"By making life for trans youth too difficult to bear, the GOP is hellbent on a genocide by suicide." slate.com/life/2025/12...

Divest yourselves, good people, of the notion The Atlantic is good for anything but mulch.

i wish people would stop saying that people like me being driven forcefully out of public life and murdered is a distraction from stuff that matters

This clothing isn’t just cosmetic, it’s actually healthcare, so clothiers can’t sell it… But that medicine isn’t healthcare, it’s just cosmetic, so doctors can’t sell it… Trans people’s rights are nothing but a game of Calvinball to cis people. www.advocate.com/politics/fda...

does anyone else find it extremely funny to have a vanderbilt law prof saying this when vanderbilt eagerly illegally provided over 65k pages of trans medical records to the attorney general without objection or even de-identifying them?

New Nashville simulator just dropped. All you have to do is read… it’s even more realistic than VR! Feels just like being there! www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

every asshole that keeps insisting that we should discard trans people to attract more votes shares blame in this *this* is the sort of person you're trying to appease with your cowardice

Not trying to be rude but allies really need to put up or shut up at this point.

At this point, I’ve accepted that perhaps every person I ever had a shred of respect for is secretly an inhuman monster.

every single person who has ever opposed any element of trans rights - from the Republican fash who want us completely annihilated to the Democratic-voting men and women who think there are "legitimate questions" about trans people in sports - have our blood on their hands. I will never forget.

Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.

They say they’re protecting kids. They’re not. They’re harming these kids by blocking their access to health care. These comments make clear what this is about: Eliminating *all* trans people of all ages. If they get away with it with trans people, they’re coming for you next.

You *can* change your sex. I *did* change mine. If this makes you uncomfortable, stop being part of the problem.

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

None of what this charlatan is yammering has anything whatsoever to do with trans children, as they’ve never had access to these surgeries in the US. This speech serves 2 purposes: 1. Lies to obfuscate banning gender care as simple as counseling 2. Laying the foundation for trans adult bans

I don’t know how to fully express my rage and sadness for trans youth in America today. I know well what is being taken from them. I can only hope that, one day, somehow, there will be restorative justice for them, although I know that is practically impossible. Why must the cis be so cruel to us?

I’m against God. Seriously, I hate that muthafuka he fukin blows

Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives. It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.

The wider political apparatus of the West and the US in particular is determined to declare trans existence an illegitimate way of being. If you can't bother to understand and empathise with a tiny, vilified, relentlessly attacked population in the face of that, what good are you?

All fucking year long.

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.

What an utter fucking travesty that The House passed this bill straight from the Deliverance district. I don’t share Erin’s pure confidence that the the other chamber of jellyfish will block it. Call your senators. Primary the traitor Dems till they can’t run for dogcatcher.

Surely, after the new BBC style guide, it should be "Sex Matters, a transphobic hate group which identifies as a charity."

Transitioning is the best choice I’ve ever made in my life and the only regret I have with it is that I didn’t do it when I was younger

We do but our covens revive us

This is illegal discrimination in the state of California, WOULDN’T YOU SAY, @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov ?? sfstandard.com/2025/12/09/s...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Yes, a very "have the day you deserve" to the Pragmatists who humbly, politely request that an entire generation withers and dies without complaint so they can keep enjoying their little treats that make them feel like the world is still normal.

These lawsuits, or the threat of them, are an existential threat to organizations but they're also an existential threat to (trans) people and I think that's more important. Every trans kid being excluded is more important than the existence of the organization itself and I don't say that lightly.

Like, I'm sorry the fascists are giving you difficult choices. But that's what fascists fucking do. The only legit answer is "fuck you make me". The only answer that shows you have actual fucking principles not preferences is "fuck you make me". And that sucks. But here we are.

Do not come to us and expect us to understand that you just had to throw us under the bus. We are not going to smile and nod. We will spit in your eye.

The transgender experience in the UK right now is basically just waking up to discover what else you've been banned from.

I think many of us would rather an organisation didn't exist rather than being allowed to continue to operate on and create a model to perpetuate discrimination. Maybe it's just their time. 🤷‍♀️

just for anyone who lost track; The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.

Tennessee fails again. Not a disappointment, but only because to qualify it would have to be a surprise, which it is not.

Undoubtedly “barring taxpayer funds” will be interpreted in the broadest possible sense, pushing us out of anywhere that also accepts Medicare/Medicaid. I fear a future in which only the wealthiest trans people get care at a handful of segregated clinics while the rest of us go underground.

DIY HRT should be something you can just walk into a gas station and buy and I will defend my word until I get sent back to hell for an eternity

#transdayofrememberance #sanfrancisco

The United States is now institutionally a Nazi country

Rare sighting of an article that treats trans existence somewhat fairly. I didn’t know news media published anything halfway intelligent anymore. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

🥽so, do cis people care enough about child rape to revolt, or do they only pretend to care in order to shame queer people for doing consensual sex with other adults?

The people who think I'm a pervert for using the women's bathroom have resorted to "it's actual ephibilhia"

Why do you want to pretend like sex and gender are separate, cissexist genital cops? Could it be that “gender is an opinion, sex is a biological fact” is, in fact, a transphobic position!? Are trans sexes inferior because they are “socially constructed” and “just people acting on opinions” /s

"Take the phone away" is the first item on the list of action recommended by anti-trans parents' orgs.

As many of you know, a handful of Dem Sens have voted on a CR that keeps the government funded until Jan 30, which would end the shutdown. For those watching for anti-trans provisions, there are none in the CR. Senate Vets-MilCon, Leg, Ag minibus bills for FY26 have no riders.

Borders are phantasms, citizenship is a Kafkaesque imposition of bureaucracy on real life and, on the timescale of human civilization, nationalism is a fad.

Join us 11/18 at 1 p.m. ET for our 3rd annual webinar on the state of trans rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ We continue to face a wave of coordinated attacks from both state & federal levels. Tune in as we break down these fast-moving developments & what they mean for trans people. RSVP now: tinyurl.com/45tmvz56

Bill Kristol’s redemption arc is reaching Zuko levels