Evie Parts Got Kicked Off Her College Track Team Because She's Trans. Now, She's Suing
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/evie-parts-swarthmore-college-lawsuit
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A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a former President Biden-era rule that extended federal health antidiscrimination protections to transgender health care.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5570411-judge-biden-trump-transgender-protections/
PSA: Do not misgender people with me.
Especially, do not misgender #trans people who are pick-mes and transmedicalists and fucking fash sell-outs. I’m not asking you to like them. I’m not asking you to hug them, or break bread with them, or take their nonsense seriously, or share your hormones with them. I’m just asking you to do them the basic courtesy of getting their names and pronouns right.
I get it. It REALLY hurts that they ought to know better. It hurts me, too.
But I’m not here for your “Only the pure.” None of us without all of us.
If your heart doesn’t have space for trans people who fight against our liberation, I worry it doesn’t have space for people who make mistakes, who disagree with you about tactics, who present differently than you think they should, who cannot or choose not to transition, whose personal relationship with the gender binary is different from yours, who aren’t “your” kind of trans person.
If your heart doesn’t have space for them, then your heart doesn’t have space for me.
DJ and music producer The Blessed Madonna has ripped into Irish musician Róisín Murphy for a post about the purported decline in young people identifying as transgender.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/23/the-blessed-madonna-eviscerates-roisin-murphy-trans/
Texas church has perfect, beautiful response to state’s removal of rainbow crosswalks
Don’t Just “Protect” Trans Youth, Actually Support Them
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-just-protect-trans-youth-actually-support-them
Illinois Army captain says Dems are ‘rolling over’ on LGBTQ+ rights. He’s running for Congress to change that
https://www.advocate.com/politics/dylan-blaha-illinois-democrat
Trans and human rights organisations call for EHRC to be downgraded as an internationally-accredited human rights body
“The records that we have received demonstrate that senior TDA officials were well aware of the potentially unlawful nature of their policy.”
Last year, I broke the story about the #Texas Department of Agriculture's transphobic dress code for @TexasObserver. Now, I'm back with internal emails showing the turmoil it caused, especially in the nutrition department: https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-transphobic-dress-code-emails/
#news #politics #USpol #transphobia #agriculture #LGBTQIA+ #trans #homophobia #WorkersRights
It's not enough that #trans people are welcome with you. The transphobes have to be *unwelcome*.
These people must be challenged, corrected and shunned for what they say and do. It doesn't matter to me if they're your co-workers, friends or even family.
You've noticed the hate out there, right? It's rampant and only getting worse.
If you want to be my ally, please realize that I need someone willing to be my advocate. Not just someone to provide me shelter.
Thank you. 🏳️⚧️💖
Maine could vote on stripping protections for transgender students in 2026
News from the UK: Mayor Rachel Clarke transitioned at age 70!
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devons-first-transgender-mayor-appointed-9320970 or
https://archive.vn/XdzGt
I know many of you depend on my boosting for a curated "best of the Fediverse" feed. And normally I enjoy providing that.
But recent events, especially politics, are taking a toll. It's very difficult to read not just the news itself but your reactions to it.
I'm dealing with a LOT of existential dread right now. As are many of my #trans siblings. And mental health comes first.
So, you may notice the firehose slow to a trickle. Or even stop for awhile.
Thank you for understanding. 💖🏳️⚧️
Welcome to #TransTuesday!
Let’s dive into a complicated topic that a lot of trans people struggle with, myself included. We’re talking:
SEXUALITY IS NOT GENDER.
Also - bows Bows BOWS! (they’re related, trust me)
Post BA queries:
Cis women asking what size, want to know your cup size.
Trans women asking what size, want to know how many cc’s
One year ago today I came out to everyone as #trans right here on Mastodon and also published this blog post:
https://lisamelton.net/2023/06/22/my-coming-out-party/
The reaction was incredible, which I documented with this next blog post:
https://lisamelton.net/2023/06/26/the-reaction-from-mastodon/
Anyway, I wanted to send you all another love letter. Because I continue to receive so much affirmation and support here. I'm not sure that would have happened anywhere else.
