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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

I’ve completed 42 books so far this year. Nine of them were written by trans authors. One was a collection of essays from lgbt folks and included at least one trans author.

With SCOTUS set to legalize conversion therapy, I think it's important for states to get around this decision by implementing new legislation applying private rights of action to practitioners of conversion therapy by their victims with large damages and long statutes of limitations.

Ooh, you just gave me something to add to my watch list!

One million Disney+ subscriptions to protect the human rights of a rich white man.

How many people will cancel their HBO subscriptions once Harry Potter is released in order to protect the human rights of trans people everywhere?

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

Ahem the guy who invented the term "evidence based medicine" just rebuked the most prominent anti-trans health lobby group in the world www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum.

This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

watching even a few seconds of the kirk funeral makes it clear a large quantity of this country is ready for full on nazi authoritarianism and we have to really grapple with how much we need to put a stop to this as quickly as possible

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

free Gretchen Felker-Martin

I always use my hip measurement for pants/bottoms sizing. That never lines up with my waist measurement/size.

thank you for mentioning this. here's a link to the letter that "Brandon Teena & Friends" wrote in response to Norm's transphobic "joke" and then sent to SNL & NBC:
bsky.app/profile/b3an...

There are some libs on here who are just absolutely salivating over the idea that they might get to nominate an out and proud transphobe. They do this because they like the anti-trans policies.

If the election ends up between two transphobes (since you insist on nominating a transphobe as the Dem nominee), then no, I won't be voting at all. Hope that helps!

That is looking amazing! I love the back patch!!!

Even this framing from PSA sounds deranged, there is no worthy “debate” over trans rights. Trans people deserve full rights and equal protections and freedom under the law full stop. There is no reasonable other “side” on this issue.

this. it is my only response to your panicked texts about whatever next shoe to drop in the inevitable war on our freedoms. we’re going to win, and it’s not by spiraling on our phones.

My requirements for any Democrat running for president are simple:
1. Undo/reverse every single anti-trans policy the Trump administration has implemented.
2. Pledge not to further restrict trans people's rights.
3. Support the passage of the Equality Act and make it a priority.

Tom Clancy’s Interview With the Vampire

I don't usually make newsletters public, but I'm making an exception in light of a dam breaking where many of us are admitting America is now ruled by a dictator.

It's about the way grief was influencing my behavior, and trying to move toward acceptance.

www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter/i...

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Before transitioning I was a respectability-politics lesbian. Even post-transition my career, my manner of dress, and my work is very palatable to the mainstream.

Because of that I think it's particularly important to talk about why I reject respectability politics and you should too. Short 🧵

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Idiots on here will be like, "Gavin Newsom is fighting fascism!" by which they mean "Gavin Newsom has a staffer posting AI shit memes"