Riki Wilchins
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Author of: "When Texas Came for Our Kids: How evangelical extremists launched a war on transgender teens" & "BAD INK: How the NYTimes sold out transgender teens."
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Riki Wilchins
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
· Feb 13
Take away my pronouns, my passport, my prison cell, my hormones, & my bathroom, I'm still trans. I'm still here. I'm not going anywhere. And tomorrow there will be more like me. I'm not scared, I'm fighting mad. You can't have my life. It's mine. Because we are #WhatTheFutureOfGenderLooksLike
22 Nov 2025 -- UK PATHWAYS clinical trial of blockers gets ethical approval. Cass Review suggested they may harm “psychosocial health, cognitive development, fertility…height/growth, cardio-metabolic & bone health” so how is giving them to 100s of kids in a trial ethical? @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
New puberty blocker trial approved for children, but questions remain
Puberty blockers for under-18s have been illegal in the UK since 2024
www.newstatesman.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
22 Nov 2025 -- UK PATHWAYS clinical trial of blockers gets ethical approval. Cass Review suggested they may harm “psychosocial health, cognitive development, fertility…height/growth, cardio-metabolic & bone health” so how is giving them to 100s of kids in a trial ethical? @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
22 Nov 2025 -- Leaked, unpublished guidance from U.K.’s Equality & Human Rights Comsn recommends policies excluding trans people from restrooms & single-sex spaces & encouraging others to question those in them suspected of being trans. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Trans people banned from single-sex spaces based on their appearances in leaked UK guidance - LGBTQ Nation
"This is a license to discriminate based on looks, plain and simple."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
22 Nov 2025 -- Leaked, unpublished guidance from U.K.’s Equality & Human Rights Comsn recommends policies excluding trans people from restrooms & single-sex spaces & encouraging others to question those in them suspected of being trans. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Sarah McBride talks to the Advocate, blames trans advocates for absolutism, and going directly to Trans 301 when people are just at Trans 101. Doesn't specify whose rights we should throw under the bus but presumably unpopular things like child sports, blockers, etc. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Democrat Sarah McBride on her approach to expanding trans acceptance in Congress — and America
“I recognize that it’s not viscerally comforting for some people in my own community who feel the indignities that I am facing vicariously,” Delaware U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Sarah McBride talks to the Advocate, blames trans advocates for absolutism, and going directly to Trans 301 when people are just at Trans 101. Doesn't specify whose rights we should throw under the bus but presumably unpopular things like child sports, blockers, etc. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
22 Nov 2025 -- In a victory for patient rights and privacy, PA judge blocks Trump’s admin. demand that Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) turn over medical records & parent data on trans minors it has treated. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Federal judge hands CHOP victory in its fight to protect medical records of transgender children
U.S. District Court Judge Mark A. Kearney sided with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and denied the bulk of the Department of Justice's subpoena seeking patient records.
www.inquirer.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
22 Nov 2025 -- In a victory for patient rights and privacy, PA judge blocks Trump’s admin. demand that Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) turn over medical records & parent data on trans minors it has treated. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
22 Nov 2025 -- 3-day manhunt continues for Irish teacher Enoch Burke previously imprisoned for contempt for "stalking" his former school ground after his dismissal for refusing to use student's name and pronouns. Burke claims this violates his religious faith. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Manhunt for teacher at centre of a row over transgender student
Enoch Burke contends he is being jailed for his religious beliefs, and has become a cause celebre among many on the far-right.
news.sky.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
22 Nov 2025 -- 3-day manhunt continues for Irish teacher Enoch Burke previously imprisoned for contempt for "stalking" his former school ground after his dismissal for refusing to use student's name and pronouns. Burke claims this violates his religious faith. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
22 Nov 2025 -- Hundreds of trans pride flags planted on Boston Commons in a planned city-licensed memorial for TDOR removed overnight anonymously. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Hundreds of transgender pride flags pulled from memorial on Boston Common
Hundreds of flags representing transgender rights were pulled from a memorial on Boston Common.
www.cbsnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
22 Nov 2025 -- Hundreds of trans pride flags planted on Boston Commons in a planned city-licensed memorial for TDOR removed overnight anonymously. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
So Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning from Congress effective Jan 5th. And Mamdani, the "socialist" insurgent has a love-fest with Trump whom he called a fascist. It sometimes feels like I'm living in the wrong movie.
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
So Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning from Congress effective Jan 5th. And Mamdani, the "socialist" insurgent has a love-fest with Trump whom he called a fascist. It sometimes feels like I'm living in the wrong movie.
The fact that Putin has agreed to Trump's "cease-fire" (i.e., Ukrainian surrender) terms but he's arm-twisting Zelensky to force him to the table tells you everything you need to know about it. Cpl. Bone-Spurs is turning and running from an ally under fire.
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The fact that Putin has agreed to Trump's "cease-fire" (i.e., Ukrainian surrender) terms but he's arm-twisting Zelensky to force him to the table tells you everything you need to know about it. Cpl. Bone-Spurs is turning and running from an ally under fire.
Interestingly a State Dept spokesperson added gratuitously that rights come "God, our creator, not by governments" which is a perfectly open admission that this administration does not feel itself bound by the Constitution but by Scripture. This is religious war now, nothing else.
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Interestingly a State Dept spokesperson added gratuitously that rights come "God, our creator, not by governments" which is a perfectly open admission that this administration does not feel itself bound by the Constitution but by Scripture. This is religious war now, nothing else.
21 Nov 2025 -- US embassies being told to categorize things trans kids' gender-transition, DEI policies, and subsidizing abortion as human rights violations for State Dept's annual human rights report @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
US says countries with DEI policies as infringing human rights
US officials say the rules will stop "destructive ideologies" but others argue it is redefining human rights principles for Trump's goals.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
21 Nov 2025 -- US embassies being told to categorize things trans kids' gender-transition, DEI policies, and subsidizing abortion as human rights violations for State Dept's annual human rights report @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
21 Nov 2025 -- New Sam Feder documentary film "Heightened Scrutiny" follows Chase Strangio as he prepares to argue Skirmetti before Supremes. Also serves as a rebuttal to anti-trans narratives pushed by the NYTimes.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
‘Fights for our material survival’: documentary goes inside the battle for trans rights
In Heightened Scrutiny, the fight driving activist and lawyer Chase Strangio is backgrounded by a deep dive into how the media has helped to push an anti-trans agenda
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
21 Nov 2025 -- New Sam Feder documentary film "Heightened Scrutiny" follows Chase Strangio as he prepares to argue Skirmetti before Supremes. Also serves as a rebuttal to anti-trans narratives pushed by the NYTimes.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
I've never understood how being trans is 'unnatural' and 'artificial' yet somehow so contagious and attractive at mere exposure to a book can turn kids trans. For something that's supposed to be 'biologically determined' and 'God's way' cisgender identity really is extraordinarily fragile.
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I've never understood how being trans is 'unnatural' and 'artificial' yet somehow so contagious and attractive at mere exposure to a book can turn kids trans. For something that's supposed to be 'biologically determined' and 'God's way' cisgender identity really is extraordinarily fragile.
21 Nov 2025 -- Alabama Public Library Service votes to move all books in teens and children's sections with any content on “transgender procedures, gender ideology or the concept of more than two biological genders” and move them to adult sections. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Alabama board votes to remove books about being transgender from public library youth sections | CNN
The board overseeing Alabama public libraries on Thursday voted to remove books that discuss being transgender from the teen and children’s sections of all public libraries in the state.
www.cnn.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
21 Nov 2025 -- Alabama Public Library Service votes to move all books in teens and children's sections with any content on “transgender procedures, gender ideology or the concept of more than two biological genders” and move them to adult sections. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
21 Nov 2025 -- HHS honors TDOR by dropping final version of its anti-GAC report. As if the medical consensus among 27 American medical assn's was just some internet meme. Visually all about scaremongering surgery altho almost all under-18s get only meds. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
21 Nov 2025 -- HHS honors TDOR by dropping final version of its anti-GAC report. As if the medical consensus among 27 American medical assn's was just some internet meme. Visually all about scaremongering surgery altho almost all under-18s get only meds. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
So the US Coast Guard in 24 hours has just reversed itself and decided (quite wisely in my opinion) that nooses, swastikas, and Confederate flags displays are indeed hate symbols. Good call guys. How about adding MAGA hats in there??
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
So the US Coast Guard in 24 hours has just reversed itself and decided (quite wisely in my opinion) that nooses, swastikas, and Confederate flags displays are indeed hate symbols. Good call guys. How about adding MAGA hats in there??
Reposted by Riki Wilchins
Grok, which Musk has touted as "maximally truth-seeking," and "the world's smartest AI," explained to X users today that Musk:
✅ Would beat Mike Tyson in a fight
✅ Is "strikingly handsome"
✅ Should have been drafted over Peyton Manning
✅ Outranks da Vinci as the world's top human
✅ Might be God
✅ Would beat Mike Tyson in a fight
✅ Is "strikingly handsome"
✅ Should have been drafted over Peyton Manning
✅ Outranks da Vinci as the world's top human
✅ Might be God
Over on X today, Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is having another normal one www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot ranks him as world history’s greatest human
Users on X shared examples of the “truth-seeking” AI chatbot praising its owner as “strikingly handsome,” a “genius,” and fitter than LeBron James.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Grok, which Musk has touted as "maximally truth-seeking," and "the world's smartest AI," explained to X users today that Musk:
✅ Would beat Mike Tyson in a fight
✅ Is "strikingly handsome"
✅ Should have been drafted over Peyton Manning
✅ Outranks da Vinci as the world's top human
✅ Might be God
✅ Would beat Mike Tyson in a fight
✅ Is "strikingly handsome"
✅ Should have been drafted over Peyton Manning
✅ Outranks da Vinci as the world's top human
✅ Might be God
Swastikas, nooses, and Confederate flags are fine; as long as they're not displaying Pride flags or rainbow paraphernalia.
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Swastikas, nooses, and Confederate flags are fine; as long as they're not displaying Pride flags or rainbow paraphernalia.
20 Nov 2025 -- Final iteration of HHS pseudoscience report on care exposes authors: a Who's Who of anti-trans quacks and activists: Leor Sapir (Manhattan Institute), Evgenia Abbruzzes (hate-group SEGM founder), Michael Laidlaw (ADF), Yuan Zhang (SEGM associate) etc. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Trump's Anti-Trans Report Authors Revealed: Hate Groups and Billionaire-Funded Anti-Trans Activists
The majority of the “expert” comments cited in the “peer review” seem to be just as ignorant as the authors about the reality of trans people’s care.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
20 Nov 2025 -- Final iteration of HHS pseudoscience report on care exposes authors: a Who's Who of anti-trans quacks and activists: Leor Sapir (Manhattan Institute), Evgenia Abbruzzes (hate-group SEGM founder), Michael Laidlaw (ADF), Yuan Zhang (SEGM associate) etc. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Coast Guard ends ban on swastikas, nooses, and Confederate flags as hate symbols. This should REALLY pump up unit cohesion among the troops.
www.newsweek.com/coast-guard-...
www.newsweek.com/coast-guard-...
Coast Guard ends hate symbol labels for swastikas, nooses: report
USCG won't classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols, shifting them to “potentially divisive."
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Coast Guard ends ban on swastikas, nooses, and Confederate flags as hate symbols. This should REALLY pump up unit cohesion among the troops.
www.newsweek.com/coast-guard-...
www.newsweek.com/coast-guard-...
"Republicans In Disarray!" Okay, not exactly the headline here. But close. The wheels aren't coming off yet but they're definitely wobbling. How how many Reps (you can take this test at home) think Trump's cratering approval number will _higher_ come the mid-terms? @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Behind the Curtain: Republicans see dire 2026 warning signs in these 5 polls
Everywhere Republicans look, they see big political trouble.
www.axios.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Republicans In Disarray!" Okay, not exactly the headline here. But close. The wheels aren't coming off yet but they're definitely wobbling. How how many Reps (you can take this test at home) think Trump's cratering approval number will _higher_ come the mid-terms? @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Another great long-form piece from the irreplaceable Julia Serano, this time on that "study" showing the "collapse" of trans-identification among young people that got the WSJ's editorial page all aflutter. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Lies, Damned Lies, and Transgender Statistics
plus over a dozen studies contradicting the “social contagion/rapid onset gender dysphoria” hypothesis
juliaserano.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Another great long-form piece from the irreplaceable Julia Serano, this time on that "study" showing the "collapse" of trans-identification among young people that got the WSJ's editorial page all aflutter. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
20 Nov 2025 -- Justine Lindsay, the NFL’s first trans cheerleader, revealed she was fired this year from the spot she had won in 2022 with the Carolina Panthers TopCats and held for 3 years: "This was right after Trump became president.... I was devastated." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
NFL’s first out trans cheerleader says she was fired for being trans just after Trump was elected - LGBTQ Nation
“It was like a big slap in the face to not only me but for the youth," she said. "And this was right after Trump became president.”
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
20 Nov 2025 -- Justine Lindsay, the NFL’s first trans cheerleader, revealed she was fired this year from the spot she had won in 2022 with the Carolina Panthers TopCats and held for 3 years: "This was right after Trump became president.... I was devastated." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Another shoe drops. His signature response to the problem posed by his own tariffs (which are taxes on Americans by another name) rebuffed by the Senate. Also his 50 year mortgages. Pushback on redistricting in TX & IN. Epstein files. Drip drip drip....
www.axios.com/2025/11/19/s...
www.axios.com/2025/11/19/s...
Trump's $2,000 tariff checks shunned by Senate Republicans
"I think we should pay down the deficit."
www.axios.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Another shoe drops. His signature response to the problem posed by his own tariffs (which are taxes on Americans by another name) rebuffed by the Senate. Also his 50 year mortgages. Pushback on redistricting in TX & IN. Epstein files. Drip drip drip....
www.axios.com/2025/11/19/s...
www.axios.com/2025/11/19/s...
Correction: incorrectly identified lovely Hailey Bierber as having _made_ transphobic comments not being targeted by trolls with them. She actually said she welcomed being called trans. (More signs of how transphobia beiingweaponized ag. cis women (Brigitte Macron call your answering service))
Gay Times on Instagram: "Hailey Bieber has addressed people who have said she looks trans in the best way 🏳️⚧️
On 24 October, Bieber appeared on Overcompensating star Owen Thiele’s podcast, In You...
62K likes, 484 comments - gaytimes on October 27, 2025: "Hailey Bieber has addressed people who have said she looks trans in the best way 🏳️⚧️
On 24 October, Bieber appeared on Overcompensating st...
www.instagram.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Correction: incorrectly identified lovely Hailey Bierber as having _made_ transphobic comments not being targeted by trolls with them. She actually said she welcomed being called trans. (More signs of how transphobia beiingweaponized ag. cis women (Brigitte Macron call your answering service))
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM