Riki Wilchins
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Author of: "When Texas Came for Our Kids: How evangelical extremists launched a war on transgender teens" & "BAD INK: How the NYTimes sold out transgender teens."
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Riki Wilchins
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
· Feb 13
Take away my pronouns, my passport, my prison cell, my hormones, & my bathroom, I'm still trans. I'm still here. I'm not going anywhere. And tomorrow there will be more like me. I'm not scared, I'm fighting mad. You can't have my life. It's mine. Because we are #WhatTheFutureOfGenderLooksLike
Another shoe drops. His signature response to the problem posed by his own tariffs (which are taxes on Americans by another name) rebuffed by the Senate. Also his 50 year mortgages. Pushback on redistricting in TX & IN. Epstein files. Drip drip drip....
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Trump's $2,000 tariff checks shunned by Senate Republicans
"I think we should pay down the deficit."
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November 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Another shoe drops. His signature response to the problem posed by his own tariffs (which are taxes on Americans by another name) rebuffed by the Senate. Also his 50 year mortgages. Pushback on redistricting in TX & IN. Epstein files. Drip drip drip....
www.axios.com/2025/11/19/s...
www.axios.com/2025/11/19/s...
Correction: incorrectly identified lovely Hailey Bierber as having _made_ transphobic comments not being targeted by trolls with them. She actually said she welcomed being called trans. (More signs of how transphobia beiingweaponized ag. cis women (Brigitte Macron call your answering service))
Gay Times on Instagram: "Hailey Bieber has addressed people who have said she looks trans in the best way 🏳️⚧️
On 24 October, Bieber appeared on Overcompensating star Owen Thiele’s podcast, In You...
62K likes, 484 comments - gaytimes on October 27, 2025: "Hailey Bieber has addressed people who have said she looks trans in the best way 🏳️⚧️
On 24 October, Bieber appeared on Overcompensating st...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Correction: incorrectly identified lovely Hailey Bierber as having _made_ transphobic comments not being targeted by trolls with them. She actually said she welcomed being called trans. (More signs of how transphobia beiingweaponized ag. cis women (Brigitte Macron call your answering service))
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Alberta just introduced Bill 9, which exists for one and only one purpose: deleting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as it pertains to trans kids, denying them the right to life and stripping their healthcare away.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
November 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Alberta just introduced Bill 9, which exists for one and only one purpose: deleting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as it pertains to trans kids, denying them the right to life and stripping their healthcare away.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
This is cruel, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo: we are seeing the first signs of Trump's power leaking away. They look like small cracks, but that's what lame-duck-ism always starts out with.
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Trump Has the Look of the Weak Horse; People Are Acting Accordingly
One of my instrument panel watchwords for understanding politics is that all...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo: we are seeing the first signs of Trump's power leaking away. They look like small cracks, but that's what lame-duck-ism always starts out with.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
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19 Nov 2025 -- New Zealand sadly follows the UK down the Cass Review rabbit hole, ending prescription of blockers for all new trans pediatric patients. Existing trans patients will not be affected, nor cis kids or cis adults. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
New Safeguards For Puberty Blocker Prescribing
The new approach will not impact patients currently receiving gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues for the treatment of gender dysphoria or incongruence, with changes applying only to new cases go...
www.scoop.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
19 Nov 2025 -- New Zealand sadly follows the UK down the Cass Review rabbit hole, ending prescription of blockers for all new trans pediatric patients. Existing trans patients will not be affected, nor cis kids or cis adults. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Moving/horrifying/infuriating piece by Cal Horton on UK govt's ongoing attempt to shut down WellBN, the sole clinic still providing blockers to trans kids with pre-Cass prescriptions & attempts to prove they are being "harmed" & force them to medically detransition.
Harming trans kids – Using art to capture the impacts of the Sussex ICB investigation
When puberty blockers were banned in June 2024, the legislation included a clause stating that those currently on blockers would not be medically detransitioned, and could continue care if adopted …
growinguptransgender.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Moving/horrifying/infuriating piece by Cal Horton on UK govt's ongoing attempt to shut down WellBN, the sole clinic still providing blockers to trans kids with pre-Cass prescriptions & attempts to prove they are being "harmed" & force them to medically detransition.
