If your only lens for this is how it impacts cis folks with menopause, you're not seeing the angle that many TGDI folks probably find so torturous about these kinds of announcements.

Hell, M@kary even uses narrative verbiage commonly used by GAC advocates.

They want to reify cis HRT while demonizing trans HRT in order to keep reinforcing differences between populations, increasing the tension, erode solidarities, and damage morale by further stigmatizing TGDI people.

This as much about delivering a blow to the morale of TGDI folks and further drawing the differences of sex conformity and stereotypes that TGDI people challenge. It's no accident that breathless NYT pieces about women and testosterone are coming around the same time.

If it's not being reported by somebody who does hill or health policy work, chances are it is just speculation and influencer chatter.

and even if one version of the bill has the language in it, there is still opportunity to purge certain amendments in the conference process where the bills are lower-case r reconciled.

Even if the shutdown ended tomorrow, congress has a lot to catch up on. You will know when GAC-Hyde is up.

There is a lot to find confusing in this process and even staffers in offices routinely need to check their understanding of the process.

But it's critical, as Jael does, to disambiguate all of these bills so you don't conflate anti trans attacks in one for another.

Could you ask him if he's high?

Hey, chronically ill people on social media are asking me to ask you if you're fucking high right now because you seem to be in your own little world

For real though. Dems think the sharpest tool in their arsenal is a few harsh, but never mean, words in the press.