Do you know trans youth aged 19 and younger who might want a piece in the second issue of Chrysalis? Submissions are open! www.chrysalismagazine.org/submissions

"The two were questioned separately by ICE officers ... They asked her if she had had a sex change and if she had a penis. Alice said back in the cell Sofia told her she answered truthfully to both questions to avoid the officers from groping her for answers."

gomag.com/article/the-... My spouse's friend wrote this. I've been under similar pressures during this whole time. Personally I don't know that I could do this (change it myself) but it may be a moot point if they just change it for me.

Anyone?

Emily Suski, the attorney and educator named l to be the next dean at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville law school, is already out after powerful conservative officials found Suski's pro-trans opinions distasteful. arktimes.com/arkansa... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ

ONLY on Assigned Media: Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have accused the regime of genocide. Some of the most vulnerable are trans. Crack reporter @mollyquell.bsky.social comes to us from The Hague to report on trans oppression as part of the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar.

TAF

This is an incredibly important project.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jan 14 Prospect: After moving to weaken Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) safety protections for transgender inmates, Trump admin has now removed similar protections at multiple ICE detention centers as well as halted all GAC care for detainees.

This article is a must-read. It matches my own experience of seeing conservative judges go from often siding with trans plaintiffs prior to 2021 to being outwardly hostile. Judges don't live in a hermetically sealed chamber. They absorbed anti-trans propaganda. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Washington and 11 other states’ attorneys general have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for what the multistate coalition argues is unlawful discrimination against transgender people via new strictures placed on federal grant funding. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/01/14/r...

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Hard to think about anything else besides Venezuela, but I wrote this piece about my plans to move to Cali, Colombia in response to the current regime. Also a bit of a love letter. Transgender Exile in the Salsa Capital of the World by Miles Whitney – Blasphemous share.google/13yFm3UQ7ELR...

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

"While glimmers of hope remain, it’s impossible to pretend that 2025 was anything other than a disaster for trans people across the U.S. The trans community lost [various rights] and the right to be recognized as human beings rather than ideological enemies of an authoritarian government."

I have been saying this is coming.

NEW COLUMN We are on a path where decades of public policy aimed at supporting Americans with disabilities is being weakened and overturned due to the ongoing influence of Christian nationalism. @kettering.org kettering.org/ableism-in-a...

They can't stop.

This is so chilling. I received anonymous threatening (anti-trans) mail at my job with the judiciary so I started following this trend more closely. I had not seen the part about foreign actors being involved.

An authoritarian movement, led by the president and reaching into Republican-led state governments and the judiciary is chipping away at American democracy. Trans people are among the first, most often targeted - but it won't end there. Read the full analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

Hate crimes targeting transgender and gender nonconforming people have tripled since 2013 www.losangelesblade.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

"The current policy debate has centered itself on trans youth, which is to say on youth transition, including medical transition such as puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy." (from December 2024) www.liberalcurrents.com/the-biopolit...

w/ passage of Marjorie Taylor Greene bill banning gender-affirming care for minors, re-upping story I wrote couple yrs ago abt Renton Sinclair, trans dude in KC who survived horrific, non-affirming childhood w/ a mom who later became a MAGA anti-trans influencer www.huffpost.com/entry/trans-...

the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...

In North Carolina, a town dissolved their library board rather than accept that libraries shouldn't engage in censorship. The sticking point was a book about a trans child. Read more on Assigned from @alyssaur.bsky.social. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Some great and some awful!

Earlier this year, I reported for @propublica.org and @wisconsinwatch.org how Wisconsin's name change law creates a de facto database of trans people, which is dangerous in times like this. Now @lmcgaughy.bsky.social breaks the news that Texas has done just that: www.kut.org/politics/202...

In the wake of the killing of an openly gay imam earlier this year, Jaheim Karim writes on being trans and Muslim www.wearequeeraf.com/what-fasting...

This seems like a very Northern California thing to do: Getting donuts for Hanukkah at a donut shop called Don Jose's.

ICYMI last year I wrote about trans people having to carry papers, especially in light of the wild enforcement attempts in Texas. slate.com/news-and-pol...

“Luckily everyone had their passport, because I've been telling them to have their passport with them,” Osman said. I hate this. But I liked that a bunch of people showed up with whistles. But then hate that they then got sprayed with chemicals.

incredible sense of community here. if this was in Minneapolis (going by OP's location), it's been REALLY cold. I wonder what happened to the guy - I hope he's okay and ICE left.

I believe that if the regime can figure out how to make slavery great again they will. Taxpayers cover the cost of food, housing and um, overseers and corporations will take the profit. I believe the infrastructure is being created by the prisons overseas for "deported" people, plus new prisons here

This comes just days after a DOJ memo revealed plans to dismantle prison rape protections for trans and intersex people.

1/7 What you’re seeing about trans people today isn’t organic outrage. It’s an assembly line. Same phrases. Same moral framing. Same escalation. Different accounts. Same day. Once you see the pattern, the spell breaks. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue #USDemocracy 12/13/25 AM

Good piece.

Texas Department of Public Safety said troopers issued criminal trespass warnings to four transgender women after a Dec. 6 rally inside the Texas Capitol www.kxan.com/lgbtq/d... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Another one from me: The Trump administration has omitted data about trans people from prison sexual violence reports. prismreports.org/2025/12/11/d...

Right in my backyard.

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A federal judge permanently blocked a portion of Georgia’s SB 185 banning gender-affirming care in state prisons, ruling its blanket ban on hormone therapy violates the Eighth Amendment. 🏳️‍⚧️ https://www.advocate.com/news/georgia-prison-gender-affirming-care

“Every time that an anti-trans bill passes, it is another attempt at removing trans people from the public eye.” Here's my analysis of the statewide bathroom bill in Texas, which went into effect this week, from @texasobserver.org:

IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked. thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...

The hits just keep coming! As an aside my rage at this worldview makes me not even want to think or speak in English. I know French but since I'm LATAM focused with 1 year of Spanish under my belt I'm like I'm just going to use SPANGLISH and this makes me giggle every time I think of it.

I'm biased because AM published one of mine (thank you again!), but also, really great work being done. Spread the word!

The only reason not to follow the Prison Rape Elimination Act is if you do not want to eliminate rape

www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n... Hellhole county.

An inependent review of medical evidence on trans youth healthcare found substantial evidence of benefit, and no evidence of harm. This was one of our top stories this year. Legacy news, who extensively covered a review finding the opposite, ignored this. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...