Conversation Starter: How Can We Be the Light for Others?

Perhaps a silver lining in this day of hate and corruption masquerading as patriotism is the crashing realization that one day we will leave this world. Many will stumble upon a very uncomfortable discovery that their friends and neighbors would not be so very sad to see them go.

I write this today having found out that my neighbor passed away last night. She was one of those people who very acerbically met life on her own terms: loud, bitching about seeming everything, but loving anyone in need and being one of the funniest people I’ve every met – if unintentionally. And, further, she liked my dog and my dog liked her, so –

I recently had the opportunity to watch some of the interview/debate of Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Ben Shapiro’s show. Ben was really trying to push this idea that Neil could speak on the science of transsexuals’ gender, etc. One of the greatest things I took from that was Neil asking him what he was really attempting to accomplish with his banging of the gong? ‘We supposedly live in a free country. No one is obliged to be more masculine or more feminine for you, and they have no right to ask it of you’, he said.

That one line from Neil completely changed how I heard the interview. I realized that Ben spoke with a quickness and decisiveness that projected strength to those who are desperate to hear it – but was really a desperation to control something that wasn’t his to control. I found myself asking Neil’s questions of Ben, and others who seem intent to dictate how people live, how people love. What drives this desperation to dominate others? What is in that morning mirror that scares people so that the only way they can manage is to be sure others meet their rules and expectations rather than find their own?

When I think on those people like Ben Shapiro, Donald Trump, Marjory Taylor Green, Mike Lindell, Rudy Giuliani, Jeff Sessions, their lives are often filled with beautiful arm candy, money, and a dark heart that destroys them in time. Like a poison they’ve taken in, living a life of hate and corruption seems for them like a recipe for eventual disaster. But, like moths to a flame, repeatedly do these people line up to destroy their peace, their credibility, their future until only regret and hate visit them.

As a country, we lost something special and unique when Donald Trump became more than just a spectator and buyer of the political tragedy. Somehow ignorance became a virtue, and being loud meant you were right. Intelligent conversation and caring about others became synonymous with communism, or whatever the boogieman is now. Somehow we in America are supposed to despise the poor and glorify the wealthy, told it is the height of patriotism. We lost our light, and now it seems we can only find our path by blindly swinging at those stuck with us in this morass.

-randy

Neo-Nazi leader admits drag story hour stunt amounted to anti-LGBTQ civil rights violation, N.H. attorney general says

I do not think the punishment fits the crime here.  These people tried to stop other people from exercising their civil rights simply due to the bigotry and hate of the oppressors.  Hate doesn’t give people the right to stop people from gathering or enjoying legal activities.  These haters got away with it.  That will simply encurage others to do the same thing over and over until they drive those they hate underground and out of the public view. Which is what these haters want to accomplish: remove those they hate from society.  Hugs


https://archive.ph/zxplS#selection-1211.0-1211.118

The group behind the incident, NSC-131, will be permanently barred from ‘unlawful discriminatory practices’ in the state, if a judge approves

By Steven Porter Globe Staff,Updated July 31, 2026, 25 minutes ago
In this file photo, Christopher R. Hood Jr. appears at West Roxbury Municipal Court on July 25, 2022, when he was 23 years old. Hood founded the Nationalist Social Club 131 in 2019.In this file photo, Christopher R. Hood Jr. appears at West Roxbury Municipal Court on July 25, 2022, when he was 23 years old. Hood founded the Nationalist Social Club 131 in 2019.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
The founder of a neo-Nazi group that sent masked men to protest outside a 2023 drag queen story hour event in Concord, N.H., has admitted their anti-LGBTQ intimidation tactics amounted to a civil rights violation, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office announced Thursday.
Christopher R. Hood Jr. of Newburyport, Mass., and his group, the Nationalist Social Club-131, or NSC-131, will be permanently barred by court order from engaging in any further unlawful discriminatory practices, if a judge accepts the deal. Anyone who violates those terms could face further sanctions.
Hood, 27, will be required to complete 250 hours of community service and pay $2,500 in civil penalties, plus another $7,500 if he violates the terms of the court’s order, according to a motion filed by prosecutors. He’ll also be barred from coming within 250 feet of the eatery where this occurred or any other Teatotaller Café location.
The core allegation in this case was that Hood, his organization, and 19 unnamed co-defendants — who directed intimidating chants and homophobic slurs at those inside the establishment, performed Nazi salutes, and banged on the cafe’s glass windows — had sought to compel a place of public accommodation to engage in unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
“No individual or organization has the right to threaten, intimidate, or coerce a New Hampshire business into violating the law or denying lawful access based on protected characteristics,” Attorney General John M. Formella said in a statement.
 
