I am intersex and I exist. I love my trans siblings, who also exist. Our existence, and our resistance, will outlast this administration.

Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...

There is so much context missing from the discussion of the Davis cert petition. People are understandably scared. It’s also incredibly dangerous to act like same sex marriage has already been overturned and much of the mainstream reporting is frankly irresponsible.

Mahmoud v. Taylor was an awful SCOTUS decision, an attack on the humanity of 🌈 families and on some of the basic premises of public education in a pluralistic society. But it’s not the end of the world or of inclusive education...

wrote this up for @them.us today! www.them.us/story/federa...

i think it is bad that high level public officials do not respect the offices they hold or the public they are supposed to serve

If you’d told me as a teenager that as an adult I would be publicly advocating for intersex people in my hometown paper, @inquirer.com, I wouldn’t have believed you! www.inquirer.com/life/interse...

What happened to "do no harm"? Several hospitals across the US stopped providing necessary care to consenting transgender patients. Still, they’ve spent decades refusing to stop “normalizing” intersex infants’ bodies without their consent. @transequality.bsky.social www.advocate.com/voices/donal...

NEW: We filed a complaint with the National Guard challenging President Trump's executive order prohibiting transgender people from using restrooms aligned with their gender identity in federal buildings. Everyone deserves equal access to public facilities.

Kick off World Pride with us in DC on May 17 as we unveil our Freedom to Be quilt made by trans artists from across the nation. RSVP today at aclu.org/free-to-be 🏳️‍⚧️

It’s been two months.

My first case as lead attorney at @aclu.org is now on file. As the government tries at all levels to erase LGBTQ people—and transgender people in particular—from public life, the principles we seek to uphold in this case couldn’t be more vital.

You're going to be tempted to engage in discourse focused on what Mahmoud Khalil said--was it actually antisemitic? Did he endorse Hamas?--and I cannot encourage you enough not to do that. It just doesn't matter what he said because you should not be detained and deported over what you say, period.

We coulda had the free lunches for kids guy

Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis. In 1933. (Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.) They always come for trans people first.

very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman

Trump's executive order attempts to codify a grade-school understanding of sex and biology defied by the very existence of intersex people--which is probably why it doesn't mention them at all

I am intersex and I exist. I love my trans siblings, who also exist. Our existence, and our resistance, will outlast this administration.

Big tell in this Trump order targeting trans people: "at conception"

TLDR: There is nothing enforceable for the immediate future. It will take months or years to implement this via rulemaking or bureaucratic changes which are then subject to legal challenge. While it's worrying, there's no immediate change yet for most trans people. Do not comply in advance.

BREAKING: Here is Trump's unconstitutional order seeking to restrict birthright citizenship. It takes effect in 30 days, but expect a challenge as early as tonight or tomorrow. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A colleague shared this advice for processing the executive orders Trump is going to sign next week

Lesbian representation is so important

Is this pro or anti

SG Prelogar points out that TN’s asserted interest in protecting the fertility of trans kids is inconsistent w its explicit exceptions for surgeries on intersex infants, which obviously affect their fertility. I believe this is the first mention of intersex kids at SCOTUS, ever.

LFG.

What it looked like outside Moulton's office today, curtesy of Jonathon Cohn. Democrats should not leave LGBTQ+ people behind. They are a large part of the Democratic base, a force with real voting power, and should not be taken for granted.

House Republicans will vote again next week to give Trump the power to falsely label & punish nonprofit groups he doesn’t like as “terrorist-supporting” without due process. Most Democrats opposed the measure last week, but some voted for it. If your rep is one of them, call & urge them to oppose:

Y'all know I'm going to fight. I'm going to build with communities of resistance and refusal. You'll hear from me about that, trust. But today I want to share another hot tip for survival in dark times: plan for joy. 1/x