🧵 When was the first queer riot in the US? Historian Denny Nevins argues it was in the Los Guilucos School for Girls in 1953. On March 19th, dozens rioted against the juvenile detention home. Over 1/3 of the girls, aged 11-17, were queer. Many were there *because* they were queer.

If Democrats were actually on our side, they would be fighting to *expand* SNAP right now, not "compromise" with it.

“They’re turning the rats transgender!” Yes, and we have been for nearly a century! The UK paid researchers over $1 million (in today’s value) to produce hormones on a mass scale. These experiments helped trans people, including minors, obtain safe & effective hormones in the 1930s.

Police have been using the Sniffies app to entrap queer men, bringing back Stonewall-era tactics for mass arrests at cruising sites and bars. They also turned in 20 migrants during the entrapment operation, many of whom could be sent to their deaths in their home countries.

Curious what top surgery looked like in the 1930s? Surprisingly similar to today. I found this photo in medical archives holding the English edition of the Plastic Surgery Atlas, v. 3. It shows an intersex man who underwent a double mastectomy nearly a century ago.

Mamdani hasn't been elected yet, but he's already making NYC a safer place

If you or your loved ones are in NYC, don't forget to vote for Zohran Mamdani on the Working Families Party line today! This helps their progressive platform gain traction, and all votes go toward the next mayor.

Anyone can order twice their regular dose of hormones and give the rest out to people in need. It's a fun (alleged) activity for trans events. And you definitely shouldn’t search the DIY HRT site to learn how to obtain and use hormones in states/regions where they’re banned 😉

The right-wing mind cannot comprehend butch trans women, apparently

Dress for the job you want, not the job you have

Remember to check your kids’ Halloween candy carefully this year! I just found 80mg of estradiol in this KitKat bar. Stay safe out there.

In zoology, there's a concept called "carcinization," which describes the evolutionary tendency for animals to develop crab-like bodies over time.

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Nothing more gender-affirming than bigots accidentally gendering me correctly.

When cis men can become pregnant, which will likely become possible in the next few decades, do you think they will take up carrying babies on a large scale?

This is a real DHS statement from earlier this month. Their officials need to read more Arendt (although perhaps that would get them to quit ICE in the first place).

Giving two different virtual talks on Thursday! Both are free and open to the public. Hope to see you there! Trans YOUniting: whova.com/portal/regis... Archives Against Erasure: psu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Are you or your friends in Berlin? Come to our bilingual reading at Sonntags-club tomorrow night at 19.30. It's free and open to the public, no tickets needed! Hope to see you there.

Republicans just removed Miami Beach's famous pride crosswalks. They could have painted them, but instead used bulldozers to destroy the bricks. Pride crosswalks are a tiny, symbolic gesture. But they are still important symbols of the political climate.

I regret to inform you a second Labubu has hit Karl Marx's grave

Attempts to convert trans women with testosterone and trans men with estrogen supplements go back to at least the mid-1910s! It never worked and never will work. If this were a 'genuine question,' Lauren could have spent 10 seconds to see that they already tried this and failed.

This one's for the kids www.littlemouse.fun/zines.html

Howdy. You have no idea how ready we are for Halloween.

Weird how all the British anti-trans activists end up also being horrible racists. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that they use the same arguments for trans people and migrants (predatory, violent, replacing "worthy" citizens, etc). /s

UK dates are coming up soon! Tickets and info on my website And for the anti-trans brigade threatening to crash/complain about my talks, don't worry, the venues have already been sent your emails and are ready for you. A protest is great publicity, so I encourage it (even though I know you won't) 😘

Another far-right anti-queer mass shooting took place this weekend, but you probably won't hear about it. Last year, Nigel Edge filed a suit claiming "a cabal of 'LGBTQ White Supremacists' and pedophiles were trying to murder him because he’s a 'straight man.'" It was dismissed earlier this summer.

