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From 2017
That time when a trans boy won a girls Texas state title and people lost their minds
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That time when a trans boy won a girls Texas state title and people lost their minds
Transgender boy Mack Beggs wins girls wrestling title as Texas struggles with transphobic laws - Outsports
State policies must stop defining trans people by their birth certificates.
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BREAKING
Jamie Miller is an honorably discharged U.S. military veteran from Lawrence who has carried a Kansas license identifying her as female since 2014. She renewed it in 2017, and again in 2023 to get the Real ID star, with a female marker both times. She had irreversible gender-affirming surgery 13 years ago and holds Douglas County court orders recognizing her as legally female.
On April 10 a letter arrived from the Kansas Department of Revenue telling her the license was void under SB 244, a law that cancels licenses that do not list what the state calls a person's biological sex at birth.
So she could not legally drive. Not to buy groceries, not to her health care appointments, not to care for her disabled daughter. Her lawsuit says the invalidation cut her off from public life, and that she could not sign any document listing her sex as male without committing fraud.
"She's in a weird catch-22," said her attorney, David Brown, describing the court order calling her female and the state law insisting she is male.
Douglas County Judge James McCabria granted the injunction Monday, writing that Miller is likely to prevail on her claim that the state violated her due process rights when the case is fully heard later this year. "No other remedy will suffice," he wrote, besides restoring her right to drive with a license that identifies her as a woman.
The state has never challenged the court order declaring Miller female. Attorney General Kris Kobach, a defendant in her suit, has argued in court that licenses must carry "objective, accurate" sex information because police use them to identify people.
SB 244 took effect in February after the Republican-led Legislature skipped public input and overrode Governor Laura Kelly's veto on Feb. 18. It also voids birth certificates with updated gender markers, and its bathroom provision fines public buildings $25,000, rising to $125,000 for later offenses. The same judge refused in March to pause the law. A hearing on the broader challenge to SB 244 begins Sept. 29.
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This doesn't mention it but when the law was first passed one of the problems was that the licenses were cancelled with "immediate effect" which meant that she and others like her couldn't even drive to the local DMV to have their licenses amended to agree with the law.
Can we rule out the possibility this is a current issue because the bureaucrats involved secretly enjoy tormenting queers?"BREAKINGKansas voided a transgender veteran's driver's license under a new anti-trans law. A judge just ordered it restored and said she is likely to prove the state violated her due process rights." #1,943
Or is this government so incompetent it can't find a way out from under?
Is there a rational reason the DMV doesn't implement a 3 gender standard, M, F, & O ?
Is there a 9th Amendment argument here? A citizen's right to travel, pre-existing the Constitution?
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First this applies to trans people, not gays and lesbians.
But this sort of law is just part of an ongoing attempt to legislate trans individuals out of existence.
They're definitely incompetent (and more than this law suggests?)
Why would they? After all, tranwomen are women and transmen are men. And given the attitudes of many of the police officers out there putting that "O" on a license is just saying "please accuse me of resisting and beat the shit out of me"
Good question but not having ID that corresponds to the gender you present as is going to cause real problems. International travel is pretty much impossible and it's going to cause real issues if someone is pulled over by a traffic cop or even carded at a bar.
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When People Understand Child Development, They Support Trans Youth (Keyword When)
Unfortunately, as with many issues that require a basic understanding of scientific research, many adults in the United States do not understand child development.Years of scientific research have repeatedly debunked the conservative myth that transgender children are too young to have a solid understanding of their identity, showing that trans and cisgender kids actually develop their internal sense of gender at the same age. The consensus among researchers studying child development is clear: believe trans children when they tell you who they are.
Unfortunately, as with many issues that require a basic understanding of scientific research, many adults in the United States do not understand the ....
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The only thing I'd change is the claim that "many adults do not understand" and replace it with "most adults ...."
Indeed, thanks for the clarification.
I hadn't intended to conflate the two exactly, except:
a) There's more to my #1,944 than scare quote parsimony. It reflects my contempt for contempt. Is one that hates hate a hater?
b) "First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out- because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me." pastor Martin Niemöller
Realizing such an outcome is delusion.
Not to endorse bigotry, but since -victory- is entirely illusory here, the rational observer may instead imagine such policy is intended to torment, to punish, to penalize.
That seems like an important distinction.
It's not that they're claiming to be non-binary. They're unconventional binary. Right?
Thus M or F is a relevant classification, but not arrived at through entirely traditional means?
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The way to do it
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OPEN LETTER TO J.K. ROWLING – THE EVIL QUEEN OF TERFs
To J.K. Rowling
Just think: this is what you chose to do with your power. You could have used your voice for almost anything. You could have lifted people up. Defended those who are being trampled on. Used your enormous cultural influence and a fortune most of us can barely even imagine to make the world a little warmer, freer and safer.
Instead, you have made fighting against the place of trans people in society one of your defining causes.
You have become The Evil Queen of TERFs.
And what makes that particularly serious is precisely the position you hold:
The money.
The platform.
The influence.
The network.
And your willingness to misuse all of it.
When parts of Britain’s public healthcare system tell their trans staff and patients that they still stand by them – and you respond by offering financial support to people who want to take them to court – we are no longer talking about an author who is “simply expressing concerns.”
We are talking about someone using .....
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TRANS KIDS ARE BORN THAT WAY: REFUTING THE RECYCLED "PEDOPHILE" AND "GROOMER" SLURS OF THE ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT
DEAR FRIENDS - I want to begin this essay with a single indisputable truth.
Science and modern biology have established beyond any doubt that transgender people are, as Lady Gaga sang, “born that way”.
And this means that if trans people are born that way, that means that there are transgender kids.
Transgender kids are real.
They aren’t “groomed into it”.
It’s absolutely, indisputably who they are!
Now look closely at the theater of cruelty playing out on the political stage today.
We’re witnessing a calculated, vicious assault on these children, their terrified parents, and the entire trans community.
It is a campaign designed to do one thing: strip away the humanity of innocent people by labeling them with the most despicable, toxic smear imaginable…
Calling them "pedophiles" and "groomers."
Step by step, the architecture of this lie is being built in plain sight.
We see MAGA politicians weaponizing the sacred concept of childhood, using it as a shield to pass laws that tear families apart and criminalize life-saving healthcare. (1)
Donald Trump stood before microphones and declared "gender ideology" to be ....
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Nearly one in three American adults under 25 now identifies as LGBTQ+. Not in San Francisco. Not in New York. Nationwide.
That comes from a new Human Rights Campaign Foundation analysis of US Census Bureau data, drawing on more than 2.4 million survey responses collected between 2021 and 2024.
The headline number: LGBTQ+ people make up 12% of all American adults, more than 25 million, the highest figure ever recorded.
And it blows apart the idea that queer people cluster in a handful of safe cities. LGBTQ+ people are more than 10% of the adult population in 40 states, including Georgia, Arizona, New Hampshire and Texas.
Bisexual people make up the largest share of the community, over 7% of all US adults on their own.
"LGBTQ+ Americans are everywhere," HRC president Kelley Robinson said in a statement with the report. "We're not a niche constituency, and no campaign, brand, or employer can afford to treat us like one."
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As if that wasn't enough
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And then there's this
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Last summer, the Justice Department subpoenaed more than 20 hospitals and clinics for the medical records of transgender minors. UPMC Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh was one of them. The government wanted diagnoses, treatment plans, and patient names.
Four families fought back. The Pittsburgh case became the first challenge in the country brought by patients themselves rather than by a hospital.
Chief U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon quashed the subpoena in December. The DOJ came back offering to accept anonymized records. She rejected that too, ruling the families had proven the records could never truly be anonymized.
Then she wrote what she thought of the department. Its rhetoric on gender-affirming care, she said, "reflects callous indifference, if not abject cruelty." She added: "There is more than a 'whiff' of ill-intent. Arguably, it is closer to a stench."
On August 10, the Justice Department withdrew its appeal. Her ruling is now final.
UPMC has confirmed it never handed over a single record.
THIS STORY and others
On what basis?
Pursuant to an investigation?
Of what? A violation of law?
What law? What violation?
Looks like an illegal fishing expedition to me.
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Definitely sounds like it.
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The teacher is a young trans woman in her first job out of college, hired to teach music at Middle Creek Elementary in Apex, North Carolina.
In late July, Republican state Rep. Erin Paré posted on Facebook about "the hiring of a transgender biological male, who dresses as a woman, music teacher," and floated a bill requiring "gender-appropriate professional attire for public school employees." The ACLU of North Carolina called the idea unconstitutional.
Libs of TikTok took it national, telling millions of followers the school had a new "nonbinary" teacher and "students reportedly have to call him Ms." The post included her photo and urged people to contact the principal. By noon the next day it had 295,000 views on X. A conservative blogger published her name.
Tami Fitzgerald of the North Carolina Values Coalition said the teacher's presence "will surely cause mass exodus from the school."
Then the community showed up. Elizabeth Stacks told the board her children were thrilled to meet their new teacher at Meet the Teacher Night. "I've seen the worst of Wake County in seeing discourse online and seeing just absolutely horrible things said about a person that my kids already know and love," she said. Kelli Wilhelm, president of the Raleigh-Apex NAACP, told the board: "We will not allow you to be bullied out of the classroom."
At the August 18 meeting, Moms for Liberty Wake County chair Becky Lew-Hobbs demanded the district "provide reasonable alternatives" for objecting families. Parents who asked to pull their kids out of music class were told no.
Board member Lynn Edmonds said the hire broke no rules and the district cannot discriminate in hiring. Board member Chris Heagarty said gender-based clothing rules amount to "impermissible sex stereotyping under the Constitution."
The board adjourned with no action against the school, the teacher, or the principal who hired her.
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From Sander Jennings (Jazz's older brother)
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My sister Jazz came out when I was 8. People ask if it was ever hard to support her. Here’s what younger me knew that some adults still don’t understand💙 #TransRights #AllyToAll #IAMJazz #LGBTQ #JazzJennings | Sander Jennings | Facebook
My sister Jazz came out when I was 8. People ask if it was ever hard to support her. Here’s what younger me knew that some adults still don’t understand💙 #TransRights #AllyToAll #IAMJazz #LGBTQ...
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It's truly sad that this stuff happens
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A 16-year-old transgender rower quit her Sacramento team in April after two years of harassment by coaches and teammates. Her mother is now suing the program for discrimination.
Jane Doe, the name used in the lawsuit, was 12 when she joined Capital Crew, the youth rowing program run out of the Sacramento State Aquatic Center. Two years later, a parent outed her as transgender at a booster club meeting.
What happened next is laid out incident by incident in the complaint her mother filed this month. She qualified for the lead boat and was then left out of every race but one. A coach told people she had been sick. That was false.
When another coach misgendered her after a practice session, two of her teammates gave each other celebratory fist-bumps.
In May 2025, the team did a timed workout on rowing machines and every rower's result was read out except hers. Another rower pointed out that Jane had done the workout too. Coach Brian Birch answered, "Oh, he did?"
In March 2025, while she was visiting a teammate in a hotel room, three teammates blocked the door and told her teammate, "You are not allowed to have boys in your room." She told a coach. No action was taken.
She came back in the fall of 2025 and was dropped to a lower boat. She asked Coach Rich Wendling why, and he told her she was a "bad teammate." He then kept her off the water for the entire season and sent her to a rowing machine at the back wall during indoor practice.
Shut out of Capital Crew's national competition, she entered a regional race with another rower, finished third and earned the bronze and the invitation her coaches then blocked.
She started cutting herself. "I'm walking to the bridge," she texted a friend. She quit in April, at 16. The lawsuit says she remains "terrorized every day, her safety at risk."
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Jane Doe, the name used in the lawsuit, was 12 when she joined Capital Crew, the youth rowing program run out of the Sacramento State Aquatic Center. Two years later, a parent outed her as transgender at a booster club meeting.
What happened next is laid out incident by incident in the complaint her mother filed this month. She qualified for the lead boat and was then left out of every race but one. A coach told people she had been sick. That was false.
When another coach misgendered her after a practice session, two of her teammates gave each other celebratory fist-bumps.
In May 2025, the team did a timed workout on rowing machines and every rower's result was read out except hers. Another rower pointed out that Jane had done the workout too. Coach Brian Birch answered, "Oh, he did?"
In March 2025, while she was visiting a teammate in a hotel room, three teammates blocked the door and told her teammate, "You are not allowed to have boys in your room." She told a coach. No action was taken.
She came back in the fall of 2025 and was dropped to a lower boat. She asked Coach Rich Wendling why, and he told her she was a "bad teammate." He then kept her off the water for the entire season and sent her to a rowing machine at the back wall during indoor practice.
Shut out of Capital Crew's national competition, she entered a regional race with another rower, finished third and earned the bronze and the invitation her coaches then blocked.
She started cutting herself. "I'm walking to the bridge," she texted a friend. She quit in April, at 16. The lawsuit says she remains "terrorized every day, her safety at risk."
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