Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...

the spectrum of queer experience is vast and complex, and none of us know what's going on inside families that are not our own but my feed is full of media outlets describing a woman with a very-much-living-and-in-the-picture wife first and foremost as though she was a man's widow, and I just

Like saying a guy burned down the apartment complex to distract investigators from finding the body parts in the fridge. OK yes and we will still deal with the murders but we do have to address the fact that the building is now on fire, and that is also going to be a crime requiring our attention.

Dear @nytimespr.bsky.social. Your press release re comments I gave to @transnews.network includes many errors but one assertion is true: “TNN featured an interview with a former editor on the International desk at The Times who was not involved in these coverage decisions.” That is the problem

Here's the adult vaccination recommendations as of Nov 2024. Why did I save these? Because I knew someone was going to try to stomp on this, and not today, Satan. Not today. #CDC #vax #vaccines #getvaxxed

The basic truth is the University of Oklahoma fired an instructor because she had the audacity to do her job while trans. Media like CNN are complicit in simultaneously pushing the anti-trans narrative and covering up the brutal outcomes of this societal purge.

Therapists push back as the anti-trans group Therapy First has slipped its way into providing continuing education to medical professionals. @veraeikon.bsky.social provides original reporting for this story exclusively on Assigned Media.

This trans instructor was doing her job, giving a failing grade to a student who cynically did not comply w the assignment. The instructor was targeted by Turning Point USA who worked hand in glove w the student in a highly orchestrated media hit job to advance its anti-trans hate campaign

This thread puts into words a lot of what I've been struggling with for a while, and especially in the last 24 hours.

all the articles you read about this will say it "would charge doctors" but there is nothing in the bill limiting the felony crime to medical providers. you could write "would charge parents" and be just as correct. news outlets downplay it because news outlets are transphobic.

This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands. If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!

remember when some of y'all were welcoming her to the resistance ... please, next time she mildly criticizes trump, please remember she's still the enemy, trying to hurt my family specifically. and they aren't gonna stop with minors.

Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.

cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”

great job whipping votes @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social you useless sack of shit. without three Dem defectors this doesn't pass, and now every American family with a trans kid gets to sleep worse worrying about this going to the Senate.

BREAKING NEWS: The House of Representatives has just passed H.R. 3492, an anti-trans bill that would charge healthcare providers with a felony for providing medically necessary care to transgender young people,

This is what Ezra Klein and Gavin Newsom want the Democrats to compromise with: Folks who believe there is an actual traitorous angel who is rebelling against God by creating my health care regimen. We're meant to believe those will be the folks with a lot of good ideas to move the country forward

Criminal president pardons criminal representative so he can declare trans children criminals

"To be clear, the movement to ban books has never been about protecting our children. It’s about censorship, and about controlling ... young people..." Bingo! time.com/7341120/book...

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

NEW: Wondering how a college student's homework assignment worth 25 points becomes a national controversy? With @joyurcaba.bsky.social we unraveled how it happened after a Univ of Oklahoma student emailed politicians and activists about her grade dispute www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Saw transitioning in your 20s referred to as "later in life transition" and im gonna transition into dust

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

I'm still holding right around 2 books/week for #DecemberTransReadathon, which is over double my normal pace in recent years. Started A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett today.

Some thoughts on some things I've been dealing with lately. 1/6

On to my third book in #DecemberTransReadathon, which has me reading more consistently than I have in ages. Today's new start is Stag Dance by Torrey Peters.

Day four of #DecemberTransReadathon and I'm finally starting a new book! I finished For the Love of April French last night and am now on to A/S/L by @jeannethornton.bsky.social (whose Summer Fun I greatly enjoyed last month.)

This seems fun. I just started For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes yesterday. #DecemberTransReadathon

Thinking about the trans grad student placed on admin leave at OU. A lot of talk centers around the student, but I suspect the story's rightful center is the instructor. It feels like she is the target of a bad-faith trap. 🧵 1/?

the tendency of cis folks to do this — to sacrifice trans folks' rights and also say, 'oh we're not doing that!': it's added insult to injury. it's gaslighting. the point is: they don't CARE what we think or the truth of anything ... it's all just cover-your-ass style, spineless shameless cowardice.

I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"

1. Washington State University has credentialed an anti-trans, conversion therapy org SEGM to teach CMEs to medical providers. The panel is filled with the most vitriolic of anti-trans activists. Unsuspecting providers may be taught harmful practices. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Of course the WaPo editors think this is dandy. What utter shit the paper has become.

The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues. The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Define your music taste with 8 artists: * Backxwash * Lingua Ignota * underscores * Saya Gray * Khruangbin * Massive Attack * Lucinda Williams * Judee Sill

So much bad stuff is happening. The Cass Review feels like it got lost in the noise. Yet this incredibly biased £3m project continues to warp discourse around trans healthcare. I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.

This. Absolutely this. "While much has been written about the vulnerabilities of contingent faculty, there has been almost no discussion of the academic freedom needs of one of higher education’s most rapidly growing workforces: third-space professionals." #HigherEd #Staff #AcademicLibraries

Big if true

Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately, by Jackie Sabbagh www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Any #medlibs (or others) have info on transcare.ucsf.edu/guidelines going offline? Hoping it's a technical issue, but given the times I'm wary.

Equality Caucus Rep. Mark Takano calls on Speaker Johnson and GOP House leadership to reign in their party's extreme rhetoric in trans people per this statement that just hit my inbox:

"Well I'm given to understand that for an extremely limited time, members of our nation's political violence party are shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame." www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Every once in a while one of the names in the nonstop parade of creative folks showing their transphobic asses really hits me where it hurts. This is one of those.

here we go again, folks. it’ll take a lot of pressure on dems again to get them to fight! i’ll thread after i’m out of meetings, but if you’re raring to go, this is secs243-246 of the FY26 budget &, yes, this is basically the hyde amendment for trans care as predicted last fall. contact: reps.fyi

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill Moreover, ICE must be destroyed edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

For no real reason, thinking about this piece about the "headline news about famous guy saying transphobic thing" industrial complex I wrote for Paste two years ago. Just before everything got worse. www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...