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Backstory:

My parents are divorced, for now 20 years. Both have remarried and are happy with their new partner. The divorce itself was messy and my siblings and I were caught in the crossfire. Lots of social services stuff and eventually the court ruled that we could stay with our mother despite the lack of income, as opposed to staying with our father where income would not have been an issue but non of us kids actually wanted to stay there. So they listened to us kids and ruled we stay with the mother the father has to pay child support as much as was possible by the laws of the time.

Now my relationship with both my parents was difficult in their own rights. I think my father might have no type of emotion at all or at the very least he’s on the spectrum and can’t deal with social stuff. Either way we eventually worked out a kind of relationship that works for us both.

My mother was always around but never there. If that makes sense. I never confined anything in her because she never listens to what I am saying and only ‘mothers you’ and tells you what you ought to do and think.

Main body:

I told them both separately last week that I am trans mtf. My father’s main concern was that I make my wife unhappy with this (she fully supports me) other than that he was basically “👍” and said as long as you are happy - I wouldn’t understand why you’d do that but I must not understand either. Anyhow how’s the BSc going?

My mother didn’t even let me finish before she went in and expanded my explanations with some stuff. For example I said :” when I am feeling I lose control of a situation I bite my nails” she then would interrupt there and say “yes because the loss of control is stress and when you are stressed you do that”. So I would have to correct and say “no, not when stressed, I am stressed constantly because of the BSc or other things I never do it because of stress”. Which only illustrates the problem I had when telling her about being trans. She took it badly and made it about herself.

I called my oldest sibling after and they told me that’s my mother typical response when you tell hehe something personal, don’t think anything of it. Now a week later my mother sent me a very long email about how my “problem” as she calls it is not that I am trans but that I just have trauma from her divorce. That despite having a step dad I never had a male figure in my life who could show me that being male is okay. She went on and on about the divorce my father and what not. In the end she said that I have to take this food for thought to my therapist because, though she understands that my “problem” is about identity, finding once identity, identity disorder, personality disorder and developmental disorder I have made the wrong conclusion and solution to my “problem” .

Is that typical mother behaviour? What do I do now? (I tried yelling, running around the lake, crying and bought a new skirt out of spite. It’s super cute btw, and extra short because I know she hates that.)

Besides that I talked to two friends and they read the text too. They said it’s a really bad take and she is implicating a lot of bad attitudes towards the LGBT+ community as a whole. Things I didn’t even see. Like the way she talked family and role models would implicate that only the “typical church approved” family can have healthy children etc.

Closing words:

Thanks in advance, I’ll be making myself some lasagna now, because my mother can’t eat that because of the cheese. So have at it 🖕

Haylie

Nika Bartoo-Smith
Underscore Native News + ICT

PORTLAND, Ore. – Around 300 high school students dressed in gowns, costumes and elaborate makeup danced until their feet hurt to music from DJ Aspen blaring through the speakers, their smiles and laughter filling the air at this year’s annual Queer Prom.

The Native American Youth and Family Center’s Two-Spirit program has hosted the event for four years since taking a hiatus during the pandemic.

“My ultimate goal with this is creating a space for queer youth, especially Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ+ youth, to be unabashedly themselves, to truly not have to worry about the way that they’re being perceived, but just be able to celebrate themselves, celebrate each other, and to showcase the fact that we’ve always been here — Indigenous, trans, queer, we’ve always been here. We’re not going anywhere,” said Kiara Wehrenberg, Tlingit and the Two-Spirit program coordinator at the center. Wehrenberg coordinates Queer Prom.

As prom season is well underway, Queer Prom is a space built for students from all backgrounds to have a space centering joy, in Portland.

“Queer Prom is so unique and so special,” said this year’s emcee, Dr. Poison Waters, an iconic Portland drag queen. “There are people in this country that wish they could come to a Queer Prom.”

