This is happening in my state and as a trans guy who wants to continue receiving care and wants other trans people to have the same opportunity, this is a big deal.
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this morning right after I woke up I just I immediately opened social media because that's what people do nowadays and I open tiktok and the first thing that I saw was a collection of clips from multiple discussions between the government and children. Literal children. And my greatest issue with this is the fact that just the other day my mother was like oh you probably shouldn't read this book it has very heavy subjects you might get disturbed, but the fact that the things I hear , the things I SEE are a lot more disturbing than the things I read. At this point, blood stuff doesn't disturb me. You know what does disturb me? The fact that children are DYING every day. That they're all killing themselves because someone decided they're not allowed to be themselves anymore. That's what disturbs me
When they try to make school harder for LGBTQ+ youth...we make it better.
Over the past 2 years, students across the U.S. have used our 50 States 50 Grants funds to...
Build gender-affirming closets and gender-neutral bathrooms at school
Host their school's first Pride fest or Pride conference
Educate parents and teachers
Fund their GSA club
And so many other rad projects to support their queer students!
Apps are open for Season 3 now through April 1, 2024 - if you have an idea for how you'd use up to $10,000 at your own school (or if you know someone in middle or high school who could), reblog and spread the word!
Some folks would prefer that I keep politics OUT of my comic strip, but... uh... it's a comic about my life as a transgender woman, and it's KINDA hard to not be a smidge political when one party keeps pushing and passing laws that make it a crime for me to exist.
So, sorry if you feel this is unfair, but it feels pretty frickin' unfair to be labeled a literal criminal for existing.
Transphobic piece of media: Hello, my name is Mr. Male "The Crossdresser" Autogynephile. I love dressing in women's clothes (as a cis man!) because it gets me hard. I'm also a villain and evil because of this. My creator(s) do not have charitable views on trans women.
TMEs: OMG!!!!!! he's suuuuuch a gnc boygirl... goals! i looooove campy gay men in media! i want to be a woman in the way he is! why don't trans women like talking to me? :(
To anyone concerned about KOSA and the state of the web
My wife, @utopicwork, is working hard on a "next internet" with the primary goal of being a place where marginalized people can safely and privately communicate without being restricted by the whims of advertising algorithms and malicious bills.
This would be a decentralized peer-to-peer network, which means
A) it won't be easily shut down
B) it's built around the best aspect of tumblr: being able to choose who you do and don't connect to
She is a highly qualified computer scientist with years of experience in cybersecurity, web development and network technology. However, she can't do this alone. A trans woman is fighting hard for the future of free communication so please support her.
I’m begging people at this point to realize that hate towards intersex people isn’t just. Fucking misdirected transphobia. Please for fucks sake learn that intersexism is a thing and that while transphobia and intersexism often go hand in hand and are used to reenforce the other, intersexism is not collateral damage from transphobia. They don’t just hate us because of a perceived proximity to transness, they hate us because we’re intersex. And will go about acting on this hate as such
Today I managed to reach a real live human being at Senator Butler's office to register my concerns about KOSA. I went through my concerns that this bill would be used by red state AGs to silence queer people online. But then I did something that seemed to make an impression.
I got a bit more personal, and said that as a transgender person I am actually scared that this will drive me off the internet and cut me off from my community.
I also said that my friends have trans kids, who depend on the internet for support. And I'm legit worried what'll happen to them.
I think that talking about my personal worries for this bill really helped drive my message home. I got a somewhat warmer response than in the past when I've called.
I've said this before, but my guess is that if this bill passes, it will be similar to what happened with sesta-fosta.
Platforms will either ban content that might be challenged, or merely shadowban it.
There is a lot of fear-mongering right now about algorithms recommending harmful content to kids. In response, platforms may do the opposite: set up algorithms to ensure that nobody sees content that Republicans don't like.