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The rule changes are the latest steps in a campaign which the Trump administration has been waging since its first days back in office: ending trans healthcare, particularly for trans children.
Detrans.ai claims to help people explore gender dysphoria with “balance.” Instead, it cites reactionary talking points and debunked science to question trans identity.
We obtained internal communications between SEGM and McMaster University detailing what SEGM wanted out of anti-trans medical studies, and why it was willing to pay over CA$300,000 (US$215,300) to produce them.
The Needle has concluded that the State Department is likely asserting the power to deem U.S. citizens who they determine to be ideologically "far-left", and who seem to be especially active in transgender advocacy, as "national security" risks, and consequently revoking their passports.
Amnesty's Chief Executive told the decades-long campaigner against human rights that "it would be good for us to meet... in the spirit of a commitment to human rights.”
If the FTC lawsuit is successful, many trans people could lose access to their hormones. The only large exception would be in states where such care is legally protected.
How legislative risk isn't lethal risk for trans women, and why the numbers we have are only a small part of the story.
J.K. Rowling is offering to personally fund lawsuits against Amnesty on behalf of the organizations listed as an “Anti-rights group” in the report.
