Recent butch/femme fiction new releases through June 15, 2025.
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Maine House gives initial approval to bill to bar transgender girls from women’s sports. The amended proposal will go to the Maine Senate, where a similar bill previously failed.
Kai Schreiber may be the daughter of celebrities Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, but for now, she’s a trans high school student trying to make it through intensifying hostility towards the trans community.
https://www.intomore.com/culture/icons/kai-schreiber-discusses-embracing-identity-through-fashion/
Butch/Femme fiction books currently in pre-order status on Amazon as of 07/08/25.
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A federal appeals court upheld the Milwaukee Public School's decision to fire a counselor who made anti-transgender remarks at a rally.
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon rule on L.W. vs Skrmetti, a case that will decide whether state bans on gender-affirming treatment for young people are constitutional. @TeenVogue spoke to trans youth and their supportive families about what this means for them, the difficulties they've had in accessing care, and why it's so important. One mom, Esther, spoke of what she witnessed right after her daughter Kai told her she was trans. “I opened the door, and she was just beaming. She had her headphones in and was just kind of be-bopping and, like, dancing,” Esther recalls. “I'd never seen her smile like that. She'd been suffering with depression, [harming] herself, anxiety for years, and just had this heaviness to her. And it was just gone. There was a lightness.”
#LGBTQ #LGBTQYouth #Skrmetti #USGovernment #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights
The #Trump admin has sued <California for allowing #transgender athletes to compete on #school sports teams that match their #gender #identity.
The suit alleges that California has violated federal civil rights law by discriminating against women [which doesn’t make any sense].
California officials have denied any wrongdoing & rejected federal demands to bar transgender #athletes from girls’ & women’s school #sports teams.
#law #LGBTQ #disinformation #bigotry
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-09/trump-sues-california-alleges-title-ix-violations-transgender-athletes
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of LGBTQ people, women and gender nonconforming people.
This court is clearly not TERF-infested.
Alice Austen’s body of work is considered among the earliest and most prolific by a female photographer.
Now recognized for her significant contributions to the canon of American photography and her heretofore ignored yet influential role in LGBTQ+ history, the pioneering photographer's archive returns to her ancestral home in New York.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/alice-austen-photographs-repatriated/
My #PrideInLondon 2025 #Vlog is out now! Check out the 📺Full Video on #YouTube 🔗 https://youtu.be/5R71M9vgwQw!
#Pride #Pride2025 #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQ #Pansexual #GenderFluid #LondonPride
#wipwednesday
From Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series.
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf
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Anti-Transgender Bill Advances in Puerto Rico, Seeking to Ban Lifesaving Care for Youth and Punish Parents and Doctors
#SCOTUS on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on #gender-affirming care for #transgender minors, a stunning setback to #TransgenderRights.
The 6-3 decision in a case from #Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by #Trump’s #Republican admin & #state govts to roll back #protections for transgender people. 26 other #states have laws similar to the one in TN.
#law #discrimination #bigotry #LGBTQ #CivilRights #HumanRights #privacy #BodilyAutonomy
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-transgender-health-care-trump-79fc6f3bbdab2e92d6f0184201a468a9?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-18-Breaking+News
Over 180,000 Transgender people in the US could lose healthcare if HR 1 becomes law
"#Russia's 'anti-#woke #visa' woos #Western #expatriates
#Moscow's "Shared Values Visa" welcomes #conservative migrants who are against #LGBTQ+ rights or globalism in general. Russia, meanwhile, uses the newcomers for #propaganda"
We can have a lot of different reactions to this
Mine is very simple:
Go
Bon voyage
Have a nice trip assholes. Enjoy the sinking ship under #Putin's #ethnofascist #imperialist government
Bye, Felicia
https://www.dw.com/en/russias-anti-woke-visa-woos-western-expatriates/a-73214511
A trans woman, forced to compete against men, swims topless in protest
https://www.out.com/gay-athletes/trans-woman-swims-topless-england
NEW ESSAY: rather than reading the legalese #SCOTUS used to justify #Skrmetti, learn about how conspiracy theorists hijacked mainstream discourse on gender-affirming care, and why many ppl find these particular "conspiracies" so compelling:
on Substack (no paywall): https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid-lab-leak-and-rushing-kids
& Medium (friend link): https://juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-lab-leak-and-rushing-kids-into-transition-have-in-common-2eb4e08ee3f4?sk=c866d22b9e29cc428fd73e02abba9881
please share & like etc! #trans #transgender #LGBTQ #lgbtqia #science #healthcare
Official #Introduction Post:
#GenX #actor, #writer, and #transit advocate. I believe in #cities and #urbanism. Live in #WeHo in #California.
Hablo español. Aprendo português.
Minister of the Science of Mind and Spirit for #csl #newthought #ACIM #sober
#Gay #leather #drag #pride #LGBTQ
Also on Threads at @danwentzel@threads.net
Butch/Femme fiction Books on $ale/Free on 06/19/25.
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Puberty blockers do not cause problems with sexual functioning in transgender adults, study finds
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-puberty-blockers-problems-sexual-functioning.html
There were never strawberries
like the ones we had
that sultry afternoon
sitting on the step
of the open french window…
—Edwin Morgan, “Strawberries”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)
Hot poetry for a hot day 🍓🍓🍓
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #summer #love #lovepoem #LGBTQ
Victory: American trans people may again get passports with their correct gender marker (Zaya on the victory)
https://trans-express.lgbt/post/786768282060472320/victory-american-trans-people-may-again-get
Gallup’s latest survey of more than 14,000 U.S. adults finds that 9.3% now identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or another identity other than heterosexual — up from 8.2% in 2023 and more than 2x the share recorded just 4 years ago.
Mass. Senate has already passed an updated Shield Act to enhance statewide protections for transgender health care and the providers who administer it.
#politics #LGBT #LGBTQ #equality #cruelty #discrimination #trump #fascism #alt #canada #mentalhealth
CORRECTION POST ON CANADIAN LGBTQ HOTLINE FAKE
However, the number listed, 1-877-330-6366, does not connect to a Canadian government service. It connects to Trans Lifeline, a nonprofit, peer-led support line that has served both American and Canadian transgender people since 2014. No new Canadian hotline has been created for LGBTQ+ Americans.
advocate.com
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