Erin Reed
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
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January 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Maelle's ending was the ethically and morally correct one.
(Don't click the replies unless you want people arguing over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 spoilers).
But seriously this game is sticking with me in a great way.
(Don't click the replies unless you want people arguing over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 spoilers).
But seriously this game is sticking with me in a great way.
January 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Maelle's ending was the ethically and morally correct one.
(Don't click the replies unless you want people arguing over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 spoilers).
But seriously this game is sticking with me in a great way.
(Don't click the replies unless you want people arguing over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 spoilers).
But seriously this game is sticking with me in a great way.
1. Trump's recent pending rule change and a letter from HHS Secretary Kennedy threatening hospitals is resulting in hospitals ending trans youth care.
Many trans youth are now forced to go without their medication.
The threats are having a real impact.
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Many trans youth are now forced to go without their medication.
The threats are having a real impact.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Many Colorado Trans Youth Stranded After Denver Health, CHCO Withdraw Care
For the second time in as many years, many young trans Coloradans have suddenly lost access to life-saving care.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:37 PM
1. Trump's recent pending rule change and a letter from HHS Secretary Kennedy threatening hospitals is resulting in hospitals ending trans youth care.
Many trans youth are now forced to go without their medication.
The threats are having a real impact.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Many trans youth are now forced to go without their medication.
The threats are having a real impact.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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January 6, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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1. This weekend, far-right group Lets Go Washington announced that it had collected enough signatures to get a trans sports ban on the ballot in the state.
The bill includes genital inspection provisions.
It is one of the first to go forward in a blue state.
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The bill includes genital inspection provisions.
It is one of the first to go forward in a blue state.
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Trans Sports Ban With Genital Inspections Gains Enough Signatures To Appear On Washington State Ballot
The initiative collected 400,000 signatures, and will be one of the first major attempts to get an anti-trans law onto the ballot in a state that has dubbed itself a "refuge" for transgender people.
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January 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
1. This weekend, far-right group Lets Go Washington announced that it had collected enough signatures to get a trans sports ban on the ballot in the state.
The bill includes genital inspection provisions.
It is one of the first to go forward in a blue state.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
The bill includes genital inspection provisions.
It is one of the first to go forward in a blue state.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Day 3 and already finished one of my New Year’s resolutions: successfully skied my first blue.
It was so wet and icy and foggy too, terrifying. But I survived and I did it!
It was so wet and icy and foggy too, terrifying. But I survived and I did it!
January 4, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Day 3 and already finished one of my New Year’s resolutions: successfully skied my first blue.
It was so wet and icy and foggy too, terrifying. But I survived and I did it!
It was so wet and icy and foggy too, terrifying. But I survived and I did it!
Multiple explosions in Caracas, Venezuela.
No to pointless foreign wars and bloodshed.
No to pointless foreign wars and bloodshed.
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Multiple explosions in Caracas, Venezuela.
No to pointless foreign wars and bloodshed.
No to pointless foreign wars and bloodshed.
Ok it wasn’t on my
New Year’s resolution list but I just made the best gumbo of my life for Zooey’s family.
Stewed it for much longer than I usually do and I’m never doing a fast stewing gumbo again.
New Year’s resolution list but I just made the best gumbo of my life for Zooey’s family.
Stewed it for much longer than I usually do and I’m never doing a fast stewing gumbo again.
January 2, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Ok it wasn’t on my
New Year’s resolution list but I just made the best gumbo of my life for Zooey’s family.
Stewed it for much longer than I usually do and I’m never doing a fast stewing gumbo again.
New Year’s resolution list but I just made the best gumbo of my life for Zooey’s family.
Stewed it for much longer than I usually do and I’m never doing a fast stewing gumbo again.
And it is 2026, the turning of an age and what feels like a new era. This year feels meaningful and impactful to me. While 2025 was a year of difficulty in a lot of ways, it feels like the world is changing in so many ways.
And hope is real for me.
Looking forward to this next year.
And hope is real for me.
Looking forward to this next year.
