long smelt
her not emphasizing the trans targeting & harms to trans children is drawing a lot of backlash, particularly from the trans community
https://bskye.app/profile/parkermolloy.com/post/3lgsmmvpiik2z
https://bskye.app/profile/seltzermom.bsky.social/post/3lgtipaukdk2h
there are many more of these
people defending her on social media (a mix of calls for civility and approval of her approach) seem fewer, quieter, and generally less personally involved
https://bskye.app/profile/misshuston.bsky.social/post/3lgtg2lc5ts2i
there is a writeup generally supporting her & putting her decisions in more complete context than those defenses
https://thequeercrimsondiaries.substack.com/p/why-the-hell-do-people-hate-sarah
https://thequeercrimsondiaries.substack.com/p/why-the-hell-do-people-hate-sarah-12d
also an NYT profile on her situation in congress from last week https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/us/politics/sarah-mcbride-transgender-trump-congress.html
(non-paywalled https://archive.ph/bTZcr)
west ingot
is there a way tp help support trans communities in the states?
twin pilot
is there a way tp help support trans communities in the states?
I have seen so so so many mutual aid posts on Mastodon. I'm sure there are more on other platforms. Just looking up "trans mutual aid" brings up this site https://www.iowatransmutualaidfund.org/
Pick your poison, plenty of options.
This group has compiled a bunch of stuff https://www.folxhealth.com/library/mutual-aid-funds
sour vapor
is there a way tp help support trans communities in the states?
Also if you happen to be in the US yourself, call your representatives about each and every bill they try to put through.
(Same goes for the DEI bills because they're all extensions of one another)
sour vapor
Pretty horrific article here from Brazil with title "Trans hairdresser, 20, ||found slaughtered in blood-soaked bed|| having been stabbed 22 times ‘by teen lover’" All the CWs ||https://slatereport.com/news/trans-hairdresser-20-found-slaughtered-in-blood-soaked-bed-having-been-stabbed-22-times-by-teen-lover/||
long smelt
sour vapor
queen acorn
bless her reporting
west ingot
anybody know any good resources to support trans individuals in Australia?
I want to help a friend in Aussieland
we livei n dire times when the far-right want to actively, maliciously target the lgbt community and I don't want to sit idly by
sour vapor
I want to help a friend in Aussieland
Might be able to contact https://transcend.org.au/ and ask?
west ingot
thank you!
sour vapor
thank you!
I think in case of someone you personally know, make space to listen to them when they are struggling, reach out every few days. I have friends in other countries I do that with.
west ingot
that is good
especially since in the US it can be especially harrowing especially in the South
but like for those in Australia, it is different
yeah, I agree
it is a dark time
doesn't help that the right-wingers have infiltrated the wh40k community and, despite the efforts of the community as a whole to ban those who are right-wingers from it, the scars and trauma those chuds inflicted still remain
the lgbt community aren't the hobby tourists, it's those right-wing chuds who are!
I will protect and help my friends
long smelt
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/trans-people-federal-prisons
(archived https://archive.ph/mMm3x)
long smelt
this is a good educational video about the disinfo around trans people https://youtu.be/mlkBa7ooUN4
long smelt
long smelt
this is a transgender individual’s video recounting a disturbing experience when trying to renew a passport in a (california) passport office rather than a produced segment. remains to be seen if this an outlier or the current norm https://www.tiktok.com/@gentlereality/video/7465494774217280814
long smelt
this is a transgender individual’s video recounting a disturbing experience when...
some more context on the trans passport situation
UPDATE (1/28/2024): Over the weekend, I was able to confirm reports that the Trump administration has expanded the use of a system that allows employees to see if a person applying for a passport renewal has EVER had a passport with a different gender marker. In light of this development, I recommend that trans people avoid even otherwise routine passport renewals until there is more clarity about the administration’s updated policies, an established timeline for the return of documents being held by the State Department, and a chance for litigation to move forward. If you are trans and have NEVER held a passport under a different gender market AND you have amended your birth certificate AND the document is not marked as amended, it is likely safe to apply for a brand new passport.
https://aridrennen.substack.com/p/sound-and-fury-some-initial-thoughts
long smelt
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/eeoc-chair-announces-transgender
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Acting Chair Andrea Lucas announced a set of policy changes inspired by President Donald Trump’s recent anti-trans executive orders … The press release clarifies that Lucas cannot unilaterally rescind prior EEOC guidance… that affirmed protections for transgender people under Title VII… the release states Lucas’ intent to push for the revocation of these protections and to establish transgender bathroom bans in workplaces.
(my emphasis in the quote, Lucas is evidently not acting on orders but has taken this on herself)
the full press release on the government EEOC site, around half of which is Lucas’s quotes and is effectively an op-ed type screed
https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/removing-gender-ideology-and-restoring-eeocs-role-protecting-women-workplace
gray pond
https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/virginia-miyares-vcu-uva-transgender/article_4cf97e26-df7b-11ef-8488-8f1300fa54a6.html
https://childrens.uvahealth.com/services/transgender-youth-health
sour vapor
long smelt
extremely disturbing discontinuation of gender affirming care for under 19 year olds by NYU-Langone (which is a generally high quality NYU-associated health system w/ several hundred locations) https://bskye.app/profile/hellgatenyc.com/post/3lh3metdd522o
I've heard a theory that the unusual under-19-years-old age cutoff in the executive orders comes from the executive order being based on various state-level gender affirming care bans, including one from Alabama. Alabama sets the age of majority at 19 (unlike most of the rest of the US, where it is 18). the idea is that they just put the most restrictive age cutoff from any of the state-level bans into the executive order, without realizing the basis for that age being used in Alabama’s ban
https://alabamareflector.com/2024/01/11/federal-appeals-court-allows-alabamas-gender-affirming-care-ban-to-go-into-effect/
https://law.justia.com/codes/alabama/title-26/chapter-1/section-26-1-1/
queen acorn
this is a transgender individual’s video recounting a disturbing experience when...
Just popping in to say I have contacted this individual, and provided they continue with the interview will be doing an investigation here. I've sent interview questions already.
One development is that the passport agency in question caved, and invited them to come get their passport after all. I believe that meeting is tomorrow.
Until it is resolved they are doing daily proof of life check-ins on TikTok, and I think it's really disturbing that's necessary (but I agree that it is)
Here's a quote from them which is already in the public record:
“If I disappear or anything happens to me; it wasn’t me. I’m not going anywhere. I will continue posting to ensure everyone of my safety every day until the situation is resolved, or figured out at the very least. If I’m going to take a break, I will announce it for the safety and sanity of everyone in the world who has expressed concern or worry about me.”
stone hollow
sour vapor
"Casas is the sole plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the ban , which makes it a crime for health care professionals to provide gender-affirming care to anyone under 18. He’s bringing the case on behalf of himself, as well as his current and future patients.
Casas alleges the ban violates personal autonomy and equal protection rights under the state constitution."
gray pond
Bluesky
sour vapor
"Who gets to decide an intersex child's gender" (India) https://youtu.be/m_LTczU9ao8?si=WtLxZRcNRb49syD2
sour vapor
sour vapor
Had missed this from ACLU https://19thnews.org/2025/01/transgender-passports-state-department/
long smelt
https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/letters/ag-james-to-hc-providers-re-tro-letter-2025.pdf
Regardless of the availability of federal funding, we write to further remind you of your obligations to comply with New York State laws, including those that prohibit discrimination against individuals based on their membership in a protected class, such as sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, military status, disability, or marital status. … Electing to refuse services to a class of individuals based on their protected status, such as withholding the availability of services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender individuals, is discrimination under New York law.
hazy thunder
So my friend was denied healthcare from a specialist last week because he’s a trans man. (Was told by the practice that they would only treat him if he detransitioned)
However, his post got around and I dunno if all the angry responses got back to the doctor, but today the doctor called back and apologized and said he would be treated.
An interesting window into the state of trans health care in Florida. There are definitely still trans-positive doctors but there are pressures for them to change their position.
hazy thunder
Sorry if that’s not appropriate input for this channel, but I thought it might provide some atmospherics
sour vapor
So my friend was denied healthcare from a specialist last week because he’s a tr...
If they have the apology in writing then it might be worth forwarding to Chase Strangio (ACLU). He's been suggesting that he would like potentially actionable information and/or evidence on socials.
hazy thunder
I will ask, though I think everything happened over the phone.
sour vapor
Certain types of care are notoriously hard to get as a trans guy, like any type of sexual health and/or pregnancy related care.
hazy thunder
All I know is that it was specialist care, not sure if it was even related to any of those issues but I didn’t pry.
sour vapor
All I know is that it was specialist care, not sure if it was even related to an...
No it's also none of my business, and being altogether denied care is perhaps more rare, but it being very hard to obtain adequate care can be complex in general and specifically for certain things.
Just saying this isn't new under this administration. Doctors being assholes is sadly an older problem.
hazy thunder
Oh yeah absolutely. This same friend dealt with transphobia in the friggin ER a couple years ago. The variable here was that this doctor was recommended specifically as a trans-safe doctor.
sour vapor
Oh yeah absolutely. This same friend dealt with transphobia in the friggin ER a ...
If that is the case, I'd definitely forward that information to any local trans groups so they also know.
hazy thunder
But yeah like a fair chunk of my friends down here in Florida are trans and/or nonbinary, so I’ve seen and heard a lot
One trans woman friend is a public school teacher. In a really red county. So navigating the transphobia of both the DeSantis and Trump governments has been unfun
sour vapor
Yes. Florida is especially bad
hazy thunder
Most of my queer friends (I guess self included) have a pretty strong “this is my state and I’ll leave in a body bag” attitude
queen coyote
Most of my queer friends (I guess self included) have a pretty strong “this is m...
heyyyy I don't want to dissuade you from contributing, but the server is about open source information - information that anyone can find on social media, or through satellite imagery, etc. what you're talking about, where you have a contact who had an experience, might get more traction with traditional journalists who interview people.
everyone is here because they're interested in open source research (for example, coming across a review on Google saying a doctor doesn't treat trans individuals), and what they can do with that information. Once again, we do want you to be here and contribute! But I want to be clear that if you don't get a lot of people picking up on your information, it's because it's not what the server normally deals with, versus you personally.
hazy thunder
Oh yeah, I know. I work a ton with open source personally, so I know what I just shared isn’t the main type of input you’re looking for. I was just offering a bit of context. But thanks for the extra guidance
queen coyote
awesome! yeah this area of the server is super well versed 🙂
west ingot
monitoring multiple discord servers for increased calls for hate and violence
Trump certainly is emboldening them
anyone else have experience in monitoring social media platforms?
sour vapor
sour vapor
anyone else have experience in monitoring social media platforms?
I actively don't because generally it requires some 'playing along' that makes me feel physically ill. But there are some folks in #far-right-monitoring who have experience with this.
queen acorn
Most of my queer friends (I guess self included) have a pretty strong “this is m...
Piggybacking off of Sarah's comment; I'm a trans journalist and would be happy to chat if you have a specific experience you'd like to share.
If you're sharing on behalf of others, it'd be best if I connected with them directly. You can send them my way on Signal (EVHaste.39), or here on Discord, though the former is preferred for security reasons.
hazy thunder
Thanks! I may float that by him if he has the spoons
sour vapor
south flume
https://bsky.app/profile/drsamischalk.bsky.social/post/3lhets7tdac2r
Their twitter have been hacked this night seems this post made it's effect 😉 posted link in #far-right-monitoring
sour vapor
queen coyote
west ingot
heck yeah those states
hazy thunder
That’s not counting the ones that already have enshrined trans protection laws (hell yeah home state Minnesota)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DEx7E5cMmCS/?igsh=MXFudHU1MWx5dDRmdA== verified these aren’t in the options, though the pride rainbow is still available
stone hollow
gray pond
Unfortunately NCMEC was already somewhat heading in that direction due to how it's board was compromised with anti-LGBTQ folks over recent years
queen acorn
https://vxtwitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1887181299103744025
I hadn't noticed the glib "we don't have to anymore" at the end. I also do not believe the chairman when he says he is not "up to date" on whether the T-slur is offensive, because that's an old slur. Maybe older than he is.
sour vapor
I hadn't noticed the glib "we don't have to anymore" at the end. I also do not b...
Yes but he's probably also from a generation where all the slurs were in regular use by white cis het folks.
queen coyote
Bluesky
hazy thunder
Oh hell yes
sour vapor
https://bsky.app/profile/aclu.org/post/3lhmr3qun3c2a
Let's hope it goes through. I am concerned about SCOTUS stance on this though
gray pond
twin pilot
https://www.thestranger.com/queer/2025/02/04/79906101/seattle-childrens-postpone...
At least 3 have been cancelled so far https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/seattle-childrens-halts-some-gender-affirming-surgeries-following-trump-order/
sour vapor
At least 3 have been cancelled so far https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/...
This is dreadful.
twin pilot
This is dreadful.
Yes, but this isn't ❤️ https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/113970180879371032
gray pond
sour vapor
(heart react for reinstatement not for halting)
sour vapor
highlights shifting position of the NYT ed-op board on anti-trans stuff
Yes, they seem to be doing a bit of backpedalling in general, even though they are partially responsible for the situation the US currently finds itself in. They better do an actual acknowledgement of harm done at some stage (and not merely for LGBTQIA+ related coverage, for other things too)
digital raven
I'm surprised to see that NYT criticism is allowed to stand here. I thought Bellingcat had decided not to call out other news orgs.
tulip harbor
Sharing specific criticism via written from (from a blog, website, etc.) is OK because we can all read what is hopefully a tought-out argument, weigh the validity of the arguments and of the source, etc.
What I don't like to see is people giving general, broad criticism that is by definition fully subjective and unsourced because that only ends up with personal fights. So saying "I think CNN sucks because I don't like it" and leaving it at that is the sortta thing I don't like to see here
sour vapor
I also think this would be hard because then 1) you need to decide when something qualifies as a news org 2) it means that you'd never be able to notify anyone over any mis/disinformation published in any qualifying news org
sour vapor
Here's an interview with Ezra Young on the topic of narratives surrounding gender in the media https://fair.org/home/ezra-young-on-trans-rights-law-anne-sosin-on-rfk-jr-and-rural-health/
digital raven
Just so I understand, media criticism is allowed if it is a link, and not just just my opinion, is that right? And am I right that each instance should go in the channel appropriate to the subject at hand because there is not one channel for media criticism? With perhaps #disinfo-and-propaganda as a default?
And/or #far-right-monitoring
sour vapor
(Maybe the USA needs it's own thread) [unconfirmed by hospital but letter sent to parents] "The decision has not been confirmed publicly by Phoenix Children’s Hospital, which did not respond to an email to LOOKOUT asking when the hospital is planning to announce if it will comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order barring gender affirming care for transgender minors under 19 years old. " https://www.lookoutnews.org/breaking-phoenix-childrens-hospital-indefinitely-ending-gender-affirming-care/
sour vapor
Among other details: "Days later, her new passport arrived in the mail along with a letter explaining that the application had been “corrected” to male." https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/passport-applications-got-more-complicated-for-transgender-americans-under-new-trump-policy/ar-AA1yDsmH
sour vapor
😡 UN Rapporteur is a TERF (which we knew but siding with Trump is a new low) https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/02/united-states-un-special-rapporteur-welcomes-executive-action-protect-female
She has a history of ignoring others when it comes to certain topics so no surprises there (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reem_Alsalem#Special_Rapporteur_on_violence_against_women_and_girls)
sour vapor
Some past commentary on her abusing her position to dismiss trans rights: https://www.awid.org/news-and-analysis/there-no-place-anti-trans-agendas-un & https://www.rapecrisisscotland.org.uk/news/news/rape-crisis-scotland-statement-on-the-open-letter-to-special-rapporteur-on-violence-agains/?tag=Rapporteur
hazy thunder
https://www.nps.gov/ston they removed all references to transgender people from the stonewall monument page
I'm livid
gray pond
hazy thunder
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3li4fym7zok2o the plot thickens
hazy root
Police find body of transgender man they say was tortured for more than a month
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/sam-nordquist-pattys-lodge-motyka-b2698841.html
stone hollow
Pressure SPLC to designate the US federal government an organized hate group.
hazy root
Is that research or news?
stone hollow
I'm told this was a front page story before, but now that it's gotten to a disciplinary hearing they put it in local news. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3d5d0x97vyo
gray pond
gray pond
for those who want to do their civic duty - fill out the comments that's linked in the thread
https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3likqfetci22y
https://www.reddit.com/r/Passports/comments/1it0ko3/public_comment_on_us_passport_form_changes/
sour vapor
sour vapor
sour vapor
Folks on bsky were boosting this reddit share from Cincinatti uni https://redlib.kylrth.com/r/uCinci/comments/1iudww3/fuk_everything_wtf_is_happening/ Apprently it's to prepare for https://www.ohioschoolboards.org/blogs/legislative-report/dewine-signs-bathroom-bill and https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/blog-posts/ohio-governor-signs-bathroom-bill-into-law-impacting-k-12-schools-and-higher-education-institutions-in-the-state/ . It is not clear whether these are real yet. Would be great to see some external validation of this, Siddall building is where they are at according to folks in the reddit, but others have not seen them yet
stone hollow
gray pond
hazy thunder
X
For background they are talking about lgbtqa chat rooms
That they have been portraying as sex pervert rooms
so there’s part of your purge
pearl minnow
hazy thunder
https://www.city-journal.org/article/nsa-whistleblower-trans-gender-ideology-dei hope you’re ready for the dumbest shit you’ll ever read
Someone is mad at pronouns and trying to start a purge
alpine sun
sour vapor
New bill in texas. They want to remove all rights to transition for adults too https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/pdf/HB03399I.pdf
(like, prohibitions on all surgeries and all hormonal health care for trans people specifically_
stone hollow
(like, prohibitions on all surgeries and all hormonal health care for trans peop...
I wonder if there's a "trafficking" or "bounty hunter" clause in this one.
sour vapor
I wonder if there's a "trafficking" or "bounty hunter" clause in this one.
I didn't search the document for taht specifically.
alpine sun
I wonder if there's a "trafficking" or "bounty hunter" clause in this one.
No I didn't spot anything like that in the bill
it's a bit confusing because it contains a part towards the bottom that discusses public funding which may appear to limit the scope, but is a different modification on it's own.
sour vapor
This was doing the rounds on the socials. Looks like GLAAD picked it up since https://glaad.org/new-york-times-removes-mention-of-transgender-man-from-headline/
dark fog
Cross-posting by request: https://www.advocate.com/politics/dhs-allows-surveillance-sexual-orientation
sour vapor
Cross-posting by request: https://www.advocate.com/politics/dhs-allows-surveilla...
thanks!
stone hollow
Very low on detail. Anyone following this? https://bsky.app/profile/pridewasariot.bsky.social/post/3ljgmqzmtlk26
It's LASD and she's previously won a settlement against them, so there's motive.
Late in the thread: "Activists are in custody of the footage of the attack. This will be released publicly later this week"
The hit piece doesn't look good. History of physical altercations. I really want to see that video, though, so I'm following this.
gray pond
gray pond
sour vapor
I can only find sources in Polish for this sadly, but the procedure for gender recognition has been successfulyl fought in Polar and people no longer have to sue their parents to have their gender legally recognised. Last paragraph in the wiki + refs therein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Poland#Gender_identity_and_expression
sour vapor
Note on a nw ILGA report on rights of LGBTQIA+ folks in Europe: https://magazine24-7.com/2025/03/anti-lgbtqi-legislation-in-europe-curbs-speech-freedom-democracy-report/
earnest crescent
gray pond
gray pond
article on the above https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-speeches-from-trans-dems
dark fog
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/cops-burst-into-womens-restroom-to-remove-bu...
I have been worried about this
gray pond
sour vapor
gray pond
alpine sun
Florida has began reissuing licenses to trans people
stoic galleon
Florida has began reissuing licenses to trans people
Thanks for sharing this information. To help our community properly verify and discuss this development, could you please provide a source link for this letter or clarify if you took this photo yourself?
alpine sun
Thanks for sharing this information. To help our community properly verify and d...
Yes let me find the source link
dark fog
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-makes-supporting-trans-people
For reference, this is the order. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-public-service-loan-forgiveness/
The title of the article is kind of confusing to me bc my brain initially read it as “Trump makes trans people ineligible for public [civil] service”, but it’s saying orgs that focus on helping trans people might (or in some cases, will) not qualify as public service for the purpose of the PSLF program. Technically, this needs to be done by rulemaking, per the National Council of Nonprofits.
gray pond
dark fog
https://bsky.app/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post/3lk2l4m5lv22a
So he’s a eugenist too. That tracks
twin pilot
gray pond
gray pond
dark fog
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-lawmakers-pass-bill-allowing-child-genit...
For those only scanning titles, this is the West Virginia legislature.
stoic galleon
US Department of Navy announces new policy impacting transgender service members:
Press Release: https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/4119910/department-of-the-navy-announces-new-policy-on-sailors-with-gender-dysphoria/
NAVADMIN 055/25 message: https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Portals/55/Messages/NAVADMIN/NAV2025/NAV25055.txt?ver=dGRaKyd08iHgtyHMFx54XQ%3D%3D
DEERS is the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System - it is the official system that verifies and maintains personal information and eligibility status for military benefits
gray pond
queen coyote
sour vapor
Some good news from Cincinatti https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/03/10/cincinnati-lgbtq-commission/
lunar snow
alpine sun
Another Florida trans person reporting issues with court orders, this time the one with their name change and gender marker change court records have disappeared from the gov system it was previously on.
hazy root
In Dutch. Link: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/14/nederlandse-wetenschappers-ontvangen-per-e-mail-indringende-vragenlijst-van-amerikaanse-overheid-a4886450
archived link just in case: https://archive.ph/q4cnF
sour vapor
Thanks!
sour vapor
I didn't actually realized they'd cancelled all these in January already https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4050331/identity-months-dead-at-dod/
queen coyote
ACLU
@aclu.org
Follow
BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
This is a critical victory for trans rights.
gray pond
twin pilot
alpine sun
‼️ Recently HHS filed a document in the Federal Register regarding proposed rule changes to be made, on page 44-46 contains a national trans healthcare ban.
This would ban coverage of transgender healthcare for all policies in the marketplace as either individual or small group policies (special policies for small businesses). Larger employer self funded plans will not be impacted.
(Download PDF from page for full version.)
vernal tundra
gray pond
vernal tundra
The German newspaper Tagesspiegel has exposed an anti-trans disinfo campaign waged by the German tabloid Bild and the """news site""" Nius last November.
Original article here (but paywalled): https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/unhaltbare-vorwurfe-und-ein-erfundener-penis-wie-die-bild-und-polizisten-den-ruf-einer-berliner-beamtin-zerstorten-13389952.html
Non-paywalled and machine-translated coverage of the same events from Der Spiegel here: https://www-spiegel-de.translate.goog/kultur/berlin-wie-bild-und-nius-eine-kriminelle-trans-polizistin-erfanden-a-330936fa-f387-4666-b976-fe6da14a86ef?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
gray pond
sour vapor
I just want to share this journalists list of articles. They werite a lot on LGBTQIA issues in french speaking parts of the world https://76crimes.com/author/moise-manoel/
gray pond
gray pond
long smelt
https://bsky.app/profile/eladn.bsky.social/post/3llf5mjttdk2m
https://jewishcurr...
would love to hear perspectives from anyone who still has something positive to say about the ADL, they’ve seemed to be acting entirely cynically for the last while
orban attempting to criminalize budapest pride https://bskye.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3llhb2h4i6224
alpine sun
gray pond
long smelt
the "administrative stay" the 9th circuit denied apparently would have allowed the Trump admin to carry on with its trans military ban, so its denial keeps the trans ban from legally going into effect
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca9.afaa7f8c-a307-4e35-a174-cf2fa59424fe/gov.uscourts.ca9.afaa7f8c-a307-4e35-a174-cf2fa59424fe.20.0.pdf
haughty rivet
I know there is a search engine dedicated to that. It might help you. Do you need the url? 🙂
hazy root
Who took those photos? What is the link to where they were posted? And do they know they are in the reflection?
As for the reactions, it would really depend on how much other vandalism happens. If their neighbours got it last week and the place across the street two days ago, you might not be looking at a targeted attack.
queen coyote
I know there is a search engine dedicated to that. It might help you. Do you nee...
Can you give me the URL?
haughty rivet
Can you give me the URL?
sure! let me find it
stone hollow
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Reposting, minus the reflection.
I'm not worried about being targeted, but there shouldn't be any people in the photo at all.
Vandalism spree in downtown Portland. Police say people break windows all the time, shrug, and a shop employee said it was just some "unhoused person having a rough day." I haven't asked at the drag bar, but I seem to be the only one calling this a hate crime so far.
This was one individual, in one night. I don't know if it's worth pursuing the police report and interviewing staff at the drag bar, but I thought I'd stick with Portland area incidents like this. Any advice to make these kind of reports more useful, I'll try to follow.
haughty rivet
This was one individual, in one night. I don't know if it's worth pursuing the ...
do you have primary source documents please?
stone hollow
Such as?
sour vapor
There's was a spate of burglaries & window breakages reported on for portland in January https://www.koin.com/news/portland/portland-lgbtq-bar-hit-by-burglars-for-third-time-in-three-months/
haughty rivet
This was one individual, in one night. I don't know if it's worth pursuing the ...
you are right to denounce it indeed
sour vapor
haughty rivet
I am confused. Is this channel about to find osint prooves about such subject or just newspaper about please?
tulip harbor
video from google maps, comments from wayback machine or else
It sounds like Downy is describing an event to which they were a witness and for which no police report has been made so it's not the sort of thing for which you can expect to have "primary documents" at this stage
haughty rivet
It sounds like Downy is describing an event to which they were a witness and for...
not from police. From our own sources
tulip harbor
I am confused. Is this channel about to find osint prooves about such subject or...
I'm sorry I don't understand what it is that you're asking
stone hollow
I'm gonna go by the drag bar Friday and ask around.
alpine sun
tulip harbor
I'm gonna go by the drag bar Friday and ask around.
FYI if this is in response to superCVE, they've been banned and also their questions were unreasonable IMO
sour vapor
School district reverts 'preferred names' back https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ohio-school-district-reverts-to-birth-names-catching-students-teachers-off-guard/ar-AA1C5vWe
stone hollow
YouTube following Facebook's (i.e., MAGA's) lead. https://www.usermag.co/p/youtube-removes-gender-identity-from
bright ore
I have so much to say and yet no words I can form. Just can't leave us alone, anywhere. If it wasn't so hard already
stone hollow
I'd planned on starting a YouTube channel, but the prospect of constant Google-endorsed harassment is turning me off the idea.
alpine sun
Ya, it’s starting to get into some concerning territory with almost all the main internet platforms capitulating
earnest crescent
bright ore
America's variant of Cass report but worse?
sour vapor
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01029-8
They won't get very far, there have been studies into this and the regret rates for any type of gender affirming care are many times lower than those for any other type of healthcare.
earnest crescent
I know, but I'm worried about like deliberate data manipulation or whatever
Perhaps that's conspiratorial, but I also have no faith in the ucrrent admin
sour vapor
I know, but I'm worried about like deliberate data manipulation or whatever
Since the NIH had much of their funding pulled, I suspect they won't be looking too kindly on this administration. They might end up firing all the relevant researchers under duress, and then making up some bad faith report like the Cass report, you're not wrong. But if they would -actually- look into regret, it's like 2% (and even then it's generally procedural and not identity related regret)
earnest crescent
what do you mean exactly?
sour vapor
what do you mean exactly?
NIH researchers have had many millions in grants pulled by the current Trump administration (e.g. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/02/health/nih-grants-funding-lawsuit/index.html ). This means that you have to wonder who is going to do this research if there is no one left to do that work. The cass report was a bad faith, using bad statistics and erroneous measures among other problems, report by a biased individual (e.g. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/endocrine-society-and-american-academy). There have been studies into transgender regret rates and they are very low (e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8099405/ )
In short: You are not wrong about the administration, but the chances of independent NIH scientists who are qualified in this subject area to do such a study not only having a job but then additionally finding any (non existant) regret rates is small.
So yes, they can force the NIH to hire some shill to write some bullshit, but it will be quite clear that that is what it is, as with the Cass report.
(apologies for the language)
earnest crescent
Nah, I think you're too soft on the Cass review actually
alpine sun
gray pond
You can imagine, this will now be weaponised to target trans folks
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-department-education-and-us-department-justice-announce-title-ix-special-investigations https://x.com/thejusticedept/status/1908194891319881760 https://fixupx.com/edsecmcmahon/status/1908173408401023112
gray pond
sour vapor
Trans man had his UK case dropped by a UK firm because of USA anti-DEI legislation apparently https://bsky.app/profile/goodlawproject.bsky.social/post/3lm7xxxphus2j
sour vapor
Linked NHS doc on the care of trans kids. https://bsky.app/profile/fiercemum.bsky.social/post/3lm7rxvb2zs2s
gray pond
This may be region locked
alpine sun
sour vapor
CW: Descriptions of child abuse https://transsafety.network/posts/chili-sauce-in-mascara-wes-streeting-complicity-conversion-abuse/
gray pond
long smelt
R rep added an amendment that'd block trans athletes to the state budget bill, D rep amended the amendment to require more back & forth / public hearings before it goes into the effect
Gaskey, the amendment’s Republican author, criticized the change as a Democratic attempt to effectively kill his measure, calling it “a way to bury this and make sure that nobody ever gets this on the record. … We don’t need a study. The polls support this. The federal government supports this. It’s time that we recognize science.”
not clear why the amendment wasn't directly rejected rather than confronted by this kind of legislative judo, assuming it is an attempt to kill his measure
gray pond
gray pond
vernal tundra
This is an odd one: On one hand it attempts to accurately portray the work of doctors and care workers for trans people, as well as the pressure they are experiencing due to misrepresentations of their work. On the other hand phrasing of the article often borders on false balancing, not shying away from repeating transphobic rhetoric without contextualizing it. I know Bellingcat discourages personal opinions on such matters, but I think it is important to note that the article is probably not an easy read for everyone.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/18/for-a-year-and-a-half-nrc-observed-the-gender-clinic-in-amsterdam-it-takes-so-much-time-to-prove-im-a-woman-a4886578
sour vapor
This is an odd one: On one hand it attempts to accurately portray the work of do...
There is very little balanced writing on the topic in the Netherlands, and specifically, very little that questions the practises of this clinic which is not in line with EUPATH
Thanks for sharing though, I'll make sure to give it a read
stone hollow
sour vapor
This quite a bizarre quote, even for Dugin "A.G. Dugin writes:. "Ukrainians are collective transgender people" CW: transphobia || https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/04/11/1229407.html ||
sour vapor
long smelt
sour vapor
Someone is doing the stats on anti-trans journalism in the UK https://bsky.app/profile/helenbelcherobe.bsky.social/post/3lmpthexotc27
vernal tundra
Talking about the Guardian...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/librarians-in-uk-increasingly-asked-to-remove-books-as-influence-of-us-pressure-groups-spreads
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Non-paywalled, archived version: https://archive.is/XnaI0
stone hollow
Statement from Trans Iceland regarding the deportation of a trans woman to the United States:
"The board of Trans Iceland strongly criticizes the decision of the Icelandic Immigration Service to deny an American trans woman and her son international protection and to deport them back to the United States. The mother arrived in the country just over a week ago due to the worsening situation of trans people in the West due to the crackdown on their rights, but as Trans Iceland and Samtökin ’78 have repeatedly pointed out, since Trump took office last January, trans people have had to endure, to say the least, gross persecution by the government. The US government has systematically undermined the acquired rights of trans people, as numerous examples show and organizations such as Human Rights Watch have discussed. The freedom of travel of American trans people has been abolished thanks to new passport and border control rules, while their rights within the country have been restricted.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently issued travel guidelines for queer people in response to these developments. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has also spoken publicly about the global backlash and the importance of Iceland using its voice to defend human rights. It is therefore wrong that the Icelandic government, through the Icelandic Immigration Service, should in this way refuse to face the reality that trans people currently live in the United States. The woman’s application for international protection was deemed “manifestly unfounded” despite reasoning and evidence that showed otherwise. To add insult to injury, she was then referred to the US embassy when she was deprived of services after a negative outcome was received in her case. This practice is truly incomprehensible and indefensible when it comes to an individual who belongs to a group that is subject to similar attacks by the US state as trans people. The decision to deport also includes . . .
unborn turtle
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/planned-parenthood-of-arizona-pauses
It's been reinstated https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3lmutw6rkoc2g
twilit birch
sour vapor
Can't believe I missed this https://www.wearequeeraf.com/trinidad-and-tobago-recriminalises-gay-sex-in-case-that-could-have-impact-across-the-caribbean/
sour vapor
(oh and as a reminder re: the uk, JKR donated quite a bit to this specific campaign, probably why shes' "proud" in statements https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/19/jk-rowling-for-women-scotland-donation-legal-definition-woman/
queen acorn
The world really would be better off for queer people, and everyone really, if we fired every billionaire into the sun.
stoic galleon
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alpine sun
Found this on Reddit, may be worth keeping an eye out to see how if there’s more updates.
https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1k0j4ee/im_being_evicted_explicitly_for_being_trans/
sour vapor
Trans kids deserve better banner drop today https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIibCeiMem5/
twin pilot
twin pilot
sour vapor
Apparently embarrassing lack of knowledge by an opponent can still be how you block a thing. https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/republican-representative-intersex-clip
sour vapor
Did we speak about this list before https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/14/ken-paxton-transgender-texas-data/ ?
It was back in 2022, but now more relevant than ever I suspect
torn flume
@sour vapor Yeah good idea forgot we had this chan, if anyone wants to continue the discussion from the trans claims angle
where we started out #usa-canada message
To note on this also, them being called a "Vegan" and "Trans" "death cult", all 3, hyper-specifically originated with anti-lgbtq right wing journalists. These were all entirely baseless and took those tiny correlational nuggets and granddsized them as an intentional trans bad narrative and "look leftist extremists!".
Every other bit of media using these 3 references is at root repackaging what originated as anti-trans content, propaganda if you will with technical terms.
sour vapor
Thanks!
sour vapor
The UK TERFs were obviously always white supremacists but now they've stopped hiding it. 'Womens safety' here with placards suggesting that immigrants make women unsafe. https://nitter.net/WomenSafety_UK/status/1914225436671746390#m
drifting laurel
Just hopped into this chat, and I noticed that @rare leaf was mentioning doing a deep-dive on "Alliance Defending Freedom" (last year), which rang a bell. The most recent issue of the Private Eye in the UK had an article mentioning "ADF International". PE only do print, hence the picture. Not a deep dive, but maybe a useful data point for someone.
twilit birch
The UK TERFs were obviously always white supremacists but now they've stopped hi...
Seems like a brand new group, I'm getting strong Astroturf vibes. Their GoFundMe fundraiser has Anna McGovern listed as co-organiser. From her website (https://www.annamcgovern.com/): "My specialist areas include traditional conservatism, politics, culture, and current affairs. I make regular appearances on TV and radio networks discussing top news stories for stations including TalkTV and GB News. I have written for several publications, including the Telegraph, having this work featured digitally and in print." The other organiser is Jess Gill, also a 'Young Conservative' (https://thecritic.co.uk/young-conservatives-need-a-voice/). So it very much feels like an attempt to direct at least some of the TERF movement toward establishment right wing conservativism, which tbf the TERF movement is already heavily tied with
vernal tundra
U.S. ‘whistleblower’ site targets Canadian doctors providing gender-affirming care
sour vapor
Seems like a brand new group, I'm getting strong Astroturf vibes. Their GoFundMe...
A lot of the mumsnet transphobes are also tied to the trad- and far right
Wonder if this is their kids. The women in that photo all look quite young
twilit birch
I don't think so, most young women in the UK are progressive, but there's still conservative young women, mostly from wealthier backgrounds. It's one path to political power for them https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3dvrrk9375o
sour vapor
I don't think so, most young women in the UK are progressive, but there's still ...
None of that means these can't be the kids of people who are active on mumsnet?
But it is correct that this musing isn't relevant to the channel
From Feb: https://archive.ph/lNPxe ( https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/ mumsnet-founder-womens-rights-blacklisted-ltfbffkdk )
(Academic article on transphobia on mumsnet from 2022: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14680777.2022.2032788 )
Either way the people behind the supreme court case met one another on mumsnet (which according to that vice article from a few years back is mostly upper-middle class women) according to that first one. Not sure how that crossed over into these young conservatives.
Ah, the vice article https://www.vice.com/en/article/mumsnet-uk-mom-forum-terf-transphobia-feminism/
sour vapor
This is riduculous https://canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2025/04/u-s-whistleblower-site-targets-canadian-doctors-providing-gender-affirming-care
The og article: https://gayexpress.co.nz/2025/04/trump-administration-opens-whistleblower-portal-targeting-trans-youth-health-care/
safe badge
https://www.transvitae.com/uk-supreme-court-to-decide-on-legal-definition-of-wom...
follow up from Starmer
vernal tundra
I think this statement is important in this context
https://bsky.app/profile/natacha.bsky.social/post/3lnfjlrxfxs2s
Even after this ruling, to be bigoted against trans women is still a choice.
sour vapor
Here's a thread on who follows a major online GC presence who was sentenced previously for child abuse https://bsky.app/profile/2damntrans.bsky.social/post/3lngo2iz4p224
vernal tundra
alpine sun
sour vapor
"HRT manufacturers" <-- they are mostly made for cis people, so are puberty blockers. Not sure how this is going to work
bright ore
"HRT manufacturers" <-- they are mostly made for cis people, so are puberty bloc...
Not far fetched to say you all don't need it either
sour vapor
Not read it yet myself https://www.dinamopress.it/news/a-roma-la-quarta-conferenza-delleurocentralasian-lesbian-community/
"The EELC – Eurocentralasian Lesbian Community is a lesbian, transfeminist and intersectional network, which organized its fourth Conference in Rome on the days of 23-26 April 2025. The conference will close with the first Italian Dyke March, followed by Dykes Rise, the official after-party of the march, organized by the Safffo collective. They are and will be three days of community, elaboration, visibility, struggle and lesbian celebration! "
sour vapor
more in TERFs doing a racism https://bsky.app/profile/mall.bsky.social/post/3lmoeka4ihc2k
gray pond
https://bsky.app/profile/politico.com/post/3lnl4ic5r4c2h
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/transgender-troops-military-care-00306827
Bluesky
vernal tundra
vernal tundra
sour vapor
NHS is apparently planning to test all trans kids for autism. Only rightwing rag coverage so far though, Telegraph (https://archive.ph/sU08i) and Express (https://archive.ph/iCUyO).
And express one is a repost from telegraph, so might be disinfo, not sure
bright ore
If they were to do that they would see some correlation since there statistically is. Never bothered to check myself, but even psychologists (anecdotally and mine) consider it during gender dysphoria diagnosis.
sour vapor
If they were to do that they would see some correlation since there statisticall...
we had a whole thread on this ages ago when we still had threads https://ptb.discord.com/channels/709752884257882135/1028837452628103210
bright ore
we had a whole thread on this ages ago when we still had threads https://ptb.dis...
Oh, far before I knew, nvm, will check myself, thank you. If you remember conclusion please correct me now
sour vapor
I think the long and the short of it is that it's unclear at this stage how strong the correlation is (also compared to that with adhd etc) and whether it exists just because people who are autistic care less about the opinion of 'general society' and therefore are more likely to come out if they are trans. So afaik, some evidence for correlation, nothing yet on why the correlation exists. But may be more research at this stage. I've not seen it though.
Trans people are sent for general mental health evaluations in all places where a diagnosis is (still) required (even though being trans was removed as a mental health issue in the DSM-5). I am not sure whether that specifically includes autism testing, as far as I know that would only happen if people show signs, and even then it's pretty hard to get access to autism testing.
Another option is that because trans people are so much more evaluated than the general population, they are more likely to find things.
So could be many different things even if the correlation is confirmed
sour vapor
Also the `(still)` part hit home...
Well yes. In some places they have started to (finally) adopt informed consent
There's all sorts of paperwork issues once the change is made, like often countries that require a diagnosis (for a non DSM condition, so pretty wild) won't recognise people who have transitioned (even for a long time) through self id. Making moving between countries extremely hard
bright ore
Absolutely
sour vapor
So let's say you move from New York State to Europe, you can get your prescription continued in Spain, but possibly not in the Netherlands.
(this is GP dependent, making it even more wild)
Anyway apologies. None of this is news so not so relevant to OSINT
bright ore
I appreciate and was about to write an essay but ye, I'll refrain 🤭
Thank you for your input on the matter!
sour vapor
You can DM me the essay!
alpine sun
Admin confirms anti trans report incoming
sour vapor
End of ovarit (/r/gendercrit) acc erin: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/extremist-online-forum-connected
Hong Kong activist won his case to obtain his id and has now again gone to court to get a birth cert update (if I udnerstand this correctly) ❤️ https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3308228/hong-kong-transgender-activist-mounts-new-legal-challenge-over-id-card-rules
archive link to guardian article titled "UK’s first trans judge appeals to European court over supreme court ruling" https://archive.ph/Brwiw
hazy thunder
Oh hey I can finally talk about this with press to back it up https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/queer-trans-intel-chat-leak-chris-rufo
These peeps are all my friends and colleagues. I was just cleared of what I’m affectionately calling “chat crimes” on Friday, but I accepted the delayed resignation offer so I’m getting the fuck out anyway.
gray pond
sour vapor
archive for guardian link to article https://archive.ph/u3fVv
gray pond
alpine sun
A few names have dropped based on the metadata in the anti trans HHS report released today. Unsure if I can share it here directly but staff can DM if they need it for any articles.
queen coyote
A few names have dropped based on the metadata in the anti trans HHS report rele...
Hey, so based on the possibility that the names could be incorrect, please don't post that here. I don't exactly know what "a few names have dropped" means, but report metadata could just include stuff like people assembling a PDF, etc
alpine sun
No worries, figured that would be the case 😊
stoic galleon
No worries, figured that would be the case 😊
We'll make sure staff see your message.
gray pond
PartyOn
dusky snow
I have to wonder if there's some link between the UK's trans Supreme Court ruling, Canada's quiet removal of key cabinet ministers (women, gender equality, diversity, inclusion + more) and Trump. Some relevant links :
Discusses the downsizing of the cabinet when Carney took over.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/prime-minister-mark-carney-cabinet-1.7487037
Joint statement from 200+ orgs re: removal of Women and Gender Equality cabinet position.
https://www.criaw-icref.ca/statements/joint-news-release-on-minister-of-wage/
"No doubt we will see the U.K. ruling cited in court cases and state legislatures in the United States and ultimately before the Supreme Court.” https://time.com/7278363/what-to-know-uk-supreme-court-transgender-women-ruling/
"The role of Minister of Women and Gender Equality has existed in various forms since 1971. Under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the minister was tasked with developing a 10-year National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence and Canada’s first 2SLGBTQI+ (Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex) Action Plan..." https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/03/18/canada-cuts-gender-equality-minister
stone hollow
Was the Equality Minister ideologically captured, like TERF Island officials were? It might be a good thing, though it would then be framed as a "blow to the rights of women" by the far-right if that's the case.
gray pond
Hackers.town
gray pond
https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lovylkvx422q
The petition: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home
Bluesky
gray pond
gray pond
twin pilot
stone hollow
gray pond
sour vapor
Belfast showed up ❤️ https://bsky.app/profile/hleehurley.com/post/3lpgswsh4ss2h
gray pond
Britain ‘needs anti-subversion laws to save democracy from itself’ -
Jonathan Hall KC, the government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, called for legal safeguards to stop those who would try to destabilise Britain
https://bsky.app/profile/flyingrodent.bsky.social/post/3lpj4tpmdu22p
sour vapor
gray pond
devout jackal
The UK 'biological woman' court ruling is even causing a headache for the leading party https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/20/labour-to-cancel-its-womens-conference-after-supreme-court-gender-ruling
and in parliament: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/05/20/houses-of-parliament-refuse-ban-trans-women-female-toilets/
sinful comet
I'm tracking the far right anti-LGBTIQ activists, Christian Nationalists, White Supremacist, and violent extremist groups targeting LGBTIQ events during Pride Month: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1kd_jQ6rRJrgaQp4J0Km7NWwKsuyDCtQ&ll=41.25881813524541%2C-96.69431800000001&z=5
gray pond
gray pond
bright ore
From evil and terrible to even worse
gray pond
gray pond
sour vapor
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/05/23/us-hate-groups-fuel-anti-lgbtq-rights-movement-in-africa/
gray pond
magic needle
attacks on protesters at the Mayday event in Seattle yesterday: https://bsky.app/profile/matthewdtaylor.bsky.social/post/3lpxyawuw7s2w
sour vapor
attacks on protesters at the Mayday event in Seattle yesterday: https://bsky.app...
I heard about this, thanks for sharing.
sour vapor
twin pilot
Archived: https://archive.ph/2cA3L
6 arrested at trans rights protest. 5 released, one will be seen in court tomorrow.
magic needle
More on the Seattle incident - the preachers have organized a rally outside the mayor's office today, and the Alliance Defending Freedom is talking about suing the city on their behalf https://x.com/charisma_news/status/1927198815880151504
X
The same organizers are hosting a similar event in Los Angeles later this week on the 31st
vernal tundra
queen acorn
I'm beginning research on an anti-LGBTQ hate-group which I believe organizes under the larger banner of Her Voice MVMT.
They are currently organizing a "tour" of provocateur events called "Mayday USA", which some papers have erroneously attributed as the organization name. They use the branding "Don't Mess With Our Kids" interchangeably.
If anyone is familiar with the group, which appears to be based in either Colorado or Texas, I would love to benefit from your knowledge.
I already have the primary websites for each Her Voice MVMT, Mayday USA, and the "Don't Mess With Our Kids" event organizers, as well as the self-written bio of the President/Founder, so I don't need the primary sources. Just any additional experience with the group which may not be publicly searchable.
The allegation that I'm investigating is whether they misrepresented the purpose of their latest event, in Seattle Washington on 5/24.
The event led to the arrests of several counter protestors in my community (which is historically the gay neighborhood).
They will next be in Los Angeles on Saturday, 5/31, so if I can I'd like to complete my research before that date and give the city a heads up in the hopes they rescind the permit.
(I've intentionally withheld all of the above links and names in order to discourage traffic and/or doxxing, but rest assured I do have them.)
Also, quick fix, I wrote her story instead of movement just now, video games on the brain. lol.
Fun fact: I reported their next location while covering the court hearing yesterday and they have since removed the dates from their website! So they've definitely seen me warning about it, and I take some pride in that.
Seattle Times article for context about the anti-trans event here in Cal Anderson:
magic needle
Worth noting that On Fire Ministries, headed by well known militia hate preacher Matt Shea, was one of the sponsors for the Mayday event in Seattle.
queen acorn
Worth noting that On Fire Ministries, headed by well known militia hate preacher...
I did know he was involved but On Fire Ministries was not on my radar, so thank you!
sinful comet
queen acorn
The group I mentioned above held a follow up protest (for which they were allegedly not permitted) yesterday.
During the improv concert, they announced that the FBI had agreed to investigate Seattle for “anti Christian bias and violence”.
Crucially, I believe they announced that ahead of the White House doing so.
Deputy director of the FBI confirmed this via Twitter shortly afterward. https://x.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1927519097757093947
This is the human who made that announcement, and his organization. Still investigating the connection to Her Voice MVMT.
While this was happening, counter protestors were covering the north wall with claims that the speakers had a history of anti-lgbtq and misogynist misconduct. (Still on my list to verify these individually)
Setting aside that they may have the attention of the feds, there’s another reason this combined effort from Johnson and Her Voice MVMT is concerning; I believe their intent is to astroturf police violence.
This video, posted by Her Voice MVMT CEO Jenny Donnelly, was posted within 24 hours of the Seattle event. It’s basically arrest porn. (Spoiler tagged for content)
They have one of these for every step in the tour, each with a quick turnaround. So they’ve got a template for these ready to go.
Unfortunately, it does appear to be working. Local right-wing agitator and disgraced journalist Johnathan Choe clubbed a protestor at yesterday’s event on video, and the police instead arrested the person he assaulted. They refused to view video evidence or acknowledge witnesses.
|| https://x.com/choeshow/status/1927512072772026572 ||
Choe mostly focuses on antagonizing un housed people in the hopes of capturing contextless video of aggression, but this isn’t his first foray into an explicitly anti-lgbtq event either.
Since the event, Johnson has promised to return in August. And again, the eye of Sauron has now officially turned to Seattle, which was almost certainly the goal.
So I would humbly submit that these are groups to keep a dedicated eye on.
Their next scheduled event is in Los Angeles on 5/31, so this Saturday.
If anyone is an LA local, now would be a good time to check in with your Parks department for wherever they have booked. I’ve received credible tips, which again, still verifying, that they falsified their applications for permits.
The allegation for the first event is that they applied as a “haircuts for kids in the park” event to educate on human trafficking, and then when they arrived just went anti-lgbtq.
For the second, which was organized within 24 hours, it is alleged they didn’t acquire the appropriate permits at all, but still had the full force of SPD protection and violence behind them.
A FOIA into your local parks and recc may not be returned in time, but I’d be delighted to read the results all the same. (I’ll be doing so locally)
alpine sun
This made me feel sick when I read it
alpine sun
Sharing this here since his husband has released a statement stating this was the result of a homophobic neighbor.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jun/02/jonathan-joss-king-hill-actor-killed-shooting
Copy of the statement
gray pond
https://fxbsky.app/profile/starshine.bsky.social/post/3lqnikagkos2e
post in question: https://fixupx.com/FBI/status/1929587710894739567
FixupX
sour vapor
Sharing this here since his husband has released a statement stating this was th...
It's wild to me that the police are denying that this was a homophobic attack after all that history
sour vapor
https://fxbsky.app/profile/starshine.bsky.social/post/3lqnikagkos2e
post in que...
Has any legislation that defines this and/or to this effect been passed? (sorry very busy so might have missed it if so)
granite halo
Has any legislation that defines this and/or to this effect been passed? (sorry ...
Only via EO and it's had TROs placed on it in a few states by federal judges.
I think perhaps more alarming is that the "big beautiful bill" bans virtually all gender affirming care for those on ACA plans, Medicare or Medicaid
sour vapor
I think perhaps more alarming is that the "big beautiful bill" bans virtually _a...
thanks
dark fog
I think perhaps more alarming is that the "big beautiful bill" bans virtually _a...
Texas just did basically the same thing by forcing all insurance providers to cover “detransition” costs with no limit even for people who transitioned before they had said plan, most insurance policies due to the sheer costs will most likely just stop covering gender care for adults
granite halo
Texas just did basically the same thing by forcing all insurance providers to co...
I mean, the sheer costs of a tiny percentage of a tiny percentage of people seems low
It's messy, because the insurance comes from wherever your company wants to buy it from. So you might be in Texas, have Illinois insurance, and be completely fine. It isn't a two way street though because states like IL have shield laws that stop out of state insurers from denying care to residents.
It's hard to tell what the effect of a lot of this stuff will be. TX's laws are obviously hostile, I think we still have to wait and see to know what will come from it.
dark fog
I mean, the sheer costs of a tiny percentage of a tiny percentage of people seem...
Well considering insurance companies have been eager to drop gac, and really all care to save money, I’d be quite surprised if they didn’t use this as an opportunity to say “sorry we can’t cover it it’s too expensive”
But I guess you’re right, best case scenario trans Texans will lose GAC in 2027 instead of 2026
stone hollow
Wait until they start requiring surgical mutilation for transgender people to get out of state mental hospitals.
queen coyote
to come to some kind of understanding it would be helpful to specify what kind of insurance - health insurance offered by employers, for example, doesn't necessarily cover only the state minimum requirements. additionally, insurance isn't free to drop whatever it wants - that's based on laws like the affordable care act which still stands, etc. so I think that specifying what exactly you are talking about helps the discussion along
additionally, I'd mention that speculation isn't something we look for in this server
dark fog
to come to some kind of understanding it would be helpful to specify what kind o...
In Texas it’s all insurance. Private, ACA, Medicare and Medicaid.
One sec
queen coyote
i'm looking for sourcing on "most insurance policies due to the sheer cost will most likely just stop covering gender care for adults"
dark fog
i'm looking for sourcing on "most insurance policies due to the sheer cost will ...
“Requiring unknowable and limitless liability for any possible adverse impacts from trans health care will, practically speaking, prevent most insurers from covering the care," said Thompson, adding the bill could also "drive excessive and inflated costs for plans that do insure trans health care."
Everyone focused on the gender ID fraud law while they snuck this one through
queen coyote
are you being specific about texas?
dark fog
are you being specific about texas?
Yes
dark fog
I would expect this to get hung up in court immediately
Perhaps the Supreme Court will get to it in a few years
gray pond
vernal tundra
The victim, who friends said is a trans woman, was on her way to meet friends in West Philadelphia to attend Pride celebrations when she was attacked, said her friend [...]
gray pond
sinful comet
White Lives Matter is putting up “Straight Pride” stickers for Pride Month — this appears to be at a welcome center on the Indiana/Michigan state border, but I haven’t identified which specific welcome center, yet. https://x.com/michiganwlmv2/status/1930218762789097691?s=46
X
sour vapor
NYT again with transphobic agenda https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nyt-anti-trans-podcast-finds-earliest
gray pond
sour vapor
gray pond
https://apnews.com/aac48e558ea4b7f1c3b869b917e6eea2
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/southern-baptist-obergefell-same-sex-marriage.html
raven compass
White Lives Matter is putting up “Straight Pride” stickers for Pride Month — thi...
38.58510961056525, -85.7765437535017. Looks to be at a rest stop somewhat close to the Kentucky border
sour vapor
The atlantic really never ceases to amaze me with their blatant transphobia. this time here: https://archive.ph/A5VjP (archive link to a transphobic atlantic piece where they are apparently trying to pretend they're not transphobic to I dunno, come across better to centre-dems (????) titled "The Trump Administration’s Nasty Campaign Against Trans People" )
-all CWs-
vernal tundra
The writer, Helen Lewis, is a big TERF.
sour vapor
The writer, Helen Lewis, is a big TERF.
nods they have a history of this. Just for some reason thought they might have addressed this in an article with this title
stone hollow
She calls the HHS report "good science" or something. That's when I realized I was reading the Atlantic and stopped.
sour vapor
She calls the HHS report "good science" or something. That's when I realized I ...
nods that's pretty much what happened to me
sinful comet
Patriot Front at two Pride Events today: https://bsky.app/profile/reportbywilson.bsky.social/post/3lrluvmfb3s2d
vernal tundra
Not anti-LGBT+ by itself, but an example of how anti-LGBT+ policies are used to discriminate against other people too.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/2D8MF
unborn turtle
Does anyone know of a case of someone being denied a civilian security clearance for a government contracting job on the basis of being transgender now that Hegseth is in charge of the DoD?
Is this the right place to ask this?
twin pilot
Does anyone know of a case of someone being denied a civilian security clearance...
Might be worth asking in #usa-canada as well?
vernal tundra
A new scientific paper about the UK's ban of puberty blockers
"Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2025.2521699
unborn turtle
tropic magnet
hollow vine
was told I should crosspost here. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328283/20241015134044777_Amicus Brief.pdf
direct line between the blogs and articles of "gender critical" liberals and the recent Supreme Court ruling. So it does seem like the NYTimes is carrying water for far right objectives
gray pond
raven compass
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jun/18/donald-trump-juventus-transgend...
the more i hear about this visit, the worse it gets
gray pond
gray pond
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/transgender-military-troops-forced-out-trump-ban-rcna212685
hollow vine
https://fxbsky.app/profile/joolia.bsky.social/post/3lrxjskudmc24
problems go beyond framing. the article seems to misunderstood by who and when Skremtti was brought up. it was a late Biden era lawsuit.
the article is straightforwardly wrong on the facts
sour vapor
Michael Hobbes with some commentary on yet another transphobic article by the NYT https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social/post/3ls2cj4enbs2q
sinful comet
Links to Telegram Posts:
https://t.me/WLM_USA_MONTANA_CHAT/12138
https://t.me/WLM_USA_MONTANA_CHAT/12140
tropic magnet
vernal tundra
Probably nothing new to anyone around here, but it can't be repeated often enough: How right-wing extremist orgs finance Europe's transphobic and queerphobic backlash.
https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/inside-europes-billioneuro-antigender-movement
vernal tundra
The German secret service is warning about neo-nazi attacks against homosexual and transgender people, leftists and migrants.
gray pond
alpine sun
Good reminder for American based community members, it doesn’t hurt to be certified in bleeding control
vernal tundra
“We Don’t Answer To Courts”: Trump Admin Refuses Compliance With Trans Passport Court Order
vague fossil
hollow vine
posted this in academia and north america. the Trump administration has gotten everything it ever wanted out of colleges, businesses and law firms.
gray pond
long smelt
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/05/26/80074724/the-city-let-anti-lgbtq-religious-zealots-take-over-cal-anderson
https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/05/seattle-police-makes-multiple-arrests-during-counter-protest-of-fundamentalist-church-groups-rally-in-cal-anderson-park/
https://itsgoingdown.org/interview-seattle-protest-mayor-police/
tropic magnet
https://www.wired.com/story/a-trans-pilot-was-falsely-blamed-for-a-plane-crash-now-shes-fighting-the-right-wing-disinfo-machine/
archived: https://archive.ph/Ik0tq
twin pilot
sour vapor
sour vapor
They'll all have to be read out at TGDOR, I hope we have their names. 😢
twin pilot
They'll all have to be read out at TGDOR, I hope we have their names. 😢
This is a good point, I don't know how to get their names
sour vapor
This is a good point, I don't know how to get their names
via that lawyer, or the overseas community of Iranian decent I guess?
placid jewel
Is anybody investigating soyjak.party? Since taking down 4chan they have surged in popularity, and the sense of a concerted metapolitical 'vibe-shift' that has followed feels uncannily inorganic alongside targeting trans/queer content creators with swarm harrassment tactics to 'protect children from 'EPI'. It's giving me Internet Research Agency flashbacks.
Tangentially, does anybody have any resources network forensic material/logs etc from other known state-sponsored bot farms/weaponised OSINT sites that could be used as comparative case studies in an investigation?
jovial zinc
I’m trying to find information on whether or not transgender health care clinics in Finland have collaborated with anti-LGBT organizations in the US and UK or elsewhere. There are several claims on social media regarding Finnish connections to the Florida Medical Board in the US as well as The Manhattan Institute. I am trying to evaluate claims from an academic view point (gender studies and political theory) and get a better understanding on what type of collaboration possibly has taken place and how serious it is / or isn’t.
Any leads are welcome! Thank you.
jovial zinc
The source for the connections to Florida is this case in Finland among others:
https://www.thefp.com/p/gender-affirming-care-dangerous-finland-doctor
jovial zinc
Was this a deliberate target? They must have had intel on the fact that the prison housed trans inmates. Any sources on whether they deliberately targeted trans prisoners?
twin pilot
Was this a deliberate target? They must have had intel on the fact that the pris...
I have no idea how one would find that information using open sources
stone hollow
Keep an eye on Israeli journalism?
jovial zinc
I have no idea how one would find that information using open sources
There are Human Rights and women’s and LGBT organizations operating in the area but of course there’s a language barrier. And then official news. The public statement from Israel’s side in the news is that they wanted to strike a symbol of oppression, which the prison was for the Iranian state. However, they did target a fully housed prison, without a possibility to evacuate the inmates, so technically a war crime.
It seems that most news cite the original NYT piece, the prison housed political prisoners who opposed the regime. And its ”trans ward” seems to have housed persons who had been charged and detained for very arbitrary resons.
This is from 2019, describing the ”trans ward”
Here’s a recent piece on the bombing of Evin Prison:
https://gcn.ie/israel-bombs-iranian-prison-housing-trans-inmates/
vernal tundra
vernal tundra
This is the founder of the UK's Good Law Project which supports the legal struggles of trans people
https://bsky.app/profile/goodlawproject.org/post/3ltoapteow22x
long smelt
By 2022, Cohn left Radford University, either to pursue other interests or due to being denied tenure. In search of a new source of income, Cohn began getting involved with hate group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) after co-authoring an article in the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health about gender minority stress and suicide.
…
Also in 2022, Cohn published a response critical of gender-affirming endocrinologist Stephen Rosenthal that outlined five assumptions which Cohn considers unproven or false…
https://www.transgendermap.com/people/tracy-cohn-j-cohn-jay-cohn/
(archived https://archive.ph/CmYh3)
jovial zinc
> By 2022, Cohn left Radford University, either to pursue other interests or due...
Thank you for sharing. I found the name of the Finnish doctor I asked about on the website as well.
long smelt
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/11/ice-transgender-immigrants-data-trump/
(archived https://archive.ph/azYR7)
twin pilot
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/11/ice-transgender-immigrants-data-trump/
(arch...
“The broader context is quite alarming, especially because the vast majority of our clients have very, very strong asylum claims,” Crawford said. “The vast, overwhelming majority have experienced very high levels of abuse, sexual assault, often torture before they come to the United States.”
unborn turtle
The charges against Marcy Rheintgen were dropped
sour vapor
Archive link to standard.co.uk article "Mrs Olubanjo argues that the crossings breach political neutrality rules under the Local Government Act 1986, claiming they amount to “unlawful political messaging”. She also says they infringe on freedom of belief and expression under the Human Rights Act 1998." https://archive.ph/wUUPR
long smelt
bigoted framing in latest NYT trans rights article, leads in w/ senior VP of "center-left think tank Third Way” and goes on to this:
In some areas, Democratic politicians, taking cues from liberal advocacy groups, found themselves signing onto positions about which even their own voters were uncertain, and have become more so in recent years.
This is particularly true of transgender rights, where polls now show majority support for some restrictions…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/democrats-transgender-rights.html
(archived https://archive.ph/p7EAZ)
vague fossil
I wonder if there are comparable articles for other civil rights
long smelt
I wonder if there are comparable articles for other civil rights
probably for the civil rights era back in the 50s–60s, and in the lead up to it
https://www.them.us/story/suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-shutting-down-alternatives
(archived https://archive.ph/P5KDT)
untold jungle
I wonder if there are comparable articles for other civil rights
Reminds me starkly of this Citations Needed episode on polling being used as cover for conservative policy preferences: https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-209-popularism-and-the-poll-driven-democrat-as-cover-for-conservative-policy-preferences-e9d64ea23e27, and also articles such as this: https://time.com/7271258/newspapers-struggled-to-cover-segregation-north/
dusky snow
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/non-binary-persons-us-deportation-paused-d...
Oh, I was waiting for an update on this case, thank you for sharing.
jovial zinc
bigoted framing in latest NYT trans rights article, leads in w/ senior VP of "ce...
The news about the SPLC listing may help contextualize how junk science has been used in the US to strengthen moral panic, anti-trans norms and sentiments among democrats.
This post lists academic references that aim to debunk statements and reports that mimic peer reviewed trans health care publications but have connections to anti-lgbt groups:
sour vapor
This post lists academic references that aim to debunk statements and reports th...
There was a protest when this event happened last yaer.
long smelt
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/puerto-rico-enacts-most-extreme-care
(archived https://archive.ph/4Pgow)
sour vapor
Malaysia recently raided a (illegal there) 'gay party' but now there's questions about was it actually (I hve not been able to find any articles about the raids that are not in support of the government actions so caution with reading): https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/07/20/kelantan-govt-seeks-truth-behind-alleged-gay-party
Oh lgbtq nation have one: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/police-12-men-at-gay-party-after-discovering-condoms-and-hiv-medication/
cedar wave
impressive overview of the anti trans policy advocacy network in the UK and canada. its mostly an explainer on transphobia and related misnfo, overview starts at 3h 44m mark (timestamped in the comments).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiOc0r31-Os&t=13449s
long smelt
Ellie Chowns, a UK politician known for defending Extinction Rebellion during a 2019 climate protest crackdown (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50316561 & https://archive.ph/XbM4D), speaking during the East Midlands Green Party Conference 2025, specifically at the Leadership Hustings (for non-UK people, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hustings). Her remarks, made in the context of her run w/ Adrian Ramsay for UK Greens co-leadership, can come off as a both-sidesing trans rights and are generating blowback:
And recognizing … just because you're Jewish doesn't mean you speak for all Jews. Just because you're trans doesn't mean you speak for all trans people. And there's a really there is a diversity of views among everybody.
…
I'm sort of distressed personally [by] the the lack of compassion that is sometimes there in the debate over trans rights um among a range of people. And I'm not saying this is on one side or another at all. I think that we all really need to listen to each other. I think we all need to avoid jumping to conclusions about each other. I think we need as a party to be able to have open conversations about contested issues…
but there's there are sometimes issues where things seem to really get very crunchy … we absolutely can respect fact that there is a ruling in in law that is clarifying the difference between biology and and social gender. Um yes, there's a difference between sex and gender…
long smelt
Ellie Chowns, a UK politician known for defending Extinction Rebellion during a ...
24:07–27:16
https://youtu.be/jwGlFXuct_A?t=1447
transcript for that portion
hazy root
Ellie Chowns, a UK politician known for defending Extinction Rebellion during a ...
Did you mean to post this in #eu-uk perhaps?
No wait, probably #environment-wildlife
long smelt
Did you mean to post this in <#709946606144847872> perhaps?
I can move it if you like, but was highlighting her focus on trans issues (she's saying "trans people don't speak for all trans people, lots of people have opinions" type stuff, which is generating blowback)
probably belongs more in eu-uk than environment, included that for context as to who she was
hazy root
I don't really see anything in your post that leads me to think it's about trans issues... You might want to lead with that.
jovial zinc
impressive overview of the anti trans policy advocacy network in the UK and cana...
Related to this, here is the speaker list of the 2025 SEGM-conference, which is listed as a hate group by SPLC:
jovial zinc
https://www.transadvocate.com/fake-radical-feminist-group-actually-paid-politica...
This is from 2017, but of course still relevant. They’ve had years to organize.
Alliance Defending Freedom and its international wing has had a strong interest in Finland for a couple of years due to a high publicity free speech/hate speech trial involving a Finnish conservative Christian MP. When searching on this I found that ADF also has noticed the Finnish trans health doctor whose name keeps showing up in SEGM and related events and who has given a statement to the Florida Medical Board.
sour vapor
Alliance Defending Freedom and its international wing has had a strong interest ...
This is wellknown in trans advocacy circles. Erin in the morning, transgendermap, and others have been posting about SEGM, and Kaltiala for many years.
E.g. an older SPLC link from 2023: https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/defining-pseudoscience-network/
jovial zinc
This is wellknown in trans advocacy circles. Erin in the morning, transgendermap...
Thank you! I appreciate the sources.
In Finland it seems that academics and journalists for instance either do not know this or are unwilling to bring up these affiliations. Perhaps out of fear of defamation law suits. When lgbtqi+ or trans rights groups talk about Kaltiala’s connections, they are labeled as incompetent in medical knowledge and as activists. And of course ”gender-ideology” proponents.
I wonder what the connections are to The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025?
sour vapor
Thank you! I appreciate the sources.
In Finland it seems that academics and jou...
I think there's a trend where many countries and/or publications don't want to follow academic protocols and rather both-sides it from a political perspective. The money and attention that's thrown at the anti-trans hategroups by the christian right and certain authors really doesn't help.
sour vapor
I wonder what the connections are to The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025?
