love is an act of resistance

simply repeating the straight reporting of what is happening in the executive branch makes you sound like you have lost your mind.

"Hitler orders investigations and charges of officials who refuse to turn over Jews."

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

I am not a man.
Evan Urquhart is not a woman.
No matter what Trump's government said.

So much of what Trump wants to do targeting trans people will depend on cisgender people to enforce his policies and police our bodies and spaces we exist in.

So much can be stopped by people refusing to do so.

Trans Liberation Now.

Trump can sign his orders, they can pass their bills, ban our existence. None of it changes who we are.

Being trans is a gift and one I am so grateful to have received. No fascist Trumpist nationalist bullshit will ever change that.

Get some rest. Stay safe. Keep fighting.

More and more I am convinced that the only effective queer activism is going to be loud, unrelenting, and confrontational. Yes it will also be useful to have "friendly" and respectable queers who can do diplomacy and negotiation but those folx will need a stick and we need to be that stick.
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This is great work.

Another way to say these businesses are “erasing progress” is that they are re-segregating. The latter more pointedly gets at what’s at stake.

i spent a month investigating how republicans could cut off access to trans healthcare for most americans, and how democrats can likely stop them — but it’s unclear if they will.

tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides

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The thing is, trans people aren't even the end game for conservatives.

We are just the ritual sacrifice on the alter of white supremacy to resurrect the demons that are 1950s misogyny and racism

The struggle for trans rights is an always will be a struggle to allow people to have autonomy over our own bodies.

As is the struggle for reproductive rights.

Any person cis or trans who values the ability to have autonomy over their own bodies should be paying attention to this struggle.

I think there is genuinely little grappling with gender dysphoria not so much as a mystical force from some internal self but the logical consequence of being denied autonomy of your own body and freedom over your own life which are, in fact, life-threatening conditions

my not-unprofessional opinion is this trans youth care ban would not be before the Supreme Court at all if not for Alliance Defending Freedom (aka the people who brought you Dobbs) and would not be treated as a "tough" issue for "even liberals" if not for the New York Times

The possibility for regret is a consequence of having freedom of choice. The only way to remove all possibility of regret is to remove all possibility of choice.

This is a mask off moment.

What about the regret of trans children and adults who regret not being able to transition earlier? It is so plainly discriminatory to deprioritize trans people’s regret over detransitioners regret.

This should be said everywhere. Allowing discrimination like this against trans people undermines bedrock principles of constitutional rights across the board.

'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.'

The week's column

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