Military funding bill includes trans sports bans in military academies, is set to pass

This is explicitly genocide. Cis people, this is your call to action to kill this bill.

Cis people, we aren't many but we are always on the front lines for your rights. You need to stand on the front lines for our rights.

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US Senate pushing ban on trans healthcare, most abortions, nationwide

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in the last 5 days these laid-off VIBE staffers have only made it to 31% of their GoFundMe goal after being laid off. please show them the same support you showed Teen Vogue!!

this is not a drag of the writer of this particular piece, which is largely sympathetic, but this line of argument makes me nuts young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees

The Needle was started 2 months ago because me and @artemis.theneedlenews.com didn't see our interests reflected in the news we were reading.

I have gotten used to bad news-- for better or worse I am desensitised enough to bad news that it doesn't enrage me very often. Today, this story, was the exception. We still broke the story and did so professionally but this is really bad, folks.

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Further, the odds of this changing are very, very, very slim. Largely due to the geopolitical ramifications and the amount of hard and soft power the US still wields. Check out this article to get some ideas on other ways out. Even if asylum becomes a path, it isn't a good path.

The thing people were warning about all year just happened

Today is one of those days in the newsroom where my stress levels have raised significantly and I'm still going to do this work. Also, this appears to be yet another scoop by The Needle. EITM, Assigned Media, Trans News Network, Pink News, and LGBTQ Nation all haven't covered this yet.

So basically anyone who was adopted - cis or trans - can’t get a passport, and also my existing passport only exists validly at the largesse of the administration Who’s granting us asylum

Glad I got mine done before Trump took office; no such records have existed for me in >15 years

it’s really neat that every single lawyer that offered advice & reassurance to trans people about what would happen with their passports has been flat out wrong

You are an elite if the actions or words you put out receive feedback from multimillionaires and ranking members of government. Surely we are allowed to talk about class dictatorship in 2025, when trillionaires are on the table and the most powerful of them are implicated in child rape conspiracies?

Oh, I need to 'prove my sex at birth'? Good thing all trans people are famously known to have time machines and don't use them to go yell at their younger selves to transition earlier. Yeah, looking for mine, its around here somewhere. Maybe in the mech hangar I carry everywhere?

If you had told me this was possible two years ago, I would have told you to touch grass. We are tumbling face first into hell, and we only ever feel the flames when we look back at how far we have fallen.

Today is one of those days in the newsroom where my stress levels have raised significantly and I'm still going to do this work. Also, this appears to be yet another scoop by The Needle. EITM, Assigned Media, Trans News Network, Pink News, and LGBTQ Nation all haven't covered this yet.

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This story never got its proper due.

Banning HRT was never part of the negotiations to open up the government.

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This is horrendous for the children, and as someone who could likely only be a mom through fostering/adoption, further evidence that that's a dream that might not be possible in this country

So one of the many transphobic dogwhistles is 41%, that refers to our attempted suicide rate. RW headlines cast that as us just doing that. Pediatric and adult studies have shown that it's chronic abuse that inflates our rates of suicidality that high. This executive order is mass murder.

There's so many issues with this. 1) This is extremely damaging to queer youth 2) This is an overreach of power (afaik foster systems are state based, not federal) 3) This is a violation of trust from these institutions 4) This broke ass system barely functions and this further breaks it

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

This seems like it should be getting more attention. "The President is ordering foster service providers to place children in homes that are anti-trans and/or deeply religious, without concern for whether those family ideologies would harm the children involved."

Ah yes, because the foster care system wasn’t fucked enough as is! This is definitely what was needed to be done and far more important than a system that makes sure poor people can fucking have food to eat!

This seems like a conversion camp in disguise and it’s fucking disgusting. These kids will be abused, possibly in multiple ways! This CANNOT happen!😡😡😡

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We are one of the most petty, miserable, mean-spirited, spiteful little islands in the world. The process we force these people through is already dehumanising and a stain on the moral character of us all. And this ghoul thinks it is too generous. I'm gonna lose it. news.sky.com/story/home-s...

This is..... Not Great™️ and it effects at least 1 in 7 Americans directly.... especially with the Catholic church having regional healthcare monopolies throughout the US.

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There's something really insidious about the SCOTUS saying denying our travel documents is no different than putting country of origin information on a document.... feels very- "you are what we say you are based on birth lottery and, no, you cannot change who you are- we won't allow it"

There's something really insidious about the SCOTUS saying denying our travel documents is no different than putting country of origin information on a document.... feels very- "you are what we say you are based on birth lottery and, no, you cannot change who you are- we won't allow it"

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if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

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