MichelleV
@michellevallet.bsky.social
Mother to a trans son leaning deep into advocacy 💪🏻🏳️⚧️ | Writer focused on parenting and personal growth 🖋️| Life coach🪞
Writer here: https://deeperdeepest.substack.com/
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MichelleV
@michellevallet.bsky.social
· Nov 20
When We We're Born Together
What raising my trans kid has taught me about myself.
deeperdeepest.substack.com
This is a love letter I wrote to my trans kid.
Now, this belongs to every trans person fighting to exist freely.
I'll always be with you.
"Today and everyday, I want you to think of all the ways you believe I love you, then multiply that by forever."
deeperdeepest.substack.com/p/when-we-we...
Now, this belongs to every trans person fighting to exist freely.
I'll always be with you.
"Today and everyday, I want you to think of all the ways you believe I love you, then multiply that by forever."
deeperdeepest.substack.com/p/when-we-we...
This made me howl because I started from a place of seriousness.
1. Like, yes, a plan, that's good.
2. You bet I have friends. Community is important in these times.
3. Sure, I probably have 10 friends.
Oh, wait ...
🤣
1. Like, yes, a plan, that's good.
2. You bet I have friends. Community is important in these times.
3. Sure, I probably have 10 friends.
Oh, wait ...
🤣
financial advice in a weird time:
-- develop a plan
-- find friends who support you
-- preferably 10 of them
-- steal $160 million from the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand
-- yes those are Terry Benedict's casinos
-- get your wife back
-- one of the friends should be Don Cheadle btw
simple
-- develop a plan
-- find friends who support you
-- preferably 10 of them
-- steal $160 million from the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand
-- yes those are Terry Benedict's casinos
-- get your wife back
-- one of the friends should be Don Cheadle btw
simple
April 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This made me howl because I started from a place of seriousness.
1. Like, yes, a plan, that's good.
2. You bet I have friends. Community is important in these times.
3. Sure, I probably have 10 friends.
Oh, wait ...
🤣
1. Like, yes, a plan, that's good.
2. You bet I have friends. Community is important in these times.
3. Sure, I probably have 10 friends.
Oh, wait ...
🤣
Emailed my financial advisor today to ask if I should be rebalancing my 401K, noting the losses I've seen since January 2025 to now.
Her response: "That isn't even reflecting the drop today." (And, she'll talk to me tomorrow about stuff).
Christ, we are fucked.
Her response: "That isn't even reflecting the drop today." (And, she'll talk to me tomorrow about stuff).
Christ, we are fucked.
Over $2 trillion has been erased from the stock market so far today.
April 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Emailed my financial advisor today to ask if I should be rebalancing my 401K, noting the losses I've seen since January 2025 to now.
Her response: "That isn't even reflecting the drop today." (And, she'll talk to me tomorrow about stuff).
Christ, we are fucked.
Her response: "That isn't even reflecting the drop today." (And, she'll talk to me tomorrow about stuff).
Christ, we are fucked.
Reposted by MichelleV
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
Took ICE watch training earlier this year as my neighborhood has a big immigrant population.
The NEXT DAY, they came for a neighbor. I knew what to do because of that training. Document, report. Contact neighbors in our Signal group.
Everyone should train up. Community response works.
The NEXT DAY, they came for a neighbor. I knew what to do because of that training. Document, report. Contact neighbors in our Signal group.
Everyone should train up. Community response works.
It's because of this ICE watch network that we have the video clip, they immediately contacted the hotline, and that got the story out immediately
March 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Took ICE watch training earlier this year as my neighborhood has a big immigrant population.
The NEXT DAY, they came for a neighbor. I knew what to do because of that training. Document, report. Contact neighbors in our Signal group.
Everyone should train up. Community response works.
The NEXT DAY, they came for a neighbor. I knew what to do because of that training. Document, report. Contact neighbors in our Signal group.
Everyone should train up. Community response works.
The interview my trans son and I did with @kschorsch.bsky.social of @wbez.org hit @npr.org's Facebook today.
What's always clear from the comments is that people who criticize this care know very little about how it happens, especially with trans kids.
I need people to learn.
You can start here:
What's always clear from the comments is that people who criticize this care know very little about how it happens, especially with trans kids.
I need people to learn.
