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Noah Parrish
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comms at gender justice | organizer | floridian in minnesota, forever cold | he/him | opinions here are my own
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
See how he didn't spend 30 seconds clearing his throat over athletics
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Mar 24
"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
March 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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ericamauter.com
This is the guy who authored the anti-trans “protect women in sports” bill? Of course it is.
mprnews.org MPR News @mprnews.org · Mar 18
State Sen. Justin Eichorn, R-Grand Rapids, was arrested Monday for allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution. The Bloomington Police Department said detectives communicated with Eichorn “who thought he was talking to a 16-year-old female” and detectives then arranged a meetup on Monday.
Minnesota state Sen. Eichorn arrested on suspicion of soliciting a minor
According to Bloomington police records, Sen. Justin Eichorn, R-Grand Rapids, was arrested around 6 p.m. Monday. He remains in custody.
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March 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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leighfinke.bsky.social
Trans Inclusion. Full Stop.

Thanks for fighting with us @keithellison.bsky.social
Pam Bondi puts Minnesota ‘on notice’ after Ellison’s move to defy Trump’s transgender athlete ban
U.S. Attorney General warns: DOJ ready to sue states that don’t comply with executive order to keep boys at birth from competing in girls sports.
www.startribune.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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wentrogue.bsky.social
That was fast: point by point, @genderjustice.us executive director Megan Peterson expertly takes apart the disingenuous arguments the Strib ran last weekend.

Publishing a column as damaging as Tolkkinen’s violates journalistic ethics—and should be unthinkable.

No paywall:
February 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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miriamelder.bsky.social
The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
February 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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wentrogue.bsky.social
“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.”

Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.
Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere
What’s more, we’re expanding.
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February 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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erininthemorning.com
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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lexmcmenamin.com
a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights.

how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com
A Year Without Nex Benedict
"We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow."
www.teenvogue.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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genderjustice.us
Trump’s executive order attempting to ban transgender athletes from sports is an illegal and shameful attack designed to advance a campaign building hate and fear for political gain. We want to be clear about what this order means, and what it doesn’t: 🧵 www.genderjustice.us/resource/tra...
Trans Athletes Are Protected Under Law—Here’s What You Need to Know - Gender Justice
www.genderjustice.us
February 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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ag.state.mn.us
THREAD: President Trump’s order threatening schools that support their LGBTQ+ students is another appalling attack on the rights of our LGBTQ+ community. Every child deserves a school that sees them as whole, vibrant human beings. It’s downright un-American to offer anything less.
January 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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leighfinke.bsky.social
don't pre-comply with this fascism. don't pre-comply with this fascism. don't pre-comply with this fascism. don't pre-comply with this fascism. don't pre-comply with this fascism. don't pre-comply with this fascism. don't pre-comply with this fascism. don't pre-comply with this fascism. don't pre-co
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
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January 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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erininthemorning.com
On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican.

Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries.

We are not going anywhere.

Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.
January 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
noahparrish.bsky.social
Yesterday—as the White House launched a sweeping and cruel federal attack on trans health care—we heard powerful testimony in North Dakota from trans youth about how gender-affirming care saved their lives.

Trans youth deserve to be heard, supported, and protected. We won’t stop fighting.
Transgender teen urges judge to legalize gender-affirming care for minors in North Dakota • North Dakota Monitor
A North Dakota teenager on Tuesday told a courtroom that gender-affirming care saved her life.
northdakotamonitor.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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aclu.org
BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order threatening to override families with transgender youth and shut down access to gender-affirming care for trans people under the age of 19 nationwide.

This order will not take immediate effect, and we will not allow this policy to stand.
January 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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wentrogue.bsky.social
Tammi Kromenaker, the director of Minnesota’s Red River Women’s Clinic, elaborates: minnesotareformer.com/2023/09/29/a...
Minnesota abortion providers are seeing increasing numbers of patients who are on Medical Assistance. If we are to pay our staff a living wage, cover all the costs of running a business and, most importantly, keep our clinic doors open, we need MA reimbursement rates to keep up with the increasing costs to deliver that health care. The Hyde Amendment already restricts federal funding for abortion care, and keeping state reimbursement rates low further restricts our ability to provide abortion care during a national public health crisis. If we want to continue to tout Minnesota as a leader in abortion policy and access, Medical Assistance reimbursement is one of the most important aspects of that status. It is within abortion providers deeply held values to continue to accept Medical Assistance patients, but to do that, we cannot be expected to write off three-quarters of what it takes to deliver that very care. We want and need our elected leaders to strive forward and keep their commitment to both abortion seekers and abortion providers alike. A 50% increase in Medical Assistance reimbursement is a necessary step in keeping that commitment.
January 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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genderjustice.us
“For Trump, the most potent tools he has are fear and chaos,” says Jess Braverman, the legal director here at Gender Justice. “Any executive order that he passes will be challenged.”

That includes any order to override Minnesota’s protections for transgender people.
How could a second Trump presidency affect Minnesotans? 6 experts answer your questions
On Monday, Jan. 20, Donald Trump will be inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States. As the incoming administration prepares to carry out its agenda, we asked experts to answer ...
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January 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM