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Some positive news for a change.

Minnesota’s laws protecting the rights of transgender people are worthless if those laws aren’t applied and enforced.

That’s why I admire attorneys like Sara Jane Baldwin at @genderjustice.us, relentlessly pursuing justice.
Advocacy group settles with Hennepin County sheriff to expand rights of transgender inmates
Gender Justice says changes include the use of an inmate’s preferred gender identity when assigning housing.
www.startribune.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom

The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.

For @nbcnews.com:
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.
www.nbcnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The science is clear: trans women do not have an inert advantage over cis women. The law is clear: in Minnesota, discrimination is illegal.

Check out our legal director, Jess Braverman, taking a deep dive on the trans sports ban bill in the MN House today on Fox 9: www.fox9.com/video/1602067
Gender Justice on why it opposes trans athlete ban bill
Jess Braverman, legal director of Gender Justice, joined FOX 9 All Day to speak out against the Minnesota GOP's bill to ban transgender athletes from girl's sports, and why it's important to be inclus...
www.fox9.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Teaching unwhitewashed history is not DEI. Stocking a Black-owned brands THAT PEOPLE BUY is not DEI. Recruiting HBCU grads is not DEI. Addressing racial disparities is NOT DEI. Treating LGBTQIA people like PEOPLE is NOT DEI

Trump isn’t dismantling DEI

He is reconstructing a WHITER supremacy
DEI Is the New Black
The demonization of anyone who is not white, straight and male is a tradition as old as America.
www.contrabandcamp.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Brave kids.

And rad lawyers (like @oklasotagal.bsky.social, pictured in the foreground, and Jess Braverman, seated next to her, both with @genderjustice.us representing these families in Bismarck.)
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 2:41 PM
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Last weekend, a group of Black journalists, writers and thinkers gathered in rural Georgia to celebrate the inauguration...

No, not that one.

We wanted to figure out how we could help a small group of billionaires who control mainstream media, politics & culture

No, not that group

A thread:
January 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM