Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

State department guidance is now up for transgender people who want to change their gender marker on their passports.

Your window opens NOW to make it happen, with some caveats: data will be collected on changes.

EITM was the first media outlet to report this breaking development for trans people.

11th Circuit Rules Trans Teacher Must Misgender Herself In Classroom In Accordance With FL Law The ruling by Trump-appointed judges contradicts other classroom speech cases and is a clear case of the state barring disfavored speech, according to the dissent.

Florida in 2025: “caselaw is building that seems to suggest teachers only have free speech when they disagree with transgender people, but as soon as transgender people come into play, they lose those rights - even in intensely personal subjects such as what name or pronoun or honorific one uses.”

Don't let the bigots pathologize us.

Yes dysphoria kills. It sucks. Believe me, I know. But we are NOT our dysphoria and we are owed more than simply being trauma porn.

We deserve gender affirming care because we're human beings and bodily autonomy is a human right.

Supreme Court Deals Another Major Blow To Transgender Rights This decision could set a tone for other challenges to laws barring transgender people from participating in sports, using bathrooms and accessing health care.

“The decision is hard to stomach. But it’s important to note that there’s nothing in this decision that is a green light.” – Karen Loewy, Lambda Legal Senior Counsel via @huffpost.com

Trump Promises Harsher ICE Crackdowns, Blaming "Transgender For Everybody" The president has graduated to blaming transgender people for nearly anything he does.

1. Trump has promised harsher ICE crackdowns on Truth Social.

He blamed transgender people as the reason such crackdowns must happen.

Particularly, he used the phrase "transgender for everybody," a phrase he has increasingly used to justify anything he wants.

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If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US

Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.

It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)

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I woke with a swell of Pittsburgh pride this morning.

Cover Art for “Mapping Multi-Genre Literary Framework for Trans* Studies.” The art was created by Arien Reed and features a person who is naked with long, tightly curled hair looking up to the sky. Two hands wrap around the person, leaving blank spaces in their torso, and flower petals stream off the vibrant water-color surface of the figure’s skin. The figure is ambiguously gendered.

Hi, folks! If you are interested in learning about how trans* authors are using counter narratives as a tool for survival in the face of anti trans* lawmaking, please check out my new book! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Thank you for the kind shoutout, @constellationsjrnl.bsky.social!

Yessssss

In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect.

This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.

www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

Remember: community will care and remain regardless of whether federal support is available.

Misinformation is now the norm… I’m reminded of zines during the height of the AIDS epidemic (like the 1993 “gendertrash from hell issues) through which community organizers shared census data and care guidelines despite a lack of federal support. More accurate information can be found there.

Lambda Legal Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Passport Policy Today, Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit on behalf of seven transgender U.S. citizens, including one who is nonbinary, challenging the Trump administration’s policy denying them U.S. passports with accurat...

Lambda [cont] – ICYWW the reason Lambda filed a 2nd suit _after_ ACLU got an injunction against State Dept passport policy was the P/I only applied to its plaintiffs. LLDEF’s suit is trying again to get a court to stop the practice for everyone [HT @dana@catodon.social]

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

I feel like I was just punched in the ribs. Fuck.

To hell with this.

The cover art to “The Spirit Bares Its Teeth.” In the center is an individual with long, curled blonde hair, violet eyes that look to be in pain (facing to the right), and a clutched shard of glass in hand. The individual is framed in an oval-shaped, golden frame with a blue sky and white clouds in the background. Behind the framed image of the individual is a haunting collage of violet eyes.

A timely book recommendation: “The Spirit Bares Its Teeth,” by Andrew Joseph White.

The narrative is in the style of a Victorian Gothic (very dark, see trigger warnings), and it features a neurodivergent and trans masc protagonist whose knowledge of medicine seems to far exceed RFK Jr. Just saying!

To my autistic friends and fellow neurodiverse comrades, let your dreams, loves, and poetry fill with all the beauty and power he fails to imagine.

The Trump Administration Threat To Transgender Adult Care Is Growing At Lightning Speed Many transgender adults have wondered when their care would be banned by the Trump administration. Now, we are seeing the first vectors to do so.

“The Trump Administration Threat To Transgender Adult Care Is Growing At Lightning Speed” — Friends, please be advised.

Also, one more thing: if you're not LGBTQ, you don't get a say on who's welcome in our community. Asexual and aromantic people are sexual minorities. They're always welcome in our spaces. Our spaces are their spaces. Mind your own damn business and get a new hobby.

Advocates Beat 91% of Last Year's Anti-LGBTQ Bills. How? While the trans community still faces unprecedented legislative attacks, with 49 bills passing into law in 2024, there are key strategies that activists are using to fight back.

Last year, only 49—less than 10%—of the 533 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures passed into law.

Advocates in Georgia and Missouri defeated all 54 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced last year despite Republican majorities.

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Cory Booker holds marathon Senate speech to warn of Trump’s ‘harmful’ policies YouTube video by Roland S. Martin

I am watching Senator Booker's filibuster on Roland Martin's YouTube channel between meetings.

(Shout out to his staffers, too. They did tons of prep for this.)

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Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking a third term, adding that he’s ‘not joking’ | CNN Politics President Donald Trump on Sunday did not dismiss the idea of pursuing a third term in the White House, despite the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution prohibiting it, claiming that “there are methods” ...

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Trump Admin Threatens To Pull California School Funding Unless It Forcibly Outs Trans Students The investigation, which will take place under the Department of Education, threatens to pull California's funding over not outing transgender kids to their parents.

1. The Trump administration has announced it will be investigating California, and will pull its school funding unless it forcibly outs transgender students.

California has a law against forced outing policies.

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Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants | CNN Business Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wag...

Debates over child labor laws in Florida could make it legal for 14 year olds to work overnight shifts on school nights in order to make up for lost labor from folks who are undocumented... like shifting from one exploited labor force to another. Clearly education is not a priority.

A row of books showing the spines of the books, each in the colors of the trans rights pride flag with sparkles in the same colors. "Marcy 17th - 31st! Over 40 creators! Over 70 stories! Stories for the Trans Rights Readathon.

There are 6 days left for the "Stories for the Trans Rights Readathon" Itchio bundle! 43 trans & non-binary creatives put together this bundle of 73 books!

2 of my books are in it & I'll be donating a portion of my proceeds from the bundle to trans rights orgs in my state

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All of these countries have issues travel warnings for trans people visiting the US.

Austria
Denmark
France
Germany
Ireland
Norway
Slovakia
Slovenia
The Netherlands

The US is not safe for trans people. Do not come.

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