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Tom Temprano
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managing director @ equality california | recovering elected official | “disingenuous load of claptrap” | chihuahua apologist
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eqca.bsky.social
LAST CALL! Tomorrow we're taking over El Rio for our SF Pride Party from 6–9PM. The Gloves Are Off — and the lineup is 🔥
💅 Drag royalty Dulce de Leche + Per Sia
🎶 DJ Charles Hawthorne
🍹 Signature cocktails
🍢 Delicious eats
GA & VIP tix moving fast — don’t miss out!
eqca.org/events
June 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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eqca.bsky.social
Our statement in response to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in the case of Skrmetti v. United States, which upheld Tennessee’s ban on lifesaving healthcare for transgender youth.
June 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
tomtemprano.bsky.social
“Healthcare decisions should be made between doctors, parents, and children. This ruling permits the government to intrude into deeply personal medical decisions. The Court has chosen politics over people, and is allowing states to strip transgender kids of the care they need to survive."
Equality California Condemns Supreme Court Decision Upholding State Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth
Equality California released the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in the case of Skrmetti v. United States, which upheld Tennessee’s...
www.eqca.org
June 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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erininthemorning.com
MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States.

A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports.

This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.
June 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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danmccalley.bsky.social
🚨🚨 proud partner alert 🚨🚨 check of the illustrious (& handsome) @tomtemprano.bsky.social in an interview today about today’s ruling on restoring queer and dei based grants!! continually proud & impressed by tom & @eqca.bsky.social ‘s work
June 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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stateofthebay.bsky.social
MON 6/2 6pm @kalwradio.bsky.social
[] @tomtemprano.bsky.social of Equality CA & Transgender Law Center’s Shelby Chestnut on actions to secure queer rights under current threats
[]Anthropologist Jordan Thomas discusses his book “When It All Burns"
[] Elena Oxman's debut film -Outerlands- set in SF
June 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
tomtemprano.bsky.social
Powerful panel in @wehocity.bsky.social on how LGBTQ+ advocates are responding to Trump’s first 100 days. Thanks @johnericksonwh.bsky.social for organizing and inviting @eqca.bsky.social.
April 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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lastweektonight.com
This week’s main story is about trans athletes, where the conversation around them is coming from, the nuances around competition and safety, and where it looks like things might be going. Full segment at the link in our bio.
April 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
tomtemprano.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to two @eqca.bsky.social endorsed out-LGBTQ+ candidates who won their April special elections. Paloma Aguirre has advanced to a runoff for the San Diego Board of Supervisors and Charlene Wang won her election for Oakland City Council. Let's elect more queer women!
April 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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eqca.bsky.social
READ: Our statement on Gavin Newsom's remarks regarding transgender student athletes on his podcast: www.eqca.org/newsom-trans...
Equality California on Governor Newsom’s Comments on Transgender Student Athletes
Equality California released the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to comments made about transgender student-athletes by Governor Gavin Newsom on his podcast.
www.eqca.org
March 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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eqca.bsky.social
STATEMENT: Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to Governor Newsom’s Comments on Transgender Student Athletes.
March 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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eqca.bsky.social
READ NOW: Our full statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to the U.S. Department of Education Investigation into CIF Policy Supporting Transgender Athletes. www.eqca.org/dept-ed-cif-...
Equality California on U.S. Department of Education Investigation into CIF Policy Supporting Transgender Athletes
Equality California released the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to the U.S. Department of Education Investigation into CIF Policy Supporting Transgender Athletes.
www.eqca.org
February 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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kqedforum.bsky.social
🎧 Listen to the podcast!

@ezralevin.bsky.social , @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social , @tomtemprano.bsky.social , & CA rep. Lateefah Simon spoke w/ @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about what resistance to the Trump administration could look like in this term.

🔗 :
The Opposition Playbook: What Would an Effective Resistance to Trump Look Like?
KQED's Forum · Episode
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February 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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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
tomtemprano.bsky.social
Donald Trump doesn't care about women's sports. He's trying to stop a negligible number of trans athletes from playing sports to "protect opportunities for women" at the same time his administration is stopping women athletes from getting paid equally. Shameful hypocrisy. apnews.com/article/nil-...
Trump NIL twist carries small legal impact. But to some 'it's putting women's sports back 25 years'
The U.S. Education Department is scrapping a policy from the Biden administration that threatened to upend colleges’ plans to pay athletes for their name, image and likeness by making those payments s...
apnews.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
tomtemprano.bsky.social
Proud to join @scottwiener.bsky.social and dozens of LGBTQ+ advocates and local leaders to push back against Trump’s anti-trans executive orders and reaffirm our fight for the rights of all trans Californians.
February 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
tomtemprano.bsky.social
Donald Trump is not a king. And we can, and will, fight back against these anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders. More from @kpixtv.bsky.social here: www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
January 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
tomtemprano.bsky.social
Just weeks after being sworn in, anti-LGBTQ+ lawmakers in Congress are making attacks against transgender student-athletes their top priority. Fortunately, not a single member from the California Democratic delegation supported this discriminatory bill.
Equality California on House Passing the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act
Equality California released the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to the passage of H.R. 28: the Protection of Women and Girls and Sports Act by the House of Represen...
www.eqca.org
January 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
NEW: @aoc.bsky.social, after highlighting Republican opposition to reproductive choice, says of today's anti-trans sports bill, that Republicans "now want to pretend today that they care about women."
AOC in the well speaking
January 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
tomtemprano.bsky.social
Check out Equality California's post-election guidance for LGBTQ+ Californians. Our guide is filled with info, resources, and answers to FAQ's about how queer folks can prepare for a 2nd Trump Presidency. www.eqca.org/post-electio...
Post Election Guidance for California's LGBTQ+ Community
As our community navigates the uncertain landscape following the 2024 election, we know that many are seeking information and guidance on how to best protect themselves and their families and ways to ...
www.eqca.org
December 17, 2024 at 7:06 PM
tomtemprano.bsky.social
A week late, but had a great time on swearing-in day with team EQCA. Congrats to the many new members of the CA LGBTQ+ legislative caucus - with 14 members (12% of the legislature), CA has the queerest legislature in the country! 🐻🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
December 10, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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robertgarcia.bsky.social
For now, to reach the most folks, I’m going to cross post on Bluesky/Threads/X. But I’ve noticed I’m already posting less on X and more here.

We need all the Capitol Hill press corps and national media to migrate here and hopefully at minimum cross post for now. That’s going to make this site sing.
November 26, 2024 at 7:14 PM
tomtemprano.bsky.social
how it started how it’s going
November 27, 2024 at 9:42 PM
tomtemprano.bsky.social
Glad to see this frivolous, hateful and divisive lawsuit be rejected. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/u...
November 26, 2024 at 12:27 AM
tomtemprano.bsky.social
The two CA house races where Republicans spent big on divisive homophobic ads slandering @georgewhitesides.bsky.social & @daveminca.bsky.social as pedophiles for supporting LGBTQ+ folks, are the two we’ve already won. They wasted their money on anti-LGBTQ+ ads that ultimately turned off voters.
A theme in GOP attack ads in California House races: Linking Democrats to pedophiles over support for LGBTQ group
In some California races that could determine which party controls Congress next year, Republican attacks link Democrats to pedophiles.
www.latimes.com
November 24, 2024 at 1:01 AM