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Index

1. Vale Miguel Tapia
2. Vale Liara Tsai
3. Cheung discovers ... something about trans kids' height
4. Bruss et al: Being trans in this world fucking sucks
5. Liu et al: Being trans in this world fucking sucks (2)
6. Closson et al: Trans people at higher risk of domestic violence
7. Nik-Ahd et al: We're not looking at trans women's prostates closely enough. We should look closer
8. I Saw the TV Glow: Gratuitous plug
9. Lia Thomas v World Aquatics: In novel ruling, CAS finds complainant lacks standing because respondent says so
10. XX–XY Athletics: TikTok gives good riddance to bad rubbish
11. Int. — Liles Burke releases the hounds
12. Int. — Fidesz him!: Hungary assumes EU Council of Ministers presidency
13. Australia, NSW — Committee recommends passage of Greenwich Equality Bill
14. Australia, QLD — Self-ID Act finally commences
15. Australia, WA — Gender recognition reform delayed again
16. Bangladesh — Textbook board hurries trans people out of view
17. Canada, ON — On HRTO, transphobes prove unable to keep it up
18. France — Mixed feelings as Brigitte Macron sues her transvestigators
19. India — 2024 federal election finishes up
20. India — Rape of trans people legal under new federal criminal code
21. Japan — Supreme Court finds new answer to "Who's your daddy?"
22. Peru — Boluarte administration PEAS for its mistakes
23. Russia, ALT — Alyoshina throws caution to the Siberian wind
24. UK — General elections set for 4 July (feature item)
25. UK — David Tennant wins the nation's heart again
26. UK, England — Hutchison v County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
27. UK, England — NHS Constitution consultation closes
28. UK, England — R v Betts-Ramsey: Trans hate stabbing accused not having very knife time in the dock
29. UK, Scotland — 2022 Census: Dundee takes out trans crown
30. US — United States v Haim: Turns out leaking to fascists does not count as whistleblowing
31. US — Fowler v Stitt: Tenth Circuit tells Oklahoma where to shove it
32. US — Doe v Horne: Anti-trans lawmakers reach the "find out" phase
33. US — DDAA 2025: Biden OMB announces defence funding veto
34. US — United States v Skrmetti: Ask not for whom the bell tolls ...
35. US — Take Back Title IX finally over
36. US — Curse your sudden yet ineviable betrayal
37. US — No DE–AL: contra Sarah McBride
38. US, CA — Trans kids' freedom hinges on Newsom's spine
39. US, CA — PERB brings the tranhammer down on Rocklin USD
40. US, DE — SB 191: Trans youth sports ban doesn't make final hurdle
41. US, MD — Miss Maryland USA: Trans woman persecuted for biological advantage at being pretty
42. US, MT — Reagor v State: Legal sex classification statute struck down
43. US, NY — Nassau County reinstates transfem sports ban: can't keep a Blakeman down
44. US, NY — Mayor Adams hates trans people (who'd have thought?)
45. US, OH — SB 104: The frankenbill walks again
46. US, TX — Texas v Loe: State Supreme Court rules "Fuck them kids"
47. US, WA — PNW right-wingers target yet another teenage girl

Memorials

#1 — Vale Miguel Tapia

On 16 June, in Denver, Colorado, United States, Miguel Tapia, 52, was killed. Sources concur that Tapia was trans but disagree sharply on their specific gender; I use they/them pronouns in this article.

Tapia was houseless when they were shot and killed by the Denver Police Department (Markus, 2024). Media coverage suggests, with whatever degree of accuracy, that they committed suicide by cop (Anastasio, 2024; Markus, op cit), with Denver Police asserting Tapia said something to officers in Spanish that translated to "kill me" (Markus, op cit). As of the most recent coverage in my sweep, no next of kin or friends have been located (Langford, 2024; Markus, op cit).

#2 — Vale Liara Tsai

Liara Kaylee Tsai (she/her), of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, who was a member of our community, is dead.

In life, Liara was a vocal advocate for trans rights and had previously worked as a crisis counselor. OutFront MN told the Human Rights Campaign that she was "a beloved member of the trans community here in Minnesota" (Laurel, 2024). She was also a DJ and producer; friends told KARE that she was "finally starting to get the traction she'd been searching for" and, just before her death, had booked a gig in Brooklyn, New York, which would have been her biggest ever (Croman, 2024).

No date of death has been released of which I am aware, but Liara was dead by 22 June, when her body was discovered in a car during a traffic stop. Her ex-girlfriend, who was driving, has been taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder and felony interference with a dead body (Powell, 2024; Walsh, 2024).

Disclosure: I use Liara's first name for this item because, in the process of researching it, I found her Twitter account, which is still active, and consequently discovered that she had Followed me. I did not know her in life; I wish I had. However, whether or not I previously had a responsibility to carry on her memory, I do now.

Academic

#3 — Cheung discovers ... something about trans kids' height

On 11 June, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism published an article, "Adult height in transgender youth who receive GnRH analogues followed by gender affirming hormone therapy," by Ada S. Cheung (2024). Unfortunately I don't have access to the paper so I don't know what she said, but it sure does sound potentially informative and cool!

#4 — Bruss et al: Being trans in this world fucking sucks

On 20 June, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published an article, "Loneliness, lack of social and emotional support, and mental health issues — United States, 2022," by Katherine V. Bruss et al (2024).

The study reported in the article found that

• mental health issues were more prevalent among adults who reported loneliness and lack of social and emotional support
• the prevalence of those reports was highest among bisexual and transgender respondents, and among them, highest among trans women

#5 — Liu et al: Being trans in this world fucking sucks (2)

On 24 June, JAMA Internal Medicine published a research letter, "Health status and mental health of transgender and gender-diverse adults," by Michael Liu et al (2024). I don't have access to the paper, so this item is based on media coverage.

Liu et al used US Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data on cis and trans adults (Mundell, "Rates of distress," 2024). They found that over the survey period, from 2014 — when gender identity was added to the BRFSS — until 2022:

• the prevalence of frequent mental distress increased
  • among trans people, to 38.9% from 18.8% (+106.9%)
  • among cis people, to 15.5% from 11.2% (+13.4%)
• the prevalence of depression increased
  • among trans people, to 51.3% from 19.7% (+160.4%)
  • among cis people, to 21.1% from 18.6% (+13.4%)
• the prevalence of "fair" or "poor" physical health increased only among trans people, to 35.1% from 26.6% (+32.0% approx.).

#6 — Closson et al: Trans people at higher risk of domestic violence

On 25 June, JAMA Internal Medicine published an original investigation in public health, "Physical, sexual, and intimate partner violence among transgender and gender-diverse individuals," by Kalysha Closson et al (2024).

The study, which examined a sample of 3,560 residents of California, suggested that transgender and gender-diverse respondents — particularly trans men and transmasculine people — were significantly more likely than cis respondents to have faced physical, sexual, and intimate partner violence in the preceding years.

#7 — Nik-Ahd et al: We're not looking at trans women's prostates closely enough. We should look closer

On 26 June, JAMA published a research letter, "Prostate-specific antigen values in transgender women receiving estrogen," by Farnoosh Nik-Ahd et al (2024).

The study detailed in the article was related to screening for prostate cancer using a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) assay. PSA is produced by both the "male" and "female" prostates, but is elevated in cases of benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostate cancer, and prostatitis. For that reason, where prostate cancer is suspected, a PSA assay is often used as an investigative tool.

To know whether PSA is elevated, you have to know what it should be, i.e., you have to have a reference range. Authorities that currently publish reference ranges for PSA publish ranges calibrated for cis men or cis women; there are few or no ranges calibrated specifically for trans women.

Nik-Ahd et al found that this lack of ranging instruments might be impairing screening trans women for prostate cancer.

International

#8 — I Saw the TV Glow: Gratuitous plug

On 17 May, I Saw the TV Glow, a horror film written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun (2024) and distributed by A24, went to US American and Canadian nationwide release. The film is apparently a super blunt allegory for dysphoria (Sheahan, 2024) and all the little gay people in my phone won't stop posting about it so I figure I should plug it to the rest of you.

#9 — Lia Thomas v World Aquatics: In novel ruling, CAS finds complainant lacks standing because respondent says so

On 13 June, the Court of Arbitration for Sport published its arbitral award in the case of Lia Thomas v World Aquatics.

