
In April of 2023, Rep Zooey Zephyr stood up to the Montana legislature censuring her for supporting trans rights. I channeled my anger into creating "Let Her Speak." Trans rights are human rights!
In April of 2023, Rep Zooey Zephyr stood up to the Montana legislature censuring her for supporting trans rights. I channeled my anger into creating "Let Her Speak." Trans rights are human rights!
I Saw The TV Glow spoilers, big feelings
@peachfiend it seems like there are three reactions to the movie:
1. Wow, that was weird, what was the point?
2. I picked up on the trans allegory early on and couldn’t get over how campy the movie is
3. Curl up in the fetal position and cry for hours
I’m glad I watched it at home rather than a theater because I wouldn’t have been able to get up at the end.
I’m 37, so I relate to your thread a lot. We have a lot ahead of us.
Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now:
9. Call up the organization closest to you that supports your queer and trans neighbors, your undocumented neighbors, your homeless neighbors, your neighbors seeking abortions. Thank them for their work. Ask what they need right now.
10. If the organization needs volunteers, ask a friend to go with you to volunteer.
11. If the organization needs money, text five friends and say “I’m donating to _____ org and I’d like you to do so as well.” Think about something that brings you joy— baking or making music or writing strident essays on the Internet or dancing. Ask yourself, “could that be a fundraiser?”
https://thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lonely-but-beautiful-actions
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It's been at the back of my mind for so long, but I finally took the plunge and got my first tattoo. One that encapsulates me so well. #IronMaiden #Eddie #UpTheIrons #Trans #TransPride #Tattoos #Tattoo #transrights #gettingInkdone #firstTattoo
https://narrativecuriosity.co/getting-ink-done-the-first-tattoo-was-a-long-time-coming/
#HotTake: Every #human should be entitled by international #law to free, unseizeable #ID documents in the form of a travel #passport to evidence their #identity and have #FreedomOfMovement as well as a chance to #flee.
Why?
USpol, Trump, sexism, anti-trans hate, anti-nonbinary hate
If I read this [www.federalregister.gov], this [www.federalregister.gov], and this [www.federalregister.gov] part of #EO14168 together, than any #infertile #person (or child before puberty!) does not have rights to a #passport under #Trump!
So it seems Meta/Threads are forcibly altering output of the Trans Flag emoji , to only show the two combining elements instead of the actual emoji.
This is appearing correct on the Fediverse, however on Meta, it seems they are removing an aspect of the emoji to make it combined... absolute shite.
Public Records Reveal How Agencies Complied With Trump's Anti-Trans Order
https://www.404media.co/public-records-reveal-how-agencies-complied-with-trumps-anti-trans-order/
@arcgenderjust Promoting to @teslatakedown and @resistancerallies
#TeslaTakeDown #GenderRights #TransRights #USPS #Advocacy
See post above for upcoming advocacy opportunities!
ICYMI, fighting fascism works by improv rules.
Yes AND.
Don't waste your energy or their enthusiasm by telling someone they are doing it wrong.
In a story that's not really making many waves in the US media because transphobia, transmisogyny, and hating incarcerated people are all bipartisan establishment positions, the Trump administration is also transferring incarcerated trans women to men's prisons; despite the fact that it's both illegal, and multiple judges have issued restraining orders to prevent the regime from doing so:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/transgender-women-prison-trump
Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
"Transgender women incarcerated in the US prison system have been transferred to men’s facilities under Donald Trump’s executive order, despite multiple court rulings blocking the president’s policy, according to civil rights lawyers and accounts from behind bars.
Trump’s day-one “gender ideology” order, one of several sweeping attacks on trans rights, said the attorney general “shall ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers” and that no federal funds go to gender-affirming treatment or procedures for people in custody.
The executive order was quickly challenged in court. In three lawsuits filed on behalf of trans women housed in women’s prisons, federal judges have ruled that the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) cannot withhold their medical treatment and was barred from moving them to men’s facilities. One judge said the plaintiffs had “straightforwardly demonstrated that irreparable harm will follow."
Lawyers fighting Trump’s directive say the court rulings prevented the transfers of 17 trans women who are plaintiffs in the cases, but others not included in the litigation are now facing placements in men’s facilities."
In case you're missing the shell game going on here, the Trump administration is pretending that only the 17 specific trans women mentioned in the cases to block this cruel fuckery are covered, while simply going ahead to target other trans women who are not specifically mentioned in the court orders. Not only is this an abnormal, malicious violation of the spirit of the judge's orders, but it's also literally straight up illegal:
"Prisons are required under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (Prea), a longstanding federal law, to screen incarcerated people for sexual assault risk and consider LGBTQ+ status when making housing decisions. Legal experts say Trump’s blanket policy of housing trans women in men’s facilities clearly violates Prea."
This is a hard story to read, because it demonstrates a pattern of pointless, wonton cruelty towards trans women by Trump's Bureau of Prisons; in addition to moving trans women to men only facilities that put them in very real danger, the BOP has also issued *orders* for guards to deadname prisoners and use incorrect pronouns, change their gender markers on official forms, deny requests for gender appropriate clothing, and to allow male guards to pat down trans women prisoners. Furthermore because this administration (and some would say, American society) hates trans women more than they like ice cream, nobody is making any effort here to prevent abuses that would seemingly go even beyond Trump's fascist executive order. There are already reports of male guards "groping" trans women prisoners, prison officials seizing the bras and underwear of trans women prisoners like they were contraband, threats to force detransition incarcerated trans women by denying their hormone therapy, and even one report that a woman who had gender-affirming surgeries before her incarceration, being moved to a men's prison. As one lawyer noted, this "is essentially sanctioning sexual assault in some instances."
Of course, given that trans people represent a microscopic minority inside the U.S. population, and 17 trans women are being protected by temporary restraining orders, only a small number of trans women are subject to what I'd describe as a form of psychological torture and the constant threat of violence; perhaps that's why the US political and media establishment in the "opposition" doesn't care, rather than their well established indifference towards trans lives, if not outright transphobia. I would however argue that the fact that the Trump administration is plowing ahead to target such a small number of trans women demonstrates that this isn't about safety or the rule of law; the cruelty is indeed the point, and a Trump regime that cares little about malnourished children, seniors living check to check on social security, or American workers, is clearly prepared to move heaven and earth to make existence so intolerable for trans women that they simply stop existing.
I hate capitalism
I would have all the supplies i need for a stable living situation if money wasn't in the way
I lack:
Pneumatic springs for the side solar panels on the bus to prop up solar panels while being wind and weather resistant
Magnets for the side solar panels on the bus
Ubolts for bus suspension
More 12v batteries for more stable power at night (need atleast 2 more for now)
Replacement connectors for escooter
Materials to rebuild the bus into a more livable place (replacement of ceiling, materials for lab/office, materials for kitchen and bathroom, Insulation for inside of bus)
Insulation and heat shielding for 100 gal water tank as well as tank heaters for cold months
Tire change for bus as the retreads are prone to coming off at any point
I will need as much as possible as building it out is intense in every way in this realm
And ill need this boosted everywhere if yall are able to
https://www.paypal.me/inaraclocks
https://cash.app/clockworkdemon
The bus is also planned to be used for rescuing trans/otherkin/minorities in need in the us but also for vulpine labs work (nonprofit) or emergency ev (nontesla) charging
"Irish LGBTQ+ in New York call on Irish politicians to speak up for trans rights on St Patrick's Day"
Given trans people's rights are being debated in this election, i though a general summary might be useful. This focuses on medical care for transgender kids
A quick intro into care for transgender kids, and some of the more common regressive talking points. Feel free to share if you think this is useful (and suggest improvements)
Care for trans children is about giving them agency to decide who they want to be. For young kids this is social transition; clothes, hair, names, sparkly tiaras. There is usually some degree of counselling and socialisation through all this, as appropriate for the child
Once they reach puberty, puberty blockers are used to delay changes and give the person time. Puberty blockers buy time by preventing permanent changes from puberty. Internal puberty will resume if they stop blockers (they were developed to treat early puberty in cisgender kids)
Eventually they will probably start Hormone Replacement Therapy, but the point is to give them a choice on what puberty to go through. HRT is broadly safe
Surgery is only done if the person wants it, and generally after 16 or 18 depending on the type. There are a lot of different options here
All of these processes were developed to treat various medical issues in cisgender and/or intersex kids. What's happening here is that it just centers the child's choices, rather than impose society's values on them
The whole process is driven by what the person wants. It's about children's agency and bodily autonomy
You can't force transgender kids to be cisgender. That just results in traumatised or dead trans people. This is all about supporting children to be happy
Some common BS talking points:
Desistance / detransition - generally children who come out as trans continue to be trans. The claims otherwise are based on a terrible study had too low a threshold for inclusion and falsely classified people as cis
The point is to give children agency, so if they do decide they're cis then that's fine. The treatment has worked
Rapid onset gender dysphoria - this is just bullshit. What's happening is that parents are assuming dysphoria started around when the person came out to them, when what actually happened is the person doesn't trust their parents enough to be open about this. The trans person doesn't trust their parents because their parents are bigots
Social contagion - people are just more aware that you can be trans, and that includes being non-binary. People have more knowledge and control over their lives, seems good to me
"There are only two sex/genders" - this is just a bullshit assertion, equivalent to "the earth is flat" or "we didn't come from monkeys". Biology and psychology are far more complex than that
What is the difference between honest ignorance (which we all have on any number of topics, and if we're humble, we learn) and prideful ignorance ("I know everything already, shut up")?
This man
He came to the #Wisconsin state legislature to speak against #genderAffirmingCare. Instead, after listening to testimony, he apologized and said he learned a lot
On #socialMedia we are drowning in #bigotry
But, sometimes, you can educate those who will listen
On the way to trans headquarters! #transrights #transgender
Source: heart_jpg on Twitter
OK all you folks in the #LGBTQ community and our #Allies. Here's a gentle reminder that #Trangender people exist and need our help
Share if you care!
#AcceptanceMatters #TransgenderAwareness #Transrights
#LGBT #LGBTQIAPlus #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Queer #Intersex #Asexual #NonBinary
@lgbtqia
anybody in upstate NY who has some spare compassion? would like to steer a trans couple fleeing abuse towards somebody who can give a bit of support. One can work, they just need away from immediate shit situation.
#trans #TransRights #USPol
#mutualaid
Hey so some trans folks in local mutual aid circles had a bad run in with cops in Idaho and need some help covering legal expenses.
If you're able to help, it'd be much appreciated.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-2-trans-people-fight-a-legal-battle