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Any comment on the regret rate necessary for you to start advocating against foreign invasions?

Would it need to be higher or lower than the regret rates for trans health care?

03.01.2026 20:05 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
AG Rayfield leads lawsuit challenging federal attack on gender-affirming care

AG Rayfield leads lawsuit challenging federal attack on gender-affirming care

“By targeting Oregon providers, HHS is putting care at risk and forcing families to choose between their personal health care choices and their doctor’s ability to practice. Healthcare decisions belong with families and their healthcare providers, not the government.”

“By targeting Oregon providers, HHS is putting care at risk and forcing families to choose between their personal health care choices and their doctor’s ability to practice. Healthcare decisions belong with families and their healthcare providers, not the government.”

AG Rayfield is leading a coalition of states in suing to ensure HHS cannot simply use a “declaration” to circumvent basic legal requirements for policy changes. The coalition argues that HHS is taking this unlawful action to intimidate providers, and that it will create fear and uncertainty for transgender youth and their families - and reduce access to care, worsen provider shortages, and harm Medicaid patients far beyond those seeking gender-affirming care.

AG Rayfield is leading a coalition of states in suing to ensure HHS cannot simply use a “declaration” to circumvent basic legal requirements for policy changes. The coalition argues that HHS is taking this unlawful action to intimidate providers, and that it will create fear and uncertainty for transgender youth and their families - and reduce access to care, worsen provider shortages, and harm Medicaid patients far beyond those seeking gender-affirming care.

In Oregon, gender-affirming care is protected under HB 2002, passed in 2023, which requires health insurance to cover medically necessary treatments, protects both patients and providers from out-of-state legal challenges, and ensures coverage for procedures including surgeries, hormone therapy, and revisions to prior treatments. This law makes clear that Oregon is a place where families can make their own health care decisions, and the state 
will defend their right to do so.

In Oregon, gender-affirming care is protected under HB 2002, passed in 2023, which requires health insurance to cover medically necessary treatments, protects both patients and providers from out-of-state legal challenges, and ensures coverage for procedures including surgeries, hormone therapy, and revisions to prior treatments. This law makes clear that Oregon is a place where families can make their own health care decisions, and the state will defend their right to do so.

BREAKING NEWS: We’re leading a lawsuit challenging federal attacks on gender-affirming care. Healthcare decisions belong with families & providers, not the government – and the government can't simply use a “declaration” to circumvent basic legal requirements for policy changes. #orpol #breakingnews

24.12.2025 03:37 👍 109 🔁 36 💬 6 📌 1
Frank Bruni and transgender people – Transgender Map

NYT journalist Frank Bruni is platforming anti-trans troll Katie Herzog at Duke next month, so I profiled Bruni (even read Bruni's 'Grievance' book). Bruni is very enamored with "gay erasure" conspiracists like Herzog and Andrew Sullivan.
www.transgendermap.com/people/frank...

22.12.2025 05:03 👍 97 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 2

Teehee

23.12.2025 02:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So….all I have to do is get on of those in my Xmas stocking, respectfully take foil off and tap consensually on a hard surface, and hey presto? She’ll pop out?

22.12.2025 00:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In this case we're talking trans folks, but I think it's important to know that the phrase "nothing about us without us" came from interracial - but mostly black - South African dis/ability activists working together in defiance of apartheid.

Crip culture is everywhere from the Vaal to the Ob.

20.12.2025 03:17 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Oh geez. The dumple to beget all dumplings

20.12.2025 04:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Call script for your US senators: "You will not get my vote in the midterms if you vote to sacrifice anyone - including trans people - to the Trump regime. I will not vote blue no matter who. You will lose my vote for life."

18.12.2025 04:26 👍 59 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 1

You don’t get to claim autism justice while ignoring racial injustice. Liberation for autistic people means dismantling every system that decides whose neurodivergence is tolerated and whose is punished….

13.12.2025 01:19 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
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AP: “Hundreds of immigrant children lingered in federal detention beyond a court-mandated limit, some more than five months… Attorneys highlighted the government’s own admissions to longer custody times, contaminated food, lack of medical care…” apnews.com/article/immi...

10.12.2025 05:42 👍 1478 🔁 871 💬 102 📌 85

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

10.12.2025 05:10 👍 8704 🔁 2601 💬 38 📌 32

My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me

10.12.2025 03:00 👍 1933 🔁 231 💬 49 📌 23
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The global implications of US health policy shifts The Trump administration has replaced medical leadership figures with those who are sceptical of vaccines

👏👏👏
utter chaos for future generations

“Vaccine hesitancy is a global problem, and when misinformation penetrates the heart of public health policy in one of the world’s most influential countries, it emboldens anti-science movements everywhere”
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

10.12.2025 00:44 👍 38 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0

Oh for the love of….

10.12.2025 03:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whoa and yeah she can play

10.12.2025 02:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Omg bedundered. Thank you

25.11.2025 23:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.

In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

25.11.2025 01:39 👍 1544 🔁 936 💬 20 📌 73

Politicians have all but abandoned their duties to the people, preferring instead to advocate for their own interests and bigotries, personal enrichment and power.
They no longer represent us in most cases, but themselves using our backs to stand upon, above us.

25.11.2025 08:42 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2

Comment and photo made me weep

11.10.2025 01:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Heh

08.10.2025 00:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love this one too. Am also reading backward.

08.10.2025 00:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I love this

08.10.2025 00:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every time.
Actually, most of F and T is still relevant to me today. And/or I imprinted on them in the early 70s and that’s been that.

08.10.2025 00:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tee hee!

08.10.2025 00:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a lot of newsrooms won't do stories about letters or have a really high bar. i'm sure a lot of nonprofit folk have noticed the trend. i think it's a bit sad b/c... idk, that's how i imagine civilized people communicate & people shouting gibberish on TV don't get the same treatment. but there it is.

01.10.2025 17:20 👍 138 🔁 46 💬 1 📌 0
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'Reconciliation isn't just about the Indigenous people and the government and the churches. It's about every Canadian. We all have to work at this if we want it to work. We have to put an effort into it,' says Two-Spirit Elder Charlotte Nolin.

Watch more: www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/r...

30.09.2025 20:17 👍 272 🔁 96 💬 4 📌 6
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Read my statement on President Trump’s decision to send U.S. troops to Portland.

27.09.2025 17:03 👍 794 🔁 296 💬 37 📌 26

How on earth have I never thought of this. Why of course. Would be…goopy, but the passage doesn’t mention goop. Reconstructing the camel post-needle-eye would be a challenge.

23.09.2025 04:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

21.09.2025 16:00 👍 3540 🔁 944 💬 6 📌 27

Kamala Harris' appeal to reasonable parents' concerns is no more than an appeal to the ubiquity of cis supremacist feelings as a rationale for valuing cis supremacists' anxieties over other human beings' lives.

21.09.2025 16:17 👍 110 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1