The respondent, World Aquatics (WA) — formerly the Fédération internationale de natation (FINA; "International Swimming Federation") is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administering competitions in water sports. On 24 March 2023, WA implemented a participation policy which functionally amounted to banning trans women from Olympic swimming altogether (and incidentally providing an easy pretext to ban them from other competitive swimming). The ban has come in for significant criticism, given that its scientific basis is transparently questionable at best and that dirty tricks and coercion were allegedly used to secure its passage through the WA Congress.

The claimant, Lia Thomas, is a swimmer from the United States who is a trans woman. She filed the claim on 6 September 2023, challenging the WA participation policy as inconsistent with the Olympic Charter and the WA Constitution, as well as other instruments to which WA is subject, such as the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women.

CAS dismissed the case on the grounds that Thomas was not registered for any WA-administered competitions, and thus lacked standing to challenge the WA participation policy. The fact that the participation policy prevented Thomas from registering from any WA competitions — a fact which CAS itself acknowledged at paragraph 98 of the arbitral award — seems to have been treated as immaterial.

#10 — XX–XY Athletics: TikTok gives good riddance to bad rubbish

On or about 19 June, TikTok, the social media platform, banned XX–XY Athletics, an anti-trans US American activewear company, from running ads. The reason TikTok cited, according to correspondence posted on Twitter by the company's CEO Jennifer Sey (2024), was "that [XX–XY Athletics'] advertising content may violate TikTok's advertising policies by featuring offensive content".

#11 — Liles Burke releases the hounds

(Most participants in this story are US American, but it involves WPATH, which makes it international.)

On 25 June, the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Judge Liles Burke presiding, ordered the unsealing of a number of documents in the ongoing matter of Boe v Marshall.

One document in the case was a "supplemental expert report" attributed to Dr James Cantor, a clinical psychologist and sexologist. The document released is an appendix purporting to describe interactions between the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and Admiral Rachel Levine, the US Assistant Secretary for Health.

WPATH maintains the Standards of Care (SOC; the title is technically longer, but changes with every iteration), which are the global institutional reference standard for trans healthcare. The current version is the eighth (SOC 8), released in 2022 (Coleman et al, 2022). Cantor's report alleges that Levine:

• pressured WPATH to release the SOC 8 in time for the Biden administration to incorporate it into health policy;
• pressured WPATH to remove minimum ages for access to medical transition;
• was successful on both counts.

I think Cantor's allegations are probably true. I'm just also aware that they're based. If Levine did what she was alleged to have done, then she acted in accordance with the general sentiment of the trans community, which itself arose from the obvious requirements of the situation. The SOC 7 was the longest-standing single iteration of the SOC and was considerably out of date. In addition, doctors determining on a case-by-case basis when young people should have access to medical transition has been the norm for pretty much my entire life; it just wasn't previously widespread enough for the SOC to formally address.

Dr Cantor's allegations and his interest in presenting them should also be taken in the context that

• he has a long-term association with the Clarke–Northwestern clique (James, 2024), a circle of Canadian and US American academics with a long history of anti-science pseudoscience propaganda work;
• he was a founding member of the defunct Pediatric and Adolescent Gender Dysphoria Working Group (PAGDWG), which as Health Liberation Now! notes (Leveille, 2022) was a genealogical forebear of most anti-trans pseudoscience promotion groups now in operation;
• he is a recurring expert witness (Kam, 2023) for the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a Christian dominionist legal concern which is leading the anti-trans campaign through the courts in the United States and, to a lesser extent, worldwide.

The story is being juiced, naturally free of any context, by the usual suspects: fascist core media such as The Daily Signal, The Daily Wire, and National Review, as well as Anschutz-owned papers such as the Washington Examiner; anti-trans pressure groups such as Do No Harm (2024); and general media concerns suborned by fascists, such as Sinclair (Walker, 2024).

#12 — Fidesz him!: Hungary assumes EU Council of Ministers presidency

On 1 July, Hungary will take over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union ("the Council of Ministers" or "the Council") when it rotates over from Belgium. Hungary will hold the post until 1 January 2025.

The Council is the EU forum for coordination and debate in shared policy areas by the relevant ministers from different nations. The Council and the European Parliament (EP) are both officially components of the EU legislative process. Neither can propose legislation on their own — only the EU's executive, the European Commission (EC), can do that. However, under most circumstances, the Council and the EP can both veto legislation.

The Council also has power over the composition of the EC. The EC President — customarily the public face of the EU, currently Ursula von der Leyen — is nominated by the separate, confusingly-named European Council (EUCO), the meeting of EU heads of state and government. However, the other members of the EC are chosen by the Council of Ministers; they are then put to an EP vote for approval or rejection en bloc.

The representative of the nation which has the Presidency of the Council (of Ministers) has the power to chair meetings of the Council, determine its agendas, and set a work programme. Unlike many EU bodies, the Council is specifically intergovernmental, meaning that instead of being expected to work toward the common interest of the EU, members are expected and encouraged to work toward their own interests. This applies equally to the Council Presidency, which is traditionally used by its occupant State to focus Council discussion on actions of particular national and regional interest.

Given what Fidesz — Hungary's governing party, which is at this point the ruling party of a fascist de facto one-party state — considers "national interest" when it comes to trans affairs, this wouldn't be great on its own. Good news: it's worse.

EP elections were held at the start of June, and the composition of the EP veered sharply to the right. The previous EP was dominated by the European People's Party (EPP; right to far-right), of which Fidesz is a member. In that parliament, however, the EPP could have plausibly been checked by the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D; self-explanatory) and Renew Europe (centrists).

In the post-election EP, S&D and Renew have been significantly eroded and no longer appear able to check the EPP. For its part, the EPP seems to have managed to form a coalition with the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).

I'm not saying we're all doomed. It certainly could be that nothing ever happens — after all, Hungary will only have the Council presidency for six months. But the vibes are certainly fucked.

Australia

New South Wales (NSW)

#13 — Committee recommends passage of Greenwich Equality Bill

On 3 June, the New South Wales Legislative Assembly's Committee on Community Services (2024) into the Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023 (NSW), best known as Alex Greenwich's equality bill.

The Committee recommended that the Bill be passed (Adams, 2024).

Queensland

#14 — Self-ID Act finally commences

On 24 June, the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2023 (Qld) finally commenced. The significant effects of the change are that:

• trans and gender-diverse people born in Queensland no longer have to undergo gender-affirming surgery to change their legal gender
• Queenslanders can now have any legal sex descriptor which is not a prohibited sex descriptor, meaning that nonbinary people will now also be able to accurately legally register their genders
• queer and gender-diverse parents can now each opt to be listed on their child's birth certificate as mother, father, or parent (Hirst, 2024).

Queensland is one of the last Australian states to enact a reform of this type. I will, however, take a quick egg to the face and say I thought they were going to wimp out entirely. Under the Acts Interpretation Act 1964 (Qld), 24 June was also the last day the Queensland Government could have chosen to delay commencement for an additional year. A state election is scheduled for October 2024, and the Liberal National Party (LNP), which is currently in Opposition, is expected to win Government by a comfortable margin. The LNP are also rabidly anti-trans, meaning that delaying commencement into their Government would have been tantamount to a tacit repeal. The Queensland Government have been fucking trans advocates around for years on this Act and that's the exact kind of dog act they would pull. Fortunately, I can report that in this one specific case, it was not to be.

Western Australia

#15 — Gender recognition reform delayed again

On 27 June, the Parliament of Western Australia rose for its winter 2024 recess.

Writing for OUTinPerth, community advocate Alex Wallace (2024) notes that this means that debate on the the Births, Deaths, Marriages Registration Amendment (Sex or Gender Changes) Bill 2024 (WA) — the mooted package of reforms to WA's conservative, obsolete, despised gender recognition regime — will have to wait until it returns.

This is not great when the next Western Australia state election is less than a year away: every sitting day is of the essence. On the other hand, as Wallace points out, even the reformed WA gender recognition regime is so conservative that the recess might provide valuable time to fix it up.

