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Slate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/transgender-rights-trump-administration-is-considering-new-rules-to-flat-out-deny-trans-identity.html - "reads the memo, according to the Times."
Vox: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/21/18005594/trump-administration-transgender-sex-dna-test - "Erica Green, Katie Benner, and Robert Pear of the New York Times reported on Sunday"
We're still monosourced from The New York Times reporting an anonymous memo from six months ago.
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@kistaro
Hey, just wanted to say /thank you/ for this. I try to be skeptical but don't always have the stamina to follow upon research. I'm really glad that you're doing the opposite of imminent-doom speculation. We desperately need more of that on here and anywhere.
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@kistaro
I understand that fear, yeah. But a voice of /sanity/ is invaluable these days. If the news might still turn out to be bad, I'd rather save my reactions for things like this actually /happening/.
(I know, there's that argument of "we can't protest it if it's already in place", and I don't know what to do there. I'm not against preemptive action, only rampant doomsaying.)