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New Privacy Guides article 🌈🔒
by me:

Data privacy is important for everyone.

But for some marginalized groups,
data privacy is indispensable for social connection, access to information, and physical safety.

For Pride month this year,
we are happy to present you the first article of our series discussing topics at the intersection of data privacy and LGBTQ+ experiences.

Stay safe 🔒
Stay connected ✨
And Happy Pride!

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/03/importance-of-privacy-for-the-queer-community/

#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #LGBTQ #Pride #HappyPride

We in the #trans community don't have very many elders. We don't have many examples of trans people who have been transitioning for more than 30 or 40yrs. I can only think of three: actor Alexandra Billings and activist Mardi Pieronek are two who both have been transitioning for about 40+ yrs.

And if you wondering why we don't have very many trans folks who started transitioning in the 80s and earlier it's because the zeitgeist at that time wrecked our community. To have someone like Jazz Jennings or began social transition in single digits of age and then medically transition as a late teen???... we don't have people who did that who are now 50, 60 or 70 years old.

BUT... we have do have one of those three I know of here. I'm so thankful that we have one of our beautiful, amazing trans elders here on Mastodon giving voice to what we, who only recently began transitioning, can expect as we continue down this road. She often gives us a first hand account of our history, shows that we have to keep fighting and encourages us to know we can in fact have joy throughout our lives.

@oldladyplays we love you!!!

#HappyPride
#Pride2025 !!!

I think something trans girls have in common with our cisters is we both sometimes have feelings of not being enough. We worry our body isn't enough. Our intellect, our personality, our social skills, what we say, how we act, what we do...

<gestures wildly all around>

Everything! Everything we do or don't do isn't enough.

That little voice, whether it's founded in dysphoria, dysmorphia, trauma, internalized patriarchy... that voice is a mean girl. She whispers bullshit behind your back trying to tear you down. She tries to tell you you're not enough. She snickers in hushed volumes that your body is weird, your clothes are ugly, your face is wonky, you're too tall, too short, too this, too that, too much... not enough.

Screw.
That.
Bitch.

You're awesome, girl.
Just by virtue of being a woman you are awesome, amazing, sacred, holy. You are a gorgeous child of The Universe, made of star stuff.

This may be more for me than anyone else. Carry on and #HappyPride

Standing in the bakery line at Safeway in a small town.
Old fellow, kind who has enough tools in his truck to change your engine, is in front of me.
He orders a sheet cake, and asks the worker to "put some gay stuff on it", since his son has just come out.
The worker draws a rainbow, dad picks out rainbow flags. Asks her what else is "gay".
After he leaves it takes the young baker and I a moment to stop smiling at each other.

@lgbtqia
@lgbtq
@lgbtq_plus
#trans #lgbtqia #happypride

Dear friends/followers/the fedi at large,

Today seems to be the last big day of Pride Month and I thought I would use this opportunity to say some things.

I have been doing a lot of thinking, reading, and self reflection and made a discovery about myself, and it all started with a simple, what I can only assume was, off-handed remark about me (to someone else): "He sure as hell ain't straight, no matter what he says"

For the last 39 years I have identified as a cis-het man. I'm still a cis-man, but "het" is not accurate. Reflecting on my past experiences, I've *clearly* never been straight. But I denied it.

Even when, as a kid, I experimented with a neighborhood boy, I told myself "I'm still attracted to girls, so I'm clearly not gay."

And it was true. I was not gay. Or straight.

I am bi.

Up until recently, I thought being bisexual meant equal attraction to girls and boys. I was wrong. I read about the modern definition, people's experiences, and other things to realize it isn't as simple as that.

My mind opened.

Happy Pride to everyone!

#HappyPride #Pride