TWIT Awards – Feb 3, 2025
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As we mentioned in the news, President Trump signed three executive orders concerning transgender people this week. On Monday night, he signed an executive order which bans transgender people from openly serving in the military. On Tuesday, he signed an executive order banning gender-affirming medical care to patients under the age of 19. On Wednesday, he signed an executive order on how schools should treat transgender students, as well as how they should never teach about gender identity, or at least not talk favourably about it when they teach it. For discarding people who volunteered to serve their country and who did so honourably because you disagree with their gender identity, for thinking that forbidding gender-affirming medical care will make people less transgender, and for thinking that rudeness to others is ever appropriate, Donald Trump gets another TWIT. Reuters has the story of President Trump’s executive order on gender-affirming medical care.
As we also mentioned in the news, charges have been dismissed against Dr. Ethan Haim, a Texas surgeon who violated the confidentiality of patient medical records to inform on transgender minors getting gender-affirming medical care. For deciding that the law does not matter so long as the ends justify the mens, and for deciding that snitching on transgender minors, including those with affirming parents, is a worthy end result, the federal prosecutors who agreed to dismiss the charges get a TWIT. This story comes from The Advocate.
Martina Navratilova has never been noted for her support of transgender people, to put it mildly. For some reason, she feels that he needs to keep telling her feelings about transgender people, even if she often gets laughed at when she does. This week, The Advocate reports that she said that transgnder people were never involved in the early gay rights movement. In point of fact, the early gay rights movement started when transgender people, including Marshia P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, and others, got upset about how the police treated them at a raid of the Stonewall Inn, and started a riot. For choosing the wrong subject to bellyache about, Martina Navritlova gets a TWIT.
Bishop Robert Barron, the chairman of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth, praised President Trump’s executive order barring gender-affirming medical care for young transgender people, saying that the order will “help young people accept their bodies and their vocations as women and men in the true path to freedom and happiness.” Studies show that very few young transgender people actually regret transitioning. For denying what science has found, Bishop Robert Barron gets a TWIT. This story comes from The Catholic Thing.
Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced some tough questioning at his Senate confirmation hearing. He has been asked if he made several controversial comments, which committee members have documentation to back up the allegation that he said that. He admitted to saying many of the quotes, and at least once said, “I probably said that.” However, one quote which he denied saying is that exposure to chemicals, especially pesticides, make children transgender. Despite his claim that, “No, I never said that,” The Advocate has documented him spreading poorly-researched claims connecting exposure to chemicals in pesticides with gender dysphoria. For spreading poorly-conducted research, and for disowning the stories he has spread about gender dysphoria being caused by exposure to chemicals, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets a TWIT.
Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, has also been facing some tough questions during his Senate confirmation hearing. In his case, it has to do with a video he appears to have made using AI. In the video, he wields a chainsaw against his political opponents, including Rachel Levine. In fairness, Rachel Levine may not be a target of his for her gender identity, but for her work combatting COVID-19. (Most likely, she is a target for both reasons.) For spreading a video showing fantasy violence against a transgender woman, Kash Patel gets a TWIT. This story comes from The Advocate.
This week’s news included a mid-air collision between a plane and a military helicopter. In an attempt to blame anyone except President Trump for the accident, FakeGayPolitics posted on X a claim that Jo Ellis, a transgender woman in the U.S. Army, was the pilot of the helicopter involved in the crash. Chief Warrent Officer Ellis took to X to say that she was not the pilot, but still, some spread the misinformation. For starting this fake news, FakeGayPolitics gets a TWIT, which they share with everyone who spread their misinformation. PinkNews has this story.
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