Category: Transgender Opinion

TWIT Awards – June 23, 2025

| Jun 23, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. As we mentioned int he news, the six conservative members of the Supreme Court decided that bans on gender-affirming medical care […]

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TWIT Awards – June 16, 2025

| Jun 16, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. The Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has passed the “Protect Children’s Innocence Act,” Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill to […]

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TWIT Awards – June 9, 2025

| Jun 9, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. As we mentioned in the news, the New York Times released a podcast about transgender health care, hosted by Azeen Ghorayshi, […]

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Not Here in River City, Part V: State’s Wrongs

| Jun 4, 2025

Part I, Part II, Part III, Part VI The Federal government is in chaos—what’s left, that is, after the DOGE treatment and Executive Orders and bizarro heads of organizations have had a go at it. Thanks to Donald Trump’s inability to understand how tariffs work and him being all wishy-washy about it, levying and then […]

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TWIT Awards – June 2, 2025

| Jun 2, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. As we mentioned in the news, this week the report from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services was released. […]

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Not Here in River City, Part IV: Executive Disorder

| May 27, 2025

Part I, Part II & Part III Long ago, before he realized how expedient we could be and how vulnerable we are, Donald Trump had a moderate view of transgender people. He first spoke specifically about transgender rights when the controversial “bathroom bill” went into effect in North Carolina during the [2016] campaign. Though not […]

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TWIT Awards – May 26, 2025

| May 26, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. As we mentioned in the news, the United States Army is amending its records to show the birth gender of those […]

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TWIT Awards – May 19, 2025

| May 19, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. The Department of Health and Human Services has deleted reports on the mental health of transgender students in Utah, whose results […]

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TWIT Awards – May 12, 2025

| May 12, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. As we mentioned in the news, the Supreme Court voted to allow President Trump to begin implementing his ban on transgender […]

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TWIT Awards – May 5, 2025

| May 5, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. As we mentioned in the news, the White House on Monday released a list of its accomplishments in the first 100 […]

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Not Here in River City, Part III: Under Attack!

| May 4, 2025

Part I & Part II Over the past few years, transgender and nonbinary people have come under increasingly fierce and unrelenting political attack in the U.S. and elsewhere. Such hate-based attacks have been ongoing for decades; three people who have long wished to eradicate us are Janice Raymond, Paul McHugh, and J.K. Rowling—Google them! They […]

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TWIT Awards – April 28, 2025

| Apr 28, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. This week, Meta’s review board approved anti-transgender videos, saying that they do not violate the company’s policy against hate speech. Meta’s […]

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Not Here in River City, Part II: A Short History of Repression of Trans People

| Apr 22, 2025

Note: What I envisioned as a three-part series of articles has now grown to four. Part II, as described in the first article, is now Part III. My apologies. I thought it important to include this history. Part I There has always been pushback against the identities, bodies, and personal freedoms of transgender and nonbinary […]

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TWIT Awards – April 21, 2025

| Apr 21, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. As we mentioned in the news, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom decided that transgender women are not women according […]

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TWIT Awards – April 14, 2025

| Apr 14, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. The Department of Education and the Justice Department have announced the formation of a new “Title IX Special Investigative Team,” whose […]

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TWIT Awards – April 7, 2025

| Apr 7, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. As we mentioned in the news, the trump administration is going to investigate schools who teach “the pernicious effects of gender […]

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TWIT Awards – March 31, 2025

| Mar 31, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. President Trump issued an Executive Order, entitled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.” It requires every voter to provide […]

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TWIT Awards – March 24, 2025

| Mar 24, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. As we mentioned in the news, the Trump administration is suspending $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania, […]

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TWIT Awards – March 17, 2025

| Mar 17, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. As we mentioned in the news, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has declared that Texas driver’s licenses and state ID cards […]

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Not Here in River City, Part I: The New Normal

| Mar 15, 2025

Oh, we got trouble, right here in River City—Robert Preston performing Meredith Willson’s Ya Got Trouble in the 1962 film The Music Man Eight years ago, I published an article called The Rise and Fall of the Weimar Transvestites and the Threat to Our Own Trans Community on my personal website and here on TG […]

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TWIT Awards – March 9, 2025

| Mar 9, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. Aa we mentioned in the news, President Trump, in an address to a joint session of Congress, talked of cutting eight […]

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TWIT Awards – March 3, 2025

| Mar 3, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. Maine state Representative Laurel Libby took especial exception to a transgender athlete. Representative Laurel deadnamed and misgendered this athlete repeatedly, posting […]

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TWIT Awards – Feb 23, 2025

| Feb 23, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has made a reputation for himself as one who opposes using gender-affirming medical care to treat […]

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TWIT Awards – Feb 17, 2025

| Feb 17, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. As we mentioned in the news, the Department of Education wants to strip transgender athletes of the titles and awards that […]

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TWIT Awards – Feb 10, 2025

| Feb 10, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. You might not think that any transgender person supports President Trump’s ban on transgender women in girls’ or women’s sports. Indeed, […]

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TWIT Awards – Feb 3, 2025

| Feb 3, 2025

Links will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. As we mentioned in the news, President Trump signed three executive orders concerning transgender people this week. On Monday night, he […]

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