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🌈 HAPPY LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK! 🌈
We've got an exciting lineup of events from Monday, April 21 through Sunday, April 27. Explore our events at LesbianVisibilityWeekUSA.com 🔗

24 hours. Ready for the Dems to create some sort of strategy and keep taking actions like this. Proud to have voted for Senator Booker 💛

On Monday, March 31st Trans Day of Visibility, join as we celebrate our joy and resistance.

Here’s a few ways to connect with us.

This was awesome. Thanks for coming and please come back soon!

Trey Anastasio performs tonight in Orlando, FL. The show poster is by Nate Gonzalez. There will also be a limited foil variant available.

And suddenly everything is okay again. Thanks for coming to Orlando, @trey.com

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

Hey GOP, listen up: @mcbride.house.gov has a message for you and your taunts. 🤭

Hey @trey.com can I get this in Orlando in a couple weeks?? Xoxo

LGBTQ+ Democrats will take a stand during Trump’s joint address  — including skipping it entirely “I won’t sit and watch him lie,” Vermont Democratic Congresswoman Becca Balint said.

As President Trump prepares to deliver his first joint address to Congress since returning to office, LGBTQ+ members of Congress are making it clear that they will not let his administration’s policies go unchallenged.

Live Coverage: We’re Watching President Trump’s Joint Address For You Stay with us for live coverage, fact-checking, and ways to fight back as Trump addresses Congress.

Want to know what Donald Trump says during tonight’s Joint Address to Congress, but can’t bear to listen to the man?

You are not alone and we have you covered. Our team is watching and will provide updates for our community here: hrc.im/speech

I don’t give time or energy to wanna be kings. I’ll read and listen to commentary tomorrow. Take care of yourselves!

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent.

CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.

Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.

MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

I’m so happy #survivor is back. We need this.

Iowa lawmakers pass bill removing trans civil rights protections, sending it to governor Protesters filled the Iowa Capitol on Thursday as lawmakers passed a bill removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

🚨 The Iowa House and Senate passed a bill removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

☎️ Call Governor Reynolds at 515-281-5211 and tell her to veto this bill.

Economic Blackout.
Tomorrow, February 28th.
No spending except at small businesses.
Hit em in the wallet.

Nazis Burned Trans Books To Usher In Fascism: Now Trump Does The Same Transgender people have often been a canary in the coalmines of Democracy.

1. Nearly a century ago, Nazis burned trans books to usher in fascism.

Now, Trump is doing the same, digitally burning all records of transgender people and striking the community from records.

This must be seen for what it is: a move towards atrocity.

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Raquel Willis’s Fearless Fight for Bodily Autonomy Willis shares why restrictions on choices surrounding our bodies pose a danger to all of us, no matter how we identify

It’s an honor to be a Time Woman of the Year. In a time when trans people face increasing attacks culturally and politically, I hope this serves as a reminder that no one can steal our power. time.com/7216395/raqu...

Spent the weekend with some family, mostly detached from the news, social, and my phone in general. So necessary and healing. More connection with one another less connection with the ongoing traumas.

Protests Erupt At Stonewall After Trump Removes Trans People From Monument Website At least one reporter counted the attendees of the protest to number over 1,000 people.

1. On Friday, protests erupted at Stonewall National Monument, the historic site of the Stonewall uprisings that ignited the modern gay rights movement, in response to the National Park Service removing transgender people from the Stonewall Website.

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Since the National Park Service is trying to erase the singular role that trans people played in starting Stonewall, here’s a piece I wrote about the devastating, four-decade-long consequences of erasing trans women in the 1970s from the queer rights movement.

www.thenation.com/article/arch...

Getting word that a few hospitals are offering trans care again after the EO was blocked by a federal judge.

Please send the decision to your hospital, and PLEASE send me a message if your hospital has resumed care, as I’m doing a story on this.

🧵The decision to change “LGBTQ” to “LGB” on the Stonewall National Monument page is yet another example of the Trump administration’s blatant attempts to discriminate against and erase the legacies of transgender and queer Americans.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 13, 2025 CONTACT Gillian Branstetter, gbranstetter@aclu.org Tom Warnke, twarnke@lambdalegal.org BALTIMORE – In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19. The decision by Judge Brendan Hurson was issued from the bench with a written order to come soon. The nationwide restraining order prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen. “Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care canceled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s executive order did to PFLAG families with trans youth and young adults nationwide,” said Brian K. Bond (he/him), Chief Executive Officer of PFLAG National. “Today’s decision rights a grievous wrong to our nation's families and children, and PFLAG families will be vigilant to ensure our transgender loved ones receive the healthcare they need—as this legal ruling demands.” “Forcing providers to withhold medically-necessary, evidence-based care not only threatens patient health and well-being, but also undermines the integrity of our healthcare system in its entirety,” said Alex Sheldon (they/them), GLMA executive director. “Today's intervention by the court underscores the cruelty and recklessness that is embedded in this order and affirms our commitment to resist the administration’s extremist agenda that targets trans and non-binary young people and privileges political ideology over medical expertise. We are hopeful that…

In the first week after the order was signed, some hospitals across the country — in Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia at least — abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under age 19, canceling appointments and turning away patients, including some who had been receiving this care for most of their life. This prompted protests of support for transgender youth and in opposition to the order nationwide. On Feb. 4, a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells on behalf of transgender young adults and adolescents and their families whose health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s order. Also joining the case as plaintiffs are PFLAG National, the nation’s largest organization supporting LGBTQ+ people and their families, with over 550,000 members and supporters and nearly 350 chapters across the country; and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals. "Across the country, this unlawful order from the president has sown fear among transgender youth and confusion among their providers,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But today’s decision should restore both their access to healthcare and protections under the Constitution. Providers who’ve suspended healthcare for their transgender patients should be left with no doubt that they can lift those suspensions and continue to provide healthcare and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funding or worse. “The president’s orders sought to take away from transgender young people the very care that they, their families, and their medical providers all agree is best for them – medical care that is evidence-based and well-established. But these decisions are for patients, their families, and their doctors to make, not for politicians or Washington bureaucrats,” said Omar Gonzale…

Incredible news!

The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order.

The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care.

ACLU statement here:

🎉 HUGE WIN: Today, a federal district court issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump admin EO attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for trans people under 19.

Read more: tinyurl.com/5n6s6nnx

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SZA is everything. 👑🔥

On Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

That was a very sapphic commercial break. #superbowl