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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I say I hate pop country and I do. But still..if Fishin in the Dark or Chattahoochee comes on, you might as well just hand me a cowboy hat and point me to where the line dancing is.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

1. I know there's been a blanket ban on Amazon for a while now and while I do support it, I think there have been some unintended consequences. February was a terrible month for queer indie authors, many of whom rely on Amazon for their income. Some may fear they might have to stop writing entirely.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I moved to New England 9 months ago to find a safer place and after seeing the way that everyone here has rallied against the administration, I’ve never felt better about that decision

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Hi, so there’s this absolutely stunning older butch woman with grey hair I’ve seen around my apartment a few times (and melt into a puddle every time) so I was wondering what the best way to propose would be.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I feel like being trans in America right now kind of feels like a cancer diagnosis. I'm certainly responding to it like it. I fight, I live each day like it's my last, I reflect on my life, and I'm trying to do and see and experience as many things as I can while I can.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I'm grateful everyday for my stepmom being a shining example of the kind of woman I strive to be. A loud, outspoken butch who could fix basically anything, who once took a valve stem removal tool to a drunk asshole's tires because he called my mom and her dykes but a softie to those she loved.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It’s been 4 years today since I realized I was trans. I’ve achieved a level of peace and self love and acceptance, a baseline happiness I never imagined was possible. If I knew then all the shit I would go through to become the person I am, would I do it again? Absolutely. Without a second thought.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I know I've truly gotten into my cottagecore lesbian in the woods phase because I just heard an owl hoot outside and I got ridiculously excited and grabbed my camera to try and get a picture of it.

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Me, in 4th grade: “I just think it’s so cool that these two super close friends decided to combine their classes and teach them together.” Me now: “Oh my God they were lesbians.”

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This was posted on the office door of every single music teacher I ever had

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

If you want to do one thing to try and stay sane, it’s if you hear someone make an outlandish claim, fact check it.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I dug out my old almost a DSLR point and shoot. Shot outside my window during the last snow storm. Such a curious fella! Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS40 #photography

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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Kevin Kiniry @comickev.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We won’t disappear just because you change a website.

Sign outside the Stonewall National Monument park with the word Transgender written in pink chalk between the words National and Monument.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I've seen this drama on Tik Tok and I wanted to comment. Non transitioning trans people have more privilege than transitioning trans people have. It's already impacting us more. It's not transmedicalism, it's fact. Just like I, a trans woman in a blue area have more privilege than one in the south.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I never thought I'd find the best lip balm I've tried in my life at Ace Hardware but here we are. It's the Naked Bee orange blossom honey. Smells and works fantastic. PS, I'm pretty sure this checks another box of the dyke category considering I was there to pick up hooks to hang string lights.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I don’t care what a website says. We all know who started the Stonewall riot and they can never take that away

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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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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If Trudeau were to say all trans people in the US are welcome in Canada, he'd have an army of catgirls banging down doors to sign up for the army to fight the US in the impending war.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I think if you live in NYC or the Bay Area it was easier to both ignore what was happening to trans people in red states and (since you're surrounded by progressive people and politics) believe a story about activism run amok. Now Trump has forced those policies onto families and schools they know.

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Now more than ever.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

About a month before the election, I talked to a woman in a private FB group who was voting for Trump but professed to love trans people. She didn't think he'd do anything. I think about her now and wonder if she regrets it.

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/02/2025

Major breaking trans news: The ACLU has launched a lawsuit on behalf of 7 transgender people affected by Trump’s passport ban. Incredible filing. The Trump admin is now swarmed with lawsuits over discriminatory and illegal executive orders.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Decided to be extra gay today and drove my Subaru Outback to Trader Joe's. The fact that they put jars of jalapenos and garlic stuffed olives in the checkout line tells me they really know their demographic and yes, I brought home a jar. They are delicious.

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

You know, RI is shockingly overlooked. In terms of diversity, it's the best I've ever seen. Blacks, Whites, Latino, Italian, Polynesian, trans, cis, straight, gay, all living side by side in relative peace. As someone from a red state, living here gives me a glimpse into a future. That gives me hope

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This is why I moved 1400 miles to be here

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Nothing affirms my gender like being threatened with horrific violence by a man who lives in my building and being told that nothing can be done

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

You know, if the machines took over tomorrow I would still consider that to be a better option than who’s in power now

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/02/2025

Breaking news: Lambda Legal and ACLU are suing on behalf of PFLAG and GLMA to end Trump's illegal executive order banning trans care under 19 years old. The suit has been brought in Maryland. A similar suit was brought on behalf of PFLAG to end child abuse investigations in TX 3 years ago.

apnews.com

Families and doctors sue over Trump's order to halt funding for gender-affirming care

President Donald Trump's effort to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for young people is facing a legal challenge.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/02/2025

Love seeing the protests at NYU Langone for complying with an illegal executive order from President Trump meant to intimidate hospitals from providing care to trans youth. More to come?

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A friend of mine told me the other day that I give off gay from a hundred feet away and that’s honestly one of the best compliments I’ve ever received

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I love a frosty New England morning wish a fresh fall of snow. #photography

Image of a sunrise over a snowed over bike path and a metal bench.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Here's some ways I'm keeping sane. I'm limiting my social media time and using it very intentionally. I'm getting my news from journalists who report good info and possible ramifications without descending into fearmongering. I follow bsky.app/profile/erin... for trans news. She's excellent.

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Emily 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @iamemnough.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

During the Prohibition movement (which was about DV and alcoholism), one of the tactics used by early feminists was to congregate outside of saloons and loudly pray, shaming the men inside. These women were held in high regard and they used that power and a form of protest that couldn’t be attacked.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/01/2025

I truly believe the only chance we have is through protests at hospitals that are complying with executive orders in advance. These hospitals are attempting to detransition patients or deny transition to new ones because they are scared of Trump.

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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Mme. Ticky-Tacky @andemwas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I know it's scary,

but choose you.

the real you

the whole you

the you you meet in the dark
at 2AM

the you you sing to

in the car.

Choose her.

The rest will come.

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Alix Klingenberg

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Charlotte “Chuck” Planet, Local Internet Celebrity @charlotteplanet.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

hey if someone has attempted to make your gender illegal in the past month, merely surviving rn is a big enough contribution to the Revolution imho

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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BEJR.NEWS @bejr.blacksky.app · 30/01/2025

Good morning, resisters! Wake up. Smell the coffee. #punchanazi 😎

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✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 29/01/2025

u know what ? fine. i will "enjoy the next four years". im gonna squeeze every second of happiness out of this wretched planet that i can even if everyone wants me dead. eat rat shit

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