Bangladesh

#16 — Textbook board hurries trans people out of view

The National Curriculum and Textbook Board has edited a textbook distributed to Class 7 students, removing a story, Sharifar Golpo, which features a trans woman in a positive light. EFE reports that the cause of the removal is a recommendation from the Ministry of Education which itself was sparked by pressure from religious advocacy groups ("Bangladesh removes transgender story," 2024).

Canada

Ontario

#17 — On HRTO, transphobes prove unable to keep it up

On 23 May, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario issued its decision in the matter of AB v Mad Wax Windsor Inc. The first respondent, Mad Wax Windsor, is a beauty salon based in Windsor, Ontario. The complainant, referred to by the pseudonym AB, is an Indigenous trans woman.

On 17 March 2018, AB tried to book an appointment at Mad Wax Windsor. The receptionist said "no," then "I don't know". AB asked to speak to the owner. During the subsequent phone call, Jason Carruthers, the owner:

• persistently assumed AB was seeking a Brazilian wax, when in fact she was seeking a leg wax and was very clear about it;
• repeatedly misgendered her;
• demanded information about her genitalia;
• ended up telling her that Mad Wax Windsor would not serve "someone like you," and that she should also not bother referring anyone else, even though AB reminded him that his firm, as a provider of services for women, had a legal obligation to serve all women equally.

After the call, Carruthers set three major Canadian media outlets on AB, as well as publicly releasing her full name and contact information. He claims he was prompted to do so because AB threatened him with a "media circus" during the phone call. AB, for her part, denies this ever happened, and as the decision notes, Carruthers' testimony regarding virtually every other aspect of the phone call and indeed of the entire case changed significantly on cross-examination (Maluske, 2024).

Subsequent to the above events, AB filed the HRTO complaint described here, alleging anti-trans discrimination contrary to the Human Rights Code, RSO 1990, c H 19. HRTO found in all regards in favour of AB, granting her an exceptional award of CA$35,000 in general damages, as well as issuing an order requiring Carruthers and all employees of Mad Wax Windsor to complete human rights training.

Carruthers has announced he intends to seek judicial review of the decision. Ontario's Human Rights Legal Support Centre, who provided AB's counsel, have indicated they believe the decision will be upheld on review (Brown & Breen, 2024).

There are similarities between AB and a body of previous filings by a single complainant, Jessica Simpson, a Canadian streamer who is a trans woman and also a general shitheel. Under her previous name, Jessica Yaniv, Simpson filed a series of human rights complaints against respondents similar to Mad Wax Windsor, alleging similar particulars, in a period beginning around the same time AB was initially filed. All of Simpson's complaints were thrown out, decisions with which, having reviewed them, I agree.

Some commentators, mostly fascist (see, e.g., Daviscourt, 2024) have taken advantage of the similarity to outright assert, I believe falsely, that AB is Simpson (because it would make them seem more credible if she were). AB is anonymous, so I cannot verify her identity. However, I have no evidence to suggest that AB is Simpson. There are a number of differences between the personal details of the two complainants — most notably, AB is Indigenous, which I don't believe Simpson has ever claimed to be, and was the head of a local trans advocacy group, a job with which hopefully nobody would have trusted Simpson however long she lived. Also, all of Simpson's human rights complaints were in British Columbia; AB was, as mentioned, in Ontario, halfway across the country.

I think if there is a connection, it may be that Simpson saw media coverage of the situation, maybe Carruthers' pre-emptive media blast, and decided the idea was sound enough to be going on with. I do not, however, have any facts whatsoever to back this up.

France

#18 — Brigitte Macron sues her transvestigators

On 19 June, in Paris, the Tribunal correctionel ("Criminal Court") held in-person proceedings in a case of alleged criminal defamation concerning Brigitte Macron, the First Lady of France. The defendants are Amandine Roy, a "spiritual medium," and Natacha Rey, a self-proclaimed "independent journalist". They are being prosecuted for spreading the fascist conspiracy theory, popular on the French right, that Ms Macron is trans.

For me as a monolingual Anglophone, the French judiciary is sufficiently opaque that I can't find an actual citation for the case, so I can't give you more information. Wish I could!

India

Federal

#19 — 2024 federal election finishes up

On 1 June, the 2024 Indian federal election finished up. While election news is not directly relevant to trans affairs, it is indirectly relevant through all of its knock-on effects. The main contenders were:

• the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the coalition of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP, and therefore by necessity the NDA, are broadly national-conservative to fascist. Prior to the election, the BJP had enough seats in the Lok Sabha to govern in majority alone.
• the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), the coalition of the Indian National Congress (INC), led by Mallikarjun Kharge. The Congress Party are secular liberal centrists; INDIA is big-tent.

The NDA retained Government. However, the BJP will now be forced to rely on the support of two of its coalition partners, the Telugu Desam Party and Janata Dal (United), neither of which, historically, get along particularly well with the BJP.

#20 — Rape of trans people legal under new federal criminal code

On 1 July, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) commenced in effect, at which time it replaced the colonial-era Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) as India's federal criminal code. Writing for The Hindu, Dutta (2024) reports that the BNS does not contain either the text or any analogue of IPC s 377, the IPC's "crimes against nature" statute. Generally the removal of a "crimes against nature" law — actively including s 377 specifically — would be a victory. At this time, in this place, it appears not to be.

A "crimes against nature" law, at least in the definition used by SP Press, is a law which classifies certain kinds of sexual conduct as criminal on the grounds that they cannot be legitimately consented to because they are "unnatural," or something similar — the exact wording used in the IPC is "carnal intercourse against the order of nature". "Crimes against nature" laws do criminalise genuinely unethical sexual conduct, such as bestiality; what distinguishes them from laws against unethical sexual conduct is that they then falsely extend their authority over sexual conduct which is stigmatised but in fact perfectly fine, such as consensual gay sex (or a deniable proxy for it, such as anal or oral sex; even though they theoretically criminalise these acts regardless of who commits them, in practice, heterosexual couples doing them will be completely ignored).

IPC s 377, as was the norm, prohibited both bestiality and consensual gay sex (through the proxies of oral and anal sex, as described above). It was also the avenue for prosecuting the rape of those legally categorised as "men" or "trans" — the rape of people legally categorised as "women" was handled under the preceding s 376.

In 2018, the Supreme Court of India issued its decision in Navtej Singh Johar v Union of India, ruling that s 377 could no longer be applied to criminalise consensual gay sex. This meant that, as of 2024, s 377's ongoing effect was outlawing bestiality and the rape of men and trans people.

The BNS omits s 377. One could justifiably have assumed that it would have replaced it with a new statute that eliminated the homophobia and codified Johar. This is not the case. There is no text in the BNS which has an effect equivalent to the residual s 377. Unless and until it is amended, bestiality and the forms of rape which IPC s 377 covered are no longer criminal offences under Indian federal law.

Trans people still have recourse to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, s 18, which creates an offence of "sexual abuse". However, the maximum penalties available under that section are much less severe than the IPC s 377 mandatory minima — "sexual abuse" carries a maximum prison term of 2 years, while s 377 rape was 10 to life.

Japan

#21 — Supreme Court finds new answer to "Who's your daddy?"

On 21 June, the Supreme Court of Japan issued its ruling in Case 287 of Reiwa 5.

The case relates to recognition of trans people as parents under Japanese law. The Supreme Court, overturning a previous ruling of the Tokyo High Court, held that the Civil Code of Japan does, in fact, allow the recognition of a woman (in this case, a trans woman) as the father of a child.

For what it's worth, this is actually a step forward from the previous state of affairs: under previous Japanese law, trans people who had changed their legal gender simply could not be recognised in law as the parents of their children at all (Wong, 2024).

Peru

#22 — Boluarte administration PEAS for its mistakes

On 25 June, after weeks of continuous protests (Agence France-Presse, 2024; Reuters, 2024a), the Peruvian Ministry of Health announced that it would amend the Plan Esencial de Aseguramiento en Salud (PEAS; "Essential Health Insurance Plan") to reverse transphobic changes instituted by presidential decree in May.

Peru has a universal public health insurance scheme, Aseguramiento Universal de Salud (AUS; "Universal Health Insurance"). PEAS is the schedule of conditions and treatments eligible for AUS coverage. Decreto Supremo No 009-2024-SA, promulgated 10 May, classified trans people, as well as "crossdressers" and those with "gender identity disorders," as mentally ill. At the time, the Government asserted that the law was intended to ensure those groups had access to mental health services through AUS ("Peru scraps 'transphobic' law," 2024).

Opponents, however, pointed out that AUS guarantees all Peruvians access to mental health services regardless ("Peru scraps 'transphobic' law," op cit). Domestically, the decree was opposed by groups including the Centre for the Promotion and Defence of Sexual and Reproductive Rights (PROMSEX, 2024) and Más Igualdad Peru (2024). Internationally, Human Rights Watch expressed its concern that the decree would legitimise conversion practices, worsen minority stress, and generally "undermine efforts to improve rights protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity" (González Cabrera, 2024).

Russia

Altai Krai

#23 — Alyoshina throws caution to the Siberian wind

On 25 June, the Baltic edition of Novaya Gazeta ran an interview with Yulia Alyoshina, who last year briefly ran as the candidate of Гражданская инициатива Grazhdanskaya Initsiativa (GRANI; "Civic Initiative") for Governor of Altai Krai.

On 15 May, Alyoshina, who is a trans woman, informed her followers on her Telegram channel that she was detransitioning. Speaking to the Gazeta this month, however, she revealed that her "detransition" had been spurred by insider advice that federal authorities intended to place her in psychiatric detention ("Я могу заставить себя быть Романом," 2024).

United Kingdom

Nationwide

#24 — General elections set for 4 July

On 22 May, Rishi Sunak MP (Tory–Richmond [Yorks]), the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, announced that national general elections would be held on 4 July. A number of parties contesting the election have since released manifestoes, many of which touch, for better or worse (usually worse), on trans rights and wellbeing. Parties who have published manifestoes or other policy statements

• the Conservative and Unionist Party ("Tories"), currently in majority Government (UK Conservative and Unionist Party, 2024);
• the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW);
• the Labour Party, currently in (nominal) Opposition (UK Labour Party, 2024);
• the Liberal Democrats ("Lib Dems"), at one point coalition partners of the Tories, now on the crossbench (UK Liberal Democrats, 2024);
• Plaid Cymru;
• Reform UK;
• the Scottish National Party (SNP), which traditionally governs Scotland but also maintains a parliamentary group at Westminster.

Anti-trans activists (Rowling, 2024; Sex Matters, "Comparing the three main party manifestos," 2024) have started campaigning on the issues. Key points of current British law or legislative debate on trans lives include the following.

#24.1 — Conversion therapy ban

This is a proposed legislative measure which would prohibit subjecting queer and trans people to coercive techniques intended to "repair" their sexual orientation and/or gender identity into what the practitioner or other stakeholders perceive as its "correct" state. A conversion therapy ban has been thrown around in Parliament and the liberal papers several times. However, any credible ban on conversion therapy would, as mentioned, have to ban its use on trans people, which has successfully ensured no such ban has passed.

• Anti-trans activists obviously oppose any such ban (see, e.g., Sex Matters, "Comparing the three main party manifestos," op cit).
• The Lib Dems have indicated their support for a ban ("Ban conversion therapy," n.d.).
• Labour has indicated its support for a ban, albeit in much more weaselly and ambiguous language than the Lib Dems.
• The Tories have officially announced they no longer intend to implement a ban, after a desultory attempt earlier this term ("Tories praised," 2024).

#24.2 — The Cass Review

Over the past several years, the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People was in operation "investigating" NHS England. The Review was chaired by Dr Hilary Cass, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and was consequently known, in accordance with standard Commonwealth naming conventions, as the Cass Review. A few months ago, it released its Final Report, which is similarly referred to as the Cass Report.

Several writers more talented and perceptive than I have examined the failings of the Report in detail. To put it briefly, the Report was clearly commissioned to provide a pretext for a total ban on youth medical transition, and accordingly, through equivocation and outright falsification, managed to get pretty much the whole way there. It relies on methodological fraud, misrepresentation, and straightforward fabrication, and is confident enough in doing so that the anti-trans pressure groups who overtly ghostwrote the Report barely make even a token effort to conceal it. Since its release, it's been cited to justify additional lies that even its conclusions, as ambitious as they are, don't support, because it was never about what the Report actually said — it was about the momentum.

• Anti-trans activists want the recommendations in the Cass Report rammed through in full (see, e.g., Sex Matters, "The Cass Review is a damning indictment," 2024).
• The Tories have enthusiastically committed to doing so (McKay, 2024).
• So has Labour (Paul, 2024).
• The Lib Dems as a party don't seem to have made a statement, but their LGBT+ working group's reaction to the Cass Report was extremely negative (LGBT+ Liberal Democrats Executive Committee, 2024).

#24.2.1 — Private prescriptions

The Review was convened by and within NHS England. NHS Scotland has also chosen to comply with it (Geddes, "Scottish government advised," 2024). However, many patients who are financially able to do so have simply chosen to go outside the NHS to providers who do not share its ideologically motivated deficiencies where trans health is concerned, securing their medically necessary healthcare on a private basis. The Cass Report inveighs against this in several places.

• Anti-trans activists want to make this straight-up illegal.
• Therefore, so do the Tories — as of 31 May, they have already done so on a provisional basis using emergency legislation introduced by the Secretary of State for Health (Barnes, "The government's 11th-hour ban," 2024; Limb, 2024).
  • Under the Sunak Government, NHS England is already threatening to make safeguarding referrals for trans kids found to be accessing healthcare in this way (Topping, 2022); such referrals are the British equivalent of calling Child Protective Services.
• Labour has not made a statement that I can find, but the fact that they support implementing the Cass Review in full suggests they are probably of one mind with the Tories.
• The Lib Dems have made no statement that I can find.

#24.3 — The Census

The Office of National Statistics tried for many years, against stringent anti-trans opposition, to introduce a question which would allow for reasonably accurate data collection concerning how many trans people there were in England and Wales. At the 2021 Census, they succeeded. Anti-trans activists have spent the intervening time doing their damnedest to discredit it (see, e.g., Stock, 2023).

• Said activists are also working to ensure that neither that question nor any comparable question are included on any future Census.
• In 2019, the Lib Dems committed to Census data collection on trans people (LGBT+ Liberal Democrats, n.d.). Whether they continue to hold this position is unclear.
• The Tories have not stated a position.
• Neither has Labour.

#24.4 — Gender recognition reform

Various parties have proposed various reforms, or more generally modifications, to the British gender recognition regime.

#24.4.1 — General reform

The central statute of the British gender recognition regime is the Gender Recognition Act 2004 ("GRA"). Under the GRA, legal gender recognition in the UK is mediated partly through the process of obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).

• Labour has made various milquetoast to intentionally-deceptive-and-actually-bad gestures toward gender recognition reform.
  • Anneliese Dodds MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, has made vague statements about "stripping out futile and dehumanising parts of the process for obtaining a gender recognition certificate, while retaining important safeguards" (Rogers, 2024).
  • Wes Streeting MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, has indicated Labour wants to retain the medicalised gender recognition process, but subject it to a single doctor rather than a panel (Rogers, op cit).
  • The final word must go to Sir Keir Starmer MP, the Leader of the Opposition, who has indicated he believes access to "single-sex spaces" should be based on "biological sex" ("Starmer says Sunak was 'bullied'," 2024).

#24.4.2 — Gender self-identification ("self-ID")

"Self-ID" describes a gender recognition process in which the primary authority the state relies upon to determine your legal gender is you and the gender you say you are, rather than professed objective observation by doctors.

• Anti-trans activists hate self-ID.
• The Tories, therefore, oppose it.
• So does Labour, for the same reason.
  • Wes Streeting, the Shadow Health Secretary, has indicated Labour reforms to legal gender recognition would retain the requirement for a clinical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and a further assessment by a doctor (Rogers, op cit).
• The Lib Dems have proposed to introduce it (Lawrie, op cit).
• So has GPEW (Lawrie, op cit).
• So have the SNP — rather, the SNP want the UK government to unblock their existing self-ID legislation and allow it to take effect (Lawrie, op cit; Geddes, "Equality law changes," 2024).
• In 2020, Plaid Cymru adopted a policy supporting self-ID (Plaid Cymru, 2021). I have been unable to determine whether that policy remains in effect.

#24.4.3 — The Equality Act 2010 ("EA")

The EA is a central statute of current British anti-discrimination and equality law. The EA affords certain protections on the basis of sex. EA s 19(2)(d) provides that members of protected categories may be discriminated against as "a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim". However, GRA s 9(1) provides that trans people with a gender recognition certificate become "for all purposes the acquired gender".

Consequently, the EA and the GRA interact such that the EA protections against sex-based discrimination protect trans people except on a case-by-case basis where the discriminating party can satisfactorily show that they should do otherwise.

• Anti-trans activists want the EA amended such that the protections it provides against sex discrimination apply on the basis of sex assigned at birth.
• The Tories have pledged to amend the EA so that protections apply on the basis of "biological sex," which is the British fascist media codeword for sex assigned at birth (Parry & Zeffman, 2024).

#24.4.4 — Nonbinary recognition

The current gender recognition system does not provide for legal recognition of the genders of nonbinary people.

• Anti-trans activists oppose such recognition.
• The Tories have not made a statement on the issue that I know of.
• Nor has Labour.
• The Lib Dems proposed to introduce nonbinary recognition in their 2019 manifesto (LGBT+ Liberal Democrats, op cit). I have been unable to determine whether this policy still stands.
• So has GPEW.

#24.4.5 — Reserved powers

The UK is a unitary state with a pseudo-federal structure. To cut through the technical jargon:

• in a federation, subnational (e.g. state, province) governments have powers and rights that the federal government can't take away;
• in a unitary state, subnational governments have exactly the powers, rights, and sometimes existence that the central government allows them, and no more.

In the UK, constituent country governments are called "devolved governments," because they were organised on the principle of devolution. This means that they were constituted by ordinary Acts of the UK Parliament (called "organic acts" from this point forward) and could theoretically be dissolved by repealing the Acts in question (only the government; you can't repeal the existence of, e.g., Scotland, no matter how many Acts you pass). In effect, the devolved governments are something like executive agencies of the UK Government who are charged with the administration of the relevant country and who hold public elections for their staff.

The organic act of each devolved government provides that, of the powers related to the operation of the devolved government, certain powers (called "reserved powers") can only be exercised by the British central government, while certain other powers (called "devolved powers") can, in theory, only be exercised by the devolved government. However, in practice, the British central government includes the only Parliament permitted to amend the organic act to define which powers are reserved, and the only judiciary empowered to decide whether the British central government has violated the allocation of powers as it stands. The array of powers reserved to the British central government in each current organic acts is also pretty generous to begin with.

Each devolved government has a corresponding department and Secretary of State in the British central government. The relevant Secretaries purportedly function something like governors-general have in the Commonwealth realms, as administrators who simply allow the passage of devolved government acts into law; at least, the whole social compact underpinning devolution seems to be premised on the idea that they will do this.

However, like all other Secretaries of State, the national Secretaries are party-affiliated legislators and partisan appointees, and, in practice, they increasingly show it, especially where trans affairs are concerned. Matters came to a head when, in January 2023, Alister Jack MP, the Secretary of State for Scotland, issued an order under the Scotland Act 1998 s 35, preventing the SNP-controlled devolved government's Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill 2023 from becoming law.

• Anti-trans activists now want the Government to legislate to "alter the deal" to permanently prevent the devolved governments not only of Scotland but also of Wales from introducing self-ID without the central government's permission (see, e.g., Sex Matters, "Comparing the three main party manifestos," op cit).
• The Tories have committed to do so (UK Conservative & Unionist Party, 2024).
• Labour have made no statement that I am aware of.
• The Lib Dems have also made no statement that I am aware of.

#24.4.6 — Spousal veto

GRA s 4 provides for two classes of GRC, interim and full. The class which provides legal gender recognition is the full GRC. A trans person who is married and applies for a GRC can only immediately receive a full GRC if their spouse agrees; otherwise, they can only receive an interim GRC, which is simply a document stating that the applicant will be eligible for a full GRC if they exit their marriage, and does not cause their gender to be recognised in law.

Within six months of the issue of an interim GRC to a married trans person, either they or their partner can use it to secure an annulment. However, this only applies if divorce proceedings have not already been initiated. A spouse who is sufficiently alert and sufficiently transphobic can initiate divorce proceedings the instant they know their spouse is trans, blocking them from having their gender legally recognised for as long as the proceedings can be drawn out (Barker, 2019).

• Anti-trans activists support the spousal veto (see, e.g., Sex Matters, "Comparing the three main party manifestos," op cit).
• I am not able to determine the Tories' position with certainty.
• There are conflicting reports on Labour's position; Hannah Barnes ("Labour's women problem," 2024) claims Labour intends to abolish the spousal veto, while Sex Matters ("Comparing the three main party manifestos," op cit) claims those plans have been dropped.
• The Lib Dems are currently proposing to abolish it (UK Liberal Democrats, 2024).

#24.5 — Guidance for schools

The Department for Education (DfE) has the power to issue guidance on how schools should operate. That guidance can be statutory guidance, which is legally binding.

#24.5.1 — Forced misgendering policy

This is a type of policy which prohibits schools and their staff from correctly gendering trans students.

• Anti-trans activists want DfE to issue statutory guidance implementing such a policy.
• The Tories have indicated their support for issuing such guidance, and the Sunak Government's DfE (UK Department for Education, 2024) has released a draft.
• So has Reform (Lawrie, op cit).
• Labour has not stated a position.
• The Lib Dems have not stated a position, but I presume they would be less willing, given the rest of their platform.

#24.5.2 — Section 28/"don't say gay" policy

This is a type of policy which functionally and/or formally prohibits schools and their staff from teaching accurate information about queer or trans people on the grounds that it is ideologically divisive, or on similar grounds. In the UK, such policies have historically been known as "Section 28" policies, in reference to the Local Government Act 1988 s 28, through which the Thatcher Conservative government legislated a policy of this kind on the national level. In the United States, and in more recent sources worldwide in general, these policies are known as "don't say gay" policies, after the nickname of a Florida state law instituting such a policy, officially the Parental Rights in Education Act, HB 1557 of 2022.

• Anti-trans activists want DfE to institute statutory guidance enacting such a policy (Evans, 2024).
• Labour seems to have indicated a stance, but as expected it's too mealy-mouthed for anyone to actually know what it is (Evans, op cit; Martin, 2024; Toth, 2024; Whannel, 2024) they may have either:
  • actively indicated such guidance will be reviewed, suggesting it will be abandoned; or
  • simply actively refused to indicate their position.

#24.6 — Single-sex spaces

This is an English fascist buzzword referring to facilities the provision of which is segregated based on assigned binary sex. Enforcing "single-sex spaces" subjects transgender people to forcible misgendering and outing, and in doing so intentionally directs physical and sexual violence toward them; it similarly affects many intersex cis people and many perisex cis people who are gender non-conforming.

• Anti-trans activists obviously fervently support "single-sex spaces". Specifically, they demand "single-sex" changing rooms, sports teams, rape crisis centres, and prisons (Lawrie, op cit).
• The Tories have expressed support for "single-sex spaces" in general (ibid).
• So has Reform (ibid).
• So has Labour (ibid).

#24.6.1 — Accommodation in hospitals

The NHS Constitution for England describes the relationship between NHS England and patients utilising its services. Anti-trans activists want the NHS Constitution amended so that

• cis patients are guaranteed the right to have intimate care provided only by members of the same assigned sex — to my knowledge, they already had this, but it makes for a good soundbite; and
• more importantly, to single-sex accommodations, i.e., to not share hospital wards with trans people.

As regards the positions of the parties:

• it's not clear to me what the Tories' official position is as a party — however, Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, expressed his support for this change in October 2023 (Allegretti, 2023).
• Labour as a party does not seem to have officially stated a position, but Wes Streeting, the Shadow Health Secretary, expressed his support for this change in January (Hansford, 2024).
• I am not aware of other parties' positions on the matter.

A footnote to this item: I'm not entirely sure why everyone is talking about amending the NHS Constitution. To my knowledge, the Constitution has no independent effect — it simply describes the effect of underlying legislation.

#25 — David Tennant wins the nation's heart again

On 21 June, the British LGBT+ Awards ceremony was held in London. The 2024 Morningstar Celebrity Ally award went to David Tennant, a Scottish actor best known for his work on Broadchurch, Doctor Who, Good Omens, and Marvel's Jessica Jones.

