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1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

Justice Sotomayor is right: Gender-affirming care saves lives. Denying trans youth the right to essential medical care is denying them the future they deserve.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: In a 6-3 Roberts decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that Tennessee's ban on gender affirming care is not subject to heightened scrutiny. This decision will strip millions of trans people off their constitutional rights. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

I didn't know wanting to live and be left alone classifies as violent domestic terror threats now.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 14 days ago • 67 comments

“if the lion can't claim the safari for himself and call the elephant illegal then neither the FUCK can we” 🫳🎤

submitted 16 days ago • 30 comments

Being trans right now is waking up on Supreme Court decision days wondering if decades of precedent will be overruled to decide that we as a class no longer have constitutional protections from discrimination.

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.

submitted 23 days ago • 114 comments

🤣🤣

submitted 28 days ago • 756 comments

In case y'all missed it - Utah Republicans ordered a study on transgender healthcare, expecting it to come back unsupportive. Instead, it found that trans youth care was safe and effective, and that transgender youth need it. Whoops. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

submitted 31 days ago • 89 comments

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

submitted 32 days ago • 152 comments

I feel like I'm having a stroke

submitted 36 days ago • 23 comments

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.” - 1984, George Orwell

submitted 37 days ago • 117 comments

1. Far right federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has just vacated all EEOC protections for gay and trans people in the work place. He says protections from "being fired" do not mean they are protected from harassment by Title VII. I cover this insane ruling here. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 40 days ago • 106 comments

🚨 WALMART RAISING PRICES DUE TO TARIFFS “We will do our best to keep our prices as low as possible but given the magnitude of the tariffs, even at the reduced levels announced this week, we aren’t able to absorb all the pressure given the reality of narrow retail margins,” Walmart CEO says.

submitted 41 days ago • 1397 comments

Crockett debuts a new game called "Trump or trans," then displays a gigantic placard of Trump golfing

submitted 49 days ago • 330 comments

1. The Supreme Court has allowed a military ban that calls transgender people inherently "dishonorable" to go into effect. This is a devastating ruling that opens the door for much worse. I detail what this means for trans servicemembers in my latest. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 50 days ago • 44 comments

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

submitted 51 days ago • 205 comments

WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree? TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution? TRUMP: I don't know

submitted 52 days ago • 1107 comments

Lol. They released their 400 page US version of the Cass Review and refused to even name who the authors were. It's a glorified book report. Anyway, this is out now y'all. I'll be looking it over today. opa.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 55 days ago • 201 comments

1. The White House has just released a "fact sheet" where it announces that 8 fake "experts" are about to release a federal report opposing transgender care. It also announces investigations on manufacturers has begun. Subscribe to support my journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/white-hous...

submitted 58 days ago • 82 comments

The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy" I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below

submitted 61 days ago • 356 comments

1. In a new leaked memo, Pam Bondi is directing the DOJ to go after trans care providers under "anti-FGM" laws. She also has directed the investigation of HRT manufacturers. She calls transgender people "infectious." The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 62 days ago • 153 comments

you can change your name under 21 with parental permission if you’re cis, but trans folks aren’t mature enough. trans people are ~1.3% of the US, with no community wealth or institutional power. they’ll take as much from trans folks as the rest of you decide not to stand in the way of them taking.

submitted 65 days ago • 19 comments

HUGE WIN! A preliminary injunction was granted in the trans passport case. For now, it only applies to the plaintiff but they can seek class certification soon and extend it to everyone seeking to change gender markers on passports. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69623...

submitted 68 days ago • 14 comments

Whenever I talk to dissidents from Russia, Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, they all have deja vu about what's happening in the US. Worse yet, they all say that the opposition is doing literally the exact same things that failed to stop budding dictators in their countries.

submitted 70 days ago • 26 comments

The UK Supreme Court endorsed segregating trans people entirely out of public life. They can exclude trans women from single sex spaces on the basis of sex and then exclude trans men on the basis of gender reassignment. Effectively, it allows the legal exclusion of trans people from public life.

submitted 70 days ago • 26 comments

The UK supreme court has gutted the legal recognition of trans people. They also recognized the concept of sex based rights which is just absurd. There's no such thing as sex based rights. There is the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of sex. www.cbsnews.com/news/uk-supr...

submitted 70 days ago • 37 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 72 days ago • 34 comments

What a summary of the anti-trans movement: March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000

submitted 77 days ago • 112 comments

“All of this feels familiar to Bretts. It reminds him of how Jewish people were kept from accessing legitimate travel documents when Nazi Germany was in power — leaving Jews across multiple countries unable to flee rising violence.” — @oriion.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

REPORTER: Over the weekend the president said he would be willing to have US citizens deported to El Salvador. How would that work legally? LEAVITT: These would be heinous, violent criminals. These are violent repeat offenders. It is an idea he has simply floated.

submitted 78 days ago • 230 comments

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

submitted 84 days ago • 466 comments

Turns out prosecutors didn’t buy Mace’s story about being brutally assaulted by an activist who shook her hand.

submitted 84 days ago • 861 comments

it has to infuriate him that she’s a million times better at posting than he’ll ever be

submitted 90 days ago • 387 comments

Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States: Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Netherlands New Zealand United Kingdom

submitted 90 days ago • 1913 comments

They're the same picture.

submitted 91 days ago • 133 comments

If they're this careless with their own personally identifiable information, imagine how careless they are being with yours.

submitted 91 days ago • 71 comments

Oh Damn! The Atlantic published the texts! www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments