265
The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons
(transitics.substack.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
265 points (98.9% liked)
LGBTQ+
4628 readers
533 users here now
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
What is the advantage? The article explains the context much better than the PDF and contains a link to the document in the first paragraph.
If I see a link to a copy of the document, it makes me doubt the validity of the information. If I don't have the time or energy to verify it, I'll just disregard it and move on. But if I see an "original" copy linked, it's a lot easier for me to trust and verify.
That is a fair point on a personal level, but many people (myself included) appreciate a digested version of an official document and additional context for it provided by a journalistic article. Overall there is no reason to disbelief the detailed information provided in the article and assume that the reporter faked the document, unless someone wants to cast doubt on the unjustifiable treatment of trans people by the Trump government.
They're saying the link at the start of the article should have just been the official link. There's no point in having it downloaded and linked to another website (including it in addition as an archive would make sense though). Downloading it and reuploading it could be entirely fake or modified. So you have to dig around for the original.
Yeah, basically this. Thanks!