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Reject Transgender Liberalism | Jules Gill-Peterson In the wake of the most recent Supreme Court term, it’s clear the trans movement must change legal and political course—but what might that look like?

beautiful, brilliant essay on trans politics and liberation and Skrmetti and trans history by Jules Gill-Peterson --

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live free or die means die for trans kiddos

The front cover of Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration by Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteney.

If the authors (including @letteney.bsky.social) are right about the pervasiveness of incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean world, then this book will require a paradigm shift in how we think about coercion and social control in antiquity.

Not often that the historiographic stakes are so high!

Meanwhile what they don’t show in the news about Trump’s arrival in Prestwick

Trans Histories of London - Pop-Up Walking Tour Uncover London's millennia of trans history through stories of trans and gender-diverse resistance, rage, and rebellion winding from Soho to the Thames.

Londoners, my friend Jack's trans history walking tours have two more dates: events.humanitix.com/trans-histor... I don't shill for friends indiscriminately - if you're keen on accessible, entertaining, moving, locally rooted & politically engaged trans history, I would genuinely recommend this!

Both Yale and Connecticut Children's will be closing their gender clinics or limiting new prescriptions.

That leaves Connecticut without a gender clinic to provide care to trans youth despite having a robust shield law.

Fed up with the Liberty's seeming insistence on lesbian erasure, Dobkin brought a banner reading "Lesbians for Liberty" to a game on June 27, 1999, which was Gay Pride Day. According to a flyer from the Lesbian Herstory Archives (and her own testimony), she was then asked to leave by security. Not to be deterred, Lesbians for Liberty returned to Madison Square Garden as a full-fledged group at a game in August 1999. According to reporting from the Village Voice at the time, the group held up Dobkin's "Lesbians for Liberty" banner outside the Garden before the game, in addition to holding it up several times during the game itself.

Then, in a full-circle moment, the Liberty itself contacted the Lesbian Herstory Archives in February of this year to inquire about a collaboration for the team's Pride game. The volunteers at the Archives pitched the idea of setting up an archival exhibit in the concourse of the Barclays Center, where the team now plays, and the Liberty agreed. In addition to presenting some of the archival materials included in this article, the exhibit, which will take place during this Friday's Pride game, there will also be a coloring station where attendees can customize new versions of some of those print materials, though the updated foldable fan - sadly, in this reporter's opinion — will not include the word "fag."

This is amazing

www.them.us/story/lesbia...

If a partisan judicial majority is gonna keep reversing longstanding precedents on the shadow docket, w no oral args and no written explanations, they really have forfeited any and all presumption of deference to judicial independence norms

This is a perfect explanation.

yessss!! run them over with a squeaky tank bro!

Why do those image mills like @gettyimages.com suck?

Well, consider this from the BBC in an article about Auschwitz.

So, that's NOT Höss; it's Friedrich Warzok.

And it's NOT Auschwitz; it's Janowska...in Ukraine.

(ask me how I know)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...

Killing Centers: An Overview The Nazis established killing centers in German-occupied Europe during WWII. They built these killing centers for the mass murder of human beings.

dachau was never an extermination camp (that is, killing center) but i agree entirely with the substance of what you are saying.

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Dear history documentaries,

There are actually lots of historians of your subject out there that can talk on camera. You don't have to hire that journalist who wrote one airport bookstore book on the topic,

given how SCOTUS has gone merrily bonkers on a number of issues it does seem odd to blame trans ppl for Skrmetti.

Resharing my piece from last week analyzing the deeply victim blaming nature of the New York Times framing on trans issues. This plays right into that.

www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...

"Highlighted text in an article discusses the historical medicalization of same-sex attraction, stating: 'The days of medicalizing same-sex attraction are supposed to be shameful history.' The surrounding text critiques links between gender dysphoria, gender nonconformity, and later homosexuality, referencing a 2011 Dutch study."

Alex Byrne, an MIT philosophy professor came forward in a Washington Post opinion piece as an author of HHS hit job on gender affirming care. He immediately proceeded to push the insane conspiracy that people are trying to "trans the gay away."

For those who don't know, Andrew Sullivan was the guy lecturing other gay men about responsibility in the AIDS crisis while simultaneously barebacking his way across the country explicitly seeking risky sexual encounters.

up next: NYTimes op-ed about how trans activists are to blame, by Roy Cohn

Same vibes.

every damn time, emanuel!

DON'T DROP THOSE BOMBS, EMANUEL!

DON'T DO IT!

EMANUEL!

TURN THOSE PLANES AROUND, EMANUEL!

Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Law Banning Care for Trans Kids 'U.S. v. Skrmetti' concerns a law restricting puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans kids under 18 — but not for non-trans youth.

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When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine.

It's the same court and lawyers.

this is horrible law & SCOTUS decision is NYT's fault

The NYT's anti-trans fear mongering was cited in a Supreme Court briefing that stripped away the rights of trans kids. They need to be fully blacklisted by queer people and their allies. Don't work for them. Don't use them for book press. Don't speak with them for stories. They made their bed.

This framing exists because the decision is instantly obvious as one of the legal atrocities of US history, like Dred Scot, the 1870s Civil Rights Cases, Korematsu. The Times doesn’t want to say “The Supreme Court stripped rights out of law” so instead it says “Here’s why they did it to themselves”

Reading about how the last wife of Henry VIII put up with his shenanigans. Parr review.

If you're mad about Skrmetti, blame Tennessee's crazy law and all the transphobes who supported it! uh, and don't blame the trans people, obviously. jesus christ.

SCOTUS upholds Tennessee's ban on trans minors' gender-affirming medical care The 6-3 decision from Chief Justice John Roberts, issued along partisan lines, will serve to empower those seeking to discriminate against transgender people.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday morning upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors as constitutional.

Read @chrisgeidner.bsky.social’s full report on this consequential decision —>

❤️ it cites your wonderful scholarship. we will prevail in the end, history is with us

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