Twit Awards for the Week 7/29/24

Vivian Wilson

During an interview with Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk said that he was “essentially tricked into signing documents” so quickly that he didn’t know what the consequences of gender-affirming care were. (In actuality, he still doesn’t know, but merely assumes that he knows after listening to people like Jordan Peterson.) He said, “I lost my son. They call it ‘deadnaming’ for a reason. The reason it’s called ‘deadnaming’ is because your son is dead. So my son is dead, killed by the woke mind virus.” Vivian Wilson, 20, responded in an interview with NBC, saying that Elon Musk was rarely a part of her life, even though he had fought to retain joint custody. She claims she is being generous when she says that he was there “maybe 10% of the time.” For lying about being tricked into paying for HRT, for misunderstanding the science behind supporting gender-affirming medical care, and for admitting that he has cut off relations with his transgender child while blaming the child instead of blaming himself, Elon Musk gets a Twit Award. has this story.

The National Review has a story (actually Part 1 of a story) condemning the science behind gender-affirming medical care. Their sources include the Cass Report and the study by Dr. Lisa Littman. The Cass Report is condemned for cherry-picking which sources to believe, while Dr. Littman is attacked for reaching her conclusions from inadequate research. For using bad sources to support their predetermined conclusion the National Review gets a Twit Award.

In an opinion piece for Fox News detransitioner Prisha Mosley says she “won’t stay silent” about her transgender experience. No one is asking you to stay silent. In fact, we want to hear your story, so we can improve our ability to only give gender-affirming medical care to those who will benefit from it, as you did not. What we don’t appreciate is someone lying about their own involvement in the process. For lying to medical professionals and then blaming those same medical professionals for believing the lies she told, and for denying the experience of the 98% of patients who benefit from gender-affirming medical care, Prisha Mosley gets a Twit Award.

A new law in Idaho requires libraries to only allow adults to have access to books with LGBTQ themes. This means that children’s books with LGBTQ characters. For thinking that knowledge of LGBTQ people is dangerous and needs to be kept from children, Idaho politicians who voted for this law get a Twit Award, This story comes from LGBTQ Nation.

A Catholic group claims that Michigan’s new ban on conversion therapy violates the first-amendment right to free speech. As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once said, “Your right to swing your arm stops at the point of my nose.” For insisting that their right to free speech includes the right to lie and do harm to others, the attorneys behind this law suit get a Twit Award. LGBTQ Nation has this story.

Right-wing conspiracy theorists this week shared a doctored video in which CNN political director David Chalian seems to refer to Michelle Obama as “Big Mike.” Michelle Obama is the mother of two daughters, and several people have known her since she was in grade school. For spreading a ridiculous rumor which only shows the people who repeat it are out of touch with reality, the people who shared this doctored clip get a Twit Award. This story comes from PinkNews.

A satiric website created a joke in which CBS had approved a new Big Bang spin-off, called “Trans Sheldon.” Even the fact that the character was still male in the original series was not enough to tell some people that this was just a joke. For failing to see that the story was a joke, those who spread it as if it were serious get a Twit Award. PinkNews has this story.

You may have heard that vice-presidential candidate JD Vance had a classmate at Yale who identifies as transgender. They were friends in school and after graduation until Vance supported Arkansas’ ban on gender-affirming care in 2021. Vance collects a Twit Award for abandoning his liberal attitude about transgender people and completely reversing his politics to curry favor with the GOP. Read more on the Microsoft News page.

A Florida school board appears to have decided not to fire a teacher whose transgender daughter played on the girl’s high school volleyball team. While that’s nice it’s sad that the matter even had to come up. Shouldn’t trans girls have a right to play on the team they identify with? A Twit Award goes to all of the anti-trans conservatives who have made people believe transgender girls cannot be allowed in the girl’s locker room. The Florida story is on Associated Press.

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