Planning Queer Prom

Wehrenberg worked with youth from the center’s Two-Spirit program to find a theme and organize a prom built for them. The group made pamphlets for a swag table during the May 15 event, that offered a resource guide, information about the term Two Spirit and a list of Two-Spirit powwows across the country

This year’s prom theme was “Superheroes vs. Villains Edition” and students showed out in all kinds of costumes. From Captain America and the Joker to fantasy inspired looks include elf ears and elaborate makeup. The theme extended beyond dress as projected graphics all around the room feature comic book inspired illustrations.

Food, catered by Brittinie Love and her company Cooking with B. Love, took the superheroes versus villains theme to the next level. The menu featured items such as “Gotham Fire Beef Skewers” and “The Green Goblin Spring Rolls” with mocktails like “Radiant Recharge” and “Arctic Blast.”

Planning for Queer Prom began as soon as last year’s ended, according to Wehrenberg. This began with reaching out to vendors and event venues, such as AVENUE Portland, where this year’s prom took place.

“I think Queer Prom is just a beautiful place for connection,” said Marvin Colbow, whose drag name is Marvin Killboy, a senior at Benson Polytechnic High School. “I just went to my own prom, and I did not feel the same amount of connectivity that I feel here with my fellow transgender and queer people.”

Wehrenberg reached out to Queer-Straight Alliances and Indigenous Student Unions across Portland and beyond to open up the event to youth across the city, beyond youth at the center’s Many Nations Academy.

“Queer specific spaces are necessary across the board,” said Ellen Whatmore, a teacher at Franklin High School and the school’s co-advisor for the Gay-Straight Alliance. “Having an opportunity to shine and be in the spotlight and be celebrated is unparalleled.”

Whatmore attended Queer Prom dressed in a Medusa-inspired look, as an event volunteer and also helped advertise the event to Franklin students after receiving an email invitation from Wehrenberg.

Guest Appearances

A few hours into the dance, students were interrupted from tearing up the dance floor when Dr. Poison Waters invited two other drag performers from Darcelle’s XV out onto the dance floor.

Dressed in a big, blonde wig with hot pink heeled boots and a matching hot pink ruffled robe, T’Kara Campbell Star made her way onto the dance floor. As “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus filled the speakers, she shed her robe to reveal a bright green body suit and matching sun hat decked out in fake flowers. Her performance was met with cheers as students formed a half circle around her. At the end of three songs, T’Kara Campbell Star invited a student dressed as Maleficent to the center of the floor to dance with her.

Following her performance, Ilani E. Nova made her way onto the dance floor, decked out with a black feather boa, thigh high leather boots and a black and tan body suit. She danced with the students, lip syncing to a compilation of Abba classics.

And of course, Dr. Poison Waters herself also performed, moving from stage to the middle of the dance floor.

As the night wore on, the dance floor remained full as laughter and song sing-alongs drifted through the air, mixed with the beats spun by DJ Aspen.

“I just see so much queer joy in our youth and I’m so happy and honored to be a part of this,” said Mitch Saffle, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, a chaperone at Queer Prom and a data and evaluation support specialist at the center. “I’m so grateful to see that a space like this exists for our youth. Not only our queer youth, but our Indigenous queer youth.”

Later on in the evening, Yin Glossier, Dior Glossier and Deity 007 from PDX Ballroom brought vogue to the dance floor as students sat in a circle around the three performers, completely engaged.

Following their own performance, Yin Glossier explained a bit about the ball scene which started in Harlem in the 1920s, expanding in the 1970s and 1980s, when Black and Brown drag queens were not allowed to be at White drag queen pageants.

“So, as Black and Brown people do, we make our own shit,” Yin Glossier said. “In that, we have the birth of ballroom.”

They then explained some of the main categories that “Houses” of the ball scene compete in: fashion, body, sex appeal, face, vogue.

Students were then invited to compete in ballroom style, lining up to compete for “best dressed.” A hard decision on the part of the judges, composed of performers from Darcelle’s XV and PDX Ballroom. Ultimately a student dressed in a Master Shake, from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, costume took home the prize: a pair of rainbow beaded earrings donated by the center’s Two-Spirit program.

For Wehrenberg, Saffle, volunteers and students an event like Queer Prom is so crucial for the community.

“Being able to have a space like this is really important because it provides an opportunity for us to come together in community and celebrate queer joy,” Wehrenberg said.

Wehrenberg expressed that so often when Indigenous and 2SLGBTQ+ stories are told in the media, it is through a lens of oppression and tragedy.

“It is also really important to highlight and tell stories of resilience and love and joy, because we all deserve to be seen as we are here, queer, trans, Indigenous, proud, strong and fully human, because only telling the stories of oppression and tragedy, in a way, strips us of humanity because it doesn’t highlight or show any understanding of the fact that we have whole lives and joy and love surrounding us too,” Wehrenberg said.

This story is co-published by Underscore Native News and ICT, a news partnership that covers Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest.

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Colorado Supreme Court // Jeffrey Beall

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Today, the Colorado Supreme Court ordered Children’s Hospital Colorado to resume gender-affirming care for transgender youth, ruling 5-2 that the hospital discriminated against transgender youth patients when it shuttered its care program earlier this year in capitulation to Trump. The decision reverses a district court that had ruled against forcing the hospital to return to care and directs that court to issue a preliminary injunction restoring care while the case proceeds. Children’s Hospital Colorado was one of roughly 40 hospitals across the country that capitulated to Trump administration threats and ended their trans youth care programs. In its ruling, the state’s highest court held that the hospital’s fears of federal retaliation could not override Colorado’s civil rights protections for transgender people.

The case began in December, when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a declaration claiming that gender-affirming care for transgender youth was “neither safe nor effective” and warning that hospitals providing such care could be excluded from federal health care programs including Medicare and Medicaid. Children’s Hospital Colorado halted its program in January, and four transgender youth and their families sued under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. A Denver district court judge found that the families would likely prove they had been discriminated against and that their children faced irreparable harm, but denied them relief anyway, reasoning that forcing the hospital to resume care could provoke catastrophic federal retaliation. As we reported in April, the families appealed directly to the Colorado Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the Kennedy declaration was blocked in court for several violations of law.

In Monday’s decision, the court rejected the hospital’s central defense: that it had not discriminated against transgender youth but had simply declined to offer one category of treatment. The justices found that distinction meaningless, noting that the hospital continued to provide the very same medications, puberty blockers and hormone therapy, to cisgender youth while denying them to transgender patients. “Even without analyzing the disparate treatment between transgender and cisgender youth, CHC’s policy to suspend providing medical gender-affirming care explicitly discriminates against patients because of their gender identity,” the court wrote. “Gender-affirming care is inextricably intertwined with gender identity,” ruling that ceasing providing care was discrimination against transgender people and therefore illegal under state law.

The majority was equally direct in rejecting the hospital’s argument that it had merely been following the Kennedy Declaration. “Although CHC acted reluctantly and expressed no animus toward transgender patients, the action it chose to take in response to the Kennedy Declaration specifically targeted transgender youth patients,” the court wrote. “The Kennedy Declaration may have influenced CHC’s decision, but it doesn’t absolve CHC of responsibility.”

The most consequential portion of the ruling addressed whether federal threats could be allowed to override state civil rights law. The district court had reasoned that ordering the hospital to resume care would compel it to violate federal law. The Colorado Supreme Court flatly rejected that framing. “The trial court’s concern about opposing the public interest by ordering CHC to ‘violat[e] . . . federal law’ is also misplaced,” the court wrote. “Why? Because the Kennedy Declaration isn’t federal law.” The justices also refused to weigh the harm to transgender youth against the broader hospital population in raw numerical terms, a comparison the district court had used to side with the hospital. “We conclude that a Trinidad-style strict numerical comparison of affected individuals isn’t appropriate when the individuals seeking injunctive relief are part of a protected class and seeking an injunction because of discrimination based on that protected class,” the majority wrote. “Were it otherwise, minority groups would always lose. But that is not the law. On the contrary, that’s precisely why we have protected classes.”

The court found that the actual harm to transgender youth far outweighed the hospital’s speculative fears, describing in stark terms what the loss of care had done to the plaintiffs. “Petitioners and other transgender youth who sought such care from CHC were suddenly abandoned during a precarious time,” the court wrote, noting that the children had “experienced depression, and in at least two instances, suicidal ideation.” The justices detailed the case of one plaintiff, Danielle Doe, whose family had moved from Texas to Colorado for its protections for transgender people. “After learning that CHC could no longer provide her care, Danielle was hospitalized at CHC for a depressive episode,” the ruling states. “She wrote her mother a letter that expressed suicidal ideation, stating, ‘If I don’t see you again, I love you.’” By contrast, the court found the hospital’s feared exclusion from federal programs “speculative,” noting that no exclusion could occur without notice, hearings, and opportunities for judicial review, and that a federal court in Oregon had since declared the Kennedy Declaration unlawful and barred HHS from enforcing it.

Two justices dissented. Justice Brian Boatright, joined by Justice Carlos Samour, argued that the hospital had acted not because of its patients’ gender identity but because it faced “the risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, which would threaten the viability of its entire hospital system.” The majority was unpersuaded, holding that a “reluctant” act of discrimination compelled by a “third party” remains discrimination under Colorado law. With the decision, Children’s Hospital Colorado joins a growing number of hospitals, including Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego and Children’s Minnesota, that have moved to restore gender-affirming care after initially halting it under federal pressure. The ruling also answers the question many public officials have been grappling with in terms of state anti-discrimination law: whether vague federal threats, unaccompanied by any law or court order, are enough to nullify a state’s civil rights protections. The Colorado Supreme Court’s answer was firmly: no.

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Lurking in the deepest bowels of Colorado, a coalition calling itself Protect Kids Colorado has mobilized to push three ballot initiatives onto the Nov. 2026 ballot, each draped in the rhetoric of child protection but rooted in the reactionary impulses of the ruling class. This campaign exemplifies a deeper contradiction within capitalist society: the selective outrage of Christian nationalist factions who proclaim to safeguard “girls in sports” from transgender participation, framing it as a defense of biological purity and fairness. Yet, this same moral fervor evaporates when confronting the systemic exploitation embedded in the capitalist order.

Led by anti-LGBTQ+ “activist” Erin Lee, the group submitted over 165,000 signatures for Initiative 110, which seeks to ban surgeries on minors aimed at altering biological sex characteristics, and to prohibit public funding for gender-affirming care. More than 170,000 signatures backed Initiative 109, mandating that schools and athletic associations define sports teams by physical anatomy at birth, effectively barring transgender girls from competing in girls’ sports. A similar number supported Initiative 108, which would ramp up penalties for human trafficking of minors.

These measures, if passed, would not only restrict transgender youth from essential healthcare and fair participation but would also enforce rigid, state-sanctioned definitions of gender that serve to police bodies in service to outdated hierarchies.

Similar initiatives are proliferating across the U.S., with over 700 anti-trans bills tracked in 41 states for 2026, including bans on sports participation, healthcare, and bathroom access, highlighting a coordinated assault by bourgeois interests to divide the working class. In Missouri, ballot measures seek to enshrine bans on gender-affirming care for minors alongside abortion restrictions, using trans youth as pawns to simultaneously undermine reproductive freedoms.

