Riki Wilchins

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, hasn't signed other trans protections - LGBTQ Nation The California governor left at least 10 pro-LGBTQ+ measures on the table.

7 Oct 2025 - CA Gov Newsom, still moving right on trans issues, vetoes a measure attacked by Reps as "gender ideology" that would have allowed teaching that reproductive anatomy does not necessarily determine a person’s gender @rikiwilchins.bsky.social.

Supreme Court sharply questions law banning conversion therapy Supreme Court sharpy questions Colorado law that bans efforts to changing minors’ sexual identity, suggesting it violates free speech rights of therapists.

7 Oct 2025 - No surprise the Supremes seem predisposed to strike down laws banning anti-LGBTQ+ conversion therapy. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Transgender Americans ask Supreme Court to leave order in place allowing them to choose sex markers on passports Lawyers for a group of transgender and nonbinary Americans urged the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon to leave in place a mandate by a federal judge in Massachusetts that temporarily […]

8 Oct 2025 -- Trans people back before Supreme Court asking that a fed judge's order that the State Dept must issue passports with the correct gender on them be upheld after Trump admin appealed the ruling. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Transgender Americans ask Supreme Court to leave order in place allowing them to choose sex markers on passports Lawyers for a group of transgender and nonbinary Americans urged the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon to leave in place a mandate by a federal judge in Massachusetts that temporarily […]

8 Oct 2025 -- Trans people back before Supreme Court asking that a fed judge's order that the State Dept must issue passports with the correct gender on them be upheld after Trump admin appealed the ruling. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

7 Oct 2025 -- More than 48,000 adult in UK are now waiting for their first NHS gender clinic appointment as of March 2025-- 12.5% increase over 2024. (No word on the wait times for cis adults seeking HRT from NHS but it can prbly be counted in minutes.) @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

7 Oct 2025 -- Waits vary widely across UK's 15 gender clinics: England's avg is 12 years; Wales 2 years; No. Ireland 41 years (down from 151 years); & Scotland 58 years w/ Glasgow a staggering 224 years. For every 1 person who gets an intake appt, ~4 more are being added. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

The waiting times for every gender identity clinic in the UK revealed in new investigation TL;DR: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get their first appointment at an NHS gender clinic…

7 Oct 2025 -- After shutting down GAC for kids, dozens of FOIs filed by QueerAF & TransLucent reveal that adult care is going as well. Avg estimated wait for intake for trans adults is now 25 years (not a misprint). NHS recommends 18 weeks. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Interesting dete on ADF conversion therapy case in front of the Supremes: Colorado's law has a specific carve-out for “assistance to a person undergoing gender transition.”

Dobbie the House Elf suggests new name for Lady Voldemort:
"They K Rowling."

Bowen Yang dresses as Dobby and roasts JK Rowling in trans rights SNL sketch Saturday Night Live's Bowen Yang has roasted JK Rowling by dressing as Dobby the House Elf and skewering the author's views on trans rights.

6 Oct 2025 -- Dobby the House Elf makes appearance on SNL pushing back on JK Rowling's transphobia. Hilarious! "Master sent Dobby on the telly to define ONCE AND FOR ALL what woman is, Sir....House elves are ALWAYS the problem even tho they're just 1% of the population.
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Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

6 Oct 2025 -- ADF at Supreme Court seeking to overturn bans on harmful "conversion" therapy for gay/trans kids in the 30 states that have passed them, but academics they cite in support of their lawsuit say ADF has profoundly misrepresented their research and views. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

So Kash Patel fires an FBI agent trainee with an outstanding service record in non-agent positions while he's mid-course at Quantico for the alleged "offense" of having a rainbow flag on his desk.

Anyone notice that Republicans no longer complain about "Cancel Culture" any more???

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

6 Oct 2025 -- 16-person Aussie team publish a killer take-down of The Cass Review in the prestigious Australian Medical Journal titled, Cass Review Does Not Guide Care for Trans Young People ("lacking expertise & compromised by implicit stigma & misinformation..." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Can't overstress what a line in the sand was crossed with committed trans-phobe & alt-right jorno Bari Weiss taking over CBS . This is a product of the consolidation of media under a handful of billionaires (in this case David Ellison) aligned with Trump. It's the 1st legacy media network to fall.

Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the government shutdown as President Trump threatened more terminations.

3 Oct 2025 - FBI Director Kash Patel fires trainee at Quantico for wearing a gay pride flag. He has previously won awards from the FBI as a field office diversity program coordinator and displayed a Pride flag at his workstation.
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Who is Bari Weiss, the right-wing anti-trans queer woman being given the keys to CBS News? She’s about to control the editorial direction of the once-celebrated network's news.

3 Oct 2025 -- CBS, long known as the Tiffany Network for its new excellence, is bringing in anti-trans lesbian Bari Weiss as head. Weiss resigned from NYT, citing its “illiberal environment, to start the Free Press, which frequently features transphobic pieces. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Kansas Supreme Court Delivers Big Win For Driver’s License Gender Markers “I want every transgender Kansan to be able to live their lives authentically.”

2 Oct 2025 -- Kansas (!) Supreme Court delivers big on trans drivers' license changes, declining to hear an appeal of a district court ruling made by anti-LGBTQ+ Attorney General Kris Kobach, who is trying to call a special legislative session on the matter. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Word out of Netflix's Los Gatos CA headquarters is that they've cancelled their Elon Musk account and have called for a boycott of Tesla. [JK]

Woman is named Archbishop of Canterbury for first time in Church of England history Sarah Mullally will begin the role early next year and will be the first female church leader since women were allowed to become bishops in 2014.

For the first time in British history, a woman has been named Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally begins early next year as leader of the Church of England. Women have only been allowed to become bishops since 2014. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

2 Oct 2025 - The Trump FDA approves a generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone which will doubtless make it even more affordable and widely used, drawing fury from anti-abortion forces. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Elon Musk says he canceled his Netflix account — and urges his followers to as well Elon Musk's posts come amid some online criticism of the Netflix animated show, "Dead End: Paranormal Park," and its creator.

2 Oct 2025 - Elon Musk is cancelling his Netflix account and calling for a boycott after Libs of TikTok protested trans character on a cartoon animated fantasy horror show, "Dead End: Paranormal Park." Musk's estranged adult daughter in trans. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

2 Oct 2025 -- In a story broken in part by our own Assigned Media, 18 Attorney's General led by Kwame Raoul of Illinois delivered a sharp rebuke to the FTCs attempt to insinuate itself into pediatric care, and plans to hold hearings on hormones/blockers. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Trump Hits Colleges With Ultimatum Over List of MAGA Demands The administration sent letters demanding nine universities back the president’s agenda.

2 Oct 2025 -- Trump admin sends letter to 9 top schools (Dartmouth, Brown, MIT, USC, Vanderbilt & Universities of AZ VA PA & TX) threatening tax status and funding unless they officially recognize 2 genders and limit int'l students, DEI & pro-Palestinian activism. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

You should try WHEN TEXAS CAME FOR OUR KIDS. More about the political moment than QT/GT. Tx for reading in any case. R

Trump and Hegseth's plan for a MAGA military reset, told in 11 quotes Trump and Hegseth laid out their vision for the U.S. military at Quantico.

30 Sep 25 -- SecDef Hegseth, speaking before hundreds of top military brass from all 4 branches, declares there will be no more "dudes in dresses" or" gender delusions." He also denounced "beardos" and "fat generals." (No mention was made of "fat presidents.") @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake

Republicans continue their campaign to undo the last vestiges of Lincoln and Reconstruction. I know they always said "the (white) South will rise again." I just didn't realize that meant getting the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. :-{{

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

27 Sep 25 -- Having lost a teacher, dept head, & president over a single class discussion about genders, Texas Tech U system, one largest in state, restricts all academic discussions of gender-- a first among higher ed institutions. TX has no law in this regard.
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I believe they walked out as he started speaking

New Jersey Catholic school teacher placed on leave for surrogate pregnancy Jadira Bonilla said she was surprised by her administration’s response, noting that she had previously acted as a surrogate while working at another Catholic school

NJ woman suspended from Catholic school after she revealed she was acting as surrogate for couple. Culture of Life at its finest.

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