TWIT Awards – Nov 10, 2025
As we mentioned in the news, the Supreme Court used a procedure usually reserved for emergencies to allow the State Department to implement its policy of assigning birth sex to those requesting U.S. passports. This ruling ignores the tremendous harm that the policy does to transgender people, and it endorses engaging President Trump’s animus. For rushing to step in, for siding with empowering a too-powerful bully, for indulging his animus, and for ignoring the fact that the reason for a sex being listed on a passport is to assist in identifying the holder of the passport (who, in this case, is not presenting in the sex which is being used to identify the holder), the conservative Supreme Court justices get a TWIT. Erin Reed of Erin In The Morning has this story.
A bill introduced in the Wisconsin state legislature would allow patients to sue a doctor who provided gender-affirming care to a minor if the patient later came to regret getting that care. Admittedly, this would rarely be used, as few patients who receive gender-affirming care as minors come to regret it. For empowering groups of bigots, the sponsors of this bill get a TWIT. This story comes from The Advocate.
A trio of judges from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee) ruled that cisgender students may repeatedly misgender transgender students legally. This was in response to an anti-transgender pressure group’s objection to a policy enacted by a school board in Ohio to protect transgender students. For empowering bullies, the judges involved in this ruling get a TWIT. Erin Reed of Erin In The Morning gets a TWIT.
The Department of Homeland Security is attempting to implement a policy which would force some immigrants and visitors to provide a DNA sample for sex testing. For indulging President Trump’s animus towards transgender people, the bureaucrats behind this policy get a TWIT. This story comes from Erin In The Morning.
A transgender man was threatened with arrest for using the ladies’ room at an Illinois bar. Admittedly, Illinois is not a state which bas a law nominally forcing transgender people to use the restroom of their “biological sex,” but still, this is surprising. For threatening to arrest a transgender man for using the restroom, the security people at this bar get a TWIT. This story comes from Them.
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