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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.

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

submitted 4 days ago • 627 comments

Me to multiple other people who have suddenly caught up on the reality of the situation over the last few weeks:

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day

submitted 10 days ago • 120 comments

Nobody is telling me nothing this Black History Month, you hear?

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

I told a Republican colleague that I'd been sick this weekend, and he made a heartfelt plea for me to try ivermectin. I told him I'd give it a go if he got on a regular dose of estrogen 😇

submitted 18 days ago • 47 comments

Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care. Big counter salvo!

submitted 17 days ago • 253 comments

USAID source tells me, "This is so harmful, I can't even explain it." Says the human cost is "shocking", not to mention the "extraordinary" financial cost.

submitted 18 days ago • 47 comments

Folks, we CANNOT memory hole the Hitler salute When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech We are talking about an actual Nazi

submitted 18 days ago • 31 comments

How is Trump hoping to improve air safety?!

submitted 20 days ago • 573 comments

A majority of lawmakers in the Montana Senate voted in favor of a bill Monday that would create a felony for parents and medical providers who provide or procure gender transition-related treatments to transgender adolescents.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 19 days ago • 1694 comments

Trans folks, if any of these new orders are impacting your life, we at @19thnews.org want to know. DM me. Tell me if your medical appointments are canceled. If your documents are seized. Help us find the news

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

How has it taken 2 weeks of anti-trans EOs for state officials to FINALLY enforce their own laws and push back loudly? California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, take note.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Seen on my news and academic feeds today: "This is highly illegal!" "Where are the courts?" "Someone needs to arrest him/them!" "The military needs to oust them!" "WHERE ARE THE DEMS?" This is the denial stage of grief. None of the above institutions are coming to save us. We are all we've got.

submitted 20 days ago • 33 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 20 days ago • 1308 comments

if the news media is going to entirely ignore our fight for our lives, we’ll just document it ourselves.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Barriers up at the White House. Calling it now. Abortion ban via EO on Tuesday. Followed by at least national emergency, maybe martial law by Friday.

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There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

submitted 21 days ago • 817 comments

@erininthemorning.com @aridrennen.bsky.social I have reports that NYU Langone is now cancelling gender affirming surgery dates for 18 year old trans patients.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

@aridrennen.bsky.social there is work already being done on the court sealing for gender changes on birth certificates and name change court documents in California. If folks are doing advocacy this is the gold standard for updating the rules in blue states. No amended labels and seal the history

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Institut für Sexualwissenschaft Why bother burning book when you can just press delete. Straight out of the nazi playbook.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

submitted 23 days ago • 166 comments

I think that we should be talking about what Trump is trying to do to trans people in the context of the Nuremberg laws.

submitted 24 days ago • 37 comments

Shame on you DC Children's Hospital. Own that you are halting healthcare or continue providing it. This isn't even enacted law, and you're complying pre-emptively. Do better.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

@erininthemorning.com Report 12 hours ago of a trans person being denied any passport because she had previously changed her gender. She initially requested F, was denied, asked for M, and was also denied that as well. She is reporting agents took all of her documents and refused to return them.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

FAA says a military helicopter collided with the American Airlines passenger jet from Wichita near DCA. There must be immediate hearings on how the federal government/Department of Defense allowed this to happen and if removal of safety protocols and recent personnel changes led to this incident.

submitted 24 days ago • 1669 comments

Just released memorandum from OPM: Federal facilities will now have a bathroom ban for transgender people. It will go into effect on the 31st. It also has a slew of effects and puts into place the 1st anti-trans EO policies for every agency. This will have a ton of impacts very quickly.

submitted 24 days ago • 217 comments

The same people wailing about DEI literally can’t spell their own job title.

submitted 24 days ago • 4872 comments

Surreal being a trans person on this website this week. Every single one of my trans friends is making emergency preparations in case Trump bans our health care while fighting off existential dread and depression, and 99% of the cis people i follow seemingly have nothing to say about the trans EOs.

submitted 24 days ago • 173 comments

Lunacy

submitted 24 days ago • 161 comments

‼️ EEOC acting chair announces that she will prioritize compliance, investigation, and litigation against businesses who allow transgender employees to use the restroom with cisgender employees of the same gender. This will require transpeople to choose between their job or their dignity.

submitted 25 days ago • 43 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration just issued an executive order that redefines 18-year-olds as children in order to block their access to transition care by threatening to completely defund hospitals that provide it.

submitted 25 days ago • 27 comments