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An Appeal to M&S over Transphobia

An open letter to M&S that people can sign

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I Alt text: News headline from the Boston Globe reading, "N.H. Governor Kelly Ayotte signs bills banning gender-affirming care for minors." The subheadline states that the new laws make New Hampshire the first state in New England to ban puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors. The article is written by Amanda Gokee and was updated on August 1, 2025, 10 minutes ago. Icons for sharing, printing, and commenting appear below the text.

Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte signed the ban on gender affirming care for trans youth in New Hampshire becoming the first state in New England to do so.

The state is motto is live free or die and it's clear they chose die for trans youth.

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The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban.

The media is hiding what's happening here.

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Trans issues have been especially divisive for Democrats in the wake of the 2024 election, when Republicans used the subject to cast Kamala Harris and other opponents as out-of-touch. Newsom, another possible 2028 contender who visited South Carolina last week, drew backlash from activists and some liberal colleagues this year when he said “it’s deeply unfair” for trans athletes to participate in women’s sports. In South Carolina, Beshear was eager to talk about how he had handled LGBTQ issues, however. “I vetoed it because it was the right thing to do,” he said of the bill in Kentucky. “I said my faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.”

If the (wildly popular) governor of Kentucky can say this with his whole chest then what excuse does the (wildly unpopular) governor of California have?

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I do think this matters. A Democrat should be willing to support the status quo of 2020 on trans rights. If that's too much then they're supporting the removal of our rights.

DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

NEW: The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

Screenshot of a news article from The Globe and Mail with the headline: "Judge halts deportation of non-binary American in landmark ruling after Trump’s gender edicts." The article is written by Marie Woolf and was published in Ottawa 4 hours ago, with an update 3 hours ago. The website navigation bar includes links to Home, For You, Canada, World, Business, Investing, and Personal Finance.

In a major precedent setting move, a Canadian federal judge blocked the deportation of a nonbinary US citizen because the Canadian immigration office failed to adequately assess the conditions for LGBTQ people since Trump took office.

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They don’t actually hate censorship. They hate losing control of narratives. If a game’s gay, trans, or too “weird,” they’re fine watching it disappear. But they’ll cry foul if a game with anime boobs gets delisted.

Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs

Me: As a trans person, I won't vote for someone who is anti-trans and thinks I should somehow have *even fewer* rights than I already have.

VBNMW crowd:

A screenshot of the top of the Publishers Weekly page for the YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN started review, with the following text: “Andrew Joseph White. Saga, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-1-6680-3807-9”

holy shit worm book got a star from PW

“A book about evil pro-natalist worms could easily feel silly, but… The result is both a brilliant, page-turning piece of trans splatterpunk body horror and an earnest, heart-rending tragedy.”

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Given the number of transgender people buried under their deadnames by their family, there’s a pretty good reason why we see increased ideation and suicidality but lack data on suicide completions.

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Here comes uncle Sully in the New York Times to tell us uppity queers to settle down.

Why You Need to Hear the Speech That Sylvia Rivera Wasn’t Allowed To Give Sylvia Rivera was met with jeers and boos at one of the very first Pride Parades on this day in 1973. Here’s why that matters now.

On this day more than 50 years ago, Sylvia Rivera climbed onto a stage to advocate for incarcerated trans people at a Pride rally and demanded trans inclusion in the fight for rights.

Hearing her speech is important 50 years later.

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Q&A: Orr v. Trump | American Civil Liberties Union

Hey everyone,

The ACLU has released a FULL FAQ over the recent transgender passport decision (and the Trump admin dragging its feet on complying).

Please read this if you want to know anything about updating your passport and of or when you should pull the trigger.

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An aisle of Harry Potter merchandise at a big box book store.

Harry potter Lego sets

This is what trans people are up against - entire aisles of merchandise funding an explicit hate campaign.

Imagine walking past an aisle like this every time you went to a bookstore, knowing that every sale goes to funding someone who's trying to kill you.

Imagine working there.

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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Trans Care Clinics, Complying in Advance, Leave Patients Unsure of What’s Next “Many were simply told that services would no longer be available, with little to no guidance on what to do next.”

1. In the wake of Trump threats, multiple trans clinics in safe states have stopped providing care.

Parents feel abandoned as governors apply no pressure.

One therapist reported an uptick in suicidal ideation among those denied care.

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"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice we're willing to make."

They acknowledge the harms of trans youth being left untreated and then greenlight banning treatment. It's psychotic wanton cruelty.

SCOTUS Allows For Trans Discrimination In Medical Care: A Full Analysis Of Today's Ruling Today, SCOTUS released its ruling on Skrmetti, allowing Tennessee to ban transgender healthcare. The ruling was both devastating and limited, leaving many fights unsettled.

1. Today, SCOTUS allowed for bans on trans care in a devastating, though limited, ruling in Skrmetti.

It ruled discrimination against gender dysphoria is not trans discrimination, and used the same rationale used by VA to defend its interracial marriage ban.

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For instance, they could strip everyone with gender dysphoria of security clearance in the government. Declare everyone with gender dysphoria a national security threat and purge them from the government entirely. The trans military ban will be upheld under this.