I have been such a cranky hater the last few days, and I am *tired* of it. I'm sitting in a sunbeam and refusing to engage in any more imaginary arguments.

The "any similar policy" thing is HUGE, right???

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2. This is a major, 49 page ruling. Many people have excused hospitals capitulating to Trump on this. Many have excused elected officials for not enforcing state law against hospitals that capitulate. Now, the basis for their capitulation has been STRUCK DOWN.

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care.

The judge also blocked "any similar policy."

Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws.

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This would be a perfect excuse for Mamdani to provide leadership and issue a demand to NYC hospitals that have withdrawn from gender care for youths.

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

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Erin Reed does a deep dive on the federal ruling that lambasted Kennedy for illegally issuing a non-binding legal opinion that HHS used to bully scores of hospitals into closing gender clinics while saying it was just his opinion and protected as free speech.

This is why I put my faith in the cult and give them all my money* 🙂‍↕️

*sign up for the annual book club subscription every year

It looks like Stonewall UK has abandoned trans folk – but gay people in power selling out their BTQ+ cousins isn't new.

I wrote a novel about it! If you haven't read it yet, PROUD PINK SKY explores trans lives in the world's first gay state.

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On the way home from dropping off my elderly cat for an ultrasound of a stomach mass, my mom messages me that she's also getting an ultrasound for a mass that showed up on her mammogram, so that's how my day is going.

Read this and weepsalivate

*vibrates with excitement into another dimension where I already have this book in my hands*

Reading over award shortlist and feeling shocked, like, "that was published only a year ago???

During one of the longest years of my life I guess 🫠

And then tongue-in-cheek meta fantasy: This Princess Kills Monsters, The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale, How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying plus sequel (all 🔥), and How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days and Apparently Sir Cameron Needs to Die are up next. Same-theme, same-theme!

I've got Slayers of Old and Never Too Old to Save the World up next. More recs welcome!

I've got a couple. One is books centering older folks: The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher, Sundowner's Dance, I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home, Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre, An Elderly Lady Is Not to Be Crossed, Village Library Demon-Hunting Society...All of em 🔥

You know, giving in to a hyperfocus, same-theme mood actually feels...great? Why did I think I needed to resist reading books that were similar back to back (to back to back to back....)?

The cover of Love/Aggression by June Martin. It's olive green, one woman in outline facing another in lavender

It's trans day of visibility, so you should buy my book about trans animosity, a goddess of transfemininity crunching on pills all day, shapeshifting houses, and the biggest bitch in the world

traumbooks.com/love-aggress...

a curvy black trans woman in an excessive purple jumpsuit is about to kiss an extremely good looking and badly dressed asian trans guy. He is wearing a Hawaiian shirt god bless him. They are flying in the clouds? Behind them rear their superhero forms - she is a purple moth witch and he is a green hi-tec space pilot flyboy and they both wear masks. Style is reminiscent of I Was A Teenage Exocolonist because the artist did that too. Synthwave turquoise and purple background. Text says "the genre-exploding, galaxy-spanning, quick-quipping, meta-fictional, retro-nostalgia futuristic thrill ride of a lifetime: Plastic Prism Void by Violet Allen Out May 19th"

visibility schmisibility we call for

TRANS DAY
OF
CREATING
A
TOTAL
WORK
OF
ART

character art by Meilee Chen @bkomei.bsky.social #PlasticPrismVoid by @blipstress.bsky.social

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Cops Arrested a Black Pastor Watering His Neighbor’s Flowers. The Alabama Supreme Court Is Fine With That The opinion in Jennings v. Smith transforms the state’s stop-and-identify law into a show-me-your-papers regime.

i just think Watering Flowers While Black should not be an arrestable offense

nor do i think this should be controversial

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

1. I've written a few times about Mamdani and what he can do for trans people to uphold his promises. But there are disingenuous people who apparently do not read articles, so I figured I would lay out his power and what other trans journos want him to do here directly and what is in his power.

Scald Crow by Grace Daly is making me cry over how much a good therapist (and a cat) can help a struggling person (only like 60% thru, but I'm hoping it continues like this)

This is happening tomorrow (Saturday) at 2pm PST!! Hope
to see you there! <333333333333333 (Event room link will be posted on our account 30 min before start!)

This is what Potter money pays for. Why pay money to watch pretend heroes when you’re propping up a villain in real life?

Y'all this book is SO GOOD and so funny and silly and also unsettling and I LOVE IT. Do yourself a favor and check it out!

Exactly what you'd expect of a show that somehow believes first gen post-apocalypse kids wouldn't know about Pride flags.

Also, Cis Actors Stop Taking Trans Roles challenge mode apparently remains impossible.

Reading on the 4th of April! 2pm PST!! With some great writers you don't want to miss 🔽🔽🔽🔽
Also, updated w/ event room link:
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I HOPE TO SEE SOME OF YOU THERE ooOOO

Okay, that makes me feel less like I hallucinated it, or was in such an echo chamber I was completely out of touch

I was just feeling vertigo from that to.....this.

Was I in an uncommonly radical bubble, or was the abolition of gendered divisions in sports and other competitions a pretty mainstream feminist position in 2010? Or at least not *that* fringe.