Tennant has a record of strong trans allyship. During his acceptance speech, he voiced his disdain for Kemi Badenoch MP, the incumbent Secretary of State for Women and Equalities. Badenoch has used the position primarily as a vehicle to terminate the human rights of British trans people and exclude them from public life. Tennant's exact words referred to Badenoch needing to "not exist any more," at least to the extent that she needed to "shut up".

For his trouble, Tennant has been targeted by:

• Badenoch;
• Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (Kanter, 2024);
• Joanne Rowling, author and former colleague of Tennant, who described him as a member of the "gender Taliban" (ibid);
• Hadley Freeman, a prominent anti-trans journalist;
• more or less the rest of the British media.

England and Wales

#26 — Hutchison v County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

Five nurses at NHS England's Darlington Memorial Hospital — Joanne Bradbury, Annice Grundy, Tracey Hooper, Bethany Hutchison, and Lisa Lockey — have filed an action in the Employment Tribunal against the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. I have not been able to access a copy of the complaint and as such my coverage here is based on broader media coverage.

The grounds on which the complaint is brought are:

• sexual harassment;
• indirect discrimination on the basis of sex;
• infringement of the complainants' rights under the European Convention on Human Rights, art 8.

There's a reason this story is here and it is, of course, that the nature of the Trust's alleged conduct appears to be in relation to its employment and proper treatment of a nurse who is a trans woman. In particular, the complaint appears to be based on the fact that the complainants are aware that the nurse in question is sexually active (Ames, 2024; "Shadow Health Secretary says he is 'horrified'," 2024). I have not been able to determine how it is that the nurses came to know this fact, and sources seem to be actively avoiding either claiming or not claiming that their knowledge of it is a result of wrong action either by the nurse in question or NHS England.

Gript, an Irish right-wing rag, reports the complainants are being "financially supported" by the Christian Legal Centre (Gunning, 2024). Vision Christian Media, an Australian Evangelical Christian dominionist media platform, also alleges the complainants' lawyers are "from" there (Davenport, 2024).

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting, meanwhile, has said he "support[s] the nurses and [is] horrified that they've had to resort to legal action" (Abruzzese, "Wes Streeting 'horrified'," 2024).

(The case name is conjectural; I can't find the original filing, but the nurses are always mentioned with Hutchison first, which makes me think she's probably the lead complainant.)

#27 — NHS Constitution consultation closes

On 25 June, the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) closed its consultation on the NHS Constitution for England. The consultation is a 10 year review mandated by the Health Act 2009 s 3(2).

DHSC proposed a number of changes to the NHS Constitution which if legally enforceable would clearly be adverse to the rights of trans patients, either facially, or when taken in context with other legislative reforms known to be under consideration or in the process of passage or implementation by the UK Government. These include:

• defining sex as "biological sex";
• declaring that patients have a right to have personal care carried out by someone of "the same biological sex";
• declaring that patients have a right not to share sleeping accommodation with members of the "opposite" biological sex;
• declaring that patients have a right "to expect that NHS services will reflect [their] preferences and meet [their] needs, including the differing biological needs of the sexes," which in conext means that NHS will not provide care that serves the needs of trans patients.

Sex Matters ("Updating the NHS Constitution," 2024) has, naturally, already expressed its approval of the proposed changes and declared they don't go far enough. It demands that NHS hospitals:

• forcibly out trans patients and practitioners;
• cease collecting healthcare data on trans people;
• purge people who take the consensus view that "biological sex" is not a medically meaningful term.

#28 — R v Betts-Ramsey: Trans-attack accused not having very knife time in the dock

As of 26 June, proceedings in the Crown Court of England and Wales have commenced against six individuals charged with the February hate crime stabbing of an 18-year-old trans woman at a rollerskating party at Harrow Leisure Centre, Wealdstone, Greater London.

Of the defendants, the names of three are suppressed because they are minors. The other three defendants, who are adults, are:

• Summer Betts-Ramsey, 19;
• Bradley Harris, 18;
• Shiloh Hindes, 18.

All six defendants have pleaded not guilty. The matter is now expected to proceed to a full trial commencing 20 January 2025 (Kirk, 2024).

The case name is conjectural; the Court doesn't seem to have published a copy of the indictment, and as far as I know it usually wouldn't. Media coverage has mentioned Betts-Ramsey with a consistency which leads me to believe she's probably the first-named defendant. "R v [NAME]" is the standard case citation for criminal cases in trial court in the UK, as well as several other jurisdictions throughout the Commonwealth.

(P.S.: I consider the pun in the headline forgivable because the victim survived and was released from hospital the same day.)

Scotland

#29 — 2022 Census: Dundee takes out trans crown

On 27 June, the National Records of Scotland (2024) published Scotland's data for the 2022 Census' new question on "trans status or history". This is different wording from the corresponding question used in England and Wales when data for the same Census was collected there in 2021.

Scotland's Census found that approximately 0.44% of respondents aged 16 or over were trans. The transest cities in Scotland were:

1. Dundee, where 0.91% of the overall population were trans (National Records of Scotland, op cit), including >3% of people aged 16 to 24 ("'Non-binary' Scots," 2024);
2. Edinburgh and Glasgow (both 0.77% overall);
3. Aberdeen (0.58%).

The Census also found that nonbinary people outnumbered trans men and trans women combined by a functional margin. Scottish Trans has, naturally, suggested that perhaps it would be reasonable for the Scottish Government to action this by accommodating nonbinary people; For Women Scotland have, naturally, suggested otherwise ("'Non-binary' Scots," 2024).

United States

Federal or interstate

#30 — United States v Haim: Turns out leaking to fascists does not count as whistleblowing

On 17 June, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas (2024) announced the unsealing of an indictment filed in May against Dr Eithan Haim. Dr Haim is a Dallas-based surgeon who was formerly a surgical resident at Texas Children's Hospital (TCH). Haim is charged with four counts of wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information; under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), such a wrongful disclosure is a federal offence.

The United States alleges that in 2023, about two and a half years after the end of his last rotation at TCH, Dr Haim managed to get his TCH login credentials reactivated under false pretences. He then used them to pull records for patients not under his care who were receiving medical transition care at TCH. Information allegedly retrieved by Haim included patient names, treatment codes, dates of service, and attending physicians for at least four known patients.

He then allegedly proceeded to forward the information to a media contact, not named in the indictment, but established by external reportage and by his own acknowledgment (Rufo, 2024) to have been Christopher F. "Chris" Rufo, a prominent national anti-trans activist who is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a well-known fascist think tank.

Rufo used the information provided by Haim to construct a case against TCH, alleging they were continuing to provide paediatric medical transition services in violation of Texas state law, and fraudulently billing Texas Medicaid, the state's basic public health insurance programme, for the trouble (Rufo, 2023). I have no idea whether the allegations are true — basically all I've ever seen Chris Rufo do is lie — but for the record, it would be based as hell if they were.

The right's version of events presents Haim as a whistleblower (see, e.g., Rowley, 2024). However, qualification as a whistleblower is generally held to require forwarding the matter at issue to an authority which can actually take action on it. In this case, Haim could have done that by filing an ethics or misconduct complaint against TCH, two things which the indictment specifically notes he never did. Rather, Haim contacted Rufo immediately (Chomnalez, 2024), an action which the United States asserts Haim took in order "to grossly mischaracterize TCH's medical procedures in order to damage the reputation of TCH and its physicians and to promote his own personal agenda".

The United States is seeking a money judgment against Haim. He, for his part, has pleaded not guilty (Smith, 2024).

Rufo, meanwhile, is attempting to re-up the story, with the Manhattan Institute's organ, City Journal, running another article on the "scandal" (Rufo, 2024). The pretext of the story appears to be the emergence of Vanessa Sivadge, a TCH nurse, as another "whistleblower". While I can't confirm a direct link between Sivadge and United States v Haim, she has alleged (Taer, 2024) that she's now a person of interest (Shirley, 2024) in a HIPAA case led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Haim was obviously caught by just such an investigation (Shirley, op cit) and they may be the same one.

