No version of this CR would've banned trans healthcare or directly targeted trans rights- the standing issue was whether the ACA subsidies would be ended.

This was decided by the Shadow Docket, a method used by the Supreme Court to avoid scrutiny on controversial legal questions.

Today is no different than yesterday- Trans liberation isn't going to come from a ballot box filled with cis votes.  It is going to come from the actions of trans people working together for our own interests.

Zohran Mamdani is going to be NYC's next mayor and has a track record of defending trans people.

To the corporations, we are nothing but data points and income streams that can be exchanged as part of a deal.  To many of the trans users who rely on these platforms for their only understanding community, losing access to said platforms means losing access to their whole social world.

According to NPR’s reporting, these rules are a dramatic expansion of power and an unprecedented type of executive rulemaking. However, members of the public could still make their voices heard and pressure the rules to be dropped.

The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV), the department responsible for distributing driver’s licences, has re-proposed a rule which would prevent the changing of gender markers on driver’s licenses.

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