@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr Advocate
In March SCOTUS blocked a CA policy preventing schools from informing parents of trans kids, signaling sympathy for "parent rights." But now it just refused to hear appeal of MA decision allowing schools to decide if they out trans students or not.
I'm on April vacation, and after a week of 3-5 hours a night of stress limited sleep, I conked out at 8pm last night and slept The Sleep of the Just for 10 or 11 hours.
Gee, I wonder if the ADF is going to try to save _these_ women's sports?
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Somebody has been ignoring the safety warnings at Oak Ridge.
A film by Mia Moore Executive Producer Lilly Wachowski
holy shit
chelsea manning looking fly as hell in a nice suit being perp walked by a dipshit party city looking nypd cop named "anger"
yesterday in NYC, jewish voice for peace organized a protest against arms sale to israel. 90 people got detained after a traffic sit in held right in front of chuck schumer's office.
as usual, chelsea manning has the coolest perp walk photos. cop's name is "anger" lmfao.
Of course, GenXer that I am and having been inundated with their commercials in the heady days of my misspent youth, I _really_ want this company to be 2SLGBTQIA+ friendly and alter their ads for June.
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🎶 And the bells from the chapel go jingle-
jangle
Jingle-
jangle,
jingle-
jangle,
jingle-
jangle 🎶
Earworm of the moment:
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Georgia educator says she was forced to resign after telling student she’s gay
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Eldrad must live.
A screenshot of a Facebook post by CBS 2 Boise. The post text reads: "A new state law required the City of Boise to take down the Pride flag outside City Hall. Tuesday morning, the City wrapped flag poles in Pride colors and added a new sign to the window on City Hall. CBS2 reached out to the Mayor and Governor’s office for comment." Below the text is a collage of three photos showing these updates: Left: A tall metallic flagpole in a plaza at night, with its lower section wrapped in horizontal stripes matching the colors of the Progress Pride flag (black, brown, light blue, pink, white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple). Top Right: A closer view of a flagpole base, also wrapped in horizontal Progress Pride flag colors. Bottom Right: A large window on City Hall featuring a graphic with diagonal stripes in the Progress Pride colors alongside the text, "Creating a city for everyone."
Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors.
This is amazing.
My employer org is calling for it and we need to join our voices to demand it! www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/blog/2026/4/...
"The world is exploding, post your cancellable take!"
Or, I dunno, the world is exploding so maybe show love and kindness to each other?
Nah, you're right, that's "so cringe." We need more anger and pointless meanness right now.
Chiitan loves transgender people from the bottom of my heart🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
From a fairy like Chiitan, it seems natural for everyone to live as their true selves. That’s why, until the day Chiitan disappears and is gone, I’ll keep sending gentle messages so that all transgender people can live happily.
L'Engle, Lerner, and Loewe's classic 1960s musical
Camazotz!
Screenshot of a post from someone named Vivian (@suchnerve) that says: economy so bad you can only rent the libs
To folks in #scicomm who think uncritical promotion of stories about Artemis that don’t help the public understand the policy challenges at hand: consider not sleep walking into a situation where everything BUT Artemis gets defunded & the public doesn’t realize it because you didn’t sound the alarm
Wait what?
Yet again, I am embarrassed by my generation.
I swear, my little social bubble of GenXers is not like that - but I've seen the polls... I know where our average demographics sit & I just don't get it.
2. Reducing overmedicalization in health care and increasing focus on optimal health through the delivery of Title X services Promoting better health outcomes requires a balanced approach to care that emphasizes optimal health (defined as physical, mental, and social wellbeing), not just medical intervention. OPA recognizes the overreliance on pharmaceutical and surgical treatments. Over the years, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Survey of Family Growth reports have shown a decrease in females’ current use of any contraception (approximately 65% of females of reproductive age in both 2015-2017 and 2017-2019 data, then 54% in the most recent 2022-2023 report).1 According to the 2023 National Health Statistics Report, the most common reason women reported discontinuing use related to dissatisfaction was side effects.2 This approach has failed to adequately address the root causes of the nation’s chronic disease burden, resulting in ongoing health challenges that affect fertility, pregnancy outcomes, and long-term health outcomes. Through the delivery of Title X services, OPA seeks to strengthen approaches that focus on the underlying behavioral and lifestyle factors of health—such as nutrition, sleep, physical activity, stress management, and environmental factors—that impact overall health and are shown to be effective in improving optimal health.
This is the only time "contraception" is used in the entire Title X Family Planning document for 2027 outside of footnotes. It's 67 pages long. On the page that outlines agency priorities, "enforce the Hyde Amendment" is priority 6.
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5. Promoting evidence-based care through the delivery of Title X services Protecting children and adolescents and ensuring that federally supported programs reflect the best available scientific evidence are central to promoting lifelong physical and reproductive health. HHS will prioritize funding for grantees who maintain a sciencedriven approach to healthcare, including by protecting children, respecting biological reality, and upholding scientific integrity across its programs. Integrating these priorities within the Title X program ensures that program activities reflect evidence-based practices and biological and reproductive health. To the extent permitted by applicable law, including any applicable court orders, we expect recipients to demonstrate how their Title X projects promote physical and reproductive health priorities established by HHS. Key strategies include, but are not limited to, providing developmentally appropriate counseling rooted in biological science; ensuring referral pathways align with evidencebased care; and collaborating with community partners to promote practices that support healthy adolescent development.
Most of this document is a full-on assault on reproductive freedom but it is very, very difficult not to read this as a signal that groups that want to teach about how trans people aren't real and women exist for procreation will not only be eligible for funding, but given preferential treatment.
Grok argues that I'm a female.
When confronted, it argues that it's literally impossible for me to be a trans woman
It triples down on its statement that I cannot be trans because my chromosomes have to be XX to have such anatomy
The other day I sought to prove that Grok has been hard-coded with TERF logic, and this was my first chat with it.
As you can see, it is literally incapable of acknowledging that passing trans people exist. That's a common, and absurd, GC/TERF talking point.
Grok is literally a propaganda machine
Discord message by me, with four emoji standing for T = trans (transgender flag) L = lunar (gibbous moon emoji) I = injection (syringe emoji) B = burn (fire emoji) So the TLIB was a ‘good burn’ according to ground control. Trans-lunar injection burn is done!
🏳️⚧️🌔💉🔥✅
This interview she did a few years ago with The Comics Journal is pretty great.
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If you'd like to follow along with the #Artemis II launch, NASA has a live blog here: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
and you can watch the official broadcast on the NASA site here:
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or on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...
That time it's trans gay of visibility and you hear a cis person talking about the trans athlete ban on the radio in support of it, when the latest studies show that trans women don't have an athletic advantage. Turns out second puberty does undo elements of first puberty.
Black Trans people deserve visibility too. 🏳️⚧️
🎶 I just know that something good is gonna happen
I don't know when
But just saying it could even make it happen 🎶
Mood.
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Two stickers with the messages: TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS and PROTECT TRANS KIDS
T-Shirt with the message: PROTECT TRANS KIDS
Trans rights are human rights. Today and everyday. Happy Trans Day of Visibility.
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It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.
If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.
Everyone give this a share after.