Get your 2026 Girl Scout Cookies from transgender and nonbinary girl scouts!
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2026-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies
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I'm disabling Bridgy Fed on this account (at least for now) -- if you're at risk of harassment, consider doing the same
Harassment has increased significantly on Bluesky over the last week (which tends to be what happens when a site's moderators find an excuse not to take actionn against a coordinated anti-trans harassment campaign, but that's another story). Bluesky blocklists provide some protection, but unfortunately there's no way for fedi accounts to subscribe to Bluesky blocklists or labelers. So there's basially no protection for bridged accounts.
I haven't yet hard any reports of harassment getting directed at bridged accounts ... but then again if somebody on Bluesky who hasn't opted in to Bridgy fed is spewing hate speech in bridged posts replies, we wouldn't necessarily know about it. So, better safe than sorry.
If you're currently bridging to Bluesky consider doing the same! You can disable Bridgy Fed by blocking @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy -- here's the FAQ https://fed.brid.gy/docs#opt-out
Here's the bug I just filed in the Bridgy Fed Github. https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1632
Bridgy Fed's development is very resource constrained right now; as far as I know it's still just @snarfed.org working on it part-time, and they've had their hands full just keeping up with the increased load. So, not sure how quickly they''ll be able to respond.
EDIT updated with the FAQ on how to opt-out, as well as the correct instructions.
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JK Rowling mentioned four times as often as actual trans people in media coverage of 'trans issues', research finds
Murry Foust, Trans Student at Northern Kentucky University, Has Gone Missing
https://www.them.us/story/murry-foust-northern-kentucky-university-missing-person-search
This is what Disney has deleted from Pixar's Win or Lose. This beautiful, moving, relatable sequence that would've meant so much to so many kids for years to come was not worth the risk of controversy to them.
Trans art is being censored. Our stories are being erased.
So I want people to see this.
All Anti-Trans Bills Defeated in Deep-Red Nebraska
https://transitics.substack.com/p/all-anti-trans-bills-defeated-in
I’m an #asexual #trans #lesbian, which is a particularly cursed combo for reasons I won’t explore here. But suffice it to say I therefor have reason to explore the nuances of what kinds of touch I enjoy, and in doing so I’ve observed that, for me, I experience episodic desire for #SensualTouch that is disconnected from my episodic experience of being horny. I’ve taken to describing this as feeling #SkinThirst.
Some disambiguation: I distinguish being skin thirsty from being chronically touch starved in the same way that wanting to get some sunshine in my hair is different from a chronic vitamin D deficiency - one is an experience I have episodically that might last hours to days, and the other is a long-term lack of something important. Both can be true at the same time, but I mean different things by them.
By way of illuminating the difference from being horny, I’ve observed that when I’m horny, masturbating and having an orgasm can satiate that need. By contrast, feeling skin thirsty cannot be slaked without someone else touching me. It may fade in time on its own, but masturbating does absolutely nothing for it, because my needs for sensual touch are not addressed by sexual activity, except coincidentally. Additionally, I get horny and skin thirsty on TOTALLY different frequencies. I’m horny maybe once a month. I get skin thirsty at least weekly, and often more frequently than that.
And when I say I get skin thirsty, it means I CRAVE focused, intentional touch. Preferably in large quantity. I’ve described this as “making out in such a way as to get a hard R rating.” However, for me, a romantic component isn’t actually required, it is possible to get what I need platonically.
Here are some of my previous threads about this - there’s some fabulous discussion in there, and I was surprised to find how many people experience skin thirst as disconnected entirely from their experience of feeling horny OR that there was a connection, but not one that was entirely one-to-one.
This thread is where I spoke about my explorations of the term “skin thirsty” plus some feedback about it: https://chaosfem.tw/@Willow/113530303076465658
Here are many additional folks responding to me asking for input: https://chaosfem.tw/@Willow/113602672233337549
And this is a poll about it with more comments: https://chaosfem.tw/@Willow/113626166762795325
I continue to post about it with the hashtags #SensualTouch and #SkinThirst.
:boost_ok: disabled, trans friend of mine needs funds for a hotel to escape family violence $0/$400 (cw (little to no details): abuse, transphobia, death, police) UPDATED
disabled, trans friend of mine needs funds for a hotel to escape family violence $0/$550 (cw (little to no details): abuse, transphobia, ableism, death, police)
We mustn't overlook the tireless work, activism and progress since the Supreme Court
Trump admin plans to detransition incarcerated trans people. Is that 'medical experimentation'?
https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/04/17/trans-people-prison-medical-experimentation/
Republican attempt to erase trans women could derail long-awaited Smithsonian museum
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trans-women-erased-womens-museum?1
Abigail Spanberger gets it. Upon being sworn in she immediately issued an executive order requiring #Virginia police to stop cooperating with #ICE. She also refused to kiss Nazi boot on #trans rights.
Throwing trans people under the bus was depraved and ineffective against the original Nazis and nothing has changed.
Why are you trans? Wrong answers only.
I am catholic and one of the gifts of Holy Spirit I got is the ability to become a woman.
For a #trans person to finish #undergrad, we have to earn our #PhD several times over. And even then the department won't give us the time of fucking day.
#TransInAcademia #Academia #Astrophysics #Physics #Science #STEM
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In today's story on @medium, I share my perspective as a #trans #SanFrancisco resident on an attendee's confrontation with state senator #ScottWiener at Friday's #TransMarch.
What Trump’s executive order on gender means for passports
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/01/24/trump-order-passports-x-gender/
The Trump-administration wants to ban transgender military personnel based on nothing but transphobic prejudices.
https://trans-express.lgbt/post/773914903254876160/the-trump-administration-wants-to-ban-transgender
Geraldine Roman is a politician in the Philippines. On trans rights she says:
"Recognizing our rights and dignity will in no way diminish yours. We are not asking for special privileges or extra rights. We simply ask for equality. With inclusiveness and diversity, our nation has so much to gain."
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #TransRights #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Queer
For those who feel lost and struggling with what to do and lost in the #doomscroll and feel ill-equipped to deal with the #fascism we find ourselves surrounded by.
I wrote this post for you on how to take your first steps toward #action and #resistance.
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Where's all the lgbtqia+ people on here? Could y'all boost to help me find them
#trans #nonbinary #queer #lgbt #lgbtqia #transgender
So I'm a few days late, but I found out that it's customary to write an #Introduction, and so here it is <3
Hi! I'm Liz, a #trans woman who has recently entered her 40's. I've been out and open since October, 2021, and at this point feel like a #queer elder.
I'm a Sr. (Software) Engineering Manager with almost 20 years of experience in software development. I also have a few years in there as a Senior Product Manager, but my passion definitely lies on the engineering side of things.
I've been involved in Olympic #fencing for almost 30 years in some capacity, and for the last several I have been an armorer at collegiate, (US) national, and international events.
I am here on Mastodon after deciding to leave anything Meta behind, and realizing that BlueSky isn't the safe haven that it purports to be. I hope all of the Threads and Twitter users that ended up there don't get burned, but I'm not taking my chances with that.
Things I am likely to post about: Trans and other LGBTQIA2S+ rights, software development, vintage/retro gaming and computing, Olympic fencing and my cat.
Yes we know it's not quite February, but we love our history Thursdays here at TransActual.
If you've not heard of Lou Sullivan, look him up. He was a gay, HIV positive, trans man and he did a huge amount for our community in the US and beyond. Lou lobbied for gay, trans men to be given access to medical transition. He was visible so that other gay, trans men could see that they weren’t alone.
#TransHistory #LGBTHM (nearly) #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Trans #Nonbinary
Democrats Successfully Strip All Anti-Trans Riders From Final Appropriations Bills
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/democrats-successfully-strip-all
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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¿Quién para compartir esta imagen y petar el fediverso con muestras de apoyo?
#DíaDeLaVisibilidadTrans
#HistoriasTransNB
#trans #transrights #nobinaries
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