“A human rights crisis is unfolding in Puerto Rico — one that disproportionately affects LGBT+ people, particularly transgender and nonbinary Puerto Ricans,” said True Self Foundation Executive Director Miguel Vázquez-Rivera.

The True Self Foundation and LatinoJustice PRLDEF participated in the briefing that took place on July 15.

Vázquez-Rivera during the briefing highlighted several anti-LGBTQ laws and policies that have been implemented since Gov. Jenniffer González took office in January 2025. These include Law 63-2025, which prohibits gender-affirming healthcare for anyone under 21, and Law 26-2026, which prohibits the University of Puerto Rico and other “government facilities” from installing “mixed or gender-neutral multi-occupancy restrooms.”

With 30,627 trans participants from the EU27 (plus Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia), it is the largest survey of trans people in the EU to date. The survey results provide a crucial socio-demographic resource on the EU trans population, detailing their experiences in areas such as openness, healthcare, legal issues, discrimination, violence, and wellbeing.

The Baltimore Ferals—and rugby players nationwide—are standing with their trans teammates.

Taking care to avoid the team-picking system of our schoolyard memories, Lilah Maravi divided us into two sides of about 20. It was a pleasant Sunday in June—Father’s Day—and we had gathered at our usual spot for our Pride month game. After a spontaneous game of catch in a Brooklyn park in 2023, Lilah had started this monthly pickup series with a Field of Dreams-esque compulsion to get trans women together to play baseball.

That might sound counterintuitive. Many of us were unathletic youths, and many of us make significant efforts to distance ourselves from an image of masculinity. Add in transphobic campaigns to exclude us from women’s and girls sports, and it leaves few opportunities for trans women to enjoy being on a field. It was going to be up to people like Lilah and her friends to make it possible for baseball to be for us.

The first game, in April 2023 at East River Park, drew not quite enough players for two full teams. Since then, we’ve moved fields (I’m leaving out where and when exactly, but if you want to play with us, you can find us) and found that way more girls wanted to play baseball than we had expected. At least once a month from April to October, as many as 50 players take turns on the diamond as friends chat, cheer, and grill hot dogs on the sidelines.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9026834

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/64444

JK Rowling // Wikimedia Commons

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Billionaire TERF influencer J.K. Rowling has announced that she will cover the legal costs of anti-trans groups named in a report by Amnesty International (UK), which called them “anti-rights.”

The report was retracted shortly after publication and replaced with a statement from the organization saying the report was uploaded “without going through the established internal review processes” and that its “language does not reflect the position of Amnesty International UK, which is why it was promptly removed.”

But the withdrawal and public acknowledgement was not enough to sate the organizations that have fought tooth and nail to exclude and/or antagonize the transgender community in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is notoriously more perilous for free speech than the United States. For our neighbors across the pond, the burden of proof lies with the defendant to prove the statement is true; here in the United States, the burden of proof lies with the aggrieved to prove that a statement is categorically false, and published knowingly or at least recklessly regardless. The US also benefits from “anti-SLAPP” laws to prevent such frivolous lawsuits waged by wealthy individuals or powerful corporations against those who criticize them.

So Rowling capitalized on the spectacle to, in essence, help dozens of groups in what appears to be an attempt to sue Amnesty into oblivion.

CAPTION: Screenshot from Rowling’s Twitter, where she offers “women’s organizations” backing to sue Amnesty International (UK) through her own charitable fund. She quote tweets a group of people who self-identify as “trans widows”—referring to cisgender people whose spouses or ex-spouses came out as transgender.

The saga began earlier this month, when Amnesty International (UK) released a report titled “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK.” It released a similar report last year, but this year, it added a new category for what appears to be the anti-rights movement’s most rapidly growing sector: “Gender critical” groups, or groups that are antithetical to transgender rights and inclusion.

Rowling rushed to tweet about the situation.

CAPTION: Rowling tweets a group’s response to Amnesty International (UK)’s report on “anti-rights” groups.

