I’ve been thinking about this amazing piece particularly how I would teach it to my children who I already see learning to hate. I don’t have any good answers.

one of the most profound effects of loving a brain cancer doctor for twenty years is that I have become deeply comfortable with my uselessness

Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

GROVER HIGGINSWORTH III, THE REDDEST MAN YOU HAVE EVER SEEN WHO COULD NOT NAME YOU A SINGLE WNBA PLAYER WITH A GUN TO HIS HEAD: We must protect the integrity of women’s sports! THE MOST VISIBLE AND LEGENDARY WOMENS TEAM SPORT PLAYER OF THE LAST CENTURY: trans girls belong in sports

every hospital that's still illegally denying trans kids healthcare needs to be sued now, by every Democratic AG and trans rights legal org. it's unacceptable at this point to still be cowering to fear of nonexistent laws.

gotta print out 500 copies of this and personally hand-deliver to every dipshit I’ve had to argue with about the cowardice of hospitals shuttering entire clinical departments over a fucking memo www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

Tomorrow! Please join me for my first ever ice cream game launch party!! Where: Fifty Licks Time: 1pm-4pm Melted game specials! Ice cream! ILY!

victory lapping on this one

RIP Bonnie Tyler, an absolute goddess. This isn't even the only comic I've written where Total Eclipse is central, as central as it was to all those years when we DJed, and became the ceremonial phonomantic ending, because where can you go from here? Apex pop culture.

This here is the entire crux of the issue. We had sensible regulations requiring years of testosterone suppression and hormone therapy to play in women's sports. This had not been a problem for nearly twenty years, including at the olympics. Then the right made it one by straight up lying about it.

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

Also the fact that there is only one trans athlete in the state is part of the right-wing project! there should be hundreds! the years of anxiety and hostility and alienation is all part of the process

NYC SHOW UP FOR TRANS KIDS! 🏳️‍⚧️
 NYC hospitals have made a voluntary decision to end care for trans youth, preemptively bowing to the Trump administration. We demand they restart care! Join us today as we picket all three hospitals that have abandoned trans kids.

JUDGE: I cannot conceive of a crime that would justify the breadth of information sought. The government's interest does not outweigh plaintiffs' interest in privacy.

BREAKING: Federal judge grants patients' request to block DOJ from seeking or obtaining patient information via grand jury subpoena as to any transgender people who received gender-affirming medical care in New York City (including NYU Langone). More to come:

#breaking: Just now in Coe, et al. v. Blanche, et al: Judge Failla: I am provisionally certifying a class and granting plaintiff's request for a TRO against DOJ requesting information about the class members. [That's the holding - Inner City Press story coming]

Judge Failla: I am provisionally certifying a class and granting plaintiff's request for a TRO against DOJ requesting information about the class members. [That's the holding]

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

Lander is live on CNN as NBC News calls the race for Lander.

New York U.S. House District 10 Primary 40% Vote Reported: 🔵 Brad Lander – 19,329 (62.0%) 🔵 Dan Goldman – 11,771 (37.8%)

well well well

OK - now hearing in Coe v. Todd Blanche on a Temporary Restraining Order and provisional class certification of families of transgender youth seeking to block turn over of health info to DOJ/subpoena to NYU Langone. Inner City Press will live skeet, thread below

Truly unconscionable HBO is going forward with that show. What a horrendous timeline we’re living in. If you have friends or family who still enjoy Harry Potter, it’s time to have a serious talk with them.

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Glad I woke them up for the 4th quarter tonight

@mayor.nyc.gov remember when you said that you would defeat Trump? That you would dismantle the despot? Do trans children not apply when it comes to this fire? Why is healthcare for trans children the moment when you abandon this promise to fight him? TRANS CHILDREN DESERVE HEALTHCARE

1) countless trans kids are going to needlessly suffer because of this. 2) 18 year olds are ADULTS – so your conceding (as Trump admin hoped by setting 19 at age) that restricting care for trans adults is fine. 3) this goes against the recommendations of most medical professional organizations...

this is my kids’ first real year in nyc and it’s very fun to watch them experience ny this way. As I set up an iPad at breakfast so they could watch the fourth quarter J was like “are you a basketball fan now?” and I was like “no but they can’t go to school without seeing this!”

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

I am honestly disturbed by the swiftness with which "trans healthcare not available to anyone under 19" is going from being regarded, rightly, as collaboration with trans genocide and a fascist federal government to "the best we can expect" even among those who damn well know better...

my only contribution to the new yorker discourse is that I should get to count my kids years for myself as well because that shit is hard

Mamdani being a huge coward when it comes to trans youth is genuinely enraging. They will tell us with a straight face how hard it is. Do you know how hard it is for a trans youth who has had to move states and had 3 providers drop them and now has no options? Try that.

Literally this. If the largest, queerest, and most diverse city's socialist muslim immigrant mayor won't fight for trans kids , who will??

I am really struggling to imagine a collective way forward right now. our institutions have betrayed us at every single step.

we’re saving these words for novel RPG attribute names

babys first Forbidden Planet pull @planetx.bsky.social

Recently it came out that despite the plan to create a fund for gender-affirming care for trans youth in NY, the budget just released has allocated nothing for this purpose. This is both a failure and a betrayal. Let Kathy Hochul and state reps know you feel about this. Every single day this month.

If you give a damn about trans lives, STOP PRAISING THE POPE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HIERARCHY. They're literally a key part of trans genocide. Right now. Today. Actively and aggressively. You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to them.

if you wanted some kind of say in how art is made or interpreted or adapted or taught or translated or passed down from generation to generation… sorry, you did the Daily Wire and PragerU instead. the rest of civilization will be moving on

the thing is we lived through a revolution: the repeal of taxation, reagan onward. that means there’s one easy trick for the core of reconstruction: fix the rates loud in the streets, power in the spreadsheets

Murderbot is a better parenting role model than Bandit

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

Murderbot welcome to the war on cars

And that's that. Judge Reed O' Connor now has in his possession the medical records of countless trans youth in Rhode Island that includes everything from private therapy notes detailing every aspect of their lives to their prescriptions and diagnoses.

everything I ever needed to know about gentle parenting I learned from Murderbot

I’ve had a few conversations with otherwise well-meaning folks saying “well what do you expect the hospitals to do” and this decision says it better than I have been for certain: we expect them to fight for us not against us

he made the sea dark! like some kind of wine! how dare he!

For my newsletter, I wrote about the killing of Juniper Blessing and ruminated on who the media thinks deserves attention in death. Friday newsletters are usually paywalled, but I have made the mini-essay portion of this post free to all: www.burnsnotice.com/her-name-was...