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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

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Cracked Ivory @crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 7h

Episode Four is now out wherever you get your podcasts!

Give it a listen for amusing discussions on made-up slurs, and much less amusing discussions on how a religious studies dissertation from the 70s was turned into a book whose transphobic policy prescriptions are largely followed today.

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 14h

These are the provisions Erin is talking about. House bill first, and the one the Senate just passed is down further:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 14h

This was how we got the ban on TRICARE covering minor dependents for gender affirming medical care last year.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14h

The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14h

The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18h

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations.

In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Imara Jones @imarajones.bsky.social · 1d

I need to ask you a favor. @translash.org is up for 5 @signalawards.bsky.social and we need your vote TODAY in order to win. Visit www.signalaward.com. October 9 is the final day to vote.

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 2d

So, undercut her own professionalism to bolster the claim that she's not doing something subject to regulation, because... untrained conversation isn't malpractice?

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 2d

Receipts: "biological sex" proliferated in political conversation and legislation when ADF put its bathroom bills out in 2015, and then again with the sports and gender affirming care ban bills of 2020/21 - ant at that time almost exclusively in the mouths of transphobes.

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 5d

Your periodic reminder that "biological sex" is a propaganda term spread by anti-trans groups, largely pushed by Christian Nationalists orgs like Alliance Defending Freedom; Family Resource Council & Family Policy Alliance; and the Heritage Foundation.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Sex and Gender Definitions in Legislation

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

The first Law Dork oral argument report of the new Supreme Court term is a doozy: Chiles v. Salazar, over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban.

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

www.lawdork.com

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 2d

My full recap for @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 2d

Tuesday's Supreme Court arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, about whether banning conversion therapy violates free speech rights, were a doozy.
www.jezebel.com/christian-la...

Christian Law Firm Argues That Conversion Therapy Is Helpful, Actually

Tuesday's Supreme Court arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, about whether banning conversion therapy violates free speech rights, were a doozy.

www.jezebel.com

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Movement Advancement Project @mapresearch.bsky.social · 2d

The U.S. Supreme Court heard a case earlier today involving laws that protect young people from dangerous, discredited conversion “therapy” practices.

Read more in our thread below. ⬇️ 🧵
www.axios.com/2025/10/07/s...

Supreme Court weighs case on conversion therapy for youth

The case will likely decide the fate of laws in almost half of the states that restrict the practice.

www.axios.com

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 2d

Hi, I'm a trans Californian who reported on the CA bills. This headline is misleading at best. You haven't noted that he has until the 12th to sign the other bills, leaving that out is irresponsible and fearmongers.

People can and should still pressure him on those bills.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 2d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 2d

I hadn't had it on the LegiAlerts tracker before as the bill's text itself is so light, none of my usual searches turned it up.

legiscan.com/CA/text/AB86...

California AB86 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session

Bill Text (2025-10-01) Instructional materials: health education. [Vetoed by Governor.]

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 2d

The vetoed bill, AB 86, would have put into law the state Health Education Frameworks that already have been regulation under the Dept. of Ed since 2019.

www.cde.ca.gov/ci/he/cf/doc...

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Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: L4GG has filed suit against the EPA for unlawfully revoking $7B in Solar for All grants.

These funds were meant to help families cut energy bills + pollution. We won’t let communities lose their clean energy future to unlawful overreach.

Read the @nytimes.com feature: L4GG.org/NYTSFA

Groups Sue E.P.A. Over $7 Billion in ‘Solar for All’ Grants

The lawsuit accused the Environmental Protection Agency of illegally revoking the money without congressional approval.

L4GG.org

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 5d

Your periodic reminder that "biological sex" is a propaganda term spread by anti-trans groups, largely pushed by Christian Nationalists orgs like Alliance Defending Freedom; Family Resource Council & Family Policy Alliance; and the Heritage Foundation.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Sex and Gender Definitions in Legislation

docs.google.com

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 4d

Look through the average starter pack of trans people on here and most of the time it'll be like 80 to 90% white, if not higher tbh.

So we get a knd of space where no one learns how to combat racism against trans POC because white people never talk about it, and POC aren't given the platform to.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 4d

Have you ever noticed how absurdly white spaces like trans Bluesky are? I have. You should be able to notice things like this without trying if you have done the work to be anti racist.

It doesn't mean people are malicious, but it shows that systemic bias is pernicious, and does not spare us

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 4d

More recently, from 2022 forward, Independent Women's Voices has been behind a push that continues the biological sex language and pushes for a egg and sperm production definition of female & male, like we see in DJT's anti-trans executive orders.

sites.google.com/view/liz-h-s...

Liz.H.Saila - WBR as a Vector of Anti-trans Hate

Introduction This doc describes the so-called “Women’s Bill of Rights” and it's more developed successor model bill, the "Stand with Women Act". It lists bills, laws, and executive orders incorporati...

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 5d

It's also part of a larger prescriptive worldview that confines men and women into locked roles consistent with certain religious/cultural doctrines that were tired & outdated 50 years ago.

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 5d

The anti-trans folks want you to use "biological sex" as a veneer of scientism to make you think what your junk looked like when you were born is the only "real" meaning of sex, gender, and how folks should be treated along those lines.

It's a lie.

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Liz.H.Saila - Biological Sex

Different parts of “Biological Sex” The phrase "biological sex" as in "biological boys" "biological girls" and such is problematic on multiple levels, not the least of which is that it has become a d...

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