Hey! If you follow me, either here or on BlueSky, I am moving accounts shortly! I will now be @LivInTheLookingGlass@transfem.social

Gee, do we think they're fascists or just being edgy?

#cpac #fascism #farright #trump #uspol

If you don’t know about what happened to Rep Garcia you NEED to MAKE time to read this.

<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:esrrgaktqbyod6pcd7fvh66x" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@evanurquhart.bsky.social I am 100% certain that if we had the technology to completely change someone's biological sex attributes down to the chromosomes, they would still say you weren't changing sex. As you say, when they say "you can't change your sex" what they are really saying is "God […]

Oh yes, this president really advocates for the working class. I'm sure whatever billionaire gets the contract to provide the mail will charge such reasonable fees.

"President Donald Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency […]

1. Despite Republican attacks in recent years, America is queerer than ever before.

LGBTQ+ identification has risen to 9.3% in the last Gallup Poll, a huge jump from 7.6% last year.

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4. Among those surveyed, 1.3% of U.S. adults identified as transgender—up from 0.9% in 2023—suggesting that previous estimates placing the transgender population at just 0.5% of Americans may have significantly underestimated its size.

[USPol Response]

To my dear but deeply flawed homeland: when your democratic process delivers an intellectually & morally deficient autocrat & his evil entourage... the response is not 'we need incremental change!'. No. The response to that must be massive, grassroots, fundamental structural […]

There's still a really long way to go to baby goat time on my farm (about 6 weeks until the first due dates). But the world (and me) needs some cute baby goat pictures right now, so please enjoy this ridiculously cute picture from last year.

@amapanda Turned out I wasn't verifying because I had a typo in my link to this profile 🤦‍♀️

Yo, help me find a new #sharkey or #glitch instance to move to!

Looking for recs to move instances. Hmu if you have one. I am currently leaning slightly towards en.osm.town, but I would somewhat prefer to stay on an explicitly queer instance

This is going to be an extremely important case. Right now orgs ranging from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to AIDS/HIV advocacy, colleges, crisis centers, and more are being told to pretend trans people don't exist or lose your funding... and many are choosing to pretend!

1. "Intellectually and Morally indefensible," that is what a Judge called a Montana law defining sex and ending legal recognition of transgender people today.

That law is now struck down as facially unconstitutional.

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It has been 25 hours, and I am still leaking plasma. This is much more like a tattoo than my normal reactions to electrolysis

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.

You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.

My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.

www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

If you already don't have contact with these three firms because you think they are terrible or they just aren't relevant to you? You can help by telling people about the boycott.

The somewhat mild reputation of the NAACP work in our favor on this one. They have a pretty positive reputation […]

This is the test post for the initial alpha of `sphinx-fediverse`. I will update this post with a link shortly.

https://oliviaappleton.com/sphinx-fediverse/

#sphinxdoc #python #fedibridge #fediverse

This is the test post for the initial alpha of `sphinx-fediverse`. I will update this post with a link shortly.

https://oliviaappleton.com/sphinx-fediverse/

#sphinxdoc #python #fedibridge #fediverse

Exactly what I was thinking might happen. Their anti-trans animus is infecting other cases. Trump is biting off too much too fast.

My hope is that all of this factors into some of the fence-sitting justices on SCOTUS for big upcoming cases.

"intellectually and morally indefensible" DAMN

There is no compelling state interest in eviscerating protection against sex discrimination for individuals whose gender identities do not align with their biological sex, as such interest would be permitting sex discrimination towards a minority population, in violation of the policy of the State

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional.

This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on!

Huge win for trans people in MT!