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Restrictions on discrimination by physicians would no longer include marital status or political affiliation under new federal guidelines.
June 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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If you have to reject your own studies when they don’t fit your agenda, it’s time to reconsider your agenda.
May 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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In case anyone is wondering
April 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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More of this, please. A LOT more of this, please.
dickmac999.bsky.social Dick Mac (alive!) @dickmac999.bsky.social · Mar 16
Chatterbox Jazz Club in Indianapolis is the place to be! Be certain you stop by and support them!
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March 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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This is exactly the sentiment used to justify atrocity by despots for all of human history.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Feb 15
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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1. In a memo released this week, the DODeA, running schools for US service members' children around the world, announced mass book bans and removal of "gender ideology" material.

Books removed include trans people's biographies.

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Military Schools Ban "Gender Ideology" Material, Enact Book Bans And Don't Say Gay Policies
The little-noticed policies will impact military K-12 schools, serving over 67,000 students in the United States and abroad.
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February 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Incredible news!

The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order.

The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care.

ACLU statement here:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 13, 2025 CONTACT Gillian Branstetter, gbranstetter@aclu.org Tom Warnke, twarnke@lambdalegal.org BALTIMORE – In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19. The decision by Judge Brendan Hurson was issued from the bench with a written order to come soon. The nationwide restraining order prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen. “Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care canceled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s executive order did to PFLAG families with trans youth and young adults nationwide,” said Brian K. Bond (he/him), Chief Executive Officer of PFLAG National. “Today’s decision rights a grievous wrong to our nation's families and children, and PFLAG families will be vigilant to ensure our transgender loved ones receive the healthcare they need—as this legal ruling demands.” “Forcing providers to withhold medically-necessary, evidence-based care not only threatens patient health and well-being, but also undermines the integrity of our healthcare system in its entirety,” said Alex Sheldon (they/them), GLMA executive director. “Today's intervention by the court underscores the cruelty and recklessness that is embedded in this order and affirms our commitment to resist the administration’s extremist agenda that targets trans and non-binary young people and privileges political ideology over medical expertise. We are hopeful that… In the first week after the order was signed, some hospitals across the country — in Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia at least — abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under age 19, canceling appointments and turning away patients, including some who had been receiving this care for most of their life. This prompted protests of support for transgender youth and in opposition to the order nationwide. On Feb. 4, a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells on behalf of transgender young adults and adolescents and their families whose health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s order. Also joining the case as plaintiffs are PFLAG National, the nation’s largest organization supporting LGBTQ+ people and their families, with over 550,000 members and supporters and nearly 350 chapters across the country; and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals. "Across the country, this unlawful order from the president has sown fear among transgender youth and confusion among their providers,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But today’s decision should restore both their access to healthcare and protections under the Constitution. Providers who’ve suspended healthcare for their transgender patients should be left with no doubt that they can lift those suspensions and continue to provide healthcare and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funding or worse. “The president’s orders sought to take away from transgender young people the very care that they, their families, and their medical providers all agree is best for them – medical care that is evidence-based and well-established. But these decisions are for patients, their families, and their doctors to make, not for politicians or Washington bureaucrats,” said Omar Gonzale…
February 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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1. Major trans news: Corewell Health, Michigan's largest healthcare provider, becomes the first hospital to resume care for trans people under 19 years of age after pausing it.

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Corewell, Largest Michigan Provider, Resumes Trans Youth Care Despite Illegal Trump EO
On Wednesday, the hospital system announced that it was resuming gender affirming care after a brief pause due to Trump's executive order attempting to ban it for those under 19.
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February 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
cactus-beaches.bsky.social
I also don’t believe she was naive enough to think he would listen or change, but instead it was a call to all those “church goers” and “Christians” that have blindly followed him & that type of rhetoric, the ones that put him in office and others like him. The ones that fund hate in the name of G-d
cactus-beaches.bsky.social cactus-beaches.bsky.social @cactus-beaches.bsky.social · Jan 22
There are two kinds of Christians in America. The one that spoke bravely at the pulpit at the National Cathedral and the ones that sat in the pews making faces of defiance as she plead for mercy.

I’ve only got space in my life for one kind, blood or not.
January 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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The passport page about changing your gender marker is now down.

I'm expecting trans people's passports to be a major battleground of this administration.

travel.state.gov/content/trav...
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January 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
cactus-beaches.bsky.social
There are two kinds of Christians in America. The one that spoke bravely at the pulpit at the National Cathedral and the ones that sat in the pews making faces of defiance as she plead for mercy.

I’ve only got space in my life for one kind, blood or not.
January 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM