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ACLU @aclu.org · 7d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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taigamela.bsky.social @taigamela.bsky.social · 21d

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 22d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

taigamela.bsky.social @taigamela.bsky.social · 22d

Des fois quand c'est le bordel dans ma tête et mes idées j'aimerais être une super héros.

Je deviendrais Fabrice Arfi et je clouerais mes adversaires au sol avec mes mots.

taigamela.bsky.social @taigamela.bsky.social · 23d

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a bookshelf and making a funny face .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a bookshelf and making a funny face .

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taigamela.bsky.social @taigamela.bsky.social · 25d

C'est reparti ☺️

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28d

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people.

conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

Alt text: Screenshot of a document outlining a new university policy. The bullet points state:

No discussion of transgender topics or anything suggesting more than two genders.

All information in syllabi about transgender topics must be removed.

Instructors must use students’ given names, not preferred names.

Safe-space stickers, LGBTQ flags, etc. are banned and must be removed.

Employees must remove pronouns from email signatures.

The university will not support faculty who teach or discuss these topics in class.

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taigamela.bsky.social @taigamela.bsky.social · Sep 20

" Les pesticides dérivent dans l’atmosphère et retombent sous forme de pluie ou de neige à des centaines, voire des milliers, de kilomètres de l’endroit où ils ont été utilisés. Notre planète est baignée dans un cocktail de poisons."
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Des dizaines de tonnes de pesticides présentes dans les nuages au-dessus de la France

Jusqu’à 140 tonnes de substances actives, dont certaines sont interdites, sont dissoutes dans les nuages au-dessus du territoire métropolitain, selon une étude franco-italienne. Les écosystèmes éloign...

www.lemonde.fr

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taigamela.bsky.social @taigamela.bsky.social · Sep 20

"The real threat to women has never been trans women seeking to live their lives with dignity. The real threat remains what it has always been: a culture that enables male violence and then blames everyone except the men who perpetrate it. "
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name

notinourname.org.uk

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 19

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them.

They want us all eradicated.

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Flyer from The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project titled “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism (TIVE): Background and FAQs on Need for an FBI Domestic Terrorism Designation.” The page defines “Transgender Ideology” and “TIVE,” outlining beliefs allegedly associated with them. It claims such ideology justifies violence against opponents or frames opposition as violence. The text references the alleged assassination of Charlie Kirk, urging the FBI to classify TIVE as domestic terrorism.

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Continuation of flyer with a section titled “Recent Instances of TIVE-Motivated Acts of Domestic Terrorism.” Lists multiple violent events from 2018 to 2025, attributing them to transgender ideology. Includes mugshots of two alleged attackers. Followed by a “Frequently Asked Questions and Key Terms” section, addressing whether transgender people are terrorists, comparing TIVE with “Nihilistic Violent Extremism,” and discussing FBI designations.

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Section titled “Terminology Used by TIVE.” Defines terms including cisgender, deadnaming, Gillick competence, misgendering, “Right to Exist,” “Trans genocide,” and a phrase “You either have a live boy or dead girl, you choose.” Each is presented as terminology used in or associated with TIVE. Page layout is text-heavy, no additional graphics.

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Une femme-pastèque @benecologie.bsky.social · Sep 19

Aux États-Unis, les attestations de "vraie féminité biologique" (= misogynie, transphobie et intersexophobie) requises pour pouvoir faire du sport découragent les petites filles cis (et leurs parents) d'en faire.

Les filles sont privées d'activités sportives et de lien social par le fascisme.

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · Sep 18

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms

Province's new requirements are already having impacts on girls' sports in junior high

edmontonjournal.com

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Sep 19

hey so, read this story and

this is an incredibly vague piece of reporting i am personally taking with lots of salt before jumping to conclusions

instead of trying to explain in one text limited post, a quick thread…

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Sep 18

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

FBI Readies New War on Trans People

“We’re looking at the entire web”

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · Sep 17

"I avoid discussing all this with cis friends and family as their instinct is to try and generate hope or minimise despair, but it typically minimises the gravity of the situation and the depth of my grief and exhaustion and fear."

Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · Sep 17

Shon is not wrong here. Like her, I have considerable privilege compared to other trans folk. I still expect to end my life in prison, because Starmer & co have chosen to retroactively define my existence as a crime.
shonfaye.substack.com/p/well-its-o...

well, it's over

a brief eulogy for the "trans rights" movement

shonfaye.substack.com

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💀💀 Deadzy Letueur 💀💀 @daisyletourneur.bsky.social · Sep 15

Ce matin j'ai rencontré une ado trans britannique et sa mère. Elles m'ont raconté qu'elle était sur liste d'attente pour la clinique Tavistock quand elle a fermé. Aujourd'hui elle a rouvert mais on y pratique des thérapies de conversion et on lui a conseillé de ne surtout pas se réinscrire.

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Toutes des Femmes @toutesdesfemmes.fr · Sep 6

Ce vendredi 5 septembre 2025, l'association Toutes des Femmes a pris la parole lors d'un rassemblement aux abords du Ministère de l’Education nationale.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 5

Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.

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Matthieu Guyot @matthieugdsm.bsky.social · Sep 4

Le ministère de la Justice US serait en train d’étudier la possibilité de déclarer que les personnes transgenres sont des malades mentaux pour leur faire perdre leur droit de posséder des armes à feu.

Les pro armes se sont toujours opposés à des restrictions pour maladie mentale.

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics

Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.

edition.cnn.com

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Remedium @remediumtimoris.bsky.social · Sep 1

Caroline aura tenté du mieux qu'elle pouvait de se reconstruire. Mais la blessure était trop profonde. Elle a choisi de se donner la mort ce lundi 1er septembre, jour de la rentrée scolaire. (1/9)

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Aug 28

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

Alt text: A tweet from Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) dated August 27, 2025. The tweet calls for Health and Human Services to violate HIPAA laws and forward information about every transgender and transgender-questioning person to law enforcement for immediate detainment, claiming they are killing children in schools. It describes this as a matter of national security, says transgender people should be locked away and studied, calls for medical professionals who enable transitions to be expelled from the profession, and demands that the federal government treat transgender people as if they were terrorist organizations. The tweet shows it was last edited at 1:11 PM and has 5,049 views.

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · Aug 28

Remember that the MAGA infrastructure have repeatedly lied about the existence of a “transgender shooter” because they were so eager for one to exist

Texas shooting: How false rumours spread that gunman was trans

Images of three trans women were shared online purporting to be of the gunman after the school shooting.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · Aug 28

If 99 trans people out of every 100 were bloody murderers, it would still not legitimise harming the 100th one that's not done anything.
That being said, it's worth reminding that trans people do not commit more crimes than the average population.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Aug 28

This is the dumbest propaganda fake statistic I've ever seen. It presents in a rate of per million population when there's only 2.8 million trans people in the entire country. A single trans mass shooter would show up in this and that's exactly what it shows.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Aug 27

This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end

This is Ms. Gaines’s intuition as an activist, too: If people accept the premise that transgender women do not belong in women’s sports, then they have conceded that transgender women are not fully, truly women.

As she sees it, more sweeping restrictions of transgender people flow from there, including the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that states can ban gender-affirming care for minors and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s change of its eligibility rules to bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports.

“The gender ideology movement is a house of cards, and I believe it’s lying on that sports issue,” she said. “This will be the card that makes all of it crumble.”

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Nicolas Martin @nicomartinfc.bsky.social · Aug 21

Bon… ça fait plusieurs jours que cette histoire me vrille le bide, me plonge dans des abîmes d’anxiété et me provoque des cauchemars incessants. Je vais donc tacher de vous parler de l’épouvantable (c’est un euphémisme) mort de Raphaël Gravel, alias #JeanPormanove ./..

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 31

This is going to ruin so many cis women's lives. They had to end it in the 2000's because it resulted in women having their lives destroyed, partners leaving them, family disowning them etc. After some high profile suicides and attempts , they had to stop.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...

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Dr. Guillaume & le Voyage de Darwin @voyagedarwinbeagle.bsky.social · Jul 23

Le dossier acétamipride est le fer de lance de la mobilisation citoyenne (1,7 M de signatures) contre la loi #Duplomb mais n'oublions pas non plus :

❌ Les megabassines facilitées
❌ L'élevage intensif favorisé
❌ La mise sous tutelle de l'Anses

Le HuffPost @huffingtonpost.fr · Jul 23

Ces autres points de la loi Duplomb éclipsés par la réintroduction de l’acétamipride

www.huffingtonpost.fr

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 22

There's literally never been a trans woman who has ever competed on any US Olympic team despite trans people having been eligible since 2004.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 22

Breaking News: The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee quietly changed its rules to bar transgender women from Olympic women’s sports, complying with President Trump’s order. nyti.ms/451EUYy

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