Karen
@kokeeffe.bsky.social
pro-trans and anti-car. i sew! i do peloton. i PM. i mom.
We went to see a lovely children’s musical in Culver City today but it took us 1hr45m to drive the 15 miles (as the crow flies, 20 miles distance) home and the whole family agreed: never again.
December 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
We went to see a lovely children’s musical in Culver City today but it took us 1hr45m to drive the 15 miles (as the crow flies, 20 miles distance) home and the whole family agreed: never again.
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20 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- American Academy of Pediatrics which represents 67k pediatricians pushes back hard on against new Trump anti-care proposal: "misconstrues the current medical consensus...fails to reflect the realities of pediatric care...These rules help no one..."
Trump's push to end transgender care for young people opposed by pediatricians
Doctors and children's hospitals say nothing in the evidence has changed to justify the Trump administration's efforts to ban gender-affirming care for teens and tweens.
www.npr.org
December 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
20 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- American Academy of Pediatrics which represents 67k pediatricians pushes back hard on against new Trump anti-care proposal: "misconstrues the current medical consensus...fails to reflect the realities of pediatric care...These rules help no one..."
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I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
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not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
I present to you my child’s second book. I think the only thing that could improve it is maybe a “pet store” sign on the first page. Anyway DC, call us, she’s ready for a gig.
December 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I present to you my child’s second book. I think the only thing that could improve it is maybe a “pet store” sign on the first page. Anyway DC, call us, she’s ready for a gig.
There's lots of good Star Trek but Deep Space 9 is the best Star Trek.
And it didn't just happen once! Star Trek in the nineties also had a trans-coded character everyone respected and gendered correctly!
December 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
There's lots of good Star Trek but Deep Space 9 is the best Star Trek.
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For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
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The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
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(Children are not getting these surgeries)
(Also, not sure where Oz has been looking, but he's way off on the costs, too)
(Also, not sure where Oz has been looking, but he's way off on the costs, too)
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
(Children are not getting these surgeries)
(Also, not sure where Oz has been looking, but he's way off on the costs, too)
(Also, not sure where Oz has been looking, but he's way off on the costs, too)
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This illegal proposal is designed to eliminate health care for trans youth by threatening to destroy hospitals that provide that care — care that’s validated by physicians & provided with parent support.
They want to erase trans people from existence. That’s always been the plan. We won’t let them.
They want to erase trans people from existence. That’s always been the plan. We won’t let them.
Trump Moves to Prevent Access to Gender-Related Care for Minors
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This illegal proposal is designed to eliminate health care for trans youth by threatening to destroy hospitals that provide that care — care that’s validated by physicians & provided with parent support.
They want to erase trans people from existence. That’s always been the plan. We won’t let them.
They want to erase trans people from existence. That’s always been the plan. We won’t let them.
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if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade
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Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
December 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf
You can enlist in the military at 17 but can’t get gender affirming care until 19. Make it make sense.
December 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
You can enlist in the military at 17 but can’t get gender affirming care until 19. Make it make sense.
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
n.pr
December 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD
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Could a person with depression do this?! (grimly goes about activities of daily living)
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Could a person with depression do this?! (grimly goes about activities of daily living)
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I would actually argue that some companies today would cover something like that, and that there are many more jobs today that you’d think of as good white-collar jobs. The difference is that the people at the margins from previous eras have been forgotten by history, despite being vast in number
It was better in the post-war era. More workers had union protection. Companies didn't do mass lay-offs of white-collar workers every time there was an economic downturn. I'm 49. My mom dated someone who worked for Cray who had his 28-day stay at Hazelden covered three times. Who would do that now?
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I would actually argue that some companies today would cover something like that, and that there are many more jobs today that you’d think of as good white-collar jobs. The difference is that the people at the margins from previous eras have been forgotten by history, despite being vast in number
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US House of Reps has passed a bill to criminalize trans healthcare for people under 18. This bill can be still stopped in the Senate, call/write your senators & ask them to oppose.
Californians:
@schiff.senate.gov www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/
@padilla.senate.gov www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/
Californians:
@schiff.senate.gov www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/
@padilla.senate.gov www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/
Here is the story on the vote. We will have a story on McBride's speech out tomorrow morning.
US house votes to ban youth HRT, potentially leaving thousands of kids to early deaths
The bill is the most consequential attack of trans rights in the 21st century,
theneedlenews.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
US House of Reps has passed a bill to criminalize trans healthcare for people under 18. This bill can be still stopped in the Senate, call/write your senators & ask them to oppose.
Californians:
@schiff.senate.gov www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/
@padilla.senate.gov www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/
Californians:
@schiff.senate.gov www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/
@padilla.senate.gov www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/
You know we were all mad when Democrats caved on the government shutdown but today (and for the next few years) I am grateful the filibuster still exists.
December 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
You know we were all mad when Democrats caved on the government shutdown but today (and for the next few years) I am grateful the filibuster still exists.
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occurs to me that we might be getting the "there's a problem of lonely males with no friends or romantic partners" and "there's a lucrative industry of toxic male influencers who tell young men to act like assholes" causation arrow backwards
December 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
occurs to me that we might be getting the "there's a problem of lonely males with no friends or romantic partners" and "there's a lucrative industry of toxic male influencers who tell young men to act like assholes" causation arrow backwards
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Republicans voting against the felony national trans youth healthcare ban were Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Gabe Evans (CO), Michael Lawler (NY), Mike Kennedy (UT).
Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
3 NVs on both sides.
Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
3 NVs on both sides.
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Republicans voting against the felony national trans youth healthcare ban were Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Gabe Evans (CO), Michael Lawler (NY), Mike Kennedy (UT).
Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
3 NVs on both sides.
Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
3 NVs on both sides.