i mean yea that's all we are to them for what it's worth, i think it's beautiful that at the end of the day we're all just fags

(also if you're in chicago and you can't afford a name change or the process is overwhelming and terrifying, which was all true for me, i can't recommend the Transformative Justice Law Project enough) www.tjlp.org

the 72-year-old trans lawyer who helped me with my legal name change said something i still think about all the time she started transitioning in the goddamned 1960s, and when i asked her what that was like, she said in her thick Chicago accent, "eh, they just called us all fags"

oh my god jose gourmet's mackerel filets in curry sauce are some of the best goddamned tins of fish i've ever had

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

If you think you are reasonably informed from media coverage and you think the sports bans are fine and fair,I'm sorry to say but nearly everything you've heard on this issue from the anti side has been a complete lie. Yes even about Lia Thomas, the most lied about woman in America.

literally i posted in the *lgbt* slack channel at work at how distraught i was today and several folks were like "what happened?" even members of the "queer community" aren't following what's going on, it's so bleak we're expected to just keep working and pretending it's all fine i stg

my boss: hey so you're doing well but also you're not meeting my expectations so i want to push you more. me, recently made even less of a person by the supreme court: oh yeah no for sure totally i'll definitely do more you betcha

My god, they aren't targeting trans people just to get at other people. They are targeting trans people to target trans people. And they are targeting other people. We don't just exist as a warning for the rest of you, fuck me.

Blaming decline in support for LGBTQ existence on use the word “queer” rather then, oh, I dunno, a well-documented, concerted and broad-based Christian Nationalist movement emboldened to remake all aspects of society seems .. misplaced.

Birthright Citizenship is poised to become the next Roe v. Wade: A rallying cry for Republicans bent on revoking human rights. People claiming victory today should know that the Supreme Court gave Trump a roadmap to destroy it. My latest in @thenation.com

people like this straight up should not be allowed to participate in society. grocery stores should turn them away when they try to buy food.

Like, the people running around using AGAB terminology have done so much harm to trans people it has shaped supreme court rulings. So I will not be entertaining AGAB nonsense from people, trans or otherwise.

Now that we have liberal supreme court justices siding with conservatives on the idea that "well gender and sex are different, so sex is immutable" we really need to start policing the use of that phrase.

oh will this hurt cis people? cis people are making their bed, they can fucking lay in it. protect trans girls.

The ruling today basically unanimously declares all trans girls as boys under Title IX. This case wasn't really ever about athletes.

It's always troubling to see how little trans girls and women get centered in transphobic rulings and patterns that directly target us. "The problem is this will affect cis women" is the usual refrain, which reflects a lack of certainty about defending trans girls and women AS girls and women.

When Ezra Klein had Ta-Nehisi Coates on to discuss his book about Palestine, Klein basically called him an extremist and obliquely referred to Tareq Baconi as a terrorism-supporter, and then a year and a half later Klein is now saying exactly what Coates said but acting like it's his original ideas.

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

This gets to the root of my problem with "the problem is that it will affect cis women." The point is standing with trans women & girls RIGHT NOW is the action required to oppose this stuff. If you can't do that, responding down the line is pointless. Solidarity with trans women IS the resistance.

you do not have to immediately go “this will also hurt cis people” when there is transphobic legislation/law passed. y’all are not the targets and it is enough that we are like yes, that is a knockon effect and it is bad, but it is not the fucking point

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

Trans rights have been litigated vis a vis an intentional, choreographed strategy designed at every turn to look like an organic reaction to progress. Never forget that, especially not in the coming weeks.

“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson also wrote separately, warning that the majority went too far in declaring that Title IX’s reference to sex ‘cannot plausibly’ mean anything beyond sex assigned at birth.”

Once again, Justice Brown Jackson is the only one on the bench worth anything at all

Transness is eternal. There will be happy, fulfilled trans people that exist long after each and every one of these fuckers has long since passed. We will fight like hell for each and every one of our living and we will proceed in spiteful joy because unlike them we are building the future.

This is kind of where I'm at. After the UKSC refused to even define "biological sex" before using it to justify banishing trans people to third-sexed limbo, it became clear that the US would soon follow suit in abandoning actual reasoning while un-personing us.

We will survive this dying empire. We will defeat its lies. We will defy its power until it breaks. We will abandon nothing and no one. Every day we keep us alive is hope. Every cost we inflict weakens its hold. Every act of resistance is a chance for victory. We will not walk the coward's way.

The trans athlete cases are a mess. Here's Sotomayor: "This litigation implicates deeply sensitive, contentious, and evolving issues. These circumstances demand exercising judicial restraint, not rushing to answer conclusively difficult questions without sufficient evidentiary development. 1/?

It's ginned up bullshit and Democrats and liberals are falling for it instead of saying "Fuck you stop being weird about trans girls in sports you sprouted potatoes." Nobody fucking cared until a few years ago when Roe fell and conservaties needed another wedge issue.

Already seeing people saying that Kavanaugh's opinion that segregating trans athletes doesn't violate equal equal protection isn't partisan because he's a girls' coach who hires women athletes as clerks and people, THIS MAN IS CREDIBLY ACCUSED OF RAPE. HE'S NOT A GUARDIAN OF WOMEN. WTF?

We fucking told you. Hell, the bigots told you. Flatly and directly while cis society made its ignorance the loudest voice in the room, concerns and “won’t somebody think of the children” grown from distortion and fear. Piece by piece we’re cut back and told this was our fault for being visible.

every single trans person alive in the world today is a goddamn cutie. and the writers of this timeline are sadists. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

Between this and the EEOCs refusal to take up any cases defending trans people, I struggle to see how we have any rights in America that the majority is obligated to respect, or any avenue for redress when we are discriminated against.

Totally cool being a trans lawyer as the Supreme Court rules my community can legally be segregated without violating equal protection. Definitely doesn't send a signal to lower court judges on how they'll treat me and my clients as a result. 🫠

Notably, the three liberals did not fully dissent, and concurred that Title IX does not bar states from excluding trans athletes (Sotomayor writes "although on a narrower basis than that on which the majority relies"). They would have found that the laws violated Equal Protection, though.

Cannot stress enough what is happening at SCOTUS right now, and all of the legislation and hyperbole and rigamarole that preceded it, is all in the service of ruining the lives of about twenty people, most of whom are children.

what kind of citizenship do american trans women have when the court also says we cannot claim protection under the equal protection clause i mean, we know the answer. at least i still have my blue american passport. for now, anyway.

Clarence Thomas wrote a whole concurrence just to say that he thinks trans people don't exist. There's no extra *law* there or anything. Just fired off a couple of paragraphs to say that transgender is not a thing and people who think they're trans are crazy.

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

...and this right here is precisely what trans folks have been saying: these sports bans *have never been about sports* – they're a backdoor way to stripping trans rights more generally... bsky.app/profile/elie...

no one should be surprised that this case went this way on the whole but I would like all of y’all who are wondering why folks are frustrated with centrists democrats to think about this part — even the “liberals” on the court refuse to truly protect trans folks

will no one rid us of these six meddlesome jurists?

1/🧵 Since Michael Foran the barely literate law lecturer has been crying like a baby, I should remind everyone who this far-right agitator really is. And what his cancelled “lectures” were about. This is him calling a trans hate crime victim a sex offender.

A man who claims he is disgusted at the dehumanisation of trans people, but who has worked with those who do that.

This is who centrist Dems agree with: the conservative majority of SCOTUS.

This is always how this case was going to go. After Skrmetti last year, the Court has already decided that trans people get no rights and the state can discriminate against them as they please.