They’re also, relatively speaking, powerless in government and business.
That’s true, partly just naturally from the correlation that (openly) trans people skew younger, and that’s already a demographic with very little power in such things.
Alstein
1599
Right now i think there’s one trans governor, and maybe 6 state legislators.
ShivaX
1600
“‘Drag shows are going to harm our children,’ statistically speaking it’s much more likely a priest will.”
Timex
1601
Those groups are also generally the target of mindless hate in the US.
How a state AG can dictate medical policy is beyond me. The ACLU is probably going to sue MO and I’m not sure why the DoJ isn’t getting involved, but I don’t know enough about constitutional law to know if they can.
By the way that emergency rule cited the New York Times.
(And here’s a story the NYT was planning on from a freelancer, subsequently killed.)
https://nitter.net/Esqueer_/status/1646868751562973185#m
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The New York Times and Benjamin Ryan are writing another transphobic hit piece looking for providers who “have misgivings about gender affirming care.” Providers and advocates should ignore any outreach or requests for comment from Ryan as he is another Jesse Singal.
Here’s Parker Malloy on the NYT from a few months back
After all, it’s not as though many of these New York Times stories about trans kids originated with new studies or recommendations from medical organizations. No, these stories mostly seem to be the result of a relentless right-wing attack campaign that has been going on for years . (Look, here’s something I wrote nine years ago about the right-wing “maybe there are too many trans kids these days!” arguments that try to frame accessing care as “child abuse.”) These stories do not provide scientifically supported non-transition-related treatments because such treatments do not exist. The framing of these stories tends to paint the “side” of this debate that is trying to outlaw medical care simply because it doesn’t like the group of people who are helped by it and doesn’t want that group to participate in society as totally reasonable. The “other” side, the side that believes that decisions about health care are best left up to patients and their doctors — not politicians — somehow gets framed as more extreme than the first group.
There’s a way to cover these topics in ways that could better address questions about coverage. It might even result in more coverage of this topic if the Times is so interested. This is the opposite of trying to “censor” anyone. This isn’t a case of anyone saying that news about trans people should be omitted from the newspaper . Cover it! Cover the politics of it! No one is saying you shouldn’t! But yes, as far as the press is concerned, you do have a responsibility to note that the people you’re covering are human beings who do have a right to exist in society.
Lastly, how these toxic violations of human rights have come to pass.
Alstein
1603
Health concerns are largely the domain of state governments, so these states can do genocides if they wish.
JonRowe
1604
Fuck the NYT
Like I said, all of these trans panic articles are coming not from concern, but from a dark right wing plot to push a culture war.
And to see liberals get caught up in it saddens and disappoints me.
Alstein
1605
But not unexpected at all.
Jesus, I have to admit when that letter originally came out I wasn’t entirely cognizant of what it was objecting to, because I’ve been steadfastly ignoring the NYT for quite awhile, but that shit is sociopathic.
JonRowe
1607
Contrapoints discusses the “Witch Trial of JK Rowling” podcast in which she participated.
Sounds like she regrets being on it, because the overall tone of the podcast differed from what she was expecting.
Alstein
1610
A good read here for folks to get an idea of what it’s like.
Oops, anti-trans “physician” group accidentally outs themselves.
A DOCTORS’ ORGANIZATION at the center of the ongoing legal fight over the abortion drug mifepristone has suffered a significant data breach. A link to an unsecured Google Drive published on the group’s website pointed users last week to a large cache of sensitive documents, including financial and tax records, membership rolls, and email exchanges spanning over a decade. The more than 10,000 documents lay bare the outsize influence of a small conservative organization working to lend a veneer of medical science to evangelical beliefs on parenting, sex, procreation, and gender.
The American College of Pediatricians, which has fought to deprive gay couples of their parental rights and encouraged public schools to treat LGBTQ youth as if they were mentally ill, is one of a handful of conservative think tanks leading the charge against abortion in the United States. A federal lawsuit filed by the College and its partners against the US Food and Drug Administration seeks to limit nationwide access to what is today the most common form of abortion. The case is now on a trajectory for the US Supreme Court, which not even a year ago declared abortion the purview of America’s elected state representatives.
The leaked records, first reported by WIRED, offer an unprecedented look at the groups and personnel central to that campaign. They also describe an organization that has benefited greatly by exaggerating its own power, even as it has struggled quietly for two decades to grow in size and gain respect. The records show how the College, which the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describes as a hate group, managed to introduce fringe beliefs into the mainstream simply by being, as the founder of Fox News once put it, “the loudest voice in the room.”