You can start here:
What happens when a Chicago hospital bows to federal pressure on trans care for teens
Patients and parents speak out after Lurie Children's in Chicago joined other hospitals in stopping gender-affirming surgeries. President Trump's executive order threatened their federal funding.
www.npr.org
March 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The interview my trans son and I did with @kschorsch.bsky.social of @wbez.org hit @npr.org's Facebook today.
What's always clear from the comments is that people who criticize this care know very little about how it happens, especially with trans kids.
I need people to learn.
You can start here:
What's always clear from the comments is that people who criticize this care know very little about how it happens, especially with trans kids.
I need people to learn.
You can start here:
I’m a Chicagoan, engaged advocate and voter, and mother of a trans son who is a newly minted voter himself.
I’ve been BEGGING for this energy.
Let’s GO!
I’ve been BEGGING for this energy.
Let’s GO!
March 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I’m a Chicagoan, engaged advocate and voter, and mother of a trans son who is a newly minted voter himself.
I’ve been BEGGING for this energy.
Let’s GO!
I’ve been BEGGING for this energy.
Let’s GO!
@npr.org ran the story on gender-affirming care we did with @kschorsch.bsky.social of @wbez.org.
In the interview, I said I don’t think @luriechildrens.bsky.social has my trans son’s back.
I stand by that.
Would love for them to prove me wrong.
www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
In the interview, I said I don’t think @luriechildrens.bsky.social has my trans son’s back.
I stand by that.
Would love for them to prove me wrong.
www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
What happens when a Chicago children's hospital bows to pressure to stop gender-affirming care
Patients and parents speak out after Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital joined other hospitals in stopping gender-affirming surgeries after an executive order threatening loss of federal funding.
www.npr.org
March 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
@npr.org ran the story on gender-affirming care we did with @kschorsch.bsky.social of @wbez.org.
In the interview, I said I don’t think @luriechildrens.bsky.social has my trans son’s back.
I stand by that.
Would love for them to prove me wrong.
www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
In the interview, I said I don’t think @luriechildrens.bsky.social has my trans son’s back.
I stand by that.
Would love for them to prove me wrong.
www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
If the CR fails, @aoc.bsky.social becomes the de facto leader of the Democratic Party. On the other hand, if it passes, @aoc.bsky.social becomes the de facto leader of the Democratic Party.
March 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
You are a spineless sack of shit Senator. You haven’t done SHIT to muck up the fascism gears Trump threw into overdrive, so spare us all (and I am a constituent of yours!) this BS.
You’ve lost what little credibility you had left, and I will never vote for you again.
RETIRE you useless wank.
You’ve lost what little credibility you had left, and I will never vote for you again.
RETIRE you useless wank.
I will continue to fight against Donald Trump’s reckless, and in many instances, illegal attempts to gut the federal government. He is testing our system of checks and balances like they haven’t been tested in my lifetime. The fight continues.
March 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
You are a spineless sack of shit Senator. You haven’t done SHIT to muck up the fascism gears Trump threw into overdrive, so spare us all (and I am a constituent of yours!) this BS.
You’ve lost what little credibility you had left, and I will never vote for you again.
RETIRE you useless wank.
You’ve lost what little credibility you had left, and I will never vote for you again.
RETIRE you useless wank.
I made it two!
So, who's going to make it 1 to go?
So, who's going to make it 1 to go?
Three to go!
March 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I made it two!
So, who's going to make it 1 to go?
So, who's going to make it 1 to go?
Lift these voices up for all to hear. ❤️🏳️⚧️
In some of the interviews I've recently done alongside my 18-year-old trans son around gender-affirming health care, the shift in reporters interested in highlighting trans voices is refreshing.
Read this. Then read it again. Then get in the fight.
In some of the interviews I've recently done alongside my 18-year-old trans son around gender-affirming health care, the shift in reporters interested in highlighting trans voices is refreshing.
Read this. Then read it again. Then get in the fight.
My latest piece @thenation.com PART II of a Series on Trans-Athletes, this one focusing on the trans-feminine athletes who have been the most demonized. They've been the focus of constant commentary while they themselves have been deliberately unheard. Hear them. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
“I’m Terrified”: Trans-Feminine Athletes in Their Own Words
In part two of a series, trans women athletes describe what it’s like to compete in the Trump era.
www.thenation.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Lift these voices up for all to hear. ❤️🏳️⚧️
In some of the interviews I've recently done alongside my 18-year-old trans son around gender-affirming health care, the shift in reporters interested in highlighting trans voices is refreshing.
