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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:

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.

Boycotts, callout campaigns, disrupting an institution's operations/events, demanding firings and resignations, using guilt/shame/pressure to get figures to bolt.

All longtime tactics even among the most pacifist nonviolence-devoted groups. All now often considered too aggressive or "unproductive."

More historical context

In 1938, the German Reich invalidated all German Jewish passports.

They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as a Jew.

In 2026, the state of Kansas invalidated all correct trans drivers licenses.

They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as trans.

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

One of the reasons we got here is that the far-right viewed the South and other "red state" areas as a place to consolidate support and test tactics, while too many on the left (including the queer left) wrote the regions off or just told those of us on the ground here to leave.

arrested, and imprisoned with men, deprived of hormones. do the math on who they are going to target first (poor and POC trans people), and the situation has escalated extremely quickly in Kansas.

Nothing but silence from Democrats and I have seen very little outrage from cis liberals.

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...

this article I wrote after Kirk's death is perennially relevant. the reality of the situation is awful, horrifying. but it's never without hope, and preserving your mental fortitude is the simplest and most powerful way to fight back and win.

transnews.network/p/on-survivi...

Opinion | Old Betrayals and New as N.C. Dems Pass Anti-Trans Laws North Carolina Democrats had solid election results last year, amid promises to hold the line against the far-right. But two horrific anti-trans bills just became law thanks to Democratic support, wit...

Seeing folks (in good faith) misunderstand fight over NC's anti-trans HB2 back in 2016/17 as a contrast to anti-trans laws now. What actually happened is more revealing.

HB2 didn't fail. A fake "repeal" (with key Dem support) kept the law basically intact but shifted national attention elsewhere:

There's a clear trajectory from HB2 to Kansas. The HB2 fight is also illuminating about which tactics can work (attack the money, be relentless and uncompromising) and that's a major reason I wrote the above piece.

Actual history of NC's HB2 is one of far-right getting backlash but accurately reading that Dems (and too many Gay Inc orgs) wouldn't truly defend trans rights when chips were down, that plenty of liberals were willing to ignore warning signs in "red states." It shaped their tactics going forward.

'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...

As is so often the case, this interview of former NYT editor Billie Jean Sweeney, by @davidforbes.bsky.social, is once again highly relevant to current events.

Sweeney breaks down, in detail, how anti-trans bigotry's pushed from the very top of the company.

'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...

As is so often the case, this interview of former NYT editor Billie Jean Sweeney, by @davidforbes.bsky.social, is once again highly relevant to current events.

Sweeney breaks down, in detail, how anti-trans bigotry's pushed from the very top of the company.

Worth remembering that, among his many other evils, Newsom's fortune and businesses were extensively bankrolled by Gordon Getty — his father was an attorney and fixer for Getty Oil — and that his first major move in politics was cutting aid to homeless people.

The gentry, y'all.

what

why are you acting like you are in house of cards

you are not in house of cards

you are in a practical joke caucus for PAC money

Once again: trans people are an overwhelmingly working class demographic and many of the main figures targeting us are inevitably the most silver spoon nepobabies imaginable.

We need to fight the trans class war, y'all. They're already waging it against us.