9. This ruling is likely to spread fast: it effectively wipes out the Fourth Circuit’s 2024 Kadel precedent, threatens similar Medicaid cases nationwide, and helps build the legal framework for restricting or eliminating transgender adult healthcare.
6. The court’s logic is hypocritical: it says the ban applies equally to everyone, even though only trans people seek this care for gender dysphoria. As Sotomayor noted in Skrmetti, that is like banning interracial marriage for everyone and calling it equal treatment.
1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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Major thanks to @melodyschreiber.com for interviewing me about what biology actually says about sex & gender
Unscientific attacks on trans rights are fueled by fascism, not science, and harm all of us - cis or trans
Excellent reporting 🧬🏳️⚧️
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Safely on a train on my way home to Cambridge from #TransMission, though the train is somewhat later than it was supposed to be. Thank you so much to the organisers: it was a fabulous evening, and so good to be amongst so many other trans people, and also to be able to feel safe for an evening!
who called it an american express credit card statement instead of an ae iou
Decided to do some self care, really treat myself with something expensive* since it's so important to look after yourself, put on your own mask first, etc.
*buy petrol, I'm poor again
Did they close the Strait of Hormoooz?
I'm going to share this story one more time, because I think the problem it describes -- being unable to determine what is true online or in the news, and just giving up entirely on trying -- is going to get more and more common. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Dogs aid in Dublin put up a photo of these two strays, and for some reason everyone is convinced the guy on the left is the brains of the operation.
He comes from a profoundly creepy family.
“In his 1st detailed public comments on US-South Africa ties since arriving, Brent Bozell III said South Africa should change some of its affirmative action laws that were designed to redress the inequalities of South Africa’s decades of racial segregation under apartheid.”
Outrageous interference!
✨️ Adam Lambert all glittery & shiny...lookin' like the magical & mystical 🦄 he is...performed at Trans Mission Live, OVO Arena Wembley! 🔥🤩💜 #AdamLambert #TransMission #LGBTQIA #OVOArenaWembley
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Sugababes on stage at TransMission. Two audience members are silhouetted in the foreground.
#TransMission was amazing! Over four hours of top acts, guest appearances and DJ sets (they’re still going, but I’ve called it a night).
Such a great atmosphere 🥰
I hope they do it every year! Thanks to @goodlawproject.org @notaphaseorg.bsky.social @nionwomen.bsky.social 🙏🏻
Rousing night of dancing speeches & solidarity at #Transmission featuring bite-sized no killer-all filler sets from Sugababes, Beth Ditto & Christine & the Queens; & stirring words from Zack Polanski & Ian McKellen, the latter gave a spine-tingling reading of The Strangers’ Case @goodlawproject.org
🔥 Adam Lambert singing 'Ghost Town' at Trans Mission Live at OVO Arena Wembley!! 🙌🎤🎶🤩 #AdamLambert #TransMissionLive #OVOArenaWembley
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Meanwhile, at the Trans Mission concert tonight, all the good celebrities you actually like celebrate and defend trans people in front of tens of thousands of fellow supporters. Because the vast majority of us aren’t bigoted asshats.
Throw your hands in the air like you just don’t care (against an orange, flame lit background).
Olly Alexander going down very well with the Trans Mission crowd.
🙌 Adam Lambert raising the roof at Trans Mission Live at
OVO Arena Wembley!! 🔥🎤🎶
🤩💜 #AdamLambert #TransMission #OVOArena #Wembley #LGBTGIA
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Less than an hr into Trans Mission concert and I'm dehydrated with all the tears
#transjoy
For those at the back my I LOVE MY TRANS KID 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
NION on stage at Trans Mission.
@nionwomen.bsky.social spreading the good word and introducing Sophie Ellis-Bextor!
Zack Polanski on stage at Trans Mission.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social absolutely bringing the house down (and rocking that suit!).
This is all teetering on the brink of disaster, one fully made by Trump (Netanyahu wouldn’t have made a move if Trump hadn’t supported).
And now Trump knows his own screw-up could wreck the midterms for him.
Coping by watching Dr. Strangelove.
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
BREAKING: 18 Senate Dems confirm Trump's NSA Director:
Baldwin
Coons
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Kelly
King
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Whitehouse
Idk what needs to happen for corporate Dems to be the opposition party—not fascism is OK party😐
I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs.
This video is lowballing it.
Tesla and Louise
