Bryn Healy
@brynhealy.bsky.social
MSc in Disability from @ucddublin.bsky.social 🇮🇪 | BA in Politics and Sociology from Mount Holyoke College | Passionate advocate, writer, and researcher | 🏳️🌈♾️
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Bryn Healy
@brynhealy.bsky.social
· Dec 12
19% of Americans identify as neurodivergent ♾️. Additionally, 32 of Americans know what “neurodiversity” means.
I am delighted to share my poll and article from last month with @today.yougov.com on neurodiversity in the U.S.
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
I am delighted to share my poll and article from last month with @today.yougov.com on neurodiversity in the U.S.
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
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“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM
“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
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1. New federal rules were released last week banning gender affirming care for youth at hospitals nationwide.
Those rules don't go into effect until public comment, months from now.
But it appears Sec. Kennedy is using an arcane process to try to implement them immediately.
Our latest story.
Those rules don't go into effect until public comment, months from now.
But it appears Sec. Kennedy is using an arcane process to try to implement them immediately.
Our latest story.
HHS Sec. Kennedy Attempts To Stop Trans Youth Care In Hospitals Nationwide—Before New Federal Rules Take Effect
Like many of the Trump regime’s attempted powergrabs, this kind of piecemeal and disheveled rulemaking is enforced at least in part by fear and sheer uncertainty.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
1. New federal rules were released last week banning gender affirming care for youth at hospitals nationwide.
Those rules don't go into effect until public comment, months from now.
But it appears Sec. Kennedy is using an arcane process to try to implement them immediately.
Our latest story.
Those rules don't go into effect until public comment, months from now.
But it appears Sec. Kennedy is using an arcane process to try to implement them immediately.
Our latest story.
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The House is expected to vote later this week on H.R. 3492, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s extreme bill that would impose severe financial penalties and up to a 10-year prison sentence for providers who deliver lifesaving, essential healthcare to transgender and gender diverse patients.
December 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The House is expected to vote later this week on H.R. 3492, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s extreme bill that would impose severe financial penalties and up to a 10-year prison sentence for providers who deliver lifesaving, essential healthcare to transgender and gender diverse patients.
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For the safety of transgender and intersex youth, for the rights
of providers to care for their patients, and for the rights of parents to support their children in accessing the healthcare
they need, urge your representative to vote NO on H.R. 3492.
of providers to care for their patients, and for the rights of parents to support their children in accessing the healthcare
they need, urge your representative to vote NO on H.R. 3492.
December 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
For the safety of transgender and intersex youth, for the rights
of providers to care for their patients, and for the rights of parents to support their children in accessing the healthcare
they need, urge your representative to vote NO on H.R. 3492.
of providers to care for their patients, and for the rights of parents to support their children in accessing the healthcare
they need, urge your representative to vote NO on H.R. 3492.
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The UK is considering a policy that would effectively segregate trans people from society. It would bar trans people from "single sex spaces" even when they use the facility of their sex assigned at birth.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The UK is considering a policy that would effectively segregate trans people from society. It would bar trans people from "single sex spaces" even when they use the facility of their sex assigned at birth.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
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This article from ASAN's Executive Director Colin Killick talks about how policies and misinformation from the Trump administration hurt and ignore autistic people. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
I'm autistic. Trump and RFK Jr. must stop treating us like a plague to be eradicated.
Evidence for Trump's Tylenol claim is weak. Yet no prior administration has cared less about what either autism experts or autistic people have to say
www.usatoday.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This article from ASAN's Executive Director Colin Killick talks about how policies and misinformation from the Trump administration hurt and ignore autistic people. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Donald Trump wants people to work for their Medicaid—but he's making it even harder for disabled and chronically ill people to find accessible jobs.
The biggest hurdle to Trump's Medicaid work requirements: the war on disabled workers
The White House is telling Medicaid users to get jobs—while attacking everything that makes that possible.
www.motherjones.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Donald Trump wants people to work for their Medicaid—but he's making it even harder for disabled and chronically ill people to find accessible jobs.
