 Zenit: Brazil, whose Supreme Tribunal ruled in 2019 that transphobia/homophobia are crimes, charges prominent online with "transphobia” & “misgendering” govt Secy who is trans. Brazil has led the world in the most trans/queer people killed since 2013.
Brazil attacks influencer for criticizing the government for funding LGBT+ organizations - ZENIT - English
In the video, Nine criticised Brazil’s LGBT National Secretary – a man who identifies as a woman. Shortly after the post, the Secretary filed a complaint, triggering a criminal investigation into Nine
zenit.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:03 PM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 9 Zenit: Brazil, whose Supreme Tribunal ruled in 2019 that transphobia/homophobia are crimes, charges prominent online with "transphobia” & “misgendering” govt Secy who is trans. Brazil has led the world in the most trans/queer people killed since 2013.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 9: WSJ op-ed page goes after Mellon Foundation, which has been funding trans studies (among other things) for backing "University of Utah Transformative Intersectional Collective created workshops on transgender and queer of color critique, prison abolition, etc.
Opinion | The Mellon Foundation’s Idea of ‘Social Justice’
America’s biggest funder of the humanities subsidizes ‘Ecowomanism,’ ‘Black Trans Studies’ and the like.
www.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:44 PM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 9: WSJ op-ed page goes after Mellon Foundation, which has been funding trans studies (among other things) for backing "University of Utah Transformative Intersectional Collective created workshops on transgender and queer of color critique, prison abolition, etc.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 8 Advocate: Proving yet again that anti-GAC animus is immune to science, UT House passes 3 bills banning hormones & stopping them even for minors already taking them after its own exhaustive study by the U of Utah found no medical basis for such actions.
Utah Republicans, ignoring their own study, pass ban on gender-affirming care for youth
Utah Republicans have passed a bill restricting gender-affirming care for youth, ignoring research they commissioned.
www.advocate.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 8 Advocate: Proving yet again that anti-GAC animus is immune to science, UT House passes 3 bills banning hormones & stopping them even for minors already taking them after its own exhaustive study by the U of Utah found no medical basis for such actions.
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This is an important read. I don't want to take anything away from it. However:
It really should have been a news item informed by the Good Law Project's data. It isn't bc the British press has shut out any story that contradicts anti-trans talking points.
goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
It really should have been a news item informed by the Good Law Project's data. It isn't bc the British press has shut out any story that contradicts anti-trans talking points.
goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlawproject.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:49 PM
This is an important read. I don't want to take anything away from it. However:
It really should have been a news item informed by the Good Law Project's data. It isn't bc the British press has shut out any story that contradicts anti-trans talking points.
goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
It really should have been a news item informed by the Good Law Project's data. It isn't bc the British press has shut out any story that contradicts anti-trans talking points.
goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
In the name of protecting students from the evils of DEI, Texas Tech has been forced to censor anything that might hurt the feelings of straight, white, cis men.
@alyssaur.bsky.social brings you this week's TWIBS
@alyssaur.bsky.social brings you this week's TWIBS
TWIBS: Former TX Senator Ruins Texas Tech — Assigned
Another belt notch for conservatives in their culture war against people who are different: making it impossible for students and teachers to get by at Texas Tech.
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February 6, 2026 at 5:30 PM
In the name of protecting students from the evils of DEI, Texas Tech has been forced to censor anything that might hurt the feelings of straight, white, cis men.
@alyssaur.bsky.social brings you this week's TWIBS
@alyssaur.bsky.social brings you this week's TWIBS
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 6 Advocate:
Texas A&M prof fired after Christian student objected to her saying there are more than 2 genders is suing, saying officials of violated her First Amendment rights. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences & head of English Dept were fired too.
Texas A&M prof fired after Christian student objected to her saying there are more than 2 genders is suing, saying officials of violated her First Amendment rights. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences & head of English Dept were fired too.
Texas A&M fired a professor for teaching about gender identity. Now, she's suing
After being fired for a lesson on gender identity, Melissa McCoul is suing Texas A&M; for violating her First Amendment rights.
www.advocate.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:38 PM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 6 Advocate:
Texas A&M prof fired after Christian student objected to her saying there are more than 2 genders is suing, saying officials of violated her First Amendment rights. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences & head of English Dept were fired too.
Texas A&M prof fired after Christian student objected to her saying there are more than 2 genders is suing, saying officials of violated her First Amendment rights. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences & head of English Dept were fired too.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 6 Guardian:
For Women Scotland is challenging govt policy that trans women be housed after individual risk assessment, pushing for blanket housing of all men. Govt has responded that it would violate European Human Rights Convention.
For Women Scotland is challenging govt policy that trans women be housed after individual risk assessment, pushing for blanket housing of all men. Govt has responded that it would violate European Human Rights Convention.
Blanket rule on trans women in men’s prisons would deny their identity, says Scottish government
SNP’s lawyer argues the ‘mental health and rehabilitation’ of prisoners is more important than their biological sex
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:20 PM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 6 Guardian:
For Women Scotland is challenging govt policy that trans women be housed after individual risk assessment, pushing for blanket housing of all men. Govt has responded that it would violate European Human Rights Convention.
For Women Scotland is challenging govt policy that trans women be housed after individual risk assessment, pushing for blanket housing of all men. Govt has responded that it would violate European Human Rights Convention.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [ASPS cont]
Reed also notes ASPS standards continue allowing nose jobs, top surgery & other gendered procedures for cis minors. Also inexplicably that the incoming head of _WPATH_ testified FOR the plaintiff in a case likely to be copied and weaponized against care. 2/2
Reed also notes ASPS standards continue allowing nose jobs, top surgery & other gendered procedures for cis minors. Also inexplicably that the incoming head of _WPATH_ testified FOR the plaintiff in a case likely to be copied and weaponized against care. 2/2
The Cowardice Of American Medicine On Trans Youth Care
After capitulation by hospitals across the country, the ASPS and AMA have both thrown trans kids under the bus on surgical care.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [ASPS cont]
Reed also notes ASPS standards continue allowing nose jobs, top surgery & other gendered procedures for cis minors. Also inexplicably that the incoming head of _WPATH_ testified FOR the plaintiff in a case likely to be copied and weaponized against care. 2/2
Reed also notes ASPS standards continue allowing nose jobs, top surgery & other gendered procedures for cis minors. Also inexplicably that the incoming head of _WPATH_ testified FOR the plaintiff in a case likely to be copied and weaponized against care. 2/2