Idaho passes laws to report trans people to police or their parents These laws create widespread restrictions on both trans children and trans adults.

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OMFLGBTBBQ? Disney Teases First Openly Female Star Wars Character Avengers, Assemble

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OMFLGBTBBQ? Disney Teases First Openly Female Star Wars Character Avengers, Assemble

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Same energy as this post. They'd gladly accept millions dead, war crimes, rampant corruption, rapists in charge, and every other issue with the Trump admin as long as they get to hate trans people openly. It's a sickness.

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A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Greg Lukianoff (@glukianoff) that reads: "In my career defending academic freedom and free speech, I never saw anything become as immediately radioactive as views that ran counter to the narrative on trans issues. Papers were retracted, compelled speech was treated as normal, and people were canceled for saying things that would have sounded like common sense just a few years earlier. It seemed to become a kind of secular blasphemy overnight. And usually, that is a sign that the true believers know, at some level, that they are on shaky ground." ​Below the text is a tag for "@hoovlet" and a quote post from Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) dated Apr 5, which reads: "The promoters of 'gender-affirming care' tried to quash scientific debate on its effects through name-calling and by designating as 'settled science' the claim that it improves the mental health of dysphoric kids. It’s now clear why they feared open scientific ..." ​The bottom of the image shows the timestamp 11:06 AM • Apr 5, 2026, and 393.6K Views.

Here's the CEO of @thefireorg.bsky.social being extremely transphobic.

Which side is the one criminalizing care and research? Which side is the one defunding all research? Which side is purging dissent? It ain't trans people.

These people were asked not to be transphobic and they lost their minds.

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Why me and my friends went tits out in front of Trump Tower When speaking to the public, [comedian Ashley Ryan] called the march our “gender reveal party”, where all the women present would reveal our genders (as designated by the federal government) “for...

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Samantha Boucher stood up to take the risk that every trans person in Kansas is now forced to take every time they go in public. theneedlenews.com/2026/04/head-of-trans-li...

Head of Trans Liberty uses Kansas Capital bathroom in defiance of new law As an out-of-state trans person, Samantha was willing to take the risk that every trans person in Kansas is now forced to take every time they exist in public.

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Head of Trans Liberty uses Kansas Capital bathroom in defiance of new law As an out-of-state trans person, Samantha was willing to take the risk that every trans person in Kansas is now forced to take every time they exist in public. 

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The Supreme Court ruled today that a practitioner's religious beliefs are more important in treating you than any science bc science that counters one's religious beliefs violates the practitioner's right to free expression and exercise of their religious beliefs

God, this country is dumb af

Operation Lifeboat is continuing to organize people and resources in order to get trans people in Kansas safe The Operation is addressing requests for assistance, but needs additional resources to do so at the scale of the crisis in Kansas.

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Idaho passes bill to surveil of trans kids, aiming to “close the social transition loophole” Simply put, the bill’s restrictions will be made into a normal part of taking care of kids in Idaho. It creates a dragnet to watch and enforce gender-conformity on all children in Idaho.

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Idaho passes bill to surveil of trans kids, aiming to “close the social transition loophole” Simply put, the bill’s restrictions will be made into a normal part of taking care of kids in Idaho. It creates a dragnet to watch and enforce gender-conformity on all children in Idaho.

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EEOC implements a federal workplaces trans exclusion policy affecting "intimate spaces” The EEOC banned trans people in a move that also undermines equality and integration for cis people, the aims it was historically set up to achieve.

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Trans surgeries cancelled due to dispute between hospital and health insurance company The result has been utter chaos for the patients involved.

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South Dakota: Gov. Rhoden signs more patriarchal enforcement into law South Dakota Governor signs bills erasing trans people, making abortion and emergency contraception a felony, and allowing children to marry adults on the same day. More legislation signed on the same...

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