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Boston Globe
01-07-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Navigating the extremes: A search for middle ground on transgender issues
While the Supreme Court's ruling has been denounced as an assault on civil rights, it is broadly aligned with the opinions of the majority of the American public. A New York Times/Ipsos Advertisement For many people, it's simply common sense that children too young to vote should not be allowed to make a life-altering medical decision based on what may be a phase or a childhood fantasy. Others feel just as strongly that kids who say they are transgender know exactly who they are. Advertisement The reality is, as often happens, more complicated. Severe and persistent childhood gender dysphoria does exist; even some critics of pediatric gender medicine, such as science journalist Jesse Singal, have Youth gender medicine is just one aspect of a larger controversy over what Advertisement While gender transitions in the United States began in the 1950s and gained Claims that the 'gender binary' — the division of humanity into male and female — was an artificial, oppressive construct trickled down from academic discourse to far broader left-of-center circles, with such concepts as 'sex assigned at birth' becoming common even in the mainstream media. 'Nonbinary' identities beyond male and female proliferated. Universities and some corporations tried to normalize the exchange of pronouns as part of introductions (in 2019, then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris once All these changes moved forward with little if any mainstream debate. Those who argued for protecting single-sex female spaces or opposed the participation of biologically male athletes in women's and girls' sports were routinely accused of bigotry — including people with strong progressive credentials like author J.K. Rowling and pioneering lesbian athlete Martina Navratilova. Psychologists were sidelined if they warned that transgender identification among teenagers, which had Advertisement Fear of questioning advocacy narratives caused sloppy journalism: Thus, a 2022 The result is a widespread sense that the transgender rights movement, enabled by various institutions, has gone off the rails — with effects that range from relatively trivial (the erasure of women from language about pregnancy) to clearly damaging (a transgender prisoner housed in a women's facility Yet the backlash, emboldened by the movement's setbacks, has its own excesses. Alongside people with legitimate concerns, there are anti-trans advocates: right-wingers who see any deviation from traditional sexual norms as degenerate, or radical feminists who associate biological maleness with entrenched evil. Alongside Advertisement These illiberal and cruel attitudes are reflected in some of Trump's executive orders — ones that, for instance, Blanket bans on transgender youth care of the kind that has been upheld in Tennessee may also be too extreme. But it is important to recognize that such bans are in part a response to shoddy practices and shoddy science (as documented in ' A course correction should be based on common sense, solid facts, and respect — respect for the humanity of transgender people but also for people who dissent from various aspects of transgender-advocacy dogma. That's extremely difficult to achieve in a toxically polarized political environment. Open and civil dialogue is a place to start. Advertisement
Yahoo
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
JD Vance joins Bluesky, and it didn't go well right after he made his first post
Vice President JD Vance made his Bluesky debut recently; his first post got him suspended. Vance quickly became the most blocked user on the app and his account was briefly suspended from the social media platform. More than 110,000 Bluesky users have blocked the VP since he joined the app, dethroning journalist Jesse Singal as the most blocked user in the app's history according to ClearSky data, which shows blocked accounts. His first post on June 18 addressed Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Vance's account was suspended just 12 minutes after he published his first post due to verification concerns, but has since been reinstated. Here's what happened. The Ohio native stated that he joined Bluesky to engage in "common sense political discussion and analysis." He attached a screenshot of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's opinion on medical care for transgender youth. The post was met with immediate backlash from respondents, with many users expressing criticism of Vance joining the platform. "You don't belong here," wrote one Bluesky user on Wednesday. "What are you DOING here?!! Jesus, is no space safe anymore?!" another user commented. Vance's Bluesky suspension didn't last long: His account was reinstated within 20 minutes, Newsweek reports. As of this publication, Vance is the most blocked account on Bluesky, followed by journalist Jesse Singal. These are the top five most blocked users, according to Clearsky: JD Vance Jesse Singal Now Breezing Brianna Wu Mark Cuban Bluesky, which launched publicly in February 2024, is a decentralized social media app, according to USA TODAY. It has a similar look and feel as X, formerly Twitter, but has some different features to bring more people into its creation. The Bluesky project was originally started in 2019 by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Bluesky and Twitter formerly parted ways in late 2022. Fox News, in reporting on Vance being briefly suspended on Bluesky, described the platform as a "liberal X competitor." This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: JD Vance is the most blocked person on Bluesky. Here's how it happened
Yahoo
20-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
JD Vance becomes the most blocked account on Bluesky after anti-trans post
JD Vance has become the most blocked account on Bluesky just two days after joining the social media platform. The vice president signed up for the site, a competitor of X/Twitter, on Wednesday. Vance used his first post to mock transgender people by sharing part of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' opinion in U.S. v. Skrmetti, in which he incorrectly said that gender-affirming care relies on 'questionable evidence.' "Hello Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis," Vance wrote. "So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you." Within just one day, Vance became the most blocked account on Bluesky, according to Clearsky, the platform's unofficial data tracker. As of publishing, Vance has been blocked by over 117,500 accounts, more than 29,000 of which blocked him in the past 24 hours. He has only gained 10,000 followers since joining the site. The title formerly belonged to anti-trans journalist Jesse Singal, whom GLAAD has criticized for spreading misinformation harmful to LGBTQ+ people. It took 12 days for Singal to become the most blocked account, with users even starting a petition asking the site to remove his account. He is currently blocked by over 81,000 people. "The only thing I've ever accomplished in my life, gone, all because being vice president wasn't enough for JD Vance — he needed more," Singal recently posted on X/Twitter in response to the news. "We are in hell." The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Wednesday that Tennessee's law banning gender-affirming care for trans youth – while allowing the same treatments for youth who aren't trans – does not constitute sex-based discrimination, and therefore does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. In the snippet of his opinion shared by Vance, Thomas asserted that the Court should not listen to "so-called experts," accusing medical professionals of allowing "ideology to influence their medical guidance." He then falsely claimed that "there is no medical consensus on how best to treat gender dysphoria in children." The American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, the World Medical Association, and the World Health Organization all agree that gender-affirming care is evidence-based and medically necessary not just for adults, but minors as well. Out of 55 peer-reviewed studies, not a single one found that gender transition has negative outcomes. Justice Sonia Sotomayor argued in her dissenting opinion that the law explicitly discriminates on the basis of both sex and gender, as it 'expressly classifies on the basis of sex and transgender status,' since 'male (but not female) adolescents can receive medicines that help them look like boys, and female (but not male) adolescents can receive medicines that help them look like girls.' The decision "does irrevocable damage to the Equal Protection Clause and invites legislatures to engage in discrimination by hiding blatant sex classifications in plain sight," Sotomayor wrote. "It also authorizes, without second thought, untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them. Because there is no constitutional justification for that result, I dissent." Back on Bluesky, Vance was met with , with one person asking, "Why pick such a polarizing issue if you want to have a real discussion, and why not something relevant to more Americans?" To which another replied, "It's only a polarizing issue because ignorant bigoted child abusing superstitious sadists like Vance want to pretend that they know more than doctors." This article originally appeared on Advocate: JD Vance becomes the most blocked account on Bluesky after anti-trans post JD Vance admits to making up crazy stories to get press attention and says he'll continue doing it JD Vance wants the UK to repeal its LGBTQ+ hate speech laws to secure a trade deal JD Vance falsely accuses Algerian Olympic boxer of being transgender & weirdly blames Kamala Harris JD Vance now says Haitian immigrants are spreading HIV after bizarre pet-eating claim flops
