[Trans]formation

We are appalled by President Trump’s tweets about banning transgender people from military service. There are an estimated 15,000 transgender people already working in the Department of Defense, putting their lives on the line to protect our nation and its values. Those values do not include the heartlessness exhibited by Mr. Trump this morning. Discrimination has no place in our government, in our workplaces, our schools, or anywhere else in our lives.

While it’s still unclear what the actual policy ramifications of these tweets will be, we recommend keeping up with (and, if you can, donating to) the ACLU and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund. 

You can also directly tell the president how unacceptable his attack on American servicepersons is by using this form provided by the @transgenderfreedomproject.

We know there will be plenty of conversation about this on Tumblr in the coming days, and we urge you to take this moment to support and educate each other in whatever ways you can. And if you just need someone to talk to right now, there are people here to listen, 24 hours a day, seven days a week:

Trans Lifeline: A crisis hotline by and for the transgender community. 877-565-8860

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

Crisis Text Line: Text START to 741741

The Trevor Lifeline (@thetrevorproject​): Confidential hotline for LGBTQ+ young people. 1-866-488-7386

Portraits of Transgender Youth with @transcendingself

It’s June, and in many countries that means it’s time to celebrate #Pride2017. All month long, we’ll be sharing stories from diverse LGBTQ community members from around the world.

Photographer Annie Tritt (@transcendingself) has her #EyesOn the journey of transgender youth around the world. “The project started with an idea of authenticity, of what it means to be yourself,” says the New York-based photographer, who takes portraits of transgender children for her series titled “Transcending Self.” “The dynamics that young people experience vary a lot depending on where they live and who their parents are. The only commonality is that the kids who are happy are the ones who are embraced for fully being themselves.”

Klie: New Orleans, LA Communications Director at Transilient

We are artists, scientists, educators, dreamers and family. We are #MoreThanTrans and #MoreThanNonbinary.

Being Trans, Gender Identity, and what it’s all about

“If you want to know what it’s like to be trans, don’t imagine being OTHER gender. Instead imagine world insisting you are not YOUR gender” 

Once you complete this survey, you will be entered in the care package project. We will try our absolute best to give everyone what they want