Jen (she/her)
@jenzwarich.bsky.social
Therapist, Mom, advocate, business owner, wife, hiker, cat cuddler, book lover, lifelong learner
Doing this today and I wish everyone was viewing, learning and becoming far more accepting. So many countries represented today on this summit!
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April 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Doing this today and I wish everyone was viewing, learning and becoming far more accepting. So many countries represented today on this summit!
🚨 BREAKING: CMS wants to ban gender-affirming care from ACA marketplace plans! If this rule passes, trans people in states like CO & VT could lose vital health care protections. Submit your comment before April 11th! ✍️ bit.ly/ProtectOurHe... #ProtectOurHealthCare
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April 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🚨 BREAKING: CMS wants to ban gender-affirming care from ACA marketplace plans! If this rule passes, trans people in states like CO & VT could lose vital health care protections. Submit your comment before April 11th! ✍️ bit.ly/ProtectOurHe... #ProtectOurHealthCare
If I listen to and read nothing else in a day, I don't miss Heather Cox Richardson. She sources it all & provides historical context, where the US is now compared to throughout history in similar circumstances. This post from 4/1/25 needs to be heard. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
April 1, 2025
Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If I listen to and read nothing else in a day, I don't miss Heather Cox Richardson. She sources it all & provides historical context, where the US is now compared to throughout history in similar circumstances. This post from 4/1/25 needs to be heard. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
April 1st this year was a lot of things in this country. Historic layoffs through the department of Health & Human Services that impacted scientists and researchers in the FDA, CDC, and more. A historic 25-hour speech on the senate floor by Senator Corey Booker. There is more, see next share.
April 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
April 1st this year was a lot of things in this country. Historic layoffs through the department of Health & Human Services that impacted scientists and researchers in the FDA, CDC, and more. A historic 25-hour speech on the senate floor by Senator Corey Booker. There is more, see next share.
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So now they are arresting people accused of no crimes who are lawful residents of the United States.
Wow.
Wow.
This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...
March 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
So now they are arresting people accused of no crimes who are lawful residents of the United States.
Wow.
Wow.
This win is big. Holding this relief tonight. Democrats keep standing!! And can we get some sanity from anyone across the aisle at some point?
1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster.
Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.
S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.
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Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.
S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.
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Senate Dems Show Spine, And National Sports Ban Bill Dies
The failed legislation reflects a wider effort to disallow trans women (or anyone suspected of being a trans woman) from women’s sports and spaces.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This win is big. Holding this relief tonight. Democrats keep standing!! And can we get some sanity from anyone across the aisle at some point?
Today, please read this. And take action. As of Monday this could pass the Senate and head to the administration for signature.
Transequality.org/issues/sports
Transequality.org/issues/sports
Sports | A4TE
Transequality.org
February 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Today, please read this. And take action. As of Monday this could pass the Senate and head to the administration for signature.
Transequality.org/issues/sports
Transequality.org/issues/sports
If you are looking for a way to help today, please take a look at the organization Advocates for Trans Equality. Information on the issues with sources and pairing with Every Action to help people submit information and pressure their representatives to vote to support trans equality.
February 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
If you are looking for a way to help today, please take a look at the organization Advocates for Trans Equality. Information on the issues with sources and pairing with Every Action to help people submit information and pressure their representatives to vote to support trans equality.
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For those unaware, in 1933, the first major Nazi book burning was of the first 30 years of research into trans and queer people, far before the concentration camps.
Now, Trump has digitally burned the government's research on the same.
hmd.org.uk/resource/6-m...
Now, Trump has digitally burned the government's research on the same.
hmd.org.uk/resource/6-m...
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | 6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology
On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was broken into and occupied by Nazi-supporting youth. Several d...
hmd.org.uk
February 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
For those unaware, in 1933, the first major Nazi book burning was of the first 30 years of research into trans and queer people, far before the concentration camps.
Now, Trump has digitally burned the government's research on the same.
hmd.org.uk/resource/6-m...
Now, Trump has digitally burned the government's research on the same.
hmd.org.uk/resource/6-m...
This is an example of how we need to stand up and speak out. We will protect our kids and more school systems need to stand up and state this with clarity.