19 Nov 2025 -- Continuing Pope Francis's tradition, Pope Leo invites trans women to World Day of the Poor lunch but then doesn't sit with them, seating them at other tables. Leo has already spoken out against the “homosexual lifestyle” and gay families. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Pope Leo invites transgender women to Vatican lunch, but doesn't sit with them
Pope Leo is continuing Pope Francis' tradition of inviting transgender women to lunch, but not his tradition of sitting with them.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
19 Nov 2025 -- Continuing Pope Francis's tradition, Pope Leo invites trans women to World Day of the Poor lunch but then doesn't sit with them, seating them at other tables. Leo has already spoken out against the “homosexual lifestyle” and gay families. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
19 Nov 2025 -- Trump admin admits “inadvertently” deporting trans woman Britania Rios to Mexico after judge ordered she not be over fears of tortured or persecution. Govt says it will allow her to return to ICE custody and await alternative deportation.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Trump administration ‘inadvertently’ deported transgender woman to Mexico despite a judge’s concern she may face torture there | CNN
The Trump administration admitted it “inadvertently” deported a transgender woman to Mexico this month after a judge ordered she not be removed to the country over fears she may be tortured or violent...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
19 Nov 2025 -- Trump admin admits “inadvertently” deporting trans woman Britania Rios to Mexico after judge ordered she not be over fears of tortured or persecution. Govt says it will allow her to return to ICE custody and await alternative deportation.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
19 Nov 2025 --The letter follows 130 Dems filing amicus brief with the Supreme Court last Monday in 2 cases on bans of trans athletes highlighted how “categorical trans sports bans harm ALL girls” & urging the court to “let kids play.”
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
House Dems unite to tell GOP to stop "demonizing" trans people with "dehumanizing" slurs - LGBTQ Nation
Rep. Nancy Mace's "tra**y, tra**y, tra**y!" tirade is just one example.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
19 Nov 2025 --The letter follows 130 Dems filing amicus brief with the Supreme Court last Monday in 2 cases on bans of trans athletes highlighted how “categorical trans sports bans harm ALL girls” & urging the court to “let kids play.”
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
19 Nov 2025 -- 213 Dems incl. Sarah McBride (D-DE) (top signatory) send letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson demanding he condemn Rep lawmakers for repeatedly “demonizing & dehumanizing” trans people. First sign of organized pushback against Trump big anti-trans crusade. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
House Dems unite to tell GOP to stop "demonizing" trans people with "dehumanizing" slurs - LGBTQ Nation
Rep. Nancy Mace's "tra**y, tra**y, tra**y!" tirade is just one example.
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
19 Nov 2025 -- 213 Dems incl. Sarah McBride (D-DE) (top signatory) send letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson demanding he condemn Rep lawmakers for repeatedly “demonizing & dehumanizing” trans people. First sign of organized pushback against Trump big anti-trans crusade. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’.
Isn't gender-affirming care fun when it's cisppl getting it?
Isn't gender-affirming care fun when it's cisppl getting it?
Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’
The puffy, artificial look is rising in popularity - thanks to Maga elite such as Kristi Noem and Matt Gaetz
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November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’.
Isn't gender-affirming care fun when it's cisppl getting it?
Isn't gender-affirming care fun when it's cisppl getting it?
18 Nov 2025 -- After adding language that appeared to imply that correct-gender trans passports might be invalidated, the State Dep't. re-updates its website to clarify that “all passports” held by trans ppl will remain valid until their expiration date. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
State Department Reverses Course, Says Trans Passports Will Be Valid Until They Expire
This comes after a concerning change indicating that the state department could "invalidate" transgender passports.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
18 Nov 2025 -- After adding language that appeared to imply that correct-gender trans passports might be invalidated, the State Dep't. re-updates its website to clarify that “all passports” held by trans ppl will remain valid until their expiration date. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Ukraine is the warm-up. Poland will be next. Or the Balkans. Or both. We're sleepwalking into this.
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Poland's Tusk blames 'act of sabotage' for railway line explosion near Warsaw
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said an explosion on a railway line linking Warsaw to southeastern Poland was an "act of unprecedented sabotage."
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November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ukraine is the warm-up. Poland will be next. Or the Balkans. Or both. We're sleepwalking into this.
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I am the only person who stays up at night wondering why Goofy talks, walks, wears clothes, and has hands, but Pluto is still a naked, dog with nothing but fur walking on all fours? Doesn't Pluto hate Goofy? How weird would it be if Goofy took Pluto for a walk?
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I am the only person who stays up at night wondering why Goofy talks, walks, wears clothes, and has hands, but Pluto is still a naked, dog with nothing but fur walking on all fours? Doesn't Pluto hate Goofy? How weird would it be if Goofy took Pluto for a walk?
