The Trump administration directs 40 states, five territories and Washington, D.C. to remove references to transgender people from their sex education programs or risk losing federal funding.
The Trump administration directs 40 states, five territories and Washington, D.C. to remove references to transgender people from their sex education programs or risk losing federal funding.
If you capitulate to President Cankles, we will remember. And the loss of trust will be permanent.
And then Fairy Trump waved his magic wand and ALL the transgender people in the world just disappeared!
Unacceptable. I hope my state, Wisconsin, sues the administration for OUR money back to teach sex education the way we know is just and fair (and that includes trans people with equal rights & access to all aspects of life).
Meanwhile, HE does the opposite of "losing funds," along with NBC, they gain funds by making Trump happy and not getting sued...yet..
They are no going away… he can not erase human being!
transgender folks will always exist regardless, and no amount of censorship and disgusting fearmongering about them will stop this from being true. the US is in shambles, it is an embarrassment, and it is deserved if this is how it wants to treat its own people.
The ball is in the Democrats court, especially in blue states, as to whether they capitulate. I'm sure they will step up and stand in defense of trans people! *Sees all the universities and hospitals in blue states giving up with no fight and people supporting Newsom here on Bluesky* Oh... fml...
I have personally seen some firsthand capitulation from really amazing Trans medical programs (including pediatric programs) in blue states. I can’t go into much detail but it’s really disturbing.
Dunno how much detail you need to go into besides “the hospital boards shut them down before there was any legal necessity.” Looking at you, CHLA, open since 1991, now gone. Children’s Nat’l DC. UPMC in PA. UChicago. Yale New Haven. It’s not the providers, it’s the boards. Cowards. Fucking cowards.
I hope California doesn't give up, but then again our pathetic governor actually vetoed trans health care and sides with Charlie Kirk... Maybe our state assembly can push for a bill again and override yet another veto.
Also the veto I'm referring to was regarding AB 2442. Still angers me to this day. I hope Porter is better. www.eqca.org/vetoes-gende...
The Trump administration are Nazis. I wish those monsters ill every day. Especially Stephen Miller and Teeny Tiny. mjhnyc.org/events/trans...
Step Umpteen in the elimination of trans people, in broad daylight. There is no hell hot enough for fascists.
Creepy people in power 😢
Every blue state needs to institute a wealth tax yesterday to pay for this (and, ideally, a collab between them all to help coordinate this)
Well, then withhold federal taxes to make up the shortfall while you take them to court.
I am convinced that people like you haven't filled out a W4 ever in their entire life.
A W4? In this economy? Everything is under the table, homey. I get paid in beaver pelts and Krugerrand.
Cool, how exactly are you going to do that? Write an angry letter to your employer?
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First, do no harm. Hippocratic Oath
This is so offensive. These are medical issues. Leave people alone to consult with doctors and psychologists.
Most states now have banned healthcare for trans minors so they can’t consult doctors.
People are always free to consult a doctor…or even out of state. I worked in healthcare in NYC are we had a visiting MD, a kindly old doctor who was an expert at treating the very rare trans patients. .6 of 1 %. Can cause harm to these people.
Ignore, take it to court. Gonna be very hard for them to pull funding over this.
They won’t do it. It costs them money to take this to court, and the court of public opinion is firmly against trans people, so they can get away with it without any pushback. Hence why dozens of hospitals in blue states have ended trans healthcare & universities have banned trans ppl from campus
Those are hospitals, these are states, some of which enshrine gender equality in their constitutions. It is not the same. Look at Maine, Cali high school sports, etc. Court of public opinion is generally supportive of basic, fundamental lgbtq rights, even if not on trans inclusion in sports.
Trans exclusion in sports is segregation. You now have a choice. Do you ignore the Democratic Party embracing segregation or do you leave? The more people leave the more likely the party backtracks.
I don’t support trans exclusion in sports. I thought the person who responded to me was being unduly pessimistic about the chances of this action by the administration being upheld in court. I have no personal attachment to the Democratic Party in any way.
What I’m saying is, because of state state law, some of these states are legally obligated to go to court on this, and they will very likely win. Admin has done this bullshit before.
The issue is that two Democratic presidential hopefuls are siding with Republicans against trans children, and instead of attacking these assholes VBNMW is licking shit off the floor defending these pricks.
This is false. The university of Michigan ended healthcare for trans youth despite bans on trans healthcare violating state law. They don’t have to provide. Brown and Harvard both effectively banned trans people from their campuses despite it violating state law.
Because you're Canadian?
The issue is not any doubt about whether court actions will be successful, it is that Dems and private institutions will not be willing to take the administration to court. Even if they are successful, institutions will still ban/end healthcare to avoid future conflict
No, some of these states quite literally *have to go to court* over this. They are legally obligated to do so, because of state constitutional protections.
