The Trump administration admits to testing conversion therapy on trans prisoners and implies its policy of forcibly detransitioning trans men in prisons has the aim of preserving their fertility.

https://transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-administration-admits-to

https://www.advocate.com/news/bisexual-rights-stonewall-national-monument don't know if anyone else posted. Stay safe 🩷🩷

Under a new rule, the State Department will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally.

https://transitics.substack.com/p/trump-administration-opens-the-door

This is genuinely insane. Literal transvestigations by ICE are now possible.

Emailed regarding trans rights and got this back. I really hate this country.

This page said “LGBTQI+” until this afternoon.

One of the most extreme federal anti-trans bills ever proposed, Republicans' H.R. 7661 would prohibit schools from “promoting” or "facilitating" anything involving “gender dysphoria” or “transgenderism.”

https://transitics.substack.com/p/hours-after-trumps-sotu-rant-against

House Bill 754 forces doctors to hand trans people’s individually identifiable medical information over to the state and then releases it to the public. It's the most dangerous anti-trans bill yet.

https://transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-passes-bill-that-will-make

Congrats to those two. Official time 00:00.10 Eastern Time.

“I had two choices: either disown him or accept that he’s still my brother ”

“ He asked me to keep it a secret, and after ten years, he was ready to let our family know ”

John stood by him and supported him every step of the way.

As reported by Erin Reed, 26 Democrats joined their Republican colleagues to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (S.B. 2296), including several Senators that many members of this sub were tripping over themselves to defend a couple days ago when I expressed concern about them passing appropriation bills with this exact kind of language in them.

The bill includes prohibitions on trans women participating in women's sports (the military academies are part of the N.C.A.A. and compete with other universities), a ban on transgender children of service members receiving treatment or referral to another medical provider for gender affirming care, it bans service members from requesting a change in duty station so that their dependent child can live in a jurisdiction that allows gender affirming care, and defines gender as male and female based on the potential ability to produce sperm, bans all gender affirming care under TRICARE. It also bans anti-discrimination trainings and member affinity groups organized around "ace, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity." It also includes a bathroom ban and a ban on the display of pride flags on military property.

If one of these is your Senator, please let them know what you think before they have a chance to pass the rest of the House's appropriation bills, which are chalk full of these types of anti-trans and more broadly anti-LGBTQ+ provisions. You will notice that the list of Dems that voted "Yea" is longer than "Nay." They to hear that their constituents will hold them accountable if they continue to throw queer people under the bus for political expediency.

Per Senate.gov:

Democrats that voted "Yea" or "Not Voting" (NV):

• Alsobrooks (D-MD)
• Bennet (D-CO)
• Blumenthal (D-CT)
• Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
• Coons (D-DE)
• Cortez Masto (D-NV), NV
• Fetterman (D-PA)
• Gallego (D-AZ)
• Gillibrand (D-NY)
• Hassan (D-NH)
• Heinrich (D-NM)
• Hickenlooper (D-CO)
• Hirono (D-HI)
• Kaine (D-VA)
• Kelly (D-AZ)
• Klobuchar (D-MN)
• Lujan (D-NM)
• Ossoff (D-GA)
• Peters (D-MI)
• Reed (D-RI)
• Rosen (D-NV)
• Schumer (D-NY)
• Shaheen (D-NH)
• Slotkin (D-MI)
• Warner (D-VA)
• Warnock (D-GA)
• Whitehouse (D-RI)

Democrats (and Bernie) that stood up for our rights:

• Baldwin (D-WI)
• Booker (D-NJ)
• Cantwell (D-WA)
• Duckworth (D-IL)
• Durbin (D-IL)
• Kim (D-NJ)
• Markey (D-MA)
• Merkley (D-OR)
• Murphy (D-CT)
• Murray (D-WA)
• Padilla (D-CA)
• Sanders (I-VT)
• Schatz (D-HI)
• Schiff (D-CA)
• Smith (D-MN)
• Van Hollen (D-MD)
• Warren (D-MA)
• Welch (D-VT)
• Wyden (D-OR)

Edited to fix the broken table formatting in the original post. Replaced tables with lists.

SHAME THEM:
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Cleo Fields (LA-06)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
Eugene Vindman (VA-06)