LAST CALL! Tomorrow we're taking over El Rio for our SF Pride Party from 6–9PM. The Gloves Are Off — and the lineup is 🔥 💅 Drag royalty Dulce de Leche + Per Sia 🎶 DJ Charles Hawthorne 🍹 Signature cocktails 🍢 Delicious eats GA & VIP tix moving fast — don’t miss out! eqca.org/events

Our statement in response to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in the case of Skrmetti v. United States, which upheld Tennessee’s ban on lifesaving healthcare for transgender youth.

“Healthcare decisions should be made between doctors, parents, and children. This ruling permits the government to intrude into deeply personal medical decisions. The Court has chosen politics over people, and is allowing states to strip transgender kids of the care they need to survive."

MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

🚨🚨 proud partner alert 🚨🚨 check of the illustrious (& handsome) @tomtemprano.bsky.social in an interview today about today’s ruling on restoring queer and dei based grants!! continually proud & impressed by tom & @eqca.bsky.social ‘s work

MON 6/2 6pm @kalwradio.bsky.social [] @tomtemprano.bsky.social of Equality CA & Transgender Law Center’s Shelby Chestnut on actions to secure queer rights under current threats []Anthropologist Jordan Thomas discusses his book “When It All Burns" [] Elena Oxman's debut film -Outerlands- set in SF

Powerful panel in @wehocity.bsky.social on how LGBTQ+ advocates are responding to Trump’s first 100 days. Thanks @johnericksonwh.bsky.social for organizing and inviting @eqca.bsky.social.

This week’s main story is about trans athletes, where the conversation around them is coming from, the nuances around competition and safety, and where it looks like things might be going. Full segment at the link in our bio.

Huge congratulations to two @eqca.bsky.social endorsed out-LGBTQ+ candidates who won their April special elections. Paloma Aguirre has advanced to a runoff for the San Diego Board of Supervisors and Charlene Wang won her election for Oakland City Council. Let's elect more queer women!

READ: Our statement on Gavin Newsom's remarks regarding transgender student athletes on his podcast: www.eqca.org/newsom-trans...

STATEMENT: Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to Governor Newsom’s Comments on Transgender Student Athletes.

READ NOW: Our full statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to the U.S. Department of Education Investigation into CIF Policy Supporting Transgender Athletes. www.eqca.org/dept-ed-cif-...

🎧 Listen to the podcast! @ezralevin.bsky.social , @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social , @tomtemprano.bsky.social , & CA rep. Lateefah Simon spoke w/ @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about what resistance to the Trump administration could look like in this term. 🔗 :

Incredible news! The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order. The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care. ACLU statement here:

Donald Trump doesn't care about women's sports. He's trying to stop a negligible number of trans athletes from playing sports to "protect opportunities for women" at the same time his administration is stopping women athletes from getting paid equally. Shameful hypocrisy. apnews.com/article/nil-...

Proud to join @scottwiener.bsky.social and dozens of LGBTQ+ advocates and local leaders to push back against Trump’s anti-trans executive orders and reaffirm our fight for the rights of all trans Californians.

Donald Trump is not a king. And we can, and will, fight back against these anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders. More from @kpixtv.bsky.social here: www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

Just weeks after being sworn in, anti-LGBTQ+ lawmakers in Congress are making attacks against transgender student-athletes their top priority. Fortunately, not a single member from the California Democratic delegation supported this discriminatory bill.

NEW: @aoc.bsky.social, after highlighting Republican opposition to reproductive choice, says of today's anti-trans sports bill, that Republicans "now want to pretend today that they care about women."

Check out Equality California's post-election guidance for LGBTQ+ Californians. Our guide is filled with info, resources, and answers to FAQ's about how queer folks can prepare for a 2nd Trump Presidency. www.eqca.org/post-electio...

A week late, but had a great time on swearing-in day with team EQCA. Congrats to the many new members of the CA LGBTQ+ legislative caucus - with 14 members (12% of the legislature), CA has the queerest legislature in the country! 🐻🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

For now, to reach the most folks, I’m going to cross post on Bluesky/Threads/X. But I’ve noticed I’m already posting less on X and more here. We need all the Capitol Hill press corps and national media to migrate here and hopefully at minimum cross post for now. That’s going to make this site sing.

how it started how it’s going

Glad to see this frivolous, hateful and divisive lawsuit be rejected. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/u...

The two CA house races where Republicans spent big on divisive homophobic ads slandering @georgewhitesides.bsky.social & @daveminca.bsky.social as pedophiles for supporting LGBTQ+ folks, are the two we’ve already won. They wasted their money on anti-LGBTQ+ ads that ultimately turned off voters.

The actions of Mike Johnson’s new bathroom policy at the Capitol is dehumanizing and cruel. And it’s not just about a new trans member. It’s about trans Capitol staff, visitors, and the message it send to trans people across the country. Trans people are scared, angry, and we should fight for them.

On a day meant to memorialize those who have been murdered as as a result of transphobia, Rep. Nancy Mace has decided to honor Trans Day of Remembrance by trying to ban transwomen from using bathrooms on all federal property. A uniquely bigoted choice, IMO.

Great research from @mingemi.bsky.social about the multi-year effort to politicize, out, and harm trans athletes. All trans athletes want to do is work hard and play alongside their teammates -- just like everyone else.

Remarkable to see Prop 3, which enshrined the freedom to marry in the CA constitution & repealed Prop 8 passing by > 25 points. Essentially a 30-point shift in support for marriage equality from when Prop 8 passed 16 years ago, with a significant # of rural/purple counties now in support.

First post on a platform that isn’t owned by a belligerent transphobe! Will celebrate by sharing the segment I did with @honeymahogany.bsky.social and Alexis Madrigal on KQED Forum about how CA can protect trans folks from a Trump administration. Listen: www.kqed.org/forum/201010...