Jen Wong
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the senate republican proposal to address aca subsidies includes a ban on essential health benefit coverage for sex transition-related medical care
December 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
the senate republican proposal to address aca subsidies includes a ban on essential health benefit coverage for sex transition-related medical care
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I have typed and deleted my thoughts about six times because it's against the rules to speak out against a government that is seeking to eliminate me and people like me from the country
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I have typed and deleted my thoughts about six times because it's against the rules to speak out against a government that is seeking to eliminate me and people like me from the country
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I wouldn't necessarily have predicted that this one story would get to me more than many others, but I feel heartsick.
Every married woman who takes her husband's last name has changed their legal name. Legal name changes aren't a matter of opinion - Rachel is her name.
Every married woman who takes her husband's last name has changed their legal name. Legal name changes aren't a matter of opinion - Rachel is her name.
They went in and replaced Rachel Levine's name with her deadname in her official portrait- during the shutdown- because they are cowards and the cruelty is the point www.npr.org/sections/sho...
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I wouldn't necessarily have predicted that this one story would get to me more than many others, but I feel heartsick.
Every married woman who takes her husband's last name has changed their legal name. Legal name changes aren't a matter of opinion - Rachel is her name.
Every married woman who takes her husband's last name has changed their legal name. Legal name changes aren't a matter of opinion - Rachel is her name.
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These petty fucking bigots man. These fucking scumbags. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
These petty fucking bigots man. These fucking scumbags. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Such hateful, petty, bigoted trash bags. Their hate will never erase the history she made.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Such hateful, petty, bigoted trash bags. Their hate will never erase the history she made.
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Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃
December 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃
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48 years. That's how long trans women have been eligible to compete in tennis.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
48 years. That's how long trans women have been eligible to compete in tennis.
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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I took on the mythology of the "Kamala is for they/them" ad. Since the morning after the 2024 election, trans people have been scapegoated for Harris' loss, with that infamous ad at the centre of recriminations.
But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.
But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.
Trans Panic? More Like Trans Apathetic
2025 shows trans rights aren't electoral poison. The truth? Most people just don't care that much.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I took on the mythology of the "Kamala is for they/them" ad. Since the morning after the 2024 election, trans people have been scapegoated for Harris' loss, with that infamous ad at the centre of recriminations.
But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.
But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.
The idiot student got her instructor fired because she got a bad grade on a paper that cited the Bible in a psychology course.
Oh, the instructor who was fired for giving an F to a Trumpist loser for citing the Bible in a scientific paper is *trans*? It's almost like we're being eliminated from society one by one or something.
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
The idiot student got her instructor fired because she got a bad grade on a paper that cited the Bible in a psychology course.
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Really hard not to see this whole thing as an effort to get a trans person fired from her TA job
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Really hard not to see this whole thing as an effort to get a trans person fired from her TA job
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as a trans TA, this story makes my blood boil so much. if some conservative claims my grades are discriminating against them, i get to go fuck myself. and any of the trans TAs under me can doubly go fuck themselves
bigoted students will be cashing in on this bullshit as long as schools allow.
bigoted students will be cashing in on this bullshit as long as schools allow.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
as a trans TA, this story makes my blood boil so much. if some conservative claims my grades are discriminating against them, i get to go fuck myself. and any of the trans TAs under me can doubly go fuck themselves
bigoted students will be cashing in on this bullshit as long as schools allow.
bigoted students will be cashing in on this bullshit as long as schools allow.
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Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.
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"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
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Northwestern also agrees to stop providing life saving healthcare to trans kids, another violation of state law. It's unclear what impact this would have on their affiliated hospital network.
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the agreement finally forces the university to "not perform hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries" on minors.
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Northwestern also agrees to stop providing life saving healthcare to trans kids, another violation of state law. It's unclear what impact this would have on their affiliated hospital network.
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Northwestern joins the growing list of US universities which are caving to Trump by agreeing to illegally ban trans people from facilities.
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Northwestern joins the growing list of US universities which are caving to Trump by agreeing to illegally ban trans people from facilities.
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
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Northwestern caves to Trump, de facto bans transgender students.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Northwestern caves to Trump, de facto bans transgender students.
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And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
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I’d be grateful if hospitals would care for children
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‘It’s Just Cruel’: Bay Area Parents Say Sutter Health Is Set to Halt Trans Youth Care | KQED
Multiple parents say Sutter Health caregivers told them the network will end gender-affirming care to youth in December, leaving them scrambling to find new physicians for their transgender children.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I’d be grateful if hospitals would care for children
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don't give them blockers give them hormones then. blockers were the compromise
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
don't give them blockers give them hormones then. blockers were the compromise
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A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study
To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…
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November 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender
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someone went up to sarah mcbride in front of the u.s. congress, hurled her deadname at her loudly and called her a pedophile repeatedly, posted video of the exchange to x, and it is now going wildly viral
i will not share the video
but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself
i will not share the video
but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
someone went up to sarah mcbride in front of the u.s. congress, hurled her deadname at her loudly and called her a pedophile repeatedly, posted video of the exchange to x, and it is now going wildly viral
i will not share the video
but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself
i will not share the video
but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself