babe wake up, one of the "tradcath egirl summit" chicks is transvestigating sydney sweeney's neck

since it's behind a paywall now, I wanted to share this graph from "How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts" (Nature, April 2025). Say it with me: the anti-trans/LGBTQ+ movement is an anti-science movement: [article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]

One of the first neighborhoods and groups I saw targeted by agents during raids in Chicago were vice districts and sex workers on the blade and in massage parlors. The overwhelming response to that was laughter, indifference, or relief

U.S. citizen detained by ICE: “…they finally told me that they could offer undocumented family members of mine legal protection if I have any…or money, in exchange for giving them the names of protest organizers, or undocumented persons. I was shocked, and told them no.”

I encourage you to think of abolishing ICE not as an end in itself, but as a good start.

y'all may remember that Justice Amy Coney Barrett claimed to have no knowledge about how the government treats trans people, & said trans people had been subject to "relatively little" discrimination y'all may not know that her skepticism had legal significance.. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trans...

Bringing back this thread for everyone differentiating between ICE and the cops.

hey if you're a writer trying to unfuck your creative situation this year, getting coaching from Jay helped me with that a lot and you should consider hiring him to help you too

portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.

I-94 and Wilson, Chicago, IL

did my best to break down what we know, and how Trump officials have lied so far, about Renee Good and her murder today:

Everything We Know About the ICE Killing of Renée Nicole Good

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

thinking about how Obama said the Patriot Act violated civil rights as a senator, then renewed it as president bc actually nvm it *was* necessary for national security. Funny how that works out

We're in the final month of this fundraiser and desperately need more donations! Please donate, please share! This is a terrifying and horrible situation that's unfortunately not uncommon. Trans people deserve families! People who do sex work or have done sex work in the past deserve families!

social media users and owners collectively doing a great job of convincing me to post even less this year

this year was a really hard one and I'm smack in the heart of my personal trauma season but hi, I'm still here and I'm glad you are too

With so many new subscribers thanks to my Heated Rivalry content, I decided to extend the 20% off sale on paid subscriptions!

Please donate if you're able to. This is an unthinkable amount of money for an unthinkably fucked up situation. Anything helps, trans sex workers deserve to have families

Haven't done one of these in a while! I've got a post-holiday haterade rant about the NHL's support for Heated Rivalry, which I hate. www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/sorry-but-...

IT IS TIME. Today is the only day you can legally share this. Happy Almost Christmas

The battlefield 🗡

...Ms. Curth continues to deny that she engaged in any arbitrary behavior regarding the student's work, and is considering all of her legal remedies, including appealing this decision by the University."

Re: OU religious discrimination finding Quote from Attorney Brittany M. Stewart, Esq.: "My client, Mel Curth, received notification from the University of Oklahoma that an investigation determined that she engaged in arbitrary grading of a student's paper...

If you're a provider of gender-affirming care, please check out The Good Health Project's Know Your Rights update/memo. Trans health care care is still lawful under federal law. static1.squarespace.com/static/686eb...

to be clear: no it wouldn't. that is not how this mechanism or federalism works. even under this rule hospitals would remain free to serve trans youth. discrimination in exchange for money is still discrimination. states that prohibit discrimination could and should but won't prosecute collaborators

wrote a brief overview of the 3 big anti-GAC proposals from HHS today: 1 bans hospitals from providing it to keep Medicaid/Medicare certification 2 bans state Medicaid and CHIP plans from funding it for under-19s 3 rolls back a Biden nondiscrimination rule *for all* www.them.us/story/trump-...

This procedure is not performed on transgender children. It IS performed on intersex children, often without full knowledge or consent of parents. GOP laws protect this practice. 19thnews.org/2023/03/bill... openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstreams/6...

as someone with pretty rudimentary drawing skills, it feels personally insulting every time i see someone say ~AI~ will help me ~express what's in my head~ yes, i am frustrated i don't have the proficiency to just draw what's in my head. that doesn't mean i'm going to outsource my creativity???

talking to rich people in current year

🚨 EVERYONE PLEASE RESKEET THIS FOR VISIBILITY!!! 🚨 A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws. Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...

Today on @theflytrapmedia.com the incredible @nicolefroio.bsky.social talking about why the current journalism model is so broken, and how much it harms all of us. I keep coming back to the ways we get trapped in cycles of writing superficial quick hits just to pay rent.

I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...

The Trans Journalists Association is building a future of journalism where stories about trans people are just, ethical, and informed by our leadership. This #GivingTuesday, we’re asking you to support our movement: bit.ly/tja_pride. 🧵

If you’ve been waiting to upgrade to a paid subscription to Out of Your League, now’s your chance! It’s my annual birthday-season sale! Also makes a great gift for your queer, sports-loving pal. bit.ly/ooylsagseaso...

The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?

The fact that "hypnosis" has become one of the concepts regularly banned on adult websites makes me feel fully insane. We are truly living in the nightmare return of every Christian conservative moral panic we ever laughed at.

This lil drawing I made for the first TDOR I was out for. So many complicated feelings with today. Hoping you are alive and well today.

On January 13, the Supreme Court is going to hear arguments over state laws targeting transgender girls in sports. This from @pablo.show and @motherjones.com is a great explainer on why the right-wing legal movement needs this issue to push trans people out of public life altogether

For @thenation.com, I wrote about the Condé Nast Fired Four and what our fight means for the labor movement www.thenation.com/article/acti...

for anyone who hasn't read it, here's a #TDOR memorial for Rita Hester I wrote a few years ago: www.them.us/story/rita-h...

yesterday was my 10 year anniversary of starting hrt! here's to another decade of biohacking my endocrine system 🎉

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

This is a *huge* win for the organizers within and without HRC who have been pushing the org to divest from weapons manufacturers for many many years. I was pessimistic tbh but I'm overjoyed to be wrong in this case!

my first story @theintercept.com: organizers with @adalahjustice.bsky.social and @genderlib.com announced today that the Human Rights Campaign has ended its relationships with weapons manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon following years of protests and accusations of "pinkwashing"

It's not amnesia. It's reality avoidance and, in many cases, willful ignorance

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

I want to be able to see you and hang out with you and kiss you and eat with you and go to the movies with you! And I'll be so much more likely to do those things if we all take care of ourselves. I'm not getting less disabled. Some of my friends have died. The only thing I can do is mask!