Hacker News with Generative AI: Transgender Issues

A Gutted Ed Dpt's New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Target Transgender Students (propublica.org)
In California, the federal government was deep into an investigation of alleged racial discrimination at a school district where, a parent said, students called a Black peer racial slurs and played whipping sounds from their cellphones during a lesson about slavery. Then the U.S. Department of Education in March suddenly closed the California regional outpost of its Office for Civil Rights and fired all its employees there. That investigation and others went silent.

Education, Civil Rights, Transgender Issues, Government Investigations

10 points by frumper 18 days ago | 0 comments

Education Department Is Threatening to Cut All Federal Funding for Maine Schools (nytimes.com)
The Department of Education said on Friday that it was moving to cut off all federal funding for Maine’s public schools because the state had ignored President Trump’s executive order banning transgender athletes from girls’ sports teams.

Education, Politics, Lawsuits, Transgender Issues, Maine

16 points by pmags 42 days ago | 23 comments

White House orders NIH to research trans 'regret' and 'detransition' (npr.org)
The Trump administration has ordered the National Institutes of Health to study the physical and mental health effects of undergoing gender transition, according to an internal NIH memo obtained by NPR.

Politics, Healthcare, Transgender Issues, Research

12 points by justin66 42 days ago | 15 comments

The Situation: On Rudeness (lawfaremedia.org)
The New York Times reports today that a “Republican lawmaker abruptly adjourned a congressional hearing on Tuesday after being challenged for referring to Representative Sarah McBride, Democrat of Delaware and the first openly transgender lawmaker in Congress, as a man.”

Politics, Transgender Issues, Media, Congress

5 points by hn_acker 71 days ago | 1 comments

Waterloo math genius died in shootout after joining vegan transgender death cult (therecord.com)
A friend says she warned Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt about the dangers of becoming involved with the “Zizians,” a cultlike group linked to six homicides, including the January shootout with border agents in Vermont that claimed the lives of Bauckholt and an officer.

Crime, Cults, Transgender Issues

14 points by cf100clunk 91 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online (t4t.social)

Transgender Issues, Community Building, Social Media

484 points by t4t 121 days ago | 344 comments

Meta's dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people (platformer.news)
"A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it," reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram