Wayne Martino
@waynejm.bsky.social
Professor Equity and Social Justice Education, Western University Canada. queer and trans studies: https://www.edu.uwo.ca/about/faculty-profiles/wayne-martino/index.html
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Trump Admin Rigged Rules to Hunt Down and Fire DEI Staff in ‘Unlawful’ Purge: Lawsuit - Inquisitr News
A lawsuit alleges the Trump administration rigged agency rules to purge federal employees linked to DEI or LGBTQ advocacy, using a series of executive orders as cover.
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glad that more people are looking back at HERO and how it was the real genesis of anti trans laws
Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · 9mo agoIRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked. thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
On January 13, the Supreme Court is going to hear arguments over state laws targeting transgender girls in sports. This from @pablo.show and @motherjones.com is a great explainer on why the right-wing legal movement needs this issue to push trans people out of public life altogether
In the 1980s, American fascists tried to turn Idaho into a white Christian nationalist homeland for “refugees” from American multi-racial democracy and religious pluralism. One such community was called “Aryan Nations.” So this tracks perfectly . www.idahostatesman.com/news/politic...
Expedited South African refugees to resettle in Idaho under Trump order
South Africa is Elon Musk’s home nation. The white refugees from there got preferential treatment from the Trump administration.
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Yes. Policing gender isn't just about us trans ppl. It's actually primarily focused on controlling women, both cis and trans, because gender is a *power* construct in addition to being a binary. The point of breaking down the binary is to deflate and destroy that power to make us all more free.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last yr.This is the inevitable result of a moral panic about trans people. Cis people will always be impacted more from attempts to police gender. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
A Florida high school teacher has been fired for using a student's chosen name instead of their deadname, a first under a 2023 law signed by Ron DeSantis. “She is a beloved teacher that changed her students’ lives” said one parent leading a petition with 7,400 signatures demanding her reinstatement
Florida teacher loses job for calling student by preferred name
It’s the first known dismissal stemming from the conservative campaign to limit schools' recognition of transgender identity.
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Florida’s DOGE agency asks university faculty to hand over research url:https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2025/04/10/floridas-doge-agency-asks-university-faculty-hand-over-research/
The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence invites you to apply to present at our first annual Symposium on 8th July: www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/tra... Deadline for submissions 28th April #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity #Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT
Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) 1st Annual Symposium
Guildhall School of Music and Drama is delighted to announced that on the 8th July, in collaboration with the Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence [TVCE], the De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice an...
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“We must stand together, challenge disinformation, and dismantle the political agendas driving this global assault on trans rights.” – Jude Guaitamacchi #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.gaytimes.com/originals/ju...
Jude Guaitamacchi on challenging disinformation, political agendas and uniting for trans rights
Jude Guaitamacchi speaks with Philip Baldwin about challenging political agendas, the importance of representation, and uniting allies for trans rights.
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There are numerous reasons why Trump and his government’s pervasive blathering about turning Canada into the “51st state” shouldn’t be dismissed as a “Madman Theory”-negotiating tactic, or as performative MAGA trolling. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's Threat To Take Over Canada Is a Scandal
Trump keeps threatening to annex Canada. Americans would never accept such talk from another country.
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wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be RFK Jr's attempt to pull a "Cass review" for vaccinations – one that winds up not finding any evidence of actual harm, but which is presented in such a way that anti-vaxxers will confidently & relentlessly point to it as some kind of "smoking gun"...
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y agoThe CDC is reportedly planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, "despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links"
Trans people have long warned that most of the victims of anti-trans laws and policies would be cis women and girls who don't have the "right look."
Shoshana 🏳️⚧️@shoshana.bsky.social · 2y agoWalmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom. Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'" 😡 😡 😡
UK Prime Minister Starmer hugs Zelensky as he welcomes him to 10 Downing Street. This is how you welcome the leader of the free world.
relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?
Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social · 2y agoSeems like why the meeting imploded was more like "Trump is senile and has lost all impulse control and JD Vance is pickled in online fash propaganda" www.semafor.com/article/02/2...
How many times last year were we lectured by pundits not to call Trump a fascist? The “very serious people” said it was a categorical error & a tactical mistake. They are still doing it. It’s not “the economy, stupid”—this is straight-up evil. How many people will die before they change their tune?
Trans and nonbinary students’ accounts of schooling: on epistemic witnessing, trans livability and the failure of the school cistem doi.org/10.1080/0159...
Trans and nonbinary students’ accounts of schooling: on epistemic witnessing, trans livability and the failure of the school cistem
In this paper, we draw on accounts of trans and nonbinary youth we interviewed as part of a larger study on supporting gender diversity in schools. Our study is informed by an approach to epistemic...
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U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website
The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights. Later, the Q+ also disappeared.
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Yesterday — YESTERDAY — JD Vance visited Dachau and said it drove home “what unspeakable evil was committed and why we should be committed to ensuring it never happens again.” Today he met with AfD?? He made a mockery of his visit to Dachau. Disgusting. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Vance meets with leader of far-right German party, exports MAGA message
The vice president delivered a scolding speech advocating that Europe move over to accommodate the rising anti-migration, nationalist voices they have sought to block from power.
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After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed. www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...
Trump administration set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas
That's according to a public State Department procurement document. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about the chief executive of Tesla, Elon Musk, who is a top White Ho...
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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
Gender is such an immutable, natural binary that we have to enforce it with the full power of the state.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2y agoNEW: The Department of Education told employees late Friday that they must review and terminate all programs, contracts and policies that affirm the existence of transgender people. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
Hegseth Uses His First Town Hall to Attack Diversity www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Hegseth Uses His First Town Hall to Attack Diversity
The defense secretary, speaking to the Pentagon work force, defended his “unconventional approaches” to an audience that included women and people of color.
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CBC's Fifth Estate has traced a wide web of anti-LGBT hate working to censor or close down libraries in Canada to a right-wing U.S. movement
A shadow war on libraries
Some Canadian politicians and influencers, inspired by an American-born movement, are trying to roll back 2SLGBTQ+ rights in Canada — one book at a time.
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Remember the Cass Report, which supposedly "followed the science" on trans kids health? The huge York University epidemiology study on which it was based has finally been published, and it contradicts many of the report's conclusions. By @gidmk.bsky.social. gidmk.substack.com/p/gender-dys...
Gender Dysphoria, Children, And Moral Panics
What new data from the UK shows about trans children
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