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BREAKING: SCOTUS shadow docket decision rules in favor of forced outing of trans students, reinstating a lower court ruling against California's law prohibiting forced outing. Also references forcing teachers to misgender trans students. Horrific precedent.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

DOJ to drop its appeals of losses in the law firm order cases, per WSJ. What does it mean? And: The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over a federal law banning firearm possession by users of illegal drugs.

ALSO: DOJ did not file a similar motion in the Zaid case appeal.

To understand why that matters, read Law Dork. www.lawdork.com/p/doj-to-dro...

UPDATE: DOJ files its motion to dismiss the law firm EO case appeals. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

Trans Missourians are on edge after watching what happened in Kansas, their neighboring state, which recently revoked trans Kansans’ state IDs if it didn’t match their assigned gender at birth.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Among other things, if passed into law, these bills could est. a private right of action for ppl who allege an institution let trans ppl use the bathroom aligned w/ their gender identity; protect private schools that discriminate against trans ppl; enshrine sex/gender definitions into MO law; & more

Supreme Court preserves only GOP-held congressional district in NYC for 2026 elections The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Republicans in ruling that the boundaries of the only GOP-held congressional district in New York City do not not need to be redrawn for the 2026 elections, desp...

The outcome is a victory for Republicans in a national tug-of-war over redistricting that could determine control of the closely divided House of Representatives. Republicans currently hold a razor-thin majority. https://to.pbs.org/476GESa

ASPS Members Demand Answers After Org Released Anti-Trans Statement From Behind Closed Doors The statement is a blunt tool that the Trump regime can use to strip trans youth of life-saving care.

A recent statement from the American Society for Plastic Surgeons advised against surgery, HRT, blockers for trans youth.

Now members and experts that were sidelined at the org are demanding answers after evidence shows it may have been politically influenced by the Trump admin.

Read our latest.

To protect their gerrymanders, Republicans try to revive a dangerous legal theory Despite repeated rejections, the GOP’s fringe strategy persists.

Republican lawmakers are revisiting a fringe legal theory that would hand state legislatures immense power over federal elections — an alarming move that proves their loyalty falls with Trump above the very people who put them in office.

I’m live posting through tonight’s hearings in Missouri over a series of anti-LGBT bills: HB 1893, HB 2075, and HB 2536. Bills not yet heard; more TK.

#MOLeg

GOP Drives Repeal of Utah's Anti-Gerrymandering Law to Ballot A Republican‑backed push to repeal Prop 4—Utah’s voter‑approved anti‑gerrymandering law—just qualified for November. Signature removals could still knock it off.

The repeal of Utah's anti-gerrymandering law has qualified for November's ballot.

70% of the signers are registered Republicans.

But if enough people remove their names from the petition, it could still knock the measure off the ballot.

Read more:
utahpolitics.news/the-prop-4-r...

Good example of the way anti-trans hate and antisemitism continue to be intertwined in American discourse. Once more subtly, now far more overtly.

www.alternet.org MAGA cries 'discrimination' after Smoothie King employee refuses to serve pro-Trump couple

MAGA cries 'discrimination' after Michigan worker refuses to serve pro-Trump couple

In a time where we've seen so many actors get bought out by the TERFbitch, it's nice to see some folk saying "Fuck no."

Ah yes, gender-affirming care is child abuse, says the party of the Epstein class 🙄 😐

3. Under the new interpretation, any therapist in the state could find their license pulled, lose the ability to take Medicaid dollars, or even risk child abuse charges if they provide gender-affirming care, according to the seven-page legal opinion released alongside the press release.

TORNEY GEN THLTEXAS KEN PAXΤΟΝ ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 2, 2026 www.texasattorneygeneral.gov Communications@oag.texas.gov Attorney General Ken Paxton Issues Landmark Legal Opinion Declaring It Illegal for Mental Health Providers to "Transition" Texas Kids AUSTIN - Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued a legal opinion declaring that the prohibitions under S.B. 14 making it illegal for health care providers to "transition" kids does apply to "mental health care providers" licensed by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. The opinion notes that the Council's licensees constitute health care providers under the law, which makes clear that they are governed by state law barring funds going to those who facilitate the prohibited "transition" procedures. Licensees are defined as "health care providers" in this sense for good reason, as the path to kids being "transitioned" often starts with unethical indoctrination by activists providing mental "health care" designed to confuse children about their gender. Thus, the Legislature's prohibition on those unlawfully "transitioning" our kids which covers not only any person or entity who "provides" medical interventions, but also an individual or entity who "facilitates" medical interventions certainly applies to licensed mental health care providers. "Any radical facilitating the 'transitioning' of our kids is committing child abuse," said Attorney General Paxton. "The law is clear that these radical procedures are illegal and in no world should Texans' tax dollars be used to permanently harm children. This opinion should send a clear warning there will be consequences for any medical professional, whether a doctor or a therapist, who is illegally 'transitioning' Texas kids." The opinion's summary states: "Any licensee that facilitates the provision of unlawful procedures or treatments that aim to transition a child's sex are thus forbidden from receiving public money in support of those e…

2. AG Paxton of Texas announced a new interpretation of state law that would extend the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors to mental health providers, declaring that any therapist who affirms a trans youth's identity is "facilitating" illegal treatment and committing child abuse.

Texas AG Paxton Declares Therapists Affirming Trans Youth To Be Illegal And Child Abuse The declaration echoes his 2022 efforts to target parents of trans youth with child abuse, and may force conversion therapy on trans youth in the state.

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:

Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.

Its a horrifying escalation.

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BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing new legislation to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half.

A chunk of the money raised would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.

BREAKING

The Federal Circuit immediately issues the mandates in the tariffs litigation, rejecting the Trump admin's request for further delay. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump's Freedom 250 hits the road with museum focused on faith, civics Six mobile history museums, part of President Trump's Freedom 250 program, aim to counter 'woke agenda.' Historians say it leaves out key facts.

Holy shit.

Trump's Freedom 250 Christian nationalist hijack of America's birthday includes WHITEWASH of SLAVERY.

"Thomas Jefferson's view of slavery, 'is an interpretive choice meant to advance a particular vision of the American founding.'"

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Still not a peep on the things Mamdani can do for trans youth after hospital closures.

No activation of H+H to take patients. Trans patients are a rounding error for the $10B program.

No movement on human rights complaints.

No promise to restore care.

Rarely have I been so disappointed.

The most predictable thing ever.

Well, evidently this was just announced. And Kansas just cancelled drivers lic for trans drivers overnight, with no grace period to get documents changed, meaning anyone who needs to drive to est or keep a roof over their heads or get to medical appts are instant criminals.

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Someone is gonna blow Mehdi's whole mind when they tell him about trans people

Would the trans scouts need to wear a special signifier on their clothes, perhaps a cheerful yellow star, to help identify and distinguish them from the other scouts?

*gestures incredulously at the fearmongering against Trans people, the unhoused, the disabled, and BIPoC people over the last *ChecksNotes* DECADE....

White House 'circulating' 17-page executive order draft to declare emergency over voting President Donald Trump, who has insisted on federalizing voting and who issued an executive order last March to pressure states to require proof of citizenship to register voters, is reportedly now be...

White House 'circulating' 17-page executive order draft to declare emergency over voting

www.alternet.org/news-politic...

They banned abortion in half the US and the numbers slightly rose anyways. You're not going to stop access to transitioning.