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The U.S. Supreme Court will decide about trans kids’ bodies
This fall, it’ll hear arguments over the Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care. For each of us, our bodies mean dignity, autonomy, psychological and physical well-being, and social inclusion. Our bodies should not be politicized.
They are still coming for trans adults
Erin Reed has separate U.S. risk maps for children and adults. Support the people who are doing the work so all of us can survive. Gay and trans freedom is everyone’s freedom, so each of us can help preserve it.
The moon is an adult trans person (and the GOP is coming for it)
Don’t shoot for the moon, please. 2024 audio: Republican leaders in Ohio & Michigan candidly discuss how they’ll go about banning gender transition at all ages
3 Strategies to Fight Transphobia
Last October, a long essay was published in Volcánicas, over 30,000 words, arguably a book: “El terfismo en América Latina: un borrado histórico de las personas trans / Reportaje completo.” The reporters are Katia Rejón and Arlen Molina, and the analysis is by Katia Rejón, Matilde de los Milagros, and Catalina Ruiz-Navarro.
Gay and trans freedom is everyone’s freedom
Be who you are, choose your path, and let’s do it together. A big reason to support LGBTQ rights. We don’t have to continue our role in a bad situation. We can speak up and ask for help getting free. May we all be happier because we are here together.
Let’s make hope
Some people do not like the word “hope.” It is often an empty word. It is used in greeting cards. But hope, just as often, has deeper meanings. I am not attached to the word “hope,” but it is a common word for certain concepts that are important.
Read this chapter in the January 6 Committee’s report
Everyone should read the final report of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack. The committee interviewed a thousand witnesses and crunched a million documents to reach its conclusions, so this is valuable information.
What we fear from the ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’
In Finney’s 1954 novel The Body Snatchers, alien seed pods fall to earth and sprout plants that quickly mature. While a human is asleep, the plant produces an emotionless clone of the human body and then destroys the original body.
Transforming into ourselves: Identity and climate
Discovering who we’ve always been and who we must become, collectively. We don’t have to live according to a prescribed model of sexuality or gender. We don’t have to burn fossil fuels either. Everything could be different.