State department guidance is now up for transgender people who want to change their gender marker on their passports. Your window opens NOW to make it happen, with some caveats: data will be collected on changes. EITM was the first media outlet to report this breaking development for trans people.

Florida in 2025: “caselaw is building that seems to suggest teachers only have free speech when they disagree with transgender people, but as soon as transgender people come into play, they lose those rights - even in intensely personal subjects such as what name or pronoun or honorific one uses.”

Don't let the bigots pathologize us. Yes dysphoria kills. It sucks. Believe me, I know. But we are NOT our dysphoria and we are owed more than simply being trauma porn. We deserve gender affirming care because we're human beings and bodily autonomy is a human right.

“The decision is hard to stomach. But it’s important to note that there’s nothing in this decision that is a green light.” – Karen Loewy, Lambda Legal Senior Counsel via @huffpost.com

1. Trump has promised harsher ICE crackdowns on Truth Social. He blamed transgender people as the reason such crackdowns must happen. Particularly, he used the phrase "transgender for everybody," a phrase he has increasingly used to justify anything he wants. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Alright everyone, one last push. If you or anyone you know is: - LGBTQ+ - 13-24 years old - In the US Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health. It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :) trvr.org/survey2025

I woke with a swell of Pittsburgh pride this morning.

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Thank you for the kind shoutout, @constellationsjrnl.bsky.social!

Yessssss

In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect. This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

Misinformation is now the norm… I’m reminded of zines during the height of the AIDS epidemic (like the 1993 “gendertrash from hell issues) through which community organizers shared census data and care guidelines despite a lack of federal support. More accurate information can be found there.

Lambda [cont] – ICYWW the reason Lambda filed a 2nd suit _after_ ACLU got an injunction against State Dept passport policy was the P/I only applied to its plaintiffs. LLDEF’s suit is trying again to get a court to stop the practice for everyone [HT @[email protected]]

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

I feel like I was just punched in the ribs. Fuck.

To hell with this.

A timely book recommendation: “The Spirit Bares Its Teeth,” by Andrew Joseph White. The narrative is in the style of a Victorian Gothic (very dark, see trigger warnings), and it features a neurodivergent and trans masc protagonist whose knowledge of medicine seems to far exceed RFK Jr. Just saying!

To my autistic friends and fellow neurodiverse comrades, let your dreams, loves, and poetry fill with all the beauty and power he fails to imagine.

“The Trump Administration Threat To Transgender Adult Care Is Growing At Lightning Speed” — Friends, please be advised.

Also, one more thing: if you're not LGBTQ, you don't get a say on who's welcome in our community. Asexual and aromantic people are sexual minorities. They're always welcome in our spaces. Our spaces are their spaces. Mind your own damn business and get a new hobby.

Last year, only 49—less than 10%—of the 533 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures passed into law. Advocates in Georgia and Missouri defeated all 54 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced last year despite Republican majorities. www.unclosetedmedia.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

I am watching Senator Booker's filibuster on Roland Martin's YouTube channel between meetings. (Shout out to his staffers, too. They did tons of prep for this.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NOm...

Take a minute to check in on your mental health before reading.

1. The Trump administration has announced it will be investigating California, and will pull its school funding unless it forcibly outs transgender students. California has a law against forced outing policies. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Debates over child labor laws in Florida could make it legal for 14 year olds to work overnight shifts on school nights in order to make up for lost labor from folks who are undocumented... like shifting from one exploited labor force to another. Clearly education is not a priority.

There are 6 days left for the "Stories for the Trans Rights Readathon" Itchio bundle! 43 trans & non-binary creatives put together this bundle of 73 books! 2 of my books are in it & I'll be donating a portion of my proceeds from the bundle to trans rights orgs in my state itch.io/b/2914/stori...

All of these countries have issues travel warnings for trans people visiting the US. Austria Denmark France Germany Ireland Norway Slovakia Slovenia The Netherlands The US is not safe for trans people. Do not come. metro.co.uk/2025/03/25/f...

Periodic reminder that ICE administrative warrants do NOT give ICE (or anyone else) legal authority to enter your home (or anywhere not open to the public) without your consent. Unless law enforcement has a JUDICIAL WARRANT, signed by a judge, they do not have a legal right to nonconsensual entry.

Thank you, Erin Reed, for your reporting. Trans liberation will provide more opportunities for everyone. Anti-trans lawmaking will hurt and restrict opportunities for everyone. My question: when will silent cis-het folks make that connection and finally stand with us? Or am I being too optimistic?

INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.

1. Incredible ruling! An Ohio appeals court has ruled that trans care is healthcare, strikes down youth trans care ban! It made the ruling using the Republican-passed "health care freedom amendment" meant to overturn Obamacare! Subscribe to support my journalism. You'll want to read this one.

Threats to funding are real, but the Trump Admin’s unethical ban on gender affirming care for folks under the age of 19 has been and remains blocked. It seems UPMC has decided to curry favor with a transphobic admin by sacrificing the wellbeing and health of trans children… of my city’s children…

Unacceptable.

Hannah Arendt accurately identified loneliness as the fuel for Totalitarianism.

I’m not the first to point out that the Trump Admin seems to care more about the welfare of Tesla dealerships and sales than trans people, federal workers, student protestors (the first amendment). And seems to care more about the Model 3 than social security, access to education, and public health.

A new lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court aims to dismantle key LGBTQ antidiscrimination protections in Pennsylvaniania, threatening the rights and dignity of countless Pennsylvanians. qburgh.com/lawsuit-unde...

Share the good news, friends. Lean into this momentary reprieve. Take a minute to find yourself again, drink some water, build back the resilience that fueled this win. Gender affirming care is life affirming. “Judge Blocks Trump Trans Ban Nationwide, Slams Reliance On Cass Review”

Requiring proof of citizenship to vote will encourage continued discrimination against trans folks at polling stations. In 2012, a Virginian “True the Vote” training manual literally used an image of an individual wearing a dress with facial hair as a reference image of a fraudulent voter.

Breaking: 10 NYT writers think trans rights are the least important and attacks on the trans community aren’t that bad. Least surprising news ever.

Unforgivable.

Pittsburgh friends, here are some great events to have fun, be with community, etc. Thanks, QBurgh, for sharing! ❤️

1. Media sources are widely reporting Trump's military ban has "a waiver" for trans people. It does not: It only applies to closeted trans people who have never transitioned and feel no dysphoria. The ban also forces people to resign or pay back benefits. Subscribe to support my journalism.

The Department of Education is now deputizing citizens to report schools that incorporate DEI into programming/pedagogy. Shall we spam the form with nonsense en masse? Is nonsense not the only sensible response?

Tomorrow!

Surprised the DHS is eliminating bans on LGBTQIA+ surveillance? Don’t be. The DHS’s response to the War on Terror (e.g. the 2003 advisory warning about perceived cross-dressing “terrorists”) shows a history of depicting queer and trans identities as threats to US national security.

1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired. This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all. Subscribe to support my journalism.

I needed to read this today. Thank you, Gay City News!

This is a full campaign to purge all LGBTQ employees from the federal government. This is a second lavender scare.

USAToday [Feb 24] -- In a setback for Trump admin, a fed judge indefinitely blocks move of 12 trans women to men's prison, finding women likely to prevail & indefinitely extending a Jan 30 TRO. Judge rejected govt argument that women would be "safer" in men's prison.[@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]