Two-Thirds in U.S. Prefer Birth Sex on IDs, in Athletics
Most Americans think the birth sex of transgender people should be prioritized over gender identity when it comes to sports and official documents.
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Democrats and Trans Rights
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bruh they spend half the episode talking about trans rights and yall are telling me this isn’t an issue? 
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Timeline:
00:00 Dave Weigel joins the Chuck ToddCast!
02:00 Similarities/differences in political landscape between 2017 & 2025?
03:15 The parties are very different compared to 8 years ago
04:45 Democrats had their first failed presidency since Carter
07:15 Democrats could learn the wrong lessons from a successful midterm
09:30 Democrats tried to replicate the Obama coalition and failed
11:30 The media and campaign infrastructure are completely different now
13:00 Battle over trans rights has Democrats flailing
15:00 Democrats are walking on eggshells over immigration
16:00 Democrats don’t have clear, united positions on major issues
18:30 Voters want tight border security, but not mass deportations
21:00 Democrats believed they could make Trump “never happen again”
23:30 Dems overreacted to Trump, didn’t have coherent immigration policy
24:30 The country has moved right as a backlash to Biden
26:00 Republicans acting like a party that thinks they can’t lose
28:30 The left is seen as soft, is trans rights creating that perception?
30:30 Trump has forced the conversation on immigration
32:30 The fight for gay marriage vs fight for trans rights
34:15 Why hasn’t the gender rights fight been punted to states?
35:45 Trump endorsed gay marriage before Hilary Clinton
37:45 Both parties demonstrated hubris on gay marriage/gender rights
39:00 Voters care more about immigration than trans rights
41:00 Urban voters are more willing to flirt with socialism, not transferrable
42:00 Will Democrats distance themselves from Mamdani?
43:15 Dem socialists get dinged for cultural issues, not economics
44:30 Cost of living is biggest issue in big coastal cities
46:15 Michigan will be a bellwether for Democratic politics
47:45 Nevada and Texas show whether Latino swing toward Trump stays
51:30 How many Bernie voters would have come out in Michigan?
54:30 Will Mike Duggan work outside of the metro Detroit area?
57:00 When Trump isn’t on the ballot, Democrats sweep Michigan
58:15 Will lack of Republican infighting boost the party in midterms?
1:01:30 Republicans haven’t found “sweet spot” candidates in some races
01:03:00 Ability to appear on podcasts will matter for candidates
01:04:15 Any R’s on 2028 trail besides Paul and Youngkin?
01:06:00 A tight primary race between Vance & Paul wouldn’t be surprising
01:07:45 Why are so many Democrats interested in Iowa senate?
01:10:30 Kim Reynolds not running after DeSantis endorsement
01:12:00 Democrats surrendered Iowa and Florida
01:13:30 Favorite state fair food?
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Timeline:
00:00 Dave Weigel joins the Chuck ToddCast!
02:00 Similarities/differences in political landscape between 2017 & 2025?
03:15 The parties are very different compared to 8 years ago
04:45 Democrats had their first failed presidency since Carter
07:15 Democrats could learn the wrong lessons from a successful midterm
09:30 Democrats tried to replicate the Obama coalition and failed
11:30 The media and campaign infrastructure are completely different now
13:00 Battle over trans rights has Democrats flailing
15:00 Democrats are walking on eggshells over immigration
16:00 Democrats don’t have clear, united positions on major issues
18:30 Voters want tight border security, but not mass deportations
21:00 Democrats believed they could make Trump “never happen again”
23:30 Dems overreacted to Trump, didn’t have coherent immigration policy
24:30 The country has moved right as a backlash to Biden
26:00 Republicans acting like a party that thinks they can’t lose
28:30 The left is seen as soft, is trans rights creating that perception?
30:30 Trump has forced the conversation on immigration
32:30 The fight for gay marriage vs fight for trans rights
34:15 Why hasn’t the gender rights fight been punted to states?
35:45 Trump endorsed gay marriage before Hilary Clinton
37:45 Both parties demonstrated hubris on gay marriage/gender rights
39:00 Voters care more about immigration than trans rights
41:00 Urban voters are more willing to flirt with socialism, not transferrable
42:00 Will Democrats distance themselves from Mamdani?
43:15 Dem socialists get dinged for cultural issues, not economics
44:30 Cost of living is biggest issue in big coastal cities
46:15 Michigan will be a bellwether for Democratic politics
47:45 Nevada and Texas show whether Latino swing toward Trump stays
51:30 How many Bernie voters would have come out in Michigan?