Read this. Then read it again. Then get in the fight.
In some of the interviews I've recently done alongside my 18-year-old trans son around gender-affirming health care, the shift in reporters interested in highlighting trans voices is refreshing.
Read this. Then read it again. Then get in the fight.
Reposted by MichelleV
a new plan to replace dem leaders with magic eight balls
March 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
a new plan to replace dem leaders with magic eight balls
Me too!
They’ve been wishy-washy on trans inclusion for ages. When they pulled Ash and Chess products, that was it for me.
They’ve been wishy-washy on trans inclusion for ages. When they pulled Ash and Chess products, that was it for me.
Fuck Target. I'm hyped to support this boycott.
March 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Me too!
They’ve been wishy-washy on trans inclusion for ages. When they pulled Ash and Chess products, that was it for me.
They’ve been wishy-washy on trans inclusion for ages. When they pulled Ash and Chess products, that was it for me.
If I get ONE FUCKING PLEA FOR MONEY tonight after Dems waved a bunch of ping pong paddles and wrote on whiteboards after a fascist leader stood there giving a fascist fucking speech I will lose it.
And let’s face it, a few are probably already in my inbox right now.
Fuck all the way off Dems.
And let’s face it, a few are probably already in my inbox right now.
Fuck all the way off Dems.
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
If I get ONE FUCKING PLEA FOR MONEY tonight after Dems waved a bunch of ping pong paddles and wrote on whiteboards after a fascist leader stood there giving a fascist fucking speech I will lose it.
And let’s face it, a few are probably already in my inbox right now.
Fuck all the way off Dems.
And let’s face it, a few are probably already in my inbox right now.
Fuck all the way off Dems.
Joined @kschorsch.bsky.social on @wbez.org's Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons to talk about hospitals canceling gender-affirming surgeries.
Give a listen, and share to support parents fighting for access to life-saving care for their kids.
❤️🏳️⚧️
Give a listen, and share to support parents fighting for access to life-saving care for their kids.
❤️🏳️⚧️
Reaction to local hospital pausing gender-care surgeries for trans youth
Families report feeling confused, disappointed, hopeless and angry.
www.wbez.org
March 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Joined @kschorsch.bsky.social on @wbez.org's Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons to talk about hospitals canceling gender-affirming surgeries.
Give a listen, and share to support parents fighting for access to life-saving care for their kids.
❤️🏳️⚧️
Give a listen, and share to support parents fighting for access to life-saving care for their kids.
❤️🏳️⚧️
Waiting in the green room before joining @wbez.org’s Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons to talk hospitals like Lurie pausing gender-affirming surgery.
#protecttranskids
❤️🏳️⚧️✊🏻
#protecttranskids
❤️🏳️⚧️✊🏻
March 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Waiting in the green room before joining @wbez.org’s Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons to talk hospitals like Lurie pausing gender-affirming surgery.
#protecttranskids
❤️🏳️⚧️✊🏻
#protecttranskids
❤️🏳️⚧️✊🏻
I grew up in Iowa. Dubuque, my home city, had cross burnings as recently as 2016. So, the state's always been problematic.
Still, this move speaks overtly to what I've heard many say more quietly about trans kids like my son: They are too few in number to really care about.
We are failing them.
Still, this move speaks overtly to what I've heard many say more quietly about trans kids like my son: They are too few in number to really care about.
We are failing them.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs a bill that strikes gender identity from Iowa civil rights law, making the state the first to remove civil rights from a previously protected class.
Iowa governor signs bill removing gender identity from state civil rights protections
The move marks the first time a state has removed a protected class from a state law prohibiting discrimination.
www.nbcnews.com
March 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I grew up in Iowa. Dubuque, my home city, had cross burnings as recently as 2016. So, the state's always been problematic.
Still, this move speaks overtly to what I've heard many say more quietly about trans kids like my son: They are too few in number to really care about.
We are failing them.
Still, this move speaks overtly to what I've heard many say more quietly about trans kids like my son: They are too few in number to really care about.
We are failing them.
Reposted by MichelleV
The New York Times treats January 6 insurrectionists with more compassion and respect than trans people
Imagine if the NYT covered Hamas fighters the way it covers J6 terrorists. Look at this glamor shot of an insurrectionist with her filth J6 prison tattoo.
March 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The New York Times treats January 6 insurrectionists with more compassion and respect than trans people
I love how trans teens are centered here.
I’ve always said my son knows himself better than most any cis child, partly (unfortunately) because he exists in a system that requires he interrogate his feelings to access care, partly because he is so in touch with himself.
Trust trans kids.
I’ve always said my son knows himself better than most any cis child, partly (unfortunately) because he exists in a system that requires he interrogate his feelings to access care, partly because he is so in touch with himself.
Trust trans kids.
How 11 trans teens are dealing with Trump. "I’m aware of what people are saying and of what they think, but I’m just gonna live my life, and they can’t do anything about that.”
www.thecut.com/article/tran...
www.thecut.com/article/tran...
How Trans Teens Are Dealing With Trump 2.0, in Their Words
“Being called your correct name and pronouns can be the difference between life and death.”
www.thecut.com
March 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I love how trans teens are centered here.
I’ve always said my son knows himself better than most any cis child, partly (unfortunately) because he exists in a system that requires he interrogate his feelings to access care, partly because he is so in touch with himself.
Trust trans kids.
I’ve always said my son knows himself better than most any cis child, partly (unfortunately) because he exists in a system that requires he interrogate his feelings to access care, partly because he is so in touch with himself.
Trust trans kids.
And hospitals telling you to your face they’ll fight for your trans kid while behind your back they quietly decide to “pause” life-saving care like surgery at the slightest hint of federal dollars drying up, then explain that betrayal by saying trans kids are too few in number to be worth the fight.
Being trans in the US is watching your community be genocided in slow motion as the media bounces between cheering it on and denying it, and elected Dems say they can't defend you because you cost them too many votes, and leftists say you divide the working class so they won't defend you either.
March 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
And hospitals telling you to your face they’ll fight for your trans kid while behind your back they quietly decide to “pause” life-saving care like surgery at the slightest hint of federal dollars drying up, then explain that betrayal by saying trans kids are too few in number to be worth the fight.
“America should stand for freedom, liberty and justice. These are not negotiating positions. Either we are for these things or we are not.”
No American ideal is/has been fully realized by every citizen.
And that’s exactly why we fight Trump mercilessly, relentlessly, and with everything we have.
No American ideal is/has been fully realized by every citizen.
And that’s exactly why we fight Trump mercilessly, relentlessly, and with everything we have.
March 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“America should stand for freedom, liberty and justice. These are not negotiating positions. Either we are for these things or we are not.”
No American ideal is/has been fully realized by every citizen.
And that’s exactly why we fight Trump mercilessly, relentlessly, and with everything we have.
No American ideal is/has been fully realized by every citizen.
And that’s exactly why we fight Trump mercilessly, relentlessly, and with everything we have.
Oh, look. The guy who covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald, shuttered 50 public schools and half the city's mental health clinics, dumped billions of TIF funds into wealthy neighborhoods instead of addressing an affordable housing crisis has thoughts about trans people.
Go fuck yourself, Rahm.
Go fuck yourself, Rahm.
Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher.
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
Ex-Chicago mayor rips current city leaders for focus on bathroom and locker room instead of crime, education
During HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted city leadership for failing the city on safety and educational standards.
www.foxnews.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Oh, look. The guy who covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald, shuttered 50 public schools and half the city's mental health clinics, dumped billions of TIF funds into wealthy neighborhoods instead of addressing an affordable housing crisis has thoughts about trans people.
Go fuck yourself, Rahm.
Go fuck yourself, Rahm.
Going on @wbez.org's Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons on Monday to talk gender-affirming care and what hospitals canceling surgeries means to trans kids.
Hint: It means they don't get life-saving care.
Also: This care doesn't happen in the ways many talk about it.
Good information matters: Tune in!
Hint: It means they don't get life-saving care.
Also: This care doesn't happen in the ways many talk about it.
Good information matters: Tune in!
March 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Going on @wbez.org's Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons on Monday to talk gender-affirming care and what hospitals canceling surgeries means to trans kids.
Hint: It means they don't get life-saving care.
Also: This care doesn't happen in the ways many talk about it.
Good information matters: Tune in!
Hint: It means they don't get life-saving care.
Also: This care doesn't happen in the ways many talk about it.
Good information matters: Tune in!