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Jesse Jack

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Trans* Scholar 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 She/They | Author of “Mapping Multi-Genre Literary Frameworks for Trans* Studies” (Lexington Books, 2024) (All opinions are my own.)

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/07/2025
State department guidance is now up for transgender people who want to change their gender marker on their passports. Your window opens NOW to make it happen, with some caveats: data will be collected on changes. EITM was the first media outlet to report this breaking development for trans people.
travel.state.gov
Sex Marker in Passports
We will only issue passports with an M or F sex marker that match the customer's biological sex at birth. Learn more about our policy on this page.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Florida in 2025: “caselaw is building that seems to suggest teachers only have free speech when they disagree with transgender people, but as soon as transgender people come into play, they lose those rights - even in intensely personal subjects such as what name or pronoun or honorific one uses.”
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11th Circuit Rules Trans Teacher Must Misgender Herself In Classroom In Accordance With FL Law
The ruling by Trump-appointed judges contradicts other classroom speech cases and is a clear case of the state barring disfavored speech, according to the dissent.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/06/2025
Don't let the bigots pathologize us. Yes dysphoria kills. It sucks. Believe me, I know. But we are NOT our dysphoria and we are owed more than simply being trauma porn. We deserve gender affirming care because we're human beings and bodily autonomy is a human right.
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Lambda Legal @lambdalegal.org · 18/06/2025
“The decision is hard to stomach. But it’s important to note that there’s nothing in this decision that is a green light.” – Karen Loewy, Lambda Legal Senior Counsel via @huffpost.com
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Supreme Court Deals Another Major Blow To Transgender Rights
This decision could set a tone for other challenges to laws barring transgender people from participating in sports, using bathrooms and accessing health care.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/06/2025
1. Trump has promised harsher ICE crackdowns on Truth Social. He blamed transgender people as the reason such crackdowns must happen. Particularly, he used the phrase "transgender for everybody," a phrase he has increasingly used to justify anything he wants. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trump Promises Harsher ICE Crackdowns, Blaming "Transgender For Everybody"
The president has graduated to blaming transgender people for nearly anything he does.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/06/2025
Alright everyone, one last push. If you or anyone you know is: - LGBTQ+ - 13-24 years old - In the US Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health. It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :) trvr.org/survey2025
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To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I woke with a swell of Pittsburgh pride this morning.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hi, folks! If you are interested in learning about how trans* authors are using counter narratives as a tool for survival in the face of anti trans* lawmaking, please check out my new book! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 30% Discount Code: LXFANDF30 #transgender #literature #queer #trans www.bloomsbury.com/us/mapping-m...
Cover Art for “Mapping Multi-Genre Literary Framework for Trans* Studies.” The art was created by Arien Reed and features a person who is naked with long, tightly curled hair looking up to the sky. Two hands wrap around the person, leaving blank spaces in their torso, and flower petals stream off the vibrant water-color surface of the figure’s skin. The figure is ambiguously gendered.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Thank you for the kind shoutout, @constellationsjrnl.bsky.social!
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Dr. Amy, PsyD 🎃 @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com · 07/05/2025
Yessssss
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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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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Remember: community will care and remain regardless of whether federal support is available.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Misinformation is now the norm… I’m reminded of zines during the height of the AIDS epidemic (like the 1993 “gendertrash from hell issues) through which community organizers shared census data and care guidelines despite a lack of federal support. More accurate information can be found there.
digitaltransgenderarchive.net
Gendertrash From Hell 2, Issue 2 Volume 1 - Digital Transgender Archive
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 28/04/2025
Lambda [cont] – ICYWW the reason Lambda filed a 2nd suit _after_ ACLU got an injunction against State Dept passport policy was the P/I only applied to its plaintiffs. LLDEF’s suit is trying again to get a court to stop the practice for everyone [HT @dana@catodon.social]
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Lambda Legal Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Passport Policy
Today, Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit on behalf of seven transgender U.S. citizens, including one who is nonbinary, challenging the Trump administration’s policy denying them U.S. passports with accurat...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I feel like I was just punched in the ribs. Fuck.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
To hell with this.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A timely book recommendation: “The Spirit Bares Its Teeth,” by Andrew Joseph White. The narrative is in the style of a Victorian Gothic (very dark, see trigger warnings), and it features a neurodivergent and trans masc protagonist whose knowledge of medicine seems to far exceed RFK Jr. Just saying!
The cover art to “The Spirit Bares Its Teeth.” In the center is an individual with long, curled blonde hair, violet eyes that look to be in pain (facing to the right), and a clutched shard of glass in hand. The individual is framed in an oval-shaped, golden frame with a blue sky and white clouds in the background. Behind the framed image of the individual is a haunting collage of violet eyes.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
To my autistic friends and fellow neurodiverse comrades, let your dreams, loves, and poetry fill with all the beauty and power he fails to imagine.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
“The Trump Administration Threat To Transgender Adult Care Is Growing At Lightning Speed” — Friends, please be advised.
erininthemorning.com
The Trump Administration Threat To Transgender Adult Care Is Growing At Lightning Speed
Many transgender adults have wondered when their care would be banned by the Trump administration. Now, we are seeing the first vectors to do so.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Also, one more thing: if you're not LGBTQ, you don't get a say on who's welcome in our community. Asexual and aromantic people are sexual minorities. They're always welcome in our spaces. Our spaces are their spaces. Mind your own damn business and get a new hobby.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 06/04/2025
Last year, only 49—less than 10%—of the 533 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures passed into law. Advocates in Georgia and Missouri defeated all 54 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced last year despite Republican majorities. www.unclosetedmedia.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Advocates Beat 91% of Last Year's Anti-LGBTQ Bills. How?
While the trans community still faces unprecedented legislative attacks, with 49 bills passing into law in 2024, there are key strategies that activists are using to fight back.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 01/04/2025
I am watching Senator Booker's filibuster on Roland Martin's YouTube channel between meetings. (Shout out to his staffers, too. They did tons of prep for this.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NOm...
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Cory Booker holds marathon Senate speech to warn of Trump’s ‘harmful’ policies
YouTube video by Roland S. Martin
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Take a minute to check in on your mental health before reading.
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Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking a third term, adding that he’s ‘not joking’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Sunday did not dismiss the idea of pursuing a third term in the White House, despite the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution prohibiting it, claiming that “there are methods” ...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/03/2025
1. The Trump administration has announced it will be investigating California, and will pull its school funding unless it forcibly outs transgender students. California has a law against forced outing policies. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trump Admin Threatens To Pull California School Funding Unless It Forcibly Outs Trans Students
The investigation, which will take place under the Department of Education, threatens to pull California's funding over not outing transgender kids to their parents.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Debates over child labor laws in Florida could make it legal for 14 year olds to work overnight shifts on school nights in order to make up for lost labor from folks who are undocumented... like shifting from one exploited labor force to another. Clearly education is not a priority.
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Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants | CNN Business
Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wag...
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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 25/03/2025
There are 6 days left for the "Stories for the Trans Rights Readathon" Itchio bundle! 43 trans & non-binary creatives put together this bundle of 73 books! 2 of my books are in it & I'll be donating a portion of my proceeds from the bundle to trans rights orgs in my state itch.io/b/2914/stori...
A row of books showing the spines of the books, each in the colors of the trans rights pride flag with sparkles in the same colors. "Marcy 17th - 31st! Over 40 creators! Over 70 stories! Stories for the Trans Rights Readathon.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/03/2025
All of these countries have issues travel warnings for trans people visiting the US. Austria Denmark France Germany Ireland Norway Slovakia Slovenia The Netherlands The US is not safe for trans people. Do not come. metro.co.uk/2025/03/25/f...
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 24/03/2025
Periodic reminder that ICE administrative warrants do NOT give ICE (or anyone else) legal authority to enter your home (or anywhere not open to the public) without your consent. Unless law enforcement has a JUDICIAL WARRANT, signed by a judge, they do not have a legal right to nonconsensual entry.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Thank you, Erin Reed, for your reporting. Trans liberation will provide more opportunities for everyone. Anti-trans lawmaking will hurt and restrict opportunities for everyone. My question: when will silent cis-het folks make that connection and finally stand with us? Or am I being too optimistic?
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/03/2025
INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/03/2025
1. Incredible ruling! An Ohio appeals court has ruled that trans care is healthcare, strikes down youth trans care ban! It made the ruling using the Republican-passed "health care freedom amendment" meant to overturn Obamacare! Subscribe to support my journalism. You'll want to read this one.
