TWIT Awards – March 3, 2025
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Maine state Representative Laurel Libby took especial exception to a transgender athlete. Representative Laurel deadnamed and misgendered this athlete repeatedly, posting and reposting a picture of her. The state House of Representatives voted, 75-70, to ceinture this behaviour. For continuing to deadname and misgender this student athlete, long after she should have quit, state Representative Laurel Libby gets a TWIT. The Maine Morning Star has this story.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has demanded that the NCAA begin “sex screening” of all student athletes. The Olympics used to give chromosome tests to all athletes (except Princess Anne, who in 1876 was given an exemption). They stopped chromosome testing because they found that too many athletes did not have the typical sex chromosome pairs (XX for a female, XY for a male). For demanding the use of a test which does not produce the desired results, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gets a TWIT. This story comes from Them.
Rachel Campos-Duffy, a Fox News weekend host and the wife of President Trump’s Secretary of Transportation, agreed with Vice-President J.D. Vance that “women with a lot of problems” are responsible for turning their children transgender. She said that these women don’t allow their husbands “the confidence to lead a family,” and this leads to transgender children. Of course, she cited no studies to show this, but just claimed that it follows logically from common sense. For blaming a factor which is not shown to exist for the fact that transgender children exist, Rachel Campos-Duffy gets a TWIT. LGBTQ Nation has this story.
The National Park Service has removed all references to transgender people from its website for Dupont Circle, a neighbourhood in Washington, D.C., which used to be noted as a place for LGBTQ+ people. The website now mentions only “LGB” people. For making transgender people disappear, the National Park Service gets a TWIT. This story comes from LGBTQ Nation.
The Justice Department has filed a complaint about Judge Ana Reyes, who took the Trump administration to task over its ban on transgender people in the military. (This story comes from The Advocate.) Some Republicans are also calling for an investigation into Judge John Bates, who ruled that the Trump administration must restore web pages which discuss transgender health issues. (This story can be found at LGBTQ Nation.) For insisting that anyone who does not agree to let you do whatever you want, regardless of the consequences to others, is guilty of “bias,” the Department of Justice gets a TWIT.
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Category: Transgender Opinion
