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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/08/2025
Maryland renaissance festival, good mead, good friends, falconry, jousting, and all of the best things in the world :)
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 14/07/2025
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance were in Parliament again today! Answering MPs questions on the draft EHRC guidance and the impending trans bathroom ban.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 03/07/2025
The Supreme Court is kicking trans kids when they’re down, itching to set national policy on their right to exist just as the federal government is telling them they have none. More to the point: These are as-applied challenges only covering two school sports players, not statewide injunctions.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/07/2025
Pretty clear that this will be the vehicle SCOTUS will use to deny equal protection to transgender people. While the case will be about sports, that decision would essentially strip all rights on transgender status or sex for trans people. It would make virtually any law permissible.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/07/2025
Ohio just passed it's budget that bans funding for MENTAL HEALTH therapy for all trans people in medicaid. This is what eradication policies look like.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/06/2025
SCOTUS vacated 3 trans related cases this morning in light of Skrmetti. Two dealing with state coverage of gender affirming care for adults in North Carolina, W. Virginia, and Idaho, and another dealing with a ban on gender marker changes on birth certificates in Oklahoma. It's open season on us.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 27/06/2025
No amount of skipped lessons will make it possible for people to "opt out" of the reality that LGBTQI+ people exist. We are here. We have always existed and always will.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 26/06/2025
Amazing news from India! 🇮🇳 www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/26/i...
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Indian court rules trans women are women
A High Court in India has ruled that trans women are women despite what India law may say in a landmark decision for the country.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
CUOMO CONCEDES… ZOHRAN MAMDANI WILL BE THE NOMINEE…
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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This is BS. I ran for office in a red state and won with 80% of the vote. I regularly talk about my identity when I knock doors. The key is to do so a way that connects to other issues (e.g. being trans shapes how I think about ALL healthcare access, threats to education, etc.). It's that simple.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 23/06/2025
So are trans people who continue to use the correct toilet going to be banned from parliament? Banned from participating in democracy? Most anti LGBT government of our lifetimes
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23/06/2025
Republican women would rather die than admit they were wrong on abortion bans. It's mind boggling. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/06/2025
Your reminder to call your Senator now and demand that they invoke the Byrd Rule and strip the transgender medicaid ban from Trump's spending and tax bill. Call them here. www.senate.gov/states/MD/in...
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U.S. Senate: States in the Senate | Maryland
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
OK i’ve seen almost no media outlet pick up on the fact the Supreme Court ruling endorsed conversion therapy and opens a portal to the normalization of conversion therapy nationally so here’s a thread explaining how they did so, and why you should care (1/x)
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 10/06/2025
I doubt there's any actual policy goal difference between Trump and Helen Lewis. She just wants it to be quicker, quieter and "more polite"
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/05/2025
For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | Trump's message to trans people is clear: Detransition, or potentially die
My question to everyone reading this is: When is enough enough?
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 28/05/2025
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.” 🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
J.K. Rowling uses 'Harry Potter' wealth to fund anti-transgender organization
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
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Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
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Mathea @matheasagdahl.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Every time you buy a Harry Potter product, you are financing the dismantling of trans rights
"About the fund. The J.K. Rowling Women's Fund (JKRWF) offers legal funding support to individuals and organisations fighting to retain women's sex-based rights [...]. It provides women with the means and confidence to bring to justice cases that make legal precedents, force policy change, and make positive contributions to women's lives in the future."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/05/2025
Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 23/05/2025
hi, cis folks! please read this incredibly informed thread from jael who is a) a former congressional reporter & b) the woman who wrote the most prescient postmortem of the 2024 election for trans people—which, so far, has been going more or less as she laid it out in december. and then…🧵
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Will Democrats Let the GOP Gut Trans Health Care?
Donald Trump and Republicans may try to ban funding to companies that perform trans health care. Some fear Democrats won't stop them.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/05/2025
There is genuinely a new one of these stories every few hours. Think how many women are being abused by transphobes who don't feel safe to speak out, or who just silently change their appearance to be more stereotypical in the hope that it won't happen again?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/05/2025
RAINN, the largest organization devoted to survivors of sexual abuse, has eliminated all resources for LGBTQ, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. They're failing their core purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...
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Top Sexual Assault Hotline Drops Resources After Trump Orders
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/05/2025
The Trump HHS approach to transgender youth is not "greater emphasis on psychtherapy." It is "ONLY psychotherapy," with the explicit goal of making trans youth no longer transgender. It IS conversion therapy. Washington post is an absolute right wing rag at this point.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/05/2025
99% of the time, the people who end up getting barged in on by police and security guards with transgender bathroom bans are cisgender lesbian women. Bathroom bans don't work because you can't tell whose trans by looks alone. Anyway. Many such cases.
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Hotel Guard Barges Into Women’s Restroom, Accuses Lesbian Guest Of Being A Man - GO Magazine
The Liberty Hotel in Boston has suspended the guard and promised staff retraining after forcibly removing a cisgender lesbian from the women’s restroom.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/05/2025
In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect. This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2025
92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents. Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 06/05/2025
For @msnbc.com, I went long with my criticisms of the HHS report on youth gender care released last week. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | The Trump admin is trying to push a conversion therapy by another name on trans kids
The new report betrays the Trump administrations desire to see fewer trans youth transition.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2025
This is the inevitable result of a moral panic about trans people. Cis people will always be impacted more from attempts to police gender. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
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Woman says security guard at Liberty Hotel in Boston confronted her in bathroom, asked to prove gender
A couple said a security guard at the Liberty Hotel in Boston challenged their use of a bathroom and kicked them out.
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Eron Main @eronmain.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Trans people in the UK had their rights cancelled in the click of a finger because of a campaign of fear, hate, and disinformation that was spearheaded and bankrolled by JKR. But do go on about your fear that someone on the Internet will be mean to you for taking her money.
"It is terrible to be so careful about what you say...  you can get misconstrued and misrepresented and cancelled in [the click of a finger]."
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 03/05/2025
There's a bill passing through parliament at the moment called the Data Bill An added amendment would completely remove trans people's right to privacy, and could even revert legal documents We have to apply a lot of pressure on this one too MPs. More info here: www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/c...
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From the LabourUK community on Reddit: Shadow Technology Minister Adds amendment to Data Bill to revert all gender markers and out all trans people
Explore this post and more from the LabourUK community
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 24/04/2025
My biological sex and my birth sex are different. You can't use those terms interchangably
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/04/2025
Received a tip that Airbus UK has banned trans people from bathrooms. There's a cascade of private businesses now rushing to ban trans people from the bathrooms in the UK.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/04/2025
If you can get out of this country, you should. There's no going back to before Trump. Only decades of pain and misery awaits us in the US as we had into massive economic collapse and a generational decline in living standards and live expectancy. www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/w...
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Why I Am Leaving the USA - Dame Magazine
My family is fleeing the country. We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation. We are slowly but surely packing up and emptying out our house. Instead of ...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/04/2025
Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2. So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.
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Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The new EHRC interim guidelines are legally wrong, bigoted and a huge overreach. Write to your MP (again?!). Expose all this for what it is. We have updated our thoughts on what you might say to MPs in your email. KEEP WRITING! KEEP SHARING! www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...
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URGENT ACTION: (REVISED 23/4/25) Write to your MP to protest the Supreme Court ruling and the UK government's rush to introduce a blanket ban on trans women from women's spaces.
THIS IS A CHANGING SITUATION WITH GOVERNMENT POLITICIANS CURRENTLY LINING UP TO INFLICT FURTHER CRUELTY ON TRANS WOMEN IN POLICY ANNOUNCEMENTS OR STATEMENTS TO THE MEDIA. PLEASE KEEP UP TO DATE WITH T...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/04/2025
Trans people banned from toilets of gender they identify with, says UK minister
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Trans people banned from toilets of gender they identify with, says UK minister
Pat McFadden said ‘there isn’t going to be toilet police’ amid warnings about ‘incredibly dangerous’ consequences A UK government minister has said that trans people are now banned from using toilets of the gender they identify as, amid warnings about the “incredibly dangerous” consequences of such a blanket prohibition. The UK supreme court ruled earlier this month that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer only to a biological woman and to biological sex. Continue reading...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Trump orders DOJ to investigate his enemies. Pg. 18.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/04/2025
Arizona State University erased the TQ from LGBTQ on their website. www.statepress.com/article/2025...
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BREAKING: ASU website changes 'LGBTQIA' to 'LGB' without University approval - The Arizona State Press
An ASU website's language changed from "LGBTQIA" to "LGB" and sparked backlash from the community. 
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Zinnia Jones 🐍🗡️ @zinniajones.com · 26/04/2025
Legitimacy is a constant trade: it only holds so long as you act normal enough for most people to get along with you. The UK EHRC is crashing right through all barriers and norms of decent conduct
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Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 25/04/2025
‼️The UK Equality and Human Rights Commission has announced their provisional rules for bathrooms. Trans people are now BANNED from using the bathroom matching their gender. It also permits banning trans people from the bathroom matching their birth sex IF a single stall bathroom is provided.
In workplaces and services that are open to the public: • trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women's facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men's facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single- sex facilities and must be open to all users of the
opposite sex • in some circumstances the law also allows trans women (biological men) not to be permitted to use the men's facilities, and trans men (biological woman) not to be
permitted to use the women's facilities • however where facilities are available to both men and women, trans people should not be put in a position
where there are no facilities for them to use • where possible, mixed-sex toilet, washing or changing facilities in addition to sufficient single-sex facilities
should be provided • where toilet, washing or changing facilities are in lockable rooms (not cubicles) which are intended for the use of one person at a time, they can be used by either women
or men
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Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 26/04/2025
A US Citizen has now been deported without any due process. To make it even worse, it’s a two year old child. We the people cannot allow this to continue www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’
The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.
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s. baum @transvestigations.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Anonymously-run mass registries targeting presumed-trans women & children made it into the New York Times, a United Nations-commissioned report, the US Senate & more. My investigation exposed who is really behind the websites—and what they got wrong. www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check...
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Fact Check: Lists Claiming Hundreds Of Trans Women Are Dominating Sports Are Dangerous and Incorrect
How dubiously-sourced lists like “HeCheated” and “SheWon” made their way from the anonymous backwaters of the internet to mainstream media, the United Nations, and statehouses across the country.
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Kevin Jennings @lambdalegalceo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to overturn our victory in Shilling v. Trump, our lawsuit with @hrc.org challenging the constitutionality of the administration’s ban on military service by transgender people. These are patriotic Americans who simply want to serve their country.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/04/2025
Trans icon Miss Major was just denied entry on to a plane in Arkansas because her ID had an X gender marker on it.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Secretary Kennedy’s aim to create a list of Americans with autism would be a dangerous violation of privacy. This is something that is bigger than Democrat v. Republican. We must be united in the fight for our rights.
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