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Transgender Menace 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷. Famously, not a liberal. Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Bylines: Wired, Slate. Views = my own. She/Her.

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Published: February 5, 2025 21:36

Temporary restraining order request filed in the transition care executive order ban. Remember to follow this bot for updates on LGBTQ related federal litigation!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: February 5, 2025 20:11

I think even the Trump team doesn't even realize how much power Musk is seizing and by the time they realize it, it might be too late. Musk is rapidly consolidating control over the entire federal government. …

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Published: February 5, 2025 18:08

This kid now controls whether your local hospital or clinic gets paid. Many could go insolvent or engage in mass layoffs if payments are significantly delayed. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: February 5, 2025 16:59

The number of journalists who write stories about lawsuits and don't include any basic information like docket number, the specific court, or even the complaint, drives me up a wall. I have to spend so much time hunting for it after.

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Published: February 5, 2025 08:28

This list is mostly Black women. It's clear that the entire anti-DEI project is just neo-segregation. It's the same reason they only targeted Black women at Harvard. They don't believe people of color or women should have any positions of power.…

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Published: February 5, 2025 07:38

At a certain point, looking around to point fingers at people is counterproductive. We're in this moment and playing the blame game doesn't help. What matters is what we do next and how we survive this. It might mean a lot of strange alliances and…

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Published: February 5, 2025 07:04

Imagine going back ten years and telling people that a convicted Trump would be president for a second term after a coup attempt and Elon Musk would be seizing control of the government while endorsing the building of concentration camps and doing a seig…

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Published: February 4, 2025 23:59

Hey everyone, this is the new LGBTQ litigation bot we put together in partnership with Free Law Project. Follow it to stay up to date on legal developments with LGBTQ related cases and the Trump administration. [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: February 4, 2025 21:05

You can shove it. The BMJ has stoked all of this by pushing anti-trans articles for years now. Don't act surprised when the fire you helped start consumes research you care about. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: February 4, 2025 21:03

Out of 510,000 NCAA athletes, less than 10 are transgender. They are literally writing an executive order to target less than a hundred people nationwide. Republicans spent over $110 million in anti-trans ads on a made up problem.

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Published: February 4, 2025 16:43

The people doing supporting this are downright evil. They want to terrorize children. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/02/04/undocumented-immigrants-states-legislatures-bills/

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Published: February 4, 2025 04:12

We had a million op eds about how trans people were supposedly erasing women, meanwhile the Trump admin is literally banning the word female in NIH funded studies. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: February 4, 2025 03:13

This is a glaring red flag. El Salvador will accept "deported" Americans, almost surely to be tortured and imprisoned by Bukeles thugs. You cannot legally deport an American citizen. That doesn't mean they won't try.…

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Published: February 4, 2025 01:27

You can't run a social media site with US government ownership. Moderation would be impossible under the 1st amendment. Everything from doxing peoples addresses, to non actionable threats, and harassment etc. could not be moderated legally. It would be…

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Published: February 3, 2025 22:05

They're going to illegally dismantle the Department of Education and strip millions of students of student loans, funding for students with disabilities, etc. They want to destroy public education. …

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Published: February 3, 2025 18:08

New York protects gender identity in its constitution as voted by the people. The feds requiring entities in New York to discriminate against trans people are requiring them to break New York law. While the relevant laws are statutes, the NY Constitution…

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Published: February 3, 2025 17:53

I filed this amicus brief on December 9th, 2024. I called out exactly how Musk could use his position to enlist federal law enforcement to baselessly launch criminal investigations of his critics. gov.uscourts.ca5.221293/gov.uscourts.ca5.221293.83.0.pdf …

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Published: February 3, 2025 17:21

US Attorney for DC threatens prosecution against anyone unmasking "DOGE" employees in blatant violation of the First Amendment. DOJ is now Musk's personal army he will use to target his critics with baseless criminal investigations.

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Published: February 2, 2025 18:21

We're all collectively in a societal bystander effect as we watch Elon Musk and Trump collapse the United States and no one is doing anything about it. Everyone just expects someone else to do something. Everyone is that someone now. The only offramp now…

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Published: February 2, 2025 16:41

As a trans person, we fucking told you so. We told you who these people were but you hated our existence so much you allied with crazed fascists thinking they only wanted to go after trans people. There's a famous poem about this. [contains quote post or…

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Published: February 2, 2025 14:30

Just so y'all know, Elon is holed up in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. It's directly on 17th street NW with no major security buffer from the street. If there's a mass peaceful protest, they'll see and hear you only twenty feet away.

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Published: February 2, 2025 13:37

What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society.

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Published: February 2, 2025 05:53

This is a big deal. We could see a full ground stoppage by morning of all flights if not immediately fixed. Really feels like things are coming apart quickly. Last outage of NOTAM in 2023 led to the largest ground stoppage since 9/11.

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Published: February 2, 2025 04:59

The history books are going to write about how the US was suffering from mass delusion to elect Trump while believing he wouldn't do what he said he would. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: February 1, 2025 22:58

At what point do people say enough and mass outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building demanding for Musk to be removed? He's an unelected billionaire who has seized control of the government.

