From Jessica Luther in our magazine: Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another. To counter this, we need to look at gender-expansive athletes in a detailed and holistic way. https://www.texasobserver.org/trans-athletes-inclusion-sports-culture/
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Detectives say the body of a transgender person was discovered near Brays Bayou in southwest Houston on Monday morning.
https://www.aol.com/news/body-discovered-near-brays-bayou-235301265.html
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Disturbing content!
Sarah McBride, recalling her husband’s cancer battle, delivers emotional plea for paid family leave
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/sarah-mcbride-paid-family-leave
On this day, two years ago, I first publicly came out as a woman.
The world has gotten worse since then in scarily tangible ways. I am likely to leave my home country. I lost my job and a fair few people I thought were friends.
But for the first time in 30 years I got to really be me. Nothing has even been more important to me, and it is why I will never give up and encourage you to do the same.
Live for yourself, not for fear.
Trans/Port, an anthology of queer speculative fiction featuring my trans cyberpunk story "Conversion", is now available for preorder! It's releasing July 1st, and is on sale for $1.99 until July 8th, so reserve your copy now!
And we have some more POSITIVE transgender news for you!
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/crossdreamlife/good-transgender-news-t4919-s1800.html
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Okay, let me be random for a second.
This being Fedi, I know there will be someone reading this who is a chronically depressed, poly disaster transfem always narrowly avoiding poverty by being a somewhat-but-not-really successful self-employed freelance web developer, who has strong opinions about the modern web, free software, the semantic web and structured data, and who kind-of-but-not-really mourns what XHTML could have been while actually thinking HTML5 as written is kinda neat, but who is constantly forced by Society (tm) to work with React, Wordpress and awful bloated web app frameworks to create terrible, non-semantic style-first web applications for ungrateful clients.
I can't guarantee anything but let's say, I know someone who needs a static website for their business. Hypothetically, uh, where could that someone reach out to you? Paid, of course.
#webDev #webDesign #askFedi #trans #xhtml #semanticWeb #freeSoftware #queer #getFediHired
It looks like #Albania is in the process of initiating official support of gender-affirming care, both for adults and minors. According to other reports, this is part of aligning health care with #EU and scientific standards. This is a great step forward for the #trans community there, though there is the usual opposition from the usual types. This news showed up on multiple web sites, so I think the story is legit.
I love #trans people, and I love trans culture.
Now I know I said the other month that there isn't "a trans community", there's many. And yeah that means there's not a single definitive trans culture either. There's many overlapping ones. But that's true generally. Cultures are blurry and fractal.
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Trump Administration proposes barring federal agencies, federally funded organizations from acknowledging existence of trans people
🌈 URGENT CALL TO ACTION 🚨
If you’re part of the Australian LGBTIQA+ community, or a friend or ally, PLEASE sign & share this petition URGENTLY!
Hands Off Our Protections
Equality Australia #petition to MPs
✍️ Sign & share –> https://equalityaustralia.org.au/hands-off-our-protections/
Our #LGBTIQA+ community is facing some of the most serious attacks on our rights and protections in many years.
Right now, we are facing multiple bills that would strip protections from #trans people and erode Australia’s anti-discrimination laws more broadly.
Once again we need to fight for our rights and protections. If the shitshow that’s happening in the US right now is teaching us anything, it’s that legal protections are never completely settled and can be removed or reduced at any time if the people who hate us are able to mobilise and drag us back to the 1950s.
Please sign the Equality Australia petition calling on federal MPs to stand with us – and share it widely with your friends, family, and communities on every platform you can.
✍️ Sign & share –> https://equalityaustralia.org.au/hands-off-our-protections/
pls #boost4reach 🙏
#TransRights 🏳️⚧️
#WomensRights 💜🤍💚
#LGBTQIArights 🏳️🌈
#LGBTIQArights 🏳️🌈
#LGBTrights 🏳️🌈
#LGBT 🏳️🌈
#LGBTIQA 🏳️🌈
Dear cis men: the coolest thing you can do this #Pride Month is submit a public comment in support of #trans people on this proposed rule change that would gag any entity receiving federal money and prevent them from supporting trans folks.
This is what genocide looks like on paper. Please stand up and oppose it.
Link to leave a public comment: https://www.regulations.gov/document/OMB-2026-0034-0001
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Kicks Off Pride With “Trans Rights Are Human Rights” Campaign
https://www.them.us/story/zohran-mamdani-trans-rights-are-human-rights-campaign
Boston’s Trans-Inclusive Period Pride Moved to New Location After Right-Wing Backlash
https://www.them.us/story/boston-public-library-cancels-period-pride-event-right-wing-backlash
Trans woman at 57. Can confirm HRT works, and the UK NHS can stop it's daft studies ...
It's been joyful the last few years to see so many trans women moving over to DIY injections and progesterone. Unstoppable 
Charges dropped for trans woman threatened with jail over license debacle caused by anti-trans law
#Trans Minors Sue to Stop #DOJ Access to #MedicalRecords
The #Trump admin says it is investigating off-label medication use & fraudulent billing. Families say the inquiry is a new way to press hospitals to end the #care.
#law #Privacy #TransRights #HumanRights #LGBTQ #science #medicine #healthcare #bigotry #hate #discrimination
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/us/transgender-minors-medical-records-lawsuits.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
NEW ESSAY: Origins of the Anti-Trans “Groomer” Slur. it provides historical context, a timeline of how it spread, & how it shapes anti-trans/LGBTQ legislation. pls share widely!
on Medium (friend link): https://juliaserano.medium.com/origins-of-the-anti-trans-groomer-slur-03298f4f3496?sk=76497e32c39bf3105da07b4be92a3e55
& Substack (no paywall): https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/origins-of-the-anti-trans-groomer
#trans #transgender #queer #LGBTQ #lgbtqia #pride #pridemonth
Anti-trans laws are killing us & making it even harder to fight back against them
A letter to my eggy self, what I needed to hear from who I am today.
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Trans Youth and Their Families Are Fighting Trump’s Medical Records Grab
https://www.them.us/story/health/transgender-health/trans-youth-sue-hospital-subpoena
I've got a new PATRON-EXCLUSIVE audio dispatch up on Patreon! Part 1 of "Conversion", my cyberpunk take on the old "what if you could take a pill to make you not queer" thought experiment, is available for a pledge of as little as $5USD!
https://www.patreon.com/xauriel/posts/conversion-pt-1-172313060
Where are the #trans people. I recently joined. Be my friend! #transgender