What a surprise to see my family mentioned here. Thank you, @lgbtqnation.com, for spotlighting these fearless parents in this inspiring article.

Kristi Noem: “I don’t feel safe in my own home.” Also Kristi Noem: Made South Dakota so unsafe and unlivable for trans kids that they had to literally flee. Anyway, thoughts and prayers, Governor. Sending you the exact amount of empathy you gave them: zero. 🫶

Greg Abbott: "Texans don't run away from a fight" Texans who ran away:

Pretty rich for Paxton to spend years writing + defending policies meant to define trans inclusive families as "sinful" while his own family falls apart for "biblical reasons", then ask for "privacy" when he's repeatedly sought access to trans kids' medical files. Thoughts and prayers, buddy.

PS- As if I'm not salty and petty enough, here is a playlist I created a while back to celebrate the absolute karmaaaaaa he keeps getting into. Enjoy the schadenfreude, babes. Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum. open.spotify.com/playlist/1dh...

In 2016, Ken Paxton had the audacity to sit at my table and break bread with my family knowing full well that my son is trans, then SIX YEARS LATER wrote an opinion stating that families like mine shouldn't exist. Within days, a CPS investigator was in our home threatening to remove our children.🧵

I'm obsessed with a single i heard on @npr.org today by an artist named #EphSee called "malachi the uber driver" and I can't find it on Spotify and its driving me crazy! The song and the story behind it are stuck in my head and im kind of obsessed. Where can I download and listen? Thanks!

Perfection

This deportation was planned as a political spectacle. The deportees were carefully chosen, as was the language used to describe them. Absolutely illegal! Via @timothysnyder.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

It's not hard. This is unacceptable. They won't stop at him.

This podcast episode left out facts about inclusion in sports. The truth is, young people learn many life lessons playing sports: leadership, confidence, self-respect, and the value of teamwork. No one should be denied the opportunity to play sports just because of who they are.

Maybe he should stop trying to become a dictator and instead focus on what he said he was going to do!

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

Congratulations, @abriggle.bsky.social ❤️ This is more timely than ever and I'm proud of you. You're a great philosopher and an incredible dad.

Now more than ever.

idk. i'm a mom of a trans teen in texas and just feeling a little salty and bitter this morning. 🧵

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

My Texas town had a rally to support immigrants today and my local paper was there and anyway I fixed their caption. ✌️

As the EOs and orders keep coming, I keep thinking of the exhibit in the Berlin Jewish Museum that displays the 962 anti-Jewish laws and policies in order as they came down. These kinds of drumbeats are designed not just to oppress but to normalize oppression. www.jmberlin.de/en/jmb-journ...

Axios [Jan 31] -- Federal websites tracking health care information on HIV prevention and transgender care went dark this afternoon. Also gone was information on contraception and gender-based violence. [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

This is grossly irresponsible reporting by the AP. What’s being offered is not a buyout. The deal is if you agree to resign in September you can continue working remotely until then. There is no buyout or severance.

1. Yesterday, Trump released a broad anti-trans executive order that could have extreme impacts on transgender people's lives if implemented. There has been much discussion of what it actually does. In my latest piece, I go line by line to explain it. Subscribe to support my journalism.

We're prepared to defend our community from the wave of anti-trans attacks. This Wednesday, January 29th our legal and policy experts will explain how A4TE plans to fight back – and how you can join us. Sign up here: action.transequality.org/a/a4te_vs_tr...

Want some good news at the end of a very long week? Our short doc Love To The Max has been acquired by @newyorker.com and nominated for a @glaad.bsky.social Media Award! Trans kids won't be erased, no matter what Trump says. 💪🏳️‍⚧️ Watch it now at www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I'm seeing a few reports of this, but I can't confirm this is widespread. I have been told a separate passport office is no longer processing changes, but new apps will go by your BC and renewals by your current info. There's a lot of confusion out there on passports and no real answer yet.

Incredibly grateful for the work that @glaad.bsky.social does. This might be a baby step in the bigger march towards lasting change, but it is forward progress nevertheless and they should be proud.

Diversity and inclusion has never started a fire, but profound ignorance of climate change and a refusal to fund the government’s ability to address it certainly have. Truth from @lizplank.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lizplank...

"This is an effort to invalidate votes, even though there is no indication that they’re fraudulent or that voters would have known they could be problematic..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The 19th [Jan 8] -- Great in-depth explainer on possible/pending federal actions against trans ppl. Sen. Dems can filibuster anti-trans bills but as w/ NDAA may be hard if attached to budget bills, and R's can still try to enacted some thru Presidential Exec. Orders [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

Stay focused on protecting norms and institutions and not on the “gulf of America.”

I think this says just as much about Texas as it does about Meta.

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

If you work at Meta and support LGBTQ+ people no you don't.

MOTHER JONES [Dec 31] ACLU's Chase Strangio selected Hero of 2024 for involvement in every major trans case of past decade: Gavin Grim, Chelsea Manning, NCar bathroom ban, Trump military ban, Harris Funeral Homes (added GI&E to 1964 Civil Rights Act) & now Skrmetti. [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

Lucille Clifton, always.

The most senseless thing of all is that we're doing things we know with 100 percent certainty cause harm to these kids because some people suspect the current treatments might in certain cases be harmful to some of them.

The art of the deal: 1. Make wild demands 2. Get nothing 3. Declare victory

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

In 2024, several New Hampshire Democrats, afraid that anti-trans attacks would work, voted in favor of a trans surgery ban and bathroom bill. They lost more seats than most other states. Now the R majority is ramping up targeting us. Capitulation didn't work. National Dems, take note.

It really is bizarre how fixated people, and journalists in particular, are on trans kids and their healthcare.

Oh this is both bad and also bad

8 years ago today my family was invited to the Obama White House where we met @markhamillofficial.bsky.social. He posed with my son (who is trans) in a WH that fought for his rights. It feels like a lifetime ago and I'm worried that the next administration will try to erase this. Be the resistance!

and more.... "he (Trump) said he was pursuing legal action against “60 Minutes” for what he said was a misquote. "We have to straighten out the press. The press is very corrupt. Almost as corrupt as our elections.”

This is why ABC News' capitulation is dangerous for journalism www.readtpa.com/p/abc-news-j...

I finally watched Die Hard for the first time last night. Verdict: it is *obviously* a Christmas movie. I will not be taking questions at this time.

Here are the LGBTQ records of President-elect Donald Trump's nominees for his Cabinet and key positions in his second administration ⤵️ glaad.org/trumps-nomin...

Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

With all the bullshit that trans kids have had to endure lately, wouldn't it be amazing if this documentary ended up on the Oscars shortlist? Please repost and tag anyone you know who might be Hollywood-adjacent to get this on their radar! It's available to watch in the Academy Screening Room now!

Our beautiful, powerful short doc "Love To The Max" is about my trans-inclusive family fighting to stay together in the face of persecution -- and is now available in the Academy Screening Room! Who do you know in the Doc branch of AMPAS? Help us get this film on the Oscar shortlist! @newyorker.com