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I'll have a thread for @transnews.network later this week with some more analysis but Majeed was the decisive vote on the notoriously anti-trans HB805. Willingham and Cunningham voted for other transphobic legislation.

Their ouster's obviously good, but the rot is also very deep. So, we'll see.

You are not angry enough, you cannot be angry enough about the injustice trans women face every day and every issue is worse than more intersectional you are and there is no relief. This isn't opinion, it just is hard fact, ask me how I know.

These issues impact all trans women, but they always hit trans women of color the hardest.

Liberation requires absolute solidarity across all lines of oppression.

"Absolute Terror”: Lawsuit Alleges Maryland Trans Prisoners Face Rape, Medical Detransition, Defied Court Orders, Retaliation, and Torture, Despite AG Brown’s Condemnation of Trump Prison Policy Gov. Moore's prisons defied a judge’s order to follow standards to keep a woman safe from rape, as AG Brown has mounted "vigorous" defense against her lawsuit and lawmakers sideline meaningful reform

Read some of the stories of incarcerated Black trans women in our articles covering Maryland prisons and Florida prisons, both of which disproportionately target Black trans women for abuse in inhumane conditions.

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"Absolute Terror”: Lawsuit Alleges Maryland Trans Prisoners Face Rape, Medical Detransition, Defied Court Orders, Retaliation, and Torture, Despite AG Brown’s Condemnation of Trump Prison Policy Gov. Moore's prisons defied a judge’s order to follow standards to keep a woman safe from rape, as AG Brown has mounted "vigorous" defense against her lawsuit and lawmakers sideline meaningful reform

Read some of the stories of incarcerated Black trans women in our articles covering Maryland prisons and Florida prisons, both of which disproportionately target Black trans women for abuse in inhumane conditions.

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Many alleged suicides of Black trans women are in fact modern-day lynchings, report finds Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.

Every single day, Black trans women across the world are suffering from acts of violent racism and transmisogyny.

From sex work on the streets to v-coding in prisons, marginalized trans women live in a society constructed to maime and kill people who don't fit the mold of white supremacy.

U.S. Catholic Bishops Launch Attack on Trans Healthcare; It’s Time To Fight Back While headlines were giving the Catholic church hierarchy plaudits for symbolic gestures in support of immigrants and a papal lunch with trans people, American bishops passed a major ban on trans heal...

Before praising the current papacy, remember that late last year the Catholic Church imposed one of the most sweeping bans on trans healthcare yet, cutting off life-saving care throughout its sprawling U.S. hospital networks:

Just a reminder: our health secretary, one Weasley... Sorry, Wesley Streeting MP, has hired Jonathan Haidt, named in the Epstein files, to help push a pseudoscience Social Media Ban for Under-16s. Probably because they might use it to speak out about his cabal of noncy, abuser friends.

The biggest threats we face aren't from those who openly seek the destruction of trans lives — dangerous as they are — but from the many, many more who will readily carry out whatever they say.

Every cis person needs to ask themselves that question.

Would you do that? Will you?

ava cordero is a latina trans woman and that's part of why she was targeted and not believed by anyone when she told the world of Epstein.

we had like 12 seconds in 2020 during Black Trans Lives Matter when cis people pretended to care about how POC trans people are killed by them, now it's silence

those Black trans women were killed in part by everyone working the NYT, every Democrat who doesn't call out transphobia and trans prisoner rape in blue states, and of course all the pedophile billionaire rapists who are sitting at the back cheering on as liberals do their work for them

i'll take "sentences cis people are not allowed to say" for 100, alex

also "trans liberty pac," who sent the PR he's rage farming w/, isn't a thing. it's one "intelligence analyst" who spent 7yrs in the marines & now seems to do tech founder/dem strategist bullshit. idk if she's even been to kansas

Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.

Consent to surgical or medical treatment for a minor child 12 who has not reached the age of eighteen shall be implied in cases of emergency, as 13 defined in R.S. 40:1159.5. there are lots of sarcastic congratulations emojis and text scribbled around it

so the GOP has been trying to gut our minor medical consent statute ever since they learned it exists during trans ban hearings.

it took them 3yrs, but they seem to have finally figured out how to avoid drafting variations of the Louisiana Just Stand Around Watching Kids Die In Car Wrecks Act

I will, at some visceral level, never get those who revere the mythology of some inevitably blood-soaked, powerful institution over living, breathing people on the ground.

It's just deeply delusional and disgusting.

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

Since liberal pundits continue to go to the mattresses for The New York Times...

Believe us, trans people see when institutions with plenty of blood on their hands are still revered, even now, over communities facing brutal oppression.

Update: TERF outlets are continuing to not only back alleged sexual harasser Krauss, but published his defense of his close collaboration with Epstein.

Apparently calling out Epstein is "hysteria" and "damages" higher education.

It was never about protecting women or kids. TERFs are pro-Epstein.

The fight over North Carolina's anti-trans HB2 remains widely misunderstood. Instead of an example of how much better things used to be, it was a warning of threats to come.

David was in the trenches during the HB2 fight. Her piece is important reading on that and the wider struggles it was part of

When anyone in a position of power, including the more modest ones those directing the evils of our time rely upon, ever feeling bad is "going too far" then nothing ever changes and everything just keeps getting worse.

Anything else requires breaking this cult of compliance. Hard.

remember everyone saying that the government would lose interest in mn?

that was wrong. ice is still here, and still in full force.

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On Surviving Trans Genocide As fascists openly call for trans people to be institutionalized, forcibly detransitioned, and labeled as terrorists, we must remember how trans existence is undefeatable, and how trans people will fi...

We share this piece by @madycast.com with some frequency, because it's a reminder of the power of trans sruvival and strength even in the bleakest of times.

Reminder that the original government "expert" supporting the alleged "antifa" conspiracy in the Praireland case, Kyle Shideler, said in a now-deleted tweet that he “could be talked into drone striking marijuana smokers on U.S. streets."

you absolutely can burn your grassroots potential with overactivation but that's for your team to manage, not the team of electeds you're playing against. our community has been irresponsibly *under*activated by lgbtq org leadership and spontaneous grassroots calls like this have no downside at all.

i assume he is complaining that people are calling them about the trans book ban bill which is very funny

Tony Clark @informative.ink 5h I am *begging* activists and others with large followings to make your asks of us strategically. We're exhausted. Too much is happening at once. You *must* learn to triage. There are times when contacting reps can effect change, especially to try to stop a horrible bill from becoming law. But 10 35 158 Tony Clark @informative.ink 5h a few days after a bill has been introduced-in one chamber, with relatively few co-sponsors, and not even moving through committee, much less scheduled for any votes-is *not* the time for an urgent mobilization alert to stop what we all are doing and call our reps *now* to urge them to vote no. I 2 5 35

Tony Clark @informative.ink 5h Without a vote even close to pending on the bill in question, and with reps having hundreds of other items to attend to, such mobilization goes to waste. And takes attention away from issues needing urgent attention now-as they're happening now. And it burns out those who want to do good. And 2 2 30 Tony Clark @informative.ink 5h wrongly assumes that we all have an unlimited capacity to fight, and fight everything, and fight it exactly when activists and celebrities and others demand that we drop everything to fight it right now. And the false timing urgency dashes hopes when people find out the details. PLEASE triage. 2 4 53

lol

In movements and among media/influencer types, it's the lesser aristocracy, the upper middle class, who tend to wield power.

The fact that following orders and keeping cushy jobs are basically sacrosanct in their culture are part of what's driven this damaging shift that any pressure is "too far."

Not shockingly, this shift has gone along with increasing class stratification within both the wider society and movements ostensibly devoted to change (look at the salaries higher-ups at Gay Inc orgs draw compared to the rank and file).

This means the norms of the gentry hold more sway than ever.

What's replaced it? Vaguely, the idea of the mythical "seat at the table," of changing the minds of those in power (somehow without them ever facing pressure).

Notice this leaves all power in the hands of those who already have it.

The results, in all their utter disaster, speak for themselves.