Heather Benjamin
@heatherbenjamin.bsky.social
Fund director supporting narrative power building, gender justice & queer liberation across the globe.
Reposted by Heather Benjamin
Trump wants to dox democracy defenders in Iran, LGBTQI+ groups in Egypt, and girls education advocates in Afghanistan. There’s destroying our soft power, and then there’s setting up massacres. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
SUBJECT: Radical Transparency About Wasteful Spending The United States Government spends too much money on programs,
www.whitehouse.gov
February 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Trump wants to dox democracy defenders in Iran, LGBTQI+ groups in Egypt, and girls education advocates in Afghanistan. There’s destroying our soft power, and then there’s setting up massacres. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Reposted by Heather Benjamin
BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin for shutting down USAID.
This unlawful action threatens life-saving aid programs across the world and leaves thousands of American workers without jobs.
This disruption of aid is causing a global humanitarian crisis.
This unlawful action threatens life-saving aid programs across the world and leaves thousands of American workers without jobs.
This disruption of aid is causing a global humanitarian crisis.
February 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin for shutting down USAID.
This unlawful action threatens life-saving aid programs across the world and leaves thousands of American workers without jobs.
This disruption of aid is causing a global humanitarian crisis.
This unlawful action threatens life-saving aid programs across the world and leaves thousands of American workers without jobs.
This disruption of aid is causing a global humanitarian crisis.
Reposted by Heather Benjamin
🤦🏽♀️The Administration has already adopted a practice of releasing life-threatening orders on Friday nights.
This one restricts primary healthcare access for millions of Americans. And references a new order (January 29th), to shut down gender-affirming care for young people.
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This one restricts primary healthcare access for millions of Americans. And references a new order (January 29th), to shut down gender-affirming care for young people.
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February 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🤦🏽♀️The Administration has already adopted a practice of releasing life-threatening orders on Friday nights.
This one restricts primary healthcare access for millions of Americans. And references a new order (January 29th), to shut down gender-affirming care for young people.
🧵
This one restricts primary healthcare access for millions of Americans. And references a new order (January 29th), to shut down gender-affirming care for young people.
🧵
Hospitals across the country are complying in advance- friends in NYC have already been denied life-saving care for their children. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
Some hospitals pause gender-affirming care to evaluate Trump's executive order
Trump’s order, signed Tuesday, is part of a push to reverse Biden administration policies meant to protect transgender people and their care.
www.nbcnews.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Hospitals across the country are complying in advance- friends in NYC have already been denied life-saving care for their children. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
I've collected accounts from trans folks inside US prisons facing Trump's brutal crackdown: trans women rounded up + placed in solitary before transfer to men's prisons; canceled medical appointments + loss of vital healthcare; vicious taunting
"You're going to be a man," one guard told trans women
"You're going to be a man," one guard told trans women
Trans people in US federal prisons face brutal crackdown under Trump order
Advocates report harassment and loss of gender-affirming care as trans women face transfers to men’s prisons
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Reposted by Heather Benjamin
1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Appreciate this interpretation (of the clarification on the recision of the memo on the executive order 🫠)
1. The executive orders did *not* freeze federal funding.
2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding.
3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze.
4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant.
Sigh.
2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding.
3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze.
4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant.
Sigh.
January 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Appreciate this interpretation (of the clarification on the recision of the memo on the executive order 🫠)
There are few moments of joy to be found this week, but I am absolutely living for people reporting the ADL to the ADL for antisemitism. 🤌🏻
January 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
There are few moments of joy to be found this week, but I am absolutely living for people reporting the ADL to the ADL for antisemitism. 🤌🏻
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I’m seeing a lot of confusion about the Equal Rights Amendment online.
I've been working on the ERA for 13 years & literally wrote a book about it.
So, let me help answer some questions.
1) Yes, it really is a real amendment & fully part of the U.S. Constitution. Full stop.
I've been working on the ERA for 13 years & literally wrote a book about it.
So, let me help answer some questions.
1) Yes, it really is a real amendment & fully part of the U.S. Constitution. Full stop.
January 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’m seeing a lot of confusion about the Equal Rights Amendment online.
I've been working on the ERA for 13 years & literally wrote a book about it.
So, let me help answer some questions.
1) Yes, it really is a real amendment & fully part of the U.S. Constitution. Full stop.
I've been working on the ERA for 13 years & literally wrote a book about it.
So, let me help answer some questions.
1) Yes, it really is a real amendment & fully part of the U.S. Constitution. Full stop.
Reposted by Heather Benjamin
Trump’s Secretary of Education nominee, Linda McMahon, has led efforts to attack #LGBTQ+ rights. From opposing Title IX protections to pushing anti-trans policies, her agenda threatens equality in schools nationwide.
Read more:
globalextremism.org/post/linda-m...
Read more:
globalextremism.org/post/linda-m...
Linda McMahon: The Professional Wrestling CEO Nominated to Bodyslam LGBTQ+ Rights and the Department of Education
Linda McMahon, a longtime Trump supporter, is the co-founder and former president of the scandal-plagued World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). McMahon has no background in education other than a short ...
globalextremism.org
November 28, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Trump’s Secretary of Education nominee, Linda McMahon, has led efforts to attack #LGBTQ+ rights. From opposing Title IX protections to pushing anti-trans policies, her agenda threatens equality in schools nationwide.
Read more:
globalextremism.org/post/linda-m...
Read more:
globalextremism.org/post/linda-m...