Kai Jacobsen (they/them)

thank you!!!

oh good!! thank you!!

popping into this thread to wonder if you were able to do length/lap swimming during the public swim time (as opposed to the dedicated 7am length swimming)? impossible to find the answer to this question online and I am also anxiously trying to book a swim slot 🫠

My library system updated something recently and I had to remove and re-add my overdrive account on my kobo

I think this one was actually intentional, it was relevant to the content

From the VictoriaBC community on Reddit: anyone on this ferry now what happened ? Explore this post and more from the VictoriaBC community

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Montreal Then and Now | This is an image from Montreal Cam labeled Montreal East | Facebook This is an image from Montreal Cam labeled Montreal East. Does anyone know where exactly this is and why there is a camera at this location?

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found it! maps.app.goo.gl/V8NwXQ4UM8q6... intersection of Av. du Languedoc & Av. de Charette. (started by trying to use geoguessr skills, ended up finding it by googling "montreal est earthcam"

What is the Panel document being referenced here?

it's giving phantasm! I also have not read Freud but I have read Judith Butler's most recent book 🤪

These are scary times but the last decade of symbolic trans inclusion has offered us very little. What we are feeling now is the laying bare of that deep emptiness.

If our demand is simply for a return to the old lie of progress then we have already lost.

Everything for everyone.

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:

Chappell Roan being interviewed on the red carpet, saying: “trans people have always existed and they will forever exist and they will never no matter what happens, take trans joy away. i would not be here without trans girls. so just know that i’m trying my best to stand up for you in every way that i can.”

YO ✊😭

transition has been mostly DIY and community-organized since forever. when you're ready, figure out what you can offer and what you need. talk in real life, use signal, get creative, don't get caught. they can't break us in a way that matters!!!! I love you.

The tragedy of heterosexuality by Jane ward!

My two 5 ⭐️ books on StoryGraph this year were We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian (gay romance set in 1958 Brooklyn newspaper) and The Spirit Bares It’s Teeth by Andrew Joseph White (trans autistic rep, the literal horrors of institutionalization)!

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