Erin Reed refers to Nebraska goevrnor Jim Pillen and Senator Kathleen Kauth who have announced a sweeping anti-trans bill that targets trans people in bathrooms and on sports teams across the state. Their main arguments are from right wing Christian fundamentalism, not science or any insight into transgender lives.
Allick’s speech celebrated the bill while accusing the LGBTQ+ community of promoting hate. She claimed that trans women are “in the world and not in God.” Allick went further, suggesting that trans people are “confused” and aligned with “the devil,” likening their experiences to Adam and Eve questioning sex and gender roles. Her speech culminated in claims that trans women are rejecting God and facing condemnation. The crowd, including Pillen and Kauth, responded with applause.
Jesus’ message about love and the support for those excluded from society is lost in all of this.
“Nobody believes in “nature versus nurture” anymore—that debate is long over. The answer is it’s obviously both. We may have shared biology, but we also exhibit lots of individual biological variation; we may be socialized in similar ways, but we also have highly individualized personal experiences. These various factors all come together in an unfathomably complex manner to help create the gender and sexual diversity that we see all around us.”
In her essay “Transgender People, Bathrooms, and Sexual Predators: What the Data Say” from 2021 Julia Serano examined the unfounded fears linking transgender individuals to sexual predation in public restrooms. She presented studies indicating that transgender people are more often victims than perpetrators of harassment in these spaces.
Serano traced the origins of the “bathroom predator” myth to Religious Right campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s, which falsely labeled homosexuals as child molesters. As societal acceptance of gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals grew, these groups shifted their focus to transgender people, perpetuating similar baseless accusations.
The essay also highlighted how anti-transgender activists falsely portray transgender individuals as predators aiming to “groom” children.
By debunking these myths, Serano aimed to provide a resource for countering anti-transgender propaganda and to raise awareness about the broader tactic of using the “sexual predator” trope to stigmatize marginalized communities.
She has now made an updated video based on that article.
“So many Americans have moved on from being outraged about same-sex marriage — and I always joke that, you know, everyone’s been to a lesbian wedding at this point — so they decided, okay, well, we’ve lost that battle. Essentially, what is the issue — and I’m going to use their own words against them — like, what issue is going to trigger them? And it was trans kids…
I’ve had enough that there’s no bottom. I’ve had enough that they will stop at nothing to turn Americans against each other. Every American, every child, deserves health care that is appropriate for them, and the fact that they have no qualms about making life more difficult for children is disgusting. And so it was a culmination of everything that I had seen. And, of course, this was the meanest, most dehumanizing, demonizing campaign a Republican ticket has ever run. And I think we need to call it for what it is, which is hate and fear-mongering.”
After starting his transition process, the student changed his documents and asked the university for the data to be updated. However, in later documents and communications, the student was referred to by his previous name.
On January 14, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” aiming to prohibit transgender women and girls from participating in female sports teams at federally funded educational institutions. The bill redefines sex under Title IX to be based solely on reproductive biology and genetics at birth. The vote concluded with 218 in favor and 206 against, with two Democrats supporting the measure. The bill now advances to the Senate, where it faces an uncertain future.
“Only a few Republicans spoke in favor of the bill, including Representative Jedediah Hinkle, who argued that it was necessary to prevent people from “getting off” on bathroom sounds. Hinkle also pointed out that some transgender women are attracted to other women, raising questions about whether the same logic could be used to target lesbians as well.”
More than 400 LGBTQ and civil rights organizations have urged Congress to reject proposed legislation that would bar transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports. Led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the coalition argues that such a ban would harm women and girls and undermine civil rights for all students.
“Targeting and excluding transgender, nonbinary, and intersex students from participation in school programming, including athletics programs, alongside their cisgender peers is harmful to all students and undermines the learning environment for everyone. If schools mark some students effectively as outcasts, they foster an environment where no student is included and safe.”
“Out of the major social media sites (TikTok, Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube, Threads and Instagram), TikTok is the only one to have explicit rules prohibiting misgendering, deadnaming and misogyny, which all directly impact trans social media users. Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, on Jan. 19 of this year, TikTok will be banned in the U.S., which might take away the safest site that exists for transgender individuals to find support and community.”
Uncloseted Media talks to Judd Legum, Founder of Popular Information, a newsletter that focuses on accountability journalism. He is also the founder and former editor of the progressive website ThinkProgress.
“The other part of this announcement that really stuck out and underscores that, was Zuckerberg saying that they’re going to continue some content moderation about certain topics, but they’re moving their content moderation team to Texas because Zuckerberg says that Texas is a place where people have less concern about bias, which is also something that Musk talks about a lot, that Texas is the greatest place. …And that somehow is this neutral place and California is just full of biased people. And so all of that is pretty ridiculous on its face. The only way that it’s preferable is if you are trying to pander to the right.”
Important article about how the New York Times failed in providing a fact-based, fair and critical presentation of transgender lives.
One argument is the bizarre idea that since transgender journalists have an interest in the case, they cannot be trusted to provide neutral or reliable analysis. In other words: really knowing something about a topic becomes a liability.
Critical journalism is not about giving both parties equal space. The truth is not found somewhere in between fascists and the people they oppress. Critical journalism is to spend a lot of time digging and exposing unethical behavior and abuse.
“In other words, Meta now appears to permit users to accuse transgender or gay people of being mentally ill because of their gender expression and sexual orientation. The company did not respond to requests for clarification on the policy.”
A recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics, found that fewer than 1 in 1,000 U.S. adolescents with commercial insurance received gender-affirming medications, such as puberty blockers or hormones, over a five-year period.
The study analyzed a large insurance claims database and found that only 926 adolescents received puberty blockers and 1,927 received hormones from 2018 to 2022.
The findings suggest that the use of these medications is not as widespread as some might believe. The study also highlighted that no patients under age 12 were prescribed hormones, indicating cautious medical practices.