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The Curve Foundation @curvefdn.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🌈 HAPPY LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK! 🌈 We've got an exciting lineup of events from Monday, April 21 through Sunday, April 27. Explore our events at LesbianVisibilityWeekUSA.com 🔗

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

24 hours. Ready for the Dems to create some sort of strategy and keep taking actions like this. Proud to have voted for Senator Booker 💛

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Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) @transequality.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

On Monday, March 31st Trans Day of Visibility, join as we celebrate our joy and resistance. Here’s a few ways to connect with us.

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Trey Anastasio @trey.com · 26/03/2025

Trey Anastasio performs tonight in Orlando, FL. The show poster is by Nate Gonzalez. There will also be a limited foil variant available.

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

And suddenly everything is okay again. Thanks for coming to Orlando, @trey.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 14/03/2025

Hey GOP, listen up: @mcbride.house.gov has a message for you and your taunts. 🤭

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The Advocate @advocate.com · 04/03/2025

As President Trump prepares to deliver his first joint address to Congress since returning to office, LGBTQ+ members of Congress are making it clear that they will not let his administration’s policies go unchallenged.

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LGBTQ+ Democrats will take a stand during Trump’s joint address — including skipping it entirely

“I won’t sit and watch him lie,” Vermont Democratic Congresswoman Becca Balint said.

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 05/03/2025

Want to know what Donald Trump says during tonight’s Joint Address to Congress, but can’t bear to listen to the man? You are not alone and we have you covered. Our team is watching and will provide updates for our community here: hrc.im/speech

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Live Coverage: We’re Watching President Trump’s Joint Address For You

Stay with us for live coverage, fact-checking, and ways to fight back as Trump addresses Congress.

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I don’t give time or energy to wanna be kings. I’ll read and listen to commentary tomorrow. Take care of yourselves!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/03/2025

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent. CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture. MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I’m so happy #survivor is back. We need this.

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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

🚨 The Iowa House and Senate passed a bill removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act. ☎️ Call Governor Reynolds at 515-281-5211 and tell her to veto this bill.

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Iowa lawmakers pass bill removing trans civil rights protections, sending it to governor

Protesters filled the Iowa Capitol on Thursday as lawmakers passed a bill removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Economic Blackout. Tomorrow, February 28th. No spending except at small businesses. Hit em in the wallet.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/02/2025

1. Nearly a century ago, Nazis burned trans books to usher in fascism. Now, Trump is doing the same, digitally burning all records of transgender people and striking the community from records. This must be seen for what it is: a move towards atrocity. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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Nazis Burned Trans Books To Usher In Fascism: Now Trump Does The Same

Transgender people have often been a canary in the coalmines of Democracy.

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Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com · 20/02/2025

It’s an honor to be a Time Woman of the Year. In a time when trans people face increasing attacks culturally and politically, I hope this serves as a reminder that no one can steal our power. time.com/7216395/raqu...

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Raquel Willis’s Fearless Fight for Bodily Autonomy

Willis shares why restrictions on choices surrounding our bodies pose a danger to all of us, no matter how we identify

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Spent the weekend with some family, mostly detached from the news, social, and my phone in general. So necessary and healing. More connection with one another less connection with the ongoing traumas.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/02/2025

1. On Friday, protests erupted at Stonewall National Monument, the historic site of the Stonewall uprisings that ignited the modern gay rights movement, in response to the National Park Service removing transgender people from the Stonewall Website. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Protests Erupt At Stonewall After Trump Removes Trans People From Monument Website

At least one reporter counted the attendees of the protest to number over 1,000 people.

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Imara Jones @imarajones.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Since the National Park Service is trying to erase the singular role that trans people played in starting Stonewall, here’s a piece I wrote about the devastating, four-decade-long consequences of erasing trans women in the 1970s from the queer rights movement. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

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Trans Women of Color Are the Past and Future of LGBTQ Liberation

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/02/2025

Getting word that a few hospitals are offering trans care again after the EO was blocked by a federal judge. Please send the decision to your hospital, and PLEASE send me a message if your hospital has resumed care, as I’m doing a story on this.

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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🧵The decision to change “LGBTQ” to “LGB” on the Stonewall National Monument page is yet another example of the Trump administration’s blatant attempts to discriminate against and erase the legacies of transgender and queer Americans.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2025

Incredible news! The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order. The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care. ACLU statement here:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 13, 2025

CONTACT

Gillian Branstetter, gbranstetter@aclu.org

Tom Warnke, twarnke@lambdalegal.org

BALTIMORE – In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19. The decision by Judge Brendan Hurson was issued from the bench with a written order to come soon.

The nationwide restraining order prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen.

“Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care canceled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s executive order did to PFLAG families with trans youth and young adults nationwide,” said Brian K. Bond (he/him), Chief Executive Officer of PFLAG National. “Today’s decision rights a grievous wrong to our nation's families and children, and PFLAG families will be vigilant to ensure our transgender loved ones receive the healthcare they need—as this legal ruling demands.”

“Forcing providers to withhold medically-necessary, evidence-based care not only threatens patient health and well-being, but also undermines the integrity of our healthcare system in its entirety,” said Alex Sheldon (they/them), GLMA executive director. “Today's intervention by the court underscores the cruelty and recklessness that is embedded in this order and affirms our commitment to resist the administration’s extremist agenda that targets trans and non-binary young people and privileges political ideology over medical expertise. We are hopeful that…

In the first week after the order was signed, some hospitals across the country — in Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia at least — abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under age 19, canceling appointments and turning away patients, including some who had been receiving this care for most of their life. This prompted protests of support for transgender youth and in opposition to the order nationwide.

On Feb. 4, a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells on behalf of transgender young adults and adolescents and their families whose health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s order. Also joining the case as plaintiffs are PFLAG National, the nation’s largest organization supporting LGBTQ+ people and their families, with over 550,000 members and supporters and nearly 350 chapters across the country; and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals.

"Across the country, this unlawful order from the president has sown fear among transgender youth and confusion among their providers,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But today’s decision should restore both their access to healthcare and protections under the Constitution. Providers who’ve suspended healthcare for their transgender patients should be left with no doubt that they can lift those suspensions and continue to provide healthcare and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funding or worse.

“The president’s orders sought to take away from transgender young people the very care that they, their families, and their medical providers all agree is best for them – medical care that is evidence-based and well-established. But these decisions are for patients, their families, and their doctors to make, not for politicians or Washington bureaucrats,” said Omar Gonzale…

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Lambda Legal @lambdalegal.org · 13/02/2025

🎉 HUGE WIN: Today, a federal district court issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump admin EO attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for trans people under 19. Read more: tinyurl.com/5n6s6nnx

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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

On Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

That was a very sapphic commercial break. #superbowl

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Trans kids, you are somebody too and we love you. 🥺

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

As a Jets fan, i can only root for teams that also spell for fun. E-a-g-l-e-s Eagles!!!

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Every Sunday i used to tweet one thing as football started: i hate Tom Brady. Even in this role, some things never change.

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Lift Every Voice and Sing with an ASL performer. I give the NFL credit for how they’ve really tried last couple years and kudos to the commissioner for staying strong on their commitment [even with that monster in the building.] Lots to be done in the #NFL, but celebrating progress when we see it!

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The other shoe. Is dropped. Like I said, this is coordinated.

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Let’s go Birds! And best of luck to the people (and street posts) of Philly either way!! 🦅

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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 06/02/2025

A federal court just blocked Elon Musk from interfering with the federal government’s payments system. There is power in fighting back. We won’t let up until this block is permanent.

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Marti Cummings @martigcummings.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Wanna take action? Here are some rally's coming up

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Chris Mosier (he/him) @thechrismosier.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If you're looking for ways to understand trans athletes, check out Changing the Game on Hulu. www.changinggamedoc.com/about

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ABOUT | home

About Changing the Game | Documentary Trailer

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The Advocate @advocate.com · 05/02/2025

Fifteen state attorneys general, all Democrats, have issued a statement reaffirming their commitment to protecting gender-affirming care for transgender people despite Donald Trump’s executive order.

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15 Democratic state AGs stand by gender-affirming care

"Federal funding to institutions that provide gender-affirming care continues to be available, irrespective of President Trump’s recent Executive Order," the attorneys general say.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 05/02/2025

NEW: Trump's birthright citizenship EO has been blocked nationwide. Federal judge in Md. issues injunction on Trump’s birthright citizenship order (link to WaPo for those who don't want to click on WaPo archive.is/NuUlA )

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Full interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FCd...

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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Lady Gaga speaking the truth during her #Grammy awards acceptance speech: "Trans people are not invisible. Trans people deserve love. The queer community deserves to be lifted up. Music is love. Thank you."

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“DEI is not a threat, it’s a gift.” Thank you, Alicia Keys, the world needed to hear that. I needed to hear that. 🖤

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Vulture @vulture.com · 03/02/2025

BEYONCÉ WINS THE BEST COUNTRY ALBUM #GRAMMY FOR COWBOY CARTER YEEHAWWWWW

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Beyonce. Doechii. My heart just bursting. When art reflects the best of us, these award shows can feel so uniting. What a happy way to spend the evening. (Also how fun to have a safe platform to send silly notes into the either on doing joint live experiences again!!) #grammys

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 03/02/2025

Chappell Roan performing ‘Pink Pony Club’ at the #GRAMMYs .

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Chappell putting on the performance of a lifetime, has the whole #grammys audience singing with her, on their feet?! THIS is the joy that queer people bring to this world. I love you, Chappell Roan 🥹💛

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Cynthia Erivo brought an ASL interpreter with her to the #Grammys?! The interpreter is signing for the camera while she’s being interviewed. This woman is just so unbelievably thoughtful. God I love her. (This is DEI btw. I feel like this is worth calling out these days.)

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ashley siegel @ashleysiegs.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

last night’s @hrc.org new york dinner was such a breath of fresh air, break from the noise, and opportunity to let our guard down for just a moment knowing we were among community. queer joy and resilience is the spark we all need to keep going, especially now. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Inclusive Therapists Directory, Community & Resources @inclusivetherapists.com · 21/01/2025

If you're struggling, you're deeply valued and not alone. See warmlines that don't call the po po, steps to take if u or a loved one are in crisis & more: www.inclusivetherapists.com/crisis We will move thru this together ❤️‍🔥

warm-lines that do not use police intervention

The warm-lines below offer transparency about their reporting and tracing policies:

Call Blackline

Call or text: 1-800-604-5841
Blackline: Peer support and counseling prioritizing BIPOC, with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens. "We do not trace or send any type of intervention under any circumstances without consent."

Trans Lifeline (English, español)

US: 1-877-565-8860
Canada: 1-877-330-6366
Oprime 2 para hablar con alguien en español.
See hours here
Trans Lifeline: Trans peer support for Trans community that’s been "divested from police since day one. Run by and for Trans people."

Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line

1-888-407-4515
See hours here
Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: Warmline answered by a trained peer supporters. "We do not trace or send any type of intervention under any circumstances without consent."

StrongHearts Native Helpline (24/7)

Peer advocate crisis support specifically for people experiencing intimate partner violence

Call 24/7: 1-844-762-8483 or chat online

StrongHearts: 24/7 confidential and anonymous culturally-appropriate domestic and sexual violence helpline for Native Americans. "advocates do not request or record the contact’s identification and/or address."

Thrive Lifeline (24/7)

Text 24/7: 1-313-662-8209

Thrive Lifeline: Trans-led and operated, focusing on people with intersecting marginalized identities. Does not "engage in non-consensual active rescue"
LGBT National Help Center

National Hotline: 1-888-843-4564

See hours here
Coming Out Support Hotline: 1-888-688-5428

Youth Talkline: 1-800-246-7743

Senior Hotline: 1-888-234-7243

LGBT National Help Center: free and confidential support for LGBTQIA+ people and those with questions about sexual orientation and/or gender identity. "We will not contact any authorities or other services or programs on your behalf."

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