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Drew (she/her)

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Married GenX trans woman living in The ATL. Music, travel and technology are my jams. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Drew (she/her) @drewwest.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This is such an good song. Glad to see it getting some well deserved recognition.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 04/12/2025
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
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Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/11/2025
The UK is considering a policy that would effectively segregate trans people from society. It would bar trans people from "single sex spaces" even when they use the facility of their sex assigned at birth. This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
A screenshot of a news headline from The Times. The headline reads: "Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look." Below, the sub-headline states: "The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash." The article is written by Geraldine Scott, Assistant Political Editor, and is dated Wednesday, November 19, 2025.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/11/2025
Update: The State Department has once again changed the language back to saying transgender people's passports will be valid "until they are invalidated pursuant to federal regulations."
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Many people dismissed the announcement Catholic hospitals will ban gender-affirming care nationwide under the assumption that there will be other options. In reality, Catholic hospitals make up as much 46% of options in some states. This map is 2020, prior to Trump’s assault on safety net hospitals.
MAP 1|
States with the most Catholic hospital beds
Percentage of staffed acute care hospital beds that are in Catholic facilities ranging from 
20-46%
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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
State-issued documents aren't just tools to allow identification; they're also tools to enforce hierarchies. In his book "The Passport in America," the historian Craig Robertson argues that the document has served both to affirm and to assign such attributes of identity as class, race and gender. That last category didn't show up on the U.S. passport until 1976, after a panel of experts convened by the State Department noted that the rise of "unisex attire and hairstyles" had made it harder to determine a person's sex. "Gender markers thus were born out of the fear that gender was becoming ungovernable," wrote the immigration attorney Lauren Des Rosiers.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/11/2025
Gentle reminder that the idea that SCOTUS and appellate judges can only follow what the law is and not what the law should be is conservative propaganda from the 1970s and 1980s created by the Federalist Society in response to the civil rights decisions of the Warren Court.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/11/2025
They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs. www.vogue.com/article/teen...
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Teen Vogue Is Joining Vogue.com
The transition, in which Teen Vogue will keep its unique editorial identity and mission, fortifies the evolving Vogue ecosystem.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots… www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
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Hundreds of children given weight-loss injections on the NHS
WEIGHT LOSS HEALTH
• Friday 31 October 2025 at 11:34am
Rebecca Barry
ITV News Health Correspondent
Almost 400 children in England have been prescribed weight loss injections on the NHS - the
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/10/2025
If they eliminate the filibuster, it means national bans on gender affirming care, bathroom bans, a sports ban, gender marker bans, elimination of legal recognition etc. It will make life unlivable for trans people in the US, even in blue states. It's a worst case scenario.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/10/2025
There's a concerted push to weaponize medical billing against trans people and their healthcare. Using alternate billing codes for coverage is ubiquitous across the medical system for all kinds of care. This is not unique to trans healthcare but it's being portrayed as such to target access to it.
Alt text: A post on X (formerly Twitter) by Leor Sapir with a City Journal article preview. The tweet says: “NEW: The Trump administration and Texas are investigating providers who use ‘endocrine disorder’ diagnostic codes to bill for ‘gender-affirming’ procedures. Insurance fraud is serious and brings significant penalties. But there are nuances here.” It includes a City Journal link and embedded post titled “Insurance Fraud Is Widespread in Transgender Medicine,” with a subheadline reading “Evidence of billing fraud is fueling a nationwide probe by the Trump administration.” The preview image shows a close-up of a doctor writing on a clipboard.
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NPR @npr.org · 30/10/2025
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
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Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 29/10/2025
Why trans people are right to be worried about Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambitions www.thepinknews.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
thepinknews.com
Gavin Newsom's presidential ambitions should concern trans people
Gavin Newsom has recently suggested he could run for president in 2028 – here's why his track record on LGBTQ+ rights should be a concern.
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Drew (she/her) @drewwest.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
i will never vote for newsom.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/10/2025
@aoc.bsky.social from the top rope.

A screenshot of a social media post by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responding to Riley Gaines. Ocasio-Cortez’s caption says, “Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth.” Below it is Riley Gaines’s original post saying, “We’re being destroyed from within,” accompanied by a photo from a large political rally. In the photo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and a man in a suit stand on a stage facing a large cheering crowd. They are smiling and waving toward the audience under bright stage lights. The platform shows engagement numbers including comments, reposts, likes, and views.
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Bastard Angela @werewolf.pizza · 27/10/2025
it's cool to have a wife when you are also a wife
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 24/10/2025
24 Oct 2025 -- Fed Judge rules in favor of 15 GOP states, strikes down Obama/Biden rule that health insurers doing business with fed govt cannot refuse to provide healthcare for gender affirming medicine. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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Drew (she/her) @drewwest.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
everyone that said we were overreacting to the possible overturning of marriage equality needs to f**k off. www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/cour...
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Court to consider whether to hear challenge to same-sex marriage on Nov. 7
The court is scheduled to consider whether to hear Kim Davis’ challenge to same-sex marriage at their private conference on Friday, Nov. 7. As a general practice, the court does […]
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angela davis’ baby daddy @treynation.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
It’s working exactly as designed. Keep everyone exhausted, anxious, and easy to control
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 18/10/2025
17 Oct 2025 -- Trump admin is going to make airlines guess the gender of international traveler who present passports with an "X" designation because US Customs and Border Protection will still require a binary input into its systems. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
lgbtqnation.com
President will now force airlines to guess passengers' genders if they have X gender markers - LGBTQ Nation
US customs will no longer accept X gender markers in their system despite people still having those passports.
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory... juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
juliaserano.medium.com
Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience
plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic
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Drew (she/her) @drewwest.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I’m holding judgement on @ossoff.senate.gov and @warnock.senate.gov until I see an official roll call but wtaf?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Trans people must not be left behind: TGEU highlights critical gaps in the new EU LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026-30 "The Strategy inadequately addresses the scapegoating of trans people, misses the opportunity to ensure the full protection of the rights of trans people under EU law,"
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Trans people must not be left behind: TGEU highlights critical gaps in the new EU LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026-30 - TGEU - Trans Europe and Central Asia
TGEU welcomes the publication of the LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030 and the European Commission’s renewed pledge to advance the rights of all LGBTIQ+ people while embedding an intersectional pers...
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 09/10/2025
My love and enduring respect to Miss Major Griffin-Gracy.
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Drew (she/her) @drewwest.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
In case anyone is wondering where he stands.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 06/10/2025
For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again. burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live...
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We Can't Live Like This
Trump's ICE agents are wantonly breaking the law across the country, while he sends the national guard to forcibly occupy blue states. It's up to the good citizens of this country to oppose this uncon...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/10/2025
In the last 2 weeks MAGA aligned people have done 2 attempted mass shootings of a gay bar and pride center in Arizona and Texas, murdered 2 teenage girls for mocking Charlie Kirk, and torched a judge's home. Meanwhile, the government mobilized the military to go after the left.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/10/2025
1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters. If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters
Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 01/10/2025
On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US. And nobody covered it. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned
Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2025
I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2025
Genspect is calling for psychiatrists to put a label on trans people typically reserved for violent extremists. Plus, trans Americans are seeking asylum in Canada and the Netherlands, and Trump's attacks on schools are expanding.
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Genspect Joins In On Calls to Label Trans People as Extremists — Assigned
Leading Off: Genspect calls to pathologize transgender identities, trans Americans seek asylum abroad, and the Department of Education withholds funds from schools in blue cities. Our top stories star...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2025
This is now the second attempted terrorist attack on the LGBTQ community in a week as "revenge" for Charlie Kirk. This follows an attempted mass shooting of a gay bar in Arizona. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Texas man accused of plotting Pride parade shooting as revenge for Charlie Kirk
Exclusive: ‘Come on bro let’s go hunting fairies,’ Joshua Cole wrote to a friend two days before the Abilene Pride Parade, according to an FBI probable cause affidavit reviewed by The Independent
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2025
For @truthout.org yesterday I wrote about how the government's lies about tylenol and autism reminds me a lot of the government's lies about trans people. truthout.org/articles/ant...
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Anti-Trans Policy Deserves Same Scrutiny as Trump’s Tylenol Disinformation
As a trans journalist, I see corporate media outlets as inconsistent in their treatment of right-wing disinformation.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2025
Anti-trans hate group Genspect is formally calling for trans people to be repathologized. This is most certainly to set the stage for mandated conversion therapy and potentially forced institutionalization. archive.ph/yA2Wh
Alt text: Screenshot of a press release titled “Genspect Calls for Re-Psychopathologization of Transgender Identification.” Subheading: “Statement for Immediate Release” by Genspect, dated 27th September 2025. Below the title is an abstract graphic of a stylized “G” composed of textured shapes in teal, purple, and pink. The text beneath reads: “On day one of the Genspect conference in Albuquerque, Mia Hughes announced the official launch of Genspect’s Re-psychopathologization campaign in her talk defining transgender identities as extreme overvalued beliefs.”
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"Trans women are different to cisgender men and feminising gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) results in rapid and dramatic changes in the body. Some of these changes factor into physical performance."
transresearch.org.au
Trans Women in Sport: What Does the Science Say?
Research suggests trans women have minimal to no performance advantage over cisgender women.
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Drew (she/her) @drewwest.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
but yet it's the left that is inciting violence? please make it make sense.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/09/2025
I don't know how to make it clearer to Dems that the more you waffle on this and invite debate, the more it's a political vulnerability. The more Dems equivocate the more they invite these types of heinous ads. You either stand up for trans folks proudly or you get hit with these ads.
Alt text: Screenshot of a post on X (Twitter) by Terry Schilling (@Schilling1776) attacking Rep. Mikie Sherrill. The post claims she wants to protect “violent They/Them trans radicals instead of your children,” followed by questions: “How many more innocent school children by trans radicals? How many more Charlie Kirk’s?” The attached video still shows Mikie Sherrill’s face with large red glitch-text reading “THEY / THEM INSTEAD OF YOUR CHILDREN.” A reply from user Dex (@NbcuniDex) says, “this shoulda been a midterm ad,” to which Schilling responds, “My friend. Plans have been made.” Timestamp: 9:46 PM, Sept 25, 2025, with 25 views.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/09/2025
Alejandra is not overselling this. This executive order, if weaponized by a lawless administration like Trump, could lead to the dismantling of institutional/nonprofit opposition to Trump. It can also be used for surveillance and disruption ops similar to the civil rights era and red scare.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2025
Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The right says the country needs to “turn down the temperature.” Then they call us slurs, suggest banning us from owning guns, and smear us after shootings. Is it any wonder trans women in places like Seattle are being hunted in the street?
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/09/2025
Republicans, Trump included, are zeroing in on transgender people and blaming us for the looming government shutdown. They are demanding that Democrats cave on transgender rights. Many of them are copying the same talking points in their messages.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/09/2025
Transgender Americans are seeing a wave of hate unleashed by Charlie Kirk’s killing | Erin Reed
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Transgender Americans are seeing a wave of hate unleashed by Charlie Kirk’s killing | Erin Reed
In the aftermath of Kirk’s death, the far-right and Trump administration have turned up attacks on transgender people
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/09/2025
Honestly, a really good article. It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years. It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.
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Drew (she/her) @drewwest.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
they are moving just as fast to demonize trans people as the current US administration is.
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