Laurel Powell
@laurelpowell.net
Bible college dropout. Always fighting for trans people to get a fair shake. Director of Communications @hrc.org. 🏳️⚧️ Political opinions are mine but probably should be yours too
Taking a break from my holiday relaxation to share a short piece I wrote for Equality Magazine. One of my first jobs on a political staff was to make sure Providence got every point on the MEI - now I help make it happen every year. Now, as then, cities show the way forward for LGBTQ+ equality.
Cities Lead the Way for LGBTQ+ Equality
HRC Communications Director Laurel Powell reflects on 14 Years of the Municipal Equality Index — and its outsized impact tday.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Taking a break from my holiday relaxation to share a short piece I wrote for Equality Magazine. One of my first jobs on a political staff was to make sure Providence got every point on the MEI - now I help make it happen every year. Now, as then, cities show the way forward for LGBTQ+ equality.
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Pluribus rules because it’s forcing people who wanna see a bunch of sci fi lore dumps to instead watch amazing actors have incredibly interesting conversations about what it means to be a person
December 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Pluribus rules because it’s forcing people who wanna see a bunch of sci fi lore dumps to instead watch amazing actors have incredibly interesting conversations about what it means to be a person
Have a couple dozen board feet of cherry and a dream
December 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Have a couple dozen board feet of cherry and a dream
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To Trans Youth: YOU ARE NEVER ALONE.
There are MILLIONS of loving, caring people who will continue to fight to protect you and your future.
Reply below with love for young trans people. 🩵🩷🤍
There are MILLIONS of loving, caring people who will continue to fight to protect you and your future.
Reply below with love for young trans people. 🩵🩷🤍
December 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
To Trans Youth: YOU ARE NEVER ALONE.
There are MILLIONS of loving, caring people who will continue to fight to protect you and your future.
Reply below with love for young trans people. 🩵🩷🤍
There are MILLIONS of loving, caring people who will continue to fight to protect you and your future.
Reply below with love for young trans people. 🩵🩷🤍
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🧵 The Trump administration just proposed two rules that would effectively ban best-practice health care for trans youth.
Here’s what you need to know:
Here’s what you need to know:
December 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🧵 The Trump administration just proposed two rules that would effectively ban best-practice health care for trans youth.
Here’s what you need to know:
Here’s what you need to know:
First priority to begin the year: Kicking trans kids off sports teams.
Last priority to end the year: Arresting parents and doctors of trans kids.
In the middle: Not a god damn peep on anything else. Absolutely bankrupt. No answers for any issues. Only bullying & pointing fingers & screaming
Last priority to end the year: Arresting parents and doctors of trans kids.
In the middle: Not a god damn peep on anything else. Absolutely bankrupt. No answers for any issues. Only bullying & pointing fingers & screaming
U.S. House Republicans End Year How They Began: Attacking Families,…
Instead of focusing on the nation’s overwhelming outcry for policies focused on affordability and the impending health care cost crisis, MAGA House…
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December 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
First priority to begin the year: Kicking trans kids off sports teams.
Last priority to end the year: Arresting parents and doctors of trans kids.
In the middle: Not a god damn peep on anything else. Absolutely bankrupt. No answers for any issues. Only bullying & pointing fingers & screaming
Last priority to end the year: Arresting parents and doctors of trans kids.
In the middle: Not a god damn peep on anything else. Absolutely bankrupt. No answers for any issues. Only bullying & pointing fingers & screaming
For those keeping score, 4 Republicans voted against Rep. Greene's bill to arrest doctors and parents of trans youth: Fitzpatrick, Kennedy, Lawler, and Evans.
The House has gone absolutely insane in their obsession with blaming society's ills on trans people. You must see through it.
The House has gone absolutely insane in their obsession with blaming society's ills on trans people. You must see through it.
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
For those keeping score, 4 Republicans voted against Rep. Greene's bill to arrest doctors and parents of trans youth: Fitzpatrick, Kennedy, Lawler, and Evans.
The House has gone absolutely insane in their obsession with blaming society's ills on trans people. You must see through it.
The House has gone absolutely insane in their obsession with blaming society's ills on trans people. You must see through it.
This week has made me deeply appreciative of Rep. Balint. There are few more vocal allies of our community in this entire godforsaken town.
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This week has made me deeply appreciative of Rep. Balint. There are few more vocal allies of our community in this entire godforsaken town.
We should all take a lesson from the grace and dignity Sarah conducts herself with, despite being the target of an unimaginable amount of hate. It makes her a better Congresswoman for Delawareans and a better messenger for trans rights for all of us.
@mcbride.house.gov is right. It’s hard enough being a kid — and politicians don’t need to make it harder.
Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.
Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.
December 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
We should all take a lesson from the grace and dignity Sarah conducts herself with, despite being the target of an unimaginable amount of hate. It makes her a better Congresswoman for Delawareans and a better messenger for trans rights for all of us.
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Repro advocates know repro rights are entwined with trans rights. That’s why 50+ banded together to tell Congress that just as politicians have no place making decisions about people’s pregnancies, they have no business interfering with
gender-affirming care.
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gender-affirming care.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Repro advocates know repro rights are entwined with trans rights. That’s why 50+ banded together to tell Congress that just as politicians have no place making decisions about people’s pregnancies, they have no business interfering with
gender-affirming care.
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gender-affirming care.
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To note the obvious: Rare exceptions and *extremely* rare misunderstandings notwithstanding, there is perhaps no group of people on the planet more familiar with the concepts of off-the-record, on background and on-the-record than political figures in Washington, D.C.
December 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
To note the obvious: Rare exceptions and *extremely* rare misunderstandings notwithstanding, there is perhaps no group of people on the planet more familiar with the concepts of off-the-record, on background and on-the-record than political figures in Washington, D.C.
The anti-equality House majority started the year by passing a bill to kick trans kids off sports teams; they're ending it by attempting to gut health care for those same kids - and criminalize their parents and doctors.
Since July 1, they have worked *27 days*. This is how they spend their time.
Since July 1, they have worked *27 days*. This is how they spend their time.
December 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The anti-equality House majority started the year by passing a bill to kick trans kids off sports teams; they're ending it by attempting to gut health care for those same kids - and criminalize their parents and doctors.
Since July 1, they have worked *27 days*. This is how they spend their time.
Since July 1, they have worked *27 days*. This is how they spend their time.
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Are you a fan of trans journalism? Are you an enjoyer of ranked lists? If you are either of those things, or both, we've got the end of year feature for you.
Read our list of the best ten and worst five examples of journalism on trans issues of 2025.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Read our list of the best ten and worst five examples of journalism on trans issues of 2025.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
The Ten Best (and Five Worst) Pieces of Trans Journalism of 2025 — Assigned
The trans community has been plagued with a surplus of news in 2025. Here’s Assigned Media’s list of the best and worst of journalism on this beat.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Are you a fan of trans journalism? Are you an enjoyer of ranked lists? If you are either of those things, or both, we've got the end of year feature for you.
Read our list of the best ten and worst five examples of journalism on trans issues of 2025.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Read our list of the best ten and worst five examples of journalism on trans issues of 2025.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
This damning piece shows a woman who is determined to wash her hands of every evil thing that happens in her orbit. "I wouldn't do it that way," she says, while empowering the men who are tearing the country apart.
To claim innocence while sitting at the President's right hand... it's insane
To claim innocence while sitting at the President's right hand... it's insane
Susie Wiles Talks About The First Year of Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2)
In the first half of ‘Vanity Fair’’s interview with Susie Wiles, the chief of staff discusses Elon Musk’s DOGE disaster, the FBI’s “incredible job” investigating January 6, and how Trump once berated ...
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December 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This damning piece shows a woman who is determined to wash her hands of every evil thing that happens in her orbit. "I wouldn't do it that way," she says, while empowering the men who are tearing the country apart.
To claim innocence while sitting at the President's right hand... it's insane
To claim innocence while sitting at the President's right hand... it's insane
Oh cool it looks like AI has ruined something else
THIS DISCUSSION THIS DISCUSSION THIS DISCUSSION THIS DISCUSSION
THIS DISCUSSION THIS DISCUSSION THIS DISCUSSION THIS DISCUSSION
December 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Oh cool it looks like AI has ruined something else
THIS DISCUSSION THIS DISCUSSION THIS DISCUSSION THIS DISCUSSION
THIS DISCUSSION THIS DISCUSSION THIS DISCUSSION THIS DISCUSSION
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We are heartbroken about the loss of legendary actor, director, and LGBTQ+ activist Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele.
December 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We are heartbroken about the loss of legendary actor, director, and LGBTQ+ activist Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele.
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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It do be like that sometimes.
December 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It do be like that sometimes.
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we are so fucking back
Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic announced from Casey Hudson - single player game
December 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
we are so fucking back
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BREAKING: On her way out the door of Congress, Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene says the House will vote on her bill to jail doctors and parents of trans youth.
Contact your member of Congress to urge them to VOTE NO.
hrc.im/contactcongress
Contact your member of Congress to urge them to VOTE NO.
hrc.im/contactcongress
Help Defeat Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation!
Take urgent action with HRC today.
hrc.im
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
BREAKING: On her way out the door of Congress, Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene says the House will vote on her bill to jail doctors and parents of trans youth.
Contact your member of Congress to urge them to VOTE NO.
hrc.im/contactcongress
Contact your member of Congress to urge them to VOTE NO.
hrc.im/contactcongress
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Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
Breaking tonight - MTG traded an unrelated vote for a promise that she'd get a vote on a bill criminalizing health care for trans youth.
They are in session for like 5 days out of 30 and instead of addressing the affordability crisis, MAGA are sticking their noses into private health care decisions
They are in session for like 5 days out of 30 and instead of addressing the affordability crisis, MAGA are sticking their noses into private health care decisions
December 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Breaking tonight - MTG traded an unrelated vote for a promise that she'd get a vote on a bill criminalizing health care for trans youth.
They are in session for like 5 days out of 30 and instead of addressing the affordability crisis, MAGA are sticking their noses into private health care decisions
They are in session for like 5 days out of 30 and instead of addressing the affordability crisis, MAGA are sticking their noses into private health care decisions
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Hi! If you took part in or saw some mutual aid projects to help with gender affirming care for trans minors or adults I’d love to hear about it for a story!!
Signal: SydneyBauer.30
Email: sydneyerinwrites at gmail dot com
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Email: sydneyerinwrites at gmail dot com
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December 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Hi! If you took part in or saw some mutual aid projects to help with gender affirming care for trans minors or adults I’d love to hear about it for a story!!
Signal: SydneyBauer.30
Email: sydneyerinwrites at gmail dot com
DMs: open
Signal: SydneyBauer.30
Email: sydneyerinwrites at gmail dot com
DMs: open