2025-11-25 15:44:52
RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115810171039717959
I unapologetically stand by this! :heart_trans: :heart_trans: :heart_trans: :heart_trans: :heart_trans: :heart_trans: :heart_trans: :heart_trans: :heart_trans: :heart_trans: :heart_trans: :h…
Trans Girl Scouts sell over 71,000 cookies thanks to inspiring campaign
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/24/trans-girl-scouts-cookies-erin-reed-drive/
It's that time of year again, so we've got an early present for you this week with our pick from Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It's epic.
Give it a listen and see what we had to say about it and the band behind it, and as always don't forget to follow us for more weekly picks from across the epic world of #rock and
Unpopular Opinion:
Wenn die Behauptung wahr wäre, trans Frauen würden ihren Geschlechtseintrag nur ändern, weil sie sich davon Vorteile für ihre Karriere erwarten, obwohl sie in Wirklichkeit als Mann leben, dann würden viele Frauen den Geschlechtseintrag sofort auf männlich ändern.
This action by HHS and RFK Jr is unprecedented in scope.
Never before has the fed. gov. usurped the authority of medical professionals to set a separate standard of care
in an attempt to ban evidence based lifesaving care.
The man who thinks getting measles is good wants trans kids to suffer.
https://
19 states sue to block Kennedy's plan to curb trans care (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/25/gender-affirming-care-lawsuit-states-kennedy-health-cuts
http://www.memeorandum.com/251225/p15#a251225p15
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
#TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Trans
Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas
https://www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj-actions-trans-care-subpoenas
Trans Day of Remembrance, with info from Quinn:
https://hachyderm.io/@quintessence/115582213420127292
A4TE highlights 58 who’ve died this year:
the "woke games detector"'s ULTRAKILL problem: there are some games they don't like just because the developer is vaguely progressive and the fandom is largely queer and makes a lot gay fanart of the characters but they have to come up with some 4d chess problem with the game itself
like ah yes the game about robot killing demons in hell and extracting their blood is woke because there's a blahaj easter egg and not because there's shitload of V1 x Gabriel yao…
I have a serious question about deadnaming of trans people. Please answer kindly, I'm seeking understanding. Do trans people refer to their deadname as a previous life of themselves? An old mask of a time that they were not feeling themselves? Or deadnaming is just something that trans people want to completely forget as it was always wrong?
I'm expecting two types of answer here:
1. It really depends on the person, some trans have different relationships than others with …
Today I have learnt about the deliriant history of the ultra-far right ex professor Enoch Burke.
The summary of the history is that while this guy was professor he refused to call by her new name a trans student, was finally fired, but keeps going to the school he was fired from in *2022*, and he has been arrested a number of times.
You can learn more about this case in this article from The Irish Times:
Without paywall:
New Zealand bans puberty blockers for trans youth as far-right party claims victory in "war on woke" - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/new-zealand-bans-puberty-blockers-for-trans-youth/
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kraftwerk:
🎵 Trans Europe Express
#NowPlaying #Kraftwerk
https://beatsinabundance.bandcamp.com/track/kraftwerk-trans-europe-express-bia-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3UjH6apk0ogZeIqhHbjrRU
football just like me fr
#fedifc #claptoncfc
The House just passed a nasty anti-trans bill. Only with the help of three Democrats voting for it. So a special fuck you to Henry Cuellar (TX), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), and Don Davis (NC). And all the Republican rats who voted for it.
It seems likely the Senate won't also pass it, so hopefully this odious proposal doesn't become legislation.
The implications are interesting enough when we apply this to systems like capitalism or national governments, but there are other very interesting implications when applied to systems like race or gender.
Like, as a cis man the only way I can be free to express and explore my own masculinity is if the masculinity I participate in is one which allows anyone the freedom to leave. Then I have an obligation to recognize the validity of nom-masculine trans identity as a necessary component of my own. If I fail to do this, then I trap myself in masculinity and allow the system to control me rather than me to be a free participant in the system.
But if it's OK to escape but not enter, that's it's own restriction that constrains the freedom to leave. It creates a barrier that keeps people in by the fear that they cannot return. So in order for me to be free in my cis masculine identity, I must accept non-masculine trans identities as they are and accept detransitioning as also valid.
But I also need to accept trans-masc identities because restricting entry to my masculinity means non-consensually constraining other identities. If every group imposes an exclusion against others coming in, that, by default, makes it impossible to leave every other group. This is just a description of how national borders work to trap people within systems, even if a nation itself allows people to "freely" leave.
So then, a free masculinity is one which recognizes all configurations of trans identities as valid and welcomes, if not celebrates, people who transition as affirmations of the freedom of their own identity (even for those who never feel a reason to exercise that same freedom).
