1. Major alert: Trump's anti-trans co-author Moti Gorin will be presenting with Kaltiala and Montante. These are conversion therapy advocates with intense anti-trans ties to hate groups around the world.
Now they'll be teaching pediatricians THIS FRIDAY.
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News from Hungary I know many in the LGBT community were thrilled with the results of the recent election. This is a long post, but I think it’s also an important one. The following slides are a translation from an email sent by Budapest Pride to their supporters. I did the translation from Hungarian using DeepL, so any errors or loss of nuance is entirely down to me. I hope you will read the whole statement - it’s powerful, and a reminder that the fight is far from over. And, if you can, support Budapest Pride.
I have translated the statement emailed by Budapest Pride to their supporters, using DeepL. Any mistakes and loss of nuance are my fault, not theirs. But I think this is an important statement, and deserves a wide audience.
Full text in the alts; I can email it if you want to share it further
“In 2025, book bans were not sparked by concerned parents, and they were not the result of local grassroots efforts. They were part of a well-funded, politically-driven campaign.” - Sarah Lamdan, Executive Director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.
https://bit.ly/4tQcFqG
"It just felt like the floor had fallen out. Like all the support that I thought we had was gone. Maybe this is naive, but I didn't think that would happen in Massachusetts."
there is functionally a conspiracy to gaslight you into believing that, so it's understandable
www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...
Insane story: Using facial recognition technology, The New York Knicks apparently tracked the movements of a transgender woman attending a game at Madison Square Garden to ensure she never appeared on the game's televised broadcast
1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.
The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.
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STATEMENT: AFSCME members urge Virginia General Assembly to reject proposed substitute bill to gut collective bargaining legislation
"Those who don’t want sexual predators as lawmakers probably imagine someone else could run for Congress. But the United States has spent centuries developing a leadership pipeline that favors maximal male sliminess."
1. Last Thursday, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a resolution designating Pride Month as 'Nuclear Family Month' in the state.
In the resolution, a 'nuclear family' is defined as "one husband, one wife, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children."
transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-...
Trans genocide isn't hyperbolic, it's a reality. The federal government has been on an active campaign to eliminate us from society, to remove our healthcare and ultimately force us into federal custody where we would be subject to torture and death.
you may remember that Kansas voters approved a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive freedom. last week, the Kansas state lege overruled the gov's veto of two new anti-abortion laws. "freedom" was not supposed to look like this.
For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view.
Workers I spoke to are pissed.
“We go to show that there are people that are fighting against this,” Pace explained, “and to also show other people in the trans community that we are fighting for you.”
Appreciate @melissagiragrant.com's reporting for acknowledging the bleak reality while also centering agency + resistance to it.
But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.
Three Democratic members of Congress said they were horrified that immigrants were being stuffed into holding cells “like sardines” at a Mesa ICE holding facility they showed up to without warning on Thursday night.
Apple is closing down the first of its US stores to unionize.
Apple says that because of the collective bargaining agreement with these workers, they "couldn’t offer to transfer them to nearby locations.”
The union is outraged, and exploring options to hold Apple accountable.
This death camp never closed down despite a concerted effort by many forces to convince you it did.
FBI agent Denise played by David Duchovny and Dale Cooper, played by Kyle Maclachlan, Twin Peaks 1990
David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.
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FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
@josephcox.bsky.social for @404media.co
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Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees Kennedy Vows To End ‘War’ On Stinging-Insect Diets
Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-ame...
Bloody Disgusting says BODIES OF WORK is a must-read horror book: bit.ly/4c2wtRy
While killing dozens of people in Lebanon (MOPH says 112, civil defense counts 250+, until now), Israel still found time to kill another one of our colleagues in Gaza.
If you ever wanted to find all the trans employees in the federal government to purge them, this would be the move you'd do. www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/h...
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr
HRC/SSRS TDOV survey of 1k finds 85% agree trans ppl should have the same rights as others (incl 76% of Reps), 89% should be able to access GAC, 83% protected from school bullying, and 79% protected from job discrimination.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr
Catholic nuns operating a NY state nursing facility are suing the state over law requiring them to provide care for elderly transgender patients in their correct gender, claiming it violates their faith.
1. Several hospitals and clinics around the country, ranging from NYU Langone in NYC to Kaiser in California ended trans youth care.
Now, Children's Minnesota is one of the first to bring it back following a court ruling blocking Kennedy's declaration.
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Hello from the Surprise City Council meeting. Tonight is the first city council meeting since DHS/ICE announced they are pausing the purchase of new warehouses leaving the proposed concentration camp in Surprise, AZ as one of the few that is moving forward. Views from the city hall entrance.
The world is exploding, tell your crush you like them and give a trans woman $10
