This is how you act as an ally, live, in real time, when someone is being misgendered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wXmSyhPJQY

Keith Self, Bully, Putz, Transphobe (R-TX). Sarah McBride, Hero (D-DE) . Bill Keating, Ally (D-MA).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7cPzlI2kYw

#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#KeithSelf
#SarahMcBride
#BillKeating
#USPol

Der @lsvd hat, hat eine #Petition gestartet, in welcher sie aufrufen queere Rechte in den #Koalitionsvertrag aufzunehmen. Es ist unglaublich wichtig, gerade da unsere Rechte immer mehr erodiert werden und unsere #Gesundheitsversorgung nicht wirklich geregelt ist.

https://action.allout.org/de/m/3fea6c5c/

#StandStrongMaine! Two #Transgender Girls, Six Federal Agencies. How #Trump Is Trying to Pressure #Maine Into Obedience.

by Callie Ferguson and Erin Rhoda, Bangor Daily News, and Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica
March 11, 2025, 2:45 p.m. EDT
Co-published with Bangor Daily News

Reporting Highlights

- Trump vs. Maine: After an exchange between Maine’s governor and President Donald Trump over transgender girls competing in girls’ sports, several federal agencies launched investigations.
- University Funding Halted: A federal agency investigating the University of Maine System has not yet issued any findings. But on Tuesday [March 11th], the university said the agency had halted research funding.
- Big Response, Few Students: Only two transgender girls in Maine are competing this school year. Six federal agencies now have their sights on the state.

Read more:
https://www.propublica.org/article/maine-trump-janet-mills-transgender-girls-sports-education-social-security

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/vny6L
#News #Maine #Trump
#USPol #Government
#LGBTQ #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #MaineResists #Resistance

Vous avez entendu parlé du Trans Rights Readathon ?

C'est la troisième année que ça se passe, ça sera du 21 au 31 mars cette année et j'ai décidé de participer.

J'ai (un peu) de thunes en ce moment donc j'ai décidé de participer et de donner 5€ à une association par livre lu. J'espère réussir à lire 3 livres durant ces 10 jours et au moins un par mois durant le reste de l'année.

Du coup, les gens :
- Vous voulez en être ? https://transrightsreadathon.carrd.co
- Quelle association choisir ? Les organisateurices encouragent à donner localement et je veux que mes sous pour ce readathon aillent au maximum dans le lobbying pour corriger les lois transphobes. Vous avez des nom d'assos française efficace dans le domaine ? Ou au moins européenne ?

Merci !

#PortlandME - This Thursday! Open to the public!

"Dear USM Community,

The Office of Student Engagement and Belonging invites you to our #BannedBookFair on Thursday, March 13, from 2–3:30 PM in the McGoldrick Center, 2nd floor lobby.

In partnership with #USMLibraries, #WomenAndGenderStudies, #MaineTransNet, and #BooksAMillion, this event highlights the power of books that have been challenged or banned.

You’ll find:

- Tables of commonly banned books: explore their impact, purchase a copy from #BAM, or learn how to check them out through our #libraries.
- MaineTransNet will be offering resources and information on supporting #LGBTQ+ communities.
- Lecha Bubble Tea will be selling their iconic drinks, including their famous Thai Iced Tea.

Join us in celebrating the freedom to read and engage in meaningful conversations about #censorship and representation.

We look forward to seeing you there!"

This is the 3rd time I have cried today over a new bill somewhere or something I saw in the news.

“THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF GENDER IDENTITY FRAUD”

Y’all, if we can publicly oppose this one line WE ALL HAVE TO DO THAT. These people need to get crushed with public comment ratio so they understand how unpopular these abusive laws are.

Make no mistake, this won’t just apply to trans people. This will apply to Childfree women like me, because misogyny and the patriarchy tells society that all women want to breed. Therefore if I’m not breeding I must committing gender identity fraud.

Maybe they’ll eventually come from men who don’t want to be violent, is it gender identity fraud if you don’t want to be in the fight club for the rich people’s entertainment?

Texas Legislature Online - 89(R) Text for HB 3817 https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/Text.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=HB3817

A common conservative trope — and "justification" for anti-trans behavior and lawmaking — is the idea that cis-men will pretend they're trans in order to sneak into women's locker rooms. So trans filmmaker Siobhan McCarthy made it the premise of their movie, "She's the He." The Amanda Bynes comedy "She's the Man" had spoken to them deeply as a teenager and sparked a conversation with friend and co-editor Will Geare about trans stories they wished they'd seen when they were younger. “I made a joke about, what if we took that conservative fear of [trans people] going into the bathrooms and we really played that out?” McCarthy told @Variety. Here's more about the resulting movie, which received a standing ovation at South By Southwest.

https://flip.it/5aXZ_t

I wholeheartedly support LGBTQIA+ rights!

To everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community, I want you to know that you are loved and valued. Your freedom to express yourself authentically is fundamental and should never be compromised.

No one should dictate who you can be or how you choose to live your life. Every individual deserves respect, dignity, and the right to self-expression.

I want to celebrate love in all its forms and stand together for equality and inclusivity. Remember, love is love, and trans rights are human rights.

If you are in England or Wales, send this to your MP so that they can see the damage that the ideological ban on puberty blockers for trans children (and only trans children) is already causing (as was repeatedly warned about). Fuck Wes Streeting, fuck transphobes #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransKids https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/transgender-children-wales-taking-extreme-31145374

A proposed new law in Texas, by Republican Tom Oliverson, would make it illegal in that state to identify as trans, which he's calling "Gender Identity Fraud." The law would punish people who identify as trans with up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Probably not long before Trump tries to do the same on a federal level. Whoops, he kinda already did with passports.
And with his illegal transferring of trans women prisoners into male prisons, in violation of several court orders. There are already reports of sexual assaults against these women.

Remember, first they came for the trans folks, and undocumented immigrants, and people didn't speak up because they weren't one of them.

Then they came for documented immigrants and those with legal residency because they spoke out against the Genocide in Gaza; as well as cis women of color, because they didn't conform to white, bourgeois ideals of femininity.

No one is free unless we ALL are free.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/crime/general/new-texas-bill-that-would-make-being-trans-a-felony-sparks-fury-there-s-no-fraud-in-being-trans/ar-AA1At24d