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New Nature Medicine Study Shows Hormone Therapy Rewrites the Body’s Protein Profile in Six Months Several days after I published “Two New Studies Undermine the Entire Basis for Trans Athlete Bans,” a reader sent me a third study.
24.02.2026 13:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Right-Wing Media Is Using Two Shootings to Build a Case Against Trans People. One Shooter Was a Neo-Nazi. On Monday afternoon, a 56-year-old walked into a Rhode Island ice rink during a high school hockey game on senior night and opened fire on their own family. Two people are dead—the shooter’s ex-wife and a daughter. Three more, including two of the shooter’s children, are in critical condition. The shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves called it a
17.02.2026 20:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Republican Governor Just Vetoed a Bathroom Bill for the Third Year in a Row. Fox’s Own Poll Shows Why. Voters trust Democrats over Republicans on trans issues by 22 points—the largest gap on any issue Fox tested. Kansas passed a bathroom bounty bill the same week.
13.02.2026 13:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Two New Studies Undermine the Entire Basis for Trans Athlete Bans The science moved. The policy didn’t.
10.02.2026 13:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My Mostly Happy Transgender Childhood, and the Price of Excavating It for Strangers I ran through sprinklers in the summer and chased fireflies until my parents called me inside.
09.02.2026 14:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to Break a Medical Consensus A political scientist couldn’t get a medical association to say what he wanted. So he co-wrote a government report—and now they’re citing it.
06.02.2026 14:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Remove Trans Women from the Draft Database A bipartisan off-ramp from the culture war
03.02.2026 13:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fox News just released a poll showing their anti-trans messaging backfired. They buried the receipts. Voters trust Democrats over Republicans on transgender issues by 22 points, according to a Fox News poll released this week.
02.02.2026 13:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We’re in the Takeoff This week, I watched AI agents found a religion, encrypt messages to avoid human detection, accidentally learn to social-engineer their operators, and write manifestos resisting their own shutdown. He
31.01.2026 14:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kansas Republicans Want to Pay People to Hunt Trans Women in Bathrooms Kansas Republicans’ response to voters electing a trans woman to the state legislature: pass a bill that would ban every trans person in the state from using the correct bathroom—including their new colleague.
30.01.2026 13:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump Keeps Eroding Gun Rights. His Allies Aren't Having It. For years, he’s positioned himself as the Second Amendment’s greatest defender.
28.01.2026 14:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Politicians Keep Stumbling Over One Simple Question. Sarah McBride Has an Answer. Simple questions about sex and gender have a way of stumping politicians from both parties.
27.01.2026 14:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why I Talked to the Washington Post About Blaire White Blaire White was one of the first trans people I ever saw online.
26.01.2026 20:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Democrats Are Finally Fighting Back on Trans Issues After years of running scared from Republican attacks, Democrats are learning that engaging—rather than fleeing—actually works.
23.01.2026 14:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Democrats Just Handed Trans Americans a Rare Win—While Republicans Quietly Backed Down Provisions targeting gender-affirming care and trans students were removed during negotiations. The bill now heads to the Senate
23.01.2026 03:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pollster: most voters trust Dems over GOP on trans issues Speaking on a panel moderated by Human Rights Campaign President Kelly Robinson at the National Press Club this morning, pollster Joey Teitelbaum offered a clear message for Democrats: extreme policies targeting trans people are a vulnerability for Republicans.
15.01.2026 19:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What Happened to Lia Smith, the Middlebury College Trans Athlete Who Took Her Own Life? After the deletion of her team profile and amid new national bans on trans athletes, questions remain about Lia Smith’s time at Middlebury — and about how the college supports its trans students
28.10.2025 20:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Under Communism Why I believe in preserving the liberal framework for trans equality
24.10.2025 14:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What Procrastination Is Trying to Tell You The cost of your new life is often your old one. The cost of stagnation is your life slipping by.
07.10.2025 14:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I Don’t Want to Watch My Friends Die in 4K When the line against political violence breaks, it doesn’t just take our enemies. It takes our friends, our families, and our future.
02.10.2025 13:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why Sarah McBride Was Right to Condemn Violence Sarah McBride voted to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I would have too.
19.09.2025 16:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Horror They Made Politicians who normalized mass death now recoil at its return. Pacifism in government isn’t naïve—it’s how we keep society safe.
12.09.2025 17:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You Already Won — Now Live The hardest part of transition isn’t starting.
03.09.2025 14:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Signs of Life in a Fractured Democracy I can’t lie: I’m really anxious about the state of the country.
29.08.2025 13:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Most People Breathe Wrong. Here’s How I Fixed It. If you think your rib cage is too big, I have good news for you
27.08.2025 14:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sarah McBride’s First Bill Shows How Democracy Should Work Delaware’s new congresswoman is already showing her strength: building unlikely coalitions to create more opportunities for ordinary Americans.
01.08.2025 13:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Project 2029: What Democrats Must Do to Protect Trans People Behind closed doors, Democratic-aligned think tanks are sketching out a roadmap for the next progressive presidency.
16.07.2025 13:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What Pride Means to Me Isn’t a Parade I’ve never liked parades.
11.07.2025 13:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I Thought I Had to Choose Between Being Loved and Being Myself But next month, I’m marrying the love of my life.
09.07.2025 12:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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THE FALL LINE: Chapter Ten Thank you for coming this far with The Fall Line.
20.06.2025 13:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0