54:30 Will Mike Duggan work outside of the metro Detroit area?
57:00 When Trump isn’t on the ballot, Democrats sweep Michigan
58:15 Will lack of Republican infighting boost the party in midterms?
1:01:30 Republicans haven’t found “sweet spot” candidates in some races
01:03:00 Ability to appear on podcasts will matter for candidates
01:04:15 Any R’s on 2028 trail besides Paul and Youngkin?
01:06:00 A tight primary race between Vance & Paul wouldn’t be surprising
01:07:45 Why are so many Democrats interested in Iowa senate?
01:10:30 Kim Reynolds not running after DeSantis endorsement
01:12:00 Democrats surrendered Iowa and Florida
01:13:30 Favorite state fair food?
Jesus fukking christ.
why.
WHY????
www.latimes.com
July 23, 2025
President Trump in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday.
(Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
California and a coalition of other liberal-led states sued the Trump administration Friday over efforts to end gender-affirming care for transgender, intersex and nonbinary children and young adults nationwide — calling them an unconstitutional attack on LGBTQ+ patients, healthcare providers and states’ rights.
The lawsuit was brought by California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and officials from 15 other states and the District of Columbia. It challenges a Jan. 28 executive order by President Trump that denounced gender-affirming care as “mutilation” and called on U.S. Justice Department officials to effectively enforce a ban, including by launching investigations into healthcare providers.
The lawsuit notes the Justice Department last month sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics that have provided such care nationwide, with justice officials suggesting they may face criminal prosecution.
Bonta’s office, in a statement, said such efforts “have no legal basis and are intended to discourage providers from offering lifesaving healthcare that is lawful under state law.” The lawsuit asks a federal court in Massachusetts to vacate Trump’s order in its entirety for exceeding federal authority and undermining state laws that guarantee equal access to healthcare.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
Trump made reining in transgender rights a key promise of his presidential campaign. Upon taking office, he moved swiftly to do so through executive orders, funding cuts and litigation. And in many ways, it has worked — particularly when it comes to gender-affirming care for minors.
Clinics across the country that had provided such care have closed their doors in response to the threats and funding cuts. That includes the renowned Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, one of the largest and oldest pediatric gender clinics in the U.S.
The clinic told thousands of its patients and their families that it was shuttering last month. Other clinics have similarly closed nationwide, radically reducing the availability of such care in the U.S.
Republicans and other Trump supporters have cheered the closures as a major win, and they praised the president for protecting impressionable and confused children from so-called woke medical professionals pushing what they allege to be dangerous and irreversible treatments.
Bonta said in the Friday statement that Trump and his administration’s “relentless attacks” on such care were “cruel and irresponsible” and endangered “already vulnerable adolescents whose health and well-being are at risk.”
“These actions have created a chilling effect in which providers are pressured to scale back on their care for fear of prosecution, leaving countless individuals without the critical care they need and are entitled to under law,” Bonta said.
Mainstream U.S. medical associations have supported gender-affirming care for minors experiencing gender dysphoria for years. They and LGBTQ+ rights organizations have accused Trump and his supporters of mischaracterizing that care, which includes therapy, counseling and support for social transitioning, and can include puberty blockers, hormone treatment and, in rarer circumstances, mastectomies.
Queer advocates, many patients and their families say such care is life-saving, alleviating intense distress — and suicidal thoughts — in transgender and other gender-nonconforming youth. They and many mainstream medical experts acknowledge that gender-affirming care for young people is still a developing field, but say it is also based on decades of solid research by medical professionals who are far better equipped than politicians to help families make difficult medical decisions.
However, as the number of children who identify as transgender or nonbinary has rapidly increased in recent years, that argument has failed to take hold in many parts of the country. Conservatives and Republican leaders have grown increasingly alarmed by such care, pointing to young people who changed their minds about transitioning and now regret the care they received.
“Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding,” Trump’s executive order stated.
Trump and others have escalated tensions further by spreading misinformation about kids being whisked away from school to have their genitals mutilated without their parents’ knowledge — which is not happening.
The battle has played out in the courts, in part as a state’s rights issue. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that conservative states may ban puberty blockers and hormone treatments for transgender teens, with the court’s conservative majority finding that states are generally free to set their own standards of medical care.
The Trump administration, however, has not taken the same view. Instead, it has aggressively tried to eradicate gender-affirming care nationwide, regardless of state laws — like those in California — that protect it.
Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order, titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” claimed that “medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.”
It defined children as anyone under the age of 19, and said that moving forward, the U.S. wouldn’t “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another,” but would “rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
The states’ lawsuit focuses on one particular section of that order, which directed Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi to convene state attorneys general and other law enforcement officials nationwide to begin investigating gender-affirming care providers and other groups that “may be misleading the public about long-term side effects of chemical and surgical mutilation.”
The section suggested those investigations could be based on laws against “female genital mutilation,” or even around a 1938 law known as the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which authorizes the Food and Drug Administration to regulate food, drugs, medical devices and cosmetics.
On July 9, Bondi announced the Justice Department’s subpoenas to healthcare providers, saying doctors and hospitals “that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable.”
On July 25, The Times reported that Bill Essayli, the Trump administration’s controversial pick for U.S. attorney in L.A., had floated the idea of criminally charging doctors and hospitals for providing gender-affirming care, according to two federal law enforcement sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
The targeting of gender-affirming care is part of a wider effort by the administration to eliminate transgender rights more broadly, in part on the premise that transgender people do not exist. On his first day in office, Trump issued another executive order declaring there are only two sexes and denouncing what he called the “gender ideology” of the left.
His administration has sought to limit the options transgender people have to get passports that reflect their identities, and the Justice Department has sued California over its policies allowing transgender girls to compete against other girls in youth sports. Many transgender Americans are looking for ways to flee the country.
Still, many in the LGBTQ+ community fear the attacks are only going to get worse. Among those who are most scared are the parents and families of transgender kids — including those who believe their health records may have been collected under the Justice Department’s subpoenas.
One mother of a Children’s Hospital patient told The Times last month that she is terrified the Justice Department is “going to come after parents and use the female genital mutilation law ... to prosecute parents and separate me from my child.”
Bonta is leading the lawsuit along with the attorneys general of Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts and New York. Joining them are Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and the attorneys general of Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
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why.
WHY????
California, other states sue Trump over order threatening gender-affirming care providers
California and other liberal-led states sued the Trump administration Friday over efforts to end gender-affirming care nationwide.
www.latimes.com
California, other states sue Trump over order threatening gender-affirming care providers
Aug. 1, 2025 9:10 AM PTJuly 23, 2025
President Trump in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday.
(Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
California and a coalition of other liberal-led states sued the Trump administration Friday over efforts to end gender-affirming care for transgender, intersex and nonbinary children and young adults nationwide — calling them an unconstitutional attack on LGBTQ+ patients, healthcare providers and states’ rights.
The lawsuit was brought by California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and officials from 15 other states and the District of Columbia. It challenges a Jan. 28 executive order by President Trump that denounced gender-affirming care as “mutilation” and called on U.S. Justice Department officials to effectively enforce a ban, including by launching investigations into healthcare providers.
The lawsuit notes the Justice Department last month sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics that have provided such care nationwide, with justice officials suggesting they may face criminal prosecution.
Bonta’s office, in a statement, said such efforts “have no legal basis and are intended to discourage providers from offering lifesaving healthcare that is lawful under state law.” The lawsuit asks a federal court in Massachusetts to vacate Trump’s order in its entirety for exceeding federal authority and undermining state laws that guarantee equal access to healthcare.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
Trump made reining in transgender rights a key promise of his presidential campaign. Upon taking office, he moved swiftly to do so through executive orders, funding cuts and litigation. And in many ways, it has worked — particularly when it comes to gender-affirming care for minors.
Clinics across the country that had provided such care have closed their doors in response to the threats and funding cuts. That includes the renowned Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, one of the largest and oldest pediatric gender clinics in the U.S.
The clinic told thousands of its patients and their families that it was shuttering last month. Other clinics have similarly closed nationwide, radically reducing the availability of such care in the U.S.
Republicans and other Trump supporters have cheered the closures as a major win, and they praised the president for protecting impressionable and confused children from so-called woke medical professionals pushing what they allege to be dangerous and irreversible treatments.
Bonta said in the Friday statement that Trump and his administration’s “relentless attacks” on such care were “cruel and irresponsible” and endangered “already vulnerable adolescents whose health and well-being are at risk.”
“These actions have created a chilling effect in which providers are pressured to scale back on their care for fear of prosecution, leaving countless individuals without the critical care they need and are entitled to under law,” Bonta said.
Mainstream U.S. medical associations have supported gender-affirming care for minors experiencing gender dysphoria for years. They and LGBTQ+ rights organizations have accused Trump and his supporters of mischaracterizing that care, which includes therapy, counseling and support for social transitioning, and can include puberty blockers, hormone treatment and, in rarer circumstances, mastectomies.
