they forgot the last step

credit: twitter.com/crackticker/status…#ultramarinelinux #foss #linux #trans #fedora

GERMANY HAS PASSED SELF-ID LAWS!

The Federal Republic joins 20 countries which have passed laws allowing people to declare their own legal gender. I hope someday this will apply across the whole EU.

On a more personal level, this means I can finally change my own legal gender to #nonbinary 🎉🏳️‍⚧️

#trans #lgbtq

So today is #TransDayOfVisibility. As a cis person I'm going to challenge my fellow cis people to make a visible difference to #trans people's lives today.

Buy a trans friend a coffee. Bake them a cake. Invite them round for dinner. Offer to babysit for them. Anything you can do to make their life a bit easier. Don't have any trans friends? Think about why that is...

Or find some trans people on hashtags like #MutualAidRequest #TransMutualAid etc. and fling some money at them, if you have some to spare.

Or set up a regular donation to a trans-led organisation doing good work, such as @tsn via ko-fi.com/transsafetynetwork/

Support Trans Safety Network on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/transsafetynetwork

Support Trans Safety Network On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations

^Ko-fi

Hi! I'm Danny Redwoods. I'm a kinky queer trans guy who makes porn. I'm into bdsm primarily, but my kinks run deep and wide and are always expanding.

Besides kinks, right now I'm into comedy (in all forms), horror/thriller, fashion/style, Hazbin Hotel, Cyberpunk 2077, youtube, Jerma985, weed, and the Real Housewives.

#intro #intropost #introduction #introductionpost #photography #selfportrait #selfie #selfphotography #introductions #intros #sexworker #porn #smut #transporn #queerporn #queer #trans #kinky #smirk #outfit

Here is a study being done of adult neopronoun users.

tumblr.com/allthingslinguistic…

You'll get paid USD$15 for the interview. Filling out the form is just expressing interest, you can still decline the interview. They're also asking if you have a friend or "buddy" they can interview, as in they'll be asking questions about you I presume. You must be fluent in English.

Looks like the person conducting the study is a "cool" linguist who's done other neat studies that someone goes on to link to in the thread I've linked above. :3

I technically use neopronouns, so I might fill out the form to express interest, though I'm uncertain who I would reference as a "buddy" for them to interview too. But that might not be necessary.

#Neopronouns #Nonbinary #Trans

I just learned that my “What Is a Woman (a response)” essay was selected as one of Medium's 32 favorites of 2023: blog.medium.com/32-of-our-favo…

ICYMI, you can read the essay here (5 min read, no paywall):
juliaserano.medium.com/what-is… #trans #transgender #LGBTQ #feminism #sex #gender

What Is a Woman? (a response) - Julia Serano - Medium

Last month, I received an invitation to participate in a public debate about “gender and the definition of what it means to be a woman.” There was a time in the past when I would occasionally engage…

^{Julia Serano (Medium)}

Apparently the BBC (UK) has had 144 complaints about a recent episode of #DoctorWho because it contained an openly #trans character.

I'm going to make a complaint to the BBC that there weren't enough #transgender characters in Doctor Who. I would love if 144 other people did the same thing. Here's the link: bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/m…

(For your easy reference: "The Star Beast" aired on 25/11/2023, BBC One, and the trans character is called Rose.)

Reply when you've done it, so we can count us all. When we get to 145, everyone... gets a free BLÅHAJ? 🦈

Edit: 2 days later, mission successful: 159 complaints/comments submitted, and still climbing! A *huge* thank you everyone - stay tuned for hopefully some freedom of information requests!

Oakland trans woman had to remain closeted for years to get work in taquerias. She managed to get gender affirming care, and then realized her dream and bought a taco truck. She opened two months ago. Now, her taco truck has been stolen, and apparently her insurance company won't cover the loss. If you have a few bucks to share to help a trans woman of color recover her business after this devastating loss, click this link to the GoFundMe her friend set up for her. gofundme.com/f/miss-chiles-eny…

#MutualAid #trans #tacos #Oakland #GoFundMe #BayArea

Miss Chiles, Enya Sandoval, organized by Patricia Grant

Sadly today our dear "Our dear wonderful, natural chef of Chiles and guisados, Enya San… Patricia Grant needs your support for Miss Chiles, Enya Sandoval

^gofundme.com

Utah is now asking for detailed menstrual information for girls looking to register for high school sports.

#gender #rights #feminism #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #trans #transgender #misogyny #women #girls

Oh my God. PLEASE do not get on Meta's new competitor for Twitter.

It harvests mucho data including our health data.

You cannot opt out.

#Meta has already taken info from a Facebook Messenger chat about seeking #abortion in a hostile state, and turned it over for prosecution.

If you're #trans or might ever need to end a pregnancy PLEASE do not use #Threads.

Boost this. Protect your damn friends.

Edit to add documentation: theverge.com/2022/8/10/2329950…

This is for transgender and bisexual people from your pan non-binary ally. Love you loads, shine with pride 🥰❤️🌈
Working on ace and lesbian sets, feel free to reach out for custom designs ✨️
Adjustable, worldwide shipping.
Etsy:
etsy.com/shop/GenderlessBySkal…

#trans #transgender #bi #bisexual #queer #pride #gaypride

WHAT?!!!

British Trans YouTuber & actress Abigail Thorne (aka Philosophy Tube) has been cast in ‘Star Wars: Acolyte” making her the first trans actor in a Star Wars project!

thedirect.com/article/star-war…

She’s one of my favourite YouTubers & this is my most anticipated SW series so I am ECSTATIC!

#StarWars #TheAcolyte #Lucasfilm #Trans #Queer #LGBTQ #LGBT

Help my homie out with living expense. Ze is a Black trans person who has a lot of wisdom about life in general and has personally helped me realized social dynamics that I never saw before. Please share and/or donate.

Cashapp -$amyleeisqueen.
Venmo - @ARRushet.
Paypal: princessvoidelorean.

#mutualaid #help #trans #transcrowdfund #survival #juneteenth

I have just read the Interview with Georg Romer from University Hospital Münster in "Süddeutsche Zeitung" titled "Wait and See is Not an Option!"

He is a child and young adult psychiatrist. The interview is really very long.

But the gist is that this Georg Romer is really one of the Saints that we wish for.

The questions asked by the newspaper were great, mentioning all the controversy in society, asking tough questions (but in a very respectful manner), asking things like "what about the impression that transition numbers just exploded and that this is 'fashionable' at the moment" and so on.

During the interview Alexander Knote from LMU Munich was also mentioned aht Georg Romer was asked why he refused to talk / discuss with Alexander Knote.

In essence, A. Knote says that "coming out as trans gender has become fashionable among the AFAB." He then continues to prove that by showing that in Germany 85% of trans gender people AFAB trans men.

Georg Romer takes that as data and looks at "why is that so" in a different way. He analyses the societal environment and comes to the conlusing that the actual number of trans woman is significantly higher than the 15% but the fact that trans women have a significantly higher chance of being discriminated against, hated, or even experience violence is the actual reason why we don't see more trans women coming out. And yes, contrary to A. Knote, Georg Romer has scientific data on that.

A few machine translated excerpts:
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Some of your colleagues report that young people are becoming more and more demanding and doctors are called transphobic if they do not immediately accept being trans as given without question. Do you experience that too?

Not at all. If we want to avoid an escalation of sensitivities in the doctor-patient relationship, it starts with ourselves. We must understand and respect that there is already a long history of discrimination, pathologization and bullying of trans people in medicine at every first encounter. I think the young people immediately feel the attitude and agenda with which they are met.

So it is the responsibility of the doctors how well the young people cooperate?

We doctors have to get away from the idea that we define whether someone is trans or not. It starts with the speech in the waiting room. I always ask first of all with which name someone would like to be addressed. With this, I do not determine anything for the future, but I signal: I see you, I respect you, I listen to you.
...
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At the end he says:
I also think of a sentence in a letter that the mother of a 13-year-old trans boy once wrote to us: Without the treatment, we would steal the boy's youth. Every person deserves the chance to remember a happy youth for the rest of their lives. If we force young people to live through these years in the wrong sex, then this hardship of the children is in every class photo, in every memory of a school trip that you still had to experience in the old sex. People who only begin their transition as adults often eras these years of youth in their memory. That's very sad. A coherent identity, even in youth, contributes to the happiness of life.
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The interview is here: if you can get it free and want to read it in your language, I guess you need a machine translation

sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artik…

#Trans #YoungTrans #TransPride

Transgender

Wie soll die Medizin mit trans Kindern und Jugendlichen umgehen? Interview zum Stand der Forschung mit Jugendpsychiater Georg Romer

^{Christina Berndt (Süddeutsche Zeitung)}

#MutualAidRequest

My queer platonic partner Luke and I are both trans, neurodivergent, and disabled. We are currently homeless and living out of our van with our two cats.

We are in need of mutual aid donations to help us be able to afford food, gas, and other necessities, along with our phone bill on the 4th of $100.

My CashApp and Venmo links (handles:$magicalgrrrl/@magicalgrrrl respectively) and Luke's PayPal (@LouieSJ) are in my linktree: linktr.ee/magicalgrrrl

Please help a couple of homeless queers survive during #Pride month
🥺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

#MutualAid #disabled #trans #autistic #neurodivergent #queer #homeless

@mutualaid

@magicalgrrrl | Linktree

Magical Grrrl Betty

^Linktree

I still don't know whether Kori Michele has migrated to the fediverse, so I'm sharing some epic artwork of theirs ❤️ 💜 💙

#bisexual #pansexual #trans #transgender #TransWomenAreWomen #TransMenAreMen #NonBinaryIsValid #NonBinary #enby #queer #LGBTQ

Microsoft's AI is boosting fake stories about sex changes for toddlers on the MSN service, blindly furthering the extreme right's project to eliminate trans people.

The issue with MSN's algorithmic aggregation after they fired their human team was first brought to their attention last December, when the service boosted fake stories about Bigfoot and Mermaids. #trans #journalism #AI

My story:

assignedmedia.org/breaking-new…

Microsoft AI Aggregates Lies From the Daily Caller

There are no medical interventions for transgender young before puberty. A false Daily Caller story claiming otherwise was disseminated by Microsoft’s AI-powered MSN service.

^{Evan Urquhart (Assigned)}

An #anthropologist attends a #CPAC conference ( #conservative #RightWing #America) and reports on their findings of the attitude towards #trans folks.

This being @SAPIENS_org, it is well thought through, fully supportive of trans folks and focused on debunking some of the #myths that the right perpetuate.

I'm really pleased to see serious #academic #writing focused on supporting trans folks. Will the right wing read this? Probably not. Will people who are unaware of the attacks trans folk experience every day read this? Quite probably. Will it help to increase understanding, empathy and allyship? I sincerely hope so.

sapiens.org/culture/transphobi…

Two Myths Fueling Transphobia – SAPIENS

An anthropologist attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—ground zero for anti-trans rhetoric and legislation in the U.S.

^{Emily Sekine (SAPIENS)}

Any missourians about to lose trans healthcare in the KC metro area, the University of Kansas hospital is right across the border and I can personally vouch that their trans healthcare team is amazing, they've had some ups and downs, but I was a patient with them from 2017 when they started the clinic all the way to 2022 when I left the state.

They do require a letter for HRT, BUT If you're already on hormones they'll help you stay on them while the letter gets sorted out. I hope this helps someone here

kansashealthsystem.com/care/sp…

#TransHealthcare
#Trans
#USPol

I can't help with this, as I no longer live in WA. But fellow Washingtonians, you can help with this. Let's make sure trans youth continue to receive proper care in the pnw.

L. N. Mosteller (she/her), Boosted from @aidapsibr: Also, if you are in Washington state, please take the time to comment on support of SB 5489, the companion bill to SB 5599 which does what other blue states have done in protecting trans youth and people seeking reproductive health care from subpoena, extradition, warrants, etc.

#trans #TransRights #TransLaw #TransLaws #TransLivesMatter #ProtectTransYouth #Washington

app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?Bil… an hour ago. Public.

I just had the worst #interview of my entire #career . It turned out to be an insightful list of precisely how NOT to attract talent. In that way, it was really useful to me as a candidate.

Presented for your amusement, here's a thread of what I asked. It's going to be a longboi, but here's my absolute favorite:

🚩 Do you have any queer peers? Is this a safe place for them to work? "We don't talk about that here."

#lgbtq #trans #job #discrimination

Weeks ago I released the top 5 best states to be trans in. Subscribers wanted to know the top 5 worst.

I have tracked anti-trans legislation for 3 years. Here are the top 5 hardest states to be trans.

Please subscribe to support my work:

erininthemorn.substack.com/p/t…

#trans #Transgender #transrights #lgbtq #lgbtqia #LGBt

Top 5 Hardest States To Be Transgender

Last week, we discussed the top 5 states to be transgender. I was asked by subscribers to compile a similar list, but this time for the bottom 5 states. Here they are!

^{Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)}

It's such a shame when cool projects are maintained by bigots.

I wanted to give Hyprland a try, since I love the (technical) direction it's going. Sadly, the maintainers are transphobic and will treat you like garbage if you are a trans person. @orowith2os, a great friend of mine, shared some screenshots about the bigotry on the Discord server that made me reconsider my decision.

#Trans #Transphobia #Bigotry #Hyprland #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

new essay! not only debunks "trans social contagion" & "gr00ming" charges, but shows how they're linked, and explains the unconscious thinking behind both anti-trans campaigners' obsession with us & the TERF-to-fascist pipeline.

no paywall link, pls share & give it lots of "claps" (up to 50) so other ppl see it!
juliaserano.medium.com/anti-tr…

#trans #transgender #gay #lesbian #bisexual #LGBTQ #queer #feminism #socialjustice #sex #gender #sexuality #psychology

Anti-Trans “Grooming” and “Social Contagion” Claims Explained

There is a virtually endless list of things that supposedly cause people to become transgender. During the mid-to-late twentieth century, perhaps the most common proposed cause was faulty…

^{Julia Serano (Medium)}

Me and My Dysphoria Monster is a children's book, illustrated by Ang Hui Qing, which aims to discuss gender dysphoria in child approachable language.

The book focuses on a hopeful and optimistic future, and contains an adults reference guide at the back.

#Books #trans #lgbtq

So, from there, let's move onto my published books, in chronological order.

Uncomfortable Labels is a memoir about living at the intersection of being both trans and autistic, an overlap that is fairly common, but under discussed.

#author #trans #lgbt #books

Gender Euphoria is an anthology of real life stories of trans joy, told by a variety of trans / non-binary / intersex / non cisgender authors.

The book focuses on all the different forms trans joy can take, and attempts to offer a variety of perspectives.

#Book #Trans #books #author

My name is Laura Kate Dale, and I am an author, accessibility and queer representation critic and consultant, video game critic, streamer, and all around content creator.

Below is a thread of my various projects, and how you can support my ongoing work.

#accessibility #a11y #trans #gaming #author