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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...

So, not only is my kid's healthcare illegal for doctors to provide him in the state we live in, he can no longer be treated out of state and risks losing access to the evidence backed peer reviewed medication that has changed his life for the better because we are ruled by monsters and cowards

Or they're still wasting decades to dissociation and depression because transition was unimaginable when they were younger and it can take ages to break free from that. I only moved from the missing 2% to the 1% after 10+ years of being pretty sure I should, but of course I *couldn't*

NEW: “I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.” Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Zoom helpfully* enabled AI Assistant on my meeting this morning without being asked, to which my response was to say "Oh, goddamn it" and immediately turn it off, resulting in this delightful meeting summary.

New: The Trump admin excluded all mention of LGBTQ+ people in its annual human rights reports. Former State Dept workers told me this omission will make it harder for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers to demonstrate fear of persecution in asylum proceedings in the US and abroad www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

“It is irresponsible if ScienceDirect continues to have these AI features. The AI generated texts on ScienceDirect spread misinformation and pollute the scientific knowledge infrastructure. This harms science, researchers, lecturers, students, and ultimately also the public.”

“As a doctor, an important way I sustain and deepen my relationships with my patients is by writing about them. This is the very process that the AI scribe asks me — or forces me — to give up.”

Paired texts. bsky.app/profile/hype...

why do we collectively refuse to perceive how this is just gAI companies, who have gambled billions in their tech, trying to create generations of customers who cannot think, read or function without their tech. They want children locked in for the rest of their lives, a monstrous exploitation.

The complaint argues that the administration violated state sovereignty by threatening to prosecute providers who treat transgender minors in states where the treatment is still legal.

So yesterday I learned about Ava Cordero, a transgender woman who, in 2007, sued Jeffrey Epstein alleging he sexually abused her when she was 16. Her lawsuit was filed in 2007 while Epstein was negotiating a plea deal in Florida for abusing other girls, but her claims were mocked and dismissed

This violates R.I. Gen. Laws § 11‑24‑2.3 on its face which provides protections for gender identity in public accommodations in Rhode Island. Brown University is openly admitting it will brazenly violate Rhode Island state law. I expect lawsuits will follow.

Trans women can no longer attend: - Columbia University in New York - Harvard University in Massachusetts - Brown University in Rhode Island And they tell us we'll be safe in blue states. And they tell us it's not a pogrom.

All those AI-powered tools library vendors are turning on by default (or your library is choosing to active)? Yeah, they aren't neutral, they aren't accurate, and the companies have no interest in providing clarity. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/07/21/w...

Several anti-trans bills with sweeping implications are moving through Congress rapidly, with provisions that would fully ban gender affirming care for undocumented immigrants, federal workers, and more. Written by @thefreeradical.org, edited by @madycast.com & @davidforbes.bsky.social Thread 🧵

"...this “burnout” that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. Or, to use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace under these conditions: you are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing."

This new piece by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social has everything. A conspiracy to pervert science, a prominent spokes-doctor with a perennially lapsing medical license, and a curiously close relationship between the ADF and the New York Times.

Children's National reverses course yet again. After pausing their trans healthcare program in January, resuming it in late February, they now seem to be planning on terminating it for good next month. Awful.

What Newsom is selling about trans people is what Trump is selling his base about trans people: "your life will be better if trans people's lives are worse." It's not a purity test; it's about rejecting a politics that sells you empty promises in exchange for other people's misery

Incredible news out of New Hampshire tonight: we pushed the Republican governor (who faces re-election every 2 years) to veto a book ban AND an anti-trans bathroom ban 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 I needed this good news today.

system designed to impose maximum violence on trans women and girls works as intended

Oh dear 😆 open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Lavonnia Moore, the librarian fired for including one of my books on a display after a child requested it, sounds incredible and what happened to her should be a crime. roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/07/05/l...

⚠️Welp. The Supreme Court just agreed to hear a case next term about whether states can ban trans girls from playing on girls sports teams. And if you’ve been paying attention—*especially* after Skrmetti—the answer is gonna be "YOU BETCHA." @hegemommy.bsky.social and I covered this case in 2023:

i wrote about what it feels like to live in the collapse of the american empire "a flake of shale in a great upheaval of the earth" buttondown.com/theswordandt...

If you don't want to provide medical care, don't become a health care provider. I don't know what else to tell you. The Christianist domination of our health care system is a national disgrace.

Certain gay men and lesbians have grown paranoid that too much acceptance of trans people could lead to the over-medicalization of gender nonconformity, ie 'transing the gay away.' Let's talk about this. 🧵

News: The most recent GOP reconciliation bill no longer has the provision to ban Medicaid from being used on gender-affirming care The parliamentarian had disqualified the provision, but Republicans had left it on the text — it now has been removed

WSJ 30 Jun 25 -- Trump admin weighing cutting all fed funds to hospitals providing pediatric gender care, even in 31 states where it remains totally legal. 19 states have banned GnRHa drugs 31 have not. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

I've added FOUR new peer-reviewed academic articles to my round-up post, "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" Together, these highlight serious ethical issues with the Cass Review's design, recommendations, and implementations. It's important to keep this story live! ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...

well well look what the local fascists decided to push through anyways. this means democrats *will* have to challenge it on the floor. make them. find contact info at reps.fyi and scroll to the top of this thread for context, more explanation, and an article by eric ⬇️ explaining the situation.

"Ensuring public access to records in the #archives is part of #NARA's core mission and the new security standards do not--and would never--change this." (X update from the National Archives re: College Park, HT @anthonyclark.bsky.social, link in alt-text) #ArchivesAreForEveryone #speccolls 🗃️📜

Well, this is awful. "Effective July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the general public." www.archives.gov/college-park

This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

do not under any circumstances give a librarian your true name, accept a gift from it (especially food or drink) and for god's sake never stray from the path in a library.

The idea that pro-trans movements led to anti-trans sentiment is egregiously out of touch with reality. Increased LGBTQ representation led to historic shifts in public opinion toward the community. The aggressively bigoted and violent campaigns that lied about trans people are clearly responsible

Aaaaand… yup. (🎁🔗) www.nytimes.com/1996/06/07/u...