The most irritating type of white person may look at this and say, "oh, so then why can't I be <not white>?" Except that the critique of transratial identities has never been "that's not allowed" and has always been "this person didn't do the work." If that person did the work, they would understand that the question doesn't make sense based on how race is constructed. That person might understand that race, especially whiteness, is more fluid than they at first understood. They might realize that whiteness is often chosen at the exclusion of other racialized identities. They would, perhaps, realize that to actually align with any racialized identity, they would first have to understand the boot of whiteness on their neck, have to recognize the need to destroy this oppressive identity for their own future liberation. The best, perhaps only, way to do this would be to use the privilege afforded by that identity to destroy it, and in doing so would either destroy their own privilege or destroy the system of privilege. The must either become themselves completely ratialized or destroy the system of race itself such being "transracial" wouldn't really make sense anymore.
But that most annoying of white person would, of course, not do any such work. Nevertheless, one hopes that they may recognize the paradox that they are trapped by their white identity, forced forever by it to do the work of maintaining it. And such is true for all privileged identities, where privilege is only maintained through restrictions where these restrictions ultimately become walls that imprison both the privileged and the marginalized in a mutually reinforcing hell that can only be escaped by destroying the system of privilege itself.
Alabama GOP Leader Who Used Fake ID To Vote Has Trans Books Axed From Kids Sections At Public Libraries - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/11/alabama-gop-leader-who-used-fake-id-to-vote-has-trans-books-axed-from-kids-sections-at-public-libraries/
AAR> Buddhist Art-making and Bodily Ethics in Queer and Trans Bangkok https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20132757/aar-paper-buddhist-art-making-and-bodily-ethics-queer-and-trans
Pope Leo XIV will meet and dine with a group of trans women,
including Catholic trans activist Alesia Nobile,
during a Vatican lunch this Sunday, November 16.
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
from my link log —
Why the trans flag emoji uses a sequence of 5 unicode codepoints.
https://hecate.pink/blog/2026/trans-flag-emoji/
saved 2026-01-07 …
If it’s not already clear, I’m #ActuallyAutistic and proudly trans, who uses they/them pronouns and identifies as Non-Binary/Gender-Fluid, and bisexual.
I get really scared around other trans people because I worry I might accidentally say something transphobic or homophobic, and I deeply believe, with all my heart, that trans people deserve to live.
:transgender_flag:
The hard turn of the liberal established media (NYT, Guardian) against trans existence is puzzling.
The whole anti-trans obsession that has bubbled up in recent years is weird. It almost feels like a concerted project but it’s too big, right?
I mean, there just aren’t that many trans people to be upset about. It’s easy to go for years without knowing that you’ve interacted with a trans person, mostly because it’s a non-issue for most folks. @…
An interview with ex-NYT editor Billie Jean Sweeney, who says the NYT shifted to anti-trans bigotry and disinformation in about 2022, with guidance from the top (David Forbes/Trans News Network)
https://transnews.network/p/a-directiv
🇫🇷 France has introduced a subsidy scheme for electric farm machinery, including 🚜 tractors and other equipment.
https://agirpourlatransition.ademe.fr/entreprises/aides-financieres/catalogue/2025/engins-agr…
Will things ever get back to normal between the US and Europe? | Vox https://www.vox.com/politics/476024/greenland-us-europe-nato-davos-trump-deal
RE: https://pdx.social/@hellomiakoda/115761024717277564
"unless you're going to try to procreate with a particular individual, I cannot think of any reason anyone's trans status fucking matters" -- @…
**Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena**
https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-federal-judge-in-pittsburgh
Just found a cool article about early anti-trans anti-woman Christianity, and the erasure of historical trans women
https://carisemry.substack.com/p/the-christian-roots-of-transmisogyny-019
Dems' potential 2028 contenders cautious on trans rights (Holly Otterbein/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/18/democrats-2028-struggle-trans-rights
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p83#a260118p83
The Instagram reel lays out the facts more clearly than the CNN article
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOJKaNAkdfY/?hl=en
…
Today I was reminded that the most important cooking show in Italian television (la prova del cuoco), running for decades now, has a trans woman chef regularly on the show. And she transitioned basically in front of the nation.
I looked up Fuel on Wikipedia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_(hardcore_band)
...and there is a link to the page for Sarah Kirsch (who was trans) and it's not there...
when did trump stop being a trans inclusive radical racist and became just a radical racist
Federal judge slams DOJ's attempt to "intimidate & harass" trans patients & hospitals - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/federal-judge-slams-dojs-attempt-to-intimidate-harass-trans-patients-hospitals/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Lamb:
🎵 Trans Fatty Acid
#Lamb
https://lambmusicofficial.bandcamp.com/track/trans-fatty-acid
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban Gender Affirming Care,
they said trans people are
"at the root of the evils we face"
and are
"a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
-- Alejendro Caraballo
“In a recent meeting where BBC studio executives again voiced problems, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices. I chose the latter. It broke my heart.”
– @…
Told you folks he’s a good egg :)
Texas is making a list of transgender Texans using DMV data | KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station https://www.kut.org/politics/2025-12-15/texas-trans-transgender-drivers-license-id-list-privacy
Queer trans ICE protester in small Minn. city recounts agents' violence and humiliation (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/queer-trans-ice-protester-st-cloud-minnesota-alice-valentine
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p149#a260116p149
TRAHRSL
The trans rights are human rights software license
You have to agree that trans rights are human rights to be granted a license to use the software
AAR> Buddhist Art-making and Bodily Ethics in Queer and Trans Bangkok
https://ift.tt/EvFfbhC
Online Workshop: Technology & Society in Japan and Beyond (Fri: Nov 07, 2025) Susanne Brucksch…
via Input 4 RELCFP
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: Happy Trans Awareness Week :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransRights #Trans
weird how since the epstein files leaked, the accusation of trans people being pedophiles is no longer so central to fascists. almost as if they're laying the ground work to justify pedophilia now
IT'S FUCKING HOUSE OF LEAVES BUT ABOUT BEING TRANS
Sarah McBride Lobbied Some Republicans to Vote Against an Anti-Trans Bill (Oriana Gonzšlez/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/mcbride-trans-bill-republicans
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p123#a251218p123
Imagine thinking it was in any way appropriate to hold a fucking vote on whether to support a marginalised group or not. Imagine. 🤦♀️
#ukpolitics https://flipboard.co…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@elementary/115566390306525749
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ ALWAYS. FOREVER. EVER. TRANS RIGHTS, TRANS LOVE, TRANS POWER!!! YES!!! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Trump DoJ ‘immediately’ stops enforcing prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, according to a leaked memo
The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT prisoners from sexual abuse
My absolute favorite flags!
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
GOP lawmaker said trans people "harm" children. Now he's going to prison for child porn. (Daniel Villarreal/LGBTQ Nation)
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/gop-lawmaker-said-trans-people-harm-children-now-hes-going-to-for-child/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p20#a260115p20
Unconstitutional.
House passes Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for trans youth - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/house-passes-mtgs-bill-to-criminalize-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth/
"ladyboy" is one of the extremely few times a word, at least unexpected, mildly sorta irritates me just a lil, much more than many technically worse words. thailand shit aside, i interact with trans women across the entire tender-edgy spectrum cuz im not usually bothered by this sorta thing, and even usually believe toughening up and desensitizing urself to the trans slurs is the best move and the future. but i feel like the only ones i know who'd just straightfowardly refer to…
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have turned on Attorney General Pam Bondi
and have reportedly begun drafting articles of impeachment
following the heavily opaque release of the Epstein files
Groundbreaking HIV-prevention med won't harm trans people's hormone therapy - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/groundbreaking-hiv-prevention-med-wont-harm-trans-peoples-hormone-therapy/
Trans Panic? More Like Trans Apathetic (Katherine Alejandra Cross/Liberal Currents)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-more-like-trans-apathetic/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p46#a251201p46
Why do I get the feeling that there is an org going around offering “free legal advice” on this that might be somewhat biased?
#ukpolitics #trans
Cobbling together a linking up of Anarcho-syndicalism and Trans-Feminism.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
https://libcom.org/article/anarcho-syndicalist-trans-feminism
Pam Bondi wants the government to create cash bounties for turning in trans equality activists - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/pam-bondi-wants-the-government-to-create-cash-bounties-for-turning-in-trans-equality-activists/
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney
— a former editor at The New York Times
— details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred,
why this was directed from the very top,
how some staff pushed back
and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
https://
Newsom's Trans Godson Who's Actually a Girl: 33-Year-Old Nepo-Baby Heir Becomes Gavin's Latest Credential (Justmindy/twitchy.com)
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/12/12/gavin-newsom-has-a-trans-godson-nepo-baby-n2422765
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p129#a251212p129
Yeah, I’m up for some of this!
https://flipboard.com/@pinknews/uk-news-3r20qt2qz/-/a-wg2xssw7TmyxVTKcUmv4aA:a:2382343751-/0
:heart_trans: I can't stress this enough, #TransRightsAreHumanRights :heart_trans:
IDK. AMAB, felt like playing with clothes tonight. Been a couple months.
🌈✨:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
#NonBinary #GenderFluid #Trans
When you need a vote to decide whether to support and protect one of the the most marginalised group of people in the country, how can you expect anyone to take you seriously??
#trans #ukpolitics
The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to
👉 dismantle protections for trans and intersex people
in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities,
according to a government memo obtained by Prism.
