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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026

It's disgusting how A4te has treated its own staff. They deserve so much better than this. The one line email to staff announcing their termination was so egregious.

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Union of Legal Workers for Trans Liberation @ulw4tl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

UPDATE: Layoff negotiations end in just one week, and one thing is clear: A4TE management is intent on laying off a specific group of Union members.

UNION FOR
TANS LIBERATE
LAYOFF NEGOTIATIONS END IN JUST ONE WEEK, and one thing is clear:
A4TE management is intent on laying off a specific group of Union members.
After a month and a half of negotiations, multiple cost-saving proposals from the Union,
SIX voluntary separations
(3 union, 2 director, and 1 confidential employee), and two involuntary director layoffs, management's potential layoff list of 12 bargaining unit members remains unchanged.
Read More →

On 9/16, management once again rejected the Union's proposal for tiered salary cuts for staff making over $130k.
Instead, they proposed the CEO take an 8% pay cut—but only if the Union agreed to a salary freeze for all staff.
The worst part?
They said this salary freeze wouldn't save any union jobs.
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During our all-staff meeting yesterday, 9/17, management told staff for the first time in that they were working on a proposal that included salary cuts for management making over $155k.
This shocked us.
Communicating this counter in an all-staff meeting before bargaining is blatant direct dealing and an unfair labor practice.
We hope management follows through on their promise of salary cuts for the highest-paid managers in our organization, but these proposals must be communicated during bargaining. Most importantly: they must save Union jobs!
Read More →

STAKE ACTION
This is your last week to make your voice heard before a dozen trans people get official notice that they will be laid off.
PLEASE EMAIL: a4te@transequality.org and comment on A4TE's social media.
Urge them to implement the Union's cost-saving proposals instead of laying off nearly half of our union.

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Union of Legal Workers for Trans Liberation @ulw4tl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Layoff Negotiation Updates!

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Shayna Medley @shaynam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Read about @ulw4tl.bsky.social’s fight to save our jobs and enforce the layoff protections we just won in our new CBA. Trans rights are labor rights.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.

Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

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Shayna Medley @shaynam.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Support trans Union members as we face potential layoffs:

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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

unionized legal workers at Advocates for Trans Equality are now facing layoffs after the org went on a c-suite hiring spree. in this political moment, laying off frontline staff who meet trans legal needs is unconscionable

BREAKING
A4TE management lust publicly announced layoffs in violation of our new CBA

Less than a month after ratifying our new CBA, management has already violated it. Our contract requires management to
"work closely with the Union to ensure job security of every employee then on staff, develop a plan to avoid layoffs, and discuss
alternatives to layoffs." It also requires A4TE to provide financial documentation for why economic retrenchment is necessary.
A4TE has done none of this before going public with its layoff announcement.

Yesterday, July 20, A4TE management emailed the Union after 5pm informing us of the organization's
"economic retrenchment" and their intent to lay off staff. Less than 24 hours later, A4TE sent a mass email to their supporters announcing impending layoffs - with no internal communication to all staff - before the Union has had an opportunity to bargain over the outcome.

Since the 2024 merger of
TLDEF and NCTE, A4TE has embarked on a hiring spree for C-suite and director level positions, while gutting critical direct service programs like the Name Change Project. These cuts to our essential programs and frontline staff are neither
"necessary" nor "practical," as A4TE suggests. They are the result of reckless mismanagement and a callous disregard for staff's jobs and livelihoods.

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Union of Legal Workers for Trans Liberation @ulw4tl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

⚠️BREAKING⚠️ A4TE management just publicly announced layoffs in violation of our new CBA.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026

Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.

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Shayna Medley @shaynam.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Two devastating immigration opinions from Alito today, one concerning temporary protected status for Haitians and the other concerning the Mexico-US border crossing. Excerpt from Sotomayor’s dissent in Mullin v. Otro Lado:

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Fourth (and *last*) ruling from #SCOTUS is in TPS. For the usual 6-3 majority, Justice Alito holds that federal law forecloses judicial review of statutory challenges to the executive branch's termination of temporary protected status for Haiti, Syria, etc.: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

BREAKING: Federal judge grants patients' request to block DOJ from seeking or obtaining patient information via grand jury subpoena as to any transgender people who received gender-affirming medical care in New York City (including NYU Langone). More to come:

lawdork.com

Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack

The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Shayna Medley @shaynam.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

If you need a good laugh this is excellent

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The Advocate @advocate.com · 04/05/2026

Workers at Advocates for Trans Equality had authorized a strike before a last-minute deal halted the walkout.

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Planned strike at transgender advocacy group called off after last-minute tentative deal

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Union of Legal Workers for Trans Liberation @ulw4tl.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

@transequality.bsky.social says they want to set the standard for LGBTQI+ nonprofit workplaces. Our reality tells a different story. 96% of our union has authorized a strike. If no agreement is reached by May 4th, WE WILL STRIKE.