Heritage foundation is probably bankrolling quite a bit, particulalry in the US, but all this predates 2025 afaik
cedar wave
if anyone is interested in setting up a collaborative mapping project count me in
vernal tundra
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security would like to bring attention to and condemn recent judicial and governmental developments in the United Kingdom, which attempt to harm transgender and intersex people in the UK by stripping them of privacy and segregating them as ‘others.’ The Lemkin Institute believes these moves are part of a broader process of erasure. It is not only government action but also the media narrative that has fuelled hostility to and debate about the humanity of trans and intersex people while ignoring their voices. We see evidence of genocidal intent and actions targeting these communities.
jovial zinc
New report, from June 2025
https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/inside-europes-billioneuro-antigender-movement
Related:
vernal tundra
I am sorry to hear what you are going through. All the strength to you!
Unfortunately in this case, I am not from the US and I am not all that knowledgeable about the situation on the ground. I am sure there is more than one transphobic """parent support""" group out there, but I do not know of any resource on how to find/identify them.
Maybe somebody different on this server is better informed.
sour vapor
Hi! Sorry you are having a hard time. A lot of the time in the USA the orgs are (apparently) state based rather than national but there are some lists out there like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transgender-rights_organizations#United_States and https://www.transgendermap.com/guidance/resources/usa/
gray pond
long smelt
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/politics/us-olympics-trans-women-athletes-ban-trump.html
(archived https://archive.ph/ZZPPs)
jovial zinc
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/politics/us-olympics-trans-women-athletes-...
This sets an example for the UK to go ahead as well.
sour vapor
https://transsafety.network/posts/my-parents-very-clearly-do-not-love-me-childre...
More on Bayswater specifically, here's an (award winning apparently) article on them by tboij : https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-07-02/the-parents-group-at-the-centre-of-a-rollback-of-trans-rights/
(by their group trans+ voices https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-09-05/trans-voices-six-months-on/ )
Mind you, I'm unsure of who is bankrolling them specifically. I might need to go do a little dive when I've got more time
jovial zinc
More on Bayswater specifically, here's an (award winning apparently) article on...
I wonder if there are connections to Hilary Cass.
sour vapor
sour vapor
Opinion piece by Iranian person on the bombing of the trans prisoners by Israel https://truthout.org/articles/israel-killed-100-imprisoned-trans-iranians-i-could-have-been-one-of-them/
sour vapor
RE: Gay man's experienced at CECOT in El Salvador: "Hernández Romero fled Venezuela in late 2024 to seek asylum in the U.S. because he feared persecution for his sexual orientation and because of his opposition to the country’s authoritarian government. He was detained and later, under the Trump administration, marked for deportation without due process. " [ CWs torture & mentions of sexual violence] || https://www.advocate.com/news/andry-hernandez-romero-cecot-torture ||
sour vapor
The SNP lose Mhairi Black: "Black singled out what she described as “the capitulation on LGBT rights, trans rights in particular,” as an issue for her. “I thought the party could be doing better about Palestine as well,” she added. " https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25339858.mhairi-black-leaves-snp-disagreeing-party-direction/
sour vapor
sour vapor
Ah, now the cisgays have also got their own little anti-trans group going in the UK 🤮 https://bsky.app/profile/pollik.bsky.social/post/3luz466fuw22k
stone hollow
I'm curious if people believe those organizers are straight, pretending to be gay. Americans don't seem to believe LGB Alliance and others are actually gay men.
sour vapor
I'm curious if people believe those organizers are straight, pretending to be ga...
Yeah, also am not clear whether the account is real (human gay male) or whether it's maybe like the Russians or some or other disinfo group that stands to gain something
Mind you, cis gay men (from the majority group) have always been a part of fascism, case in point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Röhm_scandal
(not that they were overrepresented or anything, but they were definitely there)
stone hollow
It's a sore point of "discourse" it seems. I keep saying fascist gay men are men first, that gay men can be shitty like any other man, but people get rankled over it and say I'm a manhater or homophobic. It's ridiculous IMO.
As misinformation, though, it is important to know if organizations really are made up of the people they say they are.
hazy root
If you have evidence that it is misinformation, please post it.
sour vapor
If you have evidence that it is misinformation, please post it.
I don't.
untold jungle
There is quite a lot more, recent info on the site owner’s LinkedIn page https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jamesroberts1979. This is publicly available info - linked through their YouTube. It’s not looking like misinformation to me either.
stone hollow
Oh I'm not accusing. I just have trouble convincing people about this stuff.
alpine sun
hate crime in central texas
hazy root
This is both a fundraiser AND a request to doxx people? Please contact @hoary ice with details before reposting.
alpine sun
no this is me sharing a story so it can be made aware
like how can we get reporting on these crimes without sharing them?
hazy root
Please contact @hoary ice
alpine sun
done
untold jungle
Florida AG is targeting a restaurant after a Pride event, requesting guest lists, reservation logs, surveillance video etc. Important in my mind today reflecting on the Free Speech Coalition Inc. v. Paxton SCOTUS ruling - https://www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrelease/attorney-general-james-uthmeier-launches-investigation-sexualized-performance
Some more context: https://archive.is/0rYRi
gray pond
untold jungle
https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/linkedin-removes-transgender-hate-speech-p...
I didn't know about Open Terms Archive before this, I really like what they're working on. Thanks for sharing!
sour vapor
https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/linkedin-removes-transgender-hate-speech-p...
Hm. The title though doesn't include the fact that apparently race was also removed as "inherent traits for which negative comments are considered harassment."I wish journalists would stop picking one, since they are so frequently aligned.
long smelt
an ivy league school may able to get away with alienating its current students, but hard to see how also losing its alumni is going to work out for the people who made this decision
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/metro/shameful-students-alumni-say-brown-deal-with-trump-administration-disrespects-trans-students/
(archived https://archive.ph/amyzX)
long smelt
Dershowitz said it was “pure McCarthyism” to not be served [a pierogi] because of his political beliefs. … [he] says he intends to “take legal action against the farmers’ market to ensure they only have booths by people who will sell to everybody.”
…
…during the disagreement, a third party came up and told Dershowitz to use the pronoun “they” for the pierogi salesperson. When the police arrived, they also advised Dershowitz to use non-gendered pronouns. Dershowitz was hesitant. “I’ll use whatever language I choose to use,” he told the police. “That’s a matter between me and my grammarian…
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/alan-dershowitz-lawsuit-farmers-market-over-pierogi-denial.html
(archived https://archive.ph/XyAsZ)
long smelt
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/nyregion/transgender-care-lawsuit-trump.html
(archived https://archive.ph/aCnEc)
alpine sun
2nd hate crime i’ve seen in austin recently https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/life-in-the-city-church-vandalized-in-south-austin-pride-flag-torn-down
unborn turtle
2nd hate crime i’ve seen in austin recently https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/lif...
The Russian Orthodox cross graffiti is... interesting. The criminal in this story was wearing one. I wonder if there's a connection or it's just a coincidence
stone hollow
Any Russia connection? That sounds like classic Putin Russia values appearing here as if MAGA.
unborn turtle
Yeah. I googled and I couldn't find any specific Orthodox groups/militias the way there are Catholic far-right militias in Latin America. That being said, there is a pull towards joining the Orthodox churches for the manosphere types as well as rising anti-LGBTQ sentiment in a lot of Slavic countries https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30q5l8d4lro
I also found this, but I think this belongs in either #far-right-monitoring or #russia-ukraine-eastern-europe https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russian-orthodox-church-declares-holy-war-against-ukraine-and-west/
long smelt
removing titles from trans men who transitioned after earning womens-category titles, and offering to reinstute them on detransitioning, really shows this organization's true face
The organization will also remove some titles won by players who won in women's categories and later transitioned to male. It will also remove some titles won by transgender men.
…
Transgender men who won in women's events before transitioning will have their titles abolished. The titles could be renewed if a player detransitions and can "prove the ownership of the respective FIDE ID that holds the title," the federation said. Abolished titles may also be transferred into a "general title of the same or lower level."
Meanwhile, transgender women can keep any titles they earned before they transitioned.
…
"The new regulations will make trans chess players all over the world face a horrible dilemma: transition or quit chess," professional chess player Yosha Iglesias wrote…
(emphasis mine)
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194593562/chess-transgender-fide-pushback
(archived https://archive.ph/py5u9)
sour vapor
removing titles from trans men who transitioned _after_ earning womens-category ...
This is mind boggling
unborn turtle
Are the trans men able to transfer their titles to the open category? That's what I'm understanding from the passage "Abolished titles may be transferred into a 'general title of the same or lower level'"
I tried to ask this before but couldn't think of the right way to word it so I deleted my question
long smelt
Are the trans men able to transfer their titles to the open category? That's wha...
that was my reading of it, but who knows what their policy will actually be
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/this-school-rejected-a-student-because-his-parents-are-gay-now-some-parents-are-leaving/
(archived https://archive.ph/A9YbX)
gray pond
long smelt
for context, the stranger is a seattle alt-weekly that started in 1991 and was the home base for dan savage's savage love column
https://throughthestatic.org/2025/08/01/the-stranger-erases-trans-mayoral-candidate-from-primary-election-voting-guide-neglects-to-disclose-payouts-to-endorsed-candidate/
(archived https://archive.ph/u5jn3)
long smelt
Hospitals in Chicago started scaling back gender affirming care earlier this year after an executive order on Jan. 28 from the Trump administration.
…trans advocates and families are calling on Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Attorney General Kwame Raoul to do more to protect trans rights.
“So often we see elected officials say they stand with us in private, and in public play the neutral, and we’re seeing that now,”
…
Raoul has declined repeated requests to explain how hospitals in Chicago aren’t violating the law. In April, he told WBEZ he didn’t see Lurie or Northwestern as “a bad actor.” “You can’t (be) said to be acting discriminatory when the federal government is holding a gun to your head,” he said.
Dozens of families and advocates have written to Raoul asking him to enforce the law and demand that hospitals keep providing treatment.
…
Pritzker has defended hospitals, too. Advocates and families know Raoul and Pritzker support trans rights, but they want them to hold hospitals accountable. They point to how much these politicians have publicly supported abortion care, such as at press conferences alongside abortion providers and legally fighting to protect access.
“I think the frustration for a lot of parents is that Illinois consistently touts itself as a safe state for gender-affirming care,” said Michelle Vallet, who is Garcia’s mom. “And it’s not. Those words are empty.”
McMaher wants Pritzker to meet with trans families — Raoul has met with some — and stand alongside advocates when they rally for trans rights.
https://www.wbez.org/gender-identity/2025/07/29/chicago-hospitals-are-scaling-back-trans-care-for-youth-a-rapid-response-team-is-stepping-in
(archived https://archive.ph/zPBov)
gray pond
carmine sand
Hate against straight people is crazy from dis thread
hazy root
Hate against straight people is crazy from dis thread
Which thread? Can you give an example?
stone hollow
That's a common cis supremacist claim, like that gay people are discriminating against heterosexuals or that they want to turn everyone else gay. It's the "gay agenda" to groom children, according to them, on the basis of takes like that one. But, maybe I'm reading too much into it because I'm frequently the target of such attacks.
alpine sun
no I’m reading it the same way
bright ore
I am confused, what hate? Is reporting on "our harm" (on an opt-in thread) about these problems any threathening to persons not affected?
hazy root
Hi all, I agree it sounds bad, but there is a small chance they meant something else, so I'm giving them the chance to explain.
bright ore
Oh yeah, I'm curious too
hazy root
People do come here with all kinds of language backgrounds, for example. They get a chance to explain and then we'll know more.
This straight person never felt hate from any thread in this server.
long smelt
EFF article You Went to a Drag Show—Now the State of Florida Wants Your Name #usa-canada message
untold jungle
EFF article _You Went to a Drag Show—Now the State of Florida Wants Your Name_ h...
This story is absolutely frustrating to me and I’m working on an article about it right now
stone hollow
There seems to be an article every year about Thai transgender woman conscripts avoiding combat roles.
long smelt
“I now understand more clearly how deeply complicated and hurtful this association can feel, and I take that seriously. Being an ally means listening even when it’s uncomfortable and taking accountability where it’s needed. I’m committed to doing both.”
Though Gomez stopped short of apologising for accepting the role, she shared that she had made a donation to Callen-Lorde, an LGBTQ+ health organisation in New York.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/07/michelle-gomez-statement-harry-potter-audiobook-casting-backlash-jk-rowling/
(archived https://archive.ph/9vvLa)
alpine sun
studies show trans people are twice as likely compared to cis people to serve their country
gray pond
untold jungle
studies show trans people are twice as likely compared to cis people to serve th...
This is an interesting point, I had no idea. Thank you
dusky snow
long smelt
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/trans-women-single-sex-spaces-ban-lr3hbgjzs
(archived https://archive.ph/taXyE)
stone hollow
dusky snow
Related: https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lvveux56s22k
This is legitimately terrifying to me. It's only a matter of time before women who look "too masculine" will fall into the same category.
sour vapor
This is legitimately terrifying to me. It's only a matter of time before women w...
These rules are almost always applied to Black cis butch lesbians before they are applied to anyone else
untold jungle
https://bsky.app/profile/princealbertpride.bsky.social/post/3lvu4lqpasc2j
Sean Feucht had an event in my city yesterday and I wasn't aware of it at all.
dusky snow
Sean Feucht had an event in my city yesterday and I wasn't aware of it at all.
Yea he's been going under the radar, booking in "churches" (not actual churches) or other people's names, it's been interesting for those trying to stay one step ahead.
untold jungle
Yea he's been going under the radar, booking in "churches" (not actual churches)...
It seems like for this event it was announced (on socials) just a few hours before the start, no advertisement in advance.
dusky snow
It seems like for this event it was announced (on socials) just a few hours befo...
I see today he's supposedly back in the US, so it'll be interesting to see what happens at the border when he tries crossing into Canada for a show Aug 20th in Winnipeg. As a US citizen he can't just cross the border and accept money for his performances in Canada without the proper licensing and permits. And if he wasn't on the Canadian border watchlist before, he is now. https://www.bandsintown.com/a/371420-sean-feucht
untold jungle
I see today he's supposedly back in the US, so it'll be interesting to see what ...
Thanks! I’m curious too, since the event space he used last night is typically available by permit only. Maybe this was a case too where someone else’s name was used to obtain the permits? I’m going to set up a google alert.
dusky snow
Thanks! I’m curious too, since the event space he used last night is typically a...
Feel free to DM me if you want to see if we can pinpoint a story here with some OSINV.
long smelt
In a statement issued Friday evening, the Mayor [of Hamilton, Ontario] stated her “office was made aware of a transphobic ad on a billboard.”
“While the billboard is not City-owned, it sits on City-leased space, and City advertising rules were not followed. We’ve directed Astral Media to remove it and put stronger safeguards in place.”
Astral Media reviews all advertisements for compliance with the Canadian Code of Advertising Standards before permitting display.
https://thepublicrecord.ca/2025/08/city-of-hamilton-bans-association-for-reformed-political-action-canada-arpa-billboard-ad/
(archived https://archive.ph/KC7TL)
long smelt
partial transcript of recent rep sarah mcbride podcast appearance
your party ecosystem is defined not just by politicians or the party, but also some of the loudest voices online that in voters minds reflect and represent that broader coalition in a world where many voters get their news online.
When we have an environment where we've got some very loud people who are shaming and calling people who disagree with them, even in just rhetoric bigots, when we have those folks saying that to a wide swath of voters, including voters we could win, and we aren't explicitly stating something to the contrary, then a voter will then just paint us all with one broad brush.
https://bskye.app/profile/ket.bsky.social/post/3lw3rtsagos2l
vague fossil
If posting a blog post isn't too off-topic, I don't think the message discipline she wishes for can come to be
https://sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2022/06/there-will-be-no-message-discipline.html
unborn turtle
long smelt
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/minnesota-teen-says-server-forced-prove-gender-restaurant-bathroom-rcna224562
(archived https://archive.ph/crWEi)
vernal tundra
For context, Dominic Tarason is a well-respected games journalist. This bit of news ties in with restrictions of game purchases by Visa and MasterCard and the ongoing protest against those.
https://bsky.app/profile/dominictarason.com/post/3lwathbgcvx2u
dreamy warren
You can find the TOS for Stripe here: https://stripe.com/en-de/legal/ssa
I am trying to verify if its official for Germany
In the official website in Germany the following is stated for the moment:
Adult content and services (see the FAQs for additional details)
In the prohibited businesses section:
"Businesses that engage in, encourage, promote, or celebrate unlawful violence toward any group based on race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other immutable characteristic"
"Adult services, including prostitution, escorts, pay-per-view, sexual massages, fetish services, mail-order brides, and adult live-chat features
Adult video stores
Gentleman's clubs, topless bars, and strip clubs
Pornography and other mature audience content (including literature, imagery, and other media) depicting nudity or explicit sexual acts
Any artificial-intelligence generated content that meets the above criteria
"
So they would be in breach of their own policy
Archived: https://archive.ph/KY14k
vernal tundra
Thus far I have only seen English-speaking users in the US and the UK complain about this particular problem. So it remains to be seen how Stripe will apply it to other jurisdictions.
Unfortunately the usual strategy in similar situations was simply to label LGBT+ content as "pornography" without further explanation of their definition of the term.
dreamy warren
Thus far I have only seen English-speaking users in the US and the UK complain a...
