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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Once again, the right is openly admitting that the entire focus on trans youth is to ultimately ban all gender affirming care for adults.
All the credulous reporters and institutions that helped launder this right wing project are responsible.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
“Leave her alone! What are you doing?!”
ICE snatching a mom from her daughter in San Francisco’s airport (not a normal TSA function)
Post: www.instagram.com/reel/DWOaZoo...
So when he bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, you were cool with that?
When he made fun of a handicapped reporter, you were cool with that?
When he had a mob attack the capital to steal the election, you were cool with that?
But now gas is expensive so you regret your vote?
Yeah?
If you are angry, stay angry. They want us to think this is normal and how life will be.
I’ll be dammed if I ever let that happen.
Rare good news about Dems not only doing their fucking jobs, but standing up for trans rights. More of this please, elected Dems.
Everyone needs to speak up, confront the lies, and loudly, publicly, defiantly support trans youth.
Anti-equality politicians have made it clear: Their obsession with trans youth will not end.
Protect trans youth by submitting a comment on Trump and RFK Jr.’s proposed rules that aim to severely restrict access to health care for trans youth: hrc.im/comment
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
Congrats!
UK's Labour Party abandoned transgender people. The gambit to pursue rightwing voters by abandoning a targeted minority failed, and now they're facing the prospect of a historic loss.
US Dems could learn a lot from their failure.
Great piece from S. Baum.
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UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk said recently in regards to trans healthcare for minors, “We are going to have to follow whatever rules the federal government proposes.”
It's unclear if that includes UCLA Health, but this is very worrying and shows the need for a community response.
archive.ph/DfR0M
1. A new The 19th/SurveyMonkey Poll finds that a majority of Americans are against trans youth care bans.
This includes a majority of Independent voters, casting doubt on the narrative that Democrats need to pull back on transgender people.
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1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people.
His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority.
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Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.
Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.
People have power. Ask Target
a *lot* of anti trans shit coming from the house toward the FY26 bill & i can’t tell you how much it matters for a lot of people to tell dem senators—amidst the week’s jenga tower of moral panics—not to compromise & that trans people are worth fighting for.
info & script in the QT ⬇️⬇️
please call!
Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”.
They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.
This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
Just in case any of y'all thought they'd actually filibuster the appropriations bills coming with all the anti-trans provisions and shut the government down.
Call your senators, demand no anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in appropriations bills.
Gaslighting America, as usual. I’ve never seen anyone fetishize guns or violence like MAGA does—all to attack a fictitious boogeyman instead of confronting the skeletons in their own closets.
State AGs have released a video saying that they "will do whatever it takes" to protect trans people in their states.
While the message is admirable, they need to take the one step they have not yet:
Sue the hospitals that capitulate to Trump, violating state law.
☎️ Why is everyone not calling Fox News and demanding that Lawrence Jones & Brian Kilmeade be fired for their statements encouraging incarceration of non-criminal citizens & wholesale murder of ill people by the US government?
Fox: (888) 369-4762
Since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, people on the left have been censored, punished, and targeted with more violence for telling the truth about Kirk's legacy. The cycle continues: mainstream whitewashing of violence begets more violence and the victims are blamed.
spitfirenews.com/p/the-nation...
Everyone seems allergic to the word, but Charlie Kirk was not an activist, he was a propagandist. Turning Point was a meme factory backed by a billionaire designed to steer kids towards Christian Nationalism. He didn’t advocate for policy; he spun narratives to change beliefs. Propaganda.
you can’t do shit about a police investigation or how big money will spin the news. but you know what you *can* do? help the actual people this will be/is being weaponized against.
tap into the thread. make a few calls so people close to power know this *also* isn’t the time to bail on trans folks.
I'm honestly terrified of what the right will use this as justification for. They're itching to engage in violence against their enemies and this will give them the excuse to do so. This is why political violence is never acceptable. It just descends into uncontrollable chaos and more violence.
Bass: We just heard that the administration’s experiment failed. The raids that were happening in Los Angeles—the random pulling and snatching of people off the streets based on the language they spoke, their appearance, where they work—the court has said that can no longer happen.
Please share this widely. We need as many people to submit comments supporting access to this care as possible.
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