Can conversion therapy be considered protected speech? @rikiwilchins.bsky.social delves into the issue in an interview with three trans legal experts.

“Oh, do you think he was referring to you?”

This brightened my whole day...

If you watch just one interview clip, today---this satisfying takedown of Idaho hate-cult kingpin and Hegseth-puppet-master, Doug Wilson, by writer Wajahat Ali:

On February 1, 2025, the Stonewall UK nonprofit sneakily deleted misgendering hate speech from their definition of "transphobia," which was widely cited in UK TGD discrimination case law. This created a loophole to excuse misgendering harassment from civil rights laws---continued in alt txt.

Good news from the Montana Supreme Court in Kalarchik v. State of Montana; reported by Journalist Erin Reed:

A glimmer of good news from the Montana Supreme Court in Kalarchik v. State of Montana. Please take time to read the text of the decision, I think it's a great example of clear reasoning with respectful language. Special thanks to Dr. Randi Ettner, who was an expert witness for the plaintiffs.

A few days ago, Pope Leo XIV famously stated that "God does not listen’ to prayers of those who wage war." Why, then, has the Roman Catholic Church, under his leadership, waged a genocidal war on the most vulnerable class of human beings? transnews.network/p/it-s-a-nig...

Just perfect:

What we're up against around the world: More anti-trans, faux science and lies about adolescent TGD health care.

Courage in the face of a depraved tyrant governor in my former home state of Idaho:

Please boycott travel, services, and products in the hateful state of Idaho. On our Transgender Day of Visibility, depraved, sadistic Republican Governor, Brad Little, signed into law, H0752. It inflicts felony penalties and up to five year prison sentences on TGD people for using public restrooms..

I wrote about how the campaign against trans people in the United States is one of social murder. www.thedissident.news/every-trans-...

Wishing you hope and comfort on this tragic Transgender Day of Visibility in the U.S. I am still processing this; but I'm not surprised, and no less heartbroken, by this decision--steeped in bias, deception, and disregard for the worth and dignity of the most vulnerable human lives.

Yet another attack on TGD lives by the trump regime, as an unconscionable transmisic rule by the U.S. Dept. of State takes effect on April 10. Public Notice 12948 replaces the word “gender” with “sex” on Diversity Visa application forms and misdefines "sex" as birth-assigned, per trump's E.O. 14168

“No work, no school, no shopping. We’re going to show up and say we’re putting workers over billionaires and kings.” --Ezra Levin, Indivisible 20260329 www.rawstory.com/date-announc...

My heart breaks for Trans and Gender Diverse people in my former home state of Idaho.

The horrifying spread of cis-apartheid bathroom persecution of Trans and Gender Diverse people in my broken nation. This is Jim Crow 2.0.

"AMA policy on gender-affirming care is unchanged. Our recent response to questions about ASPS’s position statement was intended to preserve—not diminish—access to gender-affirming care... The AMA supports gender-affirming care as medically necessary per our policy."

20260324 UPDATE] Funding behind the anti-trans "AYAGDOS" project and "Institute for Comprehensive Gender Dysphoria Research" (GDI) has been linked to the same hate-based dark money fund that financed trumpism's Project 2025. Please read and share this investigative reporting by S. Baum:

Tragedy in Portugal, as the Parliament advances hate-biased legislation to erase TGD human rights and access to lifesaving medical care. Until now, Portugal has been respected as one of the world leaders for TGD rights and a destination for refugees from anti-trans persecution.

Very comprehensive analysis of hateful anti-trans legislation in U.S. states by Alejandra Caraballo. Please share widely. "As of mid-March 2026, the LegiAlerts tracker already records 710 anti-LGBTQ bills—424 new and 286 carried over from 2025. Of the new bills alone, 350 target gender identity."

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The unconscionable "Adolescent and Young Adult Gender Dysphoria Outcomes Study" (AYAGDOS) at Northwestern University continues to ramp up recruitment of young Trans and Gender Diverse adults to be duped into collaboration with the oppression and defamation of TGD people. Please read and share:

Oppose the "SAVE Act," HR22/S128, as if democracy depends on it---because it does.

The U.S. 4th Circuit Appeals Court allows hate-states to single out Trans and Gender Diverse adults for denial of coverage for medically necessary surgical care, in addition to adolescents. Moreover, the court urges state governments "to encourage citizens 'to appreciate their [birth-assigned] sex'”

1930s Germany, all over again--weaponizing politically punitive and scientifically capricious mental illness stereotypes to imprison entire minority populations without due process or civil rights. Trans, Nonbinary, and Queer communities will once again be targeted very early on...

Under pressure from trumpism, the American Medical Association recently disavowed science and medical ethics and retreated on the medical necessity of well-evidenced, affirming surgical care for adolescent TGD people who need it. Is it time to evacuate WPATH from the same fate in the U.S.?

More than 40 U.S. Hospitals and Clinics have halted all or some medically necessary care for TGD adolescents and young adults since trumpism took power. (Some are subjects of litigation) T. Gaffney, Stat News; 2026Feb5 www.statnews.com/2026/02/05/h...

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

Up in the wee hours, watching, perhaps, my last full lunar eclipse. Here's a beautiful photo from Santa Barbara photographer Glen Dunlap, just a couple minutes ago.

Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice. Read my full statement:

California Governor and wannabe Democratic presidential nominee, Gavin Newsom, once again de-closeted his inner transmisia in a recent disgraceful interview with CNN. He referred to the existence, human dignity, and civil rights of TGD people in American society as less than "culturally normal."

Republicans knew there was no proof that Hillary Clinton ever met Jeffrey Epstein, yet they had her testify for 6 hours behind closed doors.

Nightmare news from the U.K., as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting, disembowels medical privacy rights privacy rights for TGD people. Private medical records will be Hoovered up by the government for the purpose of a non-consensual, anti-trans-biased "data linkage study"

There have always been horrifically anti-trans groups and individuals. Few have done more, though, to launder their hate into “respectable” conversations than Jess Singal. No publications have done more to help that along than The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Trans history that demands to be remembered: How did trumpism, epsteinism, and wh¡te nationalism come to choose Transgender and Gender Diverse people as their hated scapegoat minority class for political gain and diversion from atrocity? The answer lies in the legacy of slavery...

A tragic update to the Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map of the U.S., from Erin Reed. "The situation continues to deteriorate when it comes to transgender youth care. For adults, we see Kansas as the newest state added to a "Do Not Travel" advisory list [joining Florida and Texas]."

Trans and Nonbinary genocide in the hate state of Kansas. " Kansas is set to invalidate about 1,700 driver’s licenses held by transgender residents and roughly as many birth certificates under a new law that goes beyond Republican-imposed restrictions in other states..." (AP)

I’ll just be blocking all the “You’d better be nice to me or I’m not gonna vote” people. The privilege necessary to hold your vote hostage is astounding, and I don’t have time for it.

Yet another criminally homicidal nightmare emerges in the U.S., as trump's Federal Bureau of Prisons issues a new nationwide policy of forced social and endocrine detransition and abusive gender-conversion psychotherapies for all TGD people in federal custody. This is what mass murder looks like.

Kudos and gratitude to the UCLA School of Law Williams Institution for publication of their soul-jarring report, The Impact of 2025 State Anti-Transgender Legislation on Youth. What these corrupt state governments are doing to TGD people is not mere "impact," is is politically targeted persecution.

A U.S. national poll, published this week by software engineer Lakshya Jain at The Argument, reports a disturbing abandonment of support for fundamental human rights for TGD people among Democrat voters, despite enormous polling gains by Dems in recent weeks.

"Exercise the right to dream. You must face reality, that which is. But then dream of a reality that ought to be, that must be. Live beyond the pain of reality with the dream of a bright tomorrow." ---The Reverend Jesse Jackson, 1984

Kudos and thanks to the Gender Liberation Movement for organizing public response to trump's and brainworm-bobby's proposed rules to eliminate health-saving (and often life-saving) medical care for TGD adolescents throughout the U.S. Please share widely on this last day of public commentary.

My heart breaks for the people of Cuba, as my own criminal government, my own collapsed democracy, inflicts unspeakable suffering on their most vulnerable. Their blood is on my hands and those of my fellow countrypeople. www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...

Yet another tragic miscarriage of justice in my former home state of Colorado, U.S. The Denver District Court ruled against families of TGD adolescents accessing medically necessary (often lifesaving) care and allowed Children’s Hospital Colorado to continue to violate state anti-discrimination laws

In a twitter tirade, the US Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) cites recent pro-trump capitulations by the ASPS and AMA to launch an attack on four prominent Federally Qualified Health Centers (FHQCs) that continue to provide health-saving (often life-saving) medical care to TGD adolescents.

"in America...There are people who want to be in power. And while you say they don’t exist here, I would say I’m quite certain there are people in America who would willingly climb over the corpses of half the American public if they knew they could gain control of the other half." Nuremberg (2025)