8. In New York City, newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani has pledged $65 million for transgender healthcare. If that funding is realized, it would position New York City as a major hub for private clinics capable of absorbing demand created by hospital closures across the country.

1. Good news for trans people in Vermont. A bill was just filed that would fund private trans youth care clinics across the state. It would be a major shield from Trump funding threats which have caused hospitals to shut their doors. But it has to pass first. Subscribe to support our journalism.

2025 has been an incredibly hard year for trans people. And yet... the political project to erase us is failing. In spite of them having so many levers of power, many of us have continued to thrive, and new pathways open up every day to get around the attacks. My case for hope for 2026.

Merry Christmas everyone from Zooey and I :) To the trans and queer readers, know you are all part of a community that looks out for each other and holds space when so few others do. And I know days like today can be tough. So please feel free to spend as much time here if you need to get away 💜

wait you guys don't have mark cuban muted

During Christmas, a time when so many people are spending time with family for the holidays, I always notice that a disproportionate number of service industry workers who are covering those days tend to be queer. It always makes me a bit sad why this is likely the case.

Trans people are a 1% population that goes through a process that has a 99% success rate, and they want to abolish it over a 1% regret rate. Meanwhile, knee surgery over there with it's 17% regret rate gets a free pass. More people die getting a Brazilian Butt lift procedure than bottom surgery.

Florida's supreme court UPHELD law that enables juries to sentence someone to death nonunanimously. The pro-life state my ass.

4. "All Republican politicians care about is making the rich richer and attacking trans people. They are obsessed with trans people. I actually think they think more about trans people than trans people think about trans people. They are consumed with this and they are extreme on it.”

The whole idea of “Girlfriend plays x game!” is so unbelievably absurd in the worst kind of way. As if “girlfriends” aren’t the type of people to play or like video games or could possibly be a gamer due to their relationship title/identity. I wish people would just do better.

Let's be clear. When we banned Assault weapons in Australia and brought in sensible gun control laws at no stage did anyone say "We will NEVER see another mass shooting or single shooting death again"

Hogwash Legacy is free? Still won’t play it.

For the love of God DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts. Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter . A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many sacrifices. Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.

7. Healthcare coverage is essential for trans people. While many transition-related medications are generic and not especially costly, required lab work can quickly put care out of reach for anyone on a tight budget. For transgender people who need surgery, the financial barriers are even steeper.

There was a time when I never thought about RFK, Jr, or Kash Patel, or JD Vance, or Stephen Miller, or any number of these other fucks. And there will be a time when nobody ever thinks about them again. And I sincerely hope we all live to see that time.

7. Dr. Rona Carroll, a physician and PATHA member, emphasized that puberty blockers are safe, effective, and have been used for decades—by transgender and cisgender patients alike.

4. “We won’t let transgender children in Aotearoa be subjected to harm just to ‘win a war on woke.’ We’re taking this to court because we know what’s right, and we believe the law is on our side.”

8. They attribute the improvement to multiple factors: the relief that comes with physical changes in body shape, hair growth, and voice, the emotional stability that follows being affirmed in one’s gender, and the ability to navigate social spaces with less fear of misgendering.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

My Transition Co-chair Lina Khan and First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan joined Starbucks workers on the picket line today because making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for our workers. We are their partners in the fight to live in this city with dignity.

This Trans Day of Remembrance, my heart hurts thinking of all the people we couldn't carry through to the other side of this moment in history. Amidst all the fighting we've done for our community, amidst the unshakeable belief that we will win in the end, grief still takes hold.

9. So many of us have lost people. It’s a grief we carry together. But we also carry their light. My hope is that we hold onto that light, remember them fiercely, and use what they left behind to guide us toward something better.

7. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was a legend among transgender people. Her spirit of resistance stretches back to the Stonewall riots themselves, where she was present on June 28 and fought back as police arrested LGBTQ+ people at the bar, ultimately spending that night in jail.

5. Elisa Shupe was a transgender veteran and former detransitioner who was exploited by people eager to weaponize her story against all transgender people. In early 2021, she reached out to me and several other journalists with a landmark revelation: she held 2,600 emails from the worst actors.

3. Lia Smith was a transgender student at Middlebury College in Vermont, a swimmer, and a passionate advocate for transgender rights. She was a double major in computer science and statistics, a member of the Chess and Japanese clubs, and an exceptionally kind presence to those who knew her.

2. I wish I could show certain politicians the weekly suicide notes that reach my inbox, or the death threats. I wish they would care. I can’t make anyone care, but I hold onto the hope that you can help make this world more bearable by being the ones who do.

1. Nearly every transgender person walks this earth knowing people like us who are no longer with us. In writing about transgender people every day, I hold in my heart the people who are now our ancestors, and I try to bring their light forward. These are the people I'm remembering today.

Harvard just opened an investigation into Larry Summers's ties to Epstein. That's just PR cover for Harvard. They've known this entire time. Epstein literally had an office at Harvard for years.

Watching the Epstein survivor admit that she voted for Trump really fucked with my head. The brainwashing against the left that apparently people endure from birth, must be way deeper than I ever imagined. A victim voting for a rapist, who has also been accused by 26 other women? Over a woman? WTAF?

This Transgender Awareness Week, we come together to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the transgender community in the face of relentless attacks. My message to you is simple: I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.

I want the term “biological sex” to die. I’m so sick of this pseudo-scientific bullshit.

this even applies to hormones - they take a while to take effect, puberty does not happen instantly but in fact takes a few years to properly take effect. and like, probably you wanna be sure before you go in for surgery, but that's not the decision you're making now.

the thing about transition is that you don't have to be sure that it's the thing you want before you start doing things towards it. you can just stop at any time! wear those clothes, cut your hair or don't, ask to be called a different name, see how it feels.

Marjorie Taylor Greene harassed school shooting survivors, claimed Jewish space lasers created disasters and said horrible things about the most vulnerable But the death threats weren’t a problem until she refused to defend pedophiles Yes, one side is spineless but the other is actually evil

you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to marjorie taylor greene”

There is space in the tent for MTG but not Mamdani 😭 These are the people I’m supposed to trust with my life? Everyone pls bffr.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I’ve never met a woman who wasn’t sexually harassed or abused at least once in her life (usually before she even turned 18) and I feel like we as a society aren’t mad enough about it.

This is rich from MTG. God knows how many trans people have had to deal with hate and abuse because of her. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Golden aisle #scape #forestfriday #japanesegardens #gibbsgarden #eastcoastkin #autumn #fall

Conservatives: well we’ll just highlight all the democrats in the Epstein files! Liberals: yes. Good. Let’s hold everyone accountable. Conservatives: even Bill Clinton and Bill Gates!!! Liberals: that’s a good start! But go after Trump just as hard. Conservatives: …

💯 All of that hard work so many good-intentioned Democrats invested into campaigning, protesting, and creating last week's Blue Wave has been erased by this dirtbag and his corrupt Senate cronies.

Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people. Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people. We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.

i know it's been incredibly inconvenient for every center-left leaning democrat to witness the suffering that our community has endured all year, but maybe it's time for you to get a fucking taste of reality that we are forced to fear and experience constantly. the government won't save you.

quit celebrating SCOTUS "rejecting the call" to overturn the same-sex marriage case as if they didn't just disallow every trans person in the united states from being able to get their passports with their correct gender marker. they WILL come back to it and we're tired of you ignoring us.

“Are you aware of Zohran Mamdani?!” Bro everybody in the fucking country is AWARE of Zohran Mamdani, you racist fucks.

we don't talk enough about how cruel it is that we still gatekeep medical transition for minors behind social transition

There are so many autistic people on here that, despite having come to see myself as being rather pedantic, I am coming to realize that I’m actually relatively cognitively flexible on the autistic scale, lmao. (Definitely still pedantic on the neurotypical scale though…)