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Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement

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Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement (Familia:TQLM) works at the local and national levels to achieve the collective liberation of trans, queer, and gender nonconforming Latinxs through building community, organizing, advocacy, and education.

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Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jun 10

📢🔥ICE is separating families, disappearing loved ones, and criminalizing our people.

This is an attack on all of us—on trans bodies 🏳️‍⚧️, queer joy 🏳️‍🌈, and undocumented people 🦋.

Don’t look away.

⛓️‍💥 We must ALL condemns ICE & military-style raids! ⛓️‍💥

🔗 @jailsupportla 🦋

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Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · 21h

ICE isn’t new — it’s history repeating itself.
Through 287(g), local police act as deportation agents — echoing the same systems once used to punish.

Today they may not be wearing hoods but instead plain clothing.

Our communities deserve safety.

Sign petition: sign.moveon.org/petitions/unmask-ice

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · 25d

We were honored to join a powerful panel alongside Transgender Law Center for the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists Conference. We’ll be hosting a webinar to dive deeper into ethical trans queer migrant reporting practices through our "Guide for Reporting on Queer and Trans Migrants"! 🏳️‍⚧️📰

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Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Aug 29

📰 🏳️‍⚧️ We celebrate our compañera Jocelyn, Mirror Cooperative (@mirror_cooperative_ ) founder recently featured in TransLash Wire. This Jota News piece uplifts the brilliance and power of trans leaders.

Photography: Ale Pedraza Buenahora (they/el) @alegoodhour
Report: TransLash Media @translash.org

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Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Aug 29

TransLash Media @translash.org · Aug 29

Meet Mariah Molina, a trans stylist who has worked with some of the biggest celebs! In an interview with @out.com, Mariah describes her journey to becoming a stylist, as well as the experience of being an out-and-proud trans woman in the world of celebrities.

🔗: www.out.com/voices/mariah-molina

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Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Aug 22

💛🌳🐝 FAMILIA: TQLM’s Leadership Circle 25–26 officially launched in person this month! This steering committee will keep our work grounded in accountability and propel us forward with purpose. Here’s a glimpse of our gathering.

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Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨 ICE is abducting sex workers‼️According to @truthout, “From 2018 to 2021, ICE conducted more than 13,000 raids targeting sex work venues.” Many without warrants. Some from shelters. One woman was detained at a shelter while recovering from an assault. Follow @familiatqlm.bsky.social & @snap4freedom

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jul 31

🦋Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice.

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Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics

Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

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Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jul 25

🏳️‍⚧️✨🏳️‍🌈At Seattle Pride, our Co-Executive Director Jennicet Gutiérrez reminded us what fearless, trans-led leadership looks like.

📢 Stay tuned as we announce the additions to our team — ¡sigue pendiente cuando le demos la bienvenida a tres nuevas personas al equipo!

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jul 22

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TUNE IN 🎧 | TX Reps sneak in anti-trans legislation.

UN draft report falsely claims gender dysphoria is a social contagion, raising alarm bells about global policy shifts.

A trans asylum seeker from Mexico has finally been released from ICE custody in Washington state.

ICE Releases Trans Asylum Seeker

Podcast Episode · TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones · 07/22/2025 · TransLash Fam Only · 13m

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Jul 19

Bulwark confirms that Andry José Hernández Romero, the gay stylist deported to CECOT, survived and is back in Venezuela.

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LIVE NOW: EMERGENCY LIVESTREAM: Andry Released To Venezuela From El Salvador

The Bulwark on Substack

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Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jul 19

🐚✨Take a moment to share and sign the petition to #FreeYari!

Today it’s Yari—tomorrow, it could be any one of us in our community.

Join @TransQueerPueblo- Arizona and take action to defend trans and gender expansive people targeted by detention and deportation.

actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...

Free Yari! Stop ICE’s Injustice Against LGBTQ+ Migrants

Sign this petition to demand the immediate release of Arbella “Yari” Rodríguez Márquez Yari must be freed before it's too late. Arbella Rodríguez Márquez—known as Yari—is a lesbian woman with legal ...

