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Human rights, Bodily autonomy, Medicare4all, GND, UBI, Free public college, Ranked choice voting, Public financing of elections, No secret big $$, End the wars
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StatNews [Feb 22] -- CDC will no longer track trans identity in its health surveillance systems, incl. HIV monitoring & its key Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance--the only nationally representative data on trans youth, used by states to develop/refine programs. [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

History is repeating itself. There were more LGBTQ people removed from government during the lavender scare than were suspected communists during the red scare. They only really taught the latter in history classes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavende...

This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it. This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

NEW: Fully leaked diplomatic cable directing the implementation of this policy at all US diplomatic and consular posts.

THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry. A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This is classic. Legislator votes that "using incorrect pronouns" is freedom of speech. Gets pissy that he is addressed by "Madame Chiarman" www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/24/c...

US judge rejects request to recuse from case over courtroom pronoun policy @nateraymond.bsky.social reut.rs/4i7nPSB

JUST IN: Judge Lamberth has expanded his block on the Trump administration's effort to relocate some transgender inmates to men's prisons. (There are about 16 transgender inmates in women's facilities nationwide, per DOJ) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare. Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Anti-trans British feminists have financial and organizational ties to Mexican feminists who in turn successfully sabotaged self ID laws in Mexico. They were the fascist Trojan horse all along and many of us were sounding the alarm for years, getting largely ignored if not harassed.

Just so everybody is clear on Republican priorities: We put up an amendment to make sure nobody making over $500 million gets a tax cut. Republicans voted against it.

PBS Newshour gave a twelve minute interview to Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, who has called for the “eradication” of trans people from society

“We have an obligation to resist kings, we have an obligation to resist oligarchs.”

This is how it’s done.

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

What in the absolute fuck is going on at the University of Cincinnati? For the record, trans men are just as biological as any other sort of man. They aren't made of metal or something.

This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

euphoria star hunter schafer says her passport now says male after she requested a replacement (it was stolen abroad) via @variety.com variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Former NFL player Chris Kluwe was arrested at a city council meeting after speaking out against a proposal to put a plaque referencing Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan in a local library.

Cuckoo star Hunter Schafer has reportedly been given a new passport with an M for the gender marker, outing her as trans to anyone she shows it to. The model and actress says her previous passport was stolen in Barcelona, leading her to apply for a replacement.

"Well what if we just get rid of Section 230 and see what happens? What's the worst thing that could happen?" Ask a sex worker. The last time Congress changed Section 230, people died. www.thedailybeast.com/want-to-fix-...

BREAKING: The Trump administration's mass federal employee layoffs can continue after a judge declined that he had jurisdiction to pause the actions.

Seeing a variety of takes on the Section 230 post, so let me clarify why this is a global issue for the internet, not just an American one. 🧵 If Section 230 gets dismantled, it's a pretext for big tech corps to make their TOS *way* more hostile to queer people.

lol

"Republicans are the party of free speech!"

DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

CISA controls the .gov domain registrar and the national public key infrastructure (PKI). This means Elon Musk has the ability to shut down any federal, state, or city government using a .gov domain. Musk can also now prevent .gov agencies and officials from registering their .gov BlueSky handles

This is how you actually fight back. Not by erasing trans victims of sexual assault.

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

In South Carolina, tonight: “I have an ectopic pregnancy. It’s on my ovary. They’re making me risk my ovary even though I don’t want to. They refuse to do the surgery.” #ForcedBirthNation Original Post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yCKENt/

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

”Trans people are not the reason you can’t afford eggs, afford healthcare, or buy a house ... I think they’re focused on the wrong 1%.”🥶 🎞️ and 💬 by @lavernecox.bsky.social 🎥: @theviewabc.bsky.social

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

not to be all woke or whatever but this doesn’t seem like a great use of anybody’s time and money

It is shameful that RAINN, representing sexually abused people, erased trans people because they are scared of Trump. To any org censoring themselves: you cannot jettison trans to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too. But we are all in this together.

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

The story of Frances Thompson (a black trans woman who testified to Congress in 1866 about white men who sexually assaulted during the Memphis Massacre) is so incredibly telling to me because the southern media used her status as a trans woman as proof all testimony against them was a lie

If 1 more person invites me onto their podcast to "debate them" on Transgender issues I'm going to punch them in the face. Let me make this abundantly clear, my existence as a Transgender human doesn't require a debate, your approval or permission. You are not superior & you never f*cking will be.