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TWIBS: Leopards Eat Jessica Riedl’s Face
Despite her insistence that she doesn’t want to be an activist or even talk about “trans issues,” conservative economics journalist Jessica Riedl has found herself at the center of a harassment campaign for merely existing.
Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles Moves to Block Gender Changes on State ID
The proposed change includes the information that there are no known beneficial effects.
Education Department Ruins Loan Forgiveness
The Department of Education is moving ahead with plans to make it vastly more difficult for pro-trans Americans to receive loan forgiveness. Assuming the department continues existing at all.
Skrmetti and the Future
In the wake of the devastating Supreme Court decision in US v Skrmetti, what are the further legal ramifications for other cases centered around the rights of transgender people?
Justice Department Uses Anti-Trans FTC Workshop to Announce Investigations
Leading Off: The DOJ launches investigations into gender-affirming care providers. ICE erases the numbers of transgender people in custody. And the EOCC resumes processing discrimination complaints by trans workers. The top story lines as the week begins.
TWIBS: PA Punishes Angry Gay Grandpa
Last year, activist James Lantz, known online as Angry Gay Grandpa, was arrested for a demonstration in PA. Now, they want to take thousands of dollars from a man with terminal cancer for the sin of… caring about trans kids?
In Washington, Seattle Socialists Marched for Trans Solidarity
A peaceful march on June 27th showed the deep support for trans rights that still exists in much of America.A peaceful march shows the deep support for trans rights that still exists in much of America.
Diagnoses like “Gender Dysphoria” May Not Be Medically Real — But They Sure Are Politically So
In Skrmetti, the court’s legal logic hinges upon a medical disorder, which has never been proven to exist— an “open secret” that applies to all psychiatric diagnoses.
A Conversation About Skrmetti With Ezra Young & Naomi Schoenbaum
Trans lawyers criticize both Roberts’ opinion and the ACLU’s strategy in the case that allowed state laws to discriminate against trans youth in healthcare.
Passports Are Again Available to Transgender Americans, However Briefly
Leading Off: Get your passport while you can. Plus, the Supreme Court will rule on trans sports bans and increasing legal activism targets the trans community in the U.K. The top storylines this week.
It’s the Fourth of July and SCOTUS Will Rule on Sports Bans
Trans girls belong in sports and everywhere else. And, for a time, they were.
TWIBS: The Never Ending L’s of Jenny Watson
The self-identified TERF who brought you “crappy cis lesbian dating app” continues to be unable to bring you “crappy cis lesbian bar.”
Journal Club: The Voices of Trans Children
A 2025 study takes the time to interview and speak with trans children to better understand the scope of the impacts of restrictions on gender affirming care.
Spain Makes Moves to Criminalize Conversion Therapy
Spain’s Socialist Parliamentary Group submitted a bill last month that would elevate the punishment for practicing conversion therapy, and it was approved and sent to the senate just last week.
A Clippings Scrapbook: Pride Month, Marsha P. Johnson, and The Eternal Recurrence of Trans Erasure
On July 3, 1992, the body of trans activist Marsha P. Johnson was found floating in the Hudson. Thirty-three years later, the trans community still finds itself at the end of a gun.
New Hampshire, a ‘Blue’ State, Is a Testing Ground for GOP’s Anti-Trans Push
Despite its record of voting Democratic, the state has seen a harsh, partisan turn that threatens trans care and rights.
Only a Blue Wall Can Block the GOP Drive to Strip Our Health Care
Leading Off: Will Democrats have the spine to stop them? A court ruling that enables religious discrimination. Hungarians defy a dictator. The week’s top story lines.
HHS Report Author Wrote a Book Claiming Gender Identity is Fiction
Alex Byrne’s ideological commitments were clear long before he was tapped by Trump to claim gender-affirming care is bad medicine.
TWIBS: DoE Says CA Must Get Discriminatory in 10 Days or Else
Another moment in the unfolding saga of California vs. Trump, in which the Department of Education wrongly says California violated Title IX and must start discriminating against trans girls soon or face their wrath.
NYT Publishes Andrew Sullivan’s Incoherent Mishmash of Anti-Trans Politics
Former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan published an opinion piece blaming trans people for attacks on the trans community.