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Twit Awards for the Week 3/18/24

ceciliab | Mar 18, 2024

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Sixteen state Attorneys General are threatening to sue Maine if the state goes ahead and offers sanctuary to those who provide gender-affirming care to people who come from a state where such medical care is illegal. For insisting that other states recognize their state’s sovereignty when they refuse to recognize the right of other states to make their own laws, these sixteen state’s Attorneys General get a Twit Award. This story comes from The Advocate.

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville and U.S. Representatives Dale Strong and Robert Aderholt took the side of a parent who is demanding that Space Camp fire a transgender employee. No, the employee did nothing wrong; their only reason for demanding that the employee be fired is that she is transgender. For prejudice, and for determining that being transgender is cause for firing, Senator Tommy Tuberville and Representatives Dale Strong and Robert Aderholt share a Twit Award. AL.com has this story.

The National Review has done it again, printing an editorial in which the author, a political science professor, predicts that detransitioners are a “time bomb” which will explode in the faces of states which allow minors to seek gender-affirming care. A new study in JAMA Pediatrics this month finds again that only about 1% of transgender teens who undergo a gender transition end up detransitioning, and that is despite the obstacles political opponents throw in their path. More re-identified with their birth gender during the period of assessment, but even that accounted for only 5.3% of the teens, not the 80% that is frequently cited by opponents of gender-affirming care for teens. (See the article in PinkNews.) For holding onto a statistic which came from a misunderstanding of a study which never separated transgender teens from others who displayed some sort of gender-nonconforming behavior, National Review gets a Twit Award.

Candace Owens is a right-wing pundit with a following. She has a new theory, which she claims is “terrifying” and a “scandal.” She thinks that Brigitte Macron, the wife of the President of France, is transgender. First off, the idea that a prominent politician is married to a transgender person is none of Candace Owens’ business, nor is it her followers’ business. Secondly, Brigitte Macron is not transgender. People who knew her long before her marriage have always known her as female, and the only “evidence” to show that she is transgender is that she vaguely seems to match a few stereotypes. For running with fake news and for failure to properly dig into research, Candace Owens gets a Twit Award. The Advocate has this story.

Although we have tried our best to just ignore J.K. Rowling as she continues to spread misinformation about transgender people, we feel an obligation to point out this one. She questioned someone who said that the Nazis “burnt books on trans healthcare and research.” Yes, they did destroy the research of Magnus Hirschfeld, and they sent LGBTQ people to their concentration camps. This is well known, but J.K. Rowling insisted on calling it a potential “fever dream” and insisting that the author needs to do a better job of fact-checking. For allowing her prejudice to get in the way of reality, J.K. Rowling gets a Twit Award. This story comes from The Advocate.

Adrian College in Michigan invited Riley Gaines to be their commencement speaker in May. Gaines is a former swimmer who is known less for winning swimming meets than for her crusade against transgender athletes. For elevating a mediocre athlete to the position of commencement speaker because she refuses to admit that she lost, Adrian College gets a Twit Award. You can find this story at M Live.