“This resolution delivers accountability and sends the message that organized hate group activity that violates the law will not be tolerated,” he added.
The attorneys who represented the defendants in this case, Bradford Ryan Stanton and William E. Gens, didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Formella said certain terms under the agreement apply to NSC-131 as an unincorporated association. For example, the group will be permanently barred from all unlawful discriminatory practices and will be prohibited from coming within 250 feet of any location that’s part of the Teatotaller Café business, which has since rebranded as Totally Tea and Coffee.
That means an individual who didn’t participate in the 2023 incident could theoretically be subjected to the terms of this agreement in the future, if there is evidence of their affiliation with NSC-131, he said.
The motion Formella’s office filed with the court indicates NSC-131 has disbanded and Hood has stated he intends to discontinue his involvement with that group and other organized hate activity.
Formella told the Globe that securing a victory in which the defendant admitted wrongdoing represents a significant achievement.
“It was worth it, I think, in the greater context of our civil rights efforts to get that admission,” he said.
This wasn’t Formella’s first attempt to clamp down on NSC-131’s activity. His office filed a complaint in early 2023 alleging the group had committed civil rights violations by hanging a “Keep New England White” banner from a Portsmouth overpass in 2022. But the New Hampshire Supreme Court ultimately ruled in early 2025 that the prosecution was unconstitutional on free-speech grounds.
Formella’s office filed the second case against Hood and NSC-131, regarding the Teatotaller incident, in late 2023.
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell also filed a complaint in late 2023 against Hood, NSC-131, and a group leader named Liam McNeil of Waltham, Mass., over incidents involving LGBTQ events and immigrants in emergency shelters. That case is still pending, according to court records. 
Hood was formerly part of Patriot Front and the Proud Boys before he founded NSC-131 in late 2019. The members of his group disrupted or shut down several drag queen story events in Massachusetts in 2022, according to the lawsuit. Members of the group regularly wore khaki pants, black shirts or jackets, and ski masks, balaclavas, and neck gaiters to hide their identities.
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Steven Porter can be reached at steven.porter@globe.com. Follow him @reporterporter.

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🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ has officially handed over UNREDACTED Epstein-related records directly to federal Judge Emmet Sullivan for private review following a court order in MeidasTouch host Katie Phang’s lawsuit.

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-07-30T19:51:19.119Z

 

 

 

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Trump ‘exasperated’ on Iran as top officials can’t agree on strategy, sources say nbcnews.to/4wxIUwB

Meet the Press (@meetthepress.com) 2026-07-30T10:00:24Z

 

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JUST NOW — Schumer Interrupted: “What could be more corrupt than backing genocide? How dare you talk about corruption. It’s amazing you can show your genocidal face in public!”

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2026-07-30T17:32:00.155Z

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For the first time, coal supplied less than 50% of China’s electricity.

The China-Global South Project (@chinagsproject.bsky.social) 2026-07-30T08:48:03.721Z

 

 

 

 

 

Christian Supremacy shows its ugly face to the Northern Arapaho Tribe!

I had my allergy shots this morning. I’m in agony right now.  Not from the shots, but from the pain in my back muscles as they spaum.  Every since I have had the operation on my lower back to reduce the pain in my right leg, the pain in my back from the rest of the back muscles spasuming is out of control.  When I saw the surgeon this week, he looked and noticed how badly swollen the mucles were and agreed that I needed immediate relief from the situation I was in. He put in for mucle relaxing trigger point injections to relax the mucles. But other than lying down and taking muscle relaxers, there is little I can do at this point. I do have a hot tub, but if I push Ron to open it and get it ready to work, he will have to stop the work on the rest of the projects, including my new office, which I really need finished. So I suffer and often go to bed.  

This video is a great way to talk about how to deal with Christian nationalist bigotry and the forcing of Christian religion on others who have different beliefs.  In fact I read a post while waiting for my shots about a new trend of Christian evangelicals going on airplanes and forcing those in the plane to listen to sermons and preach about the Christian god.  I don’t get this, but I experienced something similar in the military, where a sect of Christians would try to cornor me every time I sat down for a meal in the chow hall to eat they would swarm my table demanding I listen to them talk about their god.  It did not make me feel better about their faith nor did it make me less gay, which was their real goal.  In fact when I returned the gesture to talk to them about my beliefs, they got really offended. Strange how they think pushing their religion goes only one way in their minds.  The thing is they know religion is a protected class where sexual orientation is not, but some friends and I came up with a good way to discourage them.  We would listen to their spiel if they listened to ours first.  We then spun them a made up religion on the house of Approditie, a religion based on having sex and being body worshippers. They got so grossed out over having to discuss the sex and nudity that they stopped pushing their shit on me.  I wonder if it would work today on the religions and indiscretions you hear about in the news.   Hugs.  