🧵 Alannah Farrell (they/them), “A (Downtown Brooklyn)” (2025) After coming out as trans, Alannah’s husband, now ex, threw them out of their shared apartment. Without a home, the internationally celebrated artist moved sublet-to-sublet, hotel-to-hotel.

There were more dogs who shot their owners than there were trans shooters in the last decade.

I'm going to start asking them this, too. There is absolutely no tangible improvement in cis women's lives from trans persecution, but fearmongering media and politicians have convinced some of them otherwise.

Sure, the right doesn't like me now, but just wait until they learn what I was doing underneath the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in 2015.

3 years ago, Matt Walsh, LibsOfTikTok, & many other right-wing pundits tried to get me expelled for supporting trans youth. So I wanted to let them know I just finished my PhD and am doing better than ever. They are not inevitable, and I believe we will win against their censorship and demagoguery

The people behind Project 2025 just published a "guide" for designating the trans movement as domestic terrorism. They falsely claim trans people are behind *50%* of school shootings, despite only being able to name 4 cases (0 of which were motivated by anti-trans sentiments).

Funny how all the major figures adopting anti-trans politics keep ending up on the Epstein list. 🤔

This is the first diagram I've ever seen with a masculine pregnant person! 😍

@smrodriguez.bsky.social will be in conversation with author @elierlick.bsky.social on their new book ‘Before Gender’ at @thecommonpress.bsky.social on 12 October! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ www.outsavvy.com/event/30194/...

Archery skills are the real social contagion.

In 1966, researchers conducted a now-forgotten LSD experiment on gay and trans men, only to find that it made most of them even more grounded in their identities! No one should be sent to conversion therapy, but I also find the results as funny as they are predictable.

There was a gorgeous dyke/trans bar called "Le Monocle" in 1930s Paris. Monocles were a bit like wearing a pride flag among the queer people assigned female at the time, like in this colorized 1937 photo. Nazis shut down the bar during the war, but many patrons stayed in touch for years after. 🧐

We're delighted to announce that author & activist @elierlick.bsky.social is visiting the UK to speak about her new book, 'Before Gender: Lost stories from trans history 1850-1950'. Discover the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who will change everything you've been told about trans history.

This might be an overly consumerist response to the problem of misgendering, but it's also a clever loophole to get around these harmful laws.

Why is the right so scared of the term "pregnant people"? Trans men get pregnant all the time. So do girls, unfortunately. It's not just women. The term "pregnant person" isn't just about inclusivity: it's more accurate, too.

We don't need billionaires. This photo is from Johannesburg, the wealthiest city in Africa, home to several billionaires whose riches come from the exploitation of the people living in these shantytowns. This is the South African economic inequity that gave us Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.

The average stereotype demonizes or typifies an entire group for what is often a general human experience. But anti-trans activists take this to a whole new level. Is wanting to see clearly a fetish?

Broadway’s first trans man casting director, Charlie Hano, explains how many trans men there are in Broadway productions (hint: it’s not many)

"Is it Mr. or Ms.?" "It’s Dr." #PhDone

3 young kids attacked Diana during Philly Pride, leaving her with 2nd and 3rd degree burns. They do not yet know if it was premeditated or gender-based. Who's teaching these children that this behavior is acceptable? Support her recovery at www.gofundme.com/f/support-di...

The Glastonbury Festival's iconic artwork features a mural encouraging the world's most noxious billionaires to blast themselves into space.

Last night, without warning, Florida officials painted over the rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub, site of the 2016 Pulse Massacre. A double rainbow then appeared while the community repainted the crossing in chalk.

What a ridiculous accusation Anyway, protect trans kids and stop banning lifesaving healthcare.

There's a big debate in the trans community over whether to focus on cis people harmed by anti-trans advocacy. Trans women are the primary targets and should be centered in our fight for trans liberation. However, I think it's crucial to also highlight these cases for understanding and solidarity.