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Miss Gayle

"Anti-trans...activists have long struggled to rebut the high satisfaction rates...by those who receive gender-affirming care... Unable to discredit those numbers...[they're] arguing that satisfaction is irrelevant...[or] “objectively,” transgender people are doing “poorly.” Evidence? A single 1988 study—nearly 40 years old...are held up as “objective measures.”

1988?

Link: erininthemorning.com/p/fact-ch

Fact Check: FALSE Trump's HHS Review On Trans Care Filled With Lies, Pseudoscience The review, which was made possible by an executive order calling transgender healthcare "mutilation," reached its predetermined conclusion on its May 1st publication date. Erin in the Morning - Erin Reed, May 1, 2025 "At more than 400 pages, the document is poised to draw a wave of fact-checks and scientific rebuttals. The American Academy of Pediatrics has already issued a sharp condemnation, calling it “inaccurate,” “misleading,” and a distortion of “the current medical consensus.” This fact check won’t capture every falsehood in the report—there are hundreds—but it will examine some of its most egregious and harmful pseudoscientific claims.Before delving into the document’s most egregious factual distortions, it’s worth emphasizing that it has no listed author and bears none of the hallmarks of scientific rigor. There is no evidence of peer review. Instead, the report reads less like a medical analysis and more like an anti-trans screed—politicized, inflammatory, and devoid of scholarly grounding. Tellingly, transgender researchers have already unearthed EXIF data embedded in the file, revealing that the document’s compilers include Alex Byrne, an anti-transgender philosophy major, and two political consultants—not scientists, and certainly not experts in gender-affirming care."
#Trans#TransRights#LGBTQ
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today In Labor History May 1, 1946: The three-year Pilbara strike began in Australia. In this strike, indigenous Australian pastoral workers demanded recognition of their human rights. They were also fighting for better wages and working conditions. The bosses often treated indigenous workers like slaves. Many didn’t even pay them in cash. Rather, they paid them in tobacco and food. And if indigenous workers tried to quit or leave, the police forced them back. Sometimes they massacred entire families. The strike was one of the longest in Australian history. And it was a major event in the struggle for indigenous rights.

Teddy Allen commenting on the strike in 1909, looking straight ahead, wearing a wide brimmed hat. He says, “living condition was no good. We camp in riverbed, no house. That’s why we went on strike, not enough money, we working hard, hard life.”
#workingclass#LaborHistory#strike
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GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦

considering that the orange rapist just revoked the posse comitatus act so he can use the military on US soil against US citizens, and he can deport US citizens (to where?), i think fascism is officially here, just in time for the may day protests

#politics #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #oligarchy #plutocracy #Nazis #lawlessness #Protest #RESIST #HumanRights newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05

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Shingo Mouse 🌳

#CivilRights #HumanRights #Donations 100 Days of Trump's Administration. 100 Days of Fighting Back. | American Civil Liberties Union
action.aclu.org/give/100-days-

action.aclu.orgACLU 100-Day GoalThe Trump administration has spent their first 100 days launching attack after attack on our civil rights and liberties. I'm not going to sit back and watch it happen. That's why I decided to donate to the ACLU and join the fight. Will you join me?
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

This outrageous story didn't generate a ton of national attention last week, but as someone from the area where it occurred I think it speaks both to the cruelty of DHS's mass deportation campaign and the inhumane lengths the regime will go to solve the logistical problem presented by trying to detain millions of people in order to deport them.

Rashida Tlaib (D-MI12) is reporting that Customs and Border Protection is snatching people on the Ambassador Bridge and detaining them at a holding facility there that is not designed to be used as a long term jail. As this report indicates, conditions are brutal, several American citizens have been detained for days at a time, and most of the families detained there simply made a wrong turn onto a poorly labeled road.

truthout.org/articles/tlaib-cb

Tlaib: CBP Has Detained 200 in Michigan Where People Took Wrong Turn to Canada

"Last month, Tlaib visited an immigrant jail where Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) is holding and “disappearing” people who cross the Ambassador Bridge, in Detroit, a one-way toll road.

Between January 20 and March 21, CBP has detained at least 210 people this way, Tlaib discovered, with over 90 percent of them having crossed the bridge by accident, taking the wrong turn on the road — a mistake frequently made by people living in the area, locals say. Tlaib said in a press conference that advocates in Michigan have long called for better signage and directions around the bridge.

Immigration advocates say that the immigrant jail is not built to hold people long term, and that officers have denied detainees proper medical care, food, and access to legal counsel."

Folks, as someone who has driven in the area and almost ended up on that very same bridge, because of that very same road multiple times, I have no problem at all believing ICE snatched up 210 people in two months at that crossing. The important issue here however is that our white nationalist regime is so desperate to meet Trump's fundamentally racist deportation quotas that they're lying in ambush for migrants who are almost certainly not a danger to public safety, just people who struggle with Detroit's byzantine network of roads.

Furthermore, the fact that CBP is shoving entire families into a small facility designed to temporarily hold people trying to cross the border, speaks to the sheer scale of this ongoing ethnic cleansing operation. The United States already has what most believe to be the largest migrant carceral system in the world, and we're repurposing border jails to lock up whole families in horrifying conditions for as long as twelve days? As the article notes, there's already been one suicide attempt at the jail and while I'd argue that caging brown people for being born on the wrong side of an imaginary line was already a crime against human decency, locking people up in a makeshift dungeon without adequate provisions to hold them is an internationally recognized violation of human rights. The fact that we're basically torturing families for making a wrong turn onto the bridge is just the fascist cherry on top of this cruel and repugnant sundae.

Vehicles enter the United States from Canada across the Ambassador Bridge at a U.S. Customs port of entry in December 13, 2004, in Detroit, Michigan.
Truthout · Tlaib: CBP Has Detained 200 People at Michigan Bridge Where People Mistakenly Enter CanadaTlaib said the detentions, which occurred over the course of just two months, are “outrageously cruel and inhumane.”…
#Fascism#Trump#MigrantRights
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