TWIT Awards – Dec 9, 2024

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We mentioned in the news that some Montana lawmakers tried, and failed, to pass a rule which would have required that only those with XX chromosomes can use the women’s restroom at the state capitol. For proposing a bill which supports prejudice against a fellow lawmaker, state Representative Jerry Schillinger and supporters of his proposed rule get a TWIT. This story comes from Them.

U.S. Representative Nancy Mace, who proposed a rule whereby the restrooms at the U.S. Capitol are to be used by people according to their “biological sex,” referred to participants in a protest against her proposed legislation as “tr***y protestors.” For showing the prejudice behind her proposal, U.S. Representative Nancy Mace gets a TWIT. Erin Reed has this story.

In October, a story broke that the National Institutes of Health had withheld publishing a study by Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy on long-term use of puberty blockers, for fear that the study would be “weaponized” by opponents of gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. Senators Bill Cassidy, Tommy Tuberville, Ted Cruz, James Lankford, Markwayne Mullin, and Mike Lee have sent the NIH a letter, expressing a “concern about the “transparency” of withholding this study. For rushing to show the sort of behaviour which the NIH feared would surround the release of this study, Senators Cassidy, Tuberville, Cruz, Lankford, Mullin, and Lee get a TWIT. This story comes from The Hill.

As the Supreme Court was hearing oral arguments on the case of United States v. Skrmetti, groups outside the court were heard rallying for and against transgender people. Matt Walsh, who often uses selected quotes from the Bible to support his far-right-wing arguments, used that platform to call for transgender people to be “entirely erased from the earth.” In the eighth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, an Ethiopian Eunuch is accepted as a member of the Church. For displaying the opposite of the sort of attitude which is shown as Christian in the Bible, and for stretching to read his prejudice into the Bible, Matt Walsh gets a TWIT. LGBTQ Nation has this story.

Also at that anti-transgender rally, U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene rushed to claim that Chase Strangio is “going to try to convince the Supreme Court that Tennessee’s law protecting kids from doctors cutting off their breast and genitals needs to be struck down.” While the law does indeed ban gender-confirming surgery on transgender minors, such surgeries are seldom performed on those under the age of 18. Moreover, the question is whether the ban on prescribing certain medicines is discrimination “on the basis of sex,” given that these same medicines can be prescribed for minors for other reasons. For entirely missing the point, and for rushing to support a ban on surgery that is seldom performed on minors, as well as showing both ignorance and prejudice, U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene gets a TWIT. This story comes from LGBTQ Nation.

Ohio state Representative Adam Bird, who sponsored that state’s school bathroom bill, said that the bathroom bill and a ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors will result in “effectively reducing the population impacted by the bathroom ban.” In reality, the ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors merely delays the start of such care. The children who would be receiving that medical care are still experiencing gender dysphoria, but they are not being treated for it. For displaying both an ignorance of the latest studies (which show nearly no desistance among those with gender dysphoria) and a lack of concern for a serious medical condition, state Representative Adam Bird gets a TWIT. Erin Reed has this story.

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