She lauded “LGB” groups—another anti-trans buzzword, which, as the name suggests, describes groups that wish to erase transgender people from the queer liberation movement—like the Gay Men’s Network, an organization that has pushed for anti-trans policies. That group posted a public letter indicating it might sue Amnesty International for defamation. The Network demanded a retraction of the report and then claimed that Amnesty is guilty of “trying to control gay and lesbian free speech.”

In the day or so that followed, Rowling retweeted around a dozen similar letters. The posted letters include groups like Genspect, a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group that threatened Amnesty International with legal action, as well as groups like LGB Alliance and Sex Matters.

Amnesty International (UK) did not formally reply to a request for comment for this piece.

Gender critical activists, often financed by Rowling, rely on legal “guerilla warfare” said one U.K.-based trans rights organizer, who could only speak to Erin in the Morning if granted anonymity. The tactic is familiar: Wear down non-profits and individuals who dare speak out against anti-trans and anti-rights groups. They don’t have to win a lawsuit; they can just file again, and again, and again, draining valuable time and resources.

“They have sued organizations into the ground,” the advocate said.

Some context for just a handful of these groups so up in arms about being labeled as hateful: Helen Joyce, the director of advocacy for Sex Matters, gave a speech at a Genspect conference (both are groups on the anti-rights list) about how “beauty” is “inimical to trans bullshit.

She also boasted about manufacturing a moral and medical panic about how, although only a “small” segment of trans kids are prescribed puberty blockers, it has been a strategic “rhetorical device” to erode the rights of transgender people more broadly.

Depending on who you ask, TERFs are considered either a self-branded liberal faction of gender critical ideology, or a different term for what is essentially the same movement. TERF stands for “trans exclusionary radical feminist,” a term to describe self-proclaimed “feminists” who oppose giving transgender women and cisgender women equal rights.

Many of these TERF or “gender critical” groups have close ties to far-right Christian groups. DonorsTrust, the conservative donor behemoth and primary financier of initiatives like Project 2025, also forked over hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups like the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine and Thoughtful Therapists, both of whom made the “anti-rights” list because, as Amnesty International (UK) among many others have put it, they promote “conversion practices.”

One major point of contention was the inclusion of Rowling’s own organization, Beira’s Place. It does not primarily seem to function as any sort of advocacy organization. Rather, it’s a women’s shelter for those fleeing domestic violence, but it also has an explicit anti-trans policy, banning transgender women from accessing its services.

However, as the report explained, none of these groups exist in a vacuum. “These entities must be understood as an ecosystem sharing values, goals, strategy and tactics and, for some of them, formal collaboration,” it reads.

Amnesty isn’t the first or last institution or expert to call out gender critical ideology for being anti-rights. UN Women has published materials saying as much.

Meanwhile, University of Sheffield sociologist Dr. Sally Hines has called this framework “deeply conservative.” In the Journal for Gender Studies, she writes that “despite its origins within a branch of radical feminism, [gender-critical ideology] has a profoundly misogynist agenda that stands opposed to the rights of women.” It is a “key force within a current conservative pushback against the rights of women and minoritized sexual groups.”

Gender critical activists continue to use the language of oppression to characterize their plight. Many say “TERF” is a slur. Others believe criticizing a group because of its arguably regressive politics is grounds for a lawsuit.

Despite the fact that the report was pulled down, Erin in the Morning was able to retrieve a copy reposted by an anti-trans news outlet. You can read a full version of that archived version below.

Report A Growing Threat The Anti Rights Movement In The Uk July 2026

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Amy Acton For Governor Instagram Account

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A growing uproar is consuming the Democratic Party after Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, locked in a dead heat with Vivek Ramaswamy, took her turn at anti-transgender politics. In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling that Title IX does not protect transgender people—a sweeping victory for the conservatives who have spent years engineering it—Acton was asked for her thoughts by a local newspaper, the Toledo Blade. She could have offered boilerplate responses or defended transgender kids. Instead, Acton embraced the ban, casting it as a matter of safety and vowing to enforce Ohio's "settled law." The fallout was swift: Democratic equality groups posted, then quietly deleted, criticisms of their own nominee, an intra-party rupture that now threatens the race itself—a pointless own-goal by a Democrat who apparently bought the idea that attacking her own most vulnerable constituents is how you win an election.

“I do not support boys playing in girls sports. This is already settled law in Ohio, and as governor I will enforce and uphold the law,” Dr. Acton said in a response to the Toledo Blade after the Supreme Court decision. “As a doctor, public servant, and a mom, I will always stand up for fairness and protect kids’ health and safety… While my opponent tries to divide us, I’m laser-focused on issues that matter most to Ohioans: lowering costs, cracking down on corruption, and cutting taxes for working families.”

Acton's response was quickly seen for its anti-trans sentiment. Ohio is home to some of the most extreme anti-trans laws in the United States, pushed by the same organizations whose attorneys defended trans sports bans at the Supreme Court. In 2024, the Republican supermajority overrode Governor Mike DeWine's veto to enact House Bill 68, which simultaneously banned gender-affirming care for trans youth and barred trans kids from school sports from kindergarten through college. Months later, legislators slipped a bathroom ban into an unrelated college-credit bill. The resulting law forces trans students out of bathrooms matching their gender identity at every school in the state—including private colleges like Antioch, where more than 80 percent of students identify as LGBTQ+. Trans Ohioans now risk their education, their healthcare, and their safety simply by existing in public.

The statement drew swift condemnation from Democrats across the state. The Ohio Democrats Progressive Caucus, an official advisory arm of the state party, issued a blistering rebuke: "ZERO Ohioans have become better able to buy groceries by keeping child sport players away from their favorite sport. Our hearts break for those kids. Those who disagree with that will never vote—let alone doorknock—for Amy Acton." The caucus warned that its members were less willing to volunteer for her campaign "not out of malice, but out of the bad feeling in our chests.” The party's Pride Caucus answered Acton's framing directly: "There are no boys in girls' sports. Trans girls are girls." Maria Bruno, executive director of Ohioans Against Extremism, called it "frustrating to see an otherwise strong candidate take the bait by trying to triangulate a response rather than just being frank: can we please just leave trans kids alone and get back to talking about how we can make life more affordable for Ohioans?" And in The Buckeye Flame, writer NV Gay put it plainly: "On the last day of Pride month, the transgender community of Ohio was betrayed—all for the sake of winning an election." But the condemnation itself became a controversy. The Progressive Caucus’s post vanished from the group's Facebook page. The caucus has not responded to questions about why—leaving Ohio Democrats to wonder who, exactly, wanted the warning unsaid.

The candidate's statement is all the more puzzling given recent elections. In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger had every opportunity to throw transgender people under the bus with similar statements and never took the bait—even as Republicans poured millions into anti-trans attack ads, with more than half of all GOP ad spending in the race devoted to the issue. Spanberger won by more than 15 points and Democrats flipped 13 House of Delegates seats, transforming a razor-thin 51–49 majority into a commanding 64–36 majority. New Jersey told the same story: Mikie Sherrill faced a similar anti-trans barrage and won by nearly 14 points, outrunning Governor Phil Murphy's 2021 margin in all 21 counties. And in 2023, Andy Beshear vetoed both a trans sports ban and a sweeping ban on gender-affirming care in Kentucky—a state Trump carried by 26 points—then won reelection by 5. The evidence is not ambiguous. Democrats who refuse to abandon trans people have a good track record. Acton chose the one strategy with no record of success.

The law Acton has promised to enforce reaches far beyond the marquee sports conservatives fixate on. While bans like Ohio's are sold through images of swimming and volleyball, House Bill 68 prohibits athletic associations from making case-by-case judgments about competitive fairness and instead imposes a blanket ban on transgender participation from kindergarten through college—replacing the Ohio High School Athletic Association's individualized policy, which functioned without incident for eight years and saw a grand total of 19 transgender girls compete among roughly 400,000 student athletes. This sweeping approach means transgender Ohioans can be excluded from activities such as darts, billiards, dancing, disc golf, fishing, and other sports where claims of unfair advantage are tenuous at best. Even chess—recognized as a sport by multiple universities—could fall under the ban's scope, echoing a recent move by FIDE, the international chess organization, to bar transgender women from women's chess competitions. Notably, each of these sports has seen targeted attacks from Republicans in recent years. This is what "settled law" looks like in practice: a teenager barred from throwing darts with their classmates or from playing chess with other girls.

What Acton's statement will cost her is not yet measurable. What is measurable is the race: the polling average separates her from Ramaswamy by less than a single point. In an election that close, transgender people are not a rounding error. They are one to two percent of the population—more when nonbinary people are counted—and every one of them has partners, parents, siblings, and friends: a web of people who love them and vote like it. If Acton loses this one by a point, it will not be because she stood up for transgender kids. More likely, it will be because she didn't.

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From a separate article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/13/trans-university-worker-hoped-widdecombe-had-extremely-pain/

Heather Herbert, a transgender woman, said it was "good news" that the former Tory minister had died and hoped she was "handcuffed to the bed as she screamed in agony" during her last moments. The "vile" remarks were posted on Bluesky on Friday before it was announced that Miss Widdecombe's death was being treated as an murder.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8970001

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/62851

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Governor Pritzker rounded out Pride Month by signing a trio of bills that will protect transgender people’s privacy from out-of-state attacks—most notably, by removing testosterone from the list of prescriptions required by law to be added to a government database.

“The work will continue until all Illinoisans are safe, healthy, and free to express their truest selves,” said Governor JB Pritzker in a June 28 press release.

The Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program (ILPMP) is a longstanding interstate database that enables health care providers to track the prescription of certain substances, in order to curb drug abuse. Transgender people are often prescribed testosterone for hormone replacement therapy—it is most notably associated with trans men, but it may also be prescribed to any trans person who receives gender-affirming surgery impacting their hormone production.

The bill, HB 4834, also preemptively banned adding certain drugs to the program in the future—such as estrogen or mifepristone and misoprostol, a pair of medications used for at-home abortions.

EXCERPT FROM HB 4834

Policies like this “protect trans people from invasive surveillance over their health care,” Alejandra Caraballo, a Harvard law instructor and privacy expert, told Erin in the Morning. In a 2025 report she penned for this newsletter, she explained how similar systems, called Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), could be exploited to carry out anti-trans attacks.

“The database enabling this crackdown was never billed as a tool for political persecution,” she wrote. “PDMPs were originally established in the 2000s to combat the opioid epidemic and ‘doctor shopping’ for narcotics. Every U.S. state and territory now maintains a PDMP—an electronic registry of controlled substance prescriptions, typically Schedules II through V, that doctors and pharmacies are required to report.”

The ubiquity of this system means it could give bad actors from other states access to someone’s personal medical records, even without a warrant from the state where this care was rendered.

The signing of the law comes as a response to increased efforts by the federal government and red states across the country to reach into trans-friendly jurisdictions to prosecute providers. However, there are currently no public reports of a transgender person or a health care provider being successfully, directly prosecuted with information from a PDMP simply for providing, receiving, or being the parent of someone receiving gender-affirming care.

Hospital systems have comparatively faced more blowback from the Trump Administration, but it’s still important to remember they, too, have managed to avoid any sort of criminal convictions simply for offering gender-affirming care.

But that hasn’t stopped the Trump Administration from antagonizing them anyway, underscoring the importance of laws like this around the country as a protective measure. For example, NYU Langone received a criminal subpoena from the Northern District of Texas, a federal court, demanding information about trans youth care. The move is widely considered to be an act of judge-shopping from the Department of Justice; this district court, though thousands of miles away from New York City, is considered among the most conservative in the country.

It has continued to hang over the heads of trans people and their doctors everywhere.

“No one should fear being monitored or tracked for receiving hormone replacement therapy prescribed by their healthcare provider,” said Illinois State Senator Adriane Johnson, a Democrat. “Protecting medical information is essential to ensuring patients feel safe seeking care, asking questions, and making personal health care decisions.”

Cisgender men and cisgender women may also be prescribed the hormone for anything from cancer treatments to menopause symptom relief. Compared to other hormones associated with gender-affirming care (such as estrogen, progesterone, or spironolactone), testosterone access is especially scrutinized because it’s also heavily associated with drug abuse among cisgender athletes.

