@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Trans news stories daily as they break. Founder Transexual Menace and GenderPAC. Author "When Texas Came for Our Kids: How evangelical extremists launched a war on transgender teens" & "BAD INK: How the NYTimes sold out transgender teens."
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct ErinReed
With trans candidates on the ballot all over US, head of AL Rep Party--echoing AL Sen. Tommy Tuberville calling trans “a mental disease” last month-- calls two trans Dem AL House nominees “men who have mental disorders."
@rikiwilchins.bsky.socialTrump insisted the midterms should be a referendum on his presidency, telling Republicans "pretend that I'm on the ballot." But Pew Research found just 19% of voters see their vote as FOR him compared with 44% who see it as a vote AGAINST him. www.axios.com/2026/10/12/t...
@rikiwilchins.bsky.socialA quarter BILLION from Musk to save Reps. Why aren't Dems running on this???
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social"Trump told the Clarksville, Tennessee crowd last week, 'It’s amazing when you stand up here. I could say the stupidest things and you clap.'" [WashPo] Yes, we'd noticed.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social@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.
www.advocate.com/politics/sta...
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social@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.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social@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!
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social@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.”
@rikiwilchins.bsky.socialThere is a race going on between satire and reality and satire is loosing. This was The Onion a little while back...
@rikiwilchins.bsky.socialPew posts new low for Trump approval: 30%. Comes right after the Reuters poll at 32%. He appears to be dropping rapidly as election day approaches.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social@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]
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social@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.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social@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.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.socialEx-FB CEO Sheryl Sandberg's offers new advice on allowing your widowed parent to find new love. Nice. She also offered new advice for allowing your vulnerable teen to fall down a bottomless well of online misinformation, mental health problems, addiction and stress. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/u...
@billiejsweeney.bsky.socialReposted by @rikiwilchins.bsky.socialThe center-left think tank Third Way is now decrying Republicans “sheer obsession and extremism” on trans issues.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social@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.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social@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.”
www.advocate.com/politics/ele...
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social@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. [gift]
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social@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.