Reposted by TheOKTransKCErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 31/03/2025www.them.us/story/orgs-f...them.usHow to Support Trans People in All 50 StatesA curated list of 100 organizations supporting trans rights and livelihood to which you can donate. 2251122
TheOKTransKC @theoktranskc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025So Sec Def has ordered all DoD Cyber Security planning to be halted against Russia. We are going full Axis power. 110
TheOKTransKC @theoktranskc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YK6gWo/tiktok.comTikTok - Make Your Day 010
Reposted by TheOKTransKCErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/02/20251. We are seeing a massive amount of overcompliance with Trump EOs. Nonprofits across the board are erasing transgender people from their websites. Mira Lazine reports on several that have made the decision to do so in her latest piece. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comSeveral Nonprofits Overcomply With Trump EOs, Erase Trans People From WebsitesOrganizations such as the Boys and Girls Club of America, the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are among dozens erasing trans people. 331799482
TheOKTransKC @theoktranskc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025The fact these people say all of this with a straight face and know their followers will believe it is mind-blowing to me. 1: I'm not sure we have the number to make a Battalion of trans service members. 2: butt lasers??? We are powerful, but we do not control the whole intelligence apparatus. 010
Reposted by TheOKTransKCMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 25/02/2025www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... The end result of this is trans people can't travel to the USA without the risk of being permanently banned from entering the USA on grounds of "gender fraud". Already know trans folks in high tech fields who will be cancelling plans to give talks in America.theguardian.comUS threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markersExclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications 611129479
Reposted by TheOKTransKCArcas De Disco @puckarks.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Let me make it very simple for you If you've never had a US Supreme Court case decide if you have the same rights as others, you have privilege. 0279
Reposted by TheOKTransKCmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 21/02/2025UVA students are gathering outside the rotunda to protest a closed meeting of the board of visitors scheduled to discuss the fate of gender affirming care at UVA hospital 111614338
Reposted by TheOKTransKCAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/02/2025The highest ranking trans person in the federal government was fired last week amid the broader purge. It was certainly political and targeted. 19thnews.org/2025/02/amy-...19thnews.orgShe pioneered change over five presidencies. The Trump administration just fired her.Amy Paris, a transgender official who worked at the highest levels of the federal government, suspects her termination was politically motivated. 241849553
Reposted by TheOKTransKCKaty Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 20/02/2025Wow a court case that is sensible and has gone in our favour! GC beliefs ARE like racism 451178
Reposted by TheOKTransKCGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/02/2025Another free idea for the @democrats.org: Set up a website that archives pre-Trump government resources/websites and keeps them updated with new, reliable info. Every time this trash happens, point people to THAT website. Don't just whine. ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE. You have ENORMOUS power. 331248383
Reposted by TheOKTransKCKevin Kiniry @comickev.bsky.social · 14/02/2025We won’t disappear just because you change a website. 134208743878
Reposted by TheOKTransKCAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/02/2025For extra context, NCMEC runs the massive hashed database of CSAM that companies use to detect it on their platforms. If NCMEC were shut down, CSAM would proliferate everywhere. Not hard to see why the far right would want that while pinning blame on trans people. 17958295
Reposted by TheOKTransKCTrans Safety Network @transsafety.network · 02/02/2025Trans Safety Network have recieved leaks from a user of Bayswater Support Group's forums. Because of the unrepentant support for abusive conversion practices targetting trans children, we have decided to publish these. transsafety.network/posts/bayswa...transsafety.network“If advising kids to accept biological reality is conversion therapy, I am all for it” - Bayswater Support Group in their own wordsFollowing news that Health Secretary Wes Streeting met with conversion therapy activists, Trans Safety Network recieved leaks from their forums indicating they know they promote conversion therapy 6495237
Reposted by TheOKTransKCAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/02/2025What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society. 36576242249
Reposted by TheOKTransKCNol Malone ☭ @nolmalone.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Learn, organize, defend. ❤️ 24715
Reposted by TheOKTransKCPhil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 24/01/2025Facing an FBI investigation that Trump could halt, Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles proposes allowing third term for president www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...newschannel5.comFacing FBI investigation that Trump could halt, Andy Ogles proposes allowing third term for presidentTennessee Congressman Andy Ogles has introduced a resolution to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow the 45th and 47th President of the United States to seek a third term. 2132187750