Its a good thing there are plenty of alternatives especially in the EU then. (I could provide a link but I am not sure if that is actually allowed. Anyone interested can DM me I guess)
dreamy warren
For context, Dominic Tarason is a well-respected games journalist. This bit of n...
The thread has been updated with more info and audio recordings.
vernal tundra
For whatever it's worth, Stripe is claiming that it's all a big misunderstanding now...
https://www.theverge.com/report/758927/stripe-lgbt-content-statement-itchio-adult-content
dreamy warren
For whatever it's worth, Stripe is claiming that it's all a big misunderstanding...
Probably not worth much
gray pond
dusky snow
B.C. nurse suspended by college, asked to pay $94K in costs for comments about transgender people
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/amy-hamm-discipline-bc-nurse-1.7610933
vernal tundra
vernal tundra
Not directly.
A recently report of the European Parliamentary Forum has pointed out which US organizations are financially supporting Anti-LGBT+ politics in the EU. Many of the organizations mentioned in the report have direct or indirect links to fossil fuel billionaires: For example, the Alliance Defending Freedom has taken money from fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch. The Koch family also funds the Federalist Society, another org fighting against LGBT+ rights in the US and the EU.
Though many orgs obscure where their funding is coming from (such as the Heritage Foundation) or have connections to various wealthy institutions and individuals.
The full report is here: https://www.epfweb.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/Tip of the Iceberg August 2021 Final.pdf
long smelt
Advocate lede Bluesky silenced trans voices over J.K. Rowling, here’s why #disinfo-and-propaganda message
jovial zinc
Not directly.
A recently report of the European Parliamentary Forum has pointed...
There’s a new, updated version of this report, extremely interesting indeed
stone hollow
Not directly.
A recently report of the European Parliamentary Forum has pointed...
The Koch Brothers' father was a founder of the John Birch Society. Real old school fascists who've been doing biological politics since the Nazis.
jovial zinc
vernal tundra
long smelt
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans-ag-andrew-bailey-appointed
(archived https://archive.ph/iFUag)
long smelt
James Dobson dead #far-right-monitoring message
long smelt
Brazilian Chamber of Deputies Member Erika Hilton, a trans woman & black/LGBT+ activist, after arrest of trans woman U.S. resident Alice Correia Barbosa on 3-year-old marijuana charges by U.S. ICE #1371571764525535242 message
vernal tundra
Those unfamiliar with the SEGM: They are infamous for producing the pseudo-scientific studies that are used to oppress trans people world-wide. Under the disguise of "concerned scientists", they are one of the key stones to attack the rights of trans people.
long smelt
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/michigan-ag-warns-um-hospitals-not
(archived https://archive.ph/3eDrt)
long smelt
UK politician having a real hard time being normal about trans people, despite joining the new corbyn/sultana party, where transphobia presumably is going to be a serious liability
Last Friday, Mr Hussain was asked about the position that the new party – which has the temporary name of Your Party – would take on LGBT issues and single-sex spaces.
The MP for Blackburn wrote on X: “Women’s rights and safe spaces should not be encroached upon. Safe third spaces should be an alternative option.”
…
On being accused of “trans hate” by India Willoughby, a transgender journalist, Mr Hussain said: “There was no hatred expressed, India, it’s a conversation that needs to be had.
“Agreeing with women on their need for spaces exclusive to them is not an expression of hatred to any other community. I stated the need for safe spaces for trans people, that’s not hatred.”
When asked by a prospective supporter of the new party whether he believed trans women were women, Mr Hussain replied: “They’re not biologically women, hence trans-women.”
And indicating his support for single-sex toilets, split on the basis of biological sex, he added: “We’re talking about toilets, most sane people want to be segregated in a toilet.”
(my emphases)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/01/jeremy-corbyn-zarah-sultana-new-party-adnan-hussain-trans/
(archived https://archive.ph/x2yMO)
vernal tundra
long smelt
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/denver-schools-defies-trump-trans
(archived https://archive.ph/gG9hL)
long smelt
coverage of longtime transphobe Graham Linehan being arrested on entering the UK for inciting violence
Linehan said he was taken to a cell and then questioned over the X posts, published in April.
One said: [CW transphobia] “||If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.||”
The writer said after questioning by police his blood pressure had reached “stroke territory” and he was taken to hospital and kept under observation, before being released on bail.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2025/09/02/father-ted-writer-graham-linehan-arrested-over-x-posts-on-trans-issues/
(archived https://archive.ph/mFFvH)
the second half of the Guardian's coverage of this quotes a number of people responding to this, mostly supporting Linehan
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/02/father-ted-creator-graham-linehan-arrested-over-posts-on-transgender-issues
(archived https://archive.ph/Vpj39)
U.S. Democratic rep Ro Khanna went out of his way to support Linehan, for some reason:
The Silicon Valley congressman called the arrest “an offense to anyone who supports free speech,” in a post on the social platform X.
“I guess UK has not learned from the time prosecutors read passages of The Picture of Dorian Gray to convict Oscar Wilde,” Khanna continued.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5482991-khanna-condemns-linehan-arrest/
(archived https://archive.ph/S9Ime)
long smelt
coverage of longtime transphobe Graham Linehan being arrested on entering the UK...
daily mail being extremely normal about this (/s), but their writeup does include a window into Linehan's immediate response:
After being told he is under arrest for the posts on X, a furious Linehan shouts: 'It's just disgraceful... Holy s**t, I don't f***ing believe it. I'm under arrest!? Do you know what this country looks like in America?'
He then repeats 'I'm going to sue you into the ground' three times, adding: 'F***ing b****ds. How dare you?'
When told to 'calm down' by police, Linehan - who was taken to hospital over his high blood pressure - fired back: 'I won't calm down!'.
https://archive.ph/oTv8n#selection-4215.40-4248.0
long smelt
coverage of longtime transphobe Graham Linehan being arrested on entering the UK...
new Guardian recap of Linehan’s arc since becoming a public transphobe
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/sep/03/how-graham-linehan-gender-activism-led-to-comedian-career-and-personal-armageddon
(archived https://archive.ph/lVN6Q)
long smelt
https://www.them.us/story/malcolm-gladwell-trans-athletes-sports
(archived https://archive.ph/3mm9k)
vernal tundra
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say
vernal tundra
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued a statement about the situation in the UK:
Statement on the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission: Violation of the Paris Principles and erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention & Human Security calls on the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) to withdraw accreditation from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in Great Britain due to violations of the Paris Principles and the erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people. The EHRC is Britain’s independent equality and human rights regulator.
Full document here: https://www.lemkininstitute.com/_files/ugd/c88266_d867000e790846f08b0aa1de85474fde.pdf
sour vapor
gray pond
FxBluesky
dusky snow
Why Vancouver's decision to host a Harry Potter attraction quickly became controversial
Please note : I found the first sentence biased in this reporting, and not very respectful towards trans people. I'm not trans however, so maybe this is normal to refer to the topic as a ||"culture war". ||
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-harry-potter-park-board-1.7628680
gray pond
sour vapor
People use the term culture war to refer to a lot of things these days that aren't really a two-culture conflict inside society at large (implied by culture war), but an imposition of one subset/subculture on the consensus of specialists in a field (who can use the term culture war to invalidate the consensus). This is true for this too (imo)
sour vapor
https://fixupx.com/frankstrong/status/1965404987355529440
Well, this is scary. I am glad the lecturer told the student to leave but I can only imagine how chilling this must be for them professionally as for any trans students in the class
sour vapor
https://fixupx.com/frankstrong/status/1965404987355529440
Multiple people were fired over this: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/09/09/530392/video-of-clash-over-gender-identity-content-in-texas-am-childrens-lit-class-leads-to-firings/
gray pond
Worth noting the course the lecturer was teaching states it deals with the topics of gender identity
Scroll to ENGL 361-500 Young Adult Literature
https://artsci.tamu.edu/english/academics/undergraduate/course-descriptions.html
Has the name that matches the person involved
long smelt
The House passed its version of the fiscal 2026 defense policy bill today … The 231-196 vote was split mostly down party lines due to the addition of Republican-backed amendments on culture war issues, such as several measures pertaining to transgender individuals.
…
Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, announced on Tuesday that he would not support the bill if it included “problematic amendments included in the rule that focus on divisive topics rather than strengthening our national security.”
…
“We didn’t get any of the amendments or debates that we wanted. Not a single solitary one,” he said on the floor today.
…
Over Democrats’ objections, Republicans passed six amendments targeting transgender individuals, including one that prohibits the Pentagon from covering gender-related medical treatment under TRICARE.
…
The House’s NDAA will have to be reconciled with the Senate’s version of the bill
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/09/house-passes-ndaa-with-848b-topline-and-protections-for-ukraine-aide/
(archived https://archive.ph/PypeO)
background on the issues with this bill:
HR 4016 [bans] funding for gender affirming care for all active duty troops and their families. It also mandates that none of the funds be used to abolish or reconfigure Guantanamo Bay, the United States military prison in Cuba infamous for torturing inmates. Notably, Guantanamo Bay is also used to detain immigrants for years, including transgender immigrants as of earlier this year. The bill also bans COVID-19 vaccination mandates for soldiers and their families, while nevertheless granting tens of billions of dollars for all branches of the military and federal agencies.
https://transnews.network/p/the-sweeping-anti-trans-bills-moving-through-congress-no-one-s-talking-about
(archived https://archive.ph/huCuk)
Kyiv appeals court upholds recognition of same-sex family rights
https://kyivindependent.com/kyiv-court-rejects-appeal-upholds-ukraines-first-de-facto-recognition-of-same-sex-couple-as-a-family/
(archived https://archive.ph/KKS75)
sour vapor
CNN are reporting that the last questions charlie kirk answered before the shooting were on trans people and gun violence, posting it here rather than in #1415412232686403735 because it is arguably going to be used as a tool regarding proposed laws targeting the trans community (even though it's unclear whether a shooting from a roof, which seems premeditated, would have even be able to hear what was being said?) ||https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/charlie-kirk-shot-utah-09-10-25#cmfedul41001m3b6nuijigdcy||
This is referenced in the wikipedia article on the shooting, -without- the CNN disclaimer that " From January 2013 to the present, of the more than 5,700 mass shootings in America (defined as four or more victims shot and killed), five shooters were confirmed as transgender, said Mark Bryant, founding executive director of the Gun Violence Archive. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Charlie_Kirk#Shooting
long smelt
CNN are reporting that the last questions charlie kirk answered before the shoot...
some people immediately started pushing that, so it seems pretty likely they’d like to use this as a pretext for anti-trans stuff, for example #1415412232686403735 message
on the merits it's flimsy reasoning (it'd make as much sense to argue that the shooting was timed to interrupt kirk before he had to answer the second part of a two part question, where he'd have to confront the fact that .09% of mass shootings had a trans shooter, significantly less than the percentage of trans people in the population) but I doubt the reasoning matters to people waiting for any pretext
long smelt
some people immediately started pushing that, so it seems pretty likely they’d _...
more on this issue: The Intercept, _Nothing Will Stop Trump From Weaponizing Charlie Kirk’s Killing to Attack the Left _ #1415412232686403735 message
& The Disinformation Machine After a Murder #disinfo-and-propaganda message
cedar wave
disinfo and roumors about kirk shooters identity/gender
#1415412232686403735 message
sour vapor
disinfo and roumors about kirk shooters identity/gender
https://discord.com/cha...
More background here, started on 4chan apparently [CW misuse of pronouns and misgendering]: https://www.hypefresh.com/4chan-users-target-trans-musician-in-charlie-kirk-shooting/
cedar wave
More background here, started on 4chan apparently [CW misuse of pronouns and mis...
yup
didnt want to share direct 4chan links, but yup
screenshots of a FB post shared with me as well, not sure who the OP is but gives an overview of the claims being spread
sour vapor
screenshots of a FB post shared with me as well, not sure who the OP is but give...
We don't usually do screenshots here on the server because they are so hard to track and easy to manipulate. So actually the og 4chan link, provided it's obfuscated with || on either side and a clear CW (e.g. that it's 4chan, that it contains misgendering of folks, transphobic language, etc. We have a lot of trans folks on this server), could be ok. (or if you don't want to give them clicks, archive.ph it and share that?
cedar wave
We don't usually do screenshots here on the server because they are so hard to t...
Sure will do in a bit
gray pond
granite halo
||https://xcancel.com/LauraLoomer/status/1967245147953111377 || cw: transphobia from Laura Loomer
long smelt
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/boston-childrens-fights-back-for
(archived https://archive.ph/d6ofO)
sour vapor
"J.K. Rowling Quotes Hitler In Viral Post Commenting On Charlie Kirk Assassination" https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/j-k-rowling-quotes-hitler-151553027.html
sour vapor
CW misgendering by governor. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/14/politics/video/governor-cox-kirk-alleged-shooter-ideology-relationship-digvid
sour vapor
Independent article on businesses in the UK having difficulty understandiing how to practically implpement the transphobi defninitions of gender https://bsky.app/profile/philippaeast.bsky.social/post/3lywwc42ats25
long smelt
Republican rep Ronny Jackson demonizing trans people, advocating universal psychological "treatment" and sequestration from other trans people
(cw: anti-trans extremism)
|| "these people have psychiatric illnesses to start with. ... These are people that have gender dysphoria, which is a real psychiatric issue."||
||Jackson, who served as White House physician to Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, argued that gender dysphoria is the reason the U.S. military currently limits transgender enlistment.||
||"It's the reason that we don't allow them in the military at this particular point, because they have psychiatric issues, and they're not eligible to serve in the military, as anyone else who had any other psychiatric issue would be," he said.||
||Jackson further contended that many transgender people have been "taken advantage of" by political and media forces, exacerbating underlying conditions.||
||"They have an underlying level of aggressiveness," he said of transgender women, adding that left-wing media "come in every single day telling them that they are victims."||
||He went on to argue that transgender Americans face "legitimate psychiatric issues related to the stuff that they've been exposed to" and that society needs to respond with stronger mental health interventions:||
||"We have to treat these people. We have to get them off the streets, and we have to get them off the internet, and we can't let them communicate with each other. I'm all about free speech, but this is a virus, this is a cancer that's spreading across this country," Jackson said.||
this said on newsmax (not a reputable source & this article justifies Kirk's hateful views as “religious positions”, only linking to archived version). pulled most of the relevant quotes out here.
||https://archive.ph/pyknx||
long smelt
Republican rep Ronny Jackson demonizing trans people, advocating universal psych...
social thread on this and similar rhetoric from Republican rep Nancy Mace
https://bskye.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3lz2awbzpss2s
vivid iris
CW: || Calls for forced institutionalism of trans people, includes severe language of scapegoating ||
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lyzt2eal7cm
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bright ore
Damn, poor fellas can't get a break 😔
sour vapor
Damn, poor fellas can't get a break 😔
Bit confused by this remark because it sounds kind of cynical? But that might just be lack of nuance in text-based communication? (Prob reading it like that because 'fellas' also very gendered for intersex folks)
bright ore
Oh, term fellas being out of place? Sorry then, not intended. Zero cynicism here, meant to express it hurting my heart intersex people are once again targetted.
sour vapor
Oh, term *fellas* being out of place? Sorry then, not intended. Zero cynicism he...
Not always, just checking 🙂 Internet nuance it is !
bright ore
Real. Also raised in a bubble as neuroeivergent on top, self-learned language wise, I mess up quite a lot 😅
Thanks for asking for clarification, feedback helps!
sour vapor
Real. Also raised in a bubble as neuroeivergent on top, self-learned language wi...
Yeah, I try not to assume haha. Also some kinda spicy and have a lot of it around, so..
vivid iris
CW: Mandatory || deadnaming ||of trans students in Texas
|| https://www.teenvogue.com/story/texas-schools-forced-to-deadname-trans-students ||
alpine sun
some positive news from texas, they have arrested the guys who attacked a trans woman in austin
vivid iris
Ken Klippenstein is reporting that the Trump administration is secretly planning for their FBI do designate trans people as violent extremists, under the department’s new category of “Nihilistic Violent Extremists”, or NVE’s. Below is the link to the article
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people
President Trump has not spoken publicly about this, it has not yet been enacted.
The group that appears to be pushing this to the administration is within the umbrella of The Heritage Foundation, and Project 2025.
Side note: My dad is a retired prosecutor and he told me the following:
The FBl cannot arrest people without probable cause that that they have violated criminal federal law.
So even if Trump announced this designation, it's essential to understand this fact.
No one is in immediate danger over this.
But that could change.
sour vapor
long smelt
Ken Klippenstein is reporting that the Trump administration is secretly planning...
more on this topic https://bskye.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3lz767nudrk2c
vivid iris
vivid iris
https://www.azfamily.com/2025/09/19/phoenix-man-accused-threatening-shoot-up-gay...
This man name checked Charlie Kirk and made statements to officers during his arrest that “radical left violence breeds a far-right response.”
long smelt
summary of Sep 19 2025's U.S. house of representatives resolution honoring charlie kirk, focus on LGBT+ issues https://bskye.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3lza3f4f5qk25
dusky snow
Alberta looks to use notwithstanding clause on its 3 transgender laws: memo
Rarely used provision allows governments to override certain sections of the Charter for up to 5 years
"Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office has directed officials to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in amending three laws that affect transgender people, says a leaked government memo obtained by The Canadian Press."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-transgender-legislation-1.7637890
dusky snow
Alberta looks to use notwithstanding clause on its 3 transgender laws: memo
Rare...
