Promise made: pushing trans people out of the public square [Archive] - Page 2

Winehole23

06-18-2025, 09:22 AM

SCOTUS blesses antitrans animus in Skrmetti

Doctors in the United States prescribe hormones and puberty inhibitors to treat a range of medical conditions. Often, they are administered to help minors conform to the typical appearance associated with their sex identified at birth. Children who start experiencing puberty at a premature age (precocious puberty), for example, have long received puberty-delaying medications to stave off puberty until adolescence. See App. 22. Adolescent boys might also receive the hormone testosterone to initiate puberty delayed beyond its typical start. App. to Pet. for Cert. 266a. Without testosterone, puberty would “eventually initiate Cite as: 605 U. S. ____ (2025) SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting 3 naturally” in most patients, but medication “is often prescribed to avoid some of the social stigma that comes from undergoing puberty later than one’s peers.” Ibid. Adolescent females with delayed puberty may receive the hormone estrogen for the same reason. Ibid. After puberty begins, doctors may prescribe these same medicines to adolescents whose physical appearance does not align with what one might expect from their sex identified at birth. An adolescent female, for example, might receive testosterone suppressors and hormonal birth control to reduce the growth of unwanted hair on her face or body (sometimes called male-pattern hair growth or hirsutism). See ibid.; see also App. 100 (“[M]edications that are used to suppress testosterone can be used to address symptoms of polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can include unwanted facial hair and body hair, excessive sweating, and body odor”); Brief for Experts on Gender Affirming Care as Amici Curiae 12 (describing the prevalence of hirsutism in people identified as female at birth).1 An adolescent male may also receive hormones to address a benign but atypical increase in breast gland tissue (known as gynecomastia), sometimes resulting from below-average testosterone levels. See, e.g., G. Kanakis et al., EAA Clinical Practice Guidelines—Gynecomastia Evaluation and Management, 7 Andrology 778, 779–780 (2019). Like any medical treatment, hormones and puberty blockers come with the potential for side effects. See, e.g., App. to Pet. for Cert. 266a–267a; App. 970974; Brief for United States 45–46. Yet patients and their parents may decide to proceed with treatment on the advice of a physician, despite the accompanying medical risks.https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-477_2cp3.pdf

Winehole23

06-18-2025, 09:33 AM

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Winehole23

06-18-2025, 01:58 PM

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.it's a mediagenic moral panic

Winehole23

07-03-2025, 08:42 AM

Federal judge vacates website scrubbing in furtherance of Trump's anti-trans EO

An executive order can do a lot, but it does not absolve agencies of their obligations to follow the law. The defendants acted contrary to law and arbitrarily and capriciously in swiftly enacting and implementing sweeping and poorly thought-through directives that ordered the bulk removal of health care resources on which the government had induced substantial and ongoing reliance. Hence, the Court must vacate both directives and the actions taken pursuant to them that caused the plaintiffs’ injuries—i.e., the substantial modification or removal of webpages and datasets on which the plaintiffs rely. Despite the defendants’ concern, this decision does not threaten the government’s ability to “choose[] what to say and what not to say.” See Opp’n at 1 (quoting Shurtleff v. City of Boston, 596 U.S. 243, 251 (2022)). Far from it. The government is free to say what it wants, including about “gender ideology.” But in taking action, it must abide by the bounds of authority and the procedures that Congress has prescribed, through the APA and otherwise. And the government failed to do so here.https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277069/gov.uscourts.dcd.277069.60.0.pdf

Winehole23

02-26-2026, 09:02 PM

valid state IDs and driver's licenses invalidated without notice

conspicuous delight in stripping a tiny and harmless minority of their rights and indeed their personal identity -- is noticed

Transgender Kansas residents have begun receiving letters from the state’s department of motor vehicles notifying them that their driver’s licenses will be invalid beginning Thursday, as a new law goes into effect that demands that forms of identification must now reflect the credential holder’s “sex at birth”.

The bill, known as SB 244 (https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/documents/sb244_enrolled.pdf), also bans transgender people from using bathrooms in public buildings that match their gender identity, and creates a sort of bounty hunter system, in which citizens can sue transgender people they encounter in restrooms for $1,000 in damages.

The state law was rushed through the state legislature using an expedited procedure known as “gut and go”. This means the text of one bill can be taken out and substituted for entirely new language or provisions, bypassing standard committee vetting and speeding through the voting process, which is legal in Kansas (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kansas).

Governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, vetoed the bill, arguing that SB 244 was “poorly drafted legislation”, but her veto was overridden (https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article314746716.html) by the state legislature’s Republican supermajority.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/kansas-trans-drivers-license-law-assault-on-rights

Winehole23

02-26-2026, 09:08 PM

this case btw is about to face the wrath of the judge at issue, Royce Lamberth

this is after the judicial order to cease retaliating

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Winehole23

02-26-2026, 09:14 PM

bathroom bounties

Anyone found to have improperly used a restroom or other private space in a government building would face a written warning for a first violation. A second violation would carry a $1,000 fine, and each subsequent violation would be a misdemeanor offense punishable by another fine and up to six months in jail.

Anyone who believes someone used the wrong restroom in their presence could file a complaint seeking $1,000.

“This whole deputization thing — it turns Kansas residents into Dog the Bounty Hunter,” Lawson said. “So now I have to worry about people watching me walk into the ladies’ room, and then oh, they’re going to call in a $1,000 bounty on me. That is just so, so wrong on so many levels.

“I have several trans male friends,” she said. “You cannot tell by looking at them. They’ve got like Moses-level beards going on, and this law is putting them in the ladies’ room. It’s completely insane.”
https://amp.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article314844596.html

Winehole23

02-26-2026, 09:17 PM

another pretextual traffic stop

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Winehole23

02-27-2026, 06:20 AM

this case btw is about to face the wrath of the judge at issue, Royce Lamberth

this is after the judicial order to cease retaliating

https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3mfqizli5b22h
Lamberth outright laughs at the DOJ attorney's statement that it was going to file a motion to reconsider his no-retaliation order: "In light of this, you think I'm going to reconsider my retaliation order?"

Lamberth says he's considering holding individual officials at the BOP in contempt.

Lamberth's back. He orders the warden and all of the officers named in the plaintiffs' affidavits to show cause by Tuesday why they shouldn't be held in civil contempt. He also orders BOP to give him a plan as to how they'll protect plaintiffs from further retaliation. Hearing next Thursday.https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mfrxp65jik2a

Winehole23

03-17-2026, 08:18 AM

revoking, IDs, denying access to medical care and public accommodations

the Lemkin Institute has flagged this as an unfolding genocide in the US: https://www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-alerts/red-flag-alert---anti-trans-genocide-in-the-usa---%233

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Winehole23

07-02-2026, 11:25 AM

Trump's imperial proclamations and bigoted policies keeps getting creamed in court

A federal court issued a ruling Tuesday that paves the way for all transgender service members to continue serving in the military despite a Trump administration policy that ordered their removal.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion to certify Talbott v. USA as a class action lawsuit several weeks after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said in a June 1 ruling that the Pentagon’s transgender military ban was unlawful.

The June ruling only allowed the plaintiffs in that case to continue serving, meaning all other transgender service members are currently still banned from the military. But if the class action lawsuit goes into effect in two weeks along with with the June ruling, the protections won in Talbott v. USA would extend to all transgender service members currently serving.

“The protection afforded to our plaintiffs should be available to all transgender servicemembers and their families,” said National Center for LGBTQ Rights Legal Director Shannon Minter. “We know that this ban is discriminatory, rooted in animus, and irrationally excludes highly decorated servicemembers who have deployed around the world and given everything to our country.”https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/07/02/transgender-troops-granted-class-action-lawsuit-against-government/

Winehole23

07-02-2026, 01:09 PM

State of Florida is big mad at the CLRG and IDTANA (two orgs that govern Irish Dance competitions) for allowing trans girls to participate as girls in the 2026 world championship

Both orgs told Florida to pound sand

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Winehole23

07-02-2026, 01:10 PM

MAGAs trying to tell private orgs how to set guidelines for their own competitions

Winehole23

08-12-2026, 07:13 PM

Trans men follow the law and use bathrooms according to the declared gender on their birth certificates

Police are summoned to eject them by pervy would-be genital inspectors

On August 8, police arrived on the scene of Long Branch Lagoon Water Park in Dodge City, Kansas, to the sight of three self-described “bearded, burly men” who had been in the women’s bathroom and changing area. The manager of the municipally run property allegedly screamed and rushed children out the door.

The men knew this was likely. They didn’t agitate any of the women; they didn’t remove their clothes or make crass comments. They simply used the gendered spaces that the state of Kansas requires them to use by law, because these men are transgender.

“Supporters of SB244, including Attorney General Kris Kobach and Senate Majority Leader Ty Masterson, billed it as a way to keep men out of women’s spaces; it clearly requires some men to enter women’s spaces,” a press release sent to news outlets reads. So, these men took action—using malicious compliance to prove their point.

“Segregating people by suspected genitalia does nothing to improve public safety; it does quite the opposite by opening Kansans up to sexual harassment and discrimination. At no point should anyone be asking anyone else what genitals they have in public.”
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/police-called-on-trans-men-using

Winehole23

08-14-2026, 02:17 AM

it's glib to say anti-trans policy is fascistic scapegoating but it's also straightforwardly true. something similar goes for the current mass deportation rampage vis-a-vis immigrants.

this Masha Gessen article lays out how this is playing out practically in Kansas, which as an extreme new gender law related to state IDs

On May 5, Kris Ripper, a trans woman, was stopped while driving home from work for failing to turn on her headlights in the rain. The police officer repeatedly asked her why her license indicated that she was male; she explained that the law required it. Almost two months later she found out that she had been charged with a misdemeanor for driving without a valid license. (Ripper talked to another trans reporter (https://www.transiticsnews.com/p/she-changed-her-id-to-comply-with) about her predicament, but declined to speak with me.) The charge was eventually dropped, but not before she was threatened with a $1,000 fine and jail time.

I asked Boatman how she was managing after the law was enacted. The Kansas State Capitol in Topeka is a grand 19th-century building whose ornate frescoes, murals and exhibits attract droves of tourists daily. It’s also a public building that is subject to the bathroom provisions of S.B. 244. “I have my separate but equal bathroom,” Boatman said — the Capitol’s one single-occupancy bathroom, which doubles as a lactation room. (“So now you are pitting a breastfeeding woman against a trans woman,” Boatman told me ruefully.) One time there was a call of the House, a parliamentary procedure used to create a quorum. Boatman didn’t hear the call because she was on a different floor, awaiting her turn in the bathroom. Later, a fellow legislator called her out for having been absent. “I was using the only bathroom this Legislature has said I can use,” she said.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/opinion/kansas-anti-trans-laws-drivers-license.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5FA.Pc6l.HkIY 8XEoCxrm&smid=url-share

Winehole23

08-14-2026, 02:17 AM

In the 1930s, a German Jewish jurist named Ernst Fraenkel developed a model he called the dual state. It is a state in which some people are subjected to increasingly restrictive laws that are applied arbitrarily while others continue to live in a regular, rules-based society. Fraenkel referred to the former as the prerogative state — a state whose defining characteristic is the authorities’ exercise of their prerogatives — and the latter the normative state. Fraenkel’s theory has enjoyed something of a renaissance in the United States during Trump’s second term, probably because it helps many Americans square their understanding of a rising autocracy with their subjective experience of daily life continuing as before. In Nazi Germany, the prerogative state was small: It encompassed some 600,000 Jews (https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/nuremberg-laws) and even smaller numbers of Roma and Sinti, homosexuals, members of the Communist Party and the physically and mentally disabled. In the United States, Black people, Indigenous people and many immigrants, at a minimum, have long — have always — experienced state power as arbitrary and violent. That’s a much larger group. But even so, when the prerogative state expands, it shocks us: When a white U.S. citizen is shot by an immigration agent, or when a white person in Kansas wakes up to find out that they no longer have a valid ID — in a sense, to find that they are now undocumented in their own country.

Winehole23

08-14-2026, 02:18 AM

Fascism works not only by the passage of arbitrary, dehumanizing laws but by the arbitrary, dehumanizing enforcement of the laws.

Winehole23

08-14-2026, 02:19 AM

When S.B. 244 passed, Amanda Mogoi started giving her patients letters to carry around attesting to their gender-affirming treatment, and including her nursing license number and contact information. She learned this approach from her husband, a Kenyan immigrant. Even though he has legally lived in the United States for two decades, until recently, he carried what Mogoi describes as a giant accordion folder in his car, containing his immigration papers, his nurse-practitioner diploma, their marriage license, photographs of their family and more. It came in handy, Mogoi said, when he was “sundowned out of a town” where he had gone to see a patient. She added, “I’m afraid that’s where we are headed with our trans folks.”

It was striking to hear Mogoi make that comparison. But this is part of the dual-state effect: the shocking realization that you can suddenly be thrown into the category of people who can’t drive down a country road without risking running afoul of the rules. And once you are in that category, you can’t hide. Charles, for example, lives 25 miles from where he grew up. People here have known him since childhood. Many have been either supportive or quietly accepting of his transition. But that was before the Kansas attorney general and the U.S. president declared war on trans people. “It worries me sometimes,” Charles said. “It’s a rural area. And everybody’s got guns.”

