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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Last day for public comment tomorrow, Jun 29! Not only is the administration proposing to end nondiscrimination policies, it’s proposing to mandate that discrimination in order to access HUD funding. Leave a comment below.

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Tell HUD: Protect the Equal Access Rule! | A4TE

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 20/06/2026

And hoping the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals or THIS SCOTUS uphold the Constitution is not a bet I'd recommend making. Instead, here are some concrete actions you can do. First, if you're in a blue state, tell your state attorney general to intervene on behalf of WPATH.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 20/06/2026

You've probably seen that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with four states with GOP attorneys general (Iowa, Nebraska, Alaska, and Texas), is suing the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). THREAD. www.ftc.gov/system/files...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Meta's latest offering: an AI powered Ring of Gyges, paid for as a monthly subscription

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 12/01/2026

the real test is right here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ if you have a dem or independent senator, it’s a real good time to call & tell them to stand up for trans people: no transgender healthcare bans or restrictions in the HHS bill. period. real easy message & a 2 second call. find your reps’ info here: reps.fyi

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Find Your Representative

Find your representatives. Learn how to find and connect with them. Stay informed about their bills, committees, and contributions.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 23/12/2025

they’re trying it 3 big ways right now (& a bunch of smaller ones). there’s an HHS rule to fight, too. under the proposed rule, any facility taking medicare/medicaid would be barred from providing trans care to any child even if medicare/medicaid isn’t involved. this one doesn’t even take a call!

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 17/12/2025

hi, cis folks! today, congress votes on 2 bills —HR498 & HR3492—one bans medicaid funds for providers of trans youth care; the other criminalizes that care, imposing penalties including jail. either one passing destroys lives. we need you to call & tell your rep to vote no. tap into the 🧵for more

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Protect Trans Care Now

As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

if they just call every complaint a title ix complaint it engages specific federal channels that presumably they believe the administration will be able to use to support them. so that's what i figure they're doing.

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...

“During the course of the debate, it was disclosed that it is now policy of the university to suspend any faculty member with pay against whom a student has lodged a complaint. The faculty member is suspended under the Title IX program,” Schmeltzer wrote. “This was new information to everyone in attendance.”

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Kat Rohn @rohnkat.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

For trans folks trying to parse the federal bills; this is my TL;DR: 1. The National Defense Authorization Act *will* pass w/harmful riders - it is a win that any were stripped out. 2. The GOP Healthcare proposal w/ban language *won’t* pass - it’s all messaging. Always worth calling your reps!

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Tucked inside the Republican bill for health care subsidies, a clause that would restrict the money from being used for abortion (with exception for rape, incest or life of the mother) or for "any sex trait modification procedure or service." www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

6 ‘‘(A) abortion, other than—
7 ‘‘(i) if the pregnancy is the result of
8 an act of rape or incest, or
9 ‘‘(ii) in the case where a woman suf10 fers from a physical disorder, physical in11 jury, or physical illness, including a life-en12 dangering physical condition caused by or
13 arising from the pregnancy itself, that
14 would, as certified by a physician, place
15 the woman in danger of death unless an
16 abortion is performed, or
17 ‘‘(B) any sex trait modification procedure
18 or service (as defined in section 156.400 of title
19 45, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on
20 the date of the enactment of this subsection),
21 shall not be treated as paid for medical care.’’.

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 22/11/2025

While Maryland Gov. Moore posted about Trans Day of Rememberance, his state was torturing a trans woman by denying her hormones and housing her with men--according to her lawyer--for 2 months. All of this for "hate crime" charges from alleged vandalism of a trans symbol near a Catholic school.

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A transgender symbol painted near an Easton school led to hate crime charges

Sian Radaskiewicz-King pleaded guilty to two property-related misdemeanors and was released after spending more than two months in jail.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 30/10/2025

both parts of this matter: this would be a near ban in all states; there’s a runway here where fighting back helps hold up falling sky for trans kids. every day matters. & if you’re like “it’ll be fine—they’ll just wait til after trump” i want you to recall what happened to *your* body from 14-17.

A near ban in all states
Both supporters and opponents of transgender rights agree that, taken together, the forthcoming rules could make access to pediatric gender-affirming care across the country extremely difficult, if not impossible.
The care is already banned in 27 states.
"These rules would be a significant escalation in the Trump administration's attack on access to transgender health care," says Katie Keith, director of the Center for Health Policy and the Law at Georgetown University.
"I think it's really, really important to note that nothing is changing immediately," she explains.
"These would be proposals that would go out for public comment, it would take months for the Trump administration to issue a final rule, and then, if past is prologue, we would see litigation over whatever the final rules are."

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Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold @lytagold.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

this is a relatively new and bizarre argument in the history of book bans btw—conservatives have rarely if ever operated from the position that libraries are “government speech” (?) they’ve almost always argued on the grounds of obscenity and the public good

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 16/09/2025

hi, cis folks! trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too. we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi info & script in the🧵⬇️

SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023).

SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

the pinknews article about this was weird writing about the trans hyde amdt on few fronts and quite vague recommend reading my reporting on this topic to actually understand how this works and what could happen next as well as past reporting by @iododds.bsky.social & @ericmgarcia.bsky.social

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

so like, it’s not in the cr but trump can demand it be a part of funding govt whether thru cr later or funding bill later and essentially the rules are made up, points don’t matter, etc point is this is m a must-get and has been

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