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.em @lithops.bsky.social · Dec 5

my partner is fundraising for their top surgery, please donate and share if you can 🖤 gofund.me/a2d6379f

Donate to Life-Changing Surgery & Name change for an NB friend, Hayles, organized by Hayles King

I've been out as nonbinary for over 7 years and have been on … Hayles King needs your support for Life-Changing Surgery & Name change for an NB friend, Hayles

gofund.me

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Riley @raaleh.bsky.social · 5d

seeing the phrase “since 2009” crop up a lot these days

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.em @lithops.bsky.social · 5d

show happening saturday in the only city in the entire world

.em @lithops.bsky.social · 6d

never voting for this fucking rat. ever.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 6d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 6d

The New York Times exists at this point to launder hatred for trans people. Today's coverage includes a citation to this law review article that says conversion therapy bans are anti-religious discrimination and it's not illegal to ban queer behavior, only queer identity. 🙃

Religious practitioners were exempt from the bans, and they have continued to provide most conversion therapy, according to researchers who track it. But the bans, the legal historian Marie-Amélie George has argued, created “a social norm against conversion therapy writ large,” which influenced even the practitioners not directly regulated by them.

LGBT rights groups have recently made bans on conversion therapy, a
practice intended to reduce or eliminate a person’s same-sex sexual
attractions, a primary piece of their legislative agenda. However, the
statutes only apply to licensed mental health professionals, even though
most conversion therapy is practiced by religious counselors and lay
ministers. Conversion therapy bans thus present a striking legal question:
Why have LGBT rights advocates expended so much effort and political
capital on laws that do not reach conversion therapy’s primary providers?
Based on archival research and original interviews, this Article argues that
the bans are significant because of their expressive function, rather than
their prescriptive effects. The laws’ proponents are using the statutes to
create a social norm against conversion therapy writ large, thus
broadening the bans’ reach to the religious practitioners the law cannot
directly regulate. LGBT rights groups are also extending the bans’
expressive message to support the argument that sexual orientation is
immutable and to reverse a historical narrative that cast gays and lesbians
as dangerous to children. These related claims have been central to gay
rights efforts for much of the twentieth century and continue to shape
LGBT rights battles. While the expressive effects of the bans are important,
the laws and the campaign around them may have a negative effect. LGBT
rights organizations working on the laws do not distinguish between
conversion therapy efforts aimed at changing sexual orientation and those
targeting behavior. This is troubling, not only because it fails to
acknowledge the needs of same-sex attracted individuals who wish to live
in accordance with their religious beliefs, but also because it reinforces a
limited view of gay identity. Many within the LGBT movement contest the
identity model that legal advocates have championed, and that conception
of se…

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 7d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold @lytagold.bsky.social · 12d

this is a relatively new and bizarre argument in the history of book bans btw—conservatives have rarely if ever operated from the position that libraries are “government speech” (?) they’ve almost always argued on the grounds of obscenity and the public good

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13d

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night.

All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13d

1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes.

Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.

Here is your shutdown guide.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Shutdown Day Guide For LGBTQ+ People: "Continuing Resolutions" And New Anti-Trans Posts From The White House

Shutdown day is here, and there has been a lot of competing coverage on Republican priorities, Democrat's demands, and what shutdown politics means for LGBTQ+ people in America.

www.erininthemorning.com

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.em @lithops.bsky.social · 14d

trans friends in academia:

how do you even apply for jobs? I get so anxious looking at some of these places, and I feel like it's impossible to balance safety and access to healthcare and community with the availability and expectations of jobs.

i'd appreciate any insight anyone has on this.

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 14d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 14d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 14d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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.em @lithops.bsky.social · 16d

rock hard caucus is an anti-Rob Sand op

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 16d

The lesson is not that trans liberation is a matter of linguistic “inclusion,” as even trans philosophers now seem to think. It’s how little you need to have such that the word ‘daughter’ stands out as the greatest gift from cis parents.

Anyway, read @autoanon.bsky.social ’s riveting new novel!!

ding @not.dingherself.com · 16d

My fav scene from Reverse Tomboy: Not its insightful analysis of (hetero)sexuality as inseparable from (normative) gender, or the retroactive meaning-making we do for early exp., or even the malleability of embodiment desires. Just a girl over the moon about the smallest thing—being called daughter.