Link it. You're online go ahead.
They won’t. You are acting as if laws still matter. They don’t. State laws will not save anyone when the state will do nothing to defend a deeply hated minority. Look at Brown university. Not only is the state doing nothing, even the media didn’t say a peep about it.
Several school boards and districts in Cali have banned trans athletes from sports, and the university of Michigan hospital system just ended healthcare for trans people, despite state law protecting it. The court of public opinion is OVERWHELMINGLY opposed to trans rights
Christ. That is dark.
So, so fucking tired of this administration's rampant bigotry and how so few establishments, states or ppl in higher places fight back this bullshit and fight back hard and not give up AT ALL.... No, just meek capitulating or eager bigots happy to follow orders....
Heaven forfend children learn that there are people who don't fit a narrow binary. What's next, insisting ambidextrous people are also erased?
Autistic and adhd people
Time to suspend IRS deductions from payroll.
Blue state's AGs have experience getting funding back . www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
If educators don't put their foot down, Trump will just make more and more demands, exert more and more control. Sue them.
Conservatives believe the Department of Education dictates curricula, but they don’t. They claim they want states to control their education; they already do. They are now using the federal government to dictate curricula.
Transgender people have existed since before the United States and will continue to exist after the United States
i'm starting to think i, personally, will get to exist after the united states
For real. This country is in shambles and may not make it to 2035 at this rate.
It's already dead. The sooner we start making plans for the next republics, the better off everyone will be (except of course the fash, but they're going to have bigger problems).
California has two Senators. Idaho has two senators. The current system is corrupt, unfair and completely undemocratic. And indeed completely broken beyond repair.
Across centuries and continents, transgender people have always been here—walking among shamans, warriors, poets, and healers. From Two-Spirit ancestors to hijra in South Asia, their story is ancient. It is not trans lives that are new, but the forgetting. They are history, memory, and becoming.
The idea trans people are a recent fad because of the US is like thinking the entire concept of storytelling is a recent fad because the MCU exists. We existed before this specific government made us Target of the Decade in response to That Other Guy codifying gay marriage ten fucking years ago.
I hope the United States doesn’t exist much longer.
how much you wanna bet this doesn't get much traction here on Bluesky? I'm watching this thread closely. It'll probably make or break if I stay here or not.
This article will get more traction on here than on facebook or any other social media sites combined, sadly.
I hate this country
How’s that vote looking, Caitlyn? Don’t worry—this is just the warm-up. Their endgame? Making trans existence illegal. You asshole!
Caitlyn Jenner actively opposes trans rights.
Weird pic to choose for this article, hormonal birth control pills
You think trans men don't use them?
So much for states' rights and returning power to the states.
but can we talk about consent, tho? seems like that topic should threaten him WAY more than anything about trans folks
It is time we start calling out the spineless republicans in Congress who are enabling trumps fascist takeover! Remind them they don’t work for Trump….. they work for US!! Time to say “You’re fired’ #ComplacencyIsComplicity
Would have saved me two decades of misery if my school had it taught. So piss off.
Trans teens and gay teen exist and deserve real information about their bodies so they can be safe.
All we ever asked was to be treated like any other citizen and then LEFT THE FUCK ALONE, instead I have to check the news everyday to see if the cis-hets have found a fresh way to interfere with my life, for the sake of their precious, oh so important CONCERNS.
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California stood up to them, therefore they're trying to bully the other states into compliance before California gets a chance to finish their appeal, which HHS will lose.
Trans people are a force of change. We change ourselves, people around us, politics around us and that’s really what they are afraid of. They see change as the enemy because it hits their pockets. It hits their control. We are part of this country’s future and they are fighting it.
@repnikema.bsky.social Need you loud on this, too
can we fucking remove this fucking bigot from office
This is what fascism looks like.
That damn Gavin Newsom.
One day, we will always....
Clap clap clap
Kids are good at spotting condescension and BS. They want (need) accurate information to understand their own bodies and the people around them. They will not trust or respect adults who withhold developmentally relevant information.
No, we won't be doing that.
'Mafia boss illegally using congress allocated funds as his personal checkbook' would be a better headline
Blue states are paying the bill. Red states are recipient
The DNC response needs to be 2 letters: FU
These fucking bigots think they can change biology by suppressing education.
Bunch of sick f$ks ruining/ running this place
In a country of 59 million teenagers, fewer than 15,000 receive gender affirming care. But the administration wants you to think that .025% of kids are ruining your life. Those kids don’t affect the price of eggs.
"Trump says" isn't a law. Try going through Congress.
congress? lol what are you talking about. he rules by decree dude. do you really think anyone's gonna put a stop to this? are you 8?
Congress hasn't done shit to stop him so why would they start now
you suck bsky.app/profile/alex...
It doesn’t matter. Dozens of hospitals in deep blue states have ended healthcare for trans people just because Trump told them to (and a few because Gavin Newsom told them to) and several universities in blue states have effectively banned trans people from their campuses.
It does matter. Every time you shrug and go "oh well, everyone's awful and nothing matters, what are you going to do," the assholes win another inch. And every time you say "lol no fuck off," they lose an inch.
No the point is you should not depend on others who are apathetic to save you.
So you win an inch and lose an inch every time someone says one or the other. You realise that you're describing stalemate right?
That is absolutely not what I said and it is extremely pernicious to twist my words that way. What doesn’t matter is that whether it is a law or Trump’s demands, they are being enacted.
As it says in the article, the state of California has already refused to comply with these demands; the question right now is whether New York will comply, which is something activists can push on. This is a call to action.
Also per the article, only 21 hospitals nationwide are confirmed to have ended trans healthcare for minors. Even one is bad, but most medical professionals are fighting this. Fascists want despair. They want to look more powerful and popular than they are.
All 21 hospitals are in Blue states (red states have all already banned trans healthcare). Included in the 21 are most major hospital systems in Blue states. Medical professionals aren’t fighting this. There’s nothing they can do when the hospitals end the programs.
Spoiler: we won’t. ☑️
California has *already* complied with the demands. Several school districts and boards in Cali (which Newsom praised) have already banned trans athletes, and the LA Children’s hospital ended care for trans minors
Hell, California has a law on the books banning trans discrimination and yet Newsom not personally feeling that one means high school sports can exclude trans women now. He didn't even have to do anything, just make his opinion known on a podcast!
LACH is in financial trouble Downgraded to a negative rating by Moodys With the threatened loss by this admin of grants in the multimillions and slashed or even cancelled medicade $$ They swerved rather then jump the tracks It sucks
you're right, it's not a law. it's the Department of Education - an executive agency - being directed on how to enforce their assessment and distribution of funding, a power that is granted to that branch. this is unfortunately within his power.
It's still not a law. His word is meaningless. If the department wants to codify that in its bylaws they can, and they can be sued.
"his word is meaningless" chastises a man to people dying from his word lmao
the law in question allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to specify additional requirements for funding over the legally required minimums (I had the wrong department earlier). They have written legal authority from Congress to do this. That is not a fruitful avenue to challenge this on
DHHS's assertion is that discussion of gender outside the heteronormative exceeds or detracts from the min requirements for this section of the legislation. You can argue against that in court, but fucking good luck ever finding a venue and appellate court that receptive to trans people.
Bostock v Clayton has not been extended to education or Title IX. A legal challenge trying to extend it has to weigh the risk that the specific challenge and legal circumstances will fail and possibly shut the door on any others.
he fired as many ppl as he was legally allowed to 6 months ago, so there isn't even anyone left to try to get around this. hopefully that means the DoE won't enforce it, but the risk is in schools complying in advance. they will.
There is no congress (or law) any more
Just because you remove/erase words, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
you're not trans, huh. Not having information will cause a lot of needless suffering for trans kids. Do you want them getting medical info from Chat GPT or social media? This is how that happens.
I fully agree with you. Its detrimental to eradicate the language around anything or persons, but even if these morons think eliminating the name or history- doesnt mean it doesnt exist. Like attempting to erase US's history of slaves, doesn't mean we weren't/aren't currently a slave nation.
They really seem to believe that. Newspeak or else!
Actually, it does. This is called epistemicide, and it’s highly effective in genocide campaigns.
Never knew the word 'epistemicide'. Thanks for sharing. Also learned about 'scholasticide' too. I believe it. I see it happening. I also believe, if the US attempts to erase the terms or history, the people will still exist, regardless of what this Admin/people are trying to do.
I'm an Cis British Autistic White Male and I say Trans Rights are Human Rights. Trans People are valid and they must be heard. Let's make the rest of the world hear our voices. For Trans Rights are and will forever be Human Rights! #TransPeopleAreValid 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🫂 #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️⚧️
These people are pro teen suicide.
Absurd that this article makes no mention of the fact that every major medical association in america stands behind this medically necessary and lifesaving care. Get off the fucking fence NBC.
California’s PREP defunding is a lifeline for kids. So-called “gender ideology” is a fabricated pseudo-science pushed by anti-LGBTQ forces. Forcing it in schools is an attack on children’s well-being, common sense, and parental rights—we must resist.
How about no?
