Of all the low-down dirty things done by the #Trump administration and Pete #Hegsheath, this news is among the worst.
#TransGenderRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQ #USMilitary #MilitaryLaw
#TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
I've been boycotting #JKRowling for many yrs. I'm so glad that it's getting more of a boom on social media and I love #DavidTennant for saying something! She makes me sick!
I saw this on facebook! #JKRowling 🤭 #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
NOT THE WORST POPE! Seriously!!!
From 2023: For this group of #TransWomen, the #Pope and his message of #inclusivity are a welcome change
By Nicole Winfield
TORVAIANICA, Italy (AP) — " #PopeFrancis’ recent gesture of welcome for #Transgender #Catholics has resonated strongly in this working class, seaside town south of Rome, where a community of #TransWomen has found help and hope through a remarkable relationship with the pontiff forged during the darkest times of the pandemic.
"Thanks to the local parish priest, these women now make monthly visits to Francis’ Wednesday general audiences, where they are given VIP seats. On any given day, they receive handouts of medicine, cash and shampoo. When COVID-19 struck, the Vatican bussed them into its health facility so they could be vaccinated ahead of most Italians.
"On Sunday, the women — many of whom are #LatinAmerican #migrants and work as #prostitutes — joined over 1,000 other poor and homeless people in the Vatican auditorium as Francis’ guests for lunch to mark the Catholic Church’s #WorldDayOfThePoor.
"The menu was evidence of Francis’ belief that those most on the margins must be treated with utmost dignity: cannelloni pasta filled with spinach and ricotta to start; meatballs in a tomato-basil sauce and cauliflower puree, and tiramisu with petit fours for dessert."
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-transgender-lgbtq-b3d67868504ba701cce09da9ecc94de0
Again if #Trump & company really cared about WOMEN, they would allow #ReproductiveRights !
#USPol #TransgenderRights #WomensRights #Hypocrisy #Fascism #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
Jinkxie has my heart @JinkxMonsoon 🤩🥰
#DragIsNotGrooming #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
This evening...
Hubby: "Let's watch the local news."
[News reports about transgender athletes and Title IX and schools]
Me: "F*ck you! Studies of two people are not studies! READ THE SCIENCE!!!"
Hubby: "Let's watch something else.
Me: "Sorry. But I can't help it! Grrrrr...."
#TransgenderAthletes #TransgenderRights #TrumpIsABully #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
Louder for the folks in the back... GENDER IS A SPECTRUM!!! 'Nuff said!
From 2018: Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
By Claire Ainsworth & Nature magazine
"As a clinical geneticist, Paul James is accustomed to discussing some of the most delicate issues with his patients. But in early 2010, he found himself having a particularly awkward conversation about sex.
"A 46-year-old pregnant woman had visited his clinic at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia to hear the results of an amniocentesis test to screen her baby's chromosomes for abnormalities. The baby was fine—but follow-up tests had revealed something astonishing about the mother. Her body was built of cells from two individuals, probably from twin embryos that had merged in her own mother's womb. And there was more. One set of cells carried two X chromosomes, the complement that typically makes a person female; the other had an X and a Y. Halfway through her fifth decade and pregnant with her third child, the woman learned for the first time that a large part of her body was chromosomally male. 'That's kind of science-fiction material for someone who just came in for an amniocentesis,' says James.
"Sex can be much more complicated than it at first seems. According to the simple scenario, the presence or absence of a Y chromosome is what counts: with it, you are male, and without it, you are female. But doctors have long known that some people straddle the boundary—their sex chromosomes say one thing, but their gonads (ovaries or testes) or sexual anatomy say another. Parents of children with these kinds of conditions—known as intersex conditions, or differences or disorders of sex development (#DSDs)—often face difficult decisions about whether to bring up their child as a boy or a girl. Some researchers now say that as many as 1 person in 100 has some form of DSD.
" 'When genetics is taken into consideration, the boundary between the sexes becomes even blurrier. Scientists have identified many of the genes involved in the main forms of DSD, and have uncovered variations in these genes that have subtle effects on a person's anatomical or physiological sex. What's more, new technologies in DNA sequencing and cell biology are revealing that almost everyone is, to varying degrees, a patchwork of genetically distinct cells, some with a sex that might not match that of the rest of their body. Some studies even suggest that the sex of each cell drives its behaviour, through a complicated network of molecular interactions. 'I think there's much greater diversity within male or female, and there is certainly an area of overlap where some people can't easily define themselves within the binary structure,” says John Achermann, who studies sex development and endocrinology at University College London's Institute of Child Health.
"These discoveries do not sit well in a world in which sex is still defined in binary terms. Few legal systems allow for any ambiguity in biological sex, and a person's legal rights and social status can be heavily influenced by whether their birth certificate says male or female.
" 'The main problem with a strong dichotomy is that there are intermediate cases that push the limits and ask us to figure out exactly where the dividing line is between males and females,' says Arthur Arnold at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies biological sex differences. 'And that's often a very difficult problem, because sex can be defined a number of ways.' "
Read more:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/fXS54
#GenderFluidity #GenderIsNotBinary #GBLTQRights #GBLTQErasure #TransgenderRights #HumanRightsAbuses #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
#Maine governor criticizes #Trump administration for freezing funds amid #transgender athlete dispute: ‘It’s not rational’
By Alyssa Vega Globe Staff,Updated April 14, 2025
"Maine #GovernorJanetMills criticized the Trump administration on Monday just days after it moved to cut all federal #education funding to the state. The move came in response to Maine’s refusal to enforce the administration’s directive to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
In an interview on MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe' Monday, Mills said the state received a series of letters from federal agencies, culminating in an April 2 letter from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, which the Maine governor described as 'appalling' in tone and substance. Mills said the next day Rollins threatened to pull all education funding to the state.