17 Nov 2025 -- Incredibly hostile interview of Helen Webberley of GenderGP about the new US launch by right-wing GB News yesterday. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
GB News on X: "'I feel sorry for your children...' 'Well I think you're borderline evil.' @BenLeo444 gets into a fiery clash with founder of https://t.co/1iyYqZN8uz Dr Helen Webberley, confronting her on support for prescribing puberty blockers to children and more. https://t.co/6ZSWTDZhua" / X
'I feel sorry for your children...' 'Well I think you're borderline evil.' @BenLeo444 gets into a fiery clash with founder of https://t.co/1iyYqZN8uz Dr Helen Webberley, confronting her on support for prescribing puberty blockers to children and more. https://t.co/6ZSWTDZhua
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November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
17 Nov 2025 -- Incredibly hostile interview of Helen Webberley of GenderGP about the new US launch by right-wing GB News yesterday. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
18 Nov 2025 -- Helen Webberley, who with her husband Mike lost their medical licenses fighting to provide GAMT to UK trans kids, opens new ultra-low coast trans telehealth nationwide service in U.S. Read our exclusive interview at Assigned Media. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Helen Webberley of GenderGP Opens US Gender Meds Service — Assigned
Webberly lost her license in the UK for practicing an affirming model of care. Assigned Media interviewed her about a newly announced expansion into her US.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
18 Nov 2025 -- Helen Webberley, who with her husband Mike lost their medical licenses fighting to provide GAMT to UK trans kids, opens new ultra-low coast trans telehealth nationwide service in U.S. Read our exclusive interview at Assigned Media. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
With blockers indefinitely banned, the nationwide PATHWAYS clinic trial would be the only way trans youth in UK could access blockers. It is supposed to provide the "high-quality" evidence on GAMT the Cass Review has maintained is still missing.
November 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
With blockers indefinitely banned, the nationwide PATHWAYS clinic trial would be the only way trans youth in UK could access blockers. It is supposed to provide the "high-quality" evidence on GAMT the Cass Review has maintained is still missing.
16 Nov 2025 -- Detransitioner Keira Bell, plaintiff in lawsuit that helped led to UK banning blockers & who threatened the Health Minister with legal action if hormones not also banned, has taken 1st steps toward legal action against NHS PATHWAYS clinical trial. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
16 Nov 2025 -- Detransitioner Keira Bell, plaintiff in lawsuit that helped led to UK banning blockers & who threatened the Health Minister with legal action if hormones not also banned, has taken 1st steps toward legal action against NHS PATHWAYS clinical trial. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
"I saw a woman at the library using a public computer. Her toddler slept beside her in a stroller. She was filling out job applications, phone on one side, snacks on the other. At 9pm , the librarian brought her bus vouchers and a list of childcare programs: “You just kept me from giving up.”
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"I saw a woman at the library using a public computer. Her toddler slept beside her in a stroller. She was filling out job applications, phone on one side, snacks on the other. At 9pm , the librarian brought her bus vouchers and a list of childcare programs: “You just kept me from giving up.”
Since June, the Wall Street Journal has run more than fifty editorials and op-eds attacking Mamdani.
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Talking With Margaret Sullivan
The state of the media in Trump Two Year One
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November 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Since June, the Wall Street Journal has run more than fifty editorials and op-eds attacking Mamdani.
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16 Nov 2025 - 60k UK women sign open letter of trans support: "We reject – completely & categorically – the discrimination & exclusion of trans ppl. Those who continue to target this minority do not speak for us or represent our interests. They never have. They never will." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Over 60,000 women sign a letter in support of trans women & calling out "false feminism" - LGBTQ Nation
The collaboration between Not In My Name and the Good Law Project rejects the narrative that trans people take rights from women.
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
16 Nov 2025 - 60k UK women sign open letter of trans support: "We reject – completely & categorically – the discrimination & exclusion of trans ppl. Those who continue to target this minority do not speak for us or represent our interests. They never have. They never will." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Long believed (based on no data of course) if masses of trans guys started using women's room in states where they are mandated by natal sex it might undo some of these bathroom bans IMHO. Bigots always target women & conveniently forget there are plenty of trans men too! Capitol Hill anyone??
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Long believed (based on no data of course) if masses of trans guys started using women's room in states where they are mandated by natal sex it might undo some of these bathroom bans IMHO. Bigots always target women & conveniently forget there are plenty of trans men too! Capitol Hill anyone??
16 Nov 2025 -- MAGA woman in VA who allegedly worked for Charlie Kirk freaks out over trans man in pink dress using Barnes & Noble women's room: "There little girls in there!" . @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
"There's little girls in there!" Woman rages at trans man using women's restroom at Barnes & Noble - LGBTQ Nation
"This person was born a female. So they’re using the proper bathroom according to all of you guys," one person said in defense of the trans man.
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
16 Nov 2025 -- MAGA woman in VA who allegedly worked for Charlie Kirk freaks out over trans man in pink dress using Barnes & Noble women's room: "There little girls in there!" . @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
16 Nov 2025 -- As US Bishops overwhelmingly vote to cut off all affirming care for trans patients getting medical treated in Catholic hospitals Pope Leo XIV meets and dines with trans Catholic activists during annual Church Jubilee of the Poor. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Pope Leo set to dine with trans activists during Sunday's Jubilee for the Poor
Pope Leo XIV will meet and dine with Alessia Nobile and other trans Catholic activists this Sunday, during a special Vatican lunch marking the Church’s
www.thepinknews.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
16 Nov 2025 -- As US Bishops overwhelmingly vote to cut off all affirming care for trans patients getting medical treated in Catholic hospitals Pope Leo XIV meets and dines with trans Catholic activists during annual Church Jubilee of the Poor. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social