No matter how many educational resources this regime wipes from .gov sites and libraries, trans people will not go back into hiding. We're fighting to make name and gender marker changes as accessible as possible.

unsatisfied that their blatant transphobia was struck down in the lower courts, the Trump regime is hoping that the Supreme Court will allow the state to enforce its own infallible judgment of whose passport gets the letter "M" and whose gets the letter "F"

IDs and passports don't even need to have gender markers on them. you could remove them entirely and nothing of consequence would be lost

if you are south of the border check out my friends over at @namesake.fyi bsky.app/profile/name...

I think it's very important that any trans people who want to update their identity documents do that right now and I will personally do whatever I can to help make that happen

This is something the Republican Party has been working on for some time. I first tracked it in Florida where a bill gained traction that would have taken away nonprofit status from lgbt nonprofits. Even wrote a story on it. We are very much at increased risk of these kinds of fascist crackdowns.

Today, a U.S. District Court ordered the U.S. Dept of State to process passport applications, with accurate sex markers, for 6 trans U.S. citizens. 👏 "This is a crucial victory for our clients and trans people nationwide." – Carl Charles, Lambda Legal Counsel

Since President Trump's inauguration, he has moved swiftly to reverse federal protections for transgender people. But we won’t back down from protecting our civil rights. Count on it.

1. Monica Helms, the creator of the transgender flag and Navy Veteran, is leaving the US due to anti-LGBTQ+ persecution. “We are worried there’s a possibility something could happen where we end up getting arrested just for being who we are,” Helms said. Subscribe to support our journalism.

1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here. Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws. For adults, some increases in risk. Nationwide risk remains extreme. Subscribe to support my journalism.

🔁reposts appreciated. Do you know any tgirls who have gone to a US consulate visa interview under the current admin? I'm british n have an extension to stay in the US, but my H1B stamp is expiring in October, so if I want to be able to travel I will need to leave the US. Worried won't get back in

small, but @namesake.fyi now has an RSS feed: namesake.fyi/rss.xml

Sloane shares their story about changing their name, other names they considered, and how @masstpc.org and @namesake.fyi helped with the process 💜

What Newsom is selling about trans people is what Trump is selling his base about trans people: "your life will be better if trans people's lives are worse." It's not a purity test; it's about rejecting a politics that sells you empty promises in exchange for other people's misery

shipped the very first @namesake.fyi change based on user feedback! hooray. people are using this thingy

a fabulously wealthy person should pay me and some other trans people to work on @namesake.fyi full time

Namesake has a new web app to help people in Massachusetts to update their legal name and gender marker. (And soon: New York and beyond.) After a year of work, we're excited to share it with you today.

MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

made a theme picker for Namesake based on the colors and descriptions from the original Gilbert Baker pride flag

If anyone you know is 13-24, in the US, and is LGBTQ+, please have them complete the Trevor Project survey this year. Their last survey has been integral to protecting LGBTQ+ rights globally. I can't understate how big an impact it has. Multiple publications come from the data. Share widely.

stickers!!! designed some @namesake.fyi goodies to share :) if you’ve contributed to Namesake and want stickers, DM me and I’ll hook you up! 💌 shoutout to @vickyacab.bsky.social who printed and shipped em SO FAST 🌈

There were 932 anti-LGBTQ+ incidents between May 1, 2024 and May 1, 2025 – equal to 2.5 incidents every day, according to GLAAD.

happy pride everyone! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 if you need help with the legal name change process in the US, @namesake.fyi is here to help 💜 join us on Discord: namesake.fyi/chat

It's the last day of the month and for my Patreon this morning I wrote about an outrageous Mississippi Supreme Court ruling denying a trans teen's name change request. It sets a dangerous precedent for government overreach into the private lives of citizens. www.patreon.com/posts/missis...

1. In a landmark ruling, a federal judge has blocked the passport ban for transgender Americans... government ban likely violates equal protection, and is made with animus. Though the ruling only applies to plaintiffs, it is expected expand in coming weeks. Subscribe to support my journalism.

BREAKING: A federal judge finds Trump’s order banning transgender people from getting accurate passports is likely unconstitutional. The court ordered the State Department to allow correct gender markers for our clients as we continue to argue until this order is blocked for everyone.

it's still very much a work in progress but I wanted to let you folks know that my Ontario trans identity documents work now has a new online home: tg-id.ca

Another Texas bill that has no chance of passing, but its wild what the fringe is putting out there. Literally makes it "fraud" to be trans.

The U.S. has pulled out of the United Nations’ LGBTI Core Group, which supports the rights of LGBTQ+ and intersex people around the world.

Nearly 90 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have signed a letter demanding that Donald Trump rescind his "unconstitutional" and "unconscionable" executive order restricting gender-affirming care for transgender minors and some adults.

NEW: Iowa governor signs bill removing gender identity from state civil rights protections, making Iowa the first state to remove civil rights from a previously protected class. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

“I just wanna say trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.”

Cuckoo star Hunter Schafer has reportedly been given a new passport with an M for the gender marker, outing her as trans to anyone she shows it to. The model and actress says her previous passport was stolen in Barcelona, leading her to apply for a replacement.

Federal judges are regarding Trump’s executive orders targeting transgender people with skepticism and, in some instances, outright disdain. Four judges — a Reagan appointee, a Clinton appointee and two judges appointed by Biden — have temporarily paused enforcement of Trump's anti-trans policies

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

Protest at Stonewall tomorrow. You can’t spell Stonewall without the T.

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

If you needed something positive today, here it is.

for @slate.bsky.social, I spoke with people impacted by Trump's ban on trans, nonbinary, intersex & gender-nonconforming Americans from obtaining passports that properly match their identities. “People like me are being defined out of existence."

1. Protests have erupted at multiple hospitals across the United States that have decided to comply with Trump's executive order banning trans care under 19. Now, a lawsuit challenges that EO. Writer Mira Lazine writes about the importance of the protests. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The US State Department has suspended its organization for LGBTQ employees, with leadership ordering a pause on all official activities.

Join us TONIGHT! St. Vartan Park at 6:30pm.

Trans folks, if any of these new orders are impacting your life, we at @19thnews.org want to know. DM me. Tell me if your medical appointments are canceled. If your documents are seized. Help us find the news

Dozens of webpages — with info about HIV, PrEP, LGBTQ health and more — have now gone dark in what appears to be widespread compliance with an OPM memo to take down pages related to "gender ideology" With @mattshuham.bsky.social and @citizencohn.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

BREAKING - in what was labeled an “emergency message” late Friday night, the Social Security Administration has announced that it is no longer processing changes to sex markers, per Chris Geidner.

The State Department suspended all applications for passport gender changes in response to President Trump's executive order restricting transgender rights. We know this has caused confusion. We're monitoring the situation closely — here are 2 important things to know.

All applications for gender marker change are on hold while the State Department changes this policy. Anyone who now submits an application for a change runs the risk of losing access to their passport and documents while their application is being processed.

As in Tennessee, this ban does not apply to cis children, because the drugs themselves are not a safety hazard. The only thing at risk is a society’s discomfort with allowing young people to make their own decisions about their own bodies.