#31 — Fowler v Stitt: Tenth Circuit tells Oklahoma where to shove it

On 18 June, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued its ruling in Fowler v Stitt. The case concerns the constitutionality of Oklahoma's "birth certificate policy," a number of laws and executive orders which collectively prevent trans people from acquiring updated birth certificates which correctly reflect our gender. The plaintiffs are a group of trans Oklahomans. The defendants are various officials involved in the enforcement of the policy, the first named being Governor Kevin Stitt (R).

In the underlying District Court case, the plaintiffs contended that the birth certificate policy violates the Constitution of the United States, in particular the First Amendment and the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendments.

The defendants moved to dismiss that case under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), i.e., on the assertion that the plaintiffs had failed to state a claim upon which the Court could grant relief. The District Court granted defendants' motion. Frankly, their rationale for doing so reads to me as a bunch of bullshit, relying extensively on ad-libbing about whether trans rights are "anchored in history and tradition" or "fundamental to our scheme of ordered liberty" (they're not, apparently — surprise!), and conspiratorial mumbling about how trans people have too much "political power" to be oppressed.

I have a feeling the Tenth Circuit thought so too. In an opinion whose tone reads, to me, as more than a little hostile to its colleagues, the appellate court reversed the district court's ruling and remanded the case back to it for further proceedings. This means that, for the moment, the birth certificate policy is considered unconstitutional (Christy, 2024).

#32 — Doe v Horne: Anti-trans lawmakers reach the "find out" phase

On or around 23 June, the US District Court for the District of Arizona, Judge Jennifer Zipps presiding, issued an order compelling two state lawmakers, House Speaker Rep. Ben Toma and Senate President Sen. Warren Petersen, to testify under oath and turn over emails relating to their reasons for voting to approve Arizona's Save Women's Sports Act.

The Constitution of the State of Arizona art IV pt 2 § 6 grants Arizona legislators a degree of immunity from civil process while the legislature is in session. However, the Court has taken the view that Toma and Petersen waived any such immunity by voluntarily joining the case (Fischer, 2024), Doe v Horne.

#33 — DDAA 2025: Biden OMB announces defense funding veto

On 24 June, the US Office of Management and Budget (2024) issued a statement indicating that the Biden administration "strongly opposed" HR 8774, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025, and that if President Joe Biden (D) were presented with the Act in its current form he would veto it.

The OMB asserts that the Administration's stance is motivated, in part, by two institutionally transphobic provisions in the bill:

• § 8144, which prohibits the use of defence funding for provision of, referral to, or transfer in order to facilitate, access to medical gender transition for the dependent child of a service member;
• § 8153, which prohibits the use of defence funding for "surgical procedures or hormone therapies for the purpose of gender affirming care".

#34 — United States v Skrmetti: Ask not for whom the bell tolls ...

On 24 June, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear the US Department of Justice's appeal of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit's September 2023 ruling (Chung, 2024) in LW v Skrmetti (American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, 2024; Sherman, 2024). The case will now be known as United States v Skrmetti. According to the Los Angeles Times' summary, the Supreme Court's decision in Skrmetti will determine whether states can prohibit the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy to trans kids (Savage, 2024).

In the petition for writ of certiorari, appellants the United States et al reiterate the argument made in the lower court by LW's counsel: in short, that:

• state bans on trans healthcare constitute discrimination on the basis of sex;
• the discrimination in question is not in fact justified by the "best interests of the child" rationale cited by those states;
• the discrimination in question is therefore in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and is unlawful (King, 2024).

I'm not optimistic. The Court is 6–3 Republican, and, as Vox's Ian Millhiser (2024) points out, the justices have demonstrated particular antipathies to many of the lines of legal reasoning on which the appellants' case depends. Further, the Court has shown an active interest in using its power against trans people — intervened earlier this year in Labrador v Poe, a federal district court case on the constitutionality of Idaho's youth trans healthcare ban, to stay (overturn) an injunction which was preventing the state from enforcing the ban. The battle is very considerably uphill; Zack Ford (2024), writing for The New Republic, acidly remarks that "the justices appear to have designed it that way".

Insofar as there is a light at the end of the tunnel, it's that the current of the tunnel, it's that the current crop of conservative justices are particularly bizarre and unpredictable. In April this year, the Court declined to allow West Virginia to enforce its Save Women's Sports Act while litigation continued (Quinn, 2023), and before that, in 2020, the Court's landmark opinion in Bostock v Clayton County was authored by conservative justice Neil Gorsuch. Unfortunately, this is not enough to change my opinion of the likely outcome.

Skrmetti will be heard during the SCOTUS term which begins October 2024 (Bravin & Wolfe, 2024; Macagnone, 2024); Politico suggests the case will likely be heard this year, "close to" the November elections (Frazier & Gerstein, 2024). A decision is expected by July 2025 (McCall, 2024; Macagnone, op cit); Dara Kam (2024), writing for the News Service of Florida, suggests the decision will likely come in June or July, at the end of the term.

The Alabama Reflector has also reported that, on 24 June, the United States asked an unspecified federal district judge to stay proceedings in an unspecified suit against Alabama's youth medical transition ban, citing the likely resolution of the issue in Skrmetti. As of 25 June, neither the plaintiffs nor the State had filed a response to the petition for grant of stay (Stephenson, 2024).

#35 — Take Back Title IX

Several anti-trans pressure groups have organised a national advocacy tour, Take Back Title IX, based on the transmisogynistic "save women's sports" political battle cry. The name is a reference to the federal Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act, 20 USC § 1681 et seq, enacted by (and originally and more widely known simply as) Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, S 569 of 1972. Title IX is the central US statute prohibiting sex discrimination in education. Anti-trans activists claim that Title IX is distorted or even nullified by the recognition that trans students are rightly also covered by its protections.

Groups credited with organising the tour include:

• Our Bodies, Our Sports (2024), which I hadn't previously heard of;
• the Independent Women's Forum (Rosvoglou, "Legendary tennis star Martina Navratilova," 2024), which I had.

"Name" anti-trans activists attached to the tour appear to include (Our Bodies, Our Sports, op cit; Rosvoglou, "Legendary tennis star Martina Navratilova," op cit):

• Donna de Varona;
• Riley Gaines;
• Martina Navratilova;
• Jennifer Sey.

Chris Evert, who is not officially attached to the tour, has also voiced her support (Rosvoglou, "Tennis legend Chris Evert," 2024).

I won't be promoting tour dates in advance, but for the record, media coverage with which I'm familiar has so far placed it:

• on 21 June, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Richardson, 2024);
• on 25 June, in Washington, D.C. (Rosvoglou, "Legendary tennis star Martina Navratilova," op cit).

While the tour was in Chapel Hill, unknown parties vandalised a tour bus it was using. Graffiti included "Bigots on board," "Hate group," "Protect trans kids," and "Trans women are women" (Richardson, op cit). Admittedly, as an individual nonsystematic incident, the events described in this paragraph wouldn't generally be classified as newsworthy by the SP Weekly standard. However, they are very based. Well done.

#36 — Curse your sudden yet inevitable betrayal

On 26 June, a White House spokesperson told Fox News Channel that (Sapir, 2024):

the [Biden] Administration does not support [gender-affirming] surgery for minors

I'd venture some commentary on this but come on, we all knew this was coming.

#37 — No DE–AL: contra Sarah McBride

Coverage is escalating (see, e.g., Wiggins, 2024) around the announcement by Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride (D–SD1) that she intends to contest the Democratic primary for Delaware's at-large Congressional district ("DE–AL"). An opening is being left by the departure of incumbent US Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D), who is herself contesting the primary to succeed Delaware's outgoing senior US Senator, Tom Carper (D). McBride has no serious opposition in the DE–AL primary. If she wins the primary and is subsequently elected to the House, she would be the first (known) trans person to serve in Congress.

I don't editorially endorse or opppose particular candidacies because I'm a one-person outfit with a single-digit number of readers and I have better ways to spend their time than showing them how far I can bury my head up my own ass. I'm breaking with that rule here. McBride is a Zionist (Rod, 2023) — a stance on which, if anything, she has only become more radical since 7 October (McBride, 2024) — and can accordingly go and fuck herself. Yes, this single issue is that important, given that the single issue is genocide. Even if you think electoral politics is meaningfully effective, and even if the potential get is the first trans Congressmember, I think the tran in question being a genocidal shitbird is too high of a price to pay.