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Published: January 31, 2025 23:35

The peace corps is telling trans members that they must detransition or get out. https://www.reddit.com/r/peacecorps/comments/1ieb62v/officially_got_the_call_from_pcmo_transgender_pcv/?share_id=9VuLlDzzsArxie_ojNCZk

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Published: January 31, 2025 20:53

CW:Suicide Transgender VA patient completed suicide by jumping from the parking garage at the VA while wearing a trans pride flag. Let's be clear, they were murdered by this administration. …

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Published: January 31, 2025 18:43

If you've got the technical skills and the storage. Download and archive the entire NIH Pubmed database along with Data.gov data sets with a priority for datasets featuring protected characteristics such as sexual orientation, gender identity, race, gender…

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Published: January 31, 2025 18:17

This is a 5 alarm fire. They're going to pull down all publicly available data, studies, guidance, etc that involves LGBTQ people so when the worst happens to us, no one will know. They're actively trying to erase us. …

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Published: January 31, 2025 05:53

I've been throwing up from the stress of everything over the last week of Trump EOs and barely and to eat. I've lost 5 pounds in the last week. Can't think straight or barely function. Being discarded like trash by so many in my own community this week has…

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Published: January 31, 2025 04:44

So sad to see Harvard Law grad and civil rights attorney Kiah Duggins passed away in the plane crash yesterday. Our paths never crossed but I've been fortunate to teach gifted students like her and it's heartbreaking that we lost such a bright light in…

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Published: January 31, 2025 02:43

Seeing so many hospitals capitulate on trans youth care means that if Trump does a similar executive order for adult care, most trans people could immediately lose access. It doesn't matter if it's unlawful if these cowardly clinics cave to these bastards.

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Published: January 31, 2025 00:36

Elon Musk is sending his groyper lackeys to interrogate government employees and gain access to critical digital government infrastructure. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-tech-workers-gsa-tts/

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Published: January 31, 2025 00:05

Even if you don't care about trans people, the president issuing an illegal executive order and hospitals in states with shield laws obeying in advance to suddenly cut off care to vulnerable youth is a chilling action. What do you think will happen to…

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Published: January 30, 2025 16:53

Some children's hospitals around the country are canceling appointments with trans youth due to the illegal executive orders and obeying in advance. They could be suddenly detransitioned and pulled off meds without any medical attention. This is a full…

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Published: January 30, 2025 15:39

When the Nazis first came to power, within a few months, they raided the Institute for Sexuality which did the first studies of trans people. The books they seized were burned here, including a copy of Heinrich Heines poem that said, "where they burn…

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Published: January 30, 2025 14:37

This whole "It's just a distraction" line of thinking needs to die. They are genocidal bastards hellbent on eradicating the trans community. It's not a god damn distraction. This is what they stand for and you're running cover for it by minimizing it.

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Published: January 30, 2025 13:32

We won't know what precisely will go wrong but the odds of multiple things causing a cascading failure increases as Trump destroys parts of the federal government. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 30, 2025 01:29

In 24 hours we've gotten executive orders attempting to ban gender affirming care, ban recognition of trans youth in schools, ban trans employees in the federal government. It's a full on societal purge of trans people. They meant it when they said they…

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Published: January 29, 2025 23:12

We will need a logo for the bot. We want to commission a trans artist to design a logo for the LGBTQ litigation tracker bot. Please respond below if you are able to! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 29, 2025 23:08

With the torrent of anti-LGBTQ executive orders, there's going to be a torrent of litigation. Keeping track will be difficult. That's why the legialerts team will be working with bots.law to create a bot for LGBTQ litigation related to this admin's illegal…

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Published: January 29, 2025 23:01

New executive order requires the Dept of Education to draw up regulations that ban federal funding to schools that support and recognize trans students. Specifically tries to ban supporting even social transition in schools. …

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Published: January 29, 2025 21:35

They're going to normalize this by following Elon's approach. "It's just trolling" This is what they do. Using irony as a mask to hide the obvious. They're nazism [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 29, 2025 17:25

We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation. We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NfY8VvrUNQKX77CXilxlE1pepRSGTMZ70LoyFwx6fbk/edit?usp=sharing …

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Published: January 28, 2025 22:22

Trump just signed an executive order banning gender affirming care for trans youth nationwide (under 19). Specifically directs the DOJ to investigate providers under criminal and federal consumer protection laws.…

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Published: January 28, 2025 21:05

Some thoughts and an apology. I'm going to step away from Bluesky for a bit. It's already enough dealing with the attacks on the trans community without being torn apart by my own community like this for a mistake.

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Published: January 28, 2025 19:59

The Trump admin specifically said that Medicaid wasn't affected but lo and behold it was. The confusion and flooding the zone is purposeful. No one knows what's going on. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 28, 2025 18:57

Full list of grant programs for the entire federal government is available here at Politico: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000194-ad9c-de9c-a5b6-efbd29400000 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 28, 2025 18:24

Tried taking time out of my day to try and compile a list of programs affected by this EO using my legal experience along with AI to assist and some folks are more angry about my use of AI than the fact that the federal government effectively cutoff…

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Published: January 28, 2025 17:28

What the hell is this headline from the NYT? Sets off fight over "his government." Last I checked it's OUR government, not his to do with as he pleases. This framing is so disgusting and terrifying at the same time.

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