Logged into Bsky Tracker for the first time in a while and apparently I am on two "MAGA" lists (a follow and a block list LOL). Sorry to disappoint, but even if I wasn't a loud leftist, I am literally neither from nor in the USA. This is the only "MAGA" I support: land back, reparations, abolition.
![“The trans issue for me is so novel,” Newsom said. “I'm trying to understand as much as anyone else the whole ‘pronoun’ thing.”
Newsom added that “gender-affirming care for children” is a “tough” topic—that while some constituents have told him that it “saved [their] child’s life,” he’s also read reports like the one “the UK just came out with,” a likely reference to the widely-rebuked and highly-propagandized “Cass Review.”
Newsom did not weigh in on the common use of GAC for cis children. Gender-affirming hormone treatment is never given to young children except in cases of precocious puberty, where it is the standard protocol for anyone regardless of their gender identity. Gender-affirming surgery is also never performed on trans children this young, but unnecessary genital surgery on intersex youth often is.
Then Ryan and Newsom agreed that human brains are not “fully developed” until age 26—the number anti-trans activists often cite in policy proposals to eradicate evidence-based health care for trans youth. There are no major, reputable medical organizations that endorse this policy, and no states have adopted it into law, but Puerto Rico is considering a GAC ban to the age of 21 years old.
Finally, and perhaps most disturbingly, Ryan compared trans kids to “furbies” who are “showing up to school in a kennel” and using litter boxes. He might mean “furries,” an internet subculture where people dress up in colorful animal costumes, which is often falsely, and pejoratively, conflated with transness. “Furbies” are a popular singing-owl toy from the early aughts.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f3u6nztza3atrtajskchloh3/bafkreicl3pjfvw5ta4hp4hslotdn2mzampxwlb3lyressyp6xw5m3xatqe)
