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This chilling response underscores an uncomfortable reality: Immigrants do not live in isolation.

Any form of restricting access to gender-affirming care will have a “chilling” effect on health care for transgender and gender-diverse people, said Dr. Alex Keuroghlian, the director of the Division of Public and Community Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Procedural democracy has no meaningful constituency in the United States of America, which is chilling.

The complaint stems from charges filed in 2021 by Ashley Gjovik, a former senior engineering program manager at the company, who claimed that an email sent by Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, in which he pledged to punish employees who leaked company information, had a chilling effect on workers’ discussions of pay equity and discrimination.

That chilling vision of the presidency happens to align almost perfectly with that endorsed by the majority of the Supreme Court when it awarded Trump sweeping criminal immunity last July.