Winehole23

08-14-2026, 02:21 AM

startling internal migration has resulted from the trans panic

I have written about many displaced people in different parts of the world. One thing I’ve learned is that the people who leave first are usually those who have resources, those who have connections elsewhere, those who have traveled. Generally speaking, these are not the people who are hit hardest by whatever disaster they are escaping. In Kansas, for example, it’s the working-class people who have jobs that require a driver’s license, the people whose bathroom breaks are timed, the people who can’t afford to pay a fine if they are issued a citation who are likely to feel the effects of S.B. 244 most acutely. “The people who call us are usually flat broke and desperate,” said Keira Richards, who is also based in Colorado and runs another organization for displaced trans people, the Trans Continental Pipeline. In November 2023, during an event for Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual commemoration of victims of anti-trans violence, Richards and her friends noticed a lot of new arrivals. That year, state legislatures across the country considered a record-breaking 615 anti-trans laws and passed 87 of them, according to the research organization Trans Legislation Tracker. (In 2025, the group found that well over 1,000 anti-trans bills (https://translegislation.com/bills/2025) were considered and 126 passed.) These included bathroom bills; gender marker bills; bills banning drag, books and gender-inclusive language in schools; and bills restricting access to gender-affirming care. So trans people and their families were leaving states like Texas, Utah and Idaho. Many of them were moving next door, to blue Colorado.

Winehole23

08-14-2026, 02:22 AM

A recent report conducted by the Williams Institute at the U.C.L.A. School of Law showed that almost half (https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/transgender-moving-desire/) of the transgender Americans surveyed were considering leaving or had already left their state or the country. Most of them cited the “anti-trans climate” in their state.

Winehole23

08-25-2026, 04:41 PM

Texas drag ban ruled unenforceable

Overbroad, violation of 1A, viewpoint discrimination, "has no legitimate sweep"

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Winehole23

08-25-2026, 04:42 PM

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Winehole23

08-25-2026, 05:23 PM

"Finally, for those who find such activities as described in this case offensive, the solution is relatively simple … just don’t go."

Winehole23

08-27-2026, 08:38 PM

eat shit, losers

Although the district's 2026 dress code no longer targets transgender students, it still leaves a lot to be desired. The current version (https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/3730/Gisd/e122034c-4895-4ac1-95ea-a0f2a6bf9154/2024-2026_Student_Dress_Code.pdf?disposition=inline&ref=thebarbedwire.com) bans all students, from seventh to twelfth grades, from wearing skirts or dresses, regardless of gender.https://www.thebarbedwire.com/trans-teen-from-rural-texas-forces-high-school-to-change-transphobic-dress-code/

Winehole23

08-28-2026, 03:59 PM

way more cops have improperly violated the privacy of Americans than there are trans athletes purportedly queering fairness in women's sports

the moral panic is grossly disproportionate against trans people

Lufkin, TX police officer used Flock cameras to look up his ex-girlfriend more than 10,000 times in a span of 18 months. www.kbtx.com/2026/08/27/o... (https://www.kbtx.com/2026/08/27/officer-accused-using-flock-cameras-search-ex-girlfriends-plate-more-than-10000-times/)

Winehole23

08-28-2026, 11:15 PM

I got at least 25 of these were this came from, and I'm not even trying

Winehole23

08-31-2026, 05:42 PM

The war on trans athletes is a war against women's sports per se

1) what about the competitive sanctity of women’s sports?! men are changing their genders so they can win at college swim meets!! our precious female athletes!!! ��

2) Title IX is unfair discrimination against men [we are here]

3) women’s sports should be banned

"both competitive drive [of men] and male friendship have suffered under the weaponized application of Title IX" @heritagefdn.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2o3xctn4dp3zj33vyihbvo5x)

claims...adding that "cheerleading, dance, yoga...and recreational intramurals" are "more aligned with average female interests" www.heritage.org/gender/repor... (https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/title-ixs-failed-experiment-why-accommodating-sex-differences-beats-engineered-parity)

Winehole23

09-06-2026, 07:06 PM

i'm a right wing writer. i believe that trans women should be kept out of women's sports to protect women's sports, which should be abolished

Winehole23

10-08-2026, 11:03 PM

Navy board of inquiry bridles at Kriegsminister Pete's trans ban

“On September 23, 2026, the U.S. Navy held a board of inquiry to decide whether to involuntarily separate Plaintiff-Appellee Clara Winchell,” the lawyers wrote, noting that the board concluded that Winchell “was disqualified from service under the ban.“ It did not stop there, though.

If President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth weren’t so set on kicking out trans people, the board wrote that it “without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service.“

The lawyers included the board’s action in Winchell’s case:

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In the attachment, the Navy board made clear that Trump and Hegseth’s policy requirements are not what they want to be doing.

Specifically, they wrote that the policy “significantly limited the scope of the proceeding“ before highlighting additional points “[t]o accurately capture the totality” of the board’s findings. This is where, among other points, the board stated that, “without reservation,” it would not support kicking Winchell out of the Navy were it not for the Trump/Hegseth policy.

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In short, a Navy board of inquiry is explicitly highlighting and putting in writing that the Trump/Hegseth anti-trans policy is not one its members would have chosen.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-trump-administration-wants-to