 

 

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Morning Digest: Darline Graham may be Trump's choice, but she doesn't have an easy path to a full termopen.substack.com/pub/thedownb…

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BREAKING WSJ:The Trump admin plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans — a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.

Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2026-07-28T20:20:15.076Z

 

🚨WATCH: Rand Paul TORCHES Fauci for refusing to testify: "It's against the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress. There WILL be repercussions to your refusal to testify today."

Daily Caller (@dailycaller.bsky.social) 2026-07-29T13:51:58Z

 

 

Sen. Roger Marshall: "Who didn't have a friend who took this vaccine and had some time of complication? A stroke, a blood clot, a young man getting some type of heart inflammation. That's what destroyed the trust in the American people for our government."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-29T12:09:49.807Z

 

Watching Laura Ingraham make faces at Fauci's hearing while listening to Laura Ingraham complain about other people making faces

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Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU

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FOX: Xi told you that China would not give or sell Iran any weapons. There's a new report that Iran is about to get 400 rocket launchers from China–TRUMP: Well, that would be surprising. Things like that happen.

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-29T19:42:10.879Z

Trump on China, Russia and Iran.Fooling this guy, again…..

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Today’s cartoons / memes / news post. Updates on post7-29-2026

My apologies to everyone on today’s post that was to go out today. I tried; I really did try.  I got up full of energy and made lunch, breakfast, lunch, and supper while working on the post.  But the more I tried to do stuff, the more pain I ran head-on into.  So I gave up and went to bed late at night, after 7 PM, and I got up at 3 am to finish. But as I sat in my chair, I just couldn’t accomplish anything to get everything done.  I really tried. So when Ron got up, O made him and I breakfast, and we enjoyed that.  I made potatoes, bacon, sausage, and fried potatoes I made the night before.  But no matter how hard I tried, the more pain I was in.  Then the pain got so bad I had to go to bed in agony. I slept for most of the morning after 8 a.m. Then I got back up at noon and tried again.  But then I tried again. Every time the pain built, I had to get back up to move from the desk.  So I decided maybe moving to doing the laundry while working might help.  It did not.  It is 4 pm and I just cannot do it today. I just couldn’t sit at my desk and the more I tried, the more I needed pain medications, which made me more tired.  So I am giving up.  I will schedule the post for the morning. I do apologize; there is simply nothing I can do. I just had surgery last Tuesday to help with the pain in my back and the damage to my spine.  As they say, the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.  I love doing the posts; I love not onlyly putting them out for everyone, but it sometimes gets to be too much. Especially during the middle of the week.  But tomorrow I have an appointment with my surgeon, and the surgery went well.  So I will make the post extra long to make up for the lack of the posts today and yesterday.

Oh, since I have been back on my feet, I have been trying to do more to help Ron so he can do more to rebuild the house. That means more laundry, more housework, and more meals. Hugs.    Scottie.  

WSJ: Trump Admin To End Medicare Drug Subsidies

July 28, 2026

The Wall Street Journal reports:

The Trump administration plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans, a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.

The move will eliminate a program that is giving insurance companies an estimated $3.6 billion in subsidies this year to blunt increases in premiums for the Medicare prescription plans, known as Part D. The program will end after 2026, according to administration officials.

High drug costs are a perennial issue—especially for seniors on fixed incomes—and healthcare affordability is expected to be a focus in the midterm elections. Roughly 25 million people have Part D plans, and they will learn about their 2027 rates in the fall. Medicare drug coverage premiums are rising because the plans have been hit by growing expenses for GLP-1 medications and other specialty drugs.

Read the full article.

 

BREAKING WSJ:The Trump admin plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans — a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.

Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2026-07-28T20:20:15.076Z

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share bonus. 7-29-2026

NEW: UK journalists are self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fearsGovernment-backed investigation finds risks are normalised in newsrooms.The abuse now means some journalists are changing what they write about…Grim findings:www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j…

Michael Savage (@michaelsavage.bsky.social) 2026-07-26T07:33:15.961Z

Trump’s $400 million luxury jet turned Air Force One is the largest foreign bribe to an American president in history. It’s also a massive national security threat, as we’ve warned for months.

