Transgender Awareness Week November 13-19: a week-long celebration and awareness event to raise visibility and awareness of transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming people across the world. As well as raising awareness of the issues that these communities can face, it’s also a time to celebrate the achievements and contributions of those who identify as trans.

Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, originally held in the US in 1999 as a vigil to honor the lives of two black transgender women, Rita Hester and Chanelle Pickett, who had been murdered in previous years.

#lgbtq #transgender #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransYouth #solidarity

Event TOMORROW!!

From Instagram, a post by Lucy Parsons Center:
NO HEALTHCARE. NO GALA.
Sowa Power Station - 550 Harrison Ave, Friday, Nov 14, 5:45 PM
Join us to protest Fenway Health's gala. On Fenway's website, they are calling their gala a "testament to our resilience" and a time to "resist with joy" while cowering to the Trump Administration and restricting care for trans minors and adults. They are selling tickets and tables for hundreds to thousands of dollars and claiming they don't have to resources to fight the Trump Administration in court. While executives and donors celebrate, trans youth and families are fighting to survive.
Gender affirming care will NOT be abandoned. Bring a mask, a sign, and a friend.
We will be welcoming and encouraging gala attendees to join our protest. Our picket will not be blocking attendees from entering.

#ProtectTransFutures #NoHealthcareNoGala #TransHealthcarelsHealthcare #ProtectTransYouth #BostonForTransRights #ACTUPBoston

At packed meeting, #Maine officials vote to let #transgender child play girls basketball

Officials in St. George approved letting a transgender child compete alongside girls in a youth basketball league at a packed Monday meeting that was watched by state regulators.

by Daniel O'Connor, November 11, 2025

Excerpt: "In St. George, a crowd of roughly 200 residents, parents, and activists from elsewhere in the state gathered Monday. As residents filed in, several milled through the folding chairs to pass out transgender pride flags, pins, and stickers. Allen Sarvinas, an activist behind many transgender policy changes in the state, passed out pamphlets on parents’ rights. "

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/11/politics/state-politics/st-george-town-approves-transgender-student-girls-basketball-town-meeting/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/flNmj

#ProtectTransYouth #MEPol #MainePol #MaineWontDiscriminate #TransLivesMatter #MaineResists #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransgenderRights #Transgirls #Inclusivity

Last two paragraphs of the thank you section by the author Edward Underhill at the back of "In Case You Read This":

"It is a difficult thing to write books for trans youth right now, but it is also a difficult thing to stand up for these books and the teens who need them. I was to give a special thank-you to every single teacher, librarian, and bookseller who is fighting for the freedom to read.

And finally, I want to thank my readers. That's you. Thank you for reading this book. Stories, I think, are kind of their own dimensions, and I hope, wherever you are, that you had fun in this one."

Glad I stumbled across this book.

#lgbtq #transjoy #ProtectTransYouth #bookreview

Protect Trans* Youth
15.09.25, ab 10:30 Uhr
Bei der Haltestelle Universitätsklinikum
Bündnis gegen Queer- und Trans*feindlichkeit Münster

Aktion gegen ein antitrans Hassbündnis.

#protecttransyouth #lgbtiq #trans

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FUCK YEAH!!! #Maine Senate rejects sports ban, sounding death knell for #AntiTrans bills this session

Eesha Pendharkar
Tue, June 17, 2025

"All legislation seeking to roll back rights for #Transgender people in Maine has now failed after the majority of the Senate on Monday rejected a bill that would have banned #TransgenderGirls from participating in girls sports.

"That means that despite pressure from President Donald #Trump’s administration, Maine will continue to uphold the right for trans students to participate in sports that align with their gender identity.

"The state’s policies have come under scrutiny over the past few months, with the Department of Justice launching a lawsuit against the state for allegedly violating federal anti-discrimination protections in addition to repeated threats from several agencies to cut federal funding.

"Last week, House lawmakers advanced LD 233, which sought to ban trans girls from playing on girls’ teams. It was the only bill out of eight anti-trans measures that a majority of lawmakers in the lower chamber supported, with four Democrats joining with Republicans to advance the bill. During the floor debate, many argued that the bill was not intended to punish trans students, but to bring fairness to athletics and preserve girls’ spaces.

"However, on Monday, the Senate voted 21-13 to reject that bill as well as other measures not supported by the House, including bills aiming to ban trans students from bathrooms, locker rooms (LD 868) and trans people from single-sex shelters (LD 1337).

"Later in the evening, both the House and Senate voted to insist on their respective positions, effectively killing the measure, since the chambers could not agree."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/maine-senate-rejects-sports-ban-165747159.html

#MaineResists #MainePride #TransgenderAthletes #ProtectTransYouth #ProtectTransKids #TransRights #TrumpIsAFascist #SeeYouInCourt #GLBTQNews #MainePol #USPol #TransRightsAreHumanRights

#Maine Senate blocks last #Transgender sports bill  🌲

Randy Billings, Portland Press Herald, Maine
Mon, June 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM EDT

Jun. 16—AUGUSTA — "The Maine Senate on Monday blocked a bill advanced by the lower chamber last week that sought to prevent transgender girls from competing in girls sports.

"The 21-13 vote means the bill, sponsored by Rep. Richard Campbell, R-Orrington, and approved 73-70 by the House of Representatives on Friday, will likely die between the chambers.

"LD 233 was one of eight bills seeking to roll back transgender rights this session — a subject that took on a life of its own after President Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled, 'Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports,' and confronted Gov. Janet Mills at a White House event.

[...]

"Sen. Rick Bennett of Oxford was the lone Republican to vote against [LD 233] there.

"In an emotional floor speech last week, Bennett said he would oppose all of the anti-transgender bills in part after having a conversation with his daughter, describing her as 'a fierce and accomplished athlete' who was saddened by the debate.

" 'I, too, feel sadness that these bills are before us,' Bennett said. 'Sadness that in a moment when we could be lifting up young people, we are entertaining proposals that single some of them out, setting them apart as 'other.' I'm saddened by the growing tendency to turn away from the better angels of our nature. Saddened by the pull toward a culture of fear, the politics of division, the hardening of silos and the temptation to stigmatize those who are different.'

"The Senate also voted Monday to kill LD 868, a bill sponsored by Rep. Elizabeth Caruso, R-Caratunk, that would have prohibited transgender athletes from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity, while allowing them to play on co-ed teams."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/maine-senate-blocks-last-transgender-224700824.html

#MaineResists #TransRights #ProtectTransYouth #TransgenderAthletes #TransRightsAreHumanRights