Go to @shannonminter5.bsky.social and you’ll see what I mean!

Okay…this is a piece of good news. A guy whose intellect has been powering the LGBTQ movement for decades, but who thinks social media is only for cat pictures, gets the recognition he deserves.

Trump is about to drop a “nuclear weapon” on trans youth health care How a report led by a right-wing pundit laid the groundwork for upending gender-affirming treatment

The authors of the HHS report on trans youth health care were chosen by the Manhattan Institute's Leor Sapir.

Now, a rule based on the controversial report could wipe out this care at hospitals.

Parents are begging the administration not to go through with it.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Image of thousands of people on a bridge

NYT today: Magyar won because he distanced himself from pesky LGBTQ community.

2025: Budapest Pride turned into a major pro-democracy event after Orban banned it, over a hundred thousand show up in support, not just LGBTQ people.

NYT eds should read their own paper

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

Opinion | Did Wokeness Leave Us Worse Off?

These sad people find woke too cringe. Guess no one told them that cringe is cringe. They can rest easy now that the anti-woke is now the rule of law, and it’s open season on trans people. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

The right: trans people don’t exist.

Also the right: we must develop systems to identify them.

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The right: trans people don’t exist.

Also the right: we must develop systems to identify them.

I lwas offended when I saw my book denigrated as “liberal” but then realized the insult was from the other side of the left-right spectrum. Seems bored Moms for Liberty types just troll their way through Goodreads, giving one star reviews to liberal/left/queer books they haven’t even read

Contributor: Anti-trans laws aren’t protecting women or anyone, only doing harm A new Kansas law instantly invalidated the licenses of 1,700 people who had been allowed to update their gender on their state ID. To what end?

In a new @latimes.com Op-Ed, I discuss how Kansas’s recent law invalidating 1,700 transgender individuals’ driver’s licenses raises significant questions about proportionality and administrative purpose. It criminalizes trans folks for no benefit to anyone. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Yikes. I mean, I'm teaching a course on gender and political theory (worst title ever) next fall, and I was thinking of putting Yarvin on there. But on the empirical side--as evidence, not as theory.

I’m so sorry. What a travesty for the New School.

Madeline Pape on sports and sex is worth a listen. Behind the rhetoric—what the science actually says. I bet you can’t guess (well, my followers probably can) which side of the research is more rigorous.

If only the conservatives on the Supreme Court shared our view.

Kansas invalidated the driver's licenses of hundreds of trans people, made it a crime to drive to the DMV to "correct" them, & started keeping a list of everyone who did so. @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social & I on trans people in the state's surveillance architecture for @donmoyn.bsky.social's substack.

This is it exactly. As @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social and I wrote in a piece out today--even as these states deny the existence of trans identity, they build administrative systems to track us-- an expanding architecture of surveillance and control. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-compl...

It's all in how questions are worded and issues are framed. For example, 64% of respondents hold contradictory opinions on transgender policy. This is why Democrats should lead with a vision, not pander to the Fox News manosphere.

True story—Years ago on Twitter, before Jamelle Bouie joined the Times, I assumed he was trans because I thought (wrongly it turned out) that a cis journalist wouldn’t be posting so much stuff about transphobia.

Yesterday the Supreme Court blocked California policies protecting trans students BUT NY Attorney General Tish James told NYU that its decision to stop trans care for youth may violate the law, so continue doing it. States rights!

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25A810 ELIZABETH MIRABELLI, ET AL. U. ROB BONTA, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA, ET AL. ON APPLICATION TO VACATE INTERLOCUTORY STAY ORDER [March 2, 2026] PER CURIAM. Before us is an application to vacate a Court of Appeals order staying a permanent injunction entered by a District Court on behalf of parents and teachers who claim that certain California policies violate their rights under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The parents object that these policies prevent schools from telling them about their children's efforts to engage in gender transitioning at school unless the children consent to parental notifi-cation. The parents also take issue with California's requirement that schools use children's preferred names and pronouns regardless of their parents' wishes. The teachers object to their compelled participation in the implementation of the State's policies.