To note, something not mentioned in the article or by Premier Smith and often forgotten, is that Québec is the only province to have NOT signed the Constitution Act in 1982. I hope that at some point, someone somewhere remembers this and shares this tidbit in future reporting.
sour vapor
Three bodies of transfolks found in Karachi [CW: Violent death of transgender people] . Link to Human rights watch report ||https://www.dawn.com/news/1943908||
tulip harbor
posted this in another channel accidentally
#gender-based-violence-misogyny message
long smelt
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c056nle2drno
attempt by regime to officially reinstate trans passport gender marker change ban (which they've most recently refused to comply with a court order about) https://bskye.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3lzgtzxv5c22q
gray pond
vague fossil
re: that article
wide merlin
Article appears to be in progress
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArvadaCO/comments/1nnuk48/trans_couple_attacked_outside_cheapskates_last/
sour vapor
I'd actually missed this loss of dhs protections re: being surveiled purely for being LGBTQ https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/trumps-dhs-loosens-sexual-orientation-based-surveillance-policy
sour vapor
https://bsky.app/profile/juliaserano.bsky.social/post/3lzhjjrtzfc2v
https://bsky...
'stable gender identity' is such a weird parameter. Lots of people have a gender fluid or gender queer identity where their 'stable' is that it's never stable.
Are they happy I think is a far more important question?
bright ore
Some people take years, decades to figure self out. Not all even are sure despite full transition. But are happy with route they took.
If whatever 'still questions / not stable enough' studies were to have much meaning, we'd see much more voluntary detransitions happening. Meanwhile they are rare.
ancient willow
Some people take years, decades to figure self out. Not all even are sure despit...
What's stable enough? Who gets to define the "enough?"
sour vapor
What's stable enough? Who gets to define the "enough?"
I have not read whatever waas linked to, but am sure (I'm not) they quantify the metric. [/cynical]
alpine sun
https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3lzjcgp7phs25
https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3lzjcgtf7wk25
long smelt
https://bsky.app/profile/mimmymum.bsky.social/post/3lxhyq5jpyc2c
His work has been cited not only by Trump’s HHS but in other prominent attacks on transgender health care, including an amicus brief in support of Chiles v. Salazar, the upcoming Supreme Court case seeking to overturn Colorado’s conversion therapy ban for minors.
In short, it was the prevailing assumption on all sides that Guyatt was not in favor—or at least quite skeptical—of transgender health care.
But in August, Guyatt and four colleagues at McMaster [University] made waves with a letter distancing themselves from SEGM and arguing that their work had been “misrepresented and misinterpreted.”
“It is profoundly misguided to cast health care based on low-certainty evidence as bad care or as care driven by ideology, and low-certainty evidence as bad science. Many of the interventions we offer are based on low certainty evidence, and enlightened individuals often legitimately and wisely choose such interventions.”
Using GRADE to justify bans, Guyatt and his colleagues wrote, was “a clear violation of the principles of evidence-based shared decision-making.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/guyatt-transgender-care-youth-medicine-evidence-segm/
(archived https://archive.ph/57eIZ)
sour vapor
Military doctor fired because of libs of tiktok activities https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/09/22/san-diego-navy-doctor-removed-from-role-after-transgender-healthcare-reference-flagged-on-social-media/
sour vapor
Wes Streeting talking to the mumsnet transphobes
Streeting says, “I think this is primarily an issue about women's rights, voices, and spaces ... so we've got to make sure the guidance has real world application. I don't think anyone, for example, would think it desirable for a trans man, so someone who's born female, but for all intents and purposes—hairy arms, beard, voice, identity—[to wander] into women's toilets or goes to a women's ward or another women's space. I think that would be undignified and unpleasant for everyone concerned. I think we've got to try and find a way that trans women are in a space that is dignified, and safe, and inclusive for them, that doesn't impact on women's sex-based rights and spaces.”
“So that sounds like third spaces,” Justine Roberts helpfully points out.
“I think, for trans women, yes, that is where we're looking,” Streeting confirms. “I know there will be lots of people, probably some Mumsnet users and lots of people in the LGBTQ community and allies, who would say that that's outrageous, I can't believe you're even saying that, you're a gay Health Secretary, how could you countenance this? I'm trying to find a way through all this that maybe not everyone loves, but everyone can live with, and treats people with dignity and respect. I think where this conversation went so badly wrong was a lack of understanding of why, in a women's rights context, the majority of our population ... feels strongly about protecting [single-sex spaces].”
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https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/wes-streeting-suggests-segregating-trans-people
District court win re: LGBTQIA2S+ arts https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/courts-side-with-aclu-and-queer-performers
Archive of transphobic newspaper (guardian) story on Intersex athletes in World Athletics.
Wildly intersex-phobic language warning. They are describing intersex competitors in women's categories as 'having gone through male puberty' based on SRY testing.
https://archive.ph/5mvpD
Trans women being attacked in Seattle 😬
dusky snow
In French only, trying to find English language reporting that isn't so ad filled. Until then...
The CAQ (provincial party in Quebec, Canada currently in power) has decided via the linguistic office of the French language that inclusive language will no longer be used in any state communications to increase clarity. This includes schools, universities and provincial government.
Quebec was seen as leader in this realm (in the French language); French is very binary (masculine or feminine) as it is with many Latin based languages. So these changes to the language were welcomed by some, hated by others, and it's been a debate for a few years. Usually, the province leans very liberal especially on matters of gender and gender politics, so this decision came as a shock to many.
Direct translation of the title - Inclusive communications: Legault government banning the use of 'iel' and 'toustes'
(iel = used as non binary pronoun instead of il or elle, toustes = non binary version of all instead of tout, tous or toutes).
long smelt
Nation piece highlighting the tendency in some U.S. Dems to abandon/ignore/join in anti-trans discrimination for dubious electoral reasons. for example,
[Searchlight Institute head Adam] Jentleson claimed in an interview with Semafor that he was actually trying to help trans people, saying, “The people who are throwing trans people under the bus are the ones insisting that Democrats take maximalist positions, even if it causes them to lose elections to Republicans who then tear up these rights.”
The implication here seems to be that Democrats can turn a big dial that says “transphobia” on it to some ideal level—that there’s a sweet spot of anti-trans discrimination that everyone can be content with. (Everyone, presumably, except trans people themselves.) But the events of the past year should have put that idea to rest. Democrats and centrists have been distancing themselves from trans people—indeed, top Democratic figures like Chuck Schumer will barely say the word “trans”—and the only forces that have benefited are the forces of anti-trans fascism. You can’t just play these kinds of games with people’s lives.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/right-anti-trans-campaign-republicans-democrats-liberals/
(archived https://archive.ph/GuPjV)
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long smelt
https://newrepublic.com/article/200816/fbi-baseless-project-trans-extremism
(archived https://archive.ph/6fh89)
long smelt
https://www.scenemag.co.uk/labours-retreat-on-trans-rights-sparks-grassroots-upr...
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025/09/24/wes-streeting-toilets-transphobic/
(archived https://archive.ph/u5O1R)
sour vapor
Big courtcase in SA regarding the current housing of trans inmates
“The transphobia within DCS’s senior management is undeniable,” said Mokoena. “There’s a clear difference in how heterosexual inmates are treated compared to members of the LGBTQI+ community. The LGBTQI+ community is often treated as less than human.”
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https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/09/24/transgender-inmate-sues-south-africa-prison-officials/
long smelt
missed this when it came out in June 2025, about funders of anti-trans organizations
An independent analysis of 45 right-wing groups advocating against trans rights found that 80% have received donations from fossil fuel companies or billionaires. The analysis, conducted by two independent researchers in 2023 and not peer-reviewed, was shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED. Through a qualitative search, the researchers identified 45 groups advancing anti-trans lobbying, events, and publications and checked reports about their donor disclosures for fossil fuel funding.
https://heated.world/p/fossil-fuel-billionaires-are-bankrolling
(archived https://archive.ph/H58Kw)
wide merlin
tropic magnet
https://www.wired.com/story/heritage-foundation-uses-bogus-stat-to-push-a-trans-terrorism-classification/
archived: https://archive.ph/Pe505
gray pond
sour vapor
10 Sept article on EU's tendency to sterilize trans folks in previous decades:
Elected officials in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden explicitly wrote infertility requirements into the law. The first was introduced in Sweden in 1972, and stayed in place for 40 years. The last to go, the one affecting Alexandra, was only phased out at the end of June this year.
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long smelt
cw, description of abuse targeting trans men in ICE Louisiana detention #1371571764525535242 message
wide merlin
The Mormons are behind a new brief to SCOTUS demanding trans people be excepted from the Equal Protection Clause under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
Excerpt from the intro to the brief in context:
Unremarkable facts can summon the Constitution’s fundamental guarantees. Examples include a child’s refusal to salute the American flag
They’re comparing the act of forced segregation and discrimination of trans people, denying them housing, public benefits, employment, and education which they wish to enforce to a child not saluting the American flag
https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/1ns4uqi/post_fromlatter_gay_stories_on_facebook/
gray pond
sour vapor
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lzwpdsbk522a
Archive link to independent article https://archive.ph/fQ0Mk titled "Texas man accused of threatening to shoot up Pride parade to ‘pay them back for taking out Charlie Kirk’"
This is a London Review of Books (LRB) blog post on a spate of deepfake/computer model videos that are apparently doing rounds on far right telegram with the intent to disinfo 'migrants hurting white women'. Also discusses the curious phenomenon that the people partaking in the viewig of such content know it is fake while still thinking it describes reality, e.g.
"Everyone in the comments knew the video was AI-generated, but they engaged with it and shared it with others, most of whom also knew it was fake. ‘It actually does not matter if this is AI-generated,’ one user wrote. ‘It is describing exactly what is happening in Britain right now to a tee.’ Debunking would have been of little use when, days later, the real Musk was beamed into the march to say more or less the same thing. "
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/september/fascistic-dream-machines
dusky snow
Bluesky
long smelt
bitterness & bigotry from J.K. Rowling about Emma Watson & Daniel Radcliffe’s support of trans rights
(cw, transphobia)
In a lengthy post, Rowling writes: … “However, Emma [Watson] and Dan [Radcliffe] in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right – nay, obligation – to critique me and my views in public.”
…
||In her post, Rowling says she has “repeatedly declined invitations” to comment on Watson’s views, as she “didn’t want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said”, and describes a note she was given from Watson, following her 2022 Baftas remarks. “This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family’s safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.”||
||… I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women’s rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.”||
||Rowling had earlier indicated that she was unprepared to forgive Watson and Radcliffe for having “cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights”.||
||https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/29/jk-rowling-responds-to-emma-watson||
(archived https://archive.ph/4jKY4)
gray pond
gray pond
🧵 https://bsky.app/profile/eruditorumpress.com/post/3lzyhmsly3k2c
another commentary on this
🧵 https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:e7gbntp2tzobn7cfi37viei3/post/3lzzkravwsk2i
long smelt
https://www.wired.com/story/heritage-foundation-uses-bogus-stat-to-push-a-trans-...
https://www.advocate.com/news/heritage-false-claims-transgerder-shootersherit
(archived https://archive.ph/WHOHr)
long smelt
another commentary on this
🧵 https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:e7gbntp2tzob...
focus on the anti-trans issues involved w/ the looming U.S. government shutdown, mentioning the possibilty of a short term Continuing Resolution to keep the government open while “negotiations” (if that's how to describe them?) continue
https://bskye.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3m22rbcermc2g
sour vapor
New travel warning for US https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-united-states-travel-warning-1.7648381
sour vapor
According to Medusa, Seda Suleymanova was running from a forced marriage, is there evidence they were LGBTQIA?
I think this might belong in #gender-based-violence-misogyny
sour vapor
"At a women’s detention facility for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Louisiana, four detainees — three of whom identify as transgender men — allege they were subjected to forced labor, sexual assault, forcible touching, groping, physical abuse, and denial of medical attention at the hands of a former ICE assistant warden."
[removing embed because imagery]
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/ice-allegedly-subjected-trans-men-to-forced-labor-in-womens-facility/
But the removal and honour killing as the result of a forced marriage is a topic for a different channel. This is not LGBTQIA2S+ related.
Like, we have a channel specifically for gender based violence here: #gender-based-violence-misogyny
sour vapor
None of these are links and no context is being provided here?
untold river
I would agree with Cabletie that, especially the images, belong in #gender-based-violence-misogyny. Posting these anywhere without spoilers with warnings could lead to adverse reactions from readers.
barren otter
Here’s the translation:
⦁ Instagram post: "Transvestite Kristina (actually Vahtang) was beaten by locals in Vladikavkaz for her painted lips. According to the conclusion, he has a broken jaw." (link: instagram.com/p/DApqiwNOJ6K/)[1]
⦁ Article on Smartik: "Transvestite Kristina (Vahtang) reported to the police after being beaten by passersby on the street for her painted lips. The result — a broken jaw and various injuries." (link: smartik.ru/vladikavkaz/post/219883173)[2]
⦁ Message in the Telegram channel ChP / Ossetia: "Transvestite Kristina (Vahtang) reported to the police. As a result of the attack, he has a broken jaw and various injuries." (link: t.me/chp_ossetia?before=19435)[3]
stoic galleon
Hello, I'm removing the posts containing graphic depictions of injuries per #rules When such content is relevant to analysis or research, it must include a content warning and spoiler tags so that community members can make an informed choice about whether to view.
hazy root
Hi and welcome! If I understand correctly Seda was a cis straigt woman, so you can post about her here: https://discord.com/channels/709752884257882135/1118448280435687506
The story about Kristina can stay in this, however:
In both these and any future cases please take care what and how you post. There are #rules that apply to the entire server, plus pinned posts that explain per channel.
I am deleting your posts. You can repost edited versions of them under the above conditions. If you are unsure, please send a direct message to @hoary ice before posting. The moderators can then give you more detailed advice.
PS: I see there was a third story that I missed in my assessment, I'm not sure where that belongs. Please contact ModMail if you want help with thag, or make sure it is clear from the repost what the subject and its relevance to the channel is.
sour vapor
Texas Observer with an article here on the new trans bathroom bill. Apparently it circumbents legislation to defend onsesself in court so the law should be unconstitutional. (again, am not in/from the US, so limited in my comprehension)
With anti-trans policies now openly backed by President Donald Trump’s federal government, it’s perhaps unsurprising that state officials feel confident passing more extreme measures. But beyond the harmful effects the law is likely to have on transgender and gender non-conforming people, it may also allow Republicans to weaponize transphobia against public institutions. The law enables the state to investigate and levy massive fines against schools, libraries, or other entities that they suspect of violations. In addition, it’s designed to be especially difficult to challenge in court, in ways that experts say are likely to be unconstitutional.
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https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-bathroom-bill-weaponizes-transphobia/
sour vapor
Scotland
"Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get their first appointment at an NHS gender clinic, and some will never receive care, QueerAF can reveal. This is the start of a new series that exposes deep structural issues with the UK’s approach to transgender healthcare."
sour vapor
The New Yorker on trans gun ownership
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-complexities-of-trans-gun-ownership
Which isn't even an issue for the NRA (https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/05/politics/nra-transgender-gun-control )
sour vapor
On the resurffacing/rebanding of conversion therapy for trans folks
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-06/conversion-therapy-trans-paper-pushed-decades-later/105850280
Student walk out in Calgary (ab, ca) against the anti-trans laws
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/students-walkout-transgender-laws-1.7651279
sour vapor
SCOTUS "A Christian therapist is challenging Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, claiming it violates her right to free speech."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-prepares-to-decide-if-therapists-can-practice-conversion-therapy_n_68e05038e4b061291b1518fe
queen coyote
sour vapor
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09/23/80249464/seattle-area-trans-women-ar...
This was posted previously ❤️ But I think more people saw it this time !
#1199853259742003300 message
sour vapor
Resource: Parents network in Washington
Ugh..
Bari Weiss new lead @CBS . Am expecting them to become significantly worse in their coverage of trans issues.
long smelt
Newsom dismissed Assembly Bill 86, a measure that would have tweaked language about health education standards for kindergarten through 8th grade.
Republicans latched onto the legislation as an example of “gender ideology” at work in state government, with the Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones (R) demanding Newsom veto it.
The bill promotes the “theory that reproductive anatomy does not necessarily determine a person’s gender,” Jones wrote in a message to Newsom.
“For third grade students the framework states, ‘When providing instruction on sexual and reproductive organs, teachers can introduce the concept that gender does not always match the sexual and reproductive organs described,’” Jones said. “Teaching controversial gender theories to students as young as eight or nine years old is not a practice that most Californians support, nor want to see happening in our schools.”
In a signing message, Newsom kicked the can.
He was vetoing the legislation, he said, because the bill should be considered after a state study scrutinizing health curricula was completed.
