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Hey John, This is Artemis, Editor in Chief @ The Needle News! We're a trans owned and operated news and culture paper. Thank you for subscribing to our newsletters!
Here is your Weekly NRT! Up first, we have a report on a bill racing through the Kansas legislature that would invalidate the IDs of trans people, and force them to use IDs with inaccurate gender markers. - The bill has more than enough support to become law as it stands.
- If enacted, if would be the most draconian piece of anti-trans legislation in the US in the 21st century.
Jane writes that "The government of Kansas is making it clear that it intends to make its trans population as distinct from the cis population as it can make them."
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Artemis wrote on a paper analyzing trans people's affinity for werewolves, and also interviewed the author of the paper. The interview is below: Jane did a report on the Trump Administration changing the United State's foreign aid rules to ban funding from being used to support trans people, with the justification that it is to fight "Gender Ideology" Lastly, I want to give attention to local news covering the Kansas anti-trans bills. https://kansasreflector.com/2026/01/28/this-bill-spits-on-basic-human-decency-kansas-legislature-passes-bathroom-ban-without-hearing/ Thank you for being a supporter of The Needle. We'll be back next Friday with another dose of News Replacement Therapy.
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