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Please don't add me to any starter packs without asking first My goal is to be as kind as I can, but still curb-stomp racists, bigots, sexist, & anti-LGBTQIA+ jerks, & fight for abortion rights #MMIWG2S **A follow back isn't an invitation to DM.**

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · Jan 6

This thread has critical information for folks who are lgbtq+, especially trans. Please share it widely so people can get the information they need to make careful, well considered decisions.

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · Jan 1

Here’s the official rights you have under the Global Convention on Human Rights. Bear in mind some countries [particularly Western ones] will be reluctant to upset the new US far right administration: www.unhcr.org/ie/what-we-d...

LGBTIQ+ persons | UNHCR Ireland

At UNHCR we work to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) refugees, asylum-seekers, stateless and internally displaced people.

www.unhcr.org

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 1h

That made me cackle-laugh.
Thank you.

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 2h

Yep, another 'have fun under fascism' jerk.
bsky.app/profile/knol...

bsky.app

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 6h

Anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton is trying to take a senate seat from a good fellow Democrat.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Rep. Seth Moulton Announces Run for Senator Markey’s Seat in Massachusetts

www.nytimes.com

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BooBiscuit 🎃👻 @harpomarxism.bsky.social · 6h

Hey let's try something different today.

Let's start a thread where we shout out a trans person on Bluesky who's inspired you or made a difference in your life.

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 7h

Is it wrong that I want a glass big enough to sit on as well as take a hip bath in?!?
If so, I don't wanna be right.

Oh, the cocktails I could have...

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 8h

15 Oct 2025 -- Boston's famed Fenway Health, a mainstay of affirming and LGBTQ+ health care in a navy blue state, has buckled to Trump pressure and instead of fighting as others have done, announced will no longer provide GAMT to anyone under 19. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 19d

Apparently it’s only fascism if it comes from Fasch in Germany, so what you lot have in the US is just sparkling authoritarianism made using ‘Die traditionelle Methode’ of prosecuting people you don’t like, mass rallies, shutting down/taking over independent media and arresting people based on race.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19d

People are attached to the word Fascism because we're a country - both right and left - addicted to high drama. We're struggling right now with a man who I've said "has the soul of a fascist and mind of a disordered child." But fascism? Sober up. Put your Big Kid Democracy Pants on.

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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 8h

#SPIRITDAY is tomorrow! Take the pledge now to take a stand for LGBTQ youth: glaad.org/spiritday 💜

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Rachaellll @rachaellll.bsky.social · 13h

Saw this on the WhatTheTrans!? Discord server.

If you're thinking of escaping to Germany it looks like they are proposing creating a list of everyone who has used their self-id laws that will be available on all government digital systems.

www.queer.de/detail.php?a...

Kippt der Bundesrat Dobrindts Sonderregister?

Vor der Abstimmung am Freitag bewerten die Ausschüsse der Länderkammer das Vorhaben zur Datenweitergabe bei Änderung von Geschlechtseintrag und Vornamen unterschiedlich. (Politik - Deutschland)

www.queer.de

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 10h

Replies like this are a part of why you're such an outstanding person to follow.

Thank you for saying all the things I would have liked to say, but didn't have the words for.

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 13h

More than half of Republican ads in Virginia are focused on trans issues. Officials say they plan to run similar attacks in North Carolina’s Senate race.

www.theassemblync.co...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Republicans Go All In on Anti-Trans Messaging

More than half of GOP ads in Virginia are focused on trans issues. Officials plan to run similar attacks in North Carolina's Senate race.

www.theassemblync.com

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 11h

"Dillon raised the matter during his interview, predicting Greene would be the next president, and relaying that he’d attended dinner parties where Greene was discussed as a top presidential pick."

😱😱😱
Heaven help us if she's ever president, or Loomer, or any of the others like them.

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 22h

"Fuck the Feds"
Seen in Memphis, Tennessee

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Joe McKirdy @joemckirdy.bsky.social · 19h

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No Confederate Troops In Illinois! @il-eye-on-leaders.bsky.social · 19h

It's already here in this very safe Chicago suburb, definitely not the first place you'd expect. What I'd say is, don't doom, take a deep breath and get some rest before it comes to your area too. And do what you can to organize beforehand with your neighbors, too. Save your fear for when it's due.

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castawayfarm.bsky.social @castawayfarm.bsky.social · 19h

A Venn diagram of men who are predisposed towards domestic violence and men who would join ICE is a single perfect circle.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 1d

It's a great pic if you enjoy a close up of his neck folds and up his nostrils. 🤮

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

The medication stockpile bill is the bill I had pegged this year as the most important kind of bill to pass given federal threats, with a short time window to make it happen. Washington passed the same bill earlier this year.

It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills

The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.

www.erininthemorning.com

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the idea.
It's one I'm going to memorize and keep handy in my pocket for the right occasion.

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Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 3d

We're tired of LGBTQ+ content being censored.

Tired of people pretending that being queer or trans is a new "fad", and not something that’s existed, perfectly naturally, for as long as people have been around.

Check out our mission, and join us in fighting censorship. 🏳️‍🌈
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Rainbow stripes with a white text box over it, and an image below of a person holding the intersectional pride flag over their back. The text box reads: "As a team of two trans (Sapling is nonbinary and Felix is two-spirit!) husbands, we’ve felt exhausted online lately, with censorship closing in on us all. Queer content is being banned, restricted, under fire, and we’re sick of it. So we’re creating something offline, a physical art book, a collaborative community project. Something to give us all hope. Something to connect us through our many cultures, all across the world. With our first zine, “We’ve Always Been Here,” we aim to show just this: that we’ve always been a part of history, and we’ll always be a part of the future too."

Rainbow stripes with a white text box, and an image below of two Black men getting close, with one kissing the other on the cheek. The text box reads: "'We’ve Always Been Here' focuses on the 'unseen' queer history of the world. There’s plenty of names we all know of real people who have made their mark: Marsha P. Johnson, Alan Turing, Audre Lorde, Oscar Wilde, Frida Kahlo, and many, many more. But what about those that didn’t ‘go down in history’? What about the woman down the street from your great grandmother, who lived with her ‘best friend’ for decades until she passed? What about the medieval king who kept his lover secret his whole life? What about the cowboys who used the wide, open ranges with no one else around to keep their relationships a secret?"

Rainbow stripes with a white textbox, and below are three circular images of two Korean women walking together, two African men laughing as they talk, and two Indian women chatting and laughing. The text box reads: "Our zine focuses on this, on the everyday people that no one knew about, that no one wrote about. The people that modern society wants to pretend never existed. LGBTQ+ people just living their lives, throughout all of history and all of the world. We want to show one simple thing to the world with this collaborative zine: We’ve always been here. And we always will be."

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

We did it, folks! We ran a Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day Art Contest: And here are the results.

(I'll thread some of our favorite entries, but to know who won the grand prize and the two jewelry prizes from @nora.zone you're gonna have to click through.)

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Trans News Site Remembers Charlie Kirk With a Vengeance — Assigned

Our community remembers Charlie Kirk as the vicious, hateful, divisive, violence monger he was.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

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