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I will continue to do my little word work.

There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.

Pride Month may be over, but transfem authors still need your support!!! Our community raised 64% of our $5000 goal by the end of June 🥳🩷 Your reward was to set my reading goal for the rest of the year, which is now 26 books. Wayyy too easy 😏 If we hit 4k? I'll double that. If we hit 5k? TRIPLE

maybe the transmascs need a little joy in our feed? maybe an agent once suggested your top surgery be the central conflict of your memoir & you were like ummmm, no? anyway whatever you’re here for I wrote this for us & I hope you like it & I hope you get to live it too, if you want.

Chase Strangio is a phenomenal advocate and put his whole chest out there in oral argument. This wasn’t some fun gamble for him, this was his life and the lives of the trans kids who come after him. Shame on the NYT and everyone else who plays like this. This shit isn’t funny, it’s dire.

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

In light of SCOTUS's ruling in Skrmetti, @brittneymac15.bsky.social asked doctors what trans youth and their families need to know about navigating this. @teenvogue.com experts advise continuing to talk to affirming healthcare providers if you have them and exploring options for care out-of-state.

Today is a real bad day for trans folks. Lots of us are already struggling under the constant mental and emotional strain of being the target of international hate campaigns for years now, and it ain't getting easier Support us, now more than ever. Emotionally, financially, politically. We need it

If today's Supreme Court ruling has you looking for the exit doors, we've created a guide to help you weigh your immigration options. Work visas, digital nomad visas, student visas, citizenship by descent, and more for 35+ countries. All with a focus on the trans community.

Good for Tim Walz. Especially powerful because he's probably the only governor in the country who has spent a substantial part of his career actually coaching high school sports. He knows how disgusting it is to separate and punish kids because of an adult moral panic

Johnathan Joss died a hero. He was murdered for being gay, he went out protecting his trans husband from being executed. They burned down their home and killed their pets and then they murdered Joss while trying to murder his husband. The New York times can barely muster "fatally shot." I hate this.

you don’t want to miss this!!!!

the GOP budget bill strips trans healthcare from hundreds of thousands of trans people (& allows that care for cis people). contact your senator; tell them to kill that part of the bill! did you know utah’s GOP produced a great case for *preserving* that care? clear & quick summary in the link!🧵

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92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents. Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.

writing a query letter for the first time and it’s becoming an exercise of leaning into my delusions of what my work could be! Ambitious-but-hopefully-not-unbelievably-so comps here we come…?

this whooooole thread

Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”

This is exactly right. She is in no meaningful sense an artist anymore. She is an extremely wealthy, publicly hateful, full time anti-trans campaigner and a horrifically successful one. She’s a cult leader with political pull.

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if no one has reminded you today, one thing you can absolutely do in this moment is write. if you are a writer, you need to write. keep writing.

Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US. They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US. www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...

this is how you do it.

Missing a few key MA reps…!

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"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally." M. Gessen

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we won’t listen to this but wow is it nice to see it anyway

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a transphobic TERF #BookSky

off I go to do my women’s gymnastics in my lil trans guy body hehehe

Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS - an amazing university serving indigenous students from around the US - has been hit hard by federal cuts. Please consider donating via The Haskell Foundation (and please share to get the word out).

And also to so miss the point that this attack on us is about constructing norms of sex and power that will affect everyone. The positioning of “trans issues” here ranks among the worst Times offenses and that is saying a lot.

The Iowa legislature just became the first in modern history to repeal a statutory civil rights law by removing protections for gender identity first passed in 2007. They have legalized discrimination against trans people in housing, healthcare, and employment. This is a campaign of eradication.

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

Ayodele is freaking incredible; DIARY OF A TAP DANCER was one of the coolest shows I’ve ever seen

the fucking nerve of this publication

There's a lot of language in the new sports ban EO, but I want to draw your attention to this section in particular. This is the latest piece in a growing body of evidence that this administration is seeking to control trans people's ability to enter or leave the country.

What’s happening to trans people right now is an administrative and medical genocide. GENOCIDE. Name it. And to the trans folks reading this: stay with us. Please. Your life is precious. And I will fight with and for you. Stay with us. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Co sign. This podcast keeps me sane, keeps me moving, keeps me looking for the joy.

Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis. In 1933. (Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.) They always come for trans people first.

transition has been mostly DIY and community-organized since forever. when you're ready, figure out what you can offer and what you need. talk in real life, use signal, get creative, don't get caught. they can't break us in a way that matters!!!! I love you.

If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.

ughhhhh NO

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

There are 335 million genders in the US. 💜

I run a non-profit that directly provides resources to trans people. I have housed the unhoused in my house, fed the hungry, paid for surgeries, been the person to take care of people after surgery. We do ID documents, medical supplies, community building. We need more support than ever: sculptr.co

Read Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, Jewelle Gomez, Pat Parker, Nikki Giovanni, and Jacqueline Woodson. Watch films by Marlon Riggs and Dee Rees. Listen to Sylvester, Bessie Smith, Luther Vandross, Big Freedia, Brittany Howard, and Janelle Monae. We've always been here. We will always be here.