California

#38 — AB 1955: Trans kids' freedom hinges on Newsom's spine

On 27 June, the California State Assembly approved Assembly Bill (AB) 1955, the Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today's Youth (SAFETY) Act, which will functionally void existing district-level parental notification policies and bar new ones. The SAFETY Act:

• requires a student's permission before teachers and staff can inform the student's parents about their gender identity or sexual orientation;
• prohibits retaliation against teachers who refuse to follow any parental notification policies in effect.

The SAFETY Act is supported by, among others, Equality California. it is opposed by, among others, the California Family Council and allied Assemblymembers including Rep. Bill Essayli (R).

While the SAFETY Act has now properly passed in the legislature, Governor Gavin Newsom (D), who has lately displayed a greater-than-usual bent toward offputting political cowardice in general and "tactical" transphobia in particular (White & Korte, 2023), has actively refused to clarify whether he will sign it into law (Zavala, 2024).

#39 — PERB brings the tranhammer down on Rocklin USD

On 24 June, the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), which oversees public sector labour relations in the state of California, issued a ruling against Rocklin Unified School District ("Rocklin USD"). PERB doesn't seem to have published the decision — and may not do so, as it doesn't publish non-precedential decisions (California Public Employment Relations Board, n.d.) — so my item is based on media coverage rather than a primary source.

In September 2023, Rocklin USD approved a parental notification policy, a type of policy which requires schools and teachers to notify parents if their child comes out as trans, or requests accommodations related to being trans. The Rocklin Teachers Professional Association immediately filed an unfair labour practices complaint at PERB against the USD.

PERB's ruling orders Rocklin USD to rescind the policy. The USD has issued a media statement indicating it plans to appeal (Heft, 2024).

Delaware

#40 — SB 191: Trans youth sports ban doesn't make final hurdle

On 27 June, the Education Committee of the Delaware Senate considered SB 191, the Fairness in Girls' Sports Act. If enacted, SB 191 would compel high school athletes in Delaware to compete based on their assigned sex at birth.

However, Delaware Public Media reports the bill has died in committee (Cook, 2024).

Maryland

#41 — Outrage over trans woman's biological advantage at being pretty

On 1 June, Bailey Anne Kennedy was crowned Miss Maryland USA. Kennedy is a trans woman.

As a consequence, conservative media, aided by sore losers from the pageant, are now gathering their forces for a campaign agaisnt her. Participants include The Daily Signal (Olohan, 2024) and The Daily Wire (Jerkovich, 2024), as well as defeated contestant Elizabeth McCarthy and, if the Signal or the Wire are to be believed, at least two others.

Montana

#42 — Reagor v State: Legal sex classification statute struck down

On 25 June, the Montana state Fourth Judicial District Court issued its ruling in Reagor v State. The matter at issue was the constitutionality of a Montana law, Mont Code Ann § 1-1-201, enacted by SB 458 of 2023 (the law does not have a non-procedural title).

The Montana law in question defines sex, for all purposes of statutory interpretation of Montana code, as immutable and based exclusively on the form at birth of the reproductive system and gametes. The plaintiffs, Shawn Reagor and a group of other trans residents of Montana, made two arguments to the unconstitutionality of the law:

• that the law, in purporting to define "sex," violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution of the State of Montana amd usurped the power of the courts;
• that the law was invalid on procedural grounds because it violated the State Constitution Art V § 11(3), the single-subject rule, which provides that legislative bills may only address one subject, and that the subject must be clearly reflected in the title.

The Court granted summary judgment in favour of the plaintiffs based exclusively on the procedural argument, and struck down the law (Lazine, 2024; Szpaller, 2024).

New York

#43 — Nassau County reinstates transfem sports ban; can't keep a Blakeman down

On 24 June, the Nassau County Legislature approved a measure prohibiting the use of county-owned sports facilities by women's sports teams which include trans women (ABC7 Eyewitness News, 2024; Figliola & Dreyer, 2024; McLogan, 2024; Millet, 2024). The Legislature, which is 12–7 Republican, approved the measure 12–5, largely along party lines: all 12 Republicans voted in favour, while 5 Democrats voted against; of the remaining 2, one was ill, while one abstained (McLogan, op cit).

The bill functionally reinstates the Executive Order for Fairness for Women and Girls in Sports, EO No 2 of 2024, issued 22 February by County Executive Bruce Blakeman (R). That order was struck down on 10 May by the Supreme Court of the State of New York for being outside the authority of the County Executive to issue. The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), New York's affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which brought that suit, has indicated it will sue again (Campanile, 2024).

#44 — Mayor Adams hates trans people (who'd have thought?)

On 29 June, in a press conference, the Strategic Trans Alliance for Radical Reform (STARR) accused New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) and his administration of refusing to honour a 2021 legal settlement under which the City is required to build shelters to accommodate transgender and gender-nonconforming people (CBS News New York, 2024).

Ohio

#45 — SB 104: The frankenbill walks again

On 26 June, the Ohio House of Representatives passed SB 104 (BeMiller, 2024). It passed as what has previously been referred to in this context as a "frankenbill": a bill on one topic, amended to shove in substantive legislation on another topic on only the barest pretence of relevance.

In this case, SB 104 was originally a bipartisan education funding bill, amended in a last-second ambush to include the text of HB 183, the Protect All Students Act (Henry, 2024). HB 183, sponsored by State Reps. Adam Bird and Beth Lear (Associated Press, 2024; Trau, 2024) requires all accredited schools and colleges to designate all multi-use bathrooms, locker rooms, and shower facilities for one or "the other" "biological sex" (Riedel, 2024).

The vote on the amendment was 60–31, almost but not quite exactly along party lines: as well as all Democrats present, members voting against also included Republican Reps. Jamie Callender and Gayle Manning (Henry, op cit). Brett Hillyer (R), who is known for opposing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, abstained (Trau, op cit).

SB 104 will need to be approved by the state Senate and by Governor Mike DeWine (R), the latter of whom has indicated he will sign the bill (Tobias, 2024). However, passing the bill was the House's last act before the General Assembly rose for summer recess, so Senate approval and consequently DeWine's signature cannot be effected until they return ("Ohio House passes transgender bathroom bill," 2024; Rahman, 2024).

Texas

#46 — Texas v Loe: State Supreme Court rules "Fuck them kids"

On 28 June, the Supreme Court of Texas issued its ruling in Texas v Loe.

Appellees Lazaro Loe (a pseudonym) et al are a group of Texas residents including trans people and medical professionals. The matter at issue was the constitutionality of Texas Health and Safety Code § 161.702, Gender transitioning and gender reassignment procedures and treatments for certain children, enacted by SB 14 of 2023. § 161.702 de facto prohibited the provision of gender-affirming care to trans people under 18 in Texas.

Before the law could take effect, Loe et al filed suit in state district court. There, they argued that the statute likely violated Art I of the Constitution of the State of Texas, specifically:

• § 3, which provides that all citizens of Texas have equal rights;
• § 3a, the state equal protection clause;
• § 19, the state due process clause.

The 201st District Court, in Travis County, agreed with the plaintiffs and issued a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of the law. Respondents the State of Texas immediately appealed.

The Supreme Court has now decided in the State's favour and the law can now be enforced. I've read the ruling, but I've elected not to waste time quoting it here; as always, the ratio decidendi is thin and often laughable, because, as always, the actual reason for the judgment is that the Supreme Court of Texas is 9–0 Republican, so go fuck yourselves, faggots (Vertuno & DeMillo, 2024).

Washington

#47 — PNW right-wingers target yet another teenage girl

Conservative media appear to be attempting to whip up a mob against a trans girl athlete participating in athletic activities organised by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA).

Because the girl in question is a minor, I am not identifying either her or her school. The spokespeople for the effort against her are an assortment of (invariably male) girls' athletics coaches from high schools across Washington, including Liberty High's Brad Anderson and Jason Keniston (Elordi, 2024) and Cedarcrest High's Dean Vergillo (McClure, 2024). They are receiving media support from Riley Gaines (2024), the Independent Council on Women's Sports (ICONS, 2024), and the Independent Women's Forum (McClure, op cit; Sailer, 2024).

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