I’ve already asked them to take it down but the fact I even need to speaks volumes about the site’s moral bankruptcy.
They should NOT be publishing things under my name and making it look like I sign onto their BS. I DO NOT. I honestly prefer that they plagiarize me instead…
Apparently this pro-Russia, pro-Maduro Venezuelan website decided to just republish an article of mine under MY NAME without my permission.
I should make it clear: I don’t associate with hypocrites. While this site hates Israel, it still supports Russia in its genocide. To me, that’s unacceptable.
In Georgia prisons gender-nonconforming inmates are specially vulnerable. This has led to unofficial segregation of queer prisoners in "gay dorms" which offer protections, but carry stigma and risks of their own.
Incarcerated journalist B Speaks has more here:
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4. Like Tennessee’s various anti-trans laws, this is meant to erase the state’s LGBTQ+ community. It takes Pride Month—a celebration of the LGBTQ+ fight for equality—and turns it into a dogwhistle. But Republicans should know: no law, no bill, and no ‘nuclear family’ celebration will ever erase us.
3. It also targets trans people and contraception, condemning the UN and WHO for "promoting sterilization and abortion practices."
Finally, it declares that “the nuclear family is under attack in our beloved State and nation,” echoing rhetoric the GOP has used when passing other anti-LGBTQ+ bills.
2. Aside from explicitly excluding LGBTQ+ families, the resolution also attempts to claim that children raised in same-sex households are more likely to live in poverty, have addiction and mental health issues, be incarcerated, and have violent tendencies.
1. Last Thursday, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a resolution designating Pride Month as 'Nuclear Family Month' in the state.
In the resolution, a 'nuclear family' is defined as "one husband, one wife, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children."
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4. Finally, as per the bill, all of this data will be released to the public as part of an annual report. Worse, it specifies that the data in the report must be detailed, not only just aggregated.
Simply put, this poses an immense risk to the safety of virtually every trans person in the state.
3. Many of these are considered to be “individually identifiable” information under HIPAA, as they’re specific enough to allow a person’s identity to be discerned. As such, it will essentially allow the state to create a list of trans Tennesseans, exposing them to state surveillance.
2. As per my previous reporting, the bill will collect the date of a trans person’s appointment, their age and gender, their provider’s name and contact information, and a list of every single mental health diagnosis they’ve ever received.
The county reporting requirement was removed last-minute.
1. The Tennessee Senate just voted 24-7 to pass House Bill 754, which will create a public list of the state’s trans people.
It now goes to the House—which passed it 3 weeks ago—for a concurrence vote before heading to the Governor’s desk for his signature.
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4. By adopting this secretly, Wyoming Republicans are demonstrating that they truly get nothing out of it. Meanwhile, trans people have everything to lose.
It’s cruelty for the sake of cruelty. They’re just hoping they won’t have to look trans people in the eye as they continue to strip our rights.
3. On top of this, the state’s new birth certificate ban repealed 33-year-old rules that allowed gender changes following a court order. This comes as the state Supreme Court is hearing a lawsuit over a district court’s refusal to grant a gender change order prior to the policy’s implementation.
2. The driver’s license policy reverses the state’s 7-year-long, fairly progressive policy of allowing gender changes with a simple medical provider statement.
Among red states, only Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, and West Virginia have similarly relaxed requirements.
1. Last month, Wyoming secretly banned gender changes on driver’s licenses, Transitics has learned.
The new policy, adopted alongside a ban on birth certificate amendments, makes Wyoming the 9th state to bar trans people from obtaining accurate documents.
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Wisconsin with some BRUTAL numbers for Republicans. Marathon and Wood, two Trump +20, largely rural counties, just went blue. Outagamie (Trump +10) is at D+16. Kenosha (Trump +6) is at D+18.
Republicans should know: anti-trans politics won’t distract us from the fact that you’re destroying America.
4. Finally, I've also tallied each state's total score and mapped the results. Honestly, I'm really surprised by Montana and Alaska!
3. I’ve also added more data, including a 2 year risk rating for bathrooms, identity documents, and Medicaid along with enactment dates for bathrooms, birth certificates, and IDs.
I hope this will help visualize the assult on trans people, as well as identify which states are moving the fastest.
2. As part of this rework, I’ve made a number of changes to improve readability:
- The maps have been simplified
- Each state policy has received a rating, ranging from ‘Most Progressive’ to ‘Most Restrictive’
- The maps have new blue-red color palettes to help those with red-green colorblindness
1. Last year, I created the Comprehensive Anti-Trans Policy and Litigation Map, or CATPALM, with the aim of making trans policy research more accessible. Many people have found it helpful, but I think I can do better.
I present to you CATPALM 2.0!
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“The whole thing about surveillance is that it happens as long as people don’t notice,” says @transitics.substack.com in my recent with @prismreports.org on states tracking trans people. Read more: prismreports.org/2026/04/02/r...
Hi Ben, since you post about me every day and email me unsolicited even after I told you to stop, lets play a game. Every time you tweet about me, I donate $10 to a trans org. Let's call it the Benjamin Ryan youth transition fund.
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5. Finally, it also shows that public pressure works. Thanks to the actions of activists and citizens, Kentucky Republicans were unable to get away with quietly passing an extreme attack on trans teachers.
It might not happen that often, but it's amazing when it does!
4. By the time the legislature adjourned for the year on Wednesday night, the bill had not yet been given a vote, meaning the proposal is now dead.
This is a massive win for the trans community. It means Kentucky will remain one of the few GOP-led states to not pass any anti-trans laws this year.
3. Last week, the bill and its amendment were placed on the consent orders, a fast-track process for bills deemed uncontroversial. But after the backlash, GOP leadership was forced to withdraw the bill as a lengthy debate over it—which the legislature did not have time for—seemed all but guaranteed.
2. The proposal, which Republicans were attempting to sneak through in the form of an amendment, would've banned trans people from teaching by weaponizing the ADA's exclusions.
It also would've forced doctors to consider being trans as a mental disorder for the first time in over a decade.
1. After intense backlash, Kentucky Republicans' trans teacher ban was defeated in a massive win for trans Kentuckians.
Its failure means that deep-red Kentucky will not pass any anti-trans laws during this unprecedented year for anti-trans legislation.
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Yes, that’s what the “fa” is for.
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The bill in question is HB 759, which has the floor amendment attached.
Because the bill and amendment have been put on Consent Orders for Tuesday, they’ll be voted on together as part of a larger group of bills unless at least one senator objects.