Photo of a page from Reverse Tomboy:

“I just don’t see why a trans woman has to be more feminine than the average woman. It would be a little insulting to cis women wouldn’t it, if all trans women went around done up like Don Draper’s wives.”

“Yes, I suppose so.”

“But you are being careful, right? No more walking at night in empty parks?” her father chimed in.

“Yes Dad, I promise I’m well aware I’m a trans woman.” Naomi said happily enough.

“I think any father would worry about his daughter.” Joy flooded through Naomi, as it did each of the three times she has heard her father refer to her as his daughter. She could think of nothing better from him. Suddenly, the dress felt a little more comfortable.

“Thank you.” It was a simple thing to say, but so is ‘daughter’. Besides, Naomi was grinning.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16d

ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.

ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint

A federal complaint accuses the warden of creating an ad hoc work program used to demean trans detainees.

www.newsweek.com

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.em @lithops.bsky.social · 17d

i would rather vote for Jon Green than Rob Sand.

Jon Green @modestholdings.com · 17d

You are going to have to come through me.
www.press-citizen.com/story/news/l...

Julia Hansen photo, Iowa City Press-Citizen. I snarl.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 19d

one day we'll talk about how the presence of ultraviolence in games relative to the constant controversy and repression of queer & trans life (and also like, women) is in part because simulations of killing guys is the most reliable sublimated fantasy to distance from the feminization of intimacy

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19d

The way the NYT covers this, while they helped to create a similar moral panic that preceded Skrmetti, might be the thing that drives me mad.

Wednesday, September 24 5:45
'Autism Doesn't Need a Cure'
The Trump administration's unproven claims of a link between Tylenol and autism has sown deep mistrust among those living with the disability.

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.em @lithops.bsky.social · 19d

putting she/her/hers in a job application so they think i'm cis

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 21d

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 22d

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl

screenshot of a The Economist post that reads: "A recent study found that children who transitioned young retained stable gender identities over time. But the fact that nearly a fifth of those in the group did not ought to give advocates of irreversible medical interventions pause". the byline of the linked to article says "a study finds that one in five who switch gender change their mind"

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.em @lithops.bsky.social · 23d

shoutout to being trans, if i was cis i'd just be a bisexual woman with a boyfriend, and i know i'd be awful about it.

.em @lithops.bsky.social · 23d

there is actually a job opening in my field! (🥰)

it's in florida (🫠)

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 23d

it's so interesting to me that cis men from every single demographic, ethnicity, class relation, and political machine are coming together in a temporary fraternity to collectively destroy the political power and public presence of women & trans people by any means necessary

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23d

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 24d

The only thing Sarah McBride truly proves is that trans people can be spineless politicians who do nothing but enable fascism too. Trans people can be anything just like you I guess - even extreme disappointments.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25d

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them.

They want us all eradicated.

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Flyer from The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project titled “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism (TIVE): Background and FAQs on Need for an FBI Domestic Terrorism Designation.” The page defines “Transgender Ideology” and “TIVE,” outlining beliefs allegedly associated with them. It claims such ideology justifies violence against opponents or frames opposition as violence. The text references the alleged assassination of Charlie Kirk, urging the FBI to classify TIVE as domestic terrorism.

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Continuation of flyer with a section titled “Recent Instances of TIVE-Motivated Acts of Domestic Terrorism.” Lists multiple violent events from 2018 to 2025, attributing them to transgender ideology. Includes mugshots of two alleged attackers. Followed by a “Frequently Asked Questions and Key Terms” section, addressing whether transgender people are terrorists, comparing TIVE with “Nihilistic Violent Extremism,” and discussing FBI designations.

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Section titled “Terminology Used by TIVE.” Defines terms including cisgender, deadnaming, Gillick competence, misgendering, “Right to Exist,” “Trans genocide,” and a phrase “You either have a live boy or dead girl, you choose.” Each is presented as terminology used in or associated with TIVE. Page layout is text-heavy, no additional graphics.

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 25d

Donate to mutual funds. Take a first aid course. Offer to help others with yard work or errands. Check in on your friends, family & vulnerable community members. Contact your senator. Help out at a food bank. Do not give up. The road is long & small positive actions ripple outward.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25d

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

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