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Ohio Appeals Court Rules Trans Care Is Healthcare, Strikes Down Ban For Trans Youth
The ruling was in part based on a 2011 Amendment in the state guaranteeing healthcare freedom, originally meant to challenge Obamacare.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Threats to funding are real, but the Trump Admin’s unethical ban on gender affirming care for folks under the age of 19 has been and remains blocked. It seems UPMC has decided to curry favor with a transphobic admin by sacrificing the wellbeing and health of trans children… of my city’s children…
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Unacceptable.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/03/2025
Hannah Arendt accurately identified loneliness as the fuel for Totalitarianism.
This image contains a passage of text with three highlighted sections. The first section, highlighted in yellow-green, discusses how loneliness, especially in certain social conditions like old age, has become a common experience, preparing people for totalitarian domination. The second section, highlighted in black, describes how totalitarianism organizes the masses in a way that seems like a suicidal escape from reality. The third section, highlighted in dark red, talks about the "ice-cold reasoning" and "mighty tentacle" of dialectics, which act as a final support in a world where nothing and no one is reliable. The text is formatted in a serif font, with highlights distinguishing key parts of the passage.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I’m not the first to point out that the Trump Admin seems to care more about the welfare of Tesla dealerships and sales than trans people, federal workers, student protestors (the first amendment). And seems to care more about the Model 3 than social security, access to education, and public health.
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Trump floats labeling violence against Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism
President Trump hinted he would be open to labeling individuals who carry out violence at Tesla dealerships as “domestic terrorists” following a string of violent demonstrations at the electric vehicl...
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QBurgh @qburgh.com · 09/03/2025
A new lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court aims to dismantle key LGBTQ antidiscrimination protections in Pennsylvaniania, threatening the rights and dignity of countless Pennsylvanians. qburgh.com/lawsuit-unde...
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Lawsuit Seeks to Undermine LGBTQ+ Rights in Pennsylvania, Putting Protections in Jeopardy
A new lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court aims to dismantle key LGBTQ antidiscrimination protections, threatening the rights and dignity of countless Pennsylvanians. Spearheaded by t…
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Share the good news, friends. Lean into this momentary reprieve. Take a minute to find yourself again, drink some water, build back the resilience that fueled this win. Gender affirming care is life affirming. “Judge Blocks Trump Trans Ban Nationwide, Slams Reliance On Cass Review”
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Judge Blocks Trump Trans Ban Nationwide, Slams Reliance On Cass Review
The ruling applies nationwide, and should allow hospitals that temporarily paused care to resume.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Requiring proof of citizenship to vote will encourage continued discrimination against trans folks at polling stations. In 2012, a Virginian “True the Vote” training manual literally used an image of an individual wearing a dress with facial hair as a reference image of a fraudulent voter.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/03/2025
Breaking: 10 NYT writers think trans rights are the least important and attacks on the trans community aren’t that bad. Least surprising news ever.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Unforgivable.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Pittsburgh friends, here are some great events to have fun, be with community, etc. Thanks, QBurgh, for sharing! ❤️
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/02/2025
1. Media sources are widely reporting Trump's military ban has "a waiver" for trans people. It does not: It only applies to closeted trans people who have never transitioned and feel no dysphoria. The ban also forces people to resign or pay back benefits. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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No, Trump's Trans Military Ban Does Not Have A "Waiver" For Openly Trans People Serving
The "waiver" being reported at many outlets for Trump's transgender ban is actually a "waiver" for people who have never transitioned, and are willing to stay closeted.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The Department of Education is now deputizing citizens to report schools that incorporate DEI into programming/pedagogy. Shall we spam the form with nonsense en masse? Is nonsense not the only sensible response?
enddei.ed.gov
Department of Education FormLock
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Tomorrow!
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
In other words, “eliminating” bans on targeted LGBTQIA+ surveillance is not shocking nor should headlines like this be misunderstood as suggesting that discriminatory surveillance wasn’t already an unavoidable facet of travel for queer & trans folks. It is. It has been. And it looks like it will be.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The 2003 DHS advisory was a foundation for the US’s use of target recognition technology at TSA security checkpoints, many of which are still in use, which disproportionately flag trans folks as threats in ways that continually increase pat-downs, surveillance, scrutiny, etc.
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Jesse Jack @jessemjack.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Surprised the DHS is eliminating bans on LGBTQIA+ surveillance? Don’t be. The DHS’s response to the War on Terror (e.g. the 2003 advisory warning about perceived cross-dressing “terrorists”) shows a history of depicting queer and trans identities as threats to US national security.
advocate.com
DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity
The DHS quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the section prohibiting surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.
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