Newsom has been under scrutiny by the LGBTQ+ community since March, when he invited young conservative influencer Charlie Kirk on his podcast and agreed that trans student-athletes competing with cisgender girls was “unfair.”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/gavin-newsom-vetoes-gender-education-bill-declines-to-sign-other-trans-protections/
(archived https://archive.ph/Sr4BA)
long smelt
The pivotal moment [of the 2024 U.S. presidential election], to [Jonathan] Chait, was an ad cut by the Trump campaign using an answer Harris gave in 2020 to a question from the American Civil Liberties Union on the rights of trans incarcerated people, an example of what the pundit called an “edgy, leftist policy commitment in a campaign that consisted of little else.”
By citing the answer on trans prisoners, Chait is not talking about a tack to the center; he is instead making an appeal for the party to move right — the far right.
The idea that Harris’s position on trans rights was even a left-wing stance is a Trump campaign talking point, one hammered home by Fox News pundits day in and day out. It ignored that Harris was simply repeating established legal practice for the rights of those prisoners, policy that was in place at the time under the Trump administration. Chait bought it all hook, line, and sinker: making a case not for centrism, but for anti-trans demagoguery.
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/07/jonathan-chait-centrist-democratic-party-harris-trump/
(archived https://archive.ph/BJKHd)
unborn turtle
barren otter
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sour vapor
Why is this individuals presumably private information being shared here?
tulip harbor
....
Hi - I deleted your posts that seemed to be a translation of a screenshot of some kind of medical document provided without any context.
barren otter
Hi - I deleted your posts that seemed to be a translation of a screenshot of som...
Well, I've written the context, that is, the translation. I am glad that you have translated the Document and now understand what is happening in Russia. I know how to find.
sour vapor
[USA] Apparently they are attempting to deny people with nonbinary identities from fraveling now
queen acorn
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09/23/80249464/seattle-area-trans-women-ar...
Thanks for sharing this; I have no idea how it passed me by. These are super local.
sour vapor
"Sophie Cole was awarded £12,500 ($16,600) by an employment tribunal in Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk, with the judge deciding that Royal Mail had failed to act on the complaints. "
sour vapor
Report on trans folks in the church of Norway (by church goer & mom of trans person)
https://trans-express.lgbt/post/797367522113585152/visible-and-invisible-report-on-trans-people-and
sour vapor
fair.org on NYT anti-trans authorship
https://fair.org/home/nyt-sidelines-lgbtq-youth-again-in-conversion-therapy-case/
gray pond
This is being shared in anti trans circles
🧵https://fixupx.com/epkaufm/status/1978074195767480659
https://unherd.com/newsroom/why-are-fewer-young-people-identifying-as-trans/
alpine sun
so on the question in the graph is it just showing nonbinary folks?
gray pond
The full thread frames it as less people reporting as trans, queer, NB. Which it separates from Gay, Lesbian and hetero
alpine sun
i wouldn’t be surprised if a decline was seen in NB folks since that’s a more difficult spot to be in, vs a binary trans person who can live in stealth
like personally i don’t identify publicly unless its need to know part of why i moved was to blend in more
sour vapor
It's a "report". Doubt it's peer reviewed consequentially, link to archive of that ehterodox bla bla dept he published the report aat https://archive.ph/dhMOm
Other topics at that link:
sour vapor
If you had read the Hex Andersen link you'd see the methodology is bunk and none of this is based in anything. I appreciate the sentiment of what you are saying, but this is disinformation about trans people, not an accurate stat.
ancient willow
If you had read the Hex Andersen link you'd see the methodology is bunk and none...
Oh. So people haven't stopped identifying as nonbinary under the grinding heel of fascist idiocy?
sour vapor
Oh. So people haven't stopped identifying as nonbinary under the grinding heel ...
I don't think any accurate reporting or reseaarch has been done, so at this stage the most accurate answer is probably "we don't know"
UK update
UK warned that they are likely in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/15/uk-warned-its-treatment-of-trans-people-could-breach-european-convention-on-human-rights/
EHRC withdraws guidance on excluding trans people (for now???)
https://goodlawproject.org/ehrc-withdraws-interim-guidance-encouraging-trans-exclusion/
queen coyote
@ancient willow I deleted your messages. This server needs to follow the rules of the Discord TOS or it will be deleted and I guarantee you people are hoping it does get deleted.
ancient willow
Why'd everybody move to discord anyway? It has a chilling effect on free speech.
sour vapor
Why'd everybody move to discord anyway? It has a chilling effect on free speech.
This is a topic for #chitchat, not this channel
tulip harbor
Finneus, I'm timing you out.
Please take the timeout to lurk and try to get a better sense of how the server works and what kind of space we want this to be.
sour vapor
CW! This is really bad, discusses violence including sexual violence against trans migrants in Louisiana. Archive link to guargian article titled "Queer and trans immigrants allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal’" https://archive.ph/iuv7g
barren otter
There are official police reports confirming that Aishat Baymuradova, a woman who fled Chechnya to Armenia with the help of human rights organizations, has been reported missing. According to information from human rights activists and neighbors, Aishat disappeared in Yerevan on October 15, 2025, after going to meet a friend whose social media includes connections to Ramzan Kadyrov's circle. Neighbors reported her disappearance to the police, but there has been no significant response or updates from law enforcement so far.
The human rights community suspects that she might have been forcibly returned to her family, considering similar past cases in the region. The police report has been filed, but public statements or detailed information about the investigation have not been made available.
Цитаты:
[1] Woman from Chechnya disappeared in Yerevan https://astra.press/english/2025/10/17/10573/
[2] A girl who fled Chechnya has disappeared in Armenia. https://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/69026
[3] Armenia has not fulfilled its international obligations for ... https://www.trend.az/azerbaijan/politics/3476487.html
The link here is probably contagious, I haven't checked it yet.
sour vapor
There are official police reports confirming that Aishat Baymuradova, a woman wh...
Is this woman LGBTQIA+ ? I cannot find anything about that
sour vapor
YB on 'sex matters' one of the orgs working with genspect in the UK
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/behind-the-ruling-how-sex-matters-is-shaping-uk-policy-on-trans-rights/
hazy root
There are official police reports confirming that Aishat Baymuradova, a woman wh...
Hello! None of these mention that Aishat is LGBTQ+. Can you explain why you posted here and not in #gender-based-violence-misogyny ?
shell basalt
TPUSA Faith - an offshoot of the main org - has anti-LGBTQ printed distribution materials - linking a QRT:
https://x.com/Ace_Archist/status/1979434575374774479
gray pond
sour vapor
Sudent Union win:
“We acknowledge concerns that have been raised,” the researchers wrote in their August statement. “Our research agreement with SEGM ended in 2024. When the agreement started in 2021, the organization appeared to us as non-trans, cis-gender researchers to be legitimately evidence-based.
“We will no longer accept funding from SEGM,” they wrote.
Those assurances were welcomed by the university community as a positive first step and a rare win for student organizers. The researchers also claimed to have made an unspecified donation to Egale Canada, the country’s leading LGBTQ2S+ rights organization.
<<<<<<
https://xtramagazine.com/power/activism/mcmaster-university-anti-trans-funding-277419
sour vapor
Rachel Saunders' medium post titled "Dealing with gender critical abuse"
CW: Mentions and screenshots of slurs and threats of violence used against trans people
||https://freedium.cfd/https://rejserin.medium.com/dealing-with-gender-critical-abuse-d4da234dec02||
Trans healthcare anti-discrimination claus struck down by a district countr judge (Mississippi) in the US
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5570411-judge-biden-trump-transgender-protections/-
alpine sun
i’m curious if the ruling impacts sexual orientation since that seems to be another part the states sued over
sour vapor
i’m curious if the ruling impacts sexual orientation since that seems to be anot...
yeah I have no idea. Ithink 'lgbt' is convered by this. Not sure what the status was for things like lesbian in vitro for example.
vernal tundra
sour vapor
sour vapor
"The Equality Project, organisers of the annual LGBTQIA+ rights conference Better Together, last week attracted criticism with the publication of a podcast episode featuring a discussion between Executive Director of international LGBTQIA+ rights organisation All Out, Matt Beard, and The Equality Project’s founder, Jason Tuazon-McCheyne, where the pair perpetuated misinformation about transgender people, including an over-reliance on the Cass Report."
vague fossil
sour vapor
"Our research has shown that the charity has an unhealthy obsession with trans issues, repeatedly advocating in favour of the rolling-back of trans rights. "
https://goodlawproject.org/policy-exchanges-transphobic-campaigning-breaches-charity-law/
long smelt
The proposal to condition a hospital's participation in Medicaid and Medicare on halting gender-affirming care for youth represents an "unprecedented" use of the executive branch's power to control what medical care is available in hospitals, says [Georgetown Center for Health Policy and the Law director Katie] Keith.
"Because Medicare is such a significant portion of many hospitals' revenue," she explains, the rule would essentially force hospitals to end their gender care programs for transgender youth. That would mean all of those programs' patients — whether they have Medicaid or private insurance — would lose access.
This is not how the federal government normally uses this type of rule, Keith says. She served in the Biden administration on the Gender Policy Council, and worked on some "conditions of participation" regulations for Medicare and Medicaid, she says. "They're so basic — it's like, you have to have a crash cart [with] enough medicine to help a pregnant woman in crisis."
Instead of health and safety standards, this proposal would instruct hospitals "to stop offering a certain type of care completely to a certain patient population," she says.
Law professor Katie Eyer of Rutgers University questions whether such a rule would survive a court challenge. "But if it were successful, I shudder to think what this administration would do with such a tool in their hands,"
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/30/nx-s1-5588655/transgender-trump-medicare-medicaid-gender-affirming-care
(archived https://archive.ph/RvuLZ)
unborn turtle
gray pond
vernal tundra
alpine sun
unborn turtle
sour vapor
vernal tundra
School district threatened with legal action after kids are shown video that acknowledges LGBTQ+ history month
gray pond
sour vapor
wide merlin
https://bskyx.app/profile/assignedmedia.org/post/3m5luaqymok2u
I hope I’m never caught alive in an emergency in a catholic hospital, because I know I won’t have much of a chance of remaining alive if I do.
Doctors by and large already don’t understand much and don’t care to learn anything about our biology or health risks.
An outright refusal to learn such as in this case is a guarantee that any trans person will receive substandard care in any health related scenario.
But we’re creeping ever closer towards that line of “saving a life is against my religious beliefs if the person is _____”
bright ore
Doctors by and large already don’t understand much and don’t care to learn anyth...
Heard a lot of stories of I will not treat you because I don't know/can't treat transgender health problems when it cames to things not even related, like pneumonia, severe allergies or tooth removal.
In 'normal' healthcare around the world. Anti-trans policy in a hospital will make such even worse.
wide merlin
Heard a lot of stories of *I will not treat you because I don't know/can't treat...
My local hospital was doing this as recently as 2010- at least as was last publicly reported.
Since then, they’ve gotten someone on the board in every department who is at least familiar with transgender healthcare/ biology
Though the changes haven’t reflected in the preventative practices
bright ore
I am too early in my journey to have experienced such 'care' but I did have my taste of rejecting me referals to specialist once doctor found out what I am up to (again, unrelated).
wide merlin
There’s still a lot of “you’re sick because you’re trans”, “I don’t know how to treat trans people. You figure it out.” and “your sickness is in your head because you’re trans”
I’ve gotten a decent bit of it. I’m about 6 years in
bright ore
Also count in This issue you have must be <hormone> related, go off that hormone for few months and return
wide merlin
Lots of “trans broken arm syndrome”
bright ore
Yes this
wide merlin
I’ve been accused of everything from incompetence to maliciousness to explain away blood panel results
Over things like anemia even
I have literally no control over that
bright ore
That's horrible, I'm so sorry it happened to you
bright ore
Bar is very low and we are treated below that already. "Fun" to hear of extra bad policies
wide merlin
We’re doing decent for a third world country
bright ore
Fair, healthcare for transpeople worldwide is very mixed
wide merlin
Yeah, I’m in a server for trans Scandinavians and a server for trans Germans and the care between our three nations is extremely varied
But Europe has our healthcare system beat by a long shot in the “a trans person is still a person” category
bright ore
Yeah, I’m in a server for trans Scandinavians and a server for trans Germans and...
I'm in an international one and the experiences I hear... there is a lot.
wide merlin
It really underpins the argument of how much politics influences, and thereby dirties the practice of science
bright ore
I'm in an international one and the experiences I hear... there is a lot.
Also there are so many aspects there aren't really good and bad places to be transgender. Ok, more or less better/worse, and terrible are a thing.
But for countries with good care you will often find severe gatekeeping or other issues.
While expectations are to just... be treated like a cis person.
I mean, there are more needs. But challenge is to get normal, human, basic things.
wide merlin
The place I’ve found to be most forgiving from a purely medical perspective is Thailand, and even that’s complicated because they have much of the same problem of politics and religion being confused for science, just from a different perspective than the West.
But nobody is going to gatekeep any of your medical needs there beyond what’s proven medically necessary- like electrolysis before surgery.
bright ore
Note that Thailand has different perspective for customers from abroad and locals, nationals, who have it worse. But I am not informed enough to state more than that
wide merlin
I’m aware, and that was accounted for in the phrasing of my statement about Thailand
I’m not praising Thailand with my statement
bright ore
Oh of course, it did not sound like praise anyway
wide merlin
Im very disillusioned with the state of the people in this world lol
The people reinforcing these systems and institutions in particular
Because you know shits bad when the best healthcare you’ve got is the most cold, dystopian version of said healthcare.
Globally, the politics of trans healthcare is just another form of profiteering on human suffering- human suffering that those doing the healing are themselves incentivized to create, not unlike the Military Industrial Complex.
/rant
we’re in rough seas, niblings
bright ore
Wish I could disagree on anything of that :/
sour vapor
"As of Thursday morning, that language had been replaced with: “A passport is valid for travel until its date of expiration, until you replace it, or until we invalidate it under federal regulations.”"
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-admin-quietly-changes-state
sour vapor
Here's huffington post commenting on that ridiculous 'fewer trans people now' report thing
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/identifying-trans-research-bias_n_691619d6e4b0df3e16bdfdb1
wide merlin
"As of Thursday morning, that language had been replaced with: “A passport is va...
I expect that the fed will be using perjury as the mechanism to invalidate the passports of everyone who obtained one/ applied for one under the attestation
It was painfully obvious what they were doing from the onset
unborn turtle
I wonder if it's still worth it to do a name change on a passport or if that's also risky
gray pond
sour vapor
TGDOR 🕯️ Hope everyone's in a place where they can be kind to themselves today
twin pilot
Did folk here ever get a list of names from that transgender Iranian prison that was blown up?
quasi current
Did folk here ever get a list of names from that transgender Iranian prison that...
I do not know where it is, but I do know that it was posted. You can find it if you look hard enough.
twin pilot
I do not know where it is, but I do know that it was posted. You can find it if ...
The tdov website says the names are not known https://tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/2025/06/23/name-unknown-x-_evin-tehran-iran_3a10fa9b
twin pilot
This report is suggesting the attack was misinfo... https://taz.de/Recherche-zu-New-York-Times/!6109387/
In July, the BBC and the news channel TV Iran International also published aerial photographs of Evin Prison after the bombing. These clearly show that only the gate and the administration building were damaged.
When I asked lawyer Shafakhah, the only source cited in the New York Times article, about this directly, he was furious. He vehemently denies ever having said anything of the sort.
I didn't mention any missing transgender people, nor a destroyed wing, nor did I give a number, nor do I even know how many transgender people are imprisoned in Iranian jails.”
sour vapor
Mother Jones deep dive on transphobe lobby front woman Riley Gaines
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/riley-gaines-anti-trans-lia-thomas-ncaa-trump/
wide merlin
From the powerbrokers of anti-trans pseudoscience to fresh faces in the field, here are the culprits behind the report:
Michael Laidlaw
Leor Sapir
Evgenia Abbruzzese
Kristopher Kaliebe
Farr Curlin
Alex Byrne
Moti Gorin
Kathleen McDeavitt
Yuan (Ray) Zhang
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trumps-anti-trans-report-authors
sour vapor
"While “controversial” subjects may be discussed in CME courses—indeed, science is driven by debate, which is encouraged by the ACCME—national CME guidelines state the courses must still meet baseline standards of scientific validity and balance."
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans-hate-group-genspect-loses
gray pond
Profile of British comedy writer-turned-transphobe
https://observer.co.uk/culture/interviews/article/graham-linehan-wont-shut-up
gray pond
sour vapor
https://fxtwitter.com/karl_fh/status/1994902160388075610?s=20
laughs in the style of Lilly Savage and Danny LaRue
Honesttly, uk based folks coming for dames (panto dames included) is like an oroborous. Like the culture is consuming itself in the name of preserving culture.
I have panto tickets though, so fully biased 
long smelt
https://transnews.network/p/u-s-catholic-bishops-launch-attack-on-trans-healthcare-it-s-time-to-fight-back
(archived https://archive.ph/DV4R5)
vernal tundra
Outcry in Italy over sex education bill to crack down on ‘gender ideology’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/04/outcry-in-italy-over-sex-education-bill-to-crack-down-on-gender-ideology
fair citrus
knotty spade
