Alanna

Believing survivors means even when the abuser is your beloved queer fave. Believing survivors means even when the trying to escape looks like a messy public crash out. Being pushed to that point is a well know abuse tactic for fucks sake

Wild time to literally have a degree in dyke rock that I never did anything with but I have so many thoughts and opinions on the shit happening in the lesbian/queer music scene the last few weeks.

Hey yeah your DV or trafficking survivor friend does not want you to initiate a conversation with them about any of the current wildly triggering DV/trafficking related court cases.

If we bring it up ok, but a lot of us are trying to avoid it all.

It is shameful that RAINN, representing sexually abused people, erased trans people because they are scared of Trump.

To any org censoring themselves: you cannot jettison trans to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too.

But we are all in this together.

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:

Vet found hanging draped in trans flag The suicide letter they won't publish

I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.

She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.

RIP Elisa.

We need able bodied people to not only wear masks in medical facilities, but to ask staff to mask as well. When disabled/immunocompromised people are the only ones advocating for their own protection, they’re often pushed back on and retaliated against. Stand in solidarity.

Ya know, I spent my whole life in dispensationalism dealing with stupid fucks who thought the rapture was happening once a year, but I’m ngl, at this point I sometimes think to myself “If not antichrist, why antichrist shaped?”

Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don't have birthright citizenship, even though they have for 100 years

Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders

The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don’t have birthright citizenship, even though they have for 100 years

azmirror.com/2025/01/24/r...

Don’t underestimate the impact you’re making when you choose to wear a mask.

You’re protecting your health & the health of your community. You’re helping ease the burden on our healthcare system.

You’re standing in solidarity with disabled people & telling the government that no one is expendable

Dear algorithm. I would like to be connected with folks who are interested in Indigenous history, and climate action. On my page I discuss Indian boarding school research updates and watch for movement on climate litigation/legislation.

Huh, well this is a new definition of “biological sex.”

If I’m reading correctly what Trump’s guidelines for the definition are- I’m pretty sure that just made every person a female?

Because uhh, defining “sex” as being at conception is a new one.

DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it.

You can find it here:

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The US government wants you to think covid is over. They keep manipulating the presentation of vital data to misrepresent how bad it still is. It’s literally more virulent than ever. Changing the color representation of high levels from red to green or changing the baseline doesn’t change the truth

Whale fact: whales are not capable of sin because sin is not real and they are whales

At least we don’t have to say unalive anymore

Yes your step-doghter

It’s very homophobic that I can’t sleep when my super hot fiancée is in my bed cuddling with my dog.