My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

This is in Somerville, very close by to where my family lives

As dig up more of the pro-trans bills of the past, it becomes clear to me that the year I finally started medical & full social transitioning, 2019, was also the year with the largest ratio of trans-positive legislation to trans-negative legislation. There was freedom in the air.

OK, so yes. The anti-trans folks are awful and have put enormous amounts of bad laws, policy, and rhetoric in place over the past few years. But also, it wasn't until 2021 that the bad laws started to overwhelm the good. It's bad now. We can fight. I have hope. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Transphobes: still terrible.

This is weakness. They can't stand being protested so they're going to bring absurd charges against protesters they know they can't sustain in actual court. It's going to tie up massive amounts of resources while real crime goes uninvestigated. This is pure intimidation and trying to instill fear.

There's a good chance that a certain well-known author will use her bottomless slush fund to finance vexatious transphobic court cases in the next few months (/years). Fighting back will be hard. Please consider, if you're able, donating to @goodlawproject.bsky.social It all helps.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro gave one of the most chilling speeches in recent history before the United Nations, and it has been totally ignored by US news media.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

1. Great news for trans students in Chicago. Chicago Public Schools has announced it will defy Trump's demand to ban trans youth from bathrooms. Trump will now pull millions in federal funds. "Our district will not back away from doing what we know is right." Subscribe to support our journalism.

APP's explicitly transmisogynist, hate spreading smear - transcript and description here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

“Trans people have kitchen tables. People that love trans people have kitchen tables,” Kat Abughazaleh said. “When it comes to extremism, if you’re constantly ceding ground that trans people don’t deserve to exist … it never stops.” 19thnews.org/2025/09/kat-... @19thnews.org

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

feeling confident about that one part because I was just writing about how we do not have a “domestic terrorist organization” designation newrepublic.com/article/2008...

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Alejandra is not overselling this. This executive order, if weaponized by a lawless administration like Trump, could lead to the dismantling of institutional/nonprofit opposition to Trump. It can also be used for surveillance and disruption ops similar to the civil rights era and red scare.

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them. The current climate is especially accelerating this. Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves. Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

Idaho AG makes explicit what trans people have been saying for years, that an upcoming SCOTUS case over bans on transgender athletes is a pretext for a broad decision on "whether transgender individuals are protected by the federal constitutions and state and federal laws"

NEWS: This litigation effort happened in six states today — California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania — per a release from DOJ.

I've seen a lot of people misunderstanding what this does and does not mean and Melissa does a great job explaining it's first and foremost a media strategy. Importantly, none of this is new and has been used against other groups and activists (Muslims/Palestinians, BLM, immigrants)

nonprofitquarterly.org/learning-fro... thanks for speaking with me @hughryan.bsky.social

If you are in or have been in a trans person's life, you should come to terms with the fact that they've mentally evaluated how likely you are to rat on them to the cops if the government starts cracking down harder on us.

Research conducted by @transjournalists.org “identified 43 outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast running with the disproven stories of a ‘trans shooter’ and ‘trans bullets.’”

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this. I don’t view it as a Me problem.

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

As expected, Texas's trans bathroom / prison / domestic violence shelter ban, which also defines males and females by sperm and egg production, was signed into law on Monday and goes into effect December 4th, 2025. legiscan.com/TX/text/SB8/...

Hell yeah. Literally NO ONE knows Newsom is a bigot. I know a LOT of libs. They're full on shocked to learn about Newsom's transphobia and posed proudly while demolishing homeless peoples possessions. Keep talking with people. Update them on what he's up to.

1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people. His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I feel so awful posting these things where trans people can see them because I know how many of our young folks ask themselves if they should stay alive and I just want to say, please stay with us. Your life is precious. and if you’re not sure, Trans Lifeline is here for you translifeline.org

Most editorial comments I want to make about this will get me in trouble so let me just say, trans people are precious and segregationists can go fuuuuuuuuck themselves A Black and Asian woman shilling for segregation is SHAMEFUL www.them.us/story/kamala...

In one of our “safe” cities and states. Her actual quote is “I feel less safe now as a trans person than I ever have.” As others have pointed out, it’s never been safe for us.

so Tylenol supposedly causes autism, but so does MMR, despite autism predating either of them – how could this be? negativity bias! this is why when ppl consider something to be "bad" they can invent hundreds of causes w/little evidence & ppl will believe it... juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

Here's a 🧵 about the 2020 status quo on trans rights, my theory of change and how my own work fits into it, and why I've felt so angry at certain Democrats for backsliding, particularly Rep. Sarah McBride. Writing this to get it out of my head, for people who follow me closely enough to care.

There's basically nothing that would surprise me re: bad moves by DJT, but it shows that he doesn't really have a different public vs. private way of writing, speaking, or thinking. None of it is strategic. It's just him.

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

it’s very not new & surprise is not a prerequisite to disgust & i welcome folks telling them “eat shit” over the latest thing & love cancelled subscriptions but i *do* think if you cancel you should also bring up the time they yanked a cartoon about anti trans bigotry before trump even took office.

the sheer fucking gall of Dem politicians who now – in September 2025, as the Trump admin is taking away trans ppl's healthcare & passports & baselessly labeling us as "terrorists" – express their "concerns" about trans ppl & sports. they are trying to eradicate us! maybe be "concerned" about that!

One of the worst parts of Harris throwing us under the bus is the number of liberals who will reflexively defend her and in so doing decide she's correct.

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i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

Even now white people- ESPECIALLY liberals- won't admit that much of this could have been halted or avoided if only they had come to the defense of a Black woman, Claudine Gay, as vigorously as they defend the memory of a dead nazi and signing up to anti-regime lists.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

MEMPHIS: “Our founding fathers didn’t overthrow a monarch just to see another replace it… The solution to crime is opportunity, not occupation.” Councilwoman + candidate for governor @jerrigreen4tn rips Trump & @govbilllee for sending in troops, warns other cities they’re next.

The coverage of Charlie Kirk’s assassination has been a mess. On The Mess, @imarajones.bsky.social unpacks anti-trans misinformation, Stephen Miller’s rant, White House crackdown plans, and ends this episode with good news: a SC bathroom rights win. 🎧 https://linktr.ee/translashmedia

This week on TransLash Podcast, @imarajones.bsky.social sits down with @kredburn.bsky.social and @ziembavision.bsky.social to discuss the DHS rolling back limitations on surveillance based on gender identity and sexual orientation. 🎧 Listen now: linktr.ee/translashmedia

I will say it doesn't bode well that The Heritage Foundation wants to label terms like "cisgender," "deadnaming, and, perhaps most damning of all, the phrase "right to exist" as "violent extremism". My thinking I should be allowed to exist at all is violence? Don't love that!