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Miles Whitney

@milesew.bsky.social
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Trans Jewish Writer, Attorney, Father of a Dead Daughter, Dog Sport Enthusiast. Me encanta Colombia! 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇴✡️✍️🐕‍🦺 miles-whitney.ghost.io

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I’ve never wavered on these issues, and politically, I’ve been successful,” Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan said in an interview with The Advocate, going on to say that allies aren’t “willing to hurt a community to score political points.” Some centrists get it.
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Moth Mom Jess @mothmomjess.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They did this on purpose... fucking hell
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 26/09/2026
Trans activist Roxxy Astaiza killed in Colombia after fighting transfemicide www.transunitedfund.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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TRANS ACTIVIST ROXXY ASTAIZA KILLED IN COLOMBIA FIGHTING TRANSFEMICIDE
The student and human-rights defender was stabbed in Popayán on September 17. Advocates want investigators to examine whether her identity, activism, or leadership were connected to her killing.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 26/09/2026
Pete Hegseth faces questions over unpaid transgender troops. Seven lawmakers are demanding answers after reports that service members pushed out under Trump’s ban have waited months for promised pay. www.advocate.com/pol... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Pete Hegseth faces questions over unpaid transgender troops
Seven lawmakers are demanding answers after reports that service members pushed out under Trump’s ban have waited months for promised pay.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
out of concern for transgender homeless veterans, the Mamdani administration is leaving (potentially) millions on the table in federal funding for shelter great reporting by @andrewgiambrone.bsky.social for @thecityreporter.nyc:
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NYC Ditches Federal Homeless Veterans Program, Citing Concern for Transgender Vets
The city says the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs would require it to discriminate against trans vets to receive funding. The VA says that’s “false.”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lots of fascinating observations in this piece. A key one is that those demanding calculated moderation on trans rights are not acknowledging where the logic *or* the politics of that position actually lead, which is to a terrible place:
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dems replaced action on trans rights with hollow statements, then dropped those statements, then embraced anti-trans rhetoric. Now supporting anti-trans laws and blocking pro-trans ones. At every step the "they're betraying us" radicals were correct and "be patient" liberals were completely wrong.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 22/09/2026
The confluence of state & federal anti-trans attacks & the Trump administration’s massive defunding of healthcare hits rural trans Kentuckians among the hardest–& this includes incarcerated trans people.
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Trans Kentuckians pay the price as safety net shrinks
Trans people account for less than 1% of the state’s residents, but lawmakers continue to target this already vulnerable population
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Fights🏳️‍⚧️4🇵🇸Love @hyenagirl64.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump appointed judges mabdate the state sanctioned, systemic rape of transgender women in Oregon prisons www.advocate.com/politics/sta...
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Federal court rules Oregon can place trans women in men’s prisons
A Trump-appointed judge repeatedly called trans prisoners “male inmates who claim to be female.”
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 19/09/2026
This great @thefrankiedlc.news read connecting BDSM culture and sports, asking...if we have a culture of consent and mutual care in BDSM spaces, can we protect athletes the same way? Thinking a lot about this right now with multiple heat injuries in the news.
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Pushing Through The Pain
What the sports world can learn from the kink community
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Miles Whitney @milesew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Welp this has been my personal experience. My kid died in her sleep and living through the last two years seems to have taken a far worse toll. And I live in CA.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/09/2026
People saying "transgender ideology" in 2026 sound like people saying "race-mixing ideology" in 1956, and their kids and grandkids will feel embarrassment at their feckless cowardice.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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🏳️‍⚧️ Ciara RayneCloud 🏳️‍⚧️ @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl7g...
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An Alarming Number of Democrats are Throwing Trans People Under the Bus
YouTube video by The Humanist Report
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 16/09/2026
For @xtramagazine.com, I wrote about the risks involved with Democratic candidates turning transphobic for the general election. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
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Democratic candidates’ transphobia spells disaster for trans people | Xtra Magazine
The Democratic party’s anti-trans heel turn could have drastic consequences beyond November’s midterms
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hrjaffe.bsky.social @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This article clearly and cogently addresses: • the Democratic candidates caving on trans issues • the response from trans people and their allies • the backlash from people (mostly cis) who are angry at trans people for theoretically hurting those candidates' chances Well worth a read!
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 15/09/2026
Turkish police on Sunday swooped on gay bars and the homes of LGBTQ activists, arresting at least 60 people in raids authorities said were aimed at boosting traditional family values, officials and activists said. www.france24.com/en/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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A propos - 'The very existence of LGBTQI people is seen as obscene', Turkish activist says
Turkish police on Sunday swooped into gay bars and the homes of LGBTQ activists, arresting at least 60 people in raids authorities said were aimed at boosting traditional family values, officials and…
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Miles Whitney @milesew.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When I visited the Whitney Plantation they had an exhibit of a "slave jail" that was a form of torture. It was a basically a metal cage. In the heat/humidity. I can't seem to find a food picture. Don't know why that popped into my head today.
