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@assignedmedia.org@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct Advocate
Federal judge dismissed a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania spa worker who was suspended one day for refusing to give a transgender woman a tour of the women’s locker room.
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@assignedmedia.org@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct Advocate
TN court overturns conviction of a man who repeatedly shot a Black trans woman, ruling that a lower court “erred” in preventing the killer from using the victim’s trans identity in his defense and seemingly endorsing the notorious "trans panic" defense.
@assignedmedia.org@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [Brown cont]
As Erin notes, Brown calls out the Right's anti-trans hypocrisy w/o misgendering or ceding ground to refocus on real issues of protecting kids from predators and child sex traffickers like Epstein Reps are protecting. Go Sherrod!
@assignedmedia.org@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct ErinReed
Dem Sherrod Brown ad rebuts Rep Jon Husted's trans-baiting by calling out the real danger to children, tying him to the Epstein Files: “Jon Husted? He protected men who abused young girls by voting in the Senate to block the release of the Epstein files.”
@bluegreen118.bsky.socialReposted by @assignedmedia.org"The HRC? The HRC figured it out?" meme.
@assignedmedia.org@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct
Just as a point of reference, this was the old Dr. Annie Andrews [Dem-SC] before she decided some of us were expendable.
Liked Andrews ver 1.0 a LOT better.
[hat tip Erin Reed]
@assignedmedia.org@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct
Just days after Trump attacked her as "Annie Tr*nnie," Dem Senate candidate and pediatrician Annie Andrews [So Carolina] releases anti-trans ad declaring “No men in women’s sports.” Sad -- and not going to win you a single Rep vote, Annie.
@billiejsweeney.bsky.socialReposted by @assignedmedia.orgThe center-left think tank Third Way is now decrying Republicans “sheer obsession and extremism” on trans issues.
@cleverhandles.bsky.socialReposted by @assignedmedia.orgOmg even fucking Third Way gets it.
@assignedmedia.org@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct Advocate
Trans women being held by ICE as males detail abuse and degradation at the hands of staff and guards.
@assignedmedia.orgTrying to hurt trans people when they've borne the brunt of Trumpism's extreme agenda for the past two years (alongside immigrants and Black Americans) is also a choice in the part of certain Democrats.
@assignedmedia.org@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct LGBTQnation
Ninth Circuit rules against the AZ legislature’s attempt to force trans people to get surgery before they can correct gender markers on birth certificates, upholding a federal court ruling from last year.
@assignedmedia.org@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct Advocate
Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson tells Dems caving on trans rights: "You’re doing too much and getting too little. You don’t have to sacrifice any member of our community to win.”
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@assignedmedia.org@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct
Daniela Fuentes, a trans Cuban woman deported from FL to the Central African Republic along with thousands deported to countries where they don't know the people or language, must now hide her breasts and femininity and pass as a man just to survive.
@assignedmedia.org@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct ErinReed
Equality Caucus calls OH Dem Rep Marcia Kaptur anti-trans ads using Rep rhetoric "deeply offensive" and declares it will not support her campaign for Congress.
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@tpwrtrmnky.bsky.socialReposted by @assignedmedia.orgAnine is one of the people who worked to expose the research misconduct against trans people at Oslo University Hospital. Yesterday, she was told she is no longer on their waitlist to receive gender-affirming care. This is so obviously retaliatory, it's hard to put into words!
@assignedmedia.orgFour families from New Hampshire have filed suit against Trump's HHS over Medicaid rule changes for gender-affirming care.
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@evanurquhart.bsky.socialReposted by @assignedmedia.orgIf you like this thread, I'm adapting it into an essay for this weeks members-only newsletter on Assigned Media.
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@evanurquhart.bsky.socialReposted by @assignedmedia.orgIn summary, this technology is a blight. We're sleepwalking into normalizing it bc we're scared of sounding too extreme. Enough.
