This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

They'll just get them online, their parents medicine cabinet, or friends. They aren't going to stop access, only safe access to hormones. Trans people have been getting access to hormones via nonmedical pathways for over half a century.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

I just sent a @Leadnowca.bsky.social letter to senators to Vote YES to lower the voting age. Bill S222 is on a razor's edge of passongtthe senate, making your voice powerful. Send one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/bill...

If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!

No one could have seen this coming! 😏 www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...

1. In yesterday's primary elections, anti-transgender Democrats found out the hard way why you don't throw transgender people under the bus. Two anti-trans dems lost their primaries, including one that cast the deciding veto override vote, in blowouts. Subscribe to support our journalism.

In an exclusive interview with @thetyee.ca, an educator who testified against Neufled during the tribunal said his posts made LGBTQ2S(IA)+ students scared to go to school because of increased bullying, and pushed teachers back into the closet. My piece today. thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

1. In a major move, AG Letitia James has given NYU Langone 10 days to resume trans youth care, or face legal consequences. Now many are asking: Will Mayor Mamdani follow suit and take action to protect trans youth from the Trump administration and capitulation? Subscribe to support our journalism.

1. The Supreme Court just handed down its 5th anti-trans decision in less than a year. It could lead to forced outing of trans youth across the country, with 40 cases pending that it may impact. It also forces CA teachers to misgender some trans students. Subscribe to support our journalism.

In the last decade, the Atlantic has not platformed a single trans person to speak about issues affecting them or the broader trans community. Not a single one. Yet, they have monthly screeds by Helen Lewis and endless money to pay random transphobic grifters to pump stuff like this out.

The fact that the phrase "gender diversity where relevant" is being included in this right now ... just imagine if that was the case for ANY other demographic identity of a suspect in a situation like this ...

Texas AG Ken Paxton has declared that it is illegal for mental health providers and therapists to treat trans youth. It means that trans youth will be denied access to any mental healthcare that isn't conversion therapy. Paxton also threatens parents of trans youth with child abuse investigations.

When clinics started putting out research that 97.5% of trans youth who socially transitioned maintained a stable gender identity for 5 years,the reaction was never going to be, "I guess this isn't a phase." It was always going to be to ban social transition.

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

This court specifically avoided bringing up challenges on bans for gender affirming care for trans youth on parental rights grounds so they can weaponize parental rights against trans youth while stripping them from the supportive parents of trans youth. It's obscene.

This of course runs counter to the recommendations of all major medical and mental health organizations, as well as all existing research and data in this field.

Human rights must stand above politics. I spoke in the Legislature about why dignity cannot be conditional. Rights are rarely lost all at once, they’re weakened little by little. In B.C., human rights are not negotiable. Now or ever. 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/hDKoRPYmQOw?si…#bcpolili

California teachers - if you see a student who is questioning their gender no you didn’t.

“It’s weird,” he said. “I just did something that I would think anyone would do. What do you mean you would watch a stroller and a baby just sink?”

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety. i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

A day later and no major national news org has covered what they're doing in Kansas. This is the flip side of the hyper focus on trans issues by the right. The national media ignores what's actually being done to trans people. This erasure is what contributes to the persecution.

It’s unacceptable to see an elected official use taxpayers’ time in the Legislature to advance hateful proposals. Even more troubling, the BC Conservatives supported it. Again. Human rights are not up for debate. They protect the most vulnerable. Basic human dignity is non negotiable. #BCPoli

This morning a OneBC MLA introduced a Bill in our Legislature to repeal the Human Rights Code. We voted it down. The BC Conservatives voted in favour of a debating a Bill that would rip away human rights for millions of British Columbians. These protections should not be up for debate.

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

Starting to think this Jesse Singal guy is not exactly on the up-and-up

This has bothered me too- Again, for the millionth time…Where is Dem leadership??!! I get Newsom not speaking out, but where is AOC, Pritzker, etc.? We aren’t an “issue,” we’re people!! It would be nice if Dem politicians could find their backbones any minute now!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬 #TransLivesMatter 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

I'm seeing a lot of lawsky saying how blatantly unconstitutional the Kansas law invalidating trans people's licenses is and I don't know know how to tell them that the federal court won't do anything about this. The passport case showed SCOTUS explicitly approves of this sort of thing.

All trans kids are our kids. Whether you are 10 years old or 52. You matter to us. We see you. We need you here. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

They can’t even legally drive to the DMV to get the license that will misgender them by law because the statute invalidating their licenses went into immediate effect.

"Trans rights are human rights" has never been more important than right now. The Kansas GOP overrode the Governor's veto to enable this. If they can willfully do it to one group, they can do it to ANY group.

Ah! Well. Nevertheless.

do not let Democrats give a centimeter on trans people’s rights. We stand up for everyone, or we stand up for no one.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

just juxtaposing the idea that caring about trans people’s safety & dignity isn’t “culturally normal” with: • 401,000 people fleeing homes • “if the gender/sex…on the face of your current credential does not match your sex assigned at birth, you are directed to surrender your current credential”

History often rhymes with itself.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Never forget that the primary tactic of this movement is distraction. They point to medical statements, procedural wins and tangentially related anecdotes because *they have no evidence of their core claim* If lots of kids were transitioning without assessment they would be talking about that.

1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Pink Shirt Day is a time for us to stand together and renew our commitment to address all forms of bullying, including speaking out against homophobic and transphobic bullying in sports, schools, workplaces, & communities. Kindness & inclusion should always be the norm, rather than the exception. 💕

here’s my latest on how Minister Solomon can’t just be the Minister for AI Ribbon Cuttings, he needs to work with Minister Miller to ensure consumer facing AI products like chat bots are folded into online harms & subject to a duty to act responsibly www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/o...

The Media Ecosystem Observatory has found that just 100 accounts in Canada are responsible for 68% of posts promoting conspiracy theories. But they are having an outsized impact on local governments. Read my latest: www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/n...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 24 EITM breaks down disinformation in NYT Singal op-ed. Big takeaway: Amer Society of Plastic Surgeons did _not_ issue new clinical guidance on GAC. Its board, headed by Trump donor, bypassed its own expert task force & use the HHS pseudoscience report instead. 1/2

THIS!!!

1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people. This time, it comes from Jesse Singal. I fact check it in my latest piece. End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Going to reshare this again for no real reason whatsoever. www.vox.com/policy-and-p...