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Henry Carnell
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climate, science, health, gender journalist @motherjones.com & @climatedesk.org
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China's role in COP30 was nuanced. They did not join the call for a fossil fuel phaseout, but didn't advocate against it:
China, currently the largest emitter of carbon emissions, although still very much invested in fossil fuels, has also invested record-breaking amounts in renewable energy, particularly wind and solar, and has committed to reducing carbon emissions by at least 7 percent by 2035. “China is an economic realist,” McDonald says, operating with the long-term understanding that “renewables are going to be where it’s at, rather than fossil fuels.” Still, he notes, China did little to advocate for a fossil-free agreement at COP30, largely avoiding the debate.
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Here is some of my reporting on the Society for Evidence Based Medicine: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The group’s X account has an article pinned about “doubts” in gender medicine that references Guyatt 19 times, without comment from him, and suggests he is lead author on the reviews. (He is not.) Its work is frequently cited by states banning transgender health care for minors: SEGM co-founder William Malone provided expert testimony for Idaho’s gender-affirming care ban in which he compared the treatment to lobotomies and accused national physicians’ associations of being “captured” by “gender ideology.” Malone has repeatedly asserted that “no child is actually born in the wrong body.” On X, he has endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his “MAHA” movement and retweeted other right-wing content; another SEGM member was found to be the operator of a transphobic Twitter account that posted speculation about trans people’s genitalia. When asked member’s rhetoric, SEGM said, “we are not monitoring or censoring social media accounts of individuals volunteering their time to SEGM.” The group also said its members “categorically reject any insinuation that SEGM seeks to harm members of the LGBTQ community,” and that “many of the professionals collaborating with SEGM are themselves” LGBT.
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Here is a bit of @msjpauly.bsky.social 's reporting on Michael Laidlaw from: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Another doctor in the working group, California endocrinologist Michael Laidlaw, had gained attention for his writing against gender-affirming care after parents at a charter school in his region raised complaints that they hadn’t been notified before kindergarteners were read a children’s book, I Am Jazz, about trans teenager Jazz Jennings. Last fall, when the state of Florida called on Laidlaw as an expert witness in a lawsuit over its anti-trans Medicaid policy, a federal judge concluded that he was “far off from the accepted view” on how to treat gender dysphoria, in part because Laidlaw had said he would refuse to use patients’ preferred pronouns. In his South Dakota testimony, Laidlaw compared gender-affirming care to Nazi experimentation and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. In emails to Deutsch and the group, he railed against doctors who prescribe puberty blockers—which are used to delay unwanted physical changes in gender-diverse kids and give them more time to explore whether or how to transition—accusing them of “willfully harming” children, even if kids and their parents consent to treatment. “The physician is the criminal in these scenarios and must be prosecuted by the law,” he argued.
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Here is our initial reporting on the report:
"An anti-trans fever dream": HHS publishes attack on gender-affirming youth care
Experts immediately slammed the report, which does not disclose its authors.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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