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...

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

to be clear this is one of the administrative subpoenae from last year NOT the grand jury subpoena issued on NYU and others this past week

I guess we’re at the “sending mychart messages” stage of advocacy now

this is fucked up on its own obviously but if there’s anyone out there still so fucking brain dead as to not see the direct connection between this and reproductive rights just abandon them they’re useless to us and themselves

🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...

Got a similarly simple solution to the Transgender issue. Just let people transition and be fucking normal about it and mind yer own beeswax

Someone, Jesus Christ, I don’t care if it’s a media personality, a citizen or a legislator, when he says this COVID and measles on kill people who are already sick, say, “So what? Sick people matter too,” to his nasty fucking face.

If you know people in NYC, can you please help us to spread the word that Black Zine Fair is on Saturday and that they should register to come? pools.events/event/WFzHwJ... - It's free but donations are always appreciated. We have 4 days to let folks know about it.

This was the worst fucking podcast I have ever come across. They had to go to Europe to find an adult trans person who transitioned as a kid who was willing to speak with them.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

found my new favorite place in the city

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA

I'm really glad the loathsome worms who are running this paper's reputation into the ground have to at least expend the effort coming up with lies to justify their anti-trans bigotry on a regular basis. I hope it's an iota as exhausting for them as it is for me, a Times contributor with a trans kid.

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

ban cars

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

I've talked to a lot of people who seem to think that trans kids in blue states like IL or NY or CA are still getting the healthcare they need, but I assure you that's not the case.

The section that the Guardian censored… By Prof Judith Butler

Y'all need to get the fuck off Substack.

I didn’t think anything could make me wish my (Catholic, MAGA) dad were still alive but I was wrong

Meanwhile every “uh” uttered by AOC gets “faithfully transcribed”

It is #TransDayofVisibility. I have three children, and two of them are trans. Our oldest is 14 and came out nearly a decade ago. Back then, our greatest worries were making sure other kids in kindergarten knew what her name was without putting her on the spot. Now, it’s different.

what a fucking mark. I guarantee you the bigots you’re adding your signature next to won’t have a hard time distinguishing those things. complete dipshit behavior here.

“Your lives are not a political issue” is a fucking cop out. Do some politics protecting trans lives because right now unfortunately trans lives are VERY MUCH a political issue. The Mayor has not said a single thing about the shuttering of clinics providing affirming health care in NYC.

It’s been 5 weeks since NYU Langone ended care. Mamdani’s office has not directed H+H to absorb patients or enforced NYC human rights law against the hospitals stopping care. He also has not answered multiple trans journalists questions on if he will commit to doing so.

for TDOV this week we went to an amazing riso/screen printing studio nearby and they were giving these posters away FOR FREE

The person at Gilead responsible for this decision is a mass murderer and in any functioning society would be treated as such

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement. The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.

Last year a middle schooler sent an adult to our local TDOV event, the question she sent in to our panelists was, "Why are they doing this to us?" I have lost count of how many times I've thought about that since last year.

So the NYT is so committed to shitting on trans people that when the AMA tried to correct their reporting, they responded by saying they know more about the AMA's position than the AMA itself. That's zealotry.

lol my five-year-olds know that conversations about "bad people" are meaningless. what choices did they make? did Nick Frost choose to lend his considerable fame to a shitty person and a shitty product? yes? then I think that choice sucks and is worthy of critique.

New newsletter, about all the wonderful stuff me and @nicoleamaines.bsky.social have cooked up for Galaxy and Dreamer this Spring and Summer: buttondown.com/planetx/arch...

Department of Excursions

For @defector.com, I wrote about the Nitehawk Workers Union, "saving movie theaters," and why humans respond to other humans defector.com/fair-pay-fee...

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

also!

I was at this bakery and they had this brand of birthday candles called “Good Light” and I was gonna take a picture of them and DM it to @twolemonades.com with the caption “tfw your candle teaches you a kinder way to say your own name”