Zein Murib

There's literally never been a trans woman who has ever competed on any US Olympic team despite trans people having been eligible since 2004.

Looking to understand how anti-trans 🏳️‍⚧️ actors mobilise against trans-inclusive healthcare? 🤔

@zeinmurib.bsky.social has you covered with evidence from the US 🇺🇸

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Never left. Positive & negative eugenics have been consistent features of U.S. economic, social, and health policy.

- Work requirements
- How "families"/"households" are defined for the purpose of eligibility for benefit (e.g. tax credits)
- The coupling of employment status & healthcare insurance

Trump’s FTC Lays the Groundwork to Charge GAC Providers with “Fraud” Instead of working to protect Americans' privacy, the FTC is hosting what amounts to an anti-trans rally.

1. Yesterday, the FTC held a panel with anti-trans activists meant to justify charging providers of gender affirming care with fraud.

It is yet another avenue the Trump administration is trying to use to target trans care nationwide.

The latest from S. Baum.

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The United States and Brazil appeared to have launched a sudden trade war on Wednesday.

Trump writes one of the most unhinged letters ever produced by an American president, demanding the right to interfere with Brazil’s case against Bolsinaro and threatening huge tariffs if they don’t let him walk free, and this your lede?

Say more!

The benefits and pay are really good.

Wouldn’t you know it, representing both states is Alliance Defending Freedom, the far right Christian law firm instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade
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@zeinmurib.bsky.social has analysed US state-level legislative debates over trans healthcare in 2023 to show that pseudoscience fuels anti-trans mobilization 🏳️‍⚧️✊

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“Laws without morals are useless” indeed @upenn.edu

these people have literally never met a muslim outside watching Homeland

Learn more about what gender-affirming care is — and what it isn’t — our #LearningForJustice feature 🔗: www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/gen...

Consider how you can support trans and nonbinary youth 🏳️‍🌈🤝 and counter legislative attacks and disinformation.

#PrideMonth #LGBTQRights

Hey folks, the Cass Report has been critiqued a lot of doctors and researchers as junk science.

My personal favorite is the team of doctors and lawyers at major research universities: law.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

Here’s another one published by UK doctors: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

Research article entitled "Politics without Presence? The Symbolic Representation of Trans People in Germany and the Netherlands" by Anne Louise Schotel and Liza Mügge. Abstract begins: Historically, trans people have been excluded from politics. Despite political under representation, trans interests increasingly appear on the political agenda in the Netherlands and Germany. In 2021, trans women were elected to the Dutch and German parliaments for the first time. However, increased trans visibility is accompanied by backlash and transphobia. The political representation of trans people does not follow a familiar pattern from elected descriptive representatives to increased substantive representation of interests. What mechanisms shape the political representation of trans people? We argue that symbolic representation shapes possibilities for descriptive and substantive representation of trans people.

🏆 Winner of this year's Best Article Prize 🏆

@alschotel.bsky.social & @lizamugge.bsky.social use of qualitative text analysis paired with in-depth interviews bring out critical insights into trans symbolic representation in 🇩🇪 & 🇳🇱 parliaments.

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Democrats who stop doing stuff like this as soon as the winds change are making it *very clear* what we knew all along: that they will only do the bare minimum and only if there are zero consequences to them. the exact opposite of having principles

It was not fun! Snacks and lots of breaks helped.

The Society for Evidence Based Medicine (funded by the ADF) spends millions each year promulgating anti-trans pseudoscience with a secret goal: policies that move the ball forward for Christian nationalist principles.

Unfortunately, these goals rob some of the most vulnerable kids of survival 6/6

These same studies were also referred to by Alito during Skrmetti oral arguments, showing that pseudoscience’s reach extends beyond state legislatures and shapes court opinions w/ huge consequences for kids and their families 5/6

They also consistently refer to the UK’s Cass Review as a reason to strip transgender youth and their family of their rights.

The Cass Review has been roundly critiqued for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that not a single PI provides gender-affirming care 4/6

For example, proponents of attacks on transgender children frequently cite a 2011 Swedish study, which they claim shows that gender-affirming care increases suicide rates.

They make this claim over and over again DESPITE the study authors clarifying that these WEREN'T their findings 3/6

One of the most interesting and consistent findings was that US lawmakers leaned heavily on European studies to justify the proposed prohibitions on kids accessing healthcare 2/6

I watched all the 2023 leg debates over trans healthcare 🤮

This short essay for @ejpgjournal.bsky.social shows how pseudoscience drives laws targeting trans kids for healthcare bans 1/6

s/o @payoub.bsky.social & @jennpiscopo.bsky.social

Read: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Surprise surprise. A week after Sarah McBride gives cover fire for throwing trans people under the bus, some Dems are privately indicating they’ll capitulate on trans youth healthcare and citing the pseudoscientific Cass Report literally drafted in consultation with hate groups.

That sound you hear is every columnist at The Atlantic screaming into a pillow

Mamdani’s platform on transgender rights is stellar.

I’m pleased to see him ahead in the polls today.

A victory would be profoundly meaningful for where progressives move from here, in a time where monied interests are trying to urge a rightward movement in the Democratic Party.

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.

CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one

PELOSI: Take the shot

"A good day:" Detained U.S. citizen said agents bragged after arresting dozens at Home Depot A U.S. citizen who was tackled and arrested by border agents after filming and yelling at them, said his "blood boiled" when agents high-five'd each other after grabbing dozens at Home Depot on Thursd...

Garcia said he was shaken by what he heard while he was detained.

“They call them ‘bodies,’ they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”

What Sarah McBride Gets Wrong Congresswoman Sarah McBride recently interviewed with Ezra Klein at the New York Times, where she advocated for a more cowardly form of politics when it comes to transgender people.

1. On Tuesday, Congresswoman Sarah McBride gave a interview with Ezra Klein at the New York Times.

It has been used to seed the ground for a rightward shift in the Democratic Party on trans rights.

Some allies have failed to grasp the problems with her approach.

Here's what McBride gets wrong.

I want to emphasize Max's point bc the law is outrageous

It explicitly grants or withholds medical treatment based on sex

It expressly aims to force trans kids to conform to their sex assigned at birth

It's a frontal assault on trans kids and the Constitution

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Zein Murib | Scholars Strategy Network Murib's research focuses on sexuality, gender, and race in US politics. Murib's academic publications include work on transgender politics, LGBT politics, and intersectionality.

‬ @zeinmurib.bsky.social's (Fordham University) research focuses on sexuality, gender, & race in US politics. Murib's academic publications include work on transgender politics, LGBT politics, & intersectionality.

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