It’s also not the only protective law Pritzker signed that day. HB 5492 expands access to hormone therapy by mandating insurance companies cover up to a six-month supply of prescription hormone therapy when a pharmacist or health care provider deems it appropriate.

“In a time when gender affirming care is under constant attack by the federal government, dispensing prescriptions in bulk will give patients from Illinois and others traveling from out of state for care the assurance that they will have access to needed medications,” Pritzker’s press release says.

There was also HB 5095. This takes existing policy by Illinois’ Secretary of State, which makes it easier for people to choose their preferred gender marker on state IDs, and codifies it into law—making it a more permanent fixture, rather than a rule that can be changed on a whim by the next gubernatorial administration.

“Across the country, lawmakers are attempting to strip rights, erase identities, and target our most vulnerable community members,” said Channyn Lynne Parker, CEO of Equality Illinois.

“But here in Illinois, we are fighting back and winning,” Parker continued. “HB5095 preserves gender markers on state IDs; HB5492 expands access to hormone therapy; and HB4834 shields our most private medical information from surveillance. These are not small victories. They are a declaration that in this state, LGBTQ+ lives matter.”

HB 4834 went into effect upon Pritzker’s signing, and agencies have until the new year to transition to compliance. The other two laws will take effect on January 1, 2027.

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/asktransgender/p/856250/was-the-gcs-provider-wiki-from-reddit-preserved-or-moved-somewhere

Back in the day that Wiki was an amazing resource with descriptions, names, providers, and ratings, and I think stories for all kinds of gender confirmation surgery > > > > I deleted my account years ago before even moving to piefed or Lemmy or whatever it was back then. > > > > Is it still around? Is it accessible somewhere without id verification or any of the other bullshit that Reddit is doing now?

as i expand service i have included in-community work but with some caveats to make my engagement here in Seattle and online be less transactional in-community with the goal being fully pro-bono for non-sexual teatimes and therapeutic roleplay. i have a significant number of younger trans women and trans femmes wanting services that aren't something anyone should need to pay to receive if they are in our community. i serve other's needs far less important. being loved and having care shown should be free. in my personal life, it's free. if you sit with me on the street i will love you right back.

that all being said I have a question for the world of trans people needing intimacy and considering talking with a fssw; what would you want non-sexually? like cuddling or sleepovers or loving touch? i already do teatime and some basic mommy roleplay and those are non-sexual with me gently enforcing return to those boundaries. i admit my need to nurture others and im hoping this also addresses my mommy dysphoria. i am almost a client as much as any trans person who is looking for my services. its a formalism because of this unique situation. i dont really know what else to do. i cannot have so many relationships without systematizing and i am not interested in exploiting a need that is common in our community. even if folks bring it right to me, asking. we are all so shaped by sacrificing ourselves and our bodies for love and intimacy.

i put on a grey wig and took some pictures and i caught trans people. more than i could have known i might catch.

**** edit Of course you can DM me, bbs! This is a sensitive and personal question.

If you like to serve, serve me.

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Last month, the Texas Republican Party held its biennial convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, where over 4,000 delegates assembled to elect new leadership, adopt an official platform, and set legislative priorities for the upcoming legislative session. Delegates overwhelmingly elected D'Rinda Randall as the new state party chair, carrying 25 of 31 Senate District caucuses in what political scientists described as a further rightward shift driven by the MAGA wing's primary victories. The platform attracted national attention, but one section of it went unnoticed: a set of anti-trans provisions that, if enacted, would be among the most draconian in the country—including a ban on all gender-affirming care up to the age of 26 that extends to legal name changes, an absolute prohibition on transgender people working or volunteering in public schools, and a ban on private businesses expressing any support for transgender people.

"Gender Identity Ideology in Schools: The official position of the Texas schools shall be that there are only two genders: biological male and biological female, which are immutable and cannot be changed. We support the total prohibition of so-called social transitioning. We oppose transgender normalizing curriculum, library materials, and pronoun use. We support the prohibition of transgender individuals from serving in any school district positions, including in volunteer roles, and mandate the exclusive use of pronouns corresponding to a person's biological sex at birth.”

Plank 116 of the platform goes on to call for banning any curriculum, library materials, or extracurricular offering that "adopts, supports, or promotes gender fluidity or transgender ideology" and prohibiting school staff from "engaging in sexualized drag activities, crossdressing, or transgenderism."

The platform also calls for the criminal prosecution of parents of transgender youth under child abuse statutes—something Governor Abbott has already attempted, directing the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate families of trans children in 2022. Plank 150 states: "Any agency, individual, or other entity promoting, performing, or facilitating gender-transitioning or gender-modification of a minor child shall be criminally prosecuted for child abuse and exposed to civil actions, enjoying no immunity regardless of profession, relation, or standing." Importantly, the platform does not stop at minors. Plank 149 extends its prohibitions to legal adults as old as 25, banning all gender-affirming "medical or mental health intervention for persons between the ages of 18 and 26," including not just surgery, puberty blockers, and hormones, but even "assigning name and/or pronoun changes.”

See the section of the platform here:

The platform also targets the private sector. Under the heading "Religious Freedom for Business," Plank 203 calls for removing laws that "force business owners and employees to violate their conscience, sincerely held beliefs, or core values"—providing legal cover for businesses to discriminate against transgender people. But for businesses that want to be supportive, the platform offers no such freedom. Plank 203(c) goes further than any state party platform in the country, calling for an outright ban on businesses expressing support for transgender people:

Lastly, the platform does not just target transgender people—it targets LGBTQ+ people broadly. Its section on homosexuality opens with a declaration that would not be out of place in the 1950s: "Homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice." Plank 152 endorses conversion therapy for people of "any age with identity disorder or unwanted same-sex attraction"—a practice condemned by every major medical organization in the country. Plank 208 declares the party is "opposed to same-sex parenting, intentionally subjecting a child to the loss of their biological father or mother, and other non-traditional definitions of family." And Plank 211 calls for nullifying Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, stating it "has no basis in the Constitution." Taken together, the platform reads as a blueprint for rolling back not just transgender rights but decades of LGBTQ+ civil rights progress.

“I think the most concerning part is that the Texas GOP wants to cut off mental health support for trans people between the ages of 18 and 26. Because of AG Ken Paxton’s aggressive weaponization of the law, Texas is already the only state that bars that kind of mental health care from trans minors in direct violation of the Supreme Court’s recent conversion therapy ruling. Having been personally affected by the prohibition a couple years ago, it gives me chills to think of what will happen if the ban is extended even further,” says trans journalist Aleksandra Vaca, a resident of the state, in a quote provided to Erin In The Morning.

Many of these provisions are not new. The 2024 Texas GOP platform already declared homosexuality "an abnormal lifestyle choice” and already called for criminalizing anyone who facilitates youth transition. However, it is clear that the policy platforms are escalating in the Texas Republican Party. And the party has a track record of turning its platform into law—SB 14 banned youth care in 2023 and SB 8 restricted bathrooms in 2025. Transgender people in Texas, meanwhile, have to sit and wait to see which draconian policy from the platform gets implemented in 2027 due to a party that seeks to make the conditions of life impossible for transgender people.

I found a stick. It's a pretty good stick. Say heyyy if you're trans and like a good stick. If you don't like sticks or prefer something else keep it to yourself. This is a stick appreciative space.

Fuck my butt.

just dont die. that's it. it will be confusing. dont hurt yourself if you feel alone. try to wait until you have some time to think and feel in a safe place. it's not your fault either. life is real hard sometimes and we are so soft and our lives are fleeting. we can break. things are not like everyone says. hang on, bbs. it might be a daily struggle to figure out what is happening inside and why but you can do it. you might not feel like you have a gender or a new feeling comes up that is unrecognizable and foreign. it can be much more confusing with loss of time and sense of identity assaulted but just hang on. hang on. hang on. im real sad rn and so confused myself but i can say that im holding on. just hold on.

So why are we always asking adults?

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I need help finding ideas to openly promote Transgender people in my area. Bigger is better. This is because of the intersection between Trump's open and frankly violent attacks on my people and the fact that this is pride month. I am not in a place where I can safely out myself as even a supporter, I am not financially stable enough to move into a more accepting area and I live in an area that was already violent toward my people before Trump took power (Rural deep south USA). I have an idea that I think could cause a big scene but I want to hear your ideas for how to brazenly but secretly benefit the Trans and larger LGBTQ+ community before I commit. If you already have an idea, please do not read mine, just comment it so that it doesn't change. My idea will be the next paragraph.

There is an LDS Church that hosts a local Turning Point USA Youth Chapter on both student campus and the major highway. I was planning on painting a poster board the trans flag colors and writing "Radically pro Transgender" on it in the rainbow colors before placing the sign in the front of the Church at 3:00 in the morning on a Sunday. I dont think this would do much, but it would make me feel better that I am doing something practical against this system that has been trying to kill me for years and that I have only ever been able to watch. I am sick of never qualifying for revolutionary action simply because I am alone and hated. I want to do what I can organization may be impossible here (I have tried more times then I can count) but I will do what I can.

"With only one concern highlighted in our 2025 Unitary Authorities audit—and a mere four complaints documented across 382 public bodies nationwide in previous investigations—the data overwhelmingly contradicts the narrative that trans inclusion threatens the safety or dignity of single-sex spaces. In total, TransLucent has now submitted 444 FOI requests, covering over four years and found just 5 complaints about a trans woman using a single sex space".

“I was 12 talking about it, which I kind of regret because privacy was really blurred, [but] I was really unashamed of talking about it because I was a kid and I was like, ‘This is the way it is.’

“Now that I’m in America, there’s so much shame around sex, sexual education is such a taboo, and it’s such a weird climate right now, especially about trans kids in particular. They’re the enemy right now.”

“In this political climate, I’m happy I can stand for [the idea that] trans kids can transition and then be a grown-up and happy and make [those] choices. I made the right choices that I’m proud of to this day,” she continued.

Guess who was judiciously kicked from said trans discord? 🤡 look at me dance!

OK. Enough fooling around. Tell me, what you are doing and gonna do to fix, break, or grow anything at all?

My post about living in the forest, it got worse there.

I tried. In tried to call-in the folks who rescued me from the street and from their own volunteer host. None have the bandwidth for friendship with me. It wasn't until my interaction with the relocation group ended in a spectacular way did a meeting about restorative justice get scheduled. I wrote my victim statement.

No one calls me. No one believes me but my therapist. These rescuers aren't my friends like they say. No sisters showed up as friends and once aid ended ive been slowly ignored. Everyone is sick or busy. I'm just a rescue. I don't rate even tho it was their volunteer host. I heard "we told the whispernet" and general radio silence until I pushed to call-in anyone at all across my own network. One stranger replied but seemed unreliable. Another org member decided nah. The meeting was not inclusive. It left me feeling empty. It felt like I was there to convince them it happened. It's taken time to digest that I'm just another driver of policy and not a person here.

I finally cracked today and dropped 2 victim statements in a local trans activist discord. The one from Utah and the one here.

My daily life is now worse than in Utah. I'm in transitional housing that was misrepresented and I'm harassed every day in my room or in the shared spaces. My harasser calls the FBI every day to report me for gender terrorism. I should have killed myself in Utah like I planned.

I'm not going to try again. I'm ending my mutual aid and direct action. Folks I helped fucked us over by returning to Indiana and compromising their safehouse. I deleted almost everything. I need to find someone who will take Bear.

Between now and then, if you are in relocation spaces in the PNW or in the u.s. and want the statement I will provide it on request and vetting so act soon. If you know folks in these spaces, there are many, tell them too. These people are planning a trans refuge here. I'm alone hanging my ass out on this one until I wrap up. No one is standing with or beside me and I'm done standing alone.

Never fucking forget that justice delayed is justice denied. Ask yourselves why Huerta didn't disclose and who benefited from her silence. I don't even come close her caliber. I'm just some random asshole.

I'm using my voice one last time. The fuckers in the forest are watching this account.

Mir, Jess, you both are hunks of shit.

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