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Kyle DeVries

@qatalyzechange.bsky.social
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Queer change maker living loud and proud in New Orleans. Board president of the New Orleans Pride Center and professional nonprofit catalyzer. They/them, he/him

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/08/2025
if you want to have a nice and relaxing sunday, do not watch the new Hulu documentary on Hurricane Katrina. if you want to shake with rage and anger over the total failure of this nation's government and media establishment, watch the Hulu documentary on Katrina (this is a recommendation)
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/08/2025
1. 16 State AGs + Washington, D.C., have filed federal suit that the President is illegally intimidating healthcare providers into dropping trans care. The legal battle could determine the fate of states’ rights to protect gender affirming care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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16 States (Plus Washington DC) Launch Joint Legal Fight for Trans Health Care
“[The] DOJ’s intent in issuing the subpoenas is not enforcement of the specific prohibitions of those laws but the chilling of medical care with which the administration disagrees ideologically.”
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Beyond terrifying. Banning healthcare for trans people is equivalent to medical genocide.
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We must keep this story alive in the hope of keeping Andry alive.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
As promised here’s Pink Pony Club but it’s about encryption
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Rewatching Wicked and the line that’s really sticking with me is, “you’ll find if you make it discouraging enough you can keep anyone silent”. Seeing what’s happening with law firms, universities, and mainstream media, this is resonating all too much.
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Pure madness.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 17/03/2025
LGBTQ+ elders share what survival looks like under a hostile political regime and their advice to young people right now.
19thnews.org
From Stonewall to now: LGBTQ+ elders on navigating fear in dark times
LGBTQ+ elders share what survival looks like under a hostile political regime and their advice to young people on taking action, even when they're afraid.
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
We didn’t have donkeys at the retreat center I ran, but Pansy did have a moment like this with a baby goat once ☺️
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/02/2025
Watching a new drag ban hearing in Montana and we have new definitions of drag. These are wild yall. Look at the definition of drag king. This would ban lots of butch lesbian singers lol.
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Nothing worrying here. Nope, not at all.
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We knew this was Landry’s goal all along.
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Happy dogs make happy humans. So grateful to have my Pansy in my life. (See, I don’t just post politics!)
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Nailed it.
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
More of us are able to speak our truths and live authentically every year. No administration is stuffing us back in those closets.
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is why organizing and protesting matter!
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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
That LGB without the T thing isn't working out, bro
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/02/2025
Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!
Leslie Halligan, District Court Judge
Fourth Judicial District
Missoula County Courthouse
200 West Broadway
Missoula, Montana 59802
(406) 258-4771
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY
SUSAN EDWARDS; MONTANA
TWO SPIRIT SOCIETY; KAEL FRY;
ANNA TELLEZ; EDEN ATWOOD;
SHANNON ALOIA,
Plaintiffs,
v.
THE STATE OF MONTANA; GREG
GIANFORTE, in his official capacity as
GOVERNOR OF MONTANA,
AUSTIN KNUDSEN, in his official
capacity as ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF MONTANA,
Defendants.
Dept. No. 1
Cause No. DV-23-1026
ORDER ON CROSS MOTIONS
FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
This matter comes before the Court on opposing motions for summary
judgment. Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment on Counts I, II, & III
(“Motion”) seeks to declare Senate Bill 458 as facially unconstitutional.
Defendants’ (collectively, the “State”) Motion for Summary Judgment seeks to
dismiss Plaintiffs’ claims arguing the absence of a case or controversy. The Court
has considered both motions, the parties’ supporting and opposing briefs, and the
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Krewe du Vieux’s floats were themed “revolting” this year, and boy did they hit the mark. One thing we know how to do in New Orleans is create joy and laughter during even the hardest times.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/02/2025
Over 2,000 webpages containing LGBTQ+ information have been removed from federal government websites.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
There's a protest at Stonewall. (This didn't go well for the haters last time around.)
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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/02/2025
Erasing our history won't erase us. Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.
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U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website
The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights. Later, the Q+ also disappeared.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
They mean the N Word. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What Republicans really mean when they blame 'DEI' | Mehdi Hasan
Referencing DEI is the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism
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Monique 💙 she/her @badassfeminists.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🚨🚨 Pam Bondi will prosecute companies who hire minorities and women.
This is a post saying that Pam Bondi issued a memo that the Department of Justice will criminally prosecute private entities that implement diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies.
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Advocate has a great article about the youth pride Super Bowl event I helped organize for the New Orleans Pride Center!
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We’ve got to celebrate the wins we get, especially the juicy ones.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Trump says he is cutting off funding to South Africa over land ‘confiscations’
Government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is ‘treating certain classes of people very badly’, Trump claims as he demands ‘full investigation’ of situation
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/02/2025
“CDC researchers were instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms: “Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female.””
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/02/2025
Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.
A man jumping, under the words "Make Time For Joy"
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
EXCLUSIVE: The Social Security Administration has stopped allowing people to make changes to their sex identification with the federal agency, an “emergency” change that was issued on Friday and went into effect “immediately.” Subscribe to Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/social-sec...
Although the Social Security Administration (SSA) took down the page on how to change your sex identification days into the Trump administration, there were anecdotal reports of changes still being allowed in the time since.

On Friday, however, an “emergency message” was issued internally stating, in part, “Effective immediately, we can no longer process changes to the sex field on the NUMIDENT.”

NUMIDENT, or Numerical Identification System, contains all of the information provided to obtain a Social Security number and includes a listing of a person’s sex.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/01/2025
Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care. The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care. This one at UVA Hospital.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/01/2025
The CDC has removed data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and health disparities from their website. Pages removed include: - Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System - Social Vulnerability Index - Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities
CDC Page:

The page you're looking for was not found.

Please try the CDC archives or the A-Z index.

Search CDC.gov
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Yes, honey. We are always there.
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is going to literally kill kids.
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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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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 29/01/2025
from Stone Butch Blues
From Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues: As she climbed down from the stage I thought: This is what courage is. It's not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something with it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people.
It's trying to organize to change things.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/01/2025
This is my favorite picture of Stonewall. They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+. Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them. I think about it a lot in moments like this.
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Trans Formations Project @transformations.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The Donald Trump administration issued a wide reaching Executive Order this afternoon that amounts to banning healthcare and prosecuting responsible doctors. They know this will kill kids. That's the point. Full analysis to follow tomorrow. Proof: www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/anti-tr...
"FEDERAL EO CRIMINALIZES LIFESAVING CARE FOR CHILDREN"

"Jan 28: Trump declared war on gender affirming care based on pseudoscience
rescinding lifesaving protections
cutting funding
Smearing WPATH as unscientific
directing Health and Human Services, the Department of Justice, TRICARE and others to enforce the EO"
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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
True then. True now. Thank you, Willem Arondeus.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/01/2025
So Trump's shutting down of the entire government's funding system for American projects is literally so he can go line by line and target transgender people and other minorities. When we said transphobia affects cis people too, well... here you go.
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Want Of A Name @wantofaname.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If it looks like a project 2025, sounds like a project 2025, Smells like a project 2025 Pretty sure it is project 2025...
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This will hurt untold millions of the most vulnerable Americans. And we know LGBTQ+ community programs will be some of the main ones targeted. In the coming months, we will need a massive grassroots reinvestment in our community orgs. www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...
cnn.com
All federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House | CNN Politics
The White House budget office has ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans, according to an internal memorandum sent Monday.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 24/01/2025
The bill reclassifies medical treatments — such as surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormone replacement therapy — for trans young people under Montana child abuse statutes.
truthout.org
MT Anti-Trans Bill Would Lay Groundwork for Dangerous Legal Precedent If Passed
The legislation would criminalize parents for letting a child access gender-affirming procedures and hormone therapy.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The past several days have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Project 2025 is real and underway. And those who warned America about it were right.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Brendan Carr wants to turn the FCC into the speech police & yet for some reason most media outlets keep referring to him as a "free speech warrior" & a "Big Tech critic" This guy is an grifter-authoritarian lapdog with zero morals who just wants Trump to love him www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
FCC reinstates complaints against ABC, CBS and NBC for 2024 election coverage
Before Trump appointee Brendan Carr stepped in, outgoing chair had rejected complaints as trying to ‘weaponize’ FCC
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Straight up dismantling civil rights in all directions.
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
With historic snow in New Orleans (tied with most from 130 years ago!), I couldn’t ignore the call to stroll through our historic French Quarter. First time I’ve ever seen Cafe du Monde closed.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/01/2025
Nazis: "that's a nazi salute" Historians: "that's a nazi salute" Average person: "that's a nazi salute" The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
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Kyle DeVries @qatalyzechange.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The start of the snow in New Orleans.
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