It strikes me that this is going to test the division between state and federal power againā¦
Yup, and I suspect that it is going to get ugly.
Iām not sure if this fits the topic here, but I didnāt see a regular LGBTQ+ thread and I wanted to share this cool animated short I discovered randomly:
For those who may have missed it, our article on why gatekeeping in trans healthcare simply isnāt supported by evidence will be available for free for a month!
Thanks to the editor for the free open access:
Bigotry.
Wow, half a percent, itās an epidemic of life-affirming medical care! Wonāt someone think of the children!
(Except for the 5% of US children who suffer violent physical abuse from adults, 20% of US children who suffer from food insecurity, and the 67% of US fourth graders who arenāt proficient at reading. They donāt count.)
As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon.
But itās a fight thatās been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries.
Heh, Iāve been drafting an email to send to my parents about all of this, sort of a second coming-out. I was going to include a bunch of stuff about the multiple genders in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Scythia, etc. before deciding maybe it was getting to be too much of an info dump.
Once again, Teen Vogue is doing good journalism while the big papers have turned into lap dogs.
Some people need an info dump.
