ICYMI my piece about passports, thank you Liberal Currents for putting this back up on such an infuriating day.

Seething with rage. And yes this impacts me in several ways most of which are MAJOR (I'm planning on emigrating.)

I went for the pro trans and stayed for the delight of watching him.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Damn.

If @charliejane.bsky.social and/or @annaleen.bsky.social know any trans immigrants who can use this service. @transgenderreport.com missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-t...

31 Oct 2025 -- Washington State U. approves hate-group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) to to teach medical professionals in its continuing ed program to maintain state licensure. SEGM is devoted to ending the availability of medical care for trans youth. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Oh FFS

Note that nonprofits that work with immigrants or transgender people are singled out. They just won't stop. I don't know why this hit me like a brick.

"'It's endless,' [re the regime's anti-trans efforts] says Eyer. 'It really has been an obsessive focus that's been deployed across the administration.' This will effectively be a nationwide ban, per the article. Plans may come out in early November.

So this is kind of a cool thing that happened today. I received the proof of my novel. Really something to hold it in my hands.

WHAT? The shutdown is the fault of transgender people and "illegal aliens?" I'm so tired of this.

"In a Wednesday (1 October) ruling, a three-panel judge argued the policy violated the player’s human rights and her constitutional right to dignity and equality." Highest court looked at scienceband ordered the policies to be changed. ❤️ www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/02/v...

The parents went to great effort to correct the birth certificate (which marked F by mistake) but the school will only accept the ORIGINAL. Would not accept a Drs note. The school suggests he may be able to pay $1500 to get chromosome analysis. Meanwhile he has to be treated like any other "girl."

Wow those birth certificates are going to become all powerful!

I haven't read these yet but this looks like a gold mine of good info.

What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump's first 100 days. Big takeway: based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of news stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote a single trans person. bit.ly/TJA_visible

My piece: "This new religion’s god, in contrast, is pathetically weak. This god cannot hold true without an army of his followers shoring him up with secular laws enforcing their creed." www.thecourtshipofwinds.org/miles-whitney

This gave me strength today.

"But at the airport, after they had already scanned their passports, received boarding passes, checked in their bags, and cleared security, ... he and his family were not allowed to board their flight. Upon arrival at their boarding gate, their reservations had suddenly disappeared ..."

"Almost every person who answered The News’ survey said they’d had more trouble sleeping and felt less safe in public spaces since November. Over two-thirds said they’d been thinking more about suicide."

Conversion therapy destroys you. It's torture. I was waterboarded with vinegar until I said I was a boy and wanted to be a boy. I still have nightmares about it to this day. That's what they want SCOTUS to protect.

Oh man I didn't even think of that. Ugh.

for example, there is a spectrum of fair or unfair things that can happen if you (a cis person) commit a crime and are sent to prison but i will most likely be placed in a men's prison and raped to death no matter the crime/sentence (V coding) with the alternative being solitary confinement forever

"If speaking out is the only choice for people of conscience, is there a right way to do it? Along with my wife, Ellie, herself a veteran journalist, we decided that regrouping in a friendlier setting was the best means for us. But there is no correct tactic, only an imperative to keep going...."

Yet another day of needless cruelty towards queer kids, who are perfect just the way they are. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

This looks like a good organization to support.

"Elevating transgender status under the Fourteenth Amendment will shatter the framework of rights and protections refecting this Nation’s fundamental com- mitment to religious freedom." Wow so much power.

"Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity."

Kenya! 😎

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

newrepublic.com/article/2008... With this move to target trans “violent extremism,” Berger told me, “exactly how it would play out is anyone’s guess in the short term. But the arc is not going to be bending toward justice.”

The First Amendment Should Protect Trans People’s Passports — Assigned share.google/klKOKQRJ0D5u... A piece I wrote earlier about forcing trans people to use a M or F as prohibited compelled speech under the 1A. The government now explicitly says M/F is gov. speech in it's request to the USSC.

assets.aclu.org/live/uploads... A very quick scan of this shows that the government is explicitly stating that gender markers on passports is government speech. I hope the ACLU bears down on the argument that it is prohibited compelled speech under the 1A.

NEW: The ultraconservative think tank behind Project 2025 is pushing Trump's FBI to treat 'violent transgender extremism' as a new domestic terror threat. Their definition is incredibly wide, and suggests that "cisgender" and "deadnaming" are extremist terms. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Well I called this after the antifa thing came out.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

People who criticize transgender people say there are only two genders. But the soul has so much more individuality🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 No matter how much my activities are restricted, super Chiitan will continue to speak out until we live in a world where everyone can freely express their love and love each other♡

"We have to get them off the streets, and we have to get them off the internet, and we can't let them communicate with each other. I'm all about free speech, but this is a virus, this is a cancer that's spreading across this country." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This has been on my mind a lot lately.

"If they’re compiling a list of everyone who refuses to fellate the memory of the horrid, evil, violent, moon-faced turd then it’s a list I’d rather be on than off."

Almost immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday, right-wing social media accounts began speculating that his killer was transgender. Politicians and news outlets fueled the rumors. The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.

Wow wait for the body to cool at least (or even find out if he's dead.) cannibalistic ghouls

this is really the crux of it right here: you don't have to officially ban trans art if you simply strangle it in the crib by refusing to provide space or money for it

This is so disturbing.

Republicans have unleashed their thought police.

I'd missed this. h/t @shelleybwoke.bsky.social The climate of transphobia has grown so toxic one young trans woman who had brought a lawsuit challenging a ban on her participation in athletic events in Idaho is dropping the case, fearing the harassment would distract from her school and life goals.

Not an understatement.

During President Trump's first term, transgender troops were told they needed to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria to keep their jobs. Now, the military is using that to put them on administrative leave.

“We’re seeing our sales drop, but we’re also seeing a lot of dear friends and colleagues decide to close up shop. It just feels like there is no possible way to proactively comply with the requirements that are being asked of us, and that that’s an intentional move on the part of lawmakers.”