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Ultimately, Freeman’s column isn’t pitiful because it rubs salt in the wound—it’s pitiful because it lays bare the true aim of the anti-trans movement. This was never about policy or bathrooms or youth sports. It’s about a cohort of people who feel culture shifting beneath their feet, who were raised in a world where casual cruelty toward transgender people was normalized, and who now find themselves resentful that society has moved on. Rather than reflect or grow, they double down, demanding that their revulsion be seen as virtue—that their discomfort be not only accepted but celebrated. Freeman’s yearning for social validation, cloaked in the language of righteous indignation, reveals the movement’s hollow core. The title of her piece says it all: this isn’t about the law, it’s about the isolation that comes from being wrong. And no court decision—no matter how cruel—will win back the friendships lost to hate, or rescue those who chose the wrong side of history from the consequences of that choice.

From my latest piece.

The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.

Yes, exactly. So powerfully articulated (as always).

“We will not allow you to get away with denying women’s civil rights any longer.” Says the party that is gutting civil rights on a daily basis.

Trump Administration Announces Special Investigative Team to Root Out Trans Athletes The Title IX Special Investigations Team is a collaboration between the Departments of Education and Justice.

The MAGA obsession with genitalia is disgusting and perverted. www.them.us/story/title-...

A trans person has never crashed the global economy.

Voters Reject Anti-Trans Ads And Elon Musk In Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Despite millions of dollars spent by Elon Musk and spent on anti-transgender advertisements, liberal judge Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

1. On Tuesday, voters rejected anti-trans ads, Elon Musk by electing Susan Crawford to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

It was supposed to be close. She won by 10 points.

Dems do NOT need to throw trans people under the bus to win.

The latest from Mira Lazine.

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Hopefully Strom Thurmond took some time out of his busy schedule burning in hell to get the news that he was just beaten by a black man.

Anti-Trans National Risk Assessment Map: March Edition At the two-month mark of Donald Trump's presidency, the risk for transgender people has deteriorated nationwide. The United States now carries a "Do Not Travel" rating for transgender people.

1. The 1Q 2025 Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map is complete, and there are big changes.

I have issued a "Do Not Travel" for transgender foreign citizens.

Risk has deteriorated broadly across the US.

Transgender youth see changes in previously safe states.

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A scrap of white fabric is stapled to a utility pole with the words “The children are always ours. - James Baldwin” stitched with red and black thread. Grey skies are visible in the background.

The children are always ours. - James Baldwin

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A black and white tuxedo squeezed himself onto a window ledge.

Top view of a black and white tuxedo cat sitting on a windowsill.

Oliver loves to awkwardly lay in a sunny window.

Tell the administration to stop creating dangerous barriers for trans and nonbinary folks to get their documents to updated. Tell them to stop policing our genitals.

Federal Government is Asking the Public to Report Illicit DEI The Department of Education has opened a tip line to report sightings of diversity, equity and inclusion.

1. They never learn.

The US Department of Education has launched a snitch line for reporting "divisive ideologies" in schools.

Previously, states doing this were flooded with meme submissions.

The latest from writer S. Baum.

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red bunny on mint green background with a call to boycott on feb 28 - buy nothing, use small businesses and remember we have power

remember this can be one day or day one - do what you can!

Tell the State Department what you think of the new transphobic passport gender marker changes.

Tell the NPS to restore the word “transgender”.

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:

A large black dog with a white stripe and freckles looks out at the river in her rainbow coat. A masc human in a black beanie smiles behind her.

Love getting outside in Oregon with these two.

A white and gray tabby cat looks at the camera with judgment.

Slowly emerging from a three week social media hiatus and damn, things are bleak. Here’s a cat.