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molly.wiki
If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
​Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdown​Trump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes
The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.
www.pressherald.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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juliaserano.bsky.social
...the anti-trans movement is at its core an anti-science movement:
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/trans-peop...
& Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...
Trans People and Sports: Everything You Need to Know
I have been writing about transgender people and issues for over twenty years now.
juliaserano.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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evanurquhart.bsky.social
I was first unsettled, then increasingly furious at the New York Times' coverage of the death of Lia Smith. Here's a thread sharing some trily despicable choices made by @julietmacur.bsky.social in writing about this young woman's suicide.
January 8, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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nuvy-iel.bsky.social
I don't have the energy to read this right now. But this past year has been horrific. All, and I mean ALL my trans friends from childhood are DEAD. I know of trans kids who are DEAD.

This is a genocide and I'm tired of people looking away from it. I'm tired of the silence.

I'm exhausted.
December 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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katelynburns.com
Emma Hilton is one of the leading anti-trans athlete scientists and her most used "study" claiming trans women have an inherent biological advantage does not use any data from any trans women.
2damntrans.bsky.social sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · Feb 11
[“GC” voice] I’ll see your 3500 scientists and their paltry empirical evidence and raise you a teleological and positively creationist-adjacent theory of sex in which humans (evolved organisms) are comparable to buses (designed objects), with unchangeable destinations.
Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles • Feb 14 Replying to @DrGipps and @SarahTheHaider This is a kind of bus that is supposed to take people to Hampstead Heath. We know its intended timings and its milestones, and it will achieve that journey unless something atypical happens. It will make that journey whether empty or full. I don't see this as complicated? X LuIs stand Hamstead Heath 168 S L121548 8 17 6 • 58 5,068 1 Richard Gipps @DrGipps • Feb 14 You speak of 'intended /atypical/supposed to. We fathom these relative to our purposes: 'atypicality' here is normative not statistical. But nature, it's oft said, doesn't have purposes. Hence the 'complication: what legitimates our talk of what a body *ought* to be able to do? • з 17 © 13 1a 1,892 1. Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles We fathom it because the sign on the bus says "Hampstead Heath" ; The purpose of the bus is to go to Hampstead Heath. The purpose of ovaries is to make eggs.
December 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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davidforbes.bsky.social
Sigh. Since pieces are going around using "medieval peasant" as a perjorative again, here's your reminder that they were way better organized, more rebellious, less superstitious, more aware of sanitation and way more ingenious than you've probably been taught. I've written about this *a lot.*
Swords Against the Throne | Collection from David Forbes | 8 posts
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December 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
sloppyeeeeee.bsky.social
more important than ever to support artists whose work creates a positive image of the future
December 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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hunterw.bsky.social
The organized astroturfing and financing of these extreme ideologies is one of the key stories of our time
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25d
Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.

Notably, $420k was incentive-based.

A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.

I wonder what the per-post rate is?
December 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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bogbird.bsky.social
you need to make crap that sucks before you can make something good. don’t let ai take away the process from you
December 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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gadyepstein.bsky.social
This piece is cooking
Men can be precious about gender identity. When challenged, they feel the need to prove their masculinity, often by lashing out at women. Media anti-alarmists are uncomfortable being feminized. They want to show that, yes, they’re anti-Trump, but they’re not one of those sanctimonious, hysterical, annoying, cringe liberals. The result is a preposterous dynamic in which (non-elite) Cassandras, who often live in red areas and talk to MAGA zealots every day, are lectured on understanding them by columnists who may have never talked to one, on their own turf, in their entire lives. The columnists’ experience of the modern right is of their sanitizers: of pseudo-intellectual apologists; of having Ross Douthat on their podcast. They have not had to fear for their lives coming out as gay or trans in a deep, dark-red community. They have not had family stage an intervention because they believe progressivism is literally demonic. British journalist John Harris, quoted above, felt confident to tell terrified liberals—in the most condescending language—they’d misunderstood MAGA, after spending “the best part of five days” in the States.
December 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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assignedmedia.org
20 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Policy withdrawing Medicaid/Medicare from facilities providing pediatric GAC to undergo 60-day public comment + ACLU's new lawsuit. For families seeking unaffected providers _now_ check out Trans Youth Emergency Project.
(Intake: southernequality.org/tyep)
Trans Youth Emergency Project Offers Families Guidance To Help Keep Getting Care After New Trump Anti-Trans Rule
The organization tells EITM that they are prepared to scale up for further shutdown of care, and can offer most families places to continue getting care.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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gvitiello.bsky.social
There's actually a whole set of Mental Health Primers for educators - how to support students experiencing anxiety, bullying, racism, problems with attention, etc. I'd never come across these before so maybe you haven't, either, but they're good.

www.apa.org/ed/schools/p...
www.apa.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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propublica.org
NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.

Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
projects.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Dec 10
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.

archive.ph/Tmthz
Father's anger at girl's potentially fatal testosterone dose The child, who was 15 at the time, was given the prescription by the private GenderGP clinic after one online counselling session He has lost contact with his daughter - he does not even know what she got in her GCSEs - and now that she is 18, he no longer gets court-ordered medical updates. In the final one he learnt that she was booked in for surgery imminently. Now he drives over with birthday presents but is not allowed in. He remembers the last time he saw her, after she had started taking testosterone. Looking at his photographs, he remembers dropping her home: "When she said goodbye, her smile was the same girly shy smile she had as a little girl. Somewhere in there is my daughter."
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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assignedmedia.org
A lawyer who helped lead Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election was also heavily involved in lawsuits seeking to ban trans women from sports.

@billiejsweeney.bsky.social took a deep look at the strategies and coordination behind sports bans in one of our most read pieces this year.
Behind the Right’s Attacks on Trans Girls in Sports — Assigned
Conservative media, legal, political, and business leaders came together in a breathtaking assault on human rights.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
sloppyeeeeee.bsky.social
we're going to make grandma immortal. sorry, i meant we're going to solve grandma's mortality. sorry, sorry, i meant to say we have immortal grandma at home.
the-independent.com The Independent @the-independent.com · Dec 10
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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scotnational.bsky.social
Harassment, 'untruthful' evidence, and 'unusual' legal questions. Our reporter Xander Elliards looks at nine points from the Sandie Peggie ruling that the rest of the media has left out
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
My answer, if this question were directed at me, would be that such close readings are carried out every day on social media. You literally can't post an AI-generated image without someone zooming in on weird details. This is mostly the pseudo-forensic joy of debunking AIslop, but not exclusively
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robhorning.bsky.social Rob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social · Dec 8
this gets at the question of whether one can close-read a generated text or image; the contingencies in them indicate something about the training data, but there seems to be nothing aesthetic in it www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In twentieth-century theory, however, the accidental, unintended, seemingly insignificant photographic detail has become a defining feature of the photographic as an esthetic phenomenon, most notably for Barthes (Citation1981). The famous ‘punctum’, the almost accidental detail that cannot easily be subsumed under the more obvious culturally coded meaning of the photograph, is analyzed by Barthes as a kind of excess of contingency that transcends any legible caption, written description and ultimately any intended meaning. As visual details that were never prompted, the strange distortions in AI-generated images also create an excess of visual contingency beyond the reproducible patterns, stereotypes and clichés that the model was trained to reproduce, thus transcending any intended meaning. In contrast to Barthes’s punctum, however, the contingency manifested in the impossible and distorted spaces of AI image generation is not the contingency of the material world, but the contingency of the statistical process that generates these images.
December 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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robhorning.bsky.social
this gets at the question of whether one can close-read a generated text or image; the contingencies in them indicate something about the training data, but there seems to be nothing aesthetic in it www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In twentieth-century theory, however, the accidental, unintended, seemingly insignificant photographic detail has become a defining feature of the photographic as an esthetic phenomenon, most notably for Barthes (Citation1981). The famous ‘punctum’, the almost accidental detail that cannot easily be subsumed under the more obvious culturally coded meaning of the photograph, is analyzed by Barthes as a kind of excess of contingency that transcends any legible caption, written description and ultimately any intended meaning. As visual details that were never prompted, the strange distortions in AI-generated images also create an excess of visual contingency beyond the reproducible patterns, stereotypes and clichés that the model was trained to reproduce, thus transcending any intended meaning. In contrast to Barthes’s punctum, however, the contingency manifested in the impossible and distorted spaces of AI image generation is not the contingency of the material world, but the contingency of the statistical process that generates these images.
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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harmscommitted.com
"United States Tennis Association has changed its policies for trans women players in compliance with Trump's order."

"The policy changes came on the heels of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton [..] announcing an investigation into USTA’s Texas league."
#Texas #USA #Sports
USTA bans trans athletes from competing as women to comply with Trump executive order
The national tennis governing body's policy change was made with no announcement.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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ddayen.bsky.social
Spectacular #longread on the history of the right-wing opposition in Venezuela, and how during Juan Guaido's shadow government an abominable legal strategy robbed the country of $30 billion destined for corporate claims holders. Amazing work from Moe Tkacik.
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
The $30 Billion Identity Theft of Venezuela - The American Prospect
How Juan Guaidó sucked a weary nation dry, and primed it for the current U.S.-led assault
prospect.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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kirstimiller30.bsky.social
Diversity in sport expert and former world champion athlete Kirsti Miller critiques World Rugby's ban on transgender women players. She also discusses the inclusion progress made by many sporting codes in Australia, including rugby. (starts at 28:50).

www.3cr.org.au/inyaface/epi...
Trump, the Election and the Far Right, Dr Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia; World Rugby Ban on Transgender Women, Kirsti Miller
Interviews with Dr Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia and Kirsti Miller. Fascism historian Dr Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia from Texas State University discusses Trump and the Far Right during the election campa...
www.3cr.org.au
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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transnews.network
Today for Trans Day of Remembrance, don't forget that last month, Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have prevented discrimination against trans people in insurance and allowed people who need hormones to stockpile a year's worth of supply.

He also vetoed a PreP bill that had bipartisan support.
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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kirstimiller30.bsky.social
The truth about Riley Gaines.
Hear what Riley’s teammates have to say about her and the abuse they received at the hands of their coach (something the fierce protector of women in sports has never spoken about!)

MUST WATCH

m.youtube.com/watch?v=iKUl...
What Is Riley Gaines Hiding? We Investigated | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
m.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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motherjones.com
With its hateful rhetoric, the right seeks to cast gender identity not as something you are, but as something dangerous that you believe. We aren’t against trans people, just their ideology.

Yet the end goal is the same: to wipe out transness itself.
How the right uses "gender ideology" to blame trans people for everything
MAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear.
www.motherjones.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM