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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A recent article suggested that a new policy meant the 2030 US census would out all trans Americans. That claim is a huge exaggeration and seems aimed at driving clicks with fear. On Trans Atlantic News I break down what's really happening: transatlanticnews.substack.com/p/why-the-us...

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Why the US Census isn’t going to out trans Americans

There are claims the census will make a list of trans Americans, but that’s very unlikely.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Anti-trans voices are often certain that they’re right, and that can help convince others to join their cause. They have compelling stats to explain why trans people are so dangerous and misguided. The problem? Those stats and figures come from flawed studies and intentionally misleading surveys.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The same week that the UK enacted policies that will force teachers to out trans kids to parents even when that might not be safe, the US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against a Kansas school district for not forcibly outing trans kids.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Things are getting heated over on Facebook, where a couple of my posts have blown up with hundreds of comments. There’s a lot of anti-trans hate happening in there. But I’m heartened by the amount of pro-trans comments and the pushback in hate happening in there as well.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The anti-trans campaigns operate differently, but their foundational forces are the same. Whether it’s the Heritage Foundation and the Alliance Defending Freedom, or Sex Matters and JK Rowling, they’re putting pressures to give power to a hateful and vocal minority against marginalized people.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The UK has a new Prime Minister who has supported trans rights in the past and promised a politics of "change." But over a month into his tenure, we've seen horrific anti-trans guidance take effect without comment from the PM and there's not sign that he will stand up for the trans community.

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An Open Letter to Prime Minister Andy Burnham

You have promised “change.” That has to include trans rights.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm trying something new to see how it fits. Check out Trans Atlantic News on Substack - more coming soon! transatlanticnews.substack.com/p/why-trans-...

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The shift in mood from committing to starting a new project and getting it started, to then realizing I have to promote it and tell people about it is the worst.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Katherine is doing great work and I absolutely loved talking with them-here’s one of my fav moments (along with the John Waters story) that captures their approach to hate: 1/3

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“When I was a little boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘look for the helpers… and also the people dressed as Spider-Man punching Nazis.’” - Mister Rogers, ish.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Trump has done awful things to trans people over the last decade, but trans representation in media is crucial to our inclusion in society and the damage Trump has done to it will take a long time to heal.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Vance is joining the attack on gender-affirming care with a new HHS “report” that claims it’s all some ploy by hospitals to make more money. They want the DOJ to start a whole new round of harassment of healthcare providers masked as an investigation.

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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 13/08/2026

Matrix director Lilly Wachowski says she can’t get Hollywood to fund her new all-trans movie - www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/matr...

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A lawyer is currently standing in a Montana courtroom defending their anti-trans bathroom bill (HB 121) and a major part of his argument is built around quoting Sophie Cunningham and Stephen A. Smith. Truly wild choice.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Loving the music in here, but worry it’s a sign of my age that some of my favorite bands of my teens and early twenties are played in the vegetarian cafe on a Monday morning.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Looking for a supernatural mystery with some horror elements and a non-binary protagonist? Part 1 of The Hollows is now available in full on Patreon, with a convenient format for e-reader apps. www.patreon.com/faefyx/posts...

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Earlier this year, @transparentaction.bsky.social surveyed families of trans kids, created a full report, and sent it to the government to encourage new guidance to protect trans students. The government never responded, and are about to enact policies that will hurt trans and non-binary children.

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Transparent Action @transparentaction.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Parents of trans kids warned UK’s govt about new school policy. They were ignored. Transparent Action sent them a full report, but they never bother to respond. 45% of respondents said their trans and nonbinary children had a negative experience at school…54% were bullied for their gender identity

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Parents of trans kids warned UK's govt about new school policy. They were ignored. - LGBTQ Nation

Transparent Action sent them a full report, but they never bother to respond.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

After London Trans Pride the UK government issued a statement saying “Our top priority is the safety and wellbeing of *all* children and young people in education. This is why we have issued updated keeping children safe in education guidance”. This is a lie and they know it. Not trans children.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Anti-trans group set up by 4 mums "has *dozens* of members nationwide" and gets a big write up in the Telegraph. @transparentaction.bsky.social a pro-trans parent group set up by 4 mums has over 1350 signatories to it's pledge. Crickets. Please sign and share actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 06/08/2026

Save the date 🗓️: We're hosting our inaugural Trans Journalists Summit, March 24–27, 2027, in Chicago, a historic, application-based conference for and by trans and gender-expansive journalists. Applications open later this year. LEARN MORE: bit.ly/TJS27

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The science is out there. But people like Sophie Cunningham are just parroting right-wing talking points and have clearly never actually read up on what it means to be trans.

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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 04/08/2026

Remember when a hotel shamed a lesbian restroom user for being ‘a man,’ then changed its story? - buff.ly/9ApDHK9

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The Gaily Show @thegailyshow.org · 30/07/2026

I've been reading @faefyx.bsky.social for a long time, so it was a true delight to be in conversation with them about their excellent reporting for @lgbtqnation.com. Also, Faefyx broke a story in MN that I had NO idea about. That's how good they are.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I had a great chat with John Parker on @thegailyshow.org yesterday. Check out the second half for: the EEOC refusing to investigate trans cases, the right’s fury over MyGender Dolls, and anti-trans crusaders turning on women’s rights (as we always said they would). www.youtube.com/live/knPxQzk...

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Children’s Theatre Company. Journalist Faefyx Collington on EEOC & Flint Del Sol.

YouTube video by The Gaily Show

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Scott Yenor with the Heritage Foundation argued that women don't want to play competitive sports and Title IX needs gutting to allow discrimination against women's sports. Megan Burke provides a great takedown of that here, getting into the philosophy and Beauvoir-application that Yenor misuses.

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Russell Phillips @rpbook.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I'm setting up a #Kickstarter for my next book, about Operation Colossus, the first time the British used paratroopers during the #SecondWorldWar. The pre-launch page is now available, so you can sign up to be informed when the campaign starts. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rus... #WWII #history

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Coming soon: Daring and Determined

Britain sent paratroopers on a brave and experimental mission in 1941. Get the full story of what happened to these courageous men.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The amount of hate this piece is getting is wild. You don’t know the sexuality of someone if they’re not out and jokes about suggesting you do are based on homophobia not “calling out hypocrisy.”

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If you were wondering “hey, I wonder what one of the composers for the Halo video game music is doing now?” It, uh… this?

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It's never been about trans people. We've been a convenient tool for the right. It's been about women and controlling people. This column is effectively a follow up to my news piece about the Heritage Foundation's attacks on women's sports last week.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/07/2026

The same Trump allies who fought to exclude trans girls from sports are now working to limit athletic opportunities for all women and girls. This isn't a coincidence.

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Heritage Foundation now targeting women's sports after SCOTUS' anti-trans sports ruling - LGBTQ Nation

Project 2025's architects say that Title IX and women's sports harm men's sports and "feminine graces."

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

From the article: Promoting assertive athletics produces “a new woman…more aggressive…dominant…less deferential, less graceful…less oriented toward motherhood & traditional feminine graces” In the world they’re helping create wld Davies & Navratilova happily seek victory at needlepoint & birthing?

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I recently had a chat with Lucien Greaves, co-founder of The Satanic Temple about non-theistic satanism, the threat of Christian Nationalism, and how the Temple is supporting LGBTQ+ rights now and always.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I receive a lot of pretty egregious hate mail because of who I am, the work I do, and having a small social media presence (I recently got told I should be lobotomized). But there’s been a shift to suggest that I hurt kids, and it’s blatantly obvious where that idea has come from.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We’ve made great strides in trans representation in media over the last 3 decades. It might not be surprising that it’s backsliding at the moment, but it is depressing. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

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LGBTQ+ inclusion in film at a three-year low, Glaad survey suggests

The advocacy group’s study finds a decrease in queer people of color and zero trans characters in 2025 films

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

After a bit of a hiatus, Alex and Chuck are back! Check out the latest chapter of The Hollows, my queer fantasy mystery novel, on Patreon, or catch up on the story so far. More new chapters are on the way!

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I talked to Monica Helms about how she came to design the flag, where she'd like to see it appear next, and her other advocacy work—check it out!

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Boy howdy do I hate the Supreme Court

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The Supreme Court made a thoroughly unsurprising ruling today, but it's going to hurt so many trans people. When the only silver lining is that it isn't as terrible as they could have made it, it's not a great sign. #SCOTUS

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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 15/06/2026

Nancy Mace & Sarah McBride show that the biggest fights are still to come - buff.ly/xNWNujQ

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It truly blows my mind that anti-trans people have the time and energy to track down ways to contact me to send generic hate messages. I guess I should be glad that they're wasting their time like that, but how do you get to a point in your life where that's a logical action?

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

There's a special place in hell for the person that designed the CAPTCHA where you have to click the pictures and then wait for new ones to very slowly appear. I didn't want a test of whether I could determine what was classified as part of a bike today, and now you're making me sit and wait?

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The majority of states are electing governors this year. Do you know how much they can do to stop the tide of anti-trans laws at the state-level if the right person is elected?

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This came days after the DOJ tried to claim their lawyers hadn't done anything wrong in the case.

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

People say “the cruelty is the point” so much that I don’t know it still really conveys the depth of cruelty we’re talking about, or the type of hate that motivates it. Trans hate was introduced to many as a political game but there are true believers behind the speeches and they want us gone.

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