Miles Whitney
@milesew.bsky.social
Trans Jewish Writer, Attorney, Father of a Dead Daughter, Dog Sport Enthusiast. Me encanta Colombia! 🏳️⚧️🇨🇴✡️✍️🐕🦺
https://miles-whitney.ghost.io/
https://miles-whitney.ghost.io/
The hits just keep coming!
As an aside my rage at this worldview makes me not even want to think or speak in English. I know French but since I'm LATAM focused with 1 year of Spanish under my belt I'm like I'm just going to use SPANGLISH and this makes me giggle every time I think of it.
As an aside my rage at this worldview makes me not even want to think or speak in English. I know French but since I'm LATAM focused with 1 year of Spanish under my belt I'm like I'm just going to use SPANGLISH and this makes me giggle every time I think of it.
They went in and replaced Rachel Levine's name with her deadname in her official portrait- during the shutdown- because they are cowards and the cruelty is the point www.npr.org/sections/sho...
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The hits just keep coming!
As an aside my rage at this worldview makes me not even want to think or speak in English. I know French but since I'm LATAM focused with 1 year of Spanish under my belt I'm like I'm just going to use SPANGLISH and this makes me giggle every time I think of it.
As an aside my rage at this worldview makes me not even want to think or speak in English. I know French but since I'm LATAM focused with 1 year of Spanish under my belt I'm like I'm just going to use SPANGLISH and this makes me giggle every time I think of it.
I'm biased because AM published one of mine (thank you again!), but also, really great work being done. Spread the word!
We know everyone is asking for your money this month, but here's a twist: We're NOT asking you to donate in December, we're asking you to spread the word.
Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I'm biased because AM published one of mine (thank you again!), but also, really great work being done. Spread the word!
Reposted by Miles Whitney
The only reason not to follow the Prison Rape Elimination Act is if you do not want to eliminate rape
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The only reason not to follow the Prison Rape Elimination Act is if you do not want to eliminate rape
Reposted by Miles Whitney
An inependent review of medical evidence on trans youth healthcare found substantial evidence of benefit, and no evidence of harm.
This was one of our top stories this year. Legacy news, who extensively covered a review finding the opposite, ignored this.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
This was one of our top stories this year. Legacy news, who extensively covered a review finding the opposite, ignored this.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Plentiful Data, No Regret: What the Utah Review on Youth Trans Care Found — Assigned
A 1,000-page report by the College of Pharmacy at the University of Utah, which found care safe and effective, stands out from others: It’s both independent and an actual review of the evidence.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
An inependent review of medical evidence on trans youth healthcare found substantial evidence of benefit, and no evidence of harm.
This was one of our top stories this year. Legacy news, who extensively covered a review finding the opposite, ignored this.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
This was one of our top stories this year. Legacy news, who extensively covered a review finding the opposite, ignored this.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
"This is an industry now. There are jobs, salaries, speaker bureaus, and career tracks. The right is always looking for new faces to put on this movement — young, photogenic people who can be positioned as victims of trans overreach. The detransitioner who regrets her surgery ..."
I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life
Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"This is an industry now. There are jobs, salaries, speaker bureaus, and career tracks. The right is always looking for new faces to put on this movement — young, photogenic people who can be positioned as victims of trans overreach. The detransitioner who regrets her surgery ..."
I read in @Emily-hart.blsky.social 's substack that the Colombian National Registry will now recognise ‘non-binary’ and ‘trans’ for civil registries and identity cards. I haven't seen the law yet (can I still choose "M?") but it may help me when the US marks me "F" when my passport expires.
December 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I read in @Emily-hart.blsky.social 's substack that the Colombian National Registry will now recognise ‘non-binary’ and ‘trans’ for civil registries and identity cards. I haven't seen the law yet (can I still choose "M?") but it may help me when the US marks me "F" when my passport expires.
Mushrooms are incredible.
Interesting boletus type Asian #fungi looks like the bicolor bolete in New England, with a very unlike effect:
“Lilliputian hallucinations — a rare, clinically defined psychiatric syndrome [of the] perception of numerous little people autonomously moving about and interacting in the real-world”
“Lilliputian hallucinations — a rare, clinically defined psychiatric syndrome [of the] perception of numerous little people autonomously moving about and interacting in the real-world”
Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.
nhmu.utah.edu
November 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Mushrooms are incredible.
My sister's cat is me RN so much food
November 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
My sister's cat is me RN so much food
Reposted by Miles Whitney
Reporters document rising state-level bills restricting transgender individuals' ability to use chosen names and requiring parental notification for name changes.
evrimagaci.org/gpt/t...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
evrimagaci.org/gpt/t...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Transgender Rights Face New Hurdles Amid National Debate - Grand Pinnacle Tribune
Across the United States, the debate over transgender rights has intensified, reaching into the most personal of territories: the right to one’s own name, family,…
evrimagaci.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Reporters document rising state-level bills restricting transgender individuals' ability to use chosen names and requiring parental notification for name changes.
evrimagaci.org/gpt/t...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
evrimagaci.org/gpt/t...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Today in honor of writing I am grateful for some words just because I like them:
Hereinbelow
Backchannel
Handsy
And in Espanol
Cuidadosamente
Todovia
Anyone grateful for a word or words?
Hereinbelow
Backchannel
Handsy
And in Espanol
Cuidadosamente
Todovia
Anyone grateful for a word or words?
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Today in honor of writing I am grateful for some words just because I like them:
Hereinbelow
Backchannel
Handsy
And in Espanol
Cuidadosamente
Todovia
Anyone grateful for a word or words?
Hereinbelow
Backchannel
Handsy
And in Espanol
Cuidadosamente
Todovia
Anyone grateful for a word or words?
Reposted by Miles Whitney
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
As for how to know when it’s time to go, “That is something that each individual has to decide for themselves,” Goulet said. But if you are in the state of mind where you find yourself asking that question, they added, “you probably are already in the space where you should be making preparations.”
For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As for how to know when it’s time to go, “That is something that each individual has to decide for themselves,” Goulet said. But if you are in the state of mind where you find yourself asking that question, they added, “you probably are already in the space where you should be making preparations.”
Liberal Currents published a couple of mine on trans stuff so I'm biased, but it also has published so many amazing pieces since I found out about it. Just the best - pitch in to keep it going!
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
www.gofundme.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Liberal Currents published a couple of mine on trans stuff so I'm biased, but it also has published so many amazing pieces since I found out about it. Just the best - pitch in to keep it going!
Reposted by Miles Whitney
Thank you to the 213 House members who are not only condemning transphobia, but making an important connection between anti-trans rhetoric and real-world violence. www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
200+ lawmakers demand Speaker Mike Johnson end anti-trans rhetoric in Congress
“Transgender people deserve government officials who will lift them up, not attack them simply because of who they are,” the members of Congress wrote.
www.advocate.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Thank you to the 213 House members who are not only condemning transphobia, but making an important connection between anti-trans rhetoric and real-world violence. www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Reposted by Miles Whitney
A revealing tool for my fellow journalists: "The Trans News Initiative is a new project... dedicated to tracking and analyzing news coverage of trans communities across the United States."
transnewsinitiative.org?ref=transjou...
transnewsinitiative.org?ref=transjou...
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A revealing tool for my fellow journalists: "The Trans News Initiative is a new project... dedicated to tracking and analyzing news coverage of trans communities across the United States."
transnewsinitiative.org?ref=transjou...
transnewsinitiative.org?ref=transjou...
Reposted by Miles Whitney
As the Trump administration continues its attacks on immigrants in the US, there are increasing signs that ICE is holding trans detainees under their dead names to make them harder to locate.
This story brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social
This story brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social
Trans Group Warns ICE is Holding Trans People Under Previous Names — Assigned
The group, who says they have been in contact with five trans people in ICE detention, is advising members of the community to share their former names with trusted friends.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
As the Trump administration continues its attacks on immigrants in the US, there are increasing signs that ICE is holding trans detainees under their dead names to make them harder to locate.
This story brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social
This story brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social
Reposted by Miles Whitney
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
The shadow docket fails again - SCOTUSblog share.google/jZ40MCdlSigR...
I didn't have it in me to write about how messed up the trans passport shadow docket decision was just on a procedural level.
I didn't have it in me to write about how messed up the trans passport shadow docket decision was just on a procedural level.
The shadow docket fails again
Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […]
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November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The shadow docket fails again - SCOTUSblog share.google/jZ40MCdlSigR...
I didn't have it in me to write about how messed up the trans passport shadow docket decision was just on a procedural level.
I didn't have it in me to write about how messed up the trans passport shadow docket decision was just on a procedural level.
Reposted by Miles Whitney
"The right’s gripe isn’t just that trans people exist, but that their existence is tearing down the old world—of good men, obedient women, traditional family structures—and unleashing a new, godless age of chaos and precarity on you." @schuylermitchell.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How the right uses "gender ideology" to blame trans people for everything
MAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear.
www.motherjones.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"The right’s gripe isn’t just that trans people exist, but that their existence is tearing down the old world—of good men, obedient women, traditional family structures—and unleashing a new, godless age of chaos and precarity on you." @schuylermitchell.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICYMI my piece about passports, thank you Liberal Currents for putting this back up on such an infuriating day.
“Even without these worst-case scenarios, simple passport revocation could temporarily or permanently prevent transgender people from leaving the country if, and when, life here becomes untenable.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politics...
The Politics of Passports
The broad powers of the president to limit the freedom of movement of Americans.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
ICYMI my piece about passports, thank you Liberal Currents for putting this back up on such an infuriating day.
Seething with rage. And yes this impacts me in several ways most of which are MAJOR (I'm planning on emigrating.)
US Supreme Court allows Trump's passport policy targeting transgender people reut.rs/3Jk5Qw4
US Supreme Court allows Trump's passport policy targeting transgender people
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Donald Trump's administration to bar applicants for U.S. passports from designating the sex reflecting their gender identities on the document, part of the Republican president's crackdown on the rights of transgender Americans.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Seething with rage. And yes this impacts me in several ways most of which are MAJOR (I'm planning on emigrating.)
I went for the pro trans and stayed for the delight of watching him.
Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I went for the pro trans and stayed for the delight of watching him.
Reposted by Miles Whitney
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.