Efforts in Washington, Maine, and Nevada also aim to put trans sports bans directly to voters, reflecting the ruling class’ strategy to legitimize discrimination through electoral theater, to the symphony of inflammatory, unscientific, and sensationalist disinformation campaigns via the media.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a leading Christian Nationalist, stands with her fans from Moms for Liberty-Wisconsin in front of the Capitol. (Moms For Liberty-Wisconsin)

These groups, often aligned with MAGA ideology, rally against transgender girls as existential threats while turning a blind eye—or worse, offering defenses—for capitalist pedophiles whose crimes are shielded by wealth and power. Consider the parade of high-profile figures in bourgeois circles, from financiers like Jeffrey Epstein to political elites entangled in abuse scandals, where accusations of child exploitation are dismissed as “fake news” or reframed as consensual indiscretions. The ruling class’ apparatus, including media conglomerates and legal systems, routinely minimizes these atrocities, allowing predators to evade accountability through settlements, NDAs, and influence peddling.

Capitalism thrives on the commodification of bodies, particularly those of the vulnerable, turning human trafficking and exploitation into profitable industries that bolster the accumulation of capital for the few. The hypocrisy is stark: Republicans accused of shielding pedophiles in the Epstein case, with Democrats charging that GOP refusal to release files protects the elite, while MAGA figures like Trump have been linked to Epstein yet face no reckoning from their base. Right-wing conspiracies like QAnon obsess over fictional pedophile rings among liberals, diverting attention from real abuses by their own, such as Capitol rioters convicted of child abuse who heckled police for “protecting pedophiles.”

Christian nationalists, who denounce transgender rights as anti-biblical, conveniently ignore their own defenses of abusers, exposing the selective application of “morality” to maintain patriarchal control. The hypocrisy intensifies when examining the so-called “pro-life” stance of these reactionaries.

While they decry abortion as murder and push for draconian bans that strip women and girls of bodily autonomy, their policies accelerate the immiseration of the working class. MAGA forces, under the banner of family values, have systematically dismantled reproductive rights, gutted social safety nets, and opposed measures like paid family leave or affordable childcare, ensuring that forced births trap women in cycles of poverty and dependence.

This isn’t about life, it’s about control. In a system where labor power is extracted for profit, women’s rights are subordinated to the needs of capital reproduction. The bourgeois state enforces this through legislation that prioritizes fetal personhood over living workers, all while corporate overlords reap the benefits of a desperate, underpaid workforce. The proclaimed sanctity of life clashes with the reality of capitalist death—through wars, environmental devastation, and healthcare denial—that claims millions annually.

The post-Roe era has deepened inequities, with abortion bans costing the U.S. economy $173 billion annually, lowering women’s earnings, education, and health outcomes, particularly for Black women and the poor, while increasing poverty and single parenthood. Overruling Roe has not been “pro-life” but a continuation of government control over women’s bodies, eroding their autonomy and futures. Pro-life rhetoric, including claims of “feminism,” masks this assault, portraying restrictions as protective while dishonoring women’s dignity and rights.

Compounding this is the complicity of the Democratic Party, which postures as a progressive counterweight but capitulates at every turn. Facing an electorate manipulated by misinformation and economic anxiety, Democrats have increasingly thrown the transgender community under the bus, offering tepid defenses or outright concessions to gain votes from a misinformed public. Rather than mounting a robust pushback against these anti-trans measures, they prioritize electoral pragmatism, echoing centrist appeals that dilute class struggle into identity politics.

This betrayal stems from their role as the liberal wing of the bourgeoisie, managing capitalism’s crises without challenging its foundations. By allowing reactionary narratives to dominate, framing transgender rights as a wedge issue, they divert attention from the real antagonists: the exploiters who profit from division. The working masses, fragmented along lines of gender, race, and sexuality, are pitted against one another, obscuring the class antagonism that unites them against the owners of production.

