Episode 20 is live! This week, we will take a closer look at state legislation that strips away the civil rights of trans people. @kansasreflector.com @harperseldin.bsky.social @journalist-sherman.bsky.social @aclu.org www.newsfromthestates.com/episode/its-...

BREAKING: A judge refused to block a Kansas law that invalidates the driver’s licenses of transgender people and allows trans people to be sued for using public restrooms. This isn't the final say, and we will keep fighting in court to stop this discriminatory law.

We're at @sxswedu.com! Watch @brennancenter.org's @erings.bsky.social lead a panel about the ways state constitutions can protect and empower youth. With @aclu.org's @harperseldin.bsky.social, @lwvus.bsky.social's @thecelinafactor.bsky.social, and @youthvgov.bsky.social's Julia Olson.

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

We're in court today asking a judge to block a new Kansas law that invalidates the IDs of transgender people and allows anyone to sue a person they suspect of being trans for using public restrooms. This law has been wreaking havoc on trans people and we're demanding an immediate end to it.

We'll update this page if/when we get an order from the judge

At 1:30 Central/2:30 Eastern, my colleague @harperseldin.bsky.social will be in state court in Kansas asking a judge to block the new law that invalidated the driver's licenses of trans people across the state. You can tune into the hearing here

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

Honestly a more impressive move would have been covering the missed income of transgender drivers now out of a job

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

This state court challenge is being led by @harperseldin.bsky.social

This effectively forces every trans person in the state to out themselves while applying for a job, renting an apartment, or being stopped by police. It's part of the same law that allows anyone to sue anyone else they suspect of being trans and using the "wrong" bathroom.

We the people have the power. Join us tomorrow, January 26, for a virtual training on how to exercise your right to document ICE abuses in your community. RSVP using the link below. When using that link, Indivisible will know you came from us; their privacy policy applies.

ICE and CBP agents are out of control and put everyone in danger. We're calling for ICE agents to withdraw from Minneapolis, and for Congress to rein in ICE’s abuses in our communities.

BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE and CBP challenging federal agents’ unconstitutional and illegal stops and arrests of people in Minnesota. We'll see the Trump administration in court.

On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself. Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right

Politicians are hoping to not just ban trans kids from playing sports with their friends but also open the door to all sorts of discrimination against transgender and other LGBTQ people. We'll be at the Supreme Court tomorrow to stop them.

Trans youth like Becky Pepper-Jackson deserve the right to participate in school sports without facing discrimination. Tuesday, we'll be at the Supreme Court defending Becky and other trans kids' right to play.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is going to hear West Virginia's effort to ban the state's only transgender athlete, 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson. Win or lose, I need your help making sure Becky knows she's a hero for standing up for what's right

This weekend, we're coming together in cities and towns across the country to send a message: ICE doesn't belong in our communities.

We'll be at the Supreme Court next week fighting West Virginia politicians' discriminatory attempt to prevent one transgender kid in their state from playing sports with her friends. This case is bigger than sports or one client — it's about protecting hard-fought civil rights protections.

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

We condemn ICE's killing of a Minneapolis woman today and call on federal agents to withdraw from Minnesota immediately. This tragedy is further proof that ICE is out of control, endangering our communities, and must end its lawless operations before anyone else is brutally hurt or killed.

Ho ho ho. Here is our press release about the decision. As @chrisgeidner.bsky.social said: this was the first decision won by patients themselves. Similar challenges -- patients, without the hospitals -- are pending regarding hospitals in LA and DC. pubintlaw.org/federal-cour...

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I do think more people should appreciate that Sarah has to be selective about when she draws attention to her identity given the obsessive focus on it by some of her colleagues--she is in a uniquely impossible position. But it also makes it more impactful when she does.

I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.

The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.

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Attorney Barbara Schwabauer explains her decision to leave the Justice Department's Office of Civil Rights rather than comply with a Trump administration order to subpoena the medical records of transgender teens

Anyone who applies for a new, corrected, or replacement passport, or for a passport renewal, is at risk of having their passport issued bearing the sex they were assigned at birth. President Trump's anti-trans passport policy is now in effect, but our lawsuit challenging it isn't over yet.

'If the government can enforce rules based on the 'historical fact' of our sex assigned at birth without offending equal protection principles, then what does that mean for the conditions of our lives in the present?" @chasestrangio.bsky.social

The Supreme Court this week allowed the State Department to enforce President Trump's anti-trans passport policy while our lawsuit challenging his executive order moves through the courts. We'll keep this page updated as our legal experts learn more.

The law, in its majestic equality.

The story of this week is that millions of Americans were told in 2024 their lives would be improved if trans people's lives were made worse and I'm glad they're finally waking up to the fact that was never true to begin with--but trans people's lives are still getting worse

This fight isn't over. Our case challenging President Trump's executive order will still move forward. In the meantime anyone who applies for a new, corrected, or replacement passport, or for a passport renewal, is at risk of having their passport issued bearing the sex they were assigned at birth.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration's request to enforce its discriminatory passport policy while our lawsuit makes its way through the courts. This decision undermines the freedom of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people to have our IDs reflect who we are.

This sentence ranks right up there with language from Bowers and Plessy for combining cruelty and callousness.

I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.

BREAKING: We're asking the Supreme Court to reject the Trump administration's attempt to revive its discriminatory passport policy. Lower courts were right when they stopped the the State Department from denying transgender, non-binary, and intersex people accurate identification.

Hear from state constitution super-users @erings.bsky.social, Celina Stewart (@lwvus.bsky.social), @harperseldin.bsky.social (@aclu.org), and Julia Olson (@youthvgov.bsky.social), as they demonstrate how dynamic learning about state constitutions can be in their SXSW EDU Featured Session.

Wrote about The Heritage Foundation's plan to weaponize the FBI against transgender people's existence, which includes banning me from saying that's what they're doing

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

Good news

Despite today’s outrageous ruling, we all have the right to go about our daily lives free from racial profiling by the federal government. We will never stop fighting for our civil liberties and our immigrant communities.

Too often, trans men are left out of the conversations that we have. I set out to answer "why?" Thank you to Rae Timberlake with SPARTA Pride, @harperseldin.bsky.social of the @aclu.org, and Jamison Green for talking to me for this piece.

This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end

Subpoenas made public this week show the government is demanding doctors turn over a wide range of sensitive, identifiable data about its trans patients — everything from social security numbers to Zoom records, notes, addresses, "everything written or recorded." Our story: wapo.st/4lAnkRy

A fishing expedition designed to terrorize these providers and these families. The subpeonas could be (and likely are) baseless and lawless, but what DOJ wants is to frighten hospital boards enough to drop these patients altogether