" 'Because there are maybe two — at most — two transgender athletes competing in Maine schools right now, they decided to shut off funding for our school nutrition program, the school lunch program entirely, on which 172,000 Maine school #children rely for their school meals. That didn’t make any sense,' Mills said. "
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/NRfNV
#USPol #TrumpHatesChildren #TrumpIsABully #MadKingTrump #JanetMills #GovernorMills #TransgenderAthletes #TransAthletes #ProtectTransYouth #SeeYouInCourt #MaineResists #TransErasure #TransgenderRights #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
In high school, I could easily beat the boys at 50 and 100 yard dashes (and could dunk way more baskets than most of them -- 7 in a row from the line one time). But I was not allowed to compete directly with them, or play on the boys' basketball team. The boys had no problem with it -- but the school did. Some of us are born with subtle differences in chromosomes, hormones, etc., and not-so-subtle differences in weight, skills, etc. Maybe we should focus on muscle mass, weight, skill, etc., like there is with boxing and other sports. In martial arts class (which I became a brown belt in a class full of boys), we competed by skill and size -- not by gender. Just saying...
#TransAthletes #TransgenderAthletes #TransgenderRights #PeopleArePeople #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
US track star says she feels ‘defeated’ after Trump’s move against #TransAthletes
By Brynn Gingras and Bonney Kapp, CNN
March 20, 2025
Portland, Maine (CNN) — "She’s a two-time All American in 200- and 400-meter races. A college athlete used to winning, with a goal of making the 2032 US Olympic team. But 21-year-old #SadieSchreiner says she feels 'defeated.'
"Not by the sport she loves or the physical rigors of the training but by the shifting rules on #TransgenderAthletes that have left her running alone around the track or now not running competitively at all.
"But she won’t stop. 'I don’t know what would happen if I don’t have track and field, and I’m not going to see that reality,' Schreiner insisted.
"Schreiner knew when she was young that her physical body didn’t match her gender and began transitioning while in high school. She takes 8 pills daily to keep her testosterone levels low enough so they aren’t detectable on lab tests.
'(The hormone therapy) shrank my ligaments. It’s made me shorter. It’s made me weaker. It’s lessened my muscles. It’s redistributing my fat. It’s lowered my lung capacity,' Schreiner explained. “My biology is fundamentally different than a cis man.'
"Her NCAA 24:12 personal best for the 200 meters puts her in the top tier of her age group but she said she’s a wholly different athlete than the high school kid who ran in boys’ races. 'I am now 20% slower than I was in 8th grade.'
"Undetectable levels of testosterone used to be the standard to compete in NCAA competitions.
"Schreiner says she makes other accommodations too: 'I don’t even change in the locker rooms.'
"But there’s nothing more she can do to run in college events – the competitive home of young US athletes – since the NCAA governing body followed President Donald #Trump’s executive order titled 'Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports' with a rule change limiting participation in women’s sports to those assigned female at birth.
"She switched to meets organized by USA Track & Field – the national governing body for the sport – which holds competitions across the country for all ages and skill levels.
"It was the only place Schreiner was allowed to compete, isolated from her teammates and coaches. In some races, she ran around the track alone, with no competition in her age group, which she called 'brutal.'
" 'I am literally racing against me, instead of racing at these college meets, at the competitive levels I should be.' "
Read more:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/us/sadie-schreiner-trans-athlete-ban/index.html
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/6QM3A
So, sharing these photos of #SadieSchreiner from her website, showing the difference in her body before and after her transition. She isn't the same person she was before her transition. The same with anyone who has undergone HRT. Don't believe RWNJ emphasis on a few studies with only a couple of *participants*. Folks who undergo gender transition change. 'Nuff said!
#TransAthletes #TransgenderAthletes #TransgenderRights #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
AI, education, writing, and OER are my usual topics, but I want to share my husband's first publication: "Reflections of a Transgender Doctor on the Executive Order" (his title) or "Trump signed away my identity, but forgot biology doesn't follow orders" (The Advocate editor's title).
https://www.advocate.com/voices/gender-diversity-in-nature
#transgenderrightsarehumanrights #transrights #transgenderrights #transgenderawareness
Today, while celebrating the lives and contributions of transgender people, advocate for policies that support and protect transgender people in your community.
TransgenderDayOfVisibility #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
Of what has been raised so far about 200 has gone to supplies and communication. We've not made enough to get a vehicle or hire a truck just yet but we are very close!
Please re-share this link. It means a lot to me.
https://gofund.me/d0acb8ba
#MutualAidRequest
#mutualaid
#MutualAidSavesLives
#TransCrowdFund
#trans
#transgenderrightsarehumanrights
#transrights
#LGBTQLivesMatter
#lgbtqiaplus
#lgbtqia
#texas
Thanks for the quote and the Tim Winton hashtag.
The quote's needed here.
I'm in community group that is failing to stand up against the ongoing harassment, social marginalisation and psychological abuse of a transgender woman by some of those with authority in the group.
I haven't yet evoked any support.
The quote might stir consciounesses and consiences.
(I'm also looking for some possible feet-on-the-ground co-activists.)
BTW, EVEN IF she is/was #trans, she is still a woman that fought another woman.
So you deal with that. #TransLivesMatters #transgenderrightsarehumanrights #DoYourResearch #MostOfYouAreReallyStupid #Olympics #ImaneKhelif #AngelaCarini
Transphobia running wild... over someone cis... because people are very stupid!
Someone tell JK to shut up.
What we really should be asking is: **see clip**
#TransLivesMatters #transgenderrightsarehumanrights #DoYourResearch #MostOfYouAreReallyStupid #Olympics #ImaneKhelif #AngelaCarini
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