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Existing as a trans person is not ‘deception’, but this narrative is being used to justify violence 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-teen...
Major news breaking from NOTUS on Trump’s trans passport ban:
It will not be retroactive.
Very glad I and others encouraged people to get their passports in the lead up to Trump’s inauguration.
Now hopefully this EO is defeated in court.
www.notus.org/whitehouse/t...
In 2020, it became apparent that a lot of people had been asleep in science class.
Well, in 2025, it’s become quite apparent that they slept through history class, too.
#Resist
Photos comparing Elon Musk's infamous fascist salute with other historical fascist leaders: Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler. The "Duck Test" confirms the nature of Musk's gesture: “If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck”
No apologies from Elon Musk - he gaslighted the world today posting on X: "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired."
It's not just about Adolf Hitler - the salute was used by other historical fascist leaders, Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco.
Author Steve Roth: "And here’s what’s even more egregious: that concentrated wealth is strangling our economy, our economic growth, our national prosperity. Wealth concentration drives a vicious, downward cycle, throttling the very engine of wealth creation itself."
evonomics.com/insanely-con...
Source: bsky.app/profile/erin... and www.nbcnews.com/.../trump-si....
Also, support Erin Reed. Great, timely, professional reporting for the community and government affairs.
Food for thought.
Meta’s Abandonment of Fact-Checking Empowers a President Who Traffics in Lies
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.
Rainbow: Rainbow is an 8 year old who has loved being a Girl Scout for the past few years. She enjoys playing guitar, dancing, and Minecraft. She wants her troop to support unhoused people, respond to the climate crisis, and plan fun activities. You can buy cookies from her here!
I am not seeing 121 on the board today. I'm going to pause this thread because of that. Trans people will NOT be banned from bathrooms today.
Thanks for following along, trans people can breathe easier for at least one day in Montana.
Gabby: Gabby is 9 years old, almost 10, this is her 3rd year participating in Erin's Cookie Orders and she is always so happy and amazed at all the support she gets. She not only is a Girl Scout she also is a swimmer, plays clarinet and chimes and also enjoys art, pottery and painting.
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
FOLLOW THE MONEY instead of chasing the shiny hateful rhetoric Trump & MAGAs spew to distract you!
🕊Rest in power to the 350 transgender people were murdered in the last year.
According to the annual Transgender Murder Monitoring Report, this year marks a "significant increase" from last year.
These numbers are also likely only the tip of the iceberg 🧵
www.wearequeeraf.com/350-transgen...
![For the last few years, the GOP has coalesced around an idea that would short-circuit essentially all trans health care in America: banning federal funds from going to businesses that provide health care specific to changing one's sex or gender identity, including hormones and surgeries. It would essentially signal to the private sector that if it wants federal dollars, it needs to stay away from sex-or gender-affirming care, and bow down to right-wing pundits who aim to, in their own words,
"eradicate" and "erase" this form of
health care.
Language in House Republicans' most recent funding bill for the Health and Human Services Department would do just that - ban money from any federal program to entities that do "social transitioning" or drugs and surgery for "gender dysphoria." Gender dysphoria is the specific diagnosis doctors use to justify those medical interventions. This legislation has not gotten a vote yet and would need to be reintroduced next Congress to be considered. But it has been a top priority for Republican lawmakers in the House, and Trump himself has promised he'd ask Congress "to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these [trans] procedures." (You can hear all his promises on trans health care in this short campaign video.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/bafkreid3evqccjqsjbwtdleb4kkevl4nepvc3h7wornyv37q5po7swxsei)
For the last few years, the GOP has coalesced around an idea that would short-circuit essentially all trans health care in America: banning federal funds from going to businesses that provide health care specific to changing one's sex or gender identity, including hormones and surgeries. It would essentially signal to the private sector that if it wants federal dollars, it needs to stay away from sex-or gender-affirming care, and bow down to right-wing pundits who aim to, in their own words, "eradicate" and "erase" this form of health care. Language in House Republicans' most recent funding bill for the Health and Human Services Department would do just that - ban money from any federal program to entities that do "social transitioning" or drugs and surgery for "gender dysphoria." Gender dysphoria is the specific diagnosis doctors use to justify those medical interventions. This legislation has not gotten a vote yet and would need to be reintroduced next Congress to be considered. But it has been a top priority for Republican lawmakers in the House, and Trump himself has promised he'd ask Congress "to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these [trans] procedures." (You can hear all his promises on trans health care in this short campaign video.)
Bans like these can lead to the private sector discontinuing behaviors altogether — and once they are in place, they are hard to get rid of: The Hyde Amendment, enacted in the 1970s, led to most abortions no longer being performed in hospitals, and is continually renewed each year. Medical groups and civil rights advocates in D.C. tell Rolling Stone they believe that if a Hyde-level ban on federal funding were enacted, many hospitals will simply prioritize federal dollars over continuing this highly specialized form of medical care. So much medicine is performed through hospital systems and universities that this could mean ending access for many. Surgery for many - canceled. Hormonal treatments — ended. A specialized field of medicine backed by reams of evidence demonstrating its need and benefits, practiced for more than half a century in the U.S. - ostracized, suddenly and loudly. It is hard to quantify how painful a funding ban legislation could be to the American trans community, except to say it would almost certainly lead to lost medical care, forced menopause for some who lose hormones, and, in the bleakest scenarios, waves of suicides.
This is horrifying story about how Florida is attempting to detransition trans prisoners calling their identity a delusion.
MAGA Poster: Morons Are Governing America.
The next four years are gonna be bleak.
Don't be complicit.
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
If you are not already following @erininthemorning.com, you should!
#MAGA Morons... including many teachers.
Thirty-nine percent of educators said they would vote for Trump, according to a nationally representative survey from the EdWeek Research Center that was conducted Sept. 28 to Oct. 8.
www.edweek.org/leadership/s...
Project 2025 is trumps agenda and the fact that anyone thought otherwise is insane
What you need to know about Trump's designation of Russell Vought, one of the authors of #Project2025, to head OMB after Trump disavowed any connection with Project 2025 last summer.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
