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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jan 14 Prospect: After moving to weaken Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) safety protections for transgender inmates, Trump admin has now removed similar protections at multiple ICE detention centers as well as halted all GAC care for detainees.
ICE Deletes Rape Protection for Trans Immigrants - The American Prospect
The agency this month altered more contracts with private prison companies to remove care and protection measures it took advocates years to win.
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January 14, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Wes Streeting emphasising the NHS has adopted a 'holistic' model of care for trans kids.

Please read this first peer reviewed article on what that looks like in practice:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 14, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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this essay addresses most issues related to trans people and sports (& clears up nonsense you may hear today in #SCOTUS)
January 13, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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since it's behind a paywall now, I wanted to share this graph from "How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts" (Nature, April 2025). Say it with me: the anti-trans/LGBTQ+ movement is an anti-science movement:
[article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]
chart header reads: Fields Under Fire. Some research fields have been heavily affected by grant terminations implemented by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) under President Donald Trump. More than half of the active, NIH-funded projects about gender and sexual minorities (LGBT+) have been cancelled. chart #1 shows that 50.6% of grants containing the terms "LGBT/LGBTQ/LGBTQ+" in the title or abstract were terminated. chart #2 shows that 45.8% of grants containing the term "transgender" in the title or abstract were terminated. chart #3 shows that 45.5% of grants containing the term "vaccine hesitancy" in the title or abstract were terminated. chart #4 shows that 3.4% of grants containing the terms "HIV" or "AIDS" in the title or abstract were terminated.
January 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM