Miles Whitney

Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Diabolical — Republicans appear to be sending fake pro-trans/LGBTQ mailers from Wyoming directly to kids in Texas (not their parents!) to piss off voters

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct White nationalist Alliance Defending Freedom files emergency application asking SCOTUS to intervene and rush an anti-trans sports bans onto its notorious shadow docket which could result in an instant nationwide ban, even in blue states.

Fellow WA voters, let's bury this. I can't imagine any parent wants to subject their child to this vile "examination."

Fantastic news from Aotearoa New Zealand - trans healthcare professionals have won their court case against the government, overturning the country's ban on puberty blockers. Huge respect and congratulations to everyone involved in this fight.

This is beautiful. I am soon to flee! I embrace the possibility of joy. Also I want to start something like this.

We just need 5000 people to give at least $5 each, to sustain our work for trans journalists and the broader journalism industry. Dig your heels in with us! 💜🙏🏾

Kansas’ new ID laws are forcing trans people out of their homes. Some are choosing to stay and fight xtramagazine.com/pow... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

“The hospital ward, which should be about care and recovery, will instead become another playground where culture wars will play out." Read our full analysis

“Absorbing rather than countering that negativity can allow us to celebrate being trans without feeling obligated to justify our existence, organizer Simone(e) van Saarloos said. A lot of fascinating stuff via @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I'm so worn by it I actually wept when I read AM: "Trans men in particular stand to be impacted... as, per the supreme court ruling, trans men are not allowed in men’s spaces, but may not be allowed in women’s spaces either based on their “masculine appearance.” assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Germany is quickly catching up to the US and UK in their fascist crackdowns of trans people. This Sunday, reports say police officers violently stormed and searched an important German transfem community space under allegations of providing prescriptions to third parties without authorization.

RFK Jr Demands Medical Orgs Capitulate on Youth Trans Care www.burnsnotice.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

The updated Ministry of Defence JSP 889 states that MoD Trans+ civil servants and service personnel may not use facilities of their affirmed gender that are designated as single-sex, QueerAF can reveal www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-trans-arm...

What an amazing person!

I spoke with Rowland about that series of events (which she learned about last month when Kansas Reflector got in touch!)

Stories of our joy are powerful - let's use them to fight back www.wearequeeraf.com/stories-of-o...

PROMOs 10 year plan is to create a pro-trans majority in Republican dominated Missouri. Is that even possible? How are they doing it? Our EIC @evanurquhart went to St. Louis to find out. Here's his story: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

In my latest @ms.now piece,I write about what concerns me as we approach Election Day.”As a Black transgender woman who has spent years investigating America’s anti-trans movement,I am alarmed. Because escalating rhetoric is almost always followed by real world action.” www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

So I had the type of top surgery that let me keep nipple sensation (it worked!) But it left behind some tissue because of the whole nerve bundle thing. So I get mammograms. This morning I told my spouse I was getting my MAN-O-GRAM and they made a face and I said, YOU HAVE TO LET ME HAVE THIS ONE!

I was on a panel at a literary festival yesterday. The moderator was so young! I have not been so impressed with a person in years. She is queer and Black and an author. The other author was a Black man. She asked amazing questions that led us to be so open and vulnerable. People cried! Hope!

Meta censors Austin gay bars after flagging “trans” posts & pics of drag queens: “They don’t care” www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

"Actual reproductive capacities are a meaningful, personal issue… What reproductive capacities your body was 'designed' to have is meaningless metaphysics leveraged for socially conservative ends. It is one thing to discuss gametes, and it is another to define personhood by them."

Nine percent of trans ppl will face the very real prospect of disenfranchisement because of mismatching identification documents. williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/trans-... The nyt has *not* reported on this brazen attack by Republicans to strip Americans of their civil rights

I'm leaving the US soon and I was just looking around my office. It looks like I'm preparing to climb Everest with boxes and water jugs, etc. and I felt guilty about leaving a mess for my spouse. And then I was like why would fleeing be tidy? I can't imagine with kids. So heartbreaking.

Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍

My new project The Witness Tree comes out today. It’s the result of 2 years of recording & research interviewing/collaborating with remarkable trees in Virginia & making music with a biodata sonification device. You can stream or buy this album at Bandcamp!

"Until churches have rigorous and honest conversations about the ways we name and honor God, we will remain bound to old sins." sojo.net/articles/opi...

Wow. This is a gut punch. I didn't know he died for one thing (that was the year my daughter died too. But his work was SO profoundly influential, not just for me but for my ex husband who was a trans pioneer of sorts (he's gone too now - cancer.) Beautifully written, thank you!

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

“I’ve never wavered on these issues, and politically, I’ve been successful,” Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan said in an interview with The Advocate, going on to say that allies aren’t “willing to hurt a community to score political points.” Some centrists get it.

They did this on purpose... fucking hell

Trans activist Roxxy Astaiza killed in Colombia after fighting transfemicide www.transunitedfund.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Pete Hegseth faces questions over unpaid transgender troops. Seven lawmakers are demanding answers after reports that service members pushed out under Trump’s ban have waited months for promised pay. www.advocate.com/pol... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

out of concern for transgender homeless veterans, the Mamdani administration is leaving (potentially) millions on the table in federal funding for shelter great reporting by @andrewgiambrone.bsky.social for @thecityreporter.nyc:

Lots of fascinating observations in this piece. A key one is that those demanding calculated moderation on trans rights are not acknowledging where the logic *or* the politics of that position actually lead, which is to a terrible place:

The confluence of state & federal anti-trans attacks & the Trump administration’s massive defunding of healthcare hits rural trans Kentuckians among the hardest–& this includes incarcerated trans people.

Trump appointed judges mabdate the state sanctioned, systemic rape of transgender women in Oregon prisons www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

Welp this has been my personal experience. My kid died in her sleep and living through the last two years seems to have taken a far worse toll. And I live in CA.

People saying "transgender ideology" in 2026 sound like people saying "race-mixing ideology" in 1956, and their kids and grandkids will feel embarrassment at their feckless cowardice.

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

For @xtramagazine.com, I wrote about the risks involved with Democratic candidates turning transphobic for the general election. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

This article clearly and cogently addresses: • the Democratic candidates caving on trans issues • the response from trans people and their allies • the backlash from people (mostly cis) who are angry at trans people for theoretically hurting those candidates' chances Well worth a read!