Reposted by Sarah VestalStarBITE 🧛♂️🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 31/03/2026DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️⚧️ #art #tdov #transart 492522010142
Reposted by Sarah VestalSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 07/02/2026“A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare…” The political attacks on healthcare for young trans people has horrific outcomes. Trans youth deserve to thrive. 🏳️⚧️goodlawproject.orgNew data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law ProjectA freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare 42761328
Reposted by Sarah VestalOmg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue 5783269314043
Reposted by Sarah VestalKirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 13/12/2025This incredible article from Julia Serano has recently been adapted into a YouTube video essay. juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-... Debunking Myths About Trans People & Restrooms (& other “sexual predator” tropes) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK41...juliaserano.medium.comTransgender People, Bathrooms, and Sexual Predators: What the Data SayNote added February, 2025: this piece has recently been adapted into a YouTube video essay. 052
Reposted by Sarah Vestalemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Here's a US News real estate list of most dangerous cities: Memphis#1 3 are in MO (St. Lou, Springfield, KC) 3 are in LA (Alexandria, NOLA, Monroe) 3 are in OH (Cleveland, Canton, Dayton) 2 in AL (Anniston and Birmingham) Little Rock Myrtle Beach realestate.usnews.com/places/ranki...realestate.usnews.com 881392667
Reposted by Sarah VestalACLU @aclu.org · 19/06/2025Transgender people deserve to dictate our own lives and futures. No court decision can change who we know we are. 6674271142
Reposted by Sarah Vestalonion person @junlper.beer · 18/06/2025transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it 61130563608
Reposted by Sarah Vestalike @ikeyouguys.bsky.social · 14/06/2025that's little rock, arkansas showing the hell up #nokings 322312134790
Reposted by Sarah VestalACLU @aclu.org · 11/06/2025BREAKING: We're suing to block an Arkansas law that forces the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom and library. 341542211
Sarah Vestal @sarahvestal.bsky.social · 05/06/2025“They’re Ruining People’s Lives” www.hrw.org/report/2025/...hrw.org“They’re Ruining People’s Lives”The 98-page report, “‘They’re Ruining People’s Lives’: Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth in the US,” documents the devastating consequences of these bans for transgender youth, inclu... 020
Reposted by Sarah VestalDenise Norris @denisenorris.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Repeat after me: Treatment for trans-youth saves lives. "The consensus of the evidence supports that the treatments are effective in terms of mental health, psychosocial outcomes, and the induction of body changes consistent with the affirmed gender in pediatric [gender dysphoria] patients."motherjones.comUtah study on trans youth care extremely inconvenient for politicians who ordered itThe state's ban on gender-affirming pediatric care "cannot be justified" by science, a two-year review concluded. 014650
Reposted by Sarah VestalAyo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Transphobes who are obsessed with determining if strangers are transgender are called “transvestigators.” When you see that word, you know that someone is obsessed with other people’s genitals. We used to call such people “perverts.” 673217537
Sarah Vestal @sarahvestal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Hello Lower Nob Hill! Great to be back in the city! 070
Sarah Vestal @sarahvestal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025"I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'" Herb Caen 010
Reposted by Sarah VestalThe PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 17/04/2025we made a critical error allowing reactionaries to make-up concepts like “biological sex” and frame them as non-ideological when it’s the exact opposite: people who undergo HRT *are literally changing their biological sex.* this is not some philosophical distinction, it is actual biological reality. 164215861
Reposted by Sarah VestalErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/03/2025We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.lgbtqnation.comGOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ NationThe bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles. 25072877610449
Reposted by Sarah VestalDenise Norris @denisenorris.bsky.social · 14/03/2025More and more traditional media is calling it like it is... The manufactured trans-panic is a scam. USAToday's resoundingly laid it out 👇 Amplify this message widely. #Silence=Erasureftw.usatoday.comThey're lying to you about transgender women and girls in sportsThe president, politicians and right-wing activists are lying to you about trans women in sports to get what they want. 616778
Reposted by Sarah VestalDenise Norris @denisenorris.bsky.social · 04/03/2025If there is one article your right-leaning anti-trans grandma should read 👇 "The social stigma of living according to one’s gender identity when it’s out of sync with one’s birth sex is intense. Overcoming it and living as who you know yourself to be requires extraordinary courage."thebulwark.comStand With Trans AmericansYou don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous. 0279
Reposted by Sarah VestalI support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll... 533199205262
Reposted by Sarah VestalJohn Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Most of our problems could be solved by properly funding public education. 607106411935
Sarah Vestal @sarahvestal.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Thinking a cute apartment in SF Lower Nob Hill would be great fun and a safer environment for me than Little Rock. I do love Polk St! 3151
Reposted by Sarah VestalWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The amount of irrational hate of trans people from otherwise educated, informed people I know just shocks & saddens me to no end. It's so deep-seated & visceral. They can never point to one time, ever, that a trans person has ever hurt them. The power of ignorance and right-wing fear-mongering. 1263225522