Queer advocates, many patients and their families say such care is life-saving, alleviating intense distress — and suicidal thoughts — in transgender and other gender-nonconforming youth. They and many mainstream medical experts acknowledge that gender-affirming care for young people is still a developing field, but say it is also based on decades of solid research by medical professionals who are far better equipped than politicians to help families make difficult medical decisions.
However, as the number of children who identify as transgender or nonbinary has rapidly increased in recent years, that argument has failed to take hold in many parts of the country. Conservatives and Republican leaders have grown increasingly alarmed by such care, pointing to young people who changed their minds about transitioning and now regret the care they received.
“Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding,” Trump’s executive order stated.
Trump and others have escalated tensions further by spreading misinformation about kids being whisked away from school to have their genitals mutilated without their parents’ knowledge — which is not happening.
The battle has played out in the courts, in part as a state’s rights issue. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that conservative states may ban puberty blockers and hormone treatments for transgender teens, with the court’s conservative majority finding that states are generally free to set their own standards of medical care.
The Trump administration, however, has not taken the same view. Instead, it has aggressively tried to eradicate gender-affirming care nationwide, regardless of state laws — like those in California — that protect it.
Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order, titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” claimed that “medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.”
It defined children as anyone under the age of 19, and said that moving forward, the U.S. wouldn’t “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another,” but would “rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
The states’ lawsuit focuses on one particular section of that order, which directed Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi to convene state attorneys general and other law enforcement officials nationwide to begin investigating gender-affirming care providers and other groups that “may be misleading the public about long-term side effects of chemical and surgical mutilation.”
The section suggested those investigations could be based on laws against “female genital mutilation,” or even around a 1938 law known as the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which authorizes the Food and Drug Administration to regulate food, drugs, medical devices and cosmetics.
On July 9, Bondi announced the Justice Department’s subpoenas to healthcare providers, saying doctors and hospitals “that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable.”
On July 25, The Times reported that Bill Essayli, the Trump administration’s controversial pick for U.S. attorney in L.A., had floated the idea of criminally charging doctors and hospitals for providing gender-affirming care, according to two federal law enforcement sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
The targeting of gender-affirming care is part of a wider effort by the administration to eliminate transgender rights more broadly, in part on the premise that transgender people do not exist. On his first day in office, Trump issued another executive order declaring there are only two sexes and denouncing what he called the “gender ideology” of the left.
His administration has sought to limit the options transgender people have to get passports that reflect their identities, and the Justice Department has sued California over its policies allowing transgender girls to compete against other girls in youth sports. Many transgender Americans are looking for ways to flee the country.
Still, many in the LGBTQ+ community fear the attacks are only going to get worse. Among those who are most scared are the parents and families of transgender kids — including those who believe their health records may have been collected under the Justice Department’s subpoenas.
One mother of a Children’s Hospital patient told The Times last month that she is terrified the Justice Department is “going to come after parents and use the female genital mutilation law ... to prosecute parents and separate me from my child.”
Bonta is leading the lawsuit along with the attorneys general of Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts and New York. Joining them are Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and the attorneys general of Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
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You nailed it breh.this issue is a massive loser for democrats; we all know it. gets worse every year. and as the lunatics on the far left make worse demands, and cowardly democrats refuse to push back against it, republicans will continue to exploit itbecause it's not only an easy slam dunk, but it's funny. people laugh at democrats, pretending like idiots that they don't know what a woman is
young men are fleeing the party; it's become an embarrassment to associate with the far left. totally uncool and
and no, it's not "throwing a marginalized group under the bus", to defend women's spaces from mentally ill men. the dishonesty and lying from progressives is nauseating
This should be mandatory reading. This was a master class.
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Philosophical Malpractice - The Philosophers' Magazine
Daniel Kodsi and John Maier argue that academic philosophers have made serious errors in their approach to trans politics.
philosophersmag.com
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See what I’m saying? even the trans congressperson knows republicans are hammering democrats over this issue.
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Exclusive | Gayle King’s future at CBS murky as ratings for ‘woke’ morning show tank — and Skydance vows to scrap left-wing bias
The “CBS Mornings” co-host, one of the fading Tiffany Network’s few remaining stars, is part of a culture that has “dug in” against attempts by higher-ups to move away from polarizing coverag…
nypost.com
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Don't @ me in here blocking this thread idc about this shyt
I. can’t. wait.