Reposted by TheOKTransKCKirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Understanding LGBTIQ+ visas in Australia 🇦🇺 offers protection visas for LGBTIQ+ individuals who are at risk of persecution, discrimination, or violence in their home countries due to their sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression. www.australianmigrationlawyers.com.au/protection-v...australianmigrationlawyers.com.auLGBTIQ+ Protection Visa Australia | Migration LawyersGet immigration assistance for LGBTIQ+ protection visas. Secure a permanent visa if persecuted for political opinion or identity. Lawyers are ready to help. 9443177
Reposted by TheOKTransKCThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Gritty continues to be a real one 143319735490
TheOKTransKC @theoktranskc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FGkUpn/tiktok.com#trans #transrightsarehumanrights #tanslesbian #transvoice #transgender TikTok video by TheOKTransKC 010
Reposted by TheOKTransKCThe Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 21/01/2025Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action. If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.thetransfemininereview.comThe Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting CensorshipProject 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive. 6755653487
Reposted by TheOKTransKCSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 20/01/2025If you're discriminated against or arrested for being trans in Illinois, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. 103110046316
Reposted by TheOKTransKCAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/01/2025PSA: you do not have to watch the news tomorrow. You do not have to keep track of everything day 1. This is a marathon not a sprint. Take care of yourself and spend time with friends and family. I'll be out on the slopes wfh my partner enjoying nature. They can't take our joy, I won't let them. 563861832
Reposted by TheOKTransKCFlorence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 19/01/2025This second article explains that randomized-controlled trials are, in fact, not a feasible let alone a reasonable expectation in trans healthcare. We simple cannot run quality RCTs, which are realistically necessary to have evidence qualified as ‘high quality.’ So miss me with that bullshit.tandfonline.comRandomized-controlled trials are methodologically inappropriate in adolescent transgender healthcareDespite multiple rigorous observational studies documenting the association between positive mental health outcomes and access to puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and transition-related surgeries... 13812
Reposted by TheOKTransKCFlorence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 19/01/2025In honour of transphobes publishing more nonsense about trans healthcare having insufficient evidence, I want to share two critical articles on the topic. This first article explains that trans people have a right to gender-affirming care, and that “”not enough proof”” isn’t enough to ban it.cmaj.caGender self-determination as a medical right[See related editorial at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.240878][1] Transgender people face many formal barriers to gender-affirming care, sometimes known as “gatekeeping.” Gender-affirming care... 48934
Reposted by TheOKTransKCThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/01/2025Trans people comprise a scant portion of athletes, at all levels, but the drive to bar them from participating in competitive sports has never been about numbers, Louisa Thomas writes.newyorker.comWhat’s Really Behind the House Bill to Ban Transgender Athletes from School Sports?Trans people comprise a scant portion of athletes, at all levels, but the drive to bar them from participating in competitive sports has never been about numbers. 3227061
Reposted by TheOKTransKCGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/01/2025ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify. 11563210624039
Reposted by TheOKTransKCErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/01/2025SCOTUS announces it will hear whether or not LGBTQ inclusive education is unconstitutional. Not great for LGBTQ people, and could be disastrous to teaching that we have a history and have existed alongside everyone else for centuries. 19348241409
Reposted by TheOKTransKCGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/01/2025I just spit out my tea. 1870393066359
Reposted by TheOKTransKCGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Alito's comments about Pornhub reminded me that Wendy Carlos gave her first interview about her gender dysphoria and sex change to Playboy in 1979 251998414
Reposted by TheOKTransKCGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025In Florida, a 15-year-old girl was the subject of a police investigation that involved armed officers asking her teammates if they had ever seen her nude and a 500-page report detailing changes in her body weight and notes from her guidance counselor--all because she wanted to play volleyball 632334833
Reposted by TheOKTransKCmady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 14/01/20251. NEW: Legal filings reveal how trans inmates have endured widescale persecution, humiliation, suffering, trauma, and brushes with death for many years in Florida prisons, well beyond what has been previously widely known. www.madycast.com/p/i-cannot-i... #trans #lgbtmadycast.com“I Cannot Imagine Surviving”: Read the Stories of the Trans Women Facing Forced Head Shaving and Medical Detransition in Florida PrisonsLegal documents filed by trans women reveal that trans inmates have endured widescale persecution, humiliation, suffering, trauma, and brushes with death for many years in Florida prisons. 3382175
TheOKTransKC @theoktranskc.bsky.social · 13/01/2025So kinda excited. Got a orchiectomy consult at the end of the month. 110
Reposted by TheOKTransKCDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 13/01/2025“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.” How are people supposed to do their jobs under threats like that? And Americans *should* want feds doing their jobs.nytimes.comOpinion | I’m a Federal Employee. This Is What We Need Most in the Trump Era.Practical support matters more than encouragement. 0223
Reposted by TheOKTransKCNDNchick4Decency @fedtfupofthemall.bsky.social · 10/01/2025wtf 🤬 #nativeamerican #indigisky 1128
Reposted by TheOKTransKCTransgender World @transgenderreport.com · 09/01/2025Transgender Bathroom Ban Takes Effect in House-Controlled Capitol Spaces truthout.org/article... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA truthout.orgTransgender Bathroom Ban Takes Effect in House-Controlled Capitol SpacesMany transgender visitors to the House have stated they will not comply with the anti-trans bathroom policy. 1105
Reposted by TheOKTransKCQueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 08/01/2025🏳️⚧️ “Dora’s survival and happy old age, and Hartmann’s dedication to finding it, have inspired me to keep digging to find our stories. We deserve to have them told, to grow old, and to be remembered” - by Jaime S.K. Starr www.wearequeeraf.com/historians-t...wearequeeraf.comHistorians thought this trans woman was murdered by the Nazis, but she escaped and lived to be 74We've always been here, and even in the darkest times - we will survive through them. We'll always be here 07213
Reposted by TheOKTransKCTransgender World @transgenderreport.com · 07/01/2025Houston: Transgender teen speaks out after brutal attack on METRO bus www.outsmartmagazine... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA outsmartmagazine.comTransgender teen speaks out after brutal attack on METRO busTransgender teenager Rue speaks out after being stabbed in a hate crime. Advocacy groups rally in support. 0208
Reposted by TheOKTransKCDavid Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 07/01/2025🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comDifferences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - NatureWe find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political... 9727031136
Reposted by TheOKTransKCTransgender World @transgenderreport.com · 07/01/2025Federal Court Rules In Favor of Forcibly Detransitioning Transgender Inmates In Florida www.erininthemorning... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA erininthemorning.comFederal Court Rules In Favor of Forcibly Detransitioning Transgender Inmates In FloridaIncarcerated transgender people were a major topic of debate in the 2024 elections. Now, a judge ruling on a Florida policy shows how cruel abandoning trans people in prison can be. 42612
Reposted by TheOKTransKCErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/01/2025A federal court has ruled that Florida can detransition inmates. Some trans inmates are having estrogen pulled, hair shorn, and put through state-run conversion therapy. This is the cruelty of abandoning incarcerated trans people. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comFederal Court Rules In Favor of Forcibly Detransitioning Transgender Inmates In FloridaIncarcerated transgender people were a major topic of debate in the 2024 elections. Now, a judge ruling on a Florida policy shows how cruel abandoning trans people in prison can be. 31058362570
Reposted by TheOKTransKCCrystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 07/01/2025This is horrific... 112836
TheOKTransKC @theoktranskc.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Finally got my Blahaj. Love this little guy. 🩵🩷 041
Reposted by TheOKTransKCAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/01/2025Once again, it's shown that trans youth are an extremely small part of the population and getting care is exceedingly rare. www.npr.org/sections/sho...npr.org'A very, very small number' of teens receive gender-affirming care, study findsA new analysis of private insurance claims data finds less than 0.1% of youth accessed puberty blockers or hormones for gender transition. This small group has garnered a huge amount of attention from... 16635118
Reposted by TheOKTransKCAlana McLaughlin🏳️⚧️ @alanaferal.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Well, i'm halfway there gofund.me/835b20e4gofund.meDonate to Help me keep my trans-mission rolling!, organized by Alana MclaughlinHey folks! Alana here. I've been driving my little salvaged buggy for 7 years,… Alana Mclaughlin needs your support for Help me keep my trans-mission rolling! 1612242
TheOKTransKC @theoktranskc.bsky.social · 01/01/2025I feel like rolling into this new year is going to be a struggle on many levels. Hoping my community can survive and get some wins. I'm going to try to do better at loving myself and setting healthier goals for my body and mind. Hoping for the best and bracing for the worst this New Year. 🩷🩵. 030
Reposted by TheOKTransKCjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Full story, which also outlines some anti-trans bills likely to be priority in Congress next year www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healt...washingtonexaminer.comWhat’s on Trump’s transgender agenda for 2025Republicans expect President-elect Donald Trump to act on the first day of his administration to curtail transgender medical treatments for minors. 25617