Rhys Olivia
rhysolivia.bsky.social
Rhys Olivia
@rhysolivia.bsky.social
Disabled transfemme enby queer leftist just fighting to survive and leave the world less cruel and less broken. 🏳️‍⚧️
Had a good health day and was able to socialize for a bit.
December 16, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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The UK continues to quietly force trans adults to detransition. It was never about trans youth. Doctors in the UK are withdrawing hormones without warning and cutting tags people off even after decades of being on HRT.

www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home...
GPs halting transgender patients’ hormone treatment or refusing prescriptions
Investigation: GPs cite lack of expertise or funding as key factors in withdrawals of trans patients’ prescriptions. Billie Gay Jackson and Holly Bancroft report
www.the-independent.com
December 14, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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"The Rights of minors are as sacred as the rights of the aged. the difference is altogether in the different age of the two parties and nothing in the nature of the rights. The rights are the same rights."
Thomas Paine - 1795

Trans rights are Trans Children's Rights.
December 12, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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It's dangerous for harm reduction
The state shouldn't be able to intervene against best practice expert consensus in healthcare. That is a fundamentally dangerous approach to any sort of healthcare. It's dangerous for trans kids. It's dangerous for abortion. It's dangerous for birth control. It's dangerous for everyone.
November 22, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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Trump and Vance have explicitly attacked:
—Haitian Americans
—Latino Americans
—Mexican Americans
—African Americans
—Puerto Rican Americans
—Asian Americans
—Indian Americans
—Muslim Americans
—Jewish Americans
—Female Americans
—LGBTQ Americans
—Americans without children
November 22, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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Adding to this point:

Anti trans lobbyists have said, very clearly, that the sports thing, the puberty blockers for kids thing, are merely rhetorical steps they are currently taking because they believe they're easy to get liberals to concede them.
"Trans bathroom panic is bad for cis women"
"banning trans women from sports is a distraction from abortion access"
"Banning all trans healthcare is a distraction from working families who can't afford food"

huh sensing a pattern here on who is important
November 22, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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The CEO of Delta says that having to refund a passenger for a cancelled flight is "government overreach."

These corporations are endlessly greedy, and the next 4 years will be a slue of efforts to swindle consumers out of every penny.
November 22, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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One wild aspect of elected office is way Republicans use LGBTQ politicians as a confessional booth.

Nearly every day in the Montana House, Republicans would apologize for their votes, tell me they wish the culture war would move on, etc.

But rarely would they actually change their vote.
My GOP colleagues, who privately tell me they don't hate LGBTQ+ people, should find the courage to reject the dehumanizing rhetoric. Your silence is deafening.
November 22, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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Nikita Hand, who today won her civil rape case against Conor McGregor, was forced to move homes earlier this year after a group of balaclava-clad men invaded her property, stabbed her partner, and smashed her windows. This can now be reported. www.rte.ie/news/2024/11...
Nikita Hand wins rape civil action against McGregor
Follow coverage of today's developments in the civil action taken by Nikita Hand against Conor McGregor and James Lawrence.
www.rte.ie
November 22, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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Well, now I know we made the right decisions
November 22, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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Actually, Meghan, trans people have been using the bathroom for decades. In fact in 2016, the last time Republicans engaged in bathroom panic, people freaked out because trans men went into women's restrooms and suddenly, people discovered that there were way more trans people than they thought.
November 22, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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I interviewed @evangreer.bsky.social about confronting Nancy Mace at her tech policy panel: “My goal is to call to the progressive tech policy community […] Are we going to try and curry favor with people whose goals are diametrically opposed to human rights?”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Rep. Nancy Mace confronted by transgender activist during panel event
At an internet summit, Fight for the Future’s Evan Greer stood up and condemned Mace’s anti-trans rhetoric.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:

Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Why not to credit Republican senators with Matt Gaetz's withdrawal
Matt Gaetz Withdraws as Trump's AG Pick
Don't credit the Senate. The public did it, polling suggests.
www.kenklippenstein.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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Love to ban trans women from capitol restrooms in order to “protect women and girls” while suppressing a report about the incoming attorney general paying for the statutory rape of a minor while in congress and showing women’s nudes on the House floor
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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I could not sit silent while an elected official who spreads hate & lies that are getting trans people killed pretends to care about the future of the Internet. So I spoke up during Rep Nancy Mace's speech at the Project Liberty Summit & I would do it again www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-11...
November 21, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety
November 21, 2024 at 6:34 PM
My photographer friend took this picture of me, and it's still one of the few pictures of myself I genuinely like.
November 16, 2024 at 10:18 PM
This is Stella. Sorry about the messy house.
November 15, 2024 at 12:06 AM