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Skye Tooley (they/them)
@growingwithmxt.bsky.social
Anti-Bias Educator
Trans Demiboy & Nonbinary🏳️‍⚧️
#actuallyautistic ♾
Equity in Education and LGBTQ+ Consultant
Los Angeles 🌿
Free Palestine 🍉
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Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
January 23, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
January 23, 2026 at 5:32 PM
A child was kidnapped and no Amber Alert went out. A child was stripped of their rights and a senator says “we will check on them next week.”

Children every year have been taken with no Amber Alerts because the gov sanctioned it.

Fight like hell for these kids. Fight as if they were your own.
January 23, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Queer families get erased in celebration, in grief, for a better headline.
Renee Good’s child is not “orphaned”. He has his mom still. Renee was queer and loved. Her wife lives and cares for THEIR child.
Stop erasing the powerful queer love that family holds.
January 10, 2026 at 4:37 PM
And the targeting continues.
We’ve lost so much, we continue to be targeted.
Experts are finally admitting what we always knew, we are in the midst of a trans genocide in America.
January 7, 2026 at 2:54 AM
This isn’t like Iraq though it is eerily similar. History has shown the US loves to destabilize and overthrow govs that won’t give them resources. Difference here is public military invasion was not approved by congress. Trump is aiming to be a forever president aka dictator.
January 4, 2026 at 4:05 PM
I think I’ll be removing the section on US gov “balances of power” because the president can apparently just do a military invasion without congressional approval and the repercussions is a democrat zoom meeting.
January 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM
This holiday, thousands of kids are waking up to their families not present because ICE kidnapped them. Hundreds of kids are in an ICE prison.

This country is doing what it was built to do, BUT we have the ability and obligation to stand up against it. Don’t just read about it. Act. Get involved.
December 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Yearly reminder that Jesus was born in Palestine and is Palestinian.

Palestinian Christians are being actively arrested, their celebrations shut down in Haifa. There is no ceasefire. Over 70,000 Palestinians have been murdered and ceasefires violated 875 times for the last 2 years.
#freepalestine
December 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
There are so many moments that can feel devoid of light. Especially right now where capitalism takes hold and so many lean into money to spend versus supporting each other.

So many of us are so tied to our own individuality in the US that we fail to see the power we hold with each other.
December 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
It feels like we are screaming into a void. Attacks on us constantly, a bill passing that will strip healthcare away from kids, and it’s not even trending.

But this article gives a moment of hope. A moment for us to see that people and orgs are stepping up when it matters. We need more of you to.
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.

It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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It’s no longer about if he’s in the Epstein files but how many crimes he committed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I know we are fighting for trans right to healthcare but it would be nice if things were framed more around our humanity and right to healthcare vs “having this lowers suicidal rate”.

Like we should just be able to say trans people should have access to healthcare. The end. 🙃
December 4, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Awareness and visibility do not equal safety.
Because of the lack of care and vigilance for trans people, we have now:

1. Seen over 1,000 anti trans bills this year alone
2. Seen an uptick of violence against trans people
3. Experienced attacks against our healthcare and access to it
….
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
They took a teacher today in Chicago.
But 31 Moms for Liberty bigots all lost their elections.
But they are still holding kids in ICE custody.
Multiple trans people won elections yesterday.
But our rights are being decimated.
The whiplash of emotions is real BUT the hope is vivid, real.
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.

This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Halloween is a gift to the queers.
To the ones that couldn’t express themselves.
To the wild gender play.
To the weird and stigmatized.
This is our day.
Even with snide comments, laughs behind closed hands,
We strutted, catwalked.
Because on this day,we got to be.
October 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Today, people will dress up, call people by different names, use different pronouns, play with gender expression.
But tomorrow, they will continue to blame trans and nonbinary people for their issues and complain about remembering their correct pronouns. 🙃
October 31, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A haunted house for MAGA but it’s just me.
The trans elementary teacher.
Boo 👻
October 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The world is shit but I remember I get to exist in a timeline where trans people are here, visible. I get to see trans people age.

I got to bear witness to Miss Major. Hear her stories, wisdom. I got to see her & know that trans people can grow old, be loved. What a time to be. ♥️
October 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Kaiser refuses to give workers fair pay, benefits, and the staffing they need to keep patients safe.

We stand with the 46,000 UNAC/UHCP, @steelworkers.bsky.social Local 7600, @ofnhp.bsky.social, @unitehere.org Hawaii, and HNHP health care workers on STRIKE fighting for a fair contract ✊
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Today was one of those days where going to work felt a betrayal to my own humanity. I still showed up, taught kids all while people spewed hate towards my existence and institutionalize me and my community.

Still existing. Still breathing. Still teaching. Still trans.
#transexistence
September 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
When the first response is to blame trans people for shootings WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that’s the narrative. That’s believing we should be locked up because of “mental illness”. That’s painting us as “dangerous” so it’s seen as a fact.

Do yall remember the next step that’s reminiscent of Nazi propaganda?
September 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
CW: suicide ideation

I don’t often talk about my mental health battle with suicidal ideation because of how intrinsically connected it is to being trans in our community.

I say that because I wanted to share that we can be beautifully trans first rather than a statistic.
September 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM