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1. A major bill protecting trans people just passed in Washington. It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

HHS set up a snitch line to report trans kids and their providers. You know what to do... www.hhs.gov/protect-kids...

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 4 days ago • 694 comments

1. Planned Parenthood of Arizona has "paused" gender affirming care for transgender adults. It appears to be a case of massive over compliance. This kind of move could threaten the majority of trans people's medication in the US. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

My latest piece, written for the Kettering Foundation. I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism. Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community. kettering.org/do-not-compl...

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

I once told Jesse Singal that he was a Kapo, targeting transgender people with cruel disinformation in such a way that contributes to rising fascism. He blocked me for it. I hate to tell him now that I told him so.

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

Jesse did not ‘question an aspect of the progressive message.’ He dedicated his entire career to popularizing the idea that progressives are unhinged, anti-science freaks who are foisting permanent surgeries on kids without assessment.

submitted 3 days ago • 128 comments

1. I am raising the alarm: If you are a transgender adult, your care is under threat by President Trump. You should prepare for severe supply disruptions and policies that amount to potential bans. The latest CMS letter indicates an expansion to target adults. Subscribe to support my reporting.

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

Real "ideological diversity" demands the excision of far right ideas, actually. Debate implies subjectivity, and there's no space for subjective disagreements when we're too busy defending basic tenets of Living In Reality such as the germ theory of disease.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

1. A Florida teacher has been fired because she used a transgender student's name. But now, her community is rallying around her and fighting for her to keep her job. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our reporting.

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

A reminder that one of the biggest reasons Musk and the far right are so focused on trans people is because they literally believe we are a conspiracy to lower white birth rates.

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

Shame on Planned Parenthood of Arizona for dropping their trans patients because of threats from Trump. What happens when they make you stop providing abortions? Birth control? PReP? Gonna roll over then too? These orgs complying are cowardly.

submitted 5 days ago • 103 comments

idk who needs to hear this but HRT injections can be bought online for less than $100 for a year supply

submitted 5 days ago • 99 comments

1. The Trump administration is about to release it's own anti-science "Cass Review," a sham review with pseudoscience that will be used to justify sweeping crackdowns on trans care in the United States. No experts are involved in its drafting. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

1. On Wednesday, Massachusetts House Democrats passed a bill that could ban transgender people from sports - the first blue state to pass such a measure through a chamber. They used a procedural motion to shield vulnerable Democrats from taking a vote. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Trump wiped 2.5 trillion dollars out from the stock market today. Let's check in on America's most watched cable news network!

submitted 14 days ago • 36 comments

1. And it should surprise nobody... Gavin Newsom's anti-trans sports stance and other anti-trans stances he took in his interview with Charlie Kirk were cited by California Republicans during their sports ban hearing. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 14 days ago • 20 comments

1. Montana Republicans have killed a bill that would have allowed voters to repeal the state's gay marriage ban. If SCOTUS ever overturned Obergefell like they did with Roe, gay couples could see their marriages ended forcefully. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

Remember when the anti-trans folks got accused Joanna Olson-Kennedy of not publishing a misleading null result on her trans dataset (even though she published 27 times!) and accused her of hiding stuff? Now Trump is ACTIVELY suppressing research and doing their own purposefully manipulated studies.

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

This is functionally what the Cass Review was in the UK and lots of people in prestige media swallowed it whole while accusing trans people ourselves of "politicizing science" by pointing that out

submitted 14 days ago • 32 comments

This was far too long in coming. The news of Elisa Shupe's death by suicide shook me deeply, as a journalist who knew her slightly and admired what she did by leaking the internal emails from anti-trans activism.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

it takes a femcel to handle that femsmell

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all you wonderful lovely people! 🏳️‍⚧️ Thank you for sharing as much of yourselves as you are comfortable sharing; all our lives are richer for it ❤️

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

Wild idea... even visitors to the United States should be able to have freedom of speech without being disappeared and locked away.

submitted 17 days ago • 172 comments

Incredible news on TDOV. The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 days ago • 308 comments

This man has access to your social security and IRS records.

submitted 17 days ago • 77 comments

Good news is rare these days so here's some: This winter's COVID wave was less than half as deadly as last year's covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...

submitted 17 days ago • 56 comments

1. In what could be a look at our own future in the United States, AI Surveillance is to be deployed on Budapest Pride, which has been banned and which will fine participants. Organizers vow to march regardless. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

1. The Trump administration has announced it will be investigating California, and will pull its school funding unless it forcibly outs transgender students. California has a law against forced outing policies. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 19 days ago • 142 comments

ICE has already moved Rumeysa Ozturk to Louisiana in violation of a court order signed last night ordering her not to be removed from Massachusetts. This is rendition to avoid legal process and to torture detainees in Louisiana. apnews.com/article/tuft...

submitted 22 days ago • 63 comments

Might be a hot take, but I, for one, don't think you should be hauled off by a team of undercover cops simply for having written an op-ed they didn't like.

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

submitted 22 days ago • 513 comments

1. The 1Q 2025 Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map is complete, and there are big changes. I have issued a "Do Not Travel" for transgender foreign citizens. Risk has deteriorated broadly across the US. Transgender youth see changes in previously safe states. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 23 days ago • 78 comments

1. The list of countries issuing travel advisories for LGBTQ+ and especially trans travelers to the United States is expanding. France, Denmark, Finland, and Germany are all warning trans and LGBTQ+ travelers of potential trouble. The latest form S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 23 days ago • 30 comments

Funny how the Dems who are vigorously fighting for democracy are also the ones who haven't arbitrarily given up on their previous support of the transgender community.

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

This is how you get Vichy Dems. Democrats who watch as the world is bulldozed just so they can hold ceremonial positions every few years while they do nothing and then let the world get bulldozed some more. It’s not a theory to make your lives better. It is a job security program for them.

submitted 25 days ago • 30 comments

1. Huge! Texas A&M's drag ban is blocked. A&M argued that Trump's recent EO on trans people mandated a drag ban, and also argued that drag is obscene. A Bush-appointed judge replied that Trump's EOs "cannot override the first amendment," and that drag is art. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 24 days ago • 27 comments

This should INFURIATE you

submitted 26 days ago • 412 comments

I’m getting a lot of messages about the rule change over private insurances and EHBs. My understanding of the rule is that it is NOT a national trans care ban or anything like that. It will allow private insurance to deny care. Probably will have biggest impacts in red states with no state reqs.

submitted 25 days ago • 28 comments

If Dems ever get power again - assuming free and fair elections (big assumption) - they will never again have the excuse of “we can’t pass laws through congress and the president is powerless.” Presidency is now a king level position capable of law by EO alone apparently.

submitted 25 days ago • 364 comments

Hell yeah AOC.

submitted 27 days ago • 75 comments

1. The military has announced in a new filing that it will ask all soldiers if they have "symptoms" of being transgender. The filing appears designed to target both out transgender people, as well as those living closeted or stealth. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 27 days ago • 75 comments

1. Eight Democrats in Michigan crossed party lines to vote in favor of an anti-trans sports ban resolution in the state. It's one of the largest Democratic defections to date. What is going on in Michigan and with Dems? The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 27 days ago • 84 comments

The people who went with “Sarah McBride will actively collaborate with the destruction of transgender rights” turned out to be right. Incredible that this is our first representation in congress.

submitted 28 days ago • 451 comments

1. In a devastating ruling, the traditionally progressive 9th Circuit Court has allowed Idaho's bathroom ban for trans students. They rule that "common experience" is enough to assume trans students are a harm to cis ones. The panel was majority Dem appointed. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 28 days ago • 156 comments