Politics

The argument: If you let trans women use public restrooms that match their gender identity then men will claim to be trans women so they can ogle, harass and/or sexually assault women. The reality: Harassment, sexual assault and invasion of privacy is already illegal, and incidents of harassment didn’t increase in places that passed non-discrimination […]

The argument: The arguments against trans women playing in women’s sports runs the gamut between “trans women have an unfair advantage because of natal testosterone when they were younger” to Trump’s position that “trans women are actually men who are either delusional or lying to get an unfair advantage”. There’s also a secondary argument that

The argument: The argument against treating minors boils down to “Kids are too young to know what’s best for them, so we should hold off making irreversible decisions until they’re adults. We should also wait until there’s more research showing gender-affirming care is safe and effective.” There’s also a fair amount of “They just think

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! During his first two weeks President Trump issued four executive orders targeting transgender children and adults, in keeping with his campaign promises and his inaugural address. The through-line is that, “there are only two genders: male and female” and that a person’s gender is equivalent to their biological sex

A lot of ink has been spilled about how Trump told a crowd at Turning Point Action Believers’ Summit “In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.” Given his history it’s understandable when people worry this was a not-so-subtle hint that

Over the past three years we’ve seen a flood of disastrous 6-3 decisions come out of the Supreme Court, upending centuries of established law. While most of us have concentrated on the real-world impact, from women forced to bear non-viable fetuses to public schools engaging in religions indoctrination to Donald Trump being granted what amounts

A few years ago there was an article about a Western Union employee whose job was to talk people out of wiring their life savings to scammers. At one point they describe a woman clearly in panic. In one hand she held her own cell phone with the scammer still on the line and insisting

Best description I’ve heard so far about the FBI raid on Trump’s quarters at Mar-a-Lago: EmptyWheel has a nice write-up on how what we know so far lines up with the Espionage Act.

A few days ago Kevin Drum lamented that the conservative attacks on Roe vs. Wade are much easier to understand than liberal arguments defending it: Conservatives say, “Abortion isn’t mentioned anywhere in the Constitution and it was illegal almost everywhere before 1973.” In response, liberals stutter and stammer and reel off a few hundred incomprehensible