Children’s Minnesota resumes Gender Health program after court ruling www.wdio.com/front-p... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Anti-trans extremism is some kind of sickness of the brain.

Trans erasure is also voter suppression. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/kansas-trans...

Face it, cis women, you're just shit at everything

A new paper has come out that has Twitter/X afire. It seems to argue that gender-affirming care for transgender youth is not only ineffective, but potentially harmful. It's also a very poorly-done piece of work. My new piece: gidmk.substack.com/p/does-gende...

Dr. Kaltiala has now responded to our criticisms of her study through Gender Clinic News, an anti-trans blog whose author describes transgender healthcare as "gender ideology." Her response is notable less for what it addresses than for what it avoids entirely. My counter-response:

I'm so glad I got to talk with @onthemedia.bsky.social about what is being done to trans people by the law.

Every once in a while I check to see what outlandish stuff the ceo of @thefireorg.bsky.social posts on X. Yesterday, on the heels of a major decision in Europe supporting trans ppl, he had this old disinformation to spread

Fuck FIRE, fuck Paul Graham. xcancel.com/paulg/status...

This fucking creep has escalated to signing me up for his newsletter unsolicited and emailing me directly even after I told him to stop. This is now moving beyond creepy stalking behavior into direct harassment.

I saw a quote that read, “the love I have for this creature, even though we have never shared a conversation, is proof that actions speak louder than words”. He understands every word you say, and don’t say. He’s my best boy.

Add another athlete to the chorus slamming the IOC transgender ban. This time from Caster Semenya. It's deeply misogynistic that she has faced barring while male athletes with clear advantages (like Phelps) are allowed to compete. #goodnews #transrights #transsports #olympics

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Olympic legends Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird have denounced the Olympics trans athlete ban. They call out the mass testing regime that will be implemented on women and the harm it will cause. “Can we focus our resources into real problems women’s sports face?” Subscribe to support our journalism.

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

Look, people, it was either this or the status quo on trans people being allowed to (mostly) fully participate in society. You can see how it was an extremely difficult call.

Don't take my word for it. A lot of the MAGA people explicitly acknowledge this and they're fine with it. They would rather the world burn than live in one accepting of trans people. Everything is gender.

You can't separate anti-immigrant and anti-trans politics from what is happening with Iran. When MAGA picked transphobia and nativism as its organizing principle, it selected for the capacity to treat entire categories of people as civilizational threats whose elimination is an act of self-defense.

Medical issues are often civil rights issues. The modern LGBTQ rights movement is built on turning a medical issue, HIV/AIDS, into a civil rights issue. There's even a movie with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington about it.

Darth Maul time lads! 🙌❤️‍🔥

Trans rights are human rights. F*ck Ben Ryan.

Been hard to keep track with the replies but we've raised over $3k for trans youth today from the Benjamin Ryan youth transition fund. $80 of that just came from times he tweeted about me today.

If I had to choose a single thought which haunts me most, it’s this. And it has animated me for years. This thing has been growing and metastasizing for almost a decade. And every passing year we’ve grown more hoarse trying to get someone to give a shit.

That's another $10.

Please read this excellent article (with lots of pictures!) about the allies who got arrested for us at the Idaho capitol this week!! paceyspeaks.substack.com/p/arrested-f...

Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord is proving once again that some of the deepest storytelling, best action, and most complex character arcs happen in animation. It’s carrying the torch lit by The Clone Wars and Rebels with absolute perfection. Cannot wait to see where this show goes.

1. A new study claims trans care worsens mental health. It is fatally flawed. It didn't measure mental health—it measured psych visits. Even visits that stemmed from mandatory checkins, surgical pre-psych evals, or pre-treatment that was classified as post. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Anti-trans hatred is the very lifeblood of 21st century fascism and we need everyone to wake up to this simple truth before it's too late.

Trans children exist. That's it, that's the post.

Anti-Trans bigotry is such a strong force because Trans people represent a movement towards bodily autonomy that would violate everything the fascists hold dear. The fascists don't want anyone to get to make choices about their bodies. Trans healthcare is a slap in the face to patriarchal control.

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

If you see this, post a bridge from your gallery

I've warned for years that Republicans planned to reroute federal family planning dollars to crisis pregnancy centers—groups that won't even talk about birth control. I re-upped that prediction just last week. A day later, this Politico piece dropped. jessica.substack.com/p/the-white-...

Intense misogyny permeates the entire American Right, says Sarah Mautner-Mazlen. It appears in their anti-abortion, pro-fetal personhood, pronatalist ideology and policy; the defence of sexual predators, and much more.

Luxembourg becomes second country worldwide to enshrine abortion rights in constitution (after France) Large majority in parliament backs amendment to Luxembourg’s highest law, with ‘freedom’ to have an abortion added to constitution

Daily reminder that Gavin Newsom is a monster!

We've already raised over $100 so I matched another $10. I'll keep doing so for every $100 donated until we raise $1000 total.

“I AM BEING SILENCED!!!” “ALSO, BUY MY BOOK FOR $19.99!!!” If this isn’t proof that the “free speech” cult is a grift that seeks to pick the pockets of credulous rubes while curtailing the actual fundamental rights of minorities, I don’t know what is.

So using speech is chilling others speech now? That's an odd thing to say as the head of a so called "free speech" org. These people don't want free speech, they want the right to monolog without having to hear criticism from the people they believe are beneath them.

How should you participate in a society in which the 'health' system systematically harms your health, the 'human rights' commission removes your human rights, the 'justice' system refuses even to hear you and the 'independent' State broadcaster broadcasts lies about you? A non-rhetorical question.

Shawn Ryan is not an ex-Trumper. He is very much on board with 99% of Trump’s ideology, and is much more extreme in several ways. Can liberals stop propping up far right extremism?

"We also have cisgender men as unit helpers and activity advisers, and there’s never been any objection to any of these men being involved in Girlguiding events.” Transphobia is a men's rights movement in drag.

See also: Bathroom bans written to exclude every possible reason a cisgender person of the wrong gender might be in the bathroom (they're cleaning staff, the other bathroom is broken, they're escorting a young child or disabled adult).

When the NYT stops being a transphobic rag, maybe we'll have nicer things to say about it.

guy who believes in the North American Treaty Organization, Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria and Hamas Is Everywhere

This is really all they have left. "We have a pointless and criminal war pushing gas prices through the roof and the global economy to the brink but at least the government isn't treating trans people like they're human beings" will be the entirety of the midterm message.

We've now raised over $300. I'm matching an additional $20.

That's another $10.