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Thanks for being a subscriber of The Needle. Here is your Weekly NRT!

To start, here's our 5 of our most popular articles this week.

#1 - The Needle covered the Senate Republicans attempting to de facto ban trans healthcare by ending public funding towards it as part of their attempt to replace the ACA subsidies with something else. (This attempt was defeated in the Senate, scroll down for our specific coverage on that.)






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#2 - Our coverage of a politically connected student succeeding at getting a trans graduate student and TA removed from her post as a TA. The student is the daughter of a lawyer who defended J6 rioters.






Oklahoma: Trans Instructor Suspended After Student Called Her Peers ‘Demonic’ in a Poor Quality Essay Which Cited No Sources
The suspension appears to be a response to calculated right-wing attacks. By Jane Migliara Brigham Yesterday, a trans i…


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#3 - The Needle was the first pro-trans outlet to cover the Irish NGS closing its waitlist due to lack of resources. The other coverage in public broadcasting and mainstream media has, so far, failed to mention the connection between the Irish gender clinic's top physician and the UK's Cass report.






Irish National Gender Service closes waiting list due to chronic and deliberate underfunding
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#4 - The Needle covered how the recent military funding bill was set to ban trans people's participation in sports within the military and its academies while also legally codifying Trump's executive definition of 'biological sex' (which has since passed in the House and awaits Senate approval)






Military funding bill includes trans sports bans in military academies, is set to pass
The bill would be both the first federal trans sports ban, and also codify sex as only referring to how people were bor…


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#5 - The Needle was able to provide a fact and framing check on the Pink News coverage of the UK Women's Institute banning trans women from membership in a reversal of decades-long policy.






Stop using trans men to make a point about the exclusion of trans women
There is only one decent option for dealing with trans people in gendered spaces: let us go where we feel we belong. An…


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Good News! Trans youth healthcare ban defeated in the Senate
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Brazil: Rio’s Pride Parade Isn’t What It Should Be, But There’s Some Value In Fun
So, I went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s 30th Pride Parade in November…


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KOSA hearing shows broad support for censoring children’s access to the internet
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Minnesota Court of Appeals expands legal precedent for faith-based discrimination
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Interview: Zoey Carter Talks Small Town Progressive Politics
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The Egg Prime Directive is Bullshit
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HRT Blocked by Red Tape in Florida, Even for People who Still Qualify
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Review- Persona Combines Horror with Mundanity
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Ireland: Bill Decriminalizing Sex Work to be Introduced
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Interview- Director of Trans Rescue Discusses the Closing Jaws in the United States, and How to Get Out
You can get out. Everybody can get out.


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