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Mel DeSilva

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They/them; GenX; neurodivergent; parent of a trans kid; I fight for trans rights; pro democracy and anti fascist. All opinions are my own. 🏳️‍⚧️🩷🏳️‍🌈

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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · Dec 26

Early Warning Signs of Fascism.

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Transhealth @ourtranshealth.bsky.social · Jul 2

Disability Pride Month is an annual observance in July that celebrates people with disabilities, promotes disability justice and visibility, and raises awareness of disability culture.

#DisabilityPride #DisabilityPrideMonth #NoAbleism #ADA

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Transhealth @ourtranshealth.bsky.social · Jun 18

In the face of cruelty and fear, Transhealth will continue to offer healthcare, build community, and fight for a world in which every trans person—of every age—can thrive.

Read our full statement transhealth.org/transhealth-...

Statement from Transhealth - The US Supreme Court Greenlights Healthcare Discrimination for Transgender Youth in US vs Skrmetti

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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · May 14

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Transhealth @ourtranshealth.bsky.social · May 14

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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · May 13

Deplorable.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · May 12

1. Shamefully, the Washington Post Editorial Board has just endorsed the junk-science report put out by RFK Jr's HHS department on trans people.

The paper is willing to put science aside when a politically juicy target like transgender people is involved.

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Washington Post Shamefully Endorses RFK Jr's Pseudoscience Report On Trans People

The paper, which has had no problem critiquing other pseudoscience efforts by RFK Jr's HHS, appears to fully embrace anti-transgender pseudoscience and conversion therapy.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · May 8

The point is that people are fully capable of accepting another person’s chosen name.

Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · May 8

The whole world just up and accepted the new Pope’s chosen name. Just like that. So don’t let anyone tell you they can’t do it for trans kids.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · May 5

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

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Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social · May 6

Why isn't Kristi Noem dressing up in her ICE cosplay outfit, going to Oklahoma, and apologizing to the family they incorrectly took out of their home, in their underwear, and took their money and belongings? You made a terrible mistake, Kristi Noem. Fix it.

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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · May 6

I love oven birds. 🩷

Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · May 6

Bloody hell

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · May 1

1. Today, the Trump administration's HHS Dept., under RFK Jr., released a review of transgender healthcare.

It has no authors. It pushes pseudoscience and conversion therapy. It does not follow a scientific process.

My fact check of the Trump HHS review.

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Fact Check: Trump's HHS Review On Trans Care Filled With Lies, Pseudoscience

The review, which was made possible by an executive order calling transgender healthcare "mutilation," reached its predetermined conclusion on its May 1st publication date.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Transhealth @ourtranshealth.bsky.social · May 1

Read Transhealth’s reponse to the unscientific attack on trans youth from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services transhealth.org/response-hhs-report

Transhealth’s reponse to the unscientific attack on trans youth from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Report promotes dangerous and discredited conversion therapy by another name.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · May 1

If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne.

The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews.

Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.

Screenshot of XML information open in notepad, showing “Alex Byrne” under the creator tag..

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Apr 26

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”

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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · Apr 25

The arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan is chilling.

Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · Apr 25

I’m so saddened by the number of people I went to school with who are now fascists.

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Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social · Apr 23

The Heritage Foundation, who wrote Project 2025, and to whom Trump is beholden to keep him in office, is actually, really, planning on making us all CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS. They are already having certain agency employees report on one another for criticising CHRISTIANITY.

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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · Apr 23

I thought we were supposed to be saving money. What a joke. Fucking unbelievable. www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.

www.cbsnews.com

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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · Apr 21

JD Vance sucked the life out of a frail Pope Francis like a Dementor didn’t he?

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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · Apr 15

Bingo

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Apr 15

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

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Lindsay Sabadosa @sabadosama.bsky.social · Apr 15

Georgetown Law, Mt. Holyoke, Cornell: who else is on the list? Let's celebrate those who fight back!

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Apr 15

They don’t care.

They don’t care that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring an innocent man home to his family.

They don’t care.

They think it’s funny.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Apr 10

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

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Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · Apr 10

“Prime, but with human beings.” JFC, what have we become?

Mel DeSilva @meldesilva.bsky.social · Apr 9

A lot of the tariffs have been paused huh? Trump is clearly manipulating the global markets for his own financial gain and the financial gain of his family and friends. Beyond corrupt and immoral.