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“He didn’t have the money, so they paid for him to get some black market oestrogen,” Fiona said. “He got it sent to a friend who passed it on at school. And he managed to get shots and syringes from an STD clinic.” Experts are increasingly concerned that an illicit trade in black market cross-sex hormones is thriving as the NHS clamps down on prescriptions of the drugs for fear of long-term side effects.

The Times yesterday, on how trans kids, denied the healthcare they need, are buying black market hormones.

Of course, this is *exactly* what everyone said would happen. And its risks are dramatically amplified by Streeting telling GPs they must stop offering blood tests.

“A screenshot of a news article from The Times website. The headline reads: ‘Children taking DIY cross-sex hormones before going to gender clinics.’ The subheadline states: ‘Hundreds of young trans people are buying puberty blockers, oestrogen and testosterone without prescription from websites and even recreational drug dealers.’ The page header includes navigation links, a log-in button, and a ‘Start trial’ button.”

What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?

This administration is dedicated to killing children

Our trans elders are dying too young.

The psychological impacts of constantly being demonized, the fear we have when we just want to use the bathroom, the trauma from folks demanding information about your own body and your soul are not only demoralizing, but they are also slowly killing us.

Among the proposals mgmt has made so far: 1) pay *decreases* for several Union members 2) restrictions to make it more difficult to access funds in our gender affirming care pool and 3) rollbacks to existing just cause and progressive discipline protections to make it easier to fire Union staff

Clown emoji!

We're back! The ULW4TL is back at the bargaining table and boy are we mad! We have been back to the bargaining table for 5 months and have yet to receive comprehensive economic offers. Since our initial contract in 2023, the rate of inflation has skyrocketed and Trump's tariffs have significantly reduced buying power. Since then, our salaries have only received 2.5% COLAs per year. Not only has inflation skyrocketed, the cost of rent has increased between 5-6% yearly in NYC and D.C., where the majority of our unit lives. A4TE has cited budgetary concerns, and while we sympathize with these difficulties, we find them to be self-inflicted. A4TE chose to hire a plethora of C-Suite staff with high salaries and chose to increase its CEO's salary by nearly 100k from 2023-2024 according to the latest IRS filings. Poor budgetary planning, especially when management knows contract negotiations were around the corner is not the Unit's fault. Contract negotiations were foreseeable by management, but the respective unions at TLDEF and NCTE were blindsided by the costly merger that has seemingly left management only with enough money to give themselves thousands in raises while barely offering the status quo to its least paid and underappreciated staff.

Management expects to exhaust us with a drawn out, "woe is me" approach. Unfortunately, this strategy only energizes the most tired of us all. Management will now have to deal with a forceful and unrelenting public resistance to this strategy until our needs are met. A Union's first contract is the floor and we have no where to go but up. This organization will crumble without its administrators, its organizers, its policy team, its communications staff, its development team, or its legal team. A machine without its cogs, breaks. There is no time but the present, @transequalitynow Let's Negotiate.

We are back at the bargaining table! And it's been FIVE months.

There is no time but the present, @transequality.bsky.social

Let's Negotiate!

"It's not political" is an odd thing to say while describing the conservative mindset, though. The desire to be the hegemonic demographic, to impose your perception of "norms" on everyone else, is pretty political.

…🤔

“Transitgender.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene managed to tolerate being subjected to the sort of abuse, that she has subjected trans people to for years, for approximately one week.

Handing power to transphobes is handing power to abusers. Always.

The analysis of Mayor- Elect Mamdani is now moving into a very skin crawling space for me because:

- wow people do not care if a man of color is uncomfortable if it gives them the entertainment they want
- the cult of personality is positive and negative and has nothing to do with policy

I gotta start doing my series of “Anarchist Dominatrix/ Policy Researcher/ Psychotherapist Explains How Power Works” clips because I fear this is too confusing for too many of you when it should be pretty obvious that— God forgive me— he dommed Trump.

it’s all “I love stochastic terrorism” until the stochastic terrorism comes for you

Good riddance.

YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy - Media & Politics Podcast Anti-Trans Ads Are Officially DEAD 🔥

Anti-Trans Ads Are Officially DEAD 🔥
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YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy - Media & Politics Podcast The Death of the Anti-Trans Ad: Why Democrats’ 2025 Wins Changed Everything (ft Laurel Powell)

Catch the full conversation here:
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If that's true, it's the wrong move lol.

I'm wondering if MTG has been seriously threatened and has decided to lay low for a year and then come back to run in 2028.

he hangs out in group chats with teenaged nazis, so there’s that

How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.

This article about this fifth place sore loser is damning. But not surprising.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Cat tax

November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM Trans Day of Remembrance CW: Death, Near-death experience Today is a day for those who have left this material world. I used to be an atheist; now I light candles so I can feel the energies of my trans ancestors. I don't know what happens to us when we die, but I have experienced it. I know we move beyond the vessels that carry us through this life. My heart aches every time we lose a sibling to violence. And my definition of violence moves beyond infliction, violence through systemic means, where we're waterboarded for merely existing.

I experience immense survivor's guilt on this day because I died for 10 seconds. I remember being outside of my body. I remember facing a white hallway. A woman in a plain white uniform walked toward me, a black dog at her side. I used to think it was my dog Garnet, but she wasn't. Now I think they were guides. The woman extended her hand, and she led me down the hallway. I felt like I was lost. We walked into a room full of faceless people and a bed in the middle. I lay down, and the faceless people all cheered for me. I woke up three days later. I used to be an atheist. Now I don't know anything. And I don't have to fully comprehend what happened, but I know I have a soul. That moment was the catalyst for me to change my name and finally transition. I know my soul now.

A few months ago, I saw a short video of a man named Jahad Chris Carter being interviewed. He was asked about a hot take he has, and he said he believes trans people are a sign that God is real. We are taught that our bodies are vessels that carry our souls. I paused after watching that video. I related to it because I have seen my own soul, and the guides who found me knew I was there too early. I see god in every living thing. But I especially see god in every trans person I've ever met. And I have seen God in the trans people who are now gone. What does hope look like in the afterlife? To me, it's knowing who my soul is. I believe our trans siblings who are no longer in this material world are energy, and I think about them often.

I hope they are at peace, and I will think of all of you as I light some candles and carry you in my heart. Wherever you are, my trans siblings, my trans grandparents, I miss you all. #TransDayOfRemembrance #TDOR #TransLivesAreSacred #TransSpirituality #TransJoy #ProtectTransLives

Trans Day of Remembrance

CW: Death / Near-death experience
#TransDayOfRemembrance #TDOR
#TransLivesAreSacred

I can tell you as someone who had this happen to a loved one, no employment lawyer gave a shit either.

Turning Point USA, the youth movement Kirk founded in 2012, said in a statement that it supported the right to free speech, “including that of private employers to determine when a bright line has been crossed and an employee deserves to be terminated.”

Weird how conservatives didn't mention all those years that they think it's fine to fire people for their beliefs! What an unfortunate misunderstanding we've had around this. Oh well!

600 Americans were fired in the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing

This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Happy to see it (and listing Sarah McBride at the top seems a good move).
This is def not the point but mildly surprised I haven’t yet seen any coverage mention “213 House Democrats” means all of them except Henry Cuellar.

He is only sorry that he got caught.

He shouldn't be teaching at all.

Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students

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This #TransgenderAwarenessWeek, we're launching the Trans News Initiative - a nearly yearlong project dedicated to tracking and analyzing news coverage of trans communities across the United States.
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...