Being trans means that you can no longer have privacy and your private medical records are subject to the whims of politicians who don't want you to exist. Tennessee, Texas, Missouri, and the UK have all demanded access of trans patient records for political purposes.

UPDATE: at least 38 Planet Fitness locations have reported bomb threats since Libs of TikTok began a campaign targeting the chain for canceling the membership of a woman who photographed another customer using the locker room - 21 additional instances since April 5.

This right here #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Just posting this excellent short essay by Julia Serano here:

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Tell trans people you admire them today. We are not delusional, we are not subjects of social contagion, we are not entryists or creeps or rapists. We know what we’re doing and we are very grateful that we can do it. Shut up or get out of our way.

I cannot believe that in the year 2024 such a sentence is allowed to exist, in the open air, like this. That we are expected to see it, ingest it, & go on. We cannot go on. No person should utter this statement, digitally, or otherwise & be left to incoming danger in silence.

the purpose of anti-trans legislation – whether targeting bathrooms, sports, gender-affirming care, books, drag, etc– is to remove trans ppl from the public sphere inasmuch as possible...

I would like to purge the idea that trans women do everything out of a desire to validate our genders or envy for others' bodies and reproductive organs from the entire noosphere for all time

this is a dehumanizing and trivializing approach that denies us agency

Wildest things that came out of the Cass Report on trans healthcare

Kai Cheng, MSW, MSc, QMed, Extremist for Love Queer News Daily on Insta 'It's easy to pretend, 'Oh, that would never happen here,' but he reality is that it absolutely could happen.'

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Kai Cheng, MSW, MSc, QMed, Extremist for Love Plus, Queer News Daily on Insta spoke to trans youth across Canada about the impact on them of stories like Nex Benedict's

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Kai Cheng, MSW, MSc, QMed, Extremist for Love What do we owe trans youth when we grieve them? In her latest for Xtra, Kai Cheng, MSW, MSc, QMed, Extremist for Love works to make sense of it.

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This week we're spotlighting two looks at what comes next in the wake of violence against trans youth.

First, Kai Cheng, MSW, MSc, QMed, Extremist for Love on how we mourn people we’ve never met, yet feel inextricably connected to ⬇️

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Our #BookClub is wrapping up their discussions on 'I Hope We Choose Love' by Kai Cheng, MSW, MSc, QMed, Extremist for Love with an activity meeting on Sun, April 21st at 4 p.m. EDT. 📖 It's not too late to join. A $35 donation to Fandom Forward gets you a lifetime membership! fandomforward.org/bookclub

Meet Kai Cheng Thom: 'Overall, I am not sure the trans community has really benefited from our greater collective visibility. Look at what’s happening now: every day, the backlash against our existence grows. I’d rather we were free than visible.'

Join Canisia Lubrin and Shani Mootoo, along with moderator Kai Cheng Thom, for a compelling conversation about breaking free from the past and finding the courage to resist when faced with unthinkable injustices.

Head to gritlit.ca for tickets!

Thank you Courtney Bates-Hardy for including me on this 'Queer Poets You Must Read' on the 49thShelf ! Happy Poetry Month.
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'You're ungrateful. We risk our lives for you: Evil mutants, robots, crazy aliens. I gave him up. I gave him up because you can't say thank you. Because I have stomach your questions and prove that I'm a person' - How does a monologue from CYCLOPS of all Xmen have me in tears rn

Congrats to the poets!!

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1. Major victory in Florida. A federal judge has ruled that a transgender teacher cannot be forced to go by 'Mr.' as required by a new state law.

The scathing ruling was issued on 1st Amendment grounds.

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