"Setting the standard for LGBTQI+ nonprofit employers" That's what Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) says - but our reality looks very different.

For the past 8 months, we have been negotiating our contract. Here is what we have experienced from Executive Leadership and C-Suite: Staff have been questioned, spoken down to, and treated as unintelligent-especially those without law degrees. Work has been bottlenecked and made unnecessarily difficult, harming relationships with external partners. Executive Leadership and C-suite have shut down our Name Change Project (NCP), put jobs at risk, threatened the position of our union chapter president, and called union members liars.

And yet, Executive Leadership and C-suite publicly claim to support equity, trust, and strong workplace standards all while proposing: Removing COLAs → because we're a "new organization" Keeping layoff power → because of the "last contract" So which is it, A4TE leadership? Are we a new organization or bound by the old contract?

The Union has already voted - 96% of union members authorized a strike. If no agreement is made by May 4th, WE WILL STRIKE. A4TE leadership, if you want to be the "model standard", prove it. Our union remains in solidarity and demands: • Equitable layoff protections • Fair COLAS Show us who you really are.

@transequality.bsky.social says they want to set the standard for LGBTQI+ nonprofit workplaces. Our reality tells a different story. 96% of our union has authorized a strike. If no agreement is reached by May 4th, WE WILL STRIKE.

Please support our union’s work toward a fair contract by NOT crossing our digital picket line! That means not visiting @ProPublica.org today, April 8.

(And please resume your support of @ProPublica.org all other days, we love the journalism we do!)

This is extremely relatable!

Roberts again: "You mention in your briefing about 'birth tourism.' Do you have any... information about how... common that is... how much of a problem that is?"

Sauer: uhh... media reports... from China.

Roberts: "Having said all that, you do agree it has no impace on the legal analysis..."

In recent days, AMA communications to the New York Times have requested a correction on their part to reflect the actual language the AMA used in response to their inquiry. Additionally, a letter to the editor has been submitted requesting a public correction—this was neither a policy change nor was it an endorsement of a position taken by another medical society. In addition, during Congressional testimony in mid-March, I had the opportunity to set the record straight stating to the Subcommittee on Health of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that there has been no change in AMA policy with respect to access to and provision of gender-affirming care. This will appear in the Congressional Record.

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people.

cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

Our Union of Workers for Trans Liberation is fighting for fair wages, job security, layoff protections, and more ⬇️

These are dark times but our Union brings me so much hope

10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch

Her in the library

DHS illegally arrested me please help Text against image of her knees

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

If you're a trans person in Kansas who had your drivers license invalidated, you can absolutely trust @marisakabas.bsky.social to handle your story with care. I vouch for her 100%.

BREAKING: U4TL filed a grievance against management for refusing to pay our contractual salary step increases while we are bargaining

This is an unfair labor practice and a violation of our CBA. Decades of NLRB precedent makes it clear: even after a contract expires, workers retain the right to established wages and step increases.

A4TE management is resorting to coercive bargaining tactics: holding our raises hostage to pressure us into a deal. We will not be intimidated. We will not back down. We are united in our fight for a fair contract.

Breaking!

A4TE management is resorting to coercive bargaining tactics: holding our raises hostage to pressure us into a deal.

We will not be intimidated.
We will not back down.
We are united in our fight for a fair contract.

Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth

In a blatant violation of NY state and NYC law, NYU Langone has shut down its youth gender clinic and caused a potential forced detransition to its patients. Where is the NY AG and Mayor Mamdani?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...

From: Matthew Hiltzik < To: J <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Thoughts from Chomsky Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:34:06 +0000 I think that is wise Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:19 PM, J < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: Ive watched the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public. It's painful to say, but I think the best way to proceed is to ignore it. I've had plenty of experience, though of course not on this scale. A google search will bring up tons of hysterical accusations of all sorts, even groups devoted to vilifying me. I pay no attention, unless I'm approached for a comment on a specific matter. It's a nuisance, but it's the best way. The same conclusions from experiences of others, in some cases close friends. What the vultures dearly want is a public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts -- which are impossible to answer (how do you prove that you are not a neo-Nazi who wants to kill the Jews, or a rapist, or whatever charge comes along?). That's particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder. For virtually everyone who sees any of this, the reaction will be "where there's smoke there's fire, maybe raging fire" (whatever the facts, which few will even think of investigating). In general, it's best I think not to react unless directly questioned, particularly in the current mood -- which, I presume, will fade away, even if not in time to prevent much torture and distress.

Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky

How an errand for a 12-year-old immigrant in Minneapolis became an underground operation In Minnesota, there is an extensive network of community members who are volunteering en masse to help one another. NPR's Jasmine Garsd tells the story of one family who needed to run one errand…and h...

Affecting story about an immigrant girl in hiding in Minneapolis getting her period for the first time, not knowing what to do (and her dad not knowing what to do, either)

We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding

We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning

“This is un-American“ is anti-Indigenous, anti-Black gaslighting and if you find that inconvenient imagine how our colonized and enslaved ancestors felt and grow the fuck up

A Law School Dean Signed a Brief Defending Trans Rights. She Lost Her Job Because of It The revocation of Emily Suski’s job offer at the University of Arkansas sends a chilling message to law professors everywhere.

I wrote on the shameful situation re: the recession of a deanship to Emily Suski at the University of Arkansas Law. What was the reason? Prof. Suski signed an amicus brief supporting trans rights. The Arkansas legislators admitted that was it! Horrible outcome. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

U4TL is in the final stages of bargaining. Our contract has expired and we are still fighting for: • Job preservation and layoff protections • Fair wages and pay equity • Transparency about the future of Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE)

We cannot bargain fairly without knowing what A4TE plans for the future of our employment and working conditions. A4TE management has delayed sharing the new organizational chart and budget-information that would massively impact our jobs and our contract.

Job preservation isn't "nice to have"-it is essential. Right now, A4TE management hasn't shared the restructured organization chart-even though it directly affects who stays, who goes, and what our jobs look like. When critical information is withheld, it feels intentional-and it puts workers at risk.

We're working without a contract-and it's showing. Departments are seeing drastic changes to their workload, roles, and expectations-without safeguards in place. That is why we are escalating. This Friday (1/23), all-shop members will attend open bargaining to show management that we are in solidarity with our

UPDATE ON BARGAINING: U4TL is in the final stages of bargaining.
Our contract has expired and we are still fighting for the following…

interestingly to me, you can actually see the impact of this brief at oral argument rn

bc Idaho is now saying 'okay yes there is a history of de jure discrim against trans people, but it wasn't explicit like it was against Black people' which is...a v different position to be in, I think!

Thank you @ballsandstrikes.org for covering @transequality.bsky.social’s amicus brief on behalf of legal scholars and historians on the history of anti trans discrimination in the law

This Is the History of Anti-Trans Bigotry Amy Coney Barrett Doesn’t Want to Talk About Barrett thinks transgender people have been subjected to “relatively little” discrimination. This amicus brief aims to set the record straight.

Amy Coney Barrett says she doesn't know of any history of state-sanctioned discrimination aginst trans people. This amicus brief aims to set the record straight.

As Black and brown professional women athletes already know, “sex verification” policies will only result in more abuse, coercion, and invasion of privacy for all girls, trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming people - the exact kind of sex discrimination our civil rights laws are meant to protect

The promise of Title IX is about equal opportunity, not “protection” from “biological advantage.” This history and purpose matters when evaluating anti-trans sports bans that push trans kids out of educational opportunities.

Title IX’s legislative history demonstrates sex separation in sports was a remedial measure to address historic inequality. Sandler cited concerns about disparities in budgets, scholarships, mentorship, coaching, and facilities in boys and girls sports.

Bernice Sandler, the godmother of Title IX, did not subscribe to stereotypes about women’s inherent inferiority. In fact, she was enraged and motivated by a faculty member calling her “too strong for a woman” when denying her an academic job.

I wrote about the racist history of sex testing in women’s athletics and the history and purpose of Title IX in a law review article in 2022: socialchangenyu.com/wp-content/u...

I spoke with @us.theguardian.com about the two cases the Supreme Court is hearing today challenging categorical bans on trans students’ participation in school sports and the dangers “sex verification” policies pose to all women and girls.

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying.

They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

ICE shot and killed a woman.

Now they follow their fascist playbook: lying and gaslighting to cover up their actions and villainize the victim. If you can stomach it, the video contradicts DHS’s fiction. 

ABOLISH ICE. They kill and kidnap our neighbors. They endanger us all.

"you can't kill us all" fuck yeah minneapolis

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times.

Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.