The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s first-day executive order that,
among other things, targeted protec…
They say it's a faith thing, but I've read the book and didn't find any mention of this 'requirement' anywhere. Instead, there is that 'love thy neighbor as thyself' thing, and this ain't it:
Conservative Christians beg Supreme Court to let teachers out trans kids to their parents - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/conservative-christians-beg-supreme-court-to-let-teachers-out-trans-kids-to-their-parents/
Once again, wishing everyone a great weekend, I’ll be off doing something radical, like *anything other than complaining on the fediverse*.
https://libcom.org/article/anarcho-syndicalist-trans-feminism
"A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"--Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads (Erin Reed/Erin In The Morning)
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/a-stunning-rebuke-of-anti-trans-politicsdems
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p17#a251105p17
:heart_trans: I love this flag! :heart_trans:
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Trans #TransRights
The Question at the Heart of the Debate Over #Trans Athletes - The Atlantic
https://archive.ph/YvPhB
DOJ seeks to join lawsuit against Loudoun County [VA] over trans student in locker room
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/12/12/doj-seeks-to-join-lawsuit-against-loudoun-county-over-trans-student-in-locker-room/
These flag's make me smile: :bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
#Bisexual #TransRights #Trans
The GOP Went Big on Anti-Trans Ads This Year. And Guess What Happened? (Brynn Tannehill/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202818/election-anti-trans-ads-republicans-lost-virginia
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p142#a251106p142
Dept. of Education Attacks Middle School For Supposedly Letting Trans Student Onto Co-Ed Cheer Squad
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dept-of-education-attacks-middle
Another ML(#MarxismLeninism) blocked me when I posted this: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115581081054226799
Love it or hate it, we can disagree on topics …
Leopards never change their spots.
Marjorie Taylor Greene says she cut deal on NDAA for vote on anti-trans bill
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5643683-ndaa-greene-vote-trans-bill/
Democrats' big election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights (Katelyn Burns/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/democrats-election-winners-trans-rights-rcna242214
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p162#a251105p162
#Trans people have always been here– these colourised photos prove it
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/09/trans-history-colour-photos-eli-erlick/
Hey, I’m your friendly neighborhood leftwing extremist; anarcho-syndicalist, anti-imperialist, non-binary mess (they/them, bi as fuck) from Bergen, Norway.
I overthrow capitalism in my free time because states are silly, bread is for the people, trans rights are sacred, and Thinkpads reign supreme 4eva, lol!! 🏳️⚧️💻
#Anarchism
School District Infamous For Trans Bathroom Scandal Elects Independent Vowing To Protect Girls (IJR)
https://ijr.com/school-district-infamous-for-trans-bathroom-scandal-elects-independent-vowing-to-protect-girls/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p170#a251104p170
Pro-trans pediatric group wins $12 million as judge slams Kennedy's "retaliatory" cuts - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/pro-trans-pediatric-group-wins-12-million-as-judge-slams-kennedys-retaliatory-cuts/
If you think I don’t support trans people, then we’re clearly not on the same page. I love my fellow trans folks so much, you’re powerful, brilliant, and completely valid.
🌈✨:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
Keep shining with pride and standing tall in who you are. The world is better with you in it, never stop being your unapologetic, amazing self.
UNDERNEWS: Support for trans folk isn't hurting the Democrats
https://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2025/11/support-for-trans-folk-isnt-hurting.html
🏳️⚧️ If you boycott or despise JK Rowling, boost this flag! 🏳️⚧️
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransRights #Trans
Pam Bondi wants FBI to place cash bounties on trans activists
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/17/pam-bondi-fbi-cash-bounties/
It’s ridiculous that we still have to say #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️⚧️🔥. This world should already know that every trans person deserves freedom. But with so many people choosing ignorance, the fight for trans liberation isn’t over, it’s just getting louder. We’ll keep pushing, shouting, and building a world where trans lives aren’t debated but celebrated. 🏳️⚧️⚡
W…
'Cruel and Unconstitutional': Trump, RFK Jr. Escalate War on Trans Youth With Threat Against US Hospitals | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-transgeneder-care-ban
Trans people are incredible, strong, beautiful, and absolutely bring so much love and strength to our world.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
I wholeheartedly, unapologetically, and forever believe that #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
Always, forever, endlessly, trans people are real, valuable, and human in every way…
Former NY Times editor says anti-trans coverage was a deliberate push from the top - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/former-ny-times-editor-says-anti-trans-coverage-was-a-deliberate-push-from-the-top/
Pennsylvania elects its first out trans mayor - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/pennsylvania-elects-its-first-out-trans-mayor/
UK: Girlguiding bans trans girls from all scouts groups
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/02/girl-guides-girlguiding-trans-girls-scouts/