TWIT Awards – Dec 8, 2025

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As we mentioned in the news, the Department of Justice has informed prison inspectors that they no longer need to take steps to keep transgender, intersex, or gender non-conforming prisoners safe from rape while they are in the prison’s custody. The DOJ says that it is “in the process” of revising the written standard. For thinking that having begun the process of revising the standard is enough to discontinue the standard, and for not caring about the safety of those in their custody, the Department of Justice gets a TWIT. NPR has this story.

As we also mentioned in the news, a new bill in Missouri would ban “social transition” of gender in the schools, regardless of what the parents want. For giving up the pretense that bans of gender-affirming care are about keeping the children safe from “harmful” medications which “make permanent changes,” and for giving up on the pretense that they are trying to strengthen parental rights, and also for insisting that the strong hand of a powerful government will decide what the student can do, the sponsors and supporters of this bill get a TWIT. This story comes from Erin Reed of Erin In The Morning.

A graduate instructor at the University of Oklahoma was placed on administrative leave after a student complained about a failing grade on an essay in which she argued that gender was “Biblically ordained” and transgender people are “demonic.” The graduate instructor, who is transgender, was not impressed by her so-called evidence. The school sided with the student, saying that the instructor did not properly respect the student’s religious beliefs. For placing religious beliefs over scientific evidence in a psychology class, the University of Oklahoma gets a TWIT. LGBTQ Nation has this story.

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Category: Transgender Opinion