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Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jul 16

“Transgender asylum seeker released from ICE custody following order from federal judge in Oregon” It is detrimental to release ALL our vulnerable people from detention.

#EndTransDetention

Transgender asylum seeker released from ICE custody following order from federal judge in Oregon

A transgender asylum seeker from Mexico has been released from a Washington state immigration detention center after being held for over a month.

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Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jul 16

According to The Advocate, “Now, ICE’s policies explicitly require housing based on biological sex, permit hormone therapy only if it began before detention and is deemed medically necessary, and remove requirements for staff training on transgender sensitivity.”

www.advocate.com/news/transge...

Trump administration stops abuse protection for transgender detainees in ICE custody

Since 2015, detention facilities had to take into account the gender identity of trans migrants. Not any more.

www.advocate.com

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jul 16

#EndTransDetention

Under the direction of the Trump administration, ICE has ditched a series of policies that sought to reduce the risk of sexual assault, medical neglect, and mistreatment of transgender individuals in detention, including its 2015 “Transgender Care Memorandum.” (1/2)

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jul 16

Ser drag es mucho más que maquillaje, tacones y brillo: es arte, es rebeldía, es identidad. 💥

Cada 16 de julio celebramos a quienes, a través del drag, desafían los estereotipos de género, juegan con la expresión y construyen espacios de libertad y diversidad. 🌈

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jul 14

4. Honoring nonbinary people doesn’t cost us; it deepens our movement’s power and vision — and with that power, we can demand what our communities truly need: healthcare, housing, education, safety, and dignity. (4/4)

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jul 14

3. Nonbinary people existing doesn’t diminish anyone else’s experience — it strengthens our collective fight for liberation. Because every challenge to the gender binary chips away at the very systems that oppress us all. (3/4)

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jul 14

2. Nonbinary people existing doesn’t take anything away from anyone — it expands what’s possible for all of us. It invites us to imagine life beyond rigid roles that have harmed so many. (2/4)

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jul 14

#NonBinary Affirmations for our movements that are interconnected.

1. The existence of nonbinary people doesn’t threaten our movement — it completes it. By making room for everyone’s truth, we build a united front strong enough to win real, material change for all trans and nonbinary people. (1/4)

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jun 27

📢 💅🏽 Defend the DOLLS against ICE and transphobia!

Trans communities deserve to live, thrive, and love without fear of detention, deportation, or hate.

Show up to a Migra Watch training, speak out against transphobia, and build networks of care and protection that keep each other safe.

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jun 27

#JotaNews 📰 Read more at @WBEZChicago

Story: Adriana Cardona-Maguigad | WBEZ
Illustration: Mendy Kong

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A trans migrant came to Chicago to escape violence. Now she’s afraid of deportation.

Tere left Venezuela to start a new life in the U.S. She has a home, a job and access to gender affirming care. But she worries it could all disappear.

www.wbez.org

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jun 18

🏳️‍⚧️🏛️ Hoy la Corte Suprema de EE.UU. —en el caso Estados Unidos v. Skrmetti— respaldó la prohibición de cuidados afirmativos (bloqueadores de pubertad, hormonas) para menores trans y no binaries, abriendo la vía a que unas 25 estatales refuercen restricciones similares.

🎥 : Pea Núñez @peanunez

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jun 18

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans kids deserve care. Deserve protection. Deserve to live.

The Supreme Court ruled against trans youth and trans history. This is a step back toward trans liberation.

This ruling is not the end — it’s a call to resist stronger than EVER.

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jun 15

Zaddys and daddys who ride for the dolls do it con orgullo y sin vergüenza. 💅🏽

This Father’s Day, defend a las muñecas (the dolls) —trans women facing ICE and transphobia every day.

El cuidado es sagrado. El amor es acción. ❤️‍🔥

Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement @familiatqlm.bsky.social · Jun 12

Trans women have died in ICE custody—like Victoria Arellano in California, Roxsana Hernández in New Mexico, and Johana Medina in Texas.

When we say ABOLISH ICE, we’re not just talking about shutting down an agency.

We’re demanding an end to detention.

#NoPrideInDetention