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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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A smiling woman in front of a window. She is wearing a peach blouse, a silver pentacle on a white cord. Her hair is in a very choppy shag.

Good afternoon, all you strange little goblins who live inside my phone! 😊

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

We believe healthcare is a right for every American.

But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies.

Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

It doesn't matter that the gatekeepers thought they were helping people, because they imagined transness was a sort of psychotic delusion and were terrified at the prospect that we were more common than 1 in 50,000.

They sentenced more of us than we will ever know to die of despair.

The logic of severe gatekeeping is inseparable from pervasive violence.

You don't gatekeep that much unless you think of transitioning as a last resort, something terrible that we should try to avoid at all costs.

The violence and gatekeeping both share the same goal: keeping our numbers down.

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The cover of Misha Magdalene's OUTSIDE THE CHARMED CIRCLE, showing interlocking multicolored circles on a white background.

Hey! Did you know I wrote a witchy book about gender, sexuality, magic, and polytheist spiritual practice?

Did you know it's got a great foreword by @sethanikeem.bsky.social?

Did you know you can buy it from various online booksellers… or DM me to buy a signed copy AND some free bonus stickers?

writing a letter to your younger self, saying the things you needed to hear but had no one to say?

…it’s not easy

Good grief! Charli Brown is a lot happier after her egg cracked, and disaster lesbians Peppermint Patty and Marcie are of course very supportive! (And their former crush on the ol’ blockhead makes a lot more sense now!) 🪁

Kansas Supreme Court Delivers Big Win For Driver’s License Gender Markers “I want every transgender Kansan to be able to live their lives authentically.”

Major victory in Kansas for transgender people.

The Kansas Supreme Court declined to block a lower court ruling on gender markers on drivers license.

ACLU Kansas says trans people can get their licenses updated starting Tuesday.

The latest from S. Baum.

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Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.

This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.

Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.

I am just so fucking proud of her.

I’m so struck by this video. A regular day in Logan Square in front of a grocery store and ICE pulls up and tear gassed people. Funston Elementary School is right across the street as well. This is a major corridor in Logan Sq. No concern for human safety

Video from: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

Gods bless you for taking such good care of her through these difficult days. I will light a candle for you and your little one both. 💛

This is literally directly across the street from an elementary school.

Protesters face off with state troopers with batons

ISP putting protester in arrest wagon

ISP trooper side by side with Border Patrol agent

CBP ride their armored truck down the street for a propaganda op

Broadview, Illinois today—

A dizzying array of federal and local police quashed an anti-deportation protest outside the Chicago ICE "processing" facility. Border Patrol agents once again violently attacked protesters, with arrest and crowd control support from IL state troopers.

I'm realizing a grim exercise/prompt may be in this ...

If others want to share, I'm curious:

Why aren't *you* leaving america (yet)?

Asking for trans folks in particular, especially those of us on HRT and/or other very directly threatened in terms of our healthcare ...

Reposts welcomed. Sigh.

If nothing else, they need to see that. 💛

But I want them both to grow up knowing their Aunt Bobbi. I want them to grow up knowing that a trans woman - who dared to be herself, in spite of everything - loved them very much, and wanted a more inclusive and happy world, not just for herself, but also for them.

I spend most of the year collecting little bits and bobs to give my family for Christmas. They live a few hours south of me, here in the Deep South. If I were to move away, I would miss seeing the joy in the eyes of my little nephews on Christmas morning. That sounds sappy, and maybe it is.

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What we just saw: state police not only assisting federal agents with crowd control out here, but also protester arrests.

All morning, this has been a nonviolent demonstration. Have not seen a single crime from this crowd (not that that would excuse the brutality).

Cops and feds have successfully split up the demonstration now.

ISP standing side by side with Border Patrol.

ICE attacking people again with support from state cops.

ICE attacking people again with support from state cops. Someone here is being arrested.

ICE attacking people again with support from state cops.

This administration has a sadistic need to torture children.