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Think I might have to pull out the golf cart and go get some ice cream 💕 🎶spring time is here!🎶

I have been very incredibly lucky that our local LGBTQIA+ clinics and orgs have stayed the course and kept all care open and have not erased us. Small and medium town America can be pleasantly surprising.

Neat fact that I noticed on Google maps. It used to show Northalstead when I looked in the overview. At least for me, Chicago's LGBTQ+ neighborhood has been functionally erased.

And I'm not talking about Pride Month.

Just being honest. If I end up getting a DOGE stimulus check, it's all being donated to a trans organization.

this is why i am transgender

Watching my friends and colleagues graduate college and university, only to go on to be wildly successful, is so heartwarming to see. But I have to remember that success is not based on a degree. First gen HS graduate. No college education. Still live in a small town. And still successful.

I love the times when dysphoria seems to melt away, and I actually look into the mirror and like my body. It's got its problems, and it's still not what I want it to be. But I'm finally, for the first time, actively working towards that, and I am loving it. Being trans is the best 💕

Not quite an Icon, and still have a ways to go follower wise, but I'll take it 😘

There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men. Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

Public comments are open for gender marker changes for trans people on passports. DS-11 Application for passport: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-82 Passport Renewal: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-5504 Name Change and Corrections. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

What a....non-answer.

This is why I keep talking about small towns. They aren't lost causes. They're beautiful places that deserve love.

Illinois leads the nation in protecting human rights. We have strong protections for the transgender, LGBTQ+, and immigrant communities under attack. To file a complaint with IDHR, call (877) 236-7703 or 7-1-1 for *TTY users or visit dhr.illinois.gov/filing-a-charge.

This administration's attacks on trans people aren't "a distraction" from everything else they're doing. We're not a distraction. What they're doing to trans people is the most bad thing of all - everything else being done is to distract people from the targeting of trans people for extermination.

Just want to shout out that @ruralequalityproject.org and @rivercityrainbowcollective.org both are not only trans-run, but disability centered as well. Everyone is valid, no matter what, and that should be the bare minimum.

Boop.

This is the part of the Midwest that I can go without, tbh

"Why have I been having an emotional meltdown for two days straight?" My vial of estradiol:

I mean, it's just facts. #IllinoisRt66

Well, it's now March 5th. I'm so upset, but at least it's happening still, I guess. It's just demoralizing.

Today is my FFS consult. The interstate is closed. I'm going to be an hour late. WHYYYYYY. 😭

And there we go. Waiting for the fight between Logano and Stenhouse. 😂

I believe Tolkien said it best

This is crazy, this is from a hockey game in Montreal, and Québécois people are singing the CANADIAN anthem! The english part too and with their whole chest. Idk if you realize how insane it is to see Québécois be patriotic about Canada.

Okay, how funny is it that Trump was standing next to one of his grand kids wearing a rainbow outfit.

Today is a bittersweet day for me. The Daytona 500. It's my favorite day, and I am going to be watching it all day. Remembering when I was a kid and seeing Earnhardt winning. Cheering on Gordon. And it's a love that I still have. But watching my favorite day and seeing TFG on TV kinda ruins it.

As a rural voter, I'll tell you why rural folks vote the way they do. Y'all make us feel dumb and insignificant. Which I would get angry if someone said I was dumb. And then Republicans swoop in with their directed anger and here we are.

Republicans keep going on about being pro farmer, but it's always Republican policies that harm them the most.