This week we discuss the MAGA look, the low-down dirty tactics of Maine legislators, the sophistry of psychotic professors, and the moral dilemma of patronizing businesses that use WPATH’s standards of care to inform their medical benefits policies.

* MAGA aesthetics

* The Psychology of Totalitarianism

* An Abundance of Caution

* Maine LD380

* All of Us Strangers

* Histories of the Transgender Child

* Jules Gill-Peterson in NY Times

* Transgender Studies Quarterly

* TERF Industrial Complex

* Starbucks trans insurance

* availability heuristic

* Chick-fil-A kale crunch salad

* Meghan Daum and Richard Rushfield

* Max Richter world tour

* Nespresso Vertuo

* Julia Mason in the Economist

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