I genuinely believe this is true. I go to a support group regularly that is a very good cross-section of mostly Americans, and I am certain some of us have diametric views (but that's not the point of the group), and I genuinely think they don't truly get it.

If you know any transphobes, feel free to enroll them in a ceramics class or birding club or whatever

I’m gonna be playing trans/queer movies all weekend, as folks are here … Share your favs, thanks!

as an author whose book was stolen by AI, absolutely yes.

this!

Alright! Gonna spend today not looking at screen and instead cooking and eating delicious things, and then hanging out in the company of trans and queer people. Which is my ‘what’s helping today’ …

Some dorky part of my brain just said the title ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?' It’s this sort of conundrum, IMO. Trans lives are ignored by cis editors, by institutional media, because our humanity doesn’t matter to them. Therefore they don't hear us as we cry in agony right now. The public is clueless.

Yes, for sure am aware folks are also already moving abroad.

Yesterday I was wrapping up an interview with an expert, a cis woman who researches trans stuff, and before we hung up she was like, ‘real quick, what did you think of that NYT podcast last year’ and i laughed hard and sighed … and gave my quick synopsis of how bad it was, and how bad it all is.

Yeah I get it. I’ve been … I dunno, immensely depressed and also speaking about this situation for years now.

Yeah, I think cis folks remain utterly clueless, for the most part.

Yep. I agree. What mainstream coverage there is generally ‘about us without us’ …

Indeed. I often speak with cis allies who are confused as to why there isn’t more coverage about what’s going on, and I have to explain that trans professionals such as myself have been more or less sidelined from institutional media …

It’s an important topic and in general, in my observation, cis folks seem utterly clueless as to what trans people are already experiencing.

My life has changed from what it was before Trump took office. Being in Massachusetts is protective, but not perfectly. And the biggest mindfuck is that other Americans don't seem to know it. My sky has fallen and they tappa-tap on their keyboards like "Why is Erin Reed making trans people panic?"

The speech concerns are why I keep the cash, why I've gamed out worst case scenarios for crossing the border. They're why I moved my trans news site to open source software on a Canadian hosting service. That move left us 200 members down from three months ago, so it's a great time to join us:

Every week I am reminded of the precarity of my care, and that I'm alone - no one is standing up for me. There's been no outcry outside my community.

The idea that trans or nonbinary or third gender or queer people are somehow "hijacking" the "gay and lesbian movement" is shockingly ahistorical. The idea that sexual desire, gender, sex, the body, and identity are completely disconnected is a much more divisive and recent idea

We just finished our first cycle of grants and fellowships at The Rumpus and here are the talented and deserving winners and finalists: therumpus.net/2026/07/02/t...

I’m gonna be playing trans/queer movies all weekend, as folks are here … Share your favs, thanks!

Nobody feel the need to explain transphobia at me, I … am aware.

I get it

WPATH has just filed a late night emergency motion for a TRO against the FTC with Judge Boasberg in DC. They accuse the FTC of ambushing them and abusing previously agreed on scheduling.

millions of fireworks will go off in the next 48 hours. the protest at the center of the Prairieland case last July 4th — a year ago tomorrow — was a noise demo setting off fireworks for the detainees inside the ICE facility. did you know the federal government categorized fireworks as explosives?

When I posted this back in 2025, I was swarmed by "rule of law" apologists who called this unnecessarily alarmist. If you were one of those people, may I humbly suggest you sit the next year or so out?

these bigots are *so devoted* to making the world worse for such a small handful of children

let's be clear: Trump tried to exclude people with disfavored ancestry from citizenship at birth--a brazen effort to restore an antebellum white supremacist legal order that the 14th Amendment *already repudiated* and 4 Supreme Court justices said LET'S DO IT ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

Apparently this is photoshopped. Here’s the original pic

My debut article for @theguardian.com: I wrote about the 250th anniversary and the modern resistance that Black Americans are taking by withholding reactions to this country’s racism instead of our anger becoming spectacle: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

just re-sharing this recent ep we did … www.patreon.com/youaregood/p...

"Pardon me, sir, can you direct me to the nuclear wessels?"

As a trans person I gotta say: Nothing I am interested in celebrating less than this country.

I’m still not used to having chest hair and I gotta say: It rocks.

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

What the fuck man?

I wrote about the Supreme Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I wrote about it because I refuse to act like taking away constitutional rights and allowing legal discrimination is okay just because it's happening to people who don't poll well in a diner in Ohio. In @thenation.com

I love that Samuel Alito retired from the Supreme Court so he could be the InfoWars Elf™️

Fantastic thread! The indy news to listen/watch is here!

To others sharing responses with other media orgs, sure! Many others do exist. I shared more in my post below, and the list included there was non-exhaustive … In sum: Some newer/online/local/indy outlets are in fact reporting on trans people humanely. Some even hire us sometimes — which is ideal.

I just know if the Trump admin tries to force colleges to adopt a trans bathroom ban, I'm going to have a bunch of cis colleagues saying, you can just use the single stall bathroom! No, I'm not going back. I'm not accepting any "compromise" for something I've had no issue with for 10+ years.

The use of the word “eliminate” in this context should really freak out more than just those of us he’s seeking to remove, to be honest. This should be a red flag so big that it’s visible from space.

So grateful for your work!!

huge if true

I need T to live for my bones and also for my brain. Without it, I’m dead. And yet, nobody wanted to commission a piece about how this drug is still scheduled …

hey cis media, please cover this story …

holy shit

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