TWIT Awards – Nov 24, 2025
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As we mentioned in the news, the government of New Zealand has passed a law banning new prescriptions of puberty blockers to deal with gender dysphoria in minors. The same drugs are still available for precocious puberty or for various other diagnoses. For banning these drugs specifically as treatments for gender dysphoria in minors, the legislators of New Zealand get a TWIT. Erin In The Morning has this story.
The 19th* News learnt that transgender people and people of color have been quietly removed from a government program to help those who are taking care of family members. This move comes despite the fact that people of color and transgender people often are impoverished and have their health put at risk more for caregiving, not less. For cutting people who need this program out of the program, the Trump administration gets a TWIT.
Several southern states have banned books on gender identity from the children’s and young adults sections of libraries, following the example of Tennessee and Alabama. Librarians had to scramble to remove the banned material from their shelves. For mistakenly thinking that banning information about gender identity will make gender identity go away, and for banning books in general, lawmakers in these states who support book bans get a TWIT. The Advocate has this story.
Erin In The Morning reports that President Trump’s administration relied on hate groups and talking heads funded by billionaires as the “experts” behind its report on transgender health. The absence of comments from actual transgender people and the healthcare professionals who treat them was noted as well. For ignoring us in order to give a bigger weight to the opinions of our enemies, the Department of Health and Human Services gets a TWIT.
The Trump administration deported a transgender immigrant to Mexico, despite a judge’s order granting her permission to stay in the U.S. because she might be tortured or violently persecuted if she were deported. The Trump administration says that Britania Uriostegui Rios was “inadvertently” deported, although such carelessness was easy to avoid. For putting this refugee in danger, and for not taking care to follow a judge’s orders, the Trump administration gets a TWIT. This story comes from CNN.
Justin Olsen has been nominated for a federal judge position in Indiana. In describing his qualifications for the job, one of the things that the Trump administration stresses is that Mr. Olson “has been fighting tirelessly to keep men out of women’s sports.” For stressing how he fails to see both sides of an issue, the Trump administration gets another TWIT. LGBTQ Nation has this story.
The Texas Tribune has a long article on how teachers in the state are now required to deadname transgender students. The lawmakers behind the move say that the teachers are required to use the “legal name,” but that means that they would have to refer to a student named Elizabeth Susan Johnson as “Elizabeth” rather than “Liz,” “Lisa,” “Beth,” or “Betty Sue.” Plenty of other students are referred to by nicknames, not their legal names. For forcing teachers to call students by their legal names despite families using nicknames, lawmakers in Texas get a TWIT.
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