Brya 🌈
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Maryland renaissance festival, good mead, good friends, falconry, jousting, and all of the best things in the world :)
August 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Maryland renaissance festival, good mead, good friends, falconry, jousting, and all of the best things in the world :)
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance were in Parliament again today! Answering MPs questions on the draft EHRC guidance and the impending trans bathroom ban.
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance is in Parliament again today, amplifying trans+ voices in the decisions being made about our lives.
We are keeping the conversations from the mass lobby going, with thanks to Olivia Blake MP for hosting.
Nothing about us without us!
We are keeping the conversations from the mass lobby going, with thanks to Olivia Blake MP for hosting.
Nothing about us without us!
July 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance were in Parliament again today! Answering MPs questions on the draft EHRC guidance and the impending trans bathroom ban.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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The Supreme Court is kicking trans kids when they’re down, itching to set national policy on their right to exist just as the federal government is telling them they have none.
More to the point: These are as-applied challenges only covering two school sports players, not statewide injunctions.
More to the point: These are as-applied challenges only covering two school sports players, not statewide injunctions.
NEW: The Supreme Court will decide next term whether states may lawfully prohibit transgender women and girls from participating in school sports on the women's team.
In light of Skrmetti, the answer will likely be "yes." www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
In light of Skrmetti, the answer will likely be "yes." www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
July 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Supreme Court is kicking trans kids when they’re down, itching to set national policy on their right to exist just as the federal government is telling them they have none.
More to the point: These are as-applied challenges only covering two school sports players, not statewide injunctions.
More to the point: These are as-applied challenges only covering two school sports players, not statewide injunctions.
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Pretty clear that this will be the vehicle SCOTUS will use to deny equal protection to transgender people. While the case will be about sports, that decision would essentially strip all rights on transgender status or sex for trans people.
It would make virtually any law permissible.
It would make virtually any law permissible.
July 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Pretty clear that this will be the vehicle SCOTUS will use to deny equal protection to transgender people. While the case will be about sports, that decision would essentially strip all rights on transgender status or sex for trans people.
It would make virtually any law permissible.
It would make virtually any law permissible.
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Ohio just passed it's budget that bans funding for MENTAL HEALTH therapy for all trans people in medicaid.
This is what eradication policies look like.
This is what eradication policies look like.
July 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Ohio just passed it's budget that bans funding for MENTAL HEALTH therapy for all trans people in medicaid.
This is what eradication policies look like.
This is what eradication policies look like.
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SCOTUS vacated 3 trans related cases this morning in light of Skrmetti. Two dealing with state coverage of gender affirming care for adults in North Carolina, W. Virginia, and Idaho, and another dealing with a ban on gender marker changes on birth certificates in Oklahoma. It's open season on us.
June 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
SCOTUS vacated 3 trans related cases this morning in light of Skrmetti. Two dealing with state coverage of gender affirming care for adults in North Carolina, W. Virginia, and Idaho, and another dealing with a ban on gender marker changes on birth certificates in Oklahoma. It's open season on us.
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No amount of skipped lessons will make it possible for people to "opt out" of the reality that LGBTQI+ people exist.
We are here. We have always existed and always will.
We are here. We have always existed and always will.
JUST IN: The Supreme Court ruled that parents can opt their children out of school lessons with LGBTQ+ characters or themes
Supreme Court requires opt-out for LGBTQ-themed lessons in schools
Three sets of parents had objected to books that depicted same-sex relationships and a Pride parade.
www.axios.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
No amount of skipped lessons will make it possible for people to "opt out" of the reality that LGBTQI+ people exist.
We are here. We have always existed and always will.
We are here. We have always existed and always will.
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CUOMO CONCEDES… ZOHRAN MAMDANI WILL BE THE NOMINEE…
June 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
CUOMO CONCEDES… ZOHRAN MAMDANI WILL BE THE NOMINEE…
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This is BS.
I ran for office in a red state and won with 80% of the vote. I regularly talk about my identity when I knock doors. The key is to do so a way that connects to other issues (e.g. being trans shapes how I think about ALL healthcare access, threats to education, etc.).
It's that simple.
I ran for office in a red state and won with 80% of the vote. I regularly talk about my identity when I knock doors. The key is to do so a way that connects to other issues (e.g. being trans shapes how I think about ALL healthcare access, threats to education, etc.).
It's that simple.
June 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is BS.
I ran for office in a red state and won with 80% of the vote. I regularly talk about my identity when I knock doors. The key is to do so a way that connects to other issues (e.g. being trans shapes how I think about ALL healthcare access, threats to education, etc.).
It's that simple.
I ran for office in a red state and won with 80% of the vote. I regularly talk about my identity when I knock doors. The key is to do so a way that connects to other issues (e.g. being trans shapes how I think about ALL healthcare access, threats to education, etc.).
It's that simple.
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So are trans people who continue to use the correct toilet going to be banned from parliament? Banned from participating in democracy?
Most anti LGBT government of our lifetimes
Most anti LGBT government of our lifetimes
The UK Parliament has declared its own trans bathroom ban, caving to activists who accosted a trans barrister. Originally said they were awaiting EHRC code of practice, but have now capitulated to bullying.
Looks targeted given the trans Mass Lobby this week.
goodlawproject.org/parliament-s...
Looks targeted given the trans Mass Lobby this week.
goodlawproject.org/parliament-s...
Parliament surrenders to anti-trans activists on toilet policy
The UK parliament has thrown trans people under the bus on toilets, abandoning its own policy to placate activists who accosted a trans barrister on the parliamentary estate.
goodlawproject.org
June 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
So are trans people who continue to use the correct toilet going to be banned from parliament? Banned from participating in democracy?
Most anti LGBT government of our lifetimes
Most anti LGBT government of our lifetimes
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Republican women would rather die than admit they were wrong on abortion bans. It's mind boggling.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
June 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Republican women would rather die than admit they were wrong on abortion bans. It's mind boggling.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Your reminder to call your Senator now and demand that they invoke the Byrd Rule and strip the transgender medicaid ban from Trump's spending and tax bill.
Call them here.
www.senate.gov/states/MD/in...
Call them here.
www.senate.gov/states/MD/in...
June 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Your reminder to call your Senator now and demand that they invoke the Byrd Rule and strip the transgender medicaid ban from Trump's spending and tax bill.
Call them here.
www.senate.gov/states/MD/in...
Call them here.
www.senate.gov/states/MD/in...
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OK i’ve seen almost no media outlet pick up on the fact the Supreme Court ruling endorsed conversion therapy
and opens a portal to the normalization of conversion therapy nationally
so here’s a thread explaining how they did so, and why you should care
(1/x)
and opens a portal to the normalization of conversion therapy nationally
so here’s a thread explaining how they did so, and why you should care
(1/x)
June 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
OK i’ve seen almost no media outlet pick up on the fact the Supreme Court ruling endorsed conversion therapy
and opens a portal to the normalization of conversion therapy nationally
so here’s a thread explaining how they did so, and why you should care
(1/x)
and opens a portal to the normalization of conversion therapy nationally
so here’s a thread explaining how they did so, and why you should care
(1/x)
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i don't think most cis people know what it's like for every fun or happy or meaningful moment you experience to be overshadowed by some tragedy affecting your fundamental personhood in some way within 48 hours on either side of it
June 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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I doubt there's any actual policy goal difference between Trump and Helen Lewis. She just wants it to be quicker, quieter and "more polite"
June 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I doubt there's any actual policy goal difference between Trump and Helen Lewis. She just wants it to be quicker, quieter and "more polite"
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For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump's message to trans people is clear: Detransition, or potentially die
My question to everyone reading this is: When is enough enough?
www.msnbc.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
May 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
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Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023.
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
www.sltrib.com
May 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023.
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
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Every time you buy a Harry Potter product, you are financing the dismantling of trans rights
!["About the fund. The J.K. Rowling Women's Fund (JKRWF) offers legal funding support to individuals and organisations fighting to retain women's sex-based rights [...]. It provides women with the means and confidence to bring to justice cases that make legal precedents, force policy change, and make positive contributions to women's lives in the future."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjkl4nmqbvelhqr3jzm2bm63/bafkreigkfhjbyner5wkm2x4by7xh6utgzhcirktzrci524sifypbpeimjm@jpeg)
May 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Every time you buy a Harry Potter product, you are financing the dismantling of trans rights
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Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people.
There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.
There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.
May 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people.
There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.
There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.
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Wrote an essay about things I've been feeling as a trans person at Harvard, especially this week.
I launched my publication last week, please subscribe and support.
www.thedissident.news/how-do-you-e...
I launched my publication last week, please subscribe and support.
www.thedissident.news/how-do-you-e...
How Do You Explain Water to a Fish?
In the months after the 2024 election, America still felt fundamentally stable and familiar, the water they had always swum in. I remember walking into class after the election and seeing my queer his...
www.thedissident.news
May 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Wrote an essay about things I've been feeling as a trans person at Harvard, especially this week.
I launched my publication last week, please subscribe and support.
www.thedissident.news/how-do-you-e...
I launched my publication last week, please subscribe and support.
www.thedissident.news/how-do-you-e...
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hi, cis folks!
please read this incredibly informed thread from jael who is a) a former congressional reporter & b) the woman who wrote the most prescient postmortem of the 2024 election for trans people—which, so far, has been going more or less as she laid it out in december.
and then…🧵
please read this incredibly informed thread from jael who is a) a former congressional reporter & b) the woman who wrote the most prescient postmortem of the 2024 election for trans people—which, so far, has been going more or less as she laid it out in december.
and then…🧵
May 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
hi, cis folks!
please read this incredibly informed thread from jael who is a) a former congressional reporter & b) the woman who wrote the most prescient postmortem of the 2024 election for trans people—which, so far, has been going more or less as she laid it out in december.
and then…🧵
please read this incredibly informed thread from jael who is a) a former congressional reporter & b) the woman who wrote the most prescient postmortem of the 2024 election for trans people—which, so far, has been going more or less as she laid it out in december.
and then…🧵
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There is genuinely a new one of these stories every few hours. Think how many women are being abused by transphobes who don't feel safe to speak out, or who just silently change their appearance to be more stereotypical in the hope that it won't happen again?
"Packer is widely recognized as an icon of women’s sports. Yet not for the first time, Packer recently found herself being misgendered as a result of gender policing she believes is escalating in line with heightened anti-trans rhetoric."
www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24...
www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24...
PWHL hockey icon Madison Packer 'told to go to men’s restroom' - Outsports
After a 'humiliating' experience, Madison Packer calls bathroom policing a by-product of anti-trans propaganda.
www.outsports.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
There is genuinely a new one of these stories every few hours. Think how many women are being abused by transphobes who don't feel safe to speak out, or who just silently change their appearance to be more stereotypical in the hope that it won't happen again?