Leena 🏳️‍⚧️

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In an alternate universe, McConnell, Garland, Meuller, and Biden had the courage and integrity to convict Trump, and he’s spending his final days behind bars, while America is still moving forward instead of regressing back to the Jim Crow era of white supremacist violence and fascism. Sigh…

UNC Asheville takes stricter stance on housing for transgender students

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article310318200.html

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

@RickiTarr
I want to think of today as "Happy birthday to the USA that always should have been" and a funeral for a USA that was never great for everybody.

We ARE going to have a funeral in this country. But WE are the ones who get to choose whether it's a funeral for white supremacy or a funeral for democracy.

Pete Hegseth is now threatening to send the Marines into Los Angeles.

Make no mistake: this is a declaration of war against the United States.
I remember how the National Guard behaved when they were deployed in Minneapolis during the BLM protests and I wouldn't trust those bastards any more than I'd trust the police.

A centralized intelligence database on all Americans is not inherently legal.

It likely breaks the Privacy Act of 1974, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments.

This must be stopped. Contact your Senators and Representative and ask them to stop it. I use @5calls to call mine.

https://newrepublic.com/post/195904/trump-palantir-data-americans

#USpol #infosec #privacy #law

Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American

Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway.

The New Republic
IMPORTANT: Nationwide ban on Medicaid covering gender affirming care is in the House bill.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:scrqq5j4gmerx5cpuxxo6sxf/post/3lppyyd2zp32i
Edwin Park (@edwincpark.bsky.social)

Prohibition on #Medicaid coverage of gender affirming care extended from youth under age 18 to all beneficiaries (4/x)

Bluesky Social

I made this a while back, it's no less relevant today.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #UKSupremeCourtRuling

The Empty Library memorial, to remember the book burnings done by Nazis. In Berlin, Germany.

Not being a lawyer, this appears to be catastrophic for any queer folks living in the 9th Circuit's jurisdiction. I would love to be wrong on that, but this seems to establish several precedents outside the immediate ruling (e.g. that trans students are, in law, the "opposite sex", or that "biological sex" is a thing and a thing that can be identified unambiguously at birth).

If I am wrong in my lay understanding, please let me know in replies, and I'll edit or delete.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/9th-circuit-upholds-bathroom-ban

9th Circuit Upholds Bathroom Ban, Says Trans Students Violate Cis People's Privacy

The ruling, the first of its kind, asserts that the rights of cisgender people to not have a transgender person in the same bathroom are more important than the equal protection of trans students.

Erin In The Morning