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Amy Hillyard, 52, has been missing since March 25.

The latest move comes as even plenty of local governments, under pressure due to ICE's frequent use of local poloce surveillance networks, are actually canceling contracts with the same creepy companies used here, like Flock. But not Asheville city hall. #avlnews #avlgov

If a therapist recommending conversion therapy for lgbtq youth is “free speech” then a doctor recommending you to start smoking must be free speech too right?! Or does the US just keep devaluing therapists as basically harmless.

Turns out the Appleby report was a complete lie. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

Trans youth suicide went way up when uk restrictions went into place. They covered it up. So much for the spurious claim that they are “protecting children”

www.statnews.com/2026/01/30/g...

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

Please review this distressing report on the trans folks we’ve lost #transremembranceday www.transremembrance.org/insights-and...

Guardian writers campaigned against puberty-blockers because they were prescribed "off label". Now the Guardian is celebrating Ozempic, a drug being used off label for obesity. The difference...? Puberty-blockers have been used for trans kids for 30+ years, Ozempic for obesity only for 4 years.

Noting NYT hypocrisy here. Hormones change trans ppls lives but we only hear about the “risks” and “controversy “.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social These 8 essential bills uphold the dignity, privacy, health, and safety of LGBTQ+ Californians. These bills are critical to ensuring that California remains a national leader in protecting trans lives. Sign AB 82, AB 1084, SB 59, SB 497, SB 418, AB 554, AB 727, and SB 41.

Join the discussion on conversion “therapy” With the Williams Institute. Lifting the ban on sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts is condoning use of harmful psychotherapy on children. ucla.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is truly outrageous.

so to be clear, Microsoft is using a tool it's embedded into its operating system and many (all?) of its softwares to promote conversion therapy against trans kids, disguised to fool their parents into thinking it isn't purely anti-transition

“In fact, this new data from York completely undermines much of the Cass review and the moral panic spurring the document.” Public anxieties, not epidemiology, shape the suppression of gender affirming care. We must confront how transphobic legislative panics are laundered through flawed research.

NEW: "Where is the outrage over Skrmetti?" On the far right's campaign to create uncertainty over gender-affirming medical care for minors — and the powerful institutions that helped along the way. Tonight, at Law Dork, my written equivalent of a direct-to-camera address.

The story of LGBT rights is a story of advances followed by setbacks followed by media with no skin in the game saying, "It's because you were too loud/asked for too much/moved too fast/got too big for your britches/didn't make your case." That never changes--but happily it's never the last word.

Reminder: Elon Musk, whose Starship just blew up on the test stand (with extra fuel tanks piled beside it), was allowed for THIRTY YEARS to lie about his training in science. He started lying in 1995, got trapped in the lie - and suffered no consequences. But physics itself has consequences. 1/

Rally for trans rights Thursday June 26, 6pm sf city hall Polk St Steps. See tractionsf on IG.

Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city." Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

1. An international humanitarian organization, Human Rights Watch, has issued a scathing report on transgender healthcare bans in the United States. They detail loss of care, people forced to move, and more. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.” Never so true. If you don’t know Rhinoceros, find it and read it—nothing but the doublespeak of 1984 gets to the truths of our time in America. #LibertyOrTyranny #HistoryRepeats #PowerCorrupts.

If you aren’t reading this book, start

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com: Elon Musk “apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.

"TERFism, like all fascist discourses and all imperial and settler-colonial horizons, imagines itself upside-down, as somehow preyed-upon, bullied, colonized, and at risk of genocidal erasure at the hands of the subjugated group it dehumanizes." - @reproutopia.bsky.social

What does #resilience look like for #trans and gender diverse youth? Well it definitely leaves the old “bounce back” paradigm behind. Read more about encouraging resilience in TGD youth here. www.newharbinger.com/blog/self-he...

I'll never get over Cass straight up saying "Most kids on PBs eventually go on HRT, this means PBs don't work" and somehow being taken seriously

Seeing a lot of confusion about the budget's provisions on trans care--it would strip Medicaid funds for trans care (which is awful enough) but it would NOT prohibit private insurers from providing coverage for trans care. It actually does something far more narrow and wonkier

Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out. Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it. This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights. Take it here:

The State of Utah did its own study on gender affirming care for youth. They confirmed again that it confers a number of positive benefits. However republicans aren’t interested in the science. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Time to fight back! peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

What does #resilience look like for #trans and gender diverse youth? Well it definitely leaves the old “bounce back” paradigm behind. Read more about encouraging resilience in TGD youth here. www.newharbinger.com/blog/self-he...

We’ve been saying the same thing for over 30 years. www.instagram.com/share/BALaAb...

The public attacks on “gender ideology” have always been part of a coordinated strategy to erase trans people, deny abortion, end marriage equality, limit sex education, etc. There’s no “compromise” with such politics. We will only ensure our freedoms by rejecting authoritarianism, unapologetically.

I’m thrilled to announce the publication of the Trans and Gender Diverse Teen Guide to Resilience! A self help book for youth, we redefine resilience for trans and gender diverse teens and offer steps to self compassion, acceptance, and creating community. www.newharbinger.com/978164848419...

In which I try to put it all together. The Hidden Motive Behind Trump’s Attack on Trans People www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

Thank you to @theadvocatebr.bsky.social for this powerful and amazing Op Ed www.advocate.com/voices/gende... thanking all of those doctors and providers holding hope for our trans and gender diverse youth.

1. Great news. Yesterday, Planned Parenthood of Arizona restarted gender affirming care for transgender adults. This decision comes after widespread public outcry at a "pause," which was seen as overcompliance with Trump threats. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

HHS has released a snitch form to report healthcare providers who provide Gender Affirming Care for youth. You all know what to do with this. www.hhs.gov/protect-kids...

1. The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a national "snitch form" to report gender affirming care providers. The last few times state Republicans did this, they were overloaded with memes and Bee Movie scripts. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

APA Board of Directors update includes a statement of their purported ongoing commitment to justice, human rights, fairness, & dignity for all (bit.ly/3RaRkqF) but also includes a statement that federal mandates & state law might force a choice b/t law & accreditation. This is a false choice. 1/

Please share this important study recruitment far and wide! #trans #paidstudy

Israel's Genocide, Fascism And Anti-Trans Hate - Feminist Philosopher Judith Butler Meets Owen Jones (video) www.youtube.com/watc... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

‘Popular support ushers in authoritarian powers who promise to strip rights from the most vulnerable people in the name of saving the nation, the natural order, the family, society or civilisation itself.’ Judith Butler on Trump and ‘gender ideology‘: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...