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Boston was out in full force today ✊🏼

I did not make it out of the closet to spend my life in fear A reflection on fear, joy, and the culture we build with each other.

Joy is resistance: buff.ly/ie2cpqp

Not sure if you picked up on this yet but. Rhode Island's interscholastic league just abruptly changed their trans student policy that had been in place since 2013, To a statement that it's up to each principle to follow state and federal law. It's not a ban but it is already creating confusion.

Gender-affirming care may lower depression risk, study finds, but many are losing access A new study finds gender-affirming care may lower depression risk, as access to such care is diminishing.

ABC [Mar 17] -- New study in JAMA of 3,592 trans adults over 4 years found that those on gender-affirming hormones had significantly lower rates depression. CDC has found that trans people in general are 2-3 times more likely to have depression.
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Attorney General Neronha and 14 attorneys general issue joint statement on protecting access to gender-affirming care "Gender-affirming care is essential, life-saving medical treatment that supports individuals in living as their authentic selves."

Attorney General Neronha and 14 attorneys general issue joint statement on protecting access to gender-affirming care

"Gender-affirming care is essential, life-saving medical treatment that supports individuals in living as their authentic selves."

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And Rhode Island!

Oh no I'm sorry. I thought you were talking about shield laws.

Many states have laws that protect both. RI did it last year

Mine is still up too. Taking it down today 🫣

Disappearing websites, data among the chaos as Trump's anti-trans censorship begins Particularly concerning information coming out of the Census Bureau and CDC.

Four days after Hitler became Chancellor, the Nazis burned all trans research in Berlin.

Trans was removed from public view in "an anti-transgender, government-wide, totalitarian form of censorship [...] implemented right now on the orders of an acting federal appointee"

We will continue to exist.

Health Resources Vanish Following D.E.I. and Gender Orders Vague federal directives have led to frantic action, and perhaps overreaction, before a Friday deadline.

The shuttering of public health data about trans people at the same time they're banning health care and threatening doctors who support trans people means it's not just censorship (though it's certainly that). It's an attempt to hide the evidence.

Yup and this started as soon as they lost the fight against gay marriage. They needed a new target and way to raise money.

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

The us passport website page with instructions on changing/updating gender markers is gone. It was live at 9:40pm but is now an error page: travel.state.gov/content/trav...

I'm here.