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In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel
If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.
Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
These steps toward caution are wise, but an underlying problem remains: Society still has an irrational fear of effeminate boys, who should be free to live their life without altering anything about themselves. Gender-nonconforming children continue to get the strong impression from censorious peers and well-meaning adults alike that they’d be better off if they became something other than what they are.
My childhood experiences make me skeptical about pediatric gender medicine today. In many kids who grow up to be gay, gender nonconformity manifests long before overt same-sex attraction does. Yet from peers, from social media, and even from some school districts’ teaching material, kids learn simplistic lessons that equate gender nonconformity with gender dysphoria—in essence, If you act and dress like a girl, you are one. In recent years, many doctors and hospitals have been willing to provide puberty blockers and gender-related hormone treatments to minors after only the briefest evaluation of each patient’s circumstances, and LGBTQ activists have cheered the lack of gatekeeping.
Where? How? These people have been pooping this stupid myth back and forth for so long that they don't even bother to provide basic evidence anymore.
It's the *premise* of the article, how did an editor not ask for specific numbers and peer-reviewed studies on this alleged phenomenon?
This has been part of the trans-kids moral panic for years, gay adults going "If I grew up now, they'd convince me I'm trans."
If your movement had real evidence, you wouldn't be pointing to alternative-universe hypotheticals! Child psychologists know the difference between gay kids and trans kids
A long overdue reckoning for Henrietta Lacks — the Black woman whose cancer cells led to breakthroughs but were harvested without her consent. Novartis has settled a lawsuit by Lacks’ estate that alleged the pharmaceutical giant profited off her cells.
https://bit.ly/3NgCeBs
Black trans women are the most marginalized in our community — so yeah, watching one be sidelined or erased in the narrative feels painfully familiar.
If people actually care about protecting Black trans women instead of just erasing us, there are ALWAYS real ways to help. 🥺⬇️ x
Deeply disappointing to see the Court tossing this complex issue with an emergency order.
Justice Kagan is not mincing words here:
"The Court is impatient: It already knows what it thinks, and insists on getting everything over quickly."
Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
Update/Scoop— New guidance sent this AM to Kansas DMVs indicates licenses that previously had gender marker changed not actually invalid yet. However, internally DMV can see who is flagged, and keeping track of who has/hasn't come in to update. Seems about 300 trans/GNC ppl flagged across the state.
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
Vouch
i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety.
i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04
The President singled out racial minorities as the source of fraud in the United States and the first line in recaps is “he stayed focused on the economy“ lol
this entire article from my former employer does not mention that Trump went full white nationalist, white replacement theory in his speech last night, demonizing immigrants in the midst of arresting non white ppl and building what experts call concentration camps.
www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...
we are losing our queer icons.
This is what I was writing about last week at Law Dork. This is what our government is doing right now.
This is one of the outcomes of Singal, The Atlantic, and The New York Times’s “work” over recent years.
This is the hate they unleashed. And empowered.
For The New York Times to choose to publish Jesse Singal today, of all times, is a choice to attack trans people, to make them even more vulnerable while they are already under attack. It is an appalling abdication of the Times’s journalistic duties.
There have always been horrifically anti-trans groups and individuals. Few have done more, though, to launder their hate into “respectable” conversations than Jess Singal. No publications have done more to help that along than The Atlantic and The New York Times.
I’ve been covering the lives of trans and gender-nonconforming people and their treatment in the law and government and in society for more than 15 years from D.C.
"The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump." www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
“A federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”.
Sound familiar?
That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed.
This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year.
They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.
Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs.
By @ncsscibelli.bsky.social
🔥The action, organized by the Gender Liberation Movement with participation from members of ACT UP, saw over fifty parents and protesters descend on HHS headquarters, blockading the main entrance while chanting "HHS—RFK—TRANS YOUTH ARE NO DEBATE" and holding a sign that read "HANDS OFF OUR 'MONES."⚡️
Extremely angry that this nyt piece is good
I just saw a bunch of the credulous reporting on this new conflicts check system, and, my god, it's so embarrassing.
Please, read and subscribe to Law Dork for independent legal journalism. Save yourself from the bullshit.
Sadly, this isn’t even without precedent. Scarlett Johansson sued OpenAI in 2024, alleging that ChatGPT’s virtual assistant Sky was modeled on her voice.
SCOTUS effectively OK’ed third-country removals as the Trump admin is using them on the shadow docket, staying lower court orders reining them in. Further, the specific questions raised here — about refoulement — have come up before, like in this case: www.lawdork.com/p/ghana-refo...