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 14/09/2026
one reason liberals & leftists who otherwise claim to "sympathize with the oppressed" are being pretty quick to throw out trans people is because they don't think trans people, especially trans women, actually experience any oppression at all. they conceptualize transmasculine transition as
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Me and many of my brilliant, hardworking colleagues are facing layoffs at the end of this month. if you want to support our union and its members in this tough time, you can do so here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ad...
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Donate to Support Advocates for Trans Equality workers facing layoff, organized by Gabriel Arkles
Advocates for Trans Equality is on the brink of layoffs. Thos… Gabriel Arkles needs your support for Support Advocates for Trans Equality workers facing layoff
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Let's talk about an excuse I'm seeing, that politicians are just using transphobic rhetoric to temporarily win conservatives and will revert to more pro-trans positions in office. So we should vote for them anyway. I've investigated governments for over 20 years. That ain't ever how it works.🧵...
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 30/01/2026
Please stay alive Just being alive means you're pretty much a success 生きていてくださいっ 生きてるだけでおおむね成功ですっ 失敗なんてないんですっ 無理せずありのままでいてくださいっ だからこれからもちぃたん☆と皆さんはおおむね成功ですっ☆ ♩テレビやSNSは〔夢は叶う、諦めないで、前を向こう〕ばかり。 本当は毎日不安だし辛いことばかりなんだ。 辛い時は辛いって言っていいよ、逃げてもいいよ。 キミの声は聞こえているから。 生きてることだけでおおむね成功だから♩
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Miles Whitney @milesew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It is so hard for me, someone who transitioned years ago and is about to retire after a long successful career, raised kids, big loves, deep faith, long term good friendships and just that perspective of age. I cannot imagine what it is like for a child and families. Heartbreaking. Infuriating.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s the 90th anniversary today of the publication of a children’s book which Franco denounced because its lead character was a pacifist. Hitler ordered the book burned as “degenerate democratic propaganda”, and various Americans saw it as promoting fascism, anarchism, or... er, communism
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The Bittersweet Story of the Real-Life Peaceful Bull Who Inspired Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s Ferdinand
A journey to the abyss between the real world and the ideal world, and a romp across our mightiest bridge between the two.
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 10/09/2026
Really proud to have had the Texas Observer's cover story earlier this year about why trans inclusion in sport is good, actually.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW: @billiejsweeney.bsky.social took a scalpel to anti-trans ballot measures cropping up around the country in this deep dive for @accountabilityji.bsky.social’s Important Context newsletter and @assignedmedia.org. These GOP efforts endanger literal children. This is essential reporting.
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Transphobic Ballot Questions Reveal the Right's Anti-Girl, Anti-Kid Agenda
Seven initiatives in five states would exploit trans people to promote a gender-policing surveillance state.
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great coverage, too: globalnews.ca/news/1205333...
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Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care safe haven | Globalnews.ca
Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trope three: they're infiltrators. Modern antisemitism runs on the fear Jews pass as members of the majority while working against it from within. The trans version runs on the fear trans women are infiltrating sports to “transvestigation,” the theory that celebs & politicians are secretly trans.
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“Transvestigation” and Online Hate - Online Hate Prevention Institute
"Transvestigation" is transphobic, and also leans into other forms of hate, such as homophobia, misogyny and antisemitism.
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Miles Whitney @milesew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pentagon searching medical records to identify transgender troops | Federal News Network share.google/sRsZn0UpK6kh... This caused me to have incoherent rage. Also I can't help to think the military is the testing grounds for future action against civilians.
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Pentagon searching medical records to identify transgender troops | Federal News Network
Military officials are using medical and personnel data to uncover troops with current or past gender dysphoria as the Pentagon moves ahead with separations.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Shout out to everyone who said it was just a temporary distraction and not a central organizing principle of modern fascism.
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Elon Musk’s PAC makes transgender people its multi-million-dollar midterm target
America PAC is attacking Democrats in four competitive Senate races as the trillionaire prepares to spend at least $100 million helping Republicans.
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Cirice Gray @House of the Underworld out now! @ciricegray.itch.io · 06/09/2026
New study on transgender women hiring discrimination paints an incredibly bleak picture. If you can't stealth and don't pass your callbacks plummet 32% This is only at the resume stage, back when I was still trying I was getting callbacks all the time. I was ghosted or experienced death by panel
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The Cost of Being Seen: Identity, Non-Passing Appearance, and Hiring Discrimination Against Transgender Women
This paper examines whether hiring discrimination against transgender women arises from gender identity, non-cisnormative appearance, or their interaction. In a
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is a big deal and I haven’t seen much talk about it
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.