Post-2024 election losses, Democrats have openly blamed their support for trans rights, with figures like Reps. Seth Moulton and Tom Suozzi arguing the party went “too far left,” splintering over issues like sports bans and DEI, and retreating from defending trans people in order to avoid offending moderates. This “reshuffling” cedes ground to the far right, prioritizing the hunt for votes over solidarity, and failing to achieve either. Kamala Harris, the candidate who, as an Attorney General in California, pursued transphobic interpretations of criminal justice, and who downplayed the importance of protecting transgender rights in the 2024 election cycle, did not go “too far left” but abandoned the laboring and popular masses of America who have long struggled for change and progress.

At its core, these phenomena reflect the material base of capitalism shaping its ideological superstructure. Christian nationalism, with its patriarchal and nationalist trappings, functions as a tool to maintain social cohesion amid economic decay. By scapegoating transgender individuals, it channels working-class frustrations—born of wage stagnation, housing crises, and job insecurity—away from the capitalist culprits and toward marginalized groups. Initiative 108’s focus on human trafficking penalties, for instance, appears noble but serves as a smokescreen, ignoring how capitalism’s global supply chains and austerity policies fuel trafficking networks. True protection for children and women demands dismantling the profit motive that breeds exploitation, not performative bans that reinforce bourgeois morality.

The path forward lies in recognizing these contradictions and building solidarity among the oppressed. Workers, regardless of gender, sex, or sexual orientation, must unite to expose how such campaigns perpetuate ruling-class dominance, divide us via chauvinistic and sensationalist spectacles, and inspire nothing but dismay and demoralization amongst the organized working class. Only through collective action—striking at the heart of private property and imperial control—can we forge a society where rights are not commodities but universal realities. In Colorado and beyond, the fight against these initiatives is about much more than transgender inclusion: it’s a front in the broader war against capitalist hypocrisy.

Last week’s Federal Court decision should reassure us that Australia won’t import the kind of anti-trans rhetoric we see overseas — but will continue to be a country where all women enjoy equality before the law.

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Let's take a minute to appreciate that we have an overzealous nanny state making our medical decisions for us. Hipp hipp hurra! 🎉 🇧🇻🇧🇻🇧🇻 🎉

I knew that people say, that estrogen changes the way you orgasm/feel pleasure, but it is absolutely wild what estrogen does. With my partner I can literally cum 6 times in a row without touching myself. If the orgsasm is good, than I can literally lay there for 10s with my whole body shaking. I never even got close to this while I still had testosterone.

What's even crazier is, that I Am just about 5 months into doing E (did not get Blood work done yet, but I am working on getting it done) and it seems like I am getting quite good results with suppressing my testosterone with 4mg/week EEN subq. Injections are wonderful.

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My brother is coming to visit in a few days, and I want to come out to him, but I am also absolutely terrified. How did y’all handle coming out to your families?

The frequently cited claim that 60% to 90% of transgender and gender-diverse children and young adults ultimately identify as cisgender—or their gender assigned at birth—is not supported by statistical analyses of published scientific research, according to a new study from Virginia Commonwealth University. The study, which analyzed 11 studies compiled in a commonly referenced 2016 blog post as well as five more recent publications, instead found that almost any stance on gender-affirming care for minors could be supported by different statistical analyses of the same data.

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They can take my binder from my cold dead hands. I am never going back in the closet.

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Holy crap, that's an option??? Why didn't anybody told me about it?? I was always on the fence of wanting a vagina, but I can keep my penis while having it?? (also the reverse exists for AFAB people)

I'm gonna be conservative's worst nightmare in a few years >:D

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Hi all! I am sooooo excited that I have my second session today and I need to tell someone!

Since the first session was just the getting to know each other, rough plans, aims and so on, I am excited to see what this session brings.

I am hopeful that we can work out a proper plan for the future and that I am not just in a phase. I am low key hoping that HRT is going to be discussed soon because I ordered yesterday in a slight dysphoria filed shopping spree a coat and if it fits I’d transition just to wear it!

The coat for the interested

Also also, where can I pick up basic makeup skills? Like I need a 101 and ELI5 because I only know (and love) eyeliner + eye shadow. I know nothing else.