This is eugenicist language. Autism is a neurotype that has existed forever.
This is the same eugenicist language used in Bell v. Buck (1927), a yet-to-be overturned SCOTUS decision that legalised involuntary sterilisation of disabled and neurodivergent people in the US.
This is the same eugenicist language used in Bell v. Buck (1927), a yet-to-be overturned SCOTUS decision that legalised involuntary sterilisation of disabled and neurodivergent people in the US.
September 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This is eugenicist language. Autism is a neurotype that has existed forever.
This is the same eugenicist language used in Bell v. Buck (1927), a yet-to-be overturned SCOTUS decision that legalised involuntary sterilisation of disabled and neurodivergent people in the US.
This is the same eugenicist language used in Bell v. Buck (1927), a yet-to-be overturned SCOTUS decision that legalised involuntary sterilisation of disabled and neurodivergent people in the US.
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NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com
ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
July 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM
NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com
ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com
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My quick take on Monday afternoon's unexplained #SCOTUS ruling in the Department of Education downsizing case—and how the justices' inconsistent treatment of the (similarly postured) student loan cases during the Biden administration illustrates in technicolor why the Court needs to explain itself:
167. The Inconsistent Court Strikes Again
Comparing Monday's unexplained grant of emergency relief in the Department of Education downsizing case to how the justices handled President Biden's student loan program is ... telling.
www.stevevladeck.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My quick take on Monday afternoon's unexplained #SCOTUS ruling in the Department of Education downsizing case—and how the justices' inconsistent treatment of the (similarly postured) student loan cases during the Biden administration illustrates in technicolor why the Court needs to explain itself:
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“If anyone...agrees sheltered workshops should continue, [they] obviously never worked at one."
For @motherjones.com, I spoke with disabled workers who used to be paid subminimum wage about Trump admin nixing the plan to end it for disabled people federally.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For @motherjones.com, I spoke with disabled workers who used to be paid subminimum wage about Trump admin nixing the plan to end it for disabled people federally.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump just made It OK to continue paying disabled workers peanuts
In many states, the push to end the subminimum wage continues.
www.motherjones.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“If anyone...agrees sheltered workshops should continue, [they] obviously never worked at one."
For @motherjones.com, I spoke with disabled workers who used to be paid subminimum wage about Trump admin nixing the plan to end it for disabled people federally.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For @motherjones.com, I spoke with disabled workers who used to be paid subminimum wage about Trump admin nixing the plan to end it for disabled people federally.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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1. In a devastating ruling out of the 11th Circuit, a trans female teacher will be forced to use "Mr." in the classroom in accordance with Florida law.
Trump appointed judges ruled that this is not somehow a first amendment violation.
The dissent is scathing.
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Trump appointed judges ruled that this is not somehow a first amendment violation.
The dissent is scathing.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
11th Circuit Rules Trans Teacher Must Misgender Herself In Classroom In Accordance With FL Law
The ruling by Trump-appointed judges contradicts other classroom speech cases and is a clear case of the state barring disfavored speech, according to the dissent.
www.erininthemorning.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
1. In a devastating ruling out of the 11th Circuit, a trans female teacher will be forced to use "Mr." in the classroom in accordance with Florida law.
Trump appointed judges ruled that this is not somehow a first amendment violation.
The dissent is scathing.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trump appointed judges ruled that this is not somehow a first amendment violation.
The dissent is scathing.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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The liberal justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are frustrated with their colleagues, and they're making it clear in what they say — and what they don't.
Read the full story: www.instagram.com/p/DLa6YJNvO6Z/
Read the full story: www.instagram.com/p/DLa6YJNvO6Z/
June 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The liberal justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are frustrated with their colleagues, and they're making it clear in what they say — and what they don't.
Read the full story: www.instagram.com/p/DLa6YJNvO6Z/
Read the full story: www.instagram.com/p/DLa6YJNvO6Z/
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No King Protest in Dublin, Ireland
June 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
No King Protest in Dublin, Ireland
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Securing appropriate accommodations is likely going to become more difficult as universities and colleges reduce their diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility practices under the threat of losing federal funding from the Trump administration.