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Justice Department Secures Agreement with Mount Sinai to End Pediatric "Gender-Affirming Care"
Another result of the Department's nationwide investigation into hospitals performing sex-rejecting procedures on minors
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/09/2026
21 states, led by Attorney General Bonta, are suing the federal government to block a medicaid ban for those under 19 from taking effect. The new rule is slated to go into effect in six weeks. They raise novel legal issues, and have been successful before. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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21 States Sue Federal Government To Block Anti-Trans Under-19 Medicaid Ban
The rule is slated to go into effect in six weeks.
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 03/09/2026
Federal government sues Kansas school district, accusing it of secretly transitioning children | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg
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Federal government sues Kansas school district, accusing it of secretly transitioning children • Kansas Reflector
The federal government accused the Kansas City, Kansas, public school district of secretly transitioning children’s gender identity at school without their parents’ knowledge or consent in a lawsuit f...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/09/2026
I wrote about the garbage “study” HHS just released, attempting to link support for trans people and left-wing political violence, a kind of remixed Stephen Miller screed with some additional citations:
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Trump’s Vile Campaign to Link Trans People and Political Violence
A bogus new HHS report argues that support for transgender rights pushes people toward political violence. It’s just the latest chilling installment in a larger project of bigoted propaganda.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: 9 activists arrested protesting gender affirming care reductions in MA More here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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BREAKING: 9 Activists Arrested After Demanding MA AG Restore Trans Youth Care - Assigned Media
In Boston, Massachusetts this afternon a group of 40 protesters associated with Protect Trans Futures ratcheted up pressure on the Attorney General’s office to take action against providers who have c...
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 03/09/2026
Trans Leader Sounds Alarm About “Near Complete Exodus” of Philanthropy From Movement www.them.us/news/tra... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Trans Leader Sounds Alarm About “Near Complete Exodus” of Philanthropy From Movement
​Shelby Chestnut, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, says that the “dollars barely trickle in.”
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/09/2026
For me, the biggest takeaway from Sophie Cunningham’s hard launch into the right-wing culture wars is how *lucrative* bigotry is now. There’s an entire conservative media ecosystem that will turn anyone willing to make transphobia their personal brand into a well-compensated star.
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Sophie Cunningham and the cynical economics of the anti-trans athlete
The conservative media machine is turning WNBA athletes into well-compensated culture-war assets.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 01/09/2026
1. Have you ever wanted to know the history behind trans people's rights? Well, I made a timeline for it! Introducing Transitics' Timeline of Gender Change Laws, the first ever definitive resource on the subject! Check it out and read the accompanying report here:
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Trans People’s Identities Have Been Legally Recognized for Over 70 Years. Why Has That History Been Forgotten?
Trans people’s right to legal gender recognition is much older than we realize—older than abortion rights, Alaska’s statehood, and the Civil Rights Act. That history just became common knowledge.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 28/08/2026
So is the sheer dissonance of being the central fixation of right-wing propaganda campaigns while still being treated as a fringe or niche issue by putative "allies" eroding anyone else's sanity to a fucking nub Or just me
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Miles Whitney @milesew.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I can't imagine pouring resources into this for no reason.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 28/08/2026
Dolly Parton’s chauffeur and assistant of 30+ years was a trans man she supported and loved www.advocate.com/new... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Dolly Parton’s chauffeur and assistant of 30+ years was a trans man she supported and loved
​Parton repeatedly thanked Jason Pirro — whose employment was widely celebrated by trans newsletters — throughout her career.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 26/08/2026
In all the talk of trans women & basketball, I wanted to share this profile I wrote of the Basketdolls, an all-transfemme pickup basketball league in Brooklyn. I would love to see the Liberty shout them out or donate to them in some way. This story was selected for The Year’s Best Sportswriting 2025
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Let’s Hear It for the Dolls: A Day Shooting Hoops With Brooklyn’s Trans Basketball League
“You can play hard and have fun without the fear that you’re going to have to deal with pushback from someone.”
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okie (they/them) @okie.gay · 25/08/2026
Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar
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Miles Whitney @milesew.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I think it would be a really interesting project to do a bunch of stories about those who have left. Many like Art are probably good writers!
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 25/08/2026
Trump Says Trans Healthcare Is Being Reversed “At My Order” www.transunitedfund.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Trump Says Trans Healthcare Is Being Reversed “At My Order”
Hospitals are already retreating from gender-affirming care as the administration cuts funding, pressures providers, and pushes lawful treatment out of reach for trans patients.
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