When the Ninth Circuit stayed the injunction, the parents and teachers filed this application seeking vacatur of the Ninth Circuit's stay pending appeal. II We grant the application and vacate the stay with respect to the parents because this aspect of the stay is not "justi-fied under the governing four-factor test." Alabama Assn. of Realtors v. Department of Health and Human Serus., 594 U.S. 758, 763 (2021) (per curiam) (citing Nken v. Holder, 556 U. S. 418, 434 (2009)).

NEW: SCOTUS partially grants the request in Mirabelli v. Bonta, relating to California policies protecting against forced outing of trans students by teachers to parents, over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Hard-hitting reporting from the Brooklyn College student paper, with firsthand interviews from students & staff on NYU Langone’s latest decision to stop gender-affirming care for minors.vanguard.blog.brooklyn.edu/2026/02/nyu-langone-ceas...

EEOC Issues Federal Sector Appellate Decision Recognizing the Ability of Federal Agencies to Designate Intimate Spaces in Federal Workplaces by Sex WASHINGTON – The U.S.

Trump's anti-trans agenda moving along. Yesterday, the EEOC said that a federal employer can ban trans women from women's bathrooms, trans men from men's bathrooms. The Court's decision in the good 2020 Bostock hadn't addressed bathrooms. shorturl.at/IiWuE

A reminder to those who love their daily wordle but not the Times, there’s always Queerdle queerdle.com

Factually! with a headshot of Adam Conover. February 26, 2026, 1 hour, 10 minutes. The Anti-Trans Playbook is Designed to Hurt Women, with Paisley Currah

@adamconover.net has a terrific podcast, and I don't say that just because I'm on it this week. Adam is the polymath of comedians. It's a pleasure to talk to him about trans issues. He's so well informed, one doesn't have to retread the usual talking points, so the conversation goes further.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.

Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.

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

Factually! with Adam Conover February 25, 2026 Anti-Trans Playbook is Designed to Hurt Women, with Paisley Currah Why is it that the anti-trans movement is so ferociously set on upending the livelihood of people who are simply trying to live their lives? As it turns out, it’s because it’s part of a larger playbook to dismantle civil rights as we know them. Paisley Currah is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, the author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, and the writer of an essential new essay in the New York Review Books titled The Anti-Trans Playbook. Today Paisley joins Adam to discuss how we must approach the ongoing attacks on trans rights in America. 

I always enjoy talking to @adamconover.net, the polymath of comedians.
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The insular world of Melania Trump is a microcosm of the country Trump is presiding over in his second term. In Trump’s America, tech bros invent apps, like Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, that “nudify” and sexualize images of women and children without their consent and direct the deepfake sexual assaults where the user requests, including the victims’ social media accounts. This is a nation in which pregnant women who miscarry are prosecuted—or allowed to die—lest they be seeking an abortion, while the president’s Nazi podcaster pal Nick Fuentes declares, to an audience in the hundreds of thousands, that they should be sent to “the breeding gulags.” It is the world of Jeffrey Epstein, where women and girls serve as personal accessories, interior décor, and instruments of gratification, and the powerful, wealthy, white men they are compelled to serve are protected from legal accountability, or even embarrassment.

@judith-levine.bsky.social watched Melania so we don't have to. Techbros, Fuentes, Epstein and Musk: On women in Trumpland. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

in addition to evoking the "deceiver" trope (he "fell prey" to trans/LGBTQ+ ppl), Newsom is the LEAST CULTURALLY NORMAL prominent Dem politician right now. he owns a winery. he married Kimberly Guilfoyle. when they split up he dated 19-year-old (when he was 38). he podcasts w/Steve Bannon, etc.

There seem to be 2 paths here:
(1) Class becomes a conversation between LLMs
(2) Digital tools are removed from the classroom altogether