Read the full op-ed here ⤵️
Read the full op-ed here ⤵️
How the Trump Administration Is Leaving Disabled College Students Behind
Disabled students already have to fight just to get basic accommodations.
www.teenvogue.com
May 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Securing appropriate accommodations is likely going to become more difficult as universities and colleges reduce their diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility practices under the threat of losing federal funding from the Trump administration.
Read the full op-ed here ⤵️
Read the full op-ed here ⤵️
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Advocates for disabled communities in Canada are upset that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newly sworn-in cabinet does not include a minister dedicated to people with disabilities.
nowtoronto.com/news/carney-...
nowtoronto.com/news/carney-...
Carney criticized for not including disability minister in cabinet - NOW Toronto
Advocates for the disabled community are upset that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newly sworn-in cabinet does not...
nowtoronto.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Advocates for disabled communities in Canada are upset that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newly sworn-in cabinet does not include a minister dedicated to people with disabilities.
nowtoronto.com/news/carney-...
nowtoronto.com/news/carney-...
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RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms." Well, this country tried that once before. This is how it went. ⤵️
RFK Wants to Send People to ‘Wellness Farms.’ The US Already Tried That.
RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms."
www.teenvogue.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms." Well, this country tried that once before. This is how it went. ⤵️
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Join us on February 12 at 9:30 AM PT / 12:30 PM ET for a Disability Community Briefing on #TexasvBecerra — a lawsuit that threatens #Section504. Section 504 is a crucial disability rights law that ensures equal access to schools, healthcare, and more.
Register: dredf-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register: dredf-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Join us on February 12 at 9:30 AM PT / 12:30 PM ET for a Disability Community Briefing on #TexasvBecerra — a lawsuit that threatens #Section504. Section 504 is a crucial disability rights law that ensures equal access to schools, healthcare, and more.
Register: dredf-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register: dredf-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Now is a good time to read my @motherjones.com article on how attacks on Department of Education will disproportionately harm disabled kids www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
February 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Now is a good time to read my @motherjones.com article on how attacks on Department of Education will disproportionately harm disabled kids www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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It was all in Project 2025…
January 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It was all in Project 2025…
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Galen Buckwalter, 68, shared with me his harrowing tale of being forced to flee the Eaton fire alone on his wheelchair through dark streets and fierce winds, dodging debris as fire neared his home.
“In emergencies, disabled people are the last to get services…We have no system. You’re on your own”
“In emergencies, disabled people are the last to get services…We have no system. You’re on your own”
Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: ‘I had to take my chances’
An evacuation order when the Eaton fire threatened Galen Buckwalter’s Sierra Madre home triggered a nightmare odyssey through chaotic streets
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Galen Buckwalter, 68, shared with me his harrowing tale of being forced to flee the Eaton fire alone on his wheelchair through dark streets and fierce winds, dodging debris as fire neared his home.
“In emergencies, disabled people are the last to get services…We have no system. You’re on your own”
“In emergencies, disabled people are the last to get services…We have no system. You’re on your own”
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A federal court has ruled that Florida can detransition inmates.
Some trans inmates are having estrogen pulled, hair shorn, and put through state-run conversion therapy.
This is the cruelty of abandoning incarcerated trans people.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
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Some trans inmates are having estrogen pulled, hair shorn, and put through state-run conversion therapy.
This is the cruelty of abandoning incarcerated trans people.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Federal Court Rules In Favor of Forcibly Detransitioning Transgender Inmates In Florida
Incarcerated transgender people were a major topic of debate in the 2024 elections. Now, a judge ruling on a Florida policy shows how cruel abandoning trans people in prison can be.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A federal court has ruled that Florida can detransition inmates.
Some trans inmates are having estrogen pulled, hair shorn, and put through state-run conversion therapy.
This is the cruelty of abandoning incarcerated trans people.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Some trans inmates are having estrogen pulled, hair shorn, and put through state-run conversion therapy.
This is the cruelty of abandoning incarcerated trans people.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
Subscribe to support our journalism.