"Setting the standard for LGBTQI+ nonprofit employers"
That's what Advocates for Trans Equality
(A4TE) says - but our reality looks very different.

For the past 8 months, we have been negotiating our contract.
Here is what we have experienced from Executive Leadership and C-Suite:
Staff have been questioned, spoken down to, and treated as unintelligent-especially those without law degrees.
Work has been bottlenecked and made unnecessarily difficult, harming relationships with external partners.
Executive Leadership and C-suite have shut down our Name Change Project (NCP), put jobs at risk, threatened the position of our union chapter president, and called union members liars.

And yet, Executive Leadership and C-suite publicly claim to support equity, trust, and strong workplace standards all while proposing:

Removing COLAs → because we're a "new organization"
Keeping layoff power → because of the "last contract"

So which is it, A4TE leadership? Are we a new organization or bound by the old contract?

The Union has already voted - 96% of union members authorized a strike.

If no agreement is made by May 4th, WE WILL STRIKE.

A4TE leadership, if you want to be the
"model standard", prove it.
Our union remains in solidarity and demands:

• Equitable layoff protections
• Fair COLAS

Show us who you really are.

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Kirsten Berg @kirstenberg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Please support our union’s work toward a fair contract by NOT crossing our digital picket line! That means not visiting @ProPublica.org today, April 8. (And please resume your support of @ProPublica.org all other days, we love the journalism we do!)

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Roberts again: "You mention in your briefing about 'birth tourism.' Do you have any... information about how... common that is... how much of a problem that is?" Sauer: uhh... media reports... from China. Roberts: "Having said all that, you do agree it has no impace on the legal analysis..."

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 26/03/2026

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

In recent days, AMA communications to the New York Times have requested a correction on their part to reflect the actual language the AMA used in response to their inquiry. Additionally, a letter to the editor has been submitted requesting a public correction—this was neither a policy change nor was it an endorsement of a position taken by another medical society. In addition, during Congressional testimony in mid-March, I had the opportunity to set the record straight stating to the Subcommittee on Health of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that there has been no change in AMA policy with respect to access to and provision of gender-affirming care. This will appear in the Congressional Record.

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Shayna Medley @shaynam.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Our Union of Workers for Trans Liberation is fighting for fair wages, job security, layoff protections, and more ⬇️ These are dark times but our Union brings me so much hope

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch

DHS illegally arrested me please help

Text against image of her knees

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Union of Legal Workers for Trans Liberation @ulw4tl.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Breaking! A4TE management is resorting to coercive bargaining tactics: holding our raises hostage to pressure us into a deal. We will not be intimidated. We will not back down. We are united in our fight for a fair contract.

BREAKING:
U4TL filed a
grievance against management for refusing to pay our contractual salary step increases while we are bargaining

This is an unfair labor practice and a violation of our CBA.
Decades of NLRB
precedent makes it clear: even after a contract expires, workers retain the right to established wages and step increases.

A4TE management is resorting to coercive bargaining tactics: holding our raises hostage to pressure us into a deal.
We will not be intimidated.
We will not back down.
We are united in our fight for a fair contract.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/02/2026

In a blatant violation of NY state and NYC law, NYU Langone has shut down its youth gender clinic and caused a potential forced detransition to its patients. Where is the NY AG and Mayor Mamdani? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...

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Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 31/01/2026

Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky

From: Matthew Hiltzik <
To: J <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Thoughts from Chomsky
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:34:06 +0000
I think that is wise
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:19 PM, J < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
Ive watched the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public. It's painful to say, but I think the best way to proceed is to ignore it. I've had plenty of experience, though of course not on this scale. A google search will bring up tons of hysterical accusations of all sorts, even groups devoted to vilifying me. I pay no attention, unless I'm approached for a comment on a specific matter. It's a nuisance, but it's the best way. The same conclusions from experiences of others, in some cases close friends.
What the vultures dearly want is a public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts -- which are impossible to answer (how do you prove that you are not a neo-Nazi who wants to kill the Jews, or a rapist, or whatever charge comes along?). That's particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder. For virtually everyone who sees any of this, the reaction will be "where there's smoke there's fire, maybe raging fire" (whatever the facts, which few will even think of investigating).
In general, it's best I think not to react unless directly questioned, particularly in the current mood -- which, I presume, will fade away, even if not in time to prevent much torture and distress.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/01/2026

“This is un-American“ is anti-Indigenous, anti-Black gaslighting and if you find that inconvenient imagine how our colonized and enslaved ancestors felt and grow the fuck up

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Union of Legal Workers for Trans Liberation @ulw4tl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

UPDATE ON BARGAINING: U4TL is in the final stages of bargaining. Our contract has expired and we are still fighting for the following…

U4TL is in the final stages of bargaining.
Our contract has expired and we are still fighting for:
• Job preservation and layoff protections
• Fair wages and pay equity
• Transparency about the future of Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE)

We cannot bargain fairly without knowing what A4TE plans for the future of our employment and working conditions.
A4TE management has delayed sharing the new organizational chart and budget-information that would massively impact our jobs and our contract.

Job preservation isn't "nice to have"-it is essential.
Right now, A4TE management hasn't shared the restructured organization chart-even though it directly affects who stays, who goes, and what our jobs look like.
When critical information is withheld, it feels intentional-and it puts workers at risk.

We're working without a
contract-and it's showing.
Departments are seeing drastic changes to their workload, roles, and expectations-without safeguards in place.
That is why we are escalating.
This Friday (1/23), all-shop members will attend open bargaining to show management that we are in solidarity with our

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 13/01/2026

interestingly to me, you can actually see the impact of this brief at oral argument rn bc Idaho is now saying 'okay yes there is a history of de jure discrim against trans people, but it wasn't explicit like it was against Black people' which is...a v different position to be in, I think!

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Shayna Medley @shaynam.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Thank you @ballsandstrikes.org for covering @transequality.bsky.social’s amicus brief on behalf of legal scholars and historians on the history of anti trans discrimination in the law

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Shayna Medley @shaynam.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I spoke with @us.theguardian.com about the two cases the Supreme Court is hearing today challenging categorical bans on trans students’ participation in school sports and the dangers “sex verification” policies pose to all women and girls.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

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Tiffany Cabán @tiffanycaban.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

ICE shot and killed a woman. Now they follow their fascist playbook: lying and gaslighting to cover up their actions and villainize the victim. If you can stomach it, the video contradicts DHS’s fiction. ABOLISH ICE. They kill and kidnap our neighbors. They endanger us all.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

"you can't kill us all" fuck yeah minneapolis

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 05/01/2026

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.

Editors' Note, 1/4/26:

A spokesperson from The New York Times emailed Trans News Network the Sunday after publication, disputing various parts of the interview. We reject their disputes as unsubstantiated, nitpicking or willful misreads. We have added minor clarifications at two points in the interview alongside the transcript, which remains as published. We stand by our reporting of the interview with Sweeney, former editor and 11-year veteran of the Times.

The Times also provided TNN a statement responding to the interview, which we have declined to publish due to its inclusion of overt transphobia (such as framing the existence of trans people as “fiercely contested medical and legal debates”). Even in their PR, it seems that the Times can't stop denigrating our lives and communities.

We do not have an obligation to publish damage control on the behalf of a news outlet undergoing a legitimacy crisis because of their own actions.

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 01/01/2026

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

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'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry

In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/12/2025

Among other things there is going to be a generation of children that is traumatized by various forms of gender inspections including genital inspections and anti-trans parents and the parents who chose to look the other way will bear responsibility for it

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cunt dracula 🎃 @malwhere.northsky.social · 23/12/2025

Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment” Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment” Student: “I didn’t do the assignment” University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask” some days I just want to scream and scream

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.

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Shayna Medley @shaynam.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Considering this organization was founded to curb the “sexual assault panic” plaguing men on college campuses and attack survivors’ civil rights under the guise of defending the first amendment and due process, I’m confident the answer to this question is a resounding “no.”

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/12/2025

NEW: The controversial interim CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast floated ending in-clinic abortion procedures and spoke of dropping abortion care altogether. Leader of the affiliate serving Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi remains in her role after an investigation that sources call a "farce."

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Embattled Planned Parenthood Affiliate CEO Wanted to Halt Abortions

Sources level new allegations against Planned Parenthood Southeast interim CEO Mairo Akposé, who remains in her role after an investigation they call a "farce."

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Shayna Medley @shaynam.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Affirmative action has always benefited white men most. I saw this firsthand during my time as an admissions officer and I wrote about the legal implications in law school in 2016: journals.law.harvard.edu/crcl/wp-cont...

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Shayna Medley @shaynam.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Among the proposals mgmt has made so far: 1) pay *decreases* for several Union members 2) restrictions to make it more difficult to access funds in our gender affirming care pool and 3) rollbacks to existing just cause and progressive discipline protections to make it easier to fire Union staff

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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Thanks to our brand new Senior Video Producer @travismannon.bsky.social we will be putting out lots more video content! Follow along and let us know what you'd like to see from the OTM team!

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Greer Donley @greerdonley.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Another preventable and tragic death because of Texas’s abortion ban. It reminds me of a quote from People v Belous, the 1969 California Supreme Court case that invalidated CA’s abortion ban before Roe. Though the ban had a life exception, the court still found that:

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