January 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
And it is 2026, the turning of an age and what feels like a new era. This year feels meaningful and impactful to me. While 2025 was a year of difficulty in a lot of ways, it feels like the world is changing in so many ways.
And hope is real for me.
Looking forward to this next year.
And hope is real for me.
Looking forward to this next year.
2025 has been an incredibly hard year for trans people. And yet... the political project to erase us is failing. In spite of them having so many levers of power, many of us have continued to thrive, and new pathways open up every day to get around the attacks.
My case for hope for 2026.
My case for hope for 2026.
The Case For Hope: Transgender Rights Going Into 2026
This last year has been one of the hardest years for transgender people in memory. Somehow, though, I'm feeling hope going into 2026.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
2025 has been an incredibly hard year for trans people. And yet... the political project to erase us is failing. In spite of them having so many levers of power, many of us have continued to thrive, and new pathways open up every day to get around the attacks.
My case for hope for 2026.
My case for hope for 2026.
ISS Vanguard Complete!
Zooey and I just finished this behemoth of a campaign/legacy boardgame.
Now we need to finish our Frosthaven campaign next.
Zooey and I just finished this behemoth of a campaign/legacy boardgame.
Now we need to finish our Frosthaven campaign next.
December 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
ISS Vanguard Complete!
Zooey and I just finished this behemoth of a campaign/legacy boardgame.
Now we need to finish our Frosthaven campaign next.
Zooey and I just finished this behemoth of a campaign/legacy boardgame.
Now we need to finish our Frosthaven campaign next.
In a small breath of reprieve, the 9th Circuit Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling from a conservative judge that would have allowed teachers to forcibly out trans students to their parents.
This case will eventually have national implications.
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This case will eventually have national implications.
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9th Circuit Court Temporarily Blocks Lower Court Forced Outing Ruling In California
A lower court ruling would have required schools to allow teachers to out transgender students to their parents.
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December 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
In a small breath of reprieve, the 9th Circuit Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling from a conservative judge that would have allowed teachers to forcibly out trans students to their parents.
This case will eventually have national implications.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This case will eventually have national implications.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
And off to Yellowstone to try to get pictures of wildlife in the winter. Zooey got me a dream lens - Sony 5.6-6.3/200-600mm. First wildlife lens ever.
So excited.
So excited.
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
And off to Yellowstone to try to get pictures of wildlife in the winter. Zooey got me a dream lens - Sony 5.6-6.3/200-600mm. First wildlife lens ever.
So excited.
So excited.
Merry Christmas everyone from Zooey and I :)
To the trans and queer readers, know you are all part of a community that looks out for each other and holds space when so few others do.
And I know days like today can be tough.
So please feel free to spend as much time here if you need to get away 💜
To the trans and queer readers, know you are all part of a community that looks out for each other and holds space when so few others do.
And I know days like today can be tough.
So please feel free to spend as much time here if you need to get away 💜
December 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Merry Christmas everyone from Zooey and I :)
To the trans and queer readers, know you are all part of a community that looks out for each other and holds space when so few others do.
And I know days like today can be tough.
So please feel free to spend as much time here if you need to get away 💜
To the trans and queer readers, know you are all part of a community that looks out for each other and holds space when so few others do.
And I know days like today can be tough.
So please feel free to spend as much time here if you need to get away 💜
Jesus Christ I built my computer at the right time last month. My ram prices were 40% of this.
December 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Jesus Christ I built my computer at the right time last month. My ram prices were 40% of this.
Aaaand just finished book 3.5 in the Stormlight Archives.
Dawnshard.
And this one was way better than the other novella in the series, Edgedancer. Rysn may be one of my favorite side characters in The Stormlight Archive.
5 stars.
Dawnshard.
And this one was way better than the other novella in the series, Edgedancer. Rysn may be one of my favorite side characters in The Stormlight Archive.
5 stars.
December 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Aaaand just finished book 3.5 in the Stormlight Archives.
Dawnshard.
And this one was way better than the other novella in the series, Edgedancer. Rysn may be one of my favorite side characters in The Stormlight Archive.
5 stars.
Dawnshard.
And this one was way better than the other novella in the series, Edgedancer. Rysn may be one of my favorite side characters in The Stormlight Archive.
