▩▣░▒▓▖▖, ThD

Before being a jerk stop and GROWL. Is your response Goofy (irreverent), Reversing (claiming the opposite), Obverse (opposing no matter what), Withholding (implying there's more to it), Leveraged (having counters ready to any reaction). Ok, now you can be a jerk!

@RepDelBene Restrictions on what issues therapists can talk about with their clients is state mandated psychosis. As with Trump, I know as you lie about & misrepresent the small things you do the same for medium and big things too. Rocked off; rock off.

Conversion therapy is not health care & has been widely discredited by the medical community. This decision will put LGBTQ+ children in danger & have lasting impacts on their well-being. abcnews.com/Politics/supre…

@QueenMab87 I don't think it should be illegal if Kristi Noam's husband is in therapy and the therapist questions his transness; it's activists not scotus that diluted what actual conversion therapy.

SCOTUS struck down the ban on conversion therapy on free speech grounds. This seems to dilute conversion therapy to mean random speech during talk therapy rather than a specific abusive treatment.

@LeftyWinter @IfindBullshit You guys gotta think about porn's influence more when thinking about modern therapy. It's in the subtext.

Kagan wrote for her and Sotomayor and I'm still trying to comb through the odd concurring opinion. Kagan: "Once again, because the State has suppressed one side of a debate, while aiding the other, the constitutional issue is straightforward. It would, however, be less so if the law under review was content based but viewpoint neutral. Such content-based laws, as the Court explains, trigger strict scrutiny. So, for example, the law prevents a therapist from saying she can help a minor change his same-sex orientation, but permits her to say that such a goal is impossible and so she will help him accept his gay identity. Colorado does not dispute that point. Nor does it dispute that under normal First Amendment principles, that difference constitutes viewpoint discrimination Indeed, the case is textbook. The law “distinguishes between two opposed sets of ideas”—the one resisting, the other reflecting, the State’s own view of how to speak with minors about sexual orientation and gender identity. We need not here decide how to assess viewpoint-neutral laws regulating health providers’ expression because, as the Court holds, Colorado’s is not one."

Justice Jackson in her dissent on the case about conversion therapy: "It is baffling that we could now be standing on the edge of a precipitous drop in the quality of healthcare services in America. But the Court sees fit to bring us one step closer to that fate today. For the first time, the Supreme Court has interpreted the First Amendment to bless a risk of therapeutic harm to children by limiting the State’s ability to regulate medical providers who treat patients with speech. What’s next?"

@ikwofirstsrr @BasilTheGreat A better solution than all that nonsense normal people have to to just to be in public would be that those blokes, who are clearly anti-social and irredeemable, get their legs and genitals denerved.

I don't understand why those girls are acting that oblivious to the situation. I mean what happened, it's disgusting. But there is an extreme lack of awareness on part of the girls being attacked. Don't run near a train. That's just common sense and basic instinct for most adults. So these girls are lacking basic spatial awareness, even before you get to the obviously hostile attackers that they are not properly addressing. There were several obvious attempts by the attsckerd to appear innocent while attacking the girls walking by. But it happened so many times and no one appeared to notice. Even the girls. Even the girls who got hit. Maybe they assumed it was unintentional. Idk it's a really weird scene. Just too many successfully executed "unintentional" strikes in such a short time. And no one responds. I'm not sure it could even be so well executed if intentional. But the population needs to be hardened. Thede girls were never given any fight training. They don't know how to stand or walk in a hostile environment. They have never been tought to respect dangerous areas when it comes to running. So they were neglected. In how they were raised. Walk on the side furthest the train. Slow down or stop to hold your ground against oncommers who are not giving you space. Trying to continue running to the tain when there is someone obviously blocking you and then taking the train side path is stupid. Stand ground. Walk in groups. People need to not ignore their surroundings. But I hope every single attacker does or did jail time. They deserve worse. Far worse. Because people like that have no empathy and won't change. But my guess is they walked without so much as a stern look though. Just s disgusting sequence of events. One I wish I didn't have to see. I hope the girl got out okay. I've seen cases where they were not so lucky.

It's completely terrifying for young girls these days

@dilanesper @EWess92 Disallowing therapists from talking about if you're gay or just watch a lot of porn, or if you're trans or just watch a lot of porn, is not about practicing medicine.

@EWess92 Nope. Not at all. The right in Skrmetti and Dobbs isn't the right to practice medicine.

This is a really bad rap. Skrmetti is an equal protection case that involves drugs. Chiles is a first amendment case that involves words. There's no inconsistency here (on either side, for that matter). They're different!

@KevinSabellico Allowing therapists to discuss self-sterilization, or about the client's negative feelings about the client's sexual self, is not the same as any of that. 💫

Justice Jackson got this one right. One case she didn’t mention but makes her point very well: a judge recently upheld a ban on nurse practitioners who hold doctorate degrees from calling themselves “doctor.” Setting standards for medical has never been subject to the same analysis as speech laws because they are not speech laws. ama-assn.org/practice-manag…

@MassGovernor 100 years ago scotus said forced sterilization was ok. Today it said a therapist talking to a client about the client not going down a path to sterilization is ok. It's a bit different ya?

Let’s be clear: conversion therapy is dangerous. It doesn’t work—and it can cause real harm, especially to kids. To the LGBTQ+ community: your health and safety are non-negotiable. I see you, I value you, and as your governor, I will protect you.

WOW, Justice Jackson comes out in support of Dobbs and against Roe/Casey.

@USConstAmendIX True, states have historically had minimum qualifications, but they haven't dictated people’s viewpoints. Also, historically medicine considered homosexuality a mental disorder. CO’s and the dissent’s reasoning would mean states can ban therapy that *affirms* homosexuality.

@hillarytaylorvi @CAgovernor Jackson argues the same argument as those who would force every schoolchild to salute the flag. Sicko! Totalitarian! Statist! Take your monstrous overexertion police powers into yourself, and let that abuse you would extend upon others temper you thoroughly!

@CAgovernor exactly. so sad that the supreme court is filled with 8 religious activists. justice ketanji is the only constitutionalist we have.

Conversion therapy is discredited junk science that inflicts harm on LGBTQ youth. The Supreme Court’s decision is disappointing and puts vulnerable kids at risk.

@dots_jenny @BerthonJeanMarc @Marina_Ferrari @ILGAWORLD @francediplo @fs_lgbt @stop_homophobie You'll regret those words! When trans are in the olympics competing in their sex class not only in safety but celebrated, you too will cheer in smug satisfaction, as if your current foolishness is not the same as that French Marina, who also will cheer smugly!

@bleiu55 @BerthonJeanMarc @Marina_Ferrari @ILGAWORLD @francediplo @fs_lgbt @stop_homophobie Oh, I see. You're just a moron. Noted.

Following the attempt to rehabilitate Russia, the @IOC has now decided to exclude from the Olympic Games those with variations in sexual characteristics and to impose femininity tests on female athletes that contravene both the law and ethical principles. France, through its minister Marina Ferrari, has expressed its deep concern.

@USA_Polling The soul of a cop. A police state cop.

Thank you Ketanji for being the only justice with a soul apparently

@PlunkingOtter Begs the question why trad trans women need to compete in the women's division, if women don't need it. Also in the Olympics for a while now men's has been an open category wrt sex.

Yes. She really wrote this.

@Scott_Wiener You're a cop, police state Weiner, all hot dog and probably some donuts too 😑. 🚓🌭🚓👮‍♂️🍩👮‍♂️🚔🚨🚨🚨

The Supreme Court just struck down Colorado’s law banning the psychological torture of LGBTQ youth, aka conversion therapy. Colorado’s law is similar to CA’s. We anticipated this ruling, so I introduced SB 934, which makes it much easier for LGBTQ people to bring malpractice claims against those who inflict this torture on them, including with a much longer statute of limitations for kids who’ve been harmed. The Supreme Court majority opinion explicitly states that malpractice claims for conversion therapy are different than bans. You can’t “convert” someone who’s LGBTQ — full stop — & people who think you can are peddling quackery. California will always have the community’s back.

My thinkology is not nor has ever been "on the clock" it has always been, and shall remain, over the clock, though the clock, under the clock, without the clock, obversely inverse to the clock etc. Justice Jackson? Jackson is non-stop always-overtime pro-police-state pro-cop.

@scotus_wire A good liberal and anti-conservative ruling. The right is desperate for paedop to be recognized as an unassailable sexual orientation and statutory rape to be de-statutized, they're blowing off at Jackson in the comments bc she failed to convince the other justices.

🚨 In an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court holds that Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy,” as applied to petitioner's talk therapy, violates the First Amendment because it constitutes viewpoint discrimination

@dots_jenny @BerthonJeanMarc @Marina_Ferrari @ILGAWORLD @francediplo @fs_lgbt @stop_homophobie I don't believe I was having a stroke when I wrote that, and not now either, and I do still believe it will be a welcomed 'egg-on-face' moment for progressive types when trad trans women and certain 'intersex' athletes are finally after all this time competing in men's sport.

@bleiu55 @BerthonJeanMarc @Marina_Ferrari @ILGAWORLD @francediplo @fs_lgbt @stop_homophobie Are you having a stroke?

@Zendaya_Updated Very cute and fun, what a delight too that everyone commenting seems to be just as bitter and misanthropic as I am. A commune of filth, for we are disgusted.

Zendaya & Robert Pattinson when a comment on jealousy from their partners (Tom Holland & Suki Waterhouse) was made: "I don't think they are, at all!"

@catpoopburglar Not an academic book but Fire & Water by Barbara Lyons is a fun collection of tales from Maui.

you need to be folkloremaxxing