PS Must be nice to do that on the taxpayers' dime instead of needing to set up a gofundme me like countless friends of mine. #wastefraudandabuse
I'm that mom from Texas suing Gov Abbott to #ProtectTransKids 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 www.lovetothemax.net
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PS Must be nice to do that on the taxpayers' dime instead of needing to set up a gofundme me like countless friends of mine. #wastefraudandabuse
PS Must be nice to do that on the taxpayers' dime instead of needing to set up a gofundme me like countless friends of mine. #wastefraudandabuse
Kristi Noem: “I don’t feel safe in my own home.” Also Kristi Noem: Made South Dakota so unsafe and unlivable for trans kids that they had to literally flee. Anyway, thoughts and prayers, Governor. Sending you the exact amount of empathy you gave them: zero. 🫶
Greg Abbott: "Texans don't run away from a fight" Texans who ran away:
Pretty rich for Paxton to spend years writing + defending policies meant to define trans inclusive families as "sinful" while his own family falls apart for "biblical reasons", then ask for "privacy" when he's repeatedly sought access to trans kids' medical files. Thoughts and prayers, buddy.
PS- As if I'm not salty and petty enough, here is a playlist I created a while back to celebrate the absolute karmaaaaaa he keeps getting into. Enjoy the schadenfreude, babes. Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum. open.spotify.com/playlist/1dh...
Read my pinned post at the top of my profile page. There's a Washington Post oped I wrote somewhere in there that explains it a little bit more.
If you liked that, then please enjoy this very fucking petty Spotify Playlist that I made a few years ago. 🤟 open.spotify.com/playlist/1dh...
I didn't know them and they weren't campaigning. Here's a little backstory in this Washington Post oped that I wrote a few years back (in a longer thread about how we got here if it's helpful) bsky.app/profile/mrsb...
I mean, if the crown fits... 👑
He never said he'd protect him. We asked him to keep our son in mind when shitty legislation was discussed. He said he seemed like a good kid, and then he left. We had hoped for more. And I don't regret the dinner. We tried. We will ALWAYS try.
As for me, im thriving out of sheer fucking spite and my son is living his best life. And we're all still together... unlike the Paxtons. 💅 (Too soon?)
*He* penned an opinion accusing me of child abuse, then sat back while I fought to keep my family together. *She* repeatedly votes in favor of laws explicitly designed to harm my son. They have worked for *years* to tear my family apart. May EVERYTHING they've tried to do us return to them tenfold.
Idk wtf that means, but excuse me while i raise a glass to their embarrassment and misery. 🥂
Today, his soon-to-be ex-wife Angela – who joined us that evening and even brought a homemade dessert still warm from her oven – filed for divorce on "biblical grounds"
In 2016, Ken Paxton had the audacity to sit at my table and break bread with my family knowing full well that my son is trans, then SIX YEARS LATER wrote an opinion stating that families like mine shouldn't exist. Within days, a CPS investigator was in our home threatening to remove our children.🧵
I'm obsessed with a single i heard on @npr.org today by an artist named #EphSee called "malachi the uber driver" and I can't find it on Spotify and its driving me crazy! The song and the story behind it are stuck in my head and im kind of obsessed. Where can I download and listen? Thanks!
Perfection
This deportation was planned as a political spectacle. The deportees were carefully chosen, as was the language used to describe them. Absolutely illegal! Via @timothysnyder.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
It's not hard. This is unacceptable. They won't stop at him.
This podcast episode left out facts about inclusion in sports. The truth is, young people learn many life lessons playing sports: leadership, confidence, self-respect, and the value of teamwork. No one should be denied the opportunity to play sports just because of who they are.
Maybe he should stop trying to become a dictator and instead focus on what he said he was going to do!
Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here
Oh, Adam, this is SO good! Thank you for this important piece! Excellent job!
Congratulations, @abriggle.bsky.social ❤️ This is more timely than ever and I'm proud of you. You're a great philosopher and an incredible dad.
Now more than ever.
thanks for the boost. i ended up just making a whole entire thread this morning! i appreciate the amplification. trans kids deserve so much better!
remember this the next time a law or policy is passed that is BLATANTLY discriminatory. don't just stand idly by while the most marginalized are sacrificed, because you think "it could never happen to me" or "that would never happen here" because (GESTURES WILDLY OUT THE WINDOW) GET TO WORK.
instead, people have forgotten the "united" part of "united states of america" and thought that if a policy didn't affect them, they could just let it slide. "why don't you just move?" they've asked. while i've been asking for YEARS "why don't you just help?"
maybe if the rest of the country would have spent a little more time fighting for trans kids in texas, none of us would be here. maybe if more people stood up and said NO, this line would not have been crossed.
i've been navigating this bullshit here in texas for YEARS and WARNING folks that they were next if they didn't wake the fuck up and do something. and here we are.
ALLLL this shit people are seeing NOW in their communities? welcome to the shit show, friends. none of this is new. trump didn't invent this. he copied it from the red states you wrote off. it's just new to YOU because not enough of y'all have been paying attention.
i've been warning y'all for YEARS that these attacks don't end with trans kids and that red states aren't the *only* places that could be affected. "show me on a map where it's SAFE" i'd ask. "you're just one election away from this bullshit too" i'd say. i hate to say "i told you so," but.
while i appreciate all my blue state friends checking in on us, i'm more than a little irritated by all y'all who SWORE up and down that "it could never happen HERE" and in a very victim blame-y way asked me "why don't you just MOVE?" pffft. i'm in a MOOD, babes.
idk. i'm a mom of a trans teen in texas and just feeling a little salty and bitter this morning. 🧵
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
Theirs is not an inaccurate caption. Mine is just accurate-er. Speak up every chance you get, fam. You'll lose any ground that you don't protect.
My Texas town had a rally to support immigrants today and my local paper was there and anyway I fixed their caption. ✌️
As the EOs and orders keep coming, I keep thinking of the exhibit in the Berlin Jewish Museum that displays the 962 anti-Jewish laws and policies in order as they came down. These kinds of drumbeats are designed not just to oppress but to normalize oppression. www.jmberlin.de/en/jmb-journ...
Axios [Jan 31] -- Federal websites tracking health care information on HIV prevention and transgender care went dark this afternoon. Also gone was information on contraception and gender-based violence. [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
Independent journalism that won't fold at the first threat if a potential lawsuit for reporting the news accurately is going to be harder and harder to find very soon. I was happy to donate monthly to @19thnews.org
This is grossly irresponsible reporting by the AP. What’s being offered is not a buyout. The deal is if you agree to resign in September you can continue working remotely until then. There is no buyout or severance.
1. Yesterday, Trump released a broad anti-trans executive order that could have extreme impacts on transgender people's lives if implemented. There has been much discussion of what it actually does. In my latest piece, I go line by line to explain it. Subscribe to support my journalism.
We're prepared to defend our community from the wave of anti-trans attacks. This Wednesday, January 29th our legal and policy experts will explain how A4TE plans to fight back – and how you can join us. Sign up here: action.transequality.org/a/a4te_vs_tr...
Want some good news at the end of a very long week? Our short doc Love To The Max has been acquired by @newyorker.com and nominated for a @glaad.bsky.social Media Award! Trans kids won't be erased, no matter what Trump says. 💪🏳️⚧️ Watch it now at www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
I'm seeing a few reports of this, but I can't confirm this is widespread. I have been told a separate passport office is no longer processing changes, but new apps will go by your BC and renewals by your current info. There's a lot of confusion out there on passports and no real answer yet.
Incredibly grateful for the work that @glaad.bsky.social does. This might be a baby step in the bigger march towards lasting change, but it is forward progress nevertheless and they should be proud.
Diversity and inclusion has never started a fire, but profound ignorance of climate change and a refusal to fund the government’s ability to address it certainly have. Truth from @lizplank.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lizplank...
"This is an effort to invalidate votes, even though there is no indication that they’re fraudulent or that voters would have known they could be problematic..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The 19th [Jan 8] -- Great in-depth explainer on possible/pending federal actions against trans ppl. Sen. Dems can filibuster anti-trans bills but as w/ NDAA may be hard if attached to budget bills, and R's can still try to enacted some thru Presidential Exec. Orders [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
Stay focused on protecting norms and institutions and not on the “gulf of America.”
I think this says just as much about Texas as it does about Meta.
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
If you work at Meta and support LGBTQ+ people no you don't.
MOTHER JONES [Dec 31] ACLU's Chase Strangio selected Hero of 2024 for involvement in every major trans case of past decade: Gavin Grim, Chelsea Manning, NCar bathroom ban, Trump military ban, Harris Funeral Homes (added GI&E to 1964 Civil Rights Act) & now Skrmetti. [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
Lucille Clifton, always.
The most senseless thing of all is that we're doing things we know with 100 percent certainty cause harm to these kids because some people suspect the current treatments might in certain cases be harmful to some of them.
The art of the deal: 1. Make wild demands 2. Get nothing 3. Declare victory
She is SO brave and SUCH a hero to do this.
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
In 2024, several New Hampshire Democrats, afraid that anti-trans attacks would work, voted in favor of a trans surgery ban and bathroom bill. They lost more seats than most other states. Now the R majority is ramping up targeting us. Capitulation didn't work. National Dems, take note.
It really is bizarre how fixated people, and journalists in particular, are on trans kids and their healthcare.
Oh this is both bad and also bad
I'm so glad you're still here 💓 Thank you for blazing a trail for my son!
Half a lifetime ago!! Can you believe it? He was shorter than me. Now he's 6 feet tall. Where does time go?!
Ps retweets or whatever they're called are appreciated so Luke Skywalker see this. He's the real deal, yall. Never met a sweeter, more genuine man stg. BE THE RESISTANCE!!
8 years ago today my family was invited to the Obama White House where we met @markhamillofficial.bsky.social. He posed with my son (who is trans) in a WH that fought for his rights. It feels like a lifetime ago and I'm worried that the next administration will try to erase this. Be the resistance!
and more.... "he (Trump) said he was pursuing legal action against “60 Minutes” for what he said was a misquote. "We have to straighten out the press. The press is very corrupt. Almost as corrupt as our elections.”