Thank you, again, awesome people. 😊🥰💖🏳️⚧️
Someone asked me how I was doing and I said, "You know, juggling dysphoria, dysmorphia and existential dread."
My self-assigned job here means I read a LOT of posts, many of those about current events. And often that information is just... a bit too much.
Lately, I worry that being #trans will soon be illegal or just practically impossible. Either way, that's a death sentence.
So, yeah, dread now seems like the heavier ball.
I suppose the upside is that I'm not as concerned about the others.
A more casual look than you usually see … but the message is important.
CW: selfie, ec
🦇Luzífer🦇Trans Aganda: Selfie (ec) and new profile pic. No cat, just bat.
Had a hell of a time cropping it to not chop top of my head off in the profile pic, still failed. Oh well.
I like the lighting in the house I took the pic in, it makes my features look softer and less angular than usual.
My biggest transition advice is do it *now*.
Every legal/medical process takes 10x longer than you're thinking, 99% of it is reversible and all the irreversible stuff takes months and your doctor/etc will likely fight tooth and nail to not let you.
Get the new name, swap the pronouns, buy some clothes. There is no reason to delay if it is safe for you.
Why trans people are right to be worried about Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambitions
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/28/gavin-newsom-trans-rights-record-not-good/
New #Pentagon policy undercuts #trans troops' ability to ask to stay in the #military, AP learns
The Pentagon has rolled out a new policy that will severely undercut the ability for #transgender troops who have been banned from the #ArmedForces by the #Trump admin to turn to boards of their peers to argue for their right to stay in the military, according to a memo obtained by The AP.
#law #discrimination #bigotry #LGBTQ
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-troops-ban-military-trump-9c3018034a2608a28f6146fe17f0fe4b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-31-Breaking+News
I’m Not Brave. I’m Alive.
#ThingsYouCantUnsay #trans #DangerousAir #AddressingCisFolks
I will never live in a world where I cannot be hunted by the state for being trans. I, personally, by name and face. My transition is a matter of public record, my name is in a government database. There’s no hiding.
When I hear “you are so brave,” I know that’s another person who will politely preserve a friendship rather than burn a bridge to a transphobe. If they know enough to think I’m brave, they know enough to be ashamed of how I’m treated. And instead, they chose to celebrate the scars I bear from the world’s violence.
I’m not brave. I’m alive. I survived the genocide of my people, for now. But I’ve already died of it.
“You are so resilient.” Why me? Why not my siblings who died in the closet, never hearing their own names? Why don’t they count? When cis people congratulate me on my survival, it reminds me of how many others died.
Genocide includes early deaths. I lost 37 years to the genocide of my people - I died in the genocide of trans people.
One day I’ll die, again. My martyrdom is a forgone conclusion - all oppressed people die martyrs. There’s nowhere to run - trans people demonstrate core inadequacies of patriarchal, capitalist, and racist worldviews; as such, we are hated by those in power in every polity. I could break ties with my community, hide who I am, and go back in the closet, but there are easier and less painful ways to murder myself.
“Not all cis people.” All cis people know trans people. How many of them protect those trans people? How many of them are even safe enough to *know* the trans people around them?
I hate being called brave. Resilient. Strong. For what? Insisting on being myself? The alternative was death. And to what end should I be brave, and strong, and resilient? So that someone else, some cis person, does not have to stand up to another cis person and insist that I should have extremely basic human rights?
Cis people, should I adjure you to be brave, resilient, and strong? Should I ask you to stand up to each other on behalf of trans people? To center our needs as an act of repair and solidarity?
Or would that be a waste of breath?
If you cannot do that, at least do me the courtesy of sparing me the applause for not yet having been murdered.
“You are so strong.” Because you chose not to be.
In Texas, Judges Can Now Refuse To Officiate Gay Weddings. The Warning Signs Have Been There For Years.
https://transitics.substack.com/p/in-texas-judges-can-now-refuse-to