5 stars.
During Christmas, a time when so many people are spending time with family for the holidays, I always notice that a disproportionate number of service industry workers who are covering those days tend to be queer.
It always makes me a bit sad why this is likely the case.
It always makes me a bit sad why this is likely the case.
December 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
During Christmas, a time when so many people are spending time with family for the holidays, I always notice that a disproportionate number of service industry workers who are covering those days tend to be queer.
It always makes me a bit sad why this is likely the case.
It always makes me a bit sad why this is likely the case.
Woah. Wasn’t expecting that. SCOTUS blocks Chicago national guard deployment.
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Woah. Wasn’t expecting that. SCOTUS blocks Chicago national guard deployment.
It never ceases to blow my mind that so many tech, sci-fi, futurism backers ended up swinging so far right. Did they entirely miss the point of the sci-fi novels? That identity, self, personal exploration is something we can nurture and grow? It's like instead they said, "no we like the dystopia."
December 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It never ceases to blow my mind that so many tech, sci-fi, futurism backers ended up swinging so far right. Did they entirely miss the point of the sci-fi novels? That identity, self, personal exploration is something we can nurture and grow? It's like instead they said, "no we like the dystopia."
1. New federal rules were released last week banning gender affirming care for youth at hospitals nationwide.
Those rules don't go into effect until public comment, months from now.
But it appears Sec. Kennedy is using an arcane process to try to implement them immediately.
Our latest story.
Those rules don't go into effect until public comment, months from now.
But it appears Sec. Kennedy is using an arcane process to try to implement them immediately.
Our latest story.
HHS Sec. Kennedy Attempts To Stop Trans Youth Care In Hospitals Nationwide—Before New Federal Rules Take Effect
Like many of the Trump regime’s attempted powergrabs, this kind of piecemeal and disheveled rulemaking is enforced at least in part by fear and sheer uncertainty.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
1. New federal rules were released last week banning gender affirming care for youth at hospitals nationwide.
Those rules don't go into effect until public comment, months from now.
But it appears Sec. Kennedy is using an arcane process to try to implement them immediately.
Our latest story.
Those rules don't go into effect until public comment, months from now.
But it appears Sec. Kennedy is using an arcane process to try to implement them immediately.
Our latest story.
*sigh* My kiddo spilled milk on his laptop. I pulled power and hard shut it down and it’s tented over rice. Poor kid was so mad at himself. Hard lessons for everyone. I give it about a 25% chance of survival.
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
*sigh* My kiddo spilled milk on his laptop. I pulled power and hard shut it down and it’s tented over rice. Poor kid was so mad at himself. Hard lessons for everyone. I give it about a 25% chance of survival.
I know I’ve been reading big and weighty books lately but I took a detour from Sanderson to read the same book my son was reading.
Spy School by Stuart’s Gibbs.
Adorable, cute coming of age book and I’m glad he’s sucked up into the series.
Spy School by Stuart’s Gibbs.
Adorable, cute coming of age book and I’m glad he’s sucked up into the series.
December 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I know I’ve been reading big and weighty books lately but I took a detour from Sanderson to read the same book my son was reading.
Spy School by Stuart’s Gibbs.
Adorable, cute coming of age book and I’m glad he’s sucked up into the series.
Spy School by Stuart’s Gibbs.
Adorable, cute coming of age book and I’m glad he’s sucked up into the series.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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1. The Trump administration last week made headlines with a new rule banning most gender affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
Now, the ACLU is pledging to sue if the rule goes into effect.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/aclu-pledg...
Now, the ACLU is pledging to sue if the rule goes into effect.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/aclu-pledg...
ACLU Pledges To Challenge Trump Admin In Court Over National Trans Youth Care Ban Rule
The rule must undergo a 60 day comment period, whereupon the government must generally respond before it may be put into effect.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
1. The Trump administration last week made headlines with a new rule banning most gender affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
Now, the ACLU is pledging to sue if the rule goes into effect.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/aclu-pledg...
Now, the ACLU is pledging to sue if the rule goes into effect.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/aclu-pledg...