This is why ABC News' capitulation is dangerous for journalism www.readtpa.com/p/abc-news-j...
I finally watched Die Hard for the first time last night. Verdict: it is *obviously* a Christmas movie. I will not be taking questions at this time.
Here are the LGBTQ records of President-elect Donald Trump's nominees for his Cabinet and key positions in his second administration ⤵️ glaad.org/trumps-nomin...
Ive got 2 orange bois and they are straight up single-brain-celled party animals too.
Hey that's me!! I think that photo was taken when we were lobbying in Austin, and brought the @washingtonpost.com with us. Look how sweet my son is! 😍
With all the bullshit that trans kids have had to endure lately, wouldn't it be amazing if this documentary ended up on the Oscars shortlist? Please repost and tag anyone you know who might be Hollywood-adjacent to get this on their radar! It's available to watch in the Academy Screening Room now!
Our beautiful, powerful short doc "Love To The Max" is about my trans-inclusive family fighting to stay together in the face of persecution -- and is now available in the Academy Screening Room! Who do you know in the Doc branch of AMPAS? Help us get this film on the Oscar shortlist! @newyorker.com
Amazing, Erin! Quick question though: the Arkansas ban was blocked by a court a few years back. Was that not a state Supreme Court? Who made that ruling? Federal Judge? I don't recall the details of that one. This is great news either way!
The person who supposedly “assaulted Nancy Mace” was just a foster youth advocate who literally did nothing more than shake her hand. Wow. imprintnews.org/top-stories/...
"They’re killing us, and we’re meant to behave as if it’s business as usual. ...As difficult as it is to comb through the onslaught of awful abortion rights news every day, the real horror is the normalization." @jessicavalenti.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
i spent a month investigating how republicans could cut off access to trans healthcare for most americans, and how democrats can likely stop them — but it’s unclear if they will. tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Part of a larger thread. I'm raising an INCREDIBLE young man here in Texas (who happens to be trans) and suing Gov Abbott to protect my son and trans kids like him across the state. Portion of thread here: bsky.app/profile/mrsb...
Trump: What’s it going to take to keep you quiet, Kim? Kim:
Yourself but as a cartoon
Make no mistake- they can take away our rights & ban our health care, but we’re not going anywhere. We’ll be queerer, more trans, just to spite them. We’ll live harder, love harder, & take care of each other no matter what. They can’t erase us, no matter how hard they try.
I ADORE how you have this super fucking important job fighting for kids like my son and families like mine and dedicate your accounts to cats. Honestly? We all need that energy. Love you, friend. My kitters and I are recharging until January 20th. Then we fight like hell.
stockpiling meds, leaving home behind for somewhere safer, calls to crisis hotlines, making suicide pacts (!) - these are the plans the LGBTQ community is making as they prepare for a 2nd trump term with the GOP in the majority. but please keep telling me how expensive gas is. wapo.st/3ZrVDBx
Soon-Shiong saying "the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story based on that story" is among the scariest and stupidest things I've ever heard. There'd be an alternative version of each story written by AI in Trumpese??? www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/m...
More amazing press for our documentary "Love To The Max" – a short film acquired by the @newyorker.com. we're in @vanityfair.com magazine's Hollywood Issue! You can watch the film free online anytime at youtu.be/nSYm4gBiFYA?...
Two years ago today we were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for protecting The US Capitol on January 6th 2021. Almost 4 years later the efforts to downplay, whitewash and minimize what happened appear to be succeeding. I won't ever stop standing up to them.
lots of people talking ABOUT trans youth this week. very few are LISTENING to them, though. here's a beautiful, hour-long ABC news documentary (featuring my handsome son) where THEIR voices are centered in telling their stories. open your ears & heart and watch now: ouramericaabc.com/who-im-meant...
Oh, Casey, this story is so good. You and @caitjgibson.bsky.social always do such a beautiful job with these types of stories. Thank you for allowing us a better view of LW, and thanks to her and her parents for being so brave.
I am weeping
Sotomayor scoffs at suggestion that democratic process will protect trans people: "When you’re 1% of the population or less, it's very hard to see how the democratic process will protect you." Adds: There are many more Black people/women, & the dem process "didn't protect them for whole centuries"
Hegseth drinking too much alcohol is somehow the thing that tanks his nomination, but Kavanaugh *crying* about how much he likes beer is somehow just fine, and how either of them treats women doesn't seem to be a deciding factor in *any* of this. (See also: Trump) And now we're caught up. The end.
Good to see you here, friend!
Good advice today especially (good advice every day) #ProtectTransKids
10. I am an award-winning transgender journalist covering LGBTQ+ issues every day, and I was personally reporting from the court this morning. You can subscribe to support my journalism at www.erininthemorning.com/subscribe.
Assigned media is great and everyone should read their reporting. They are doing good, on the ground, trans-centric journalism.
I'm just out of oral arguments, and wow. They're really arguing trans people's humanity. The primary question for the conservative justices seems to be whether states can terribly harm transgender minors to protect detransitioners. #Skrmetti #SCOTUS