The headline says it’s about transgender. It’s not. The states are being told to remove all education about LGBTQIA, two-spirit, asexual, any reference to gender. We all experience gender FFS! 🤦🏽♀️ These grants are for marginalized youth like disabled, BIPOC, rural, foster kids, homeless. Shameful!
the replies to this are like a battle between the kids who trust the adults enough to give them the second marshmallow and the kids whose adults never had a second marshmallow to begin with and just wanted to eat theirs
*Literal* nazi shit Literal
Said the tiny dicktater.
The Trump & Republican economy has fallen off the precipice & these fucks are worried about sex education classes in schools I don't remember anything about Transgender in biology or sex education classes So what states have mentioned Transgender in their sex education classes?
the list of states is literally in the article Of course you don't remember it, you're old. They didn't have it then. Do you want kids to get medical info off random sites on the internet instead?
I am old and we did not discuss LGBTQ+ outside of HIV My kids got/get pretty inclusive sex ed though
I think you and I are the same age, or within a year. I grew up here and got no info about LGBTQ stuff (except HIV, as you said). If I had gotten info about being trans when I was 13-14? My life would likely have gone entirely differently. That's why I get fired up about this. (not at you, obvs)
I grew up in the Chicago area. My trans nibling went to the same high school I did, three decades later, and had a much more inclusive experience--there is even a SAGA now.
That's awesome!
Newsom is going to capitulate and strip trans people from sex ed programs. Frankly, he might do that even without Trump’s threats. Newsom already got the LA Children’s hospital to end trans healthcare.
He fully agrees with Charlie Kirk on everything afterall. I would hope the state assembly could push a bill and override any veto.
And I was talking AB 2442 which he vetoed. www.eqca.org/vetoes-gende...
Newsom already has done it, the ban took into effect on August 1st already www.erininthemorning.com/p/devastatin...
And he vetoed AB 2442. Which would have expanded healthcare for trans people.
only fitting that in the same month Kaiser Permanente stopped treating trans people of the age of 19 and below, Newsom came out with a healtcare ban for trans people of the age of 25 and below bsky.app/profile/blos...
#Newsom is disgusting.
Any educator who complies with this bullshit is complicit. Allies have the moral responsibility to put themselves on the line for once.
Democrat-controlled (both chambers): 15 states Republican-controlled (both chambers or effectively so): 23 states Divided/mixed control: 5 states This hurts republican controlled areas worse and they may not appeal it.
The red states will capitulate and get their money. Hopefully Blue states will sue for their and students 1st Amendment Rights.
Just tell the Feds to stuff it and keep the stuff in.
It's very tiring to just want to live your life while every dickhead with a mic tries to make it a problem.
Probably can remove transgenic mice too!!!
This is FASCISM!
remember when the government had to pass laws to make people do things, and not just issue royal decrees?
I thought we and the brits fought a war about this. Several in fact!
Threats. Threats threats from Trump . President for only some people NOT a president for ALL the people
fuck all of you fr
This administration should have much more important matters to attend to, like reducing prices and ending the Ukraine war, 2 things that were supposedly going to happen on day 1.
🤔 that’s weird because for the last year I was told Kamala was the trans boogeyman
Isn’t this what Newsom wants? Newsom supporters are certainly keen to advocate dropping trans rights
Not all of his supporters. In fact I haven’t found one supporter who advocates for dropping trans rights.
We've been meeting LOTS of them for the last month. Don't know where you've been.
Oh, VBNMW. Nevermind.
How bold
Is that right? Are they in the room with you now? Go ahead and stick by Trump. We’ll see where that gets you.
I can play this game all night!
Here's another one bsky.app/profile/pair...
And you can look for yourself if you're not a coward. bsky.app/search?q=Enj...
Oh, here's one I just found in 5 seconds of digging bsky.app/profile/iwri...
well you are here in this thread doing the thing so...
4 yelled at me on Threads just this morning.
That’s what Newsom is doing over trans rights.
Drop into any trans person's mentions after they say that they won't vote for Newsom. You know, a year out from midterms and three years from the election? You'll see plenty of folks genuinely pissed that our right to exist is non-negotiable and calling us advocating for our rights a "purity test."
You just don’t care that he does
And you obviously would rather have more MAGA. Enjoy that kid
Small government?... State's rights?... "Many people are saying they want a dictator" "Me, I'm saying that"
AKA: Trump administrative coercing state health departments to deny medically accurate descriptions of people.
The Trump administration also supports convicted child sex-traffickers, can you please cover that? #EpsteinFiles #DonaldTrump #RepublicanPedophila
Oh for fucks sake. Why are Republicans obsessed with the genitalia of children? No WONDER they elected a Pedophile.
This needs to be found illegal in court. It should not be within the presidential powers to pull back already allocated funds from entities like states or universities.
That would require an independent judiciary.
Unfortunately we have a corrupt and illegitimate judiciary.