How to reduce your anxiety over the ‘idea’ of trans kids 13-min ⏰⏰⏰
Look at that ‘idea’, and change your assumptions about it
Or, if you want to spend years feeling anxious that you don’t know how to respond to the existence of trans kids, start by making these bad assumptions.
Give trans kids privacy and affirmation 4-min ⏰
Doing so won’t hurt you. California Assembly passes two bills in 2023
One way not to be anxious about trans people is just to listen to us and respect what we say we need, because what we truly need isn’t scary.
Supreme Court allows criminalizing trans kids’ healthcare in Idaho 7-min ⏰⏰
The April 15 ruling denies injunctive relief
I don’t care about preliminary injunctions per se. I care about trans kids. We have to pay attention to what is happening.
Is the state taking away kids from parents who object to their child being transgender? (DD)
US: Republicans have a national bill to prevent kids from asserting their own gender (2022) (DD)
Treating trans kids as members of their gender (2024) (DD)
The Muckrake podcast explains the implications of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ (DD)
Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’, originally K-3, now through Grade 12? 4-min ⏰
High school teachers in Florida can’t say it
First it was K-3. Now it’s through Grade 12. Teachers can’t mention LGBTQ identity. Why is Ron DeSantis doing it? LGBTQ people did nothing to deserve it.
As Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ takes effect (DD)
‘Don’t Say Gay’ could go national 5-min ⏰
USAmericans should vote on November 8
We could end up with a Republican-controlled Congress and a President DeSantis. If we do, the USA could have a national “Don’t Say Gay” law.
What’s in the Florida bill about gender transition 6-min ⏰⏰
The bill is called ‘Treatments for Sex Reassignment’ (SB 254)
Stigma and silencing is the real purpose of Don’t Say Gay. Restricting gender transition is another way of making it difficult for certain people to thrive.
On Florida’s transition ban, SB 254, see also this website (it’s not mine): floridaban.com
Saskatchewan (2023): School policy on under-16s name/gender is facing scrutiny (DD)
‘Groomer’ slur banned from Reddit (DD)
Kansas & West Virginia sports bans and the Biden admin’s ‘compromise’ (DD)
How to Be a Girl: A Mother’s Memoir of Raising Her Transgender Daughter
by Marlo Mack, 2020 (Goodreads)
Cricket’s Still Alive (A Poem) 2-min ⏰
Out of the gravel pit, up into the light
A poem after Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’. About Kristi Noem and the young dog she brags of shooting. Beautiful trans child, goddamn untrainable dog.
Tucker Lieberman 