It would be bad enough if this was all she voted for, but the bill literally also has a provision to strip school funding from any school that has books with trans characters, has policies protecting trans students, performs shakespeare’s 12th night, or even has a trans teacher.

In previous drafts you would appear in front of the draft board, they would find a diagnosis (or previous arrest) for homosexuality/transvestism/etc (classified as 4-F back in the day), then send you home. I suspect they would just do the same with anyone with a gender dysphoria diagnosis

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This seems bad.

Conversation on Artemis right now on the relative age of Orientale compared to other lunar basins. I wrote about that a while back: www.planetary.org/articles/092...

At this stage of the game, it is crystal clear that the internet, as a whole, was a huge mistake. But every now and then, we find incredible uses for it, like this photo gallery of Artemis II pictures. www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

even funnier now I've seen the headline the increasingly apparent truth is: they're just dipshits

😡 Only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. "Justice Jackson warned of the broader implications for medical care that she said could be “catastrophic” if states cannot regulate some kinds of speech by licensed professionals." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

How can therapy be regulated as an evidence based therapeutic intervention if therapists have a First Amendment right to say anything to any client? If therapy can't be regulated as a therapeutic intervention, why would insurance pay for it any more than it pays for newspaper subscriptions?

happy tdov, "visibility" without protection is a threat

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Camilla bush is in flower! Plus Flapjack the cat fishing for cheese.

Signed! BU alum, faculty, students, staff consider lending your voice!

New: The legal attacks on transgender Americans are moving fast beyond questions of school sports and youth gender medicine. Democrats are getting caught flatfooted, as they're still debating how to respond to the wedge issues @vox.com gift link: www.vox.com/policy/48276...

To make it even more clear: The NYT doesn't report like this on anything else Trump's HHS does. It's all treated as sketchy and politically motivated except when they want to eliminate trans care (which the NYT has led the campaign on for over a decade).

Right after he says "we don't want transgender people." He admits it right there in the open.

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful. Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.” Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.

🚨BREAKING: The White House confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump is pressing Congress to add new provisions targeting transgender people to the SAVE America Act — a sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I don't post personal stuff often, at AWP with LGBTQIA high school writers and readers. We're having a blast

The next gender non-conforming grave is in Vivallen. Grave 9 from the 12-13th C.; osteologically male, artifactually female*, this Sami individual was wealthy, with goods which indicate far travels or a strong trade network *more in alt txt An excellent thesis: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

"It isn’t a stretch to see a bill like this used to outright ban all books by or about LGBTQ+ people under the guise of it being ‘sexually oriented.’” The bill has the ignominious distinction of being the very first national-level attempt to ban books"

How a bill targeting trans literature could ban all LGBTQ+ books from American public schools (and why you should care).

The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."

No one before Ben has ever considered that trans women might actually be effeminate gay boys. No one has ever suggested such a thing to us, repeatedly, in a bid to prevent us from transitioning, or developed entire typologies around the idea, or reinforced it in multiple academic fields!

Rereading Stone Butch Blues

this will be a public health disaster. We could end the transmission of HIV this year. That has been true for a decade. That we have not done so is a public policy choice.

This is terrifying www.advocate.com/news/crime/b...

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

the former host of celebrity apprentice and the former host of fox & friends weekend are launching bombs and destabilizing the world for generations all because voters decided their biggest issue was a trans kid playing jv tennis with their friends 4 states over

Manifesting a new Fiona Apple record.

Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE. Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Don't just look at Kansas, this type of bill will soon sweep through every other red state. We have a chance now to organize everywhere else too.

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

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This. The right has been livestreaming their intentions forever. FRC’s Meg Kilgannon, now at US Dept of Ed, outlined the strategy of attacking top surgery as a way of delegitimizing trans people and “dividing the T from LGB”, back in 2017 at the Values Voter Summit to thousands, including lawmakers.

Mortal Kombat!

Colored lights on Olympic ice...great showcase...

Continuing to dissociate with perfume, books and Olympics #sotd hay, leather. Chergui by Serge Lutens. Picked up a discovery sample set on the eee bay. I have liked every scent I have tried. This one is hay and leather with a sweet powdery undertone, maybe the iris.

Meanwhile what drives me absolutely fucking insane is that I have been described as a "conspiracy theorist" for stating that the entire anti-trans moral panic was a psyop, when they had a public summit in which the principal actors explicitly said "we're going to start an anti-trans moral panic."

Today I'm remembering the courage of Jesse Jackson across his life, including the 1984 DNC when he called for the Party to support the inclusion of queer people in their coalition at a time both parties and the public were indifferent to our suffering and opposed to our equality.

Robert Duvall, Rest in Peace.

From @dapowell.bsky.social’s exquisitely saucy new chapbook “Tricks”: www.cutbankonline.org/2026-chapbooks #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

#sotd Soul Cafe by Savoire Faire, ATL based designer, Chris Classic. Dynamic, well blended, warm, sexy, unisex. Blood orange is aces at the top, creamy tobacco firewood lavender heart, sexy musk base.

They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn. Erasure. Just like the Nazis. gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...

Book haul book haul book haul! I was extremely excited to find @ravineangel.bsky.social's new book on the shelf at my local indie book store. Plus some poetry from CD Eskilson and @casswhit.bsky.social 👀

They're not even trying to mask that they to strip us of our vote. The so called MEGA Bill - in Congress now - would disenfranchise millions of women. Hard pass. Join @representwomen.bsky.social for this critical workshop on what's in the "Show Me Your Papers Bill" + how to fight back.