1. School systems across the United States are declaring they will not comply with Trump's anti-trans executive order.
MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students.
Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on."
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MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students.
Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on."
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School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Order
On Thursday, multiple school systems around the United States released advisories stating that Trump's EO mandating discrimination in schools will not be followed.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is an example of how we need to stand up and speak out. We will protect our kids and more school systems need to stand up and state this with clarity.
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Well said, Pete Buttigieg
January 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Well said, Pete Buttigieg
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NEW: All students deserve to feel safe & welcomed in school — but Trump signed an executive order that would strip funding for schools that support LGBTQ+ students & teach an honest history of our nation.
This action is NOT implemented yet. We'll provide updates as we learn more: hrc.im/equalityhub
This action is NOT implemented yet. We'll provide updates as we learn more: hrc.im/equalityhub
January 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
NEW: All students deserve to feel safe & welcomed in school — but Trump signed an executive order that would strip funding for schools that support LGBTQ+ students & teach an honest history of our nation.
This action is NOT implemented yet. We'll provide updates as we learn more: hrc.im/equalityhub
This action is NOT implemented yet. We'll provide updates as we learn more: hrc.im/equalityhub
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Just released memorandum from OPM:
Federal facilities will now have a bathroom ban for transgender people.
It will go into effect on the 31st.
It also has a slew of effects and puts into place the 1st anti-trans EO policies for every agency.
This will have a ton of impacts very quickly.
Federal facilities will now have a bathroom ban for transgender people.
It will go into effect on the 31st.
It also has a slew of effects and puts into place the 1st anti-trans EO policies for every agency.
This will have a ton of impacts very quickly.
January 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Just released memorandum from OPM:
Federal facilities will now have a bathroom ban for transgender people.
It will go into effect on the 31st.
It also has a slew of effects and puts into place the 1st anti-trans EO policies for every agency.
This will have a ton of impacts very quickly.
Federal facilities will now have a bathroom ban for transgender people.
It will go into effect on the 31st.
It also has a slew of effects and puts into place the 1st anti-trans EO policies for every agency.
This will have a ton of impacts very quickly.
This has been and does impact everyone and is a frightening call back to many times in history.
So Trump's shutting down of the entire government's funding system for American projects is literally so he can go line by line and target transgender people and other minorities.
When we said transphobia affects cis people too, well... here you go.
When we said transphobia affects cis people too, well... here you go.
January 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This has been and does impact everyone and is a frightening call back to many times in history.
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Major news:
Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth.
It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle"
I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades.
Shameful.
Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth.
It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle"
I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades.
Shameful.
January 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Major news:
Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth.
It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle"
I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades.
Shameful.
Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth.
It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle"
I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades.
Shameful.
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“Well, it appears that he just declared everyone a woman from conception based on the language of the executive order,” McBride noted.
Trans Rep. Sarah McBride debunks Trump's gender policy with science
According to the Trump administration's new policy "everyone a woman" now.
www.advocate.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
“Well, it appears that he just declared everyone a woman from conception based on the language of the executive order,” McBride noted.
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Howard County's three state senators are urging Gov. Wes Moore to appoint immigration attorney Alicia Altamirano, public policy expert Michele Douglas and state labor official Daniel Newberger to fill the open seats on the Howard Community College board.
Howard County's three state senators are urging Gov. Wes Moore to appoint immigration attorney Alicia Altamirano, public policy expert Michele Douglas and state labor official Daniel Newberger to fill the open seats on the Howard Community College board.
Senators move to fill vacancies on depleted Howard Community College board
Howard County senators are recommending three individuals to Howard Community College’s Board of Trustees, which will likely have to confront questions about the tenure of its controversial president,...
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January 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Howard County's three state senators are urging Gov. Wes Moore to appoint immigration attorney Alicia Altamirano, public policy expert Michele Douglas and state labor official Daniel Newberger to fill the open seats on the Howard Community College board.
Howard County's three state senators are urging Gov. Wes Moore to appoint immigration attorney Alicia Altamirano, public policy expert Michele Douglas and state labor official Daniel Newberger to fill the open seats on the Howard Community College board.
You are not alone. We are in this together.
January 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
You are not alone. We are in this together.