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Jesse Jack

@jessemjack.bsky.social

Trans* Scholar 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 She/They | Author of “Mapping Multi-Genre Literary Frameworks for Trans* Studies” (Lexington Books, 2024) (All opinions are my own.)

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Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last yr.

State department guidance is now up for transgender people who want to change their gender marker on their passports. Your window opens NOW to make it happen, with some caveats: data will be collected on changes. EITM was the first media outlet to report this breaking development for trans people.

Sex Marker in Passports

We will only issue passports with an M or F sex marker that match the customer's biological sex at birth. Learn more about our policy on this page.

travel.state.gov

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last yr.

1. Good news for trans people: I have independently confirmed that the Trump admin is now processing passport updates in compliance with a court order. Multiple trans people have gotten their gender markers updated. There are important caveats though, read on. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Jesse Jack@jessemjack.bsky.social · last yr.

Florida in 2025: “caselaw is building that seems to suggest teachers only have free speech when they disagree with transgender people, but as soon as transgender people come into play, they lose those rights - even in intensely personal subjects such as what name or pronoun or honorific one uses.”

11th Circuit Rules Trans Teacher Must Misgender Herself In Classroom In Accordance With FL Law

The ruling by Trump-appointed judges contradicts other classroom speech cases and is a clear case of the state barring disfavored speech, according to the dissent.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · last yr.

Don't let the bigots pathologize us. Yes dysphoria kills. It sucks. Believe me, I know. But we are NOT our dysphoria and we are owed more than simply being trauma porn. We deserve gender affirming care because we're human beings and bodily autonomy is a human right.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last yr.

1. Trump has promised harsher ICE crackdowns on Truth Social. He blamed transgender people as the reason such crackdowns must happen. Particularly, he used the phrase "transgender for everybody," a phrase he has increasingly used to justify anything he wants. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Trump Promises Harsher ICE Crackdowns, Blaming "Transgender For Everybody"

The president has graduated to blaming transgender people for nearly anything he does.

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Jesse Jack@jessemjack.bsky.social · last yr.

Misinformation is now the norm… I’m reminded of zines during the height of the AIDS epidemic (like the 1993 “gendertrash from hell issues) through which community organizers shared census data and care guidelines despite a lack of federal support. More accurate information can be found there.

Gendertrash From Hell 2, Issue 2 Volume 1 - Digital Transgender Archive

digitaltransgenderarchive.net

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea@jonathanstea.bsky.social · last yr.

Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS? …And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people? Oh wait…🥴

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · last yr.

Lambda [cont] – ICYWW the reason Lambda filed a 2nd suit _after_ ACLU got an injunction against State Dept passport policy was the P/I only applied to its plaintiffs. LLDEF’s suit is trying again to get a court to stop the practice for everyone [HT @dana@catodon.social]

Lambda Legal Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Passport Policy

Today, Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit on behalf of seven transgender U.S. citizens, including one who is nonbinary, challenging the Trump administration’s policy denying them U.S. passports with accurat...

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Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Jesse Jack@jessemjack.bsky.social · last yr.

A timely book recommendation: “The Spirit Bares Its Teeth,” by Andrew Joseph White. The narrative is in the style of a Victorian Gothic (very dark, see trigger warnings), and it features a neurodivergent and trans masc protagonist whose knowledge of medicine seems to far exceed RFK Jr. Just saying!

The cover art to “The Spirit Bares Its Teeth.” In the center is an individual with long, curled blonde hair, violet eyes that look to be in pain (facing to the right), and a clutched shard of glass in hand. The individual is framed in an oval-shaped, golden frame with a blue sky and white clouds in the background. Behind the framed image of the individual is a haunting collage of violet eyes.
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · last yr.

Also, one more thing: if you're not LGBTQ, you don't get a say on who's welcome in our community. Asexual and aromantic people are sexual minorities. They're always welcome in our spaces. Our spaces are their spaces. Mind your own damn business and get a new hobby.

Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · last yr.

Last year, only 49—less than 10%—of the 533 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures passed into law. Advocates in Georgia and Missouri defeated all 54 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced last year despite Republican majorities. www.unclosetedmedia.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Advocates Beat 91% of Last Year's Anti-LGBTQ Bills. How?

While the trans community still faces unprecedented legislative attacks, with 49 bills passing into law in 2024, there are key strategies that activists are using to fight back.

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Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2y ago

1. The Trump administration has announced it will be investigating California, and will pull its school funding unless it forcibly outs transgender students. California has a law against forced outing policies. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Trump Admin Threatens To Pull California School Funding Unless It Forcibly Outs Trans Students

The investigation, which will take place under the Department of Education, threatens to pull California's funding over not outing transgender kids to their parents.

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Jesse Jack@jessemjack.bsky.social · 2y ago

Debates over child labor laws in Florida could make it legal for 14 year olds to work overnight shifts on school nights in order to make up for lost labor from folks who are undocumented... like shifting from one exploited labor force to another. Clearly education is not a priority.

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants | CNN Business

Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wag...

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 2y ago

Periodic reminder that ICE administrative warrants do NOT give ICE (or anyone else) legal authority to enter your home (or anywhere not open to the public) without your consent. Unless law enforcement has a JUDICIAL WARRANT, signed by a judge, they do not have a legal right to nonconsensual entry.