This post sent from what I imagine was 8:30am PT (assuming Kalinowski is on the West Coast) is yet another bright red warning flag at the convergence of several areas where red flags are already littering the landscape: the Trump administration, war, domestic surveillance, AI …
@jaywillis.net Thank you for including and citing my latest @slate.com in @ballsandstrikes.org. The more people know, the harder it will be to do those things. #Resistance. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Join me! I can't wait!
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
He's putting up record job losses, driving the country into a war he can't even explain, and was credibly accused of raping a teenager in the Epstein files released yesterday - so of course it's time to try and ruin more trans people's lives
The justices had ample opportunity to decide this issue the right way. Instead they sneaked in a slapdash ruling on the shadow docket. slate.trib.al/jHCHHvT
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This happened on Monday night on the shadow docket. It proved my longer article's argument about using "constitutional opportunism" to attack LGBTQ rights (link in comments). Thank you, Mark @mjsdc.bsky.social, for amazing edits.
New study in Lancet eClinical Medicine (N=20,358) found that mental healthcare utilization initially increases (consistent with assessment requirements under guidelines), then drops substantially, following gender-affirming medical care. #transgender #mentalhealth #medicine
Congratulations! Did you know when we met at ALPE? This is fantastic.
Three attorneys general to watch: Maine AG Aaron Frey, Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and California AG Rob Bonta
January 13, 2026 - Oral arguments re trans participation in sports @SCOTUS
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
@hilakeren.bsky.social analyses the US v Skrmetti case which marks a significant & devastating departure from the constitutional principle of equal protection.
Read more on the judicial sleight of hand leading to wrong interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause
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I am very grateful for the invitation and publication by the Oxford Human Rights Hub. This is not normal and should not be normalized. ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/deep-denial-...
This is a horrifying and alarming firing, yet more evidence, as I have written repeatedly, that the Washington Post no longer serves the community in its name.
My Bloomberg Law insight on how the administration censors California, trying to erase any mention of gender identity and trans students from sex education, and does so while emboldened by SCOTUS' recent decisions.
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I am so sorry, but this is how bad it is, and writing about it as it happens is one way to resist, so I did (while citing @mjsdc.bsky.social). This is constitutional rights for me and not for thee! slate.com/news-and-pol...
Contrary to Trump’s grotesque, self-congratulatory press releases, he has not ended gender-affirming care for young people; rather, as the health care workers I spoke to this week made clear, hospital management, boards, and their legal advisers have ended it for him. My new story:
I included the movie as a form of resistance, which I propose against "Constitutional Opportunism" - the way SCOTUS (with help from NYT... as you show) intentionally attacks LGBTQ+ equality. Draft: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"The Honorable Views Left Out and What I Did About It"
THURSDAY: @heightenedscrutinydoc.com Q&A screening.
Join @samfeder.bsky.social at @burnsfilmcenter.bsky.social in Pleasantville, NY!
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1. State AGs have sued Trump for intimidating providers from providing trans care.
Meanwhile, institutions are dropping trans people left and right out of fear of Trump.
Suing Trump isn't enough. State AGs MUST enforce equality laws against cowardly orgs.
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New baby paper submitted! Download it, please. "Constitutional Opportunism" tells how the Supreme Court takes an active part in the conservative attack on LGBTQ people. Hope student editors see the urgency because we have conversion therapy and participation in sports on the docket for next term.
JUST IN: A judge has certified a nationwide class aimed at blocking the effects of Trump's birthright citizenship order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Jake Sherman is reporting that the Medicaid gender affirming care ban has been removed from the reconciliation bill!
Huge news!
@samfeder.bsky.social So grateful for your amazing work. I wish I had the money to make the movie free for streaming everywhere (also: was with you in the elevator without realizing who you are).
Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...
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