Chuck Schumer (@schumer.senate.gov) 2026-07-20T18:48:10.754Z

Taylor Farms contributed $2 million to Trump & Republicans as they postponed a rule to help the govt. limit the spread of foodborne illnesses.Read @premthakker.bsky.social's deep dive into how Taylor Farms' successful lobbying led to the current outbreak of cyclospora: zeteo.com/p/taylor-far…

Zeteo (@zeteo.com) 2026-07-25T19:07:29.836Z

NEW: Republicans see ‘scary’ lack of enthusiasm among core voters ahead of midterms. @washingtonpost.com From Liz Goodwin and Ben Binday. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…

Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty.bsky.social) 2026-07-26T10:28:13.835Z

By GEIR MOULSON BERLIN (AP) — German investigators were searching Sunday for a man suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival, killing one person and injuring several people before apparently stabbing…

The Mercury News (@mercurynews.com) 2026-07-26T16:23:26.554Z

Suspect in Berlin Pride attack shot dead by police in Berlin suburb, broadcaster says reut.rs/44Uwx1o

Reuters (@reuters.com) 2026-07-26T17:25:10Z

A MAGA activist who is currently a Heritage Foundation staffer was stopped from entering a Senate office building after authorities say they found ammunition and suspected drugs in his briefcase. http://www.notus.org/congress/her…

Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 2026-07-25T21:14:30.727Z

HOMAN: I wouldn't say that mistakes were made. We'll see.BASH: Well, we've seen with our own eyes that mistakes were made. Deadly mistakes were made. At least 5 of them.

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-26T13:22:22.774Z

ICE is murdering people because the Trump regime wants ICE to murder people.If the regime didn't want ICE to murder people, it would publicly crack down on ICE agents who murder people.But the regime doesn't. Because it wants ICE to murder people.

Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) 2026-07-26T16:25:43.322Z

AWFUL. Ordering ICE to target an ethnic group the president has repeatedly attacked is bigotry as official government policy.TPS recipients are the most vetted immigrants here. They have to pass background checks every 18 months. Most Haitians with TPS entered legally also!

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2026-07-26T14:50:08.304Z

Top U.S. military commander in Middle East advised halting Hormuz bombing http://www.axios.com/2026/07/26/h…

Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) 2026-07-26T17:33:20.178Z

WSJ’s Josh Dawsey got to see unreleased footage from years of a documentarian’s inside access to Lindsey Graham. It’s filled with giddy, war-hungry stuff like this:(Gift link below)

Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) 2026-07-26T12:43:25.204Z

As Trump boosts nuclear power, regulators seek to eliminate a longstanding radiation safety rule abcnews.com/Health/wireS…

Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) 2026-07-26T14:10:56.367Z

Polish president vetoes bills to recognize same-sex couples

I remember when the religious people claimed same sex marriage would be giving special rights to gays / lesbians that straight people did not have. As if straight people couldn’t already marry who they loved.  Now the bigots openly admit it is entirely about keeping special rights and privileges for themselves.  And same gender couples harm no one and cause no lack of status or dignity for the joining in the legal partnership of marriage.  The real reasons that most of the bigots claim that marriage is only for straight male / female pairings are religious in nature as if marriage did not exist before Christianity got involved with it.  That is crazy and they know it.  People were pairing up long before the Christian church decided to make females male property. Again the bigots like to claim that female / male couples are best for children and the bedrock of society which denies the truth of well documented studies and data.  The fact is studies have shown that the children of same gender couples do as well if not even better than the children of opposite gender couples.  And societies were formed, grew, and functioned very well without the need for such strict gender conforming couples.  It is just uninformed bigotry of a religious nature and the desperate need not to extend equal rights to everyone.   Hugs


https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/polish-president-vetoes-bills-to-recognize-same-couples/

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Alex Bollinger (He/Him)July 22, 2026, 9:00 am EDT

The president of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, vetoed two bills last week that would have extended recognition to same-sex couples.

The bills would have created “cohabitation contracts,” according to Reuters, which would have given some legal recognition to same-sex couples when it comes to medical information, property rights, and funeral arrangements.

The bills were part of reforms promised when Prime Minister Donald Tusk took office in 2023, which included measures regarding LGBTQ+ people’s rights and abortion. The current ruling coalition in parliament is considered liberal and pro-European.

Nawrocki, though, ran as an independent in 2025 after having been chosen as the candidate for the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, moving the country to the right. He said that the cohabitation contracts were too similar to marriage.


LGBTQ+ rights advocates denounced the vetoes. The organization Campaign Against Homophobia said that the bills were “merely a fragment” of what they wanted to get when it comes to domestic partnership rights in the country.

“Today’s veto of the bill, however, shows that even the absolute minimum of rights the bill was intended to provide is too much for the president,” the group said.

Former Equality Minister and New Left Member of Parliament Katarzyna Kotula said Nawroicki “turned his back on 2 million people living today in informal relationships.”

Earlier this year, a gay couple who traveled to Berlin to get married won the right in court to have their marriage recognized in Poland.

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A veteran online reporter, Alex Bollinger has been covering LGBTQ+ news since the Bush administration. He’s now the editor-in-chief of LGBTQ Nation. He has a Masters in Economic Theory and Econometrics from the Paris School of Economics. He lives in Montpellier.

The UK’s new plan for trans students: bathroom bans, forced outing, & no social transitions

More hate and bigotry enacted against all the medical safety data available.  Guess I am just not being understanding today because these laws are not only not needed but also very harmful.  They cause a lot more problems than the pretended harm they claim to solve.  It is the attempt to regulate and restrict sexual / gender standards into the laws.  It just causes kids and people problems for no reason and promotes anger / bigotry against a small minority of people.   Hugs

 


https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/the-uks-new-plan-for-trans-students-bathroom-bans-forced-outing-no-social-transitions/

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Faefyx Collington (They/Them)July 19, 2026, 11:00 am EDT

The United Kingdom’s Department of Education has published its updated guidance for “Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026” (KCSIE) and it will take effect on September 1. However, the guidance is likely to put trans and gender-non-conforming children at greater risk.

“We criticise numerous aspects of the guidance, especially as to how schools should approach requests related to ‘social transition,’” The Good Law Project wrote in a statement responding to the draft guidance earlier this year. “We also emphasise its failure to properly explain how schools should accommodate the needs of trans pupils in accessing various aspects of school life, such as toilets, changing facilities, and sports.”

Last year, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act, the legal definition of “woman” is based on “biological sex.” In the aftermath, the Equality and Human Rights Commission released temporary guidance on barring trans people from single-sex spaces. They’ve now released their finalized plan, which says that businesses and institutions should prevent trans people using a single-sex spaces, and that if they allow trans people to use them, they will no longer be considered single-sex spaces.

The aggressive new schools guidance set out in KCSIE is set to comply with the EHRC’s updated policies around single-sex spaces, ruling that trans and gender-questioning children cannot use spaces aligned with their gender identity, even if they have socially transitioned.


“Schools must not allow children into toilets designated for the opposite biological sex,” the guidance reads. “This includes where schools are responding to a request to support any degree of social transition for children who are questioning their gender.”

The same policy is applied to changing rooms for those over 11 years old, nor should the students “share overnight accommodation with a child of the opposite biological sex,” it states.

The guidance allows for single-use restrooms “if a gender-questioning child does not want to use the toilet designated for their biological sex.” However, there is no actual requirement for this, but only the suggestion that “schools and colleges should consider whether they can provide an alternative toilet facility—for example self-contained individual toilets—without compromising the provision of single-sex facilities.”

When it comes to all of these arrangements, the guidance clearly states, “These alternative arrangements should not compromise the safety, comfort, privacy or dignity of the child, or of any other children.”

However, such arrangements in their own right will challenge the safety and dignity of trans children. One plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s bathroom bill died by suicide earlier this year. Before her death she said of similar provisions, “It is scary having to look around before to see if anyone will see me going into the single-user restroom, as I worry about people gossiping and speculating about me being transgender.”

When it comes to social transition at school, the guidance advises against staff and teachers supporting it, citing concerns raised in the controversial Cass Review. The guidance sets out extensive hurdles before any member of staff at a school or colleges can be supportive of a social transition.

The guidance establishes that “parents and carers should be actively involved and their views treated with importance.” That rule alone amounts to a forced outing policy that could put trans children at risk of harm if their family are not supportive. While the guidance goes on to carve out an exception for “rare circumstances” where involving parents and carers could pose a “greater risk,” such a policy would require a lot of trust and a careful hand from school administrators who are inexperienced with such matters.

The possibility of the school deciding not to allow the social transition is not only laid out but encouraged. The guidance notes that “when considering a child’s request for support with social transition will be to consider what is in the best interests of the child and other children, and a decision relating to social transition may not be the same as a child’s wishes.” They also note that, for younger children, support for a social transition should be “agreed very rarely.”

More of the choice is taken away from trans children and their families with the note that for “pre-pubertal children” clinical involvement should be part of the decision-making process and that “should include advising on the risks and benefits of social transition as a planned intervention, referencing best available evidence. This is not a role that can be undertaken by staff without appropriate clinical training.”

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Faefyx Collington is a British American author who writes about LGBTQ+ issues, politics, popular culture, and their intersection. You can find Faefyx Collington on socials and the wider internet by googling their unique name.