Our Union of Workers for Trans Liberation is fighting for fair wages, job security, layoff protections, and more ⬇️
These are dark times but our Union brings me so much hope
10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch
Her in the library
DHS illegally arrested me please help Text against image of her knees
Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"
If you're a trans person in Kansas who had your drivers license invalidated, you can absolutely trust @marisakabas.bsky.social to handle your story with care. I vouch for her 100%.
BREAKING: U4TL filed a grievance against management for refusing to pay our contractual salary step increases while we are bargaining
This is an unfair labor practice and a violation of our CBA. Decades of NLRB precedent makes it clear: even after a contract expires, workers retain the right to established wages and step increases.
A4TE management is resorting to coercive bargaining tactics: holding our raises hostage to pressure us into a deal. We will not be intimidated. We will not back down. We are united in our fight for a fair contract.
Breaking!
A4TE management is resorting to coercive bargaining tactics: holding our raises hostage to pressure us into a deal.
We will not be intimidated.
We will not back down.
We are united in our fight for a fair contract.
In a blatant violation of NY state and NYC law, NYU Langone has shut down its youth gender clinic and caused a potential forced detransition to its patients. Where is the NY AG and Mayor Mamdani?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...
From: Matthew Hiltzik < To: J <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Thoughts from Chomsky Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:34:06 +0000 I think that is wise Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:19 PM, J < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: Ive watched the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public. It's painful to say, but I think the best way to proceed is to ignore it. I've had plenty of experience, though of course not on this scale. A google search will bring up tons of hysterical accusations of all sorts, even groups devoted to vilifying me. I pay no attention, unless I'm approached for a comment on a specific matter. It's a nuisance, but it's the best way. The same conclusions from experiences of others, in some cases close friends. What the vultures dearly want is a public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts -- which are impossible to answer (how do you prove that you are not a neo-Nazi who wants to kill the Jews, or a rapist, or whatever charge comes along?). That's particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder. For virtually everyone who sees any of this, the reaction will be "where there's smoke there's fire, maybe raging fire" (whatever the facts, which few will even think of investigating). In general, it's best I think not to react unless directly questioned, particularly in the current mood -- which, I presume, will fade away, even if not in time to prevent much torture and distress.
Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky
Affecting story about an immigrant girl in hiding in Minneapolis getting her period for the first time, not knowing what to do (and her dad not knowing what to do, either)
We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding
We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning
“This is un-American“ is anti-Indigenous, anti-Black gaslighting and if you find that inconvenient imagine how our colonized and enslaved ancestors felt and grow the fuck up
I wrote on the shameful situation re: the recession of a deanship to Emily Suski at the University of Arkansas Law. What was the reason? Prof. Suski signed an amicus brief supporting trans rights. The Arkansas legislators admitted that was it! Horrible outcome. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
U4TL is in the final stages of bargaining. Our contract has expired and we are still fighting for: • Job preservation and layoff protections • Fair wages and pay equity • Transparency about the future of Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE)
We cannot bargain fairly without knowing what A4TE plans for the future of our employment and working conditions. A4TE management has delayed sharing the new organizational chart and budget-information that would massively impact our jobs and our contract.
Job preservation isn't "nice to have"-it is essential. Right now, A4TE management hasn't shared the restructured organization chart-even though it directly affects who stays, who goes, and what our jobs look like. When critical information is withheld, it feels intentional-and it puts workers at risk.
We're working without a contract-and it's showing. Departments are seeing drastic changes to their workload, roles, and expectations-without safeguards in place. That is why we are escalating. This Friday (1/23), all-shop members will attend open bargaining to show management that we are in solidarity with our
UPDATE ON BARGAINING: U4TL is in the final stages of bargaining.
Our contract has expired and we are still fighting for the following…
interestingly to me, you can actually see the impact of this brief at oral argument rn
bc Idaho is now saying 'okay yes there is a history of de jure discrim against trans people, but it wasn't explicit like it was against Black people' which is...a v different position to be in, I think!
Thank you @ballsandstrikes.org for covering @transequality.bsky.social’s amicus brief on behalf of legal scholars and historians on the history of anti trans discrimination in the law
Amy Coney Barrett says she doesn't know of any history of state-sanctioned discrimination aginst trans people. This amicus brief aims to set the record straight.
As Black and brown professional women athletes already know, “sex verification” policies will only result in more abuse, coercion, and invasion of privacy for all girls, trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming people - the exact kind of sex discrimination our civil rights laws are meant to protect
The promise of Title IX is about equal opportunity, not “protection” from “biological advantage.” This history and purpose matters when evaluating anti-trans sports bans that push trans kids out of educational opportunities.
Title IX’s legislative history demonstrates sex separation in sports was a remedial measure to address historic inequality. Sandler cited concerns about disparities in budgets, scholarships, mentorship, coaching, and facilities in boys and girls sports.
Bernice Sandler, the godmother of Title IX, did not subscribe to stereotypes about women’s inherent inferiority. In fact, she was enraged and motivated by a faculty member calling her “too strong for a woman” when denying her an academic job.
I wrote about the racist history of sex testing in women’s athletics and the history and purpose of Title IX in a law review article in 2022: socialchangenyu.com/wp-content/u...
I spoke with @us.theguardian.com about the two cases the Supreme Court is hearing today challenging categorical bans on trans students’ participation in school sports and the dangers “sex verification” policies pose to all women and girls.
Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.
Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
ICE shot and killed a woman.
Now they follow their fascist playbook: lying and gaslighting to cover up their actions and villainize the victim. If you can stomach it, the video contradicts DHS’s fiction.
ABOLISH ICE. They kill and kidnap our neighbors. They endanger us all.
"you can't kill us all" fuck yeah minneapolis
We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times.
Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
Among other things there is going to be a generation of children that is traumatized by various forms of gender inspections including genital inspections and anti-trans parents and the parents who chose to look the other way will bear responsibility for it
Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment”
Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”
Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”
University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”
some days I just want to scream and scream
You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.
Considering this organization was founded to curb the “sexual assault panic” plaguing men on college campuses and attack survivors’ civil rights under the guise of defending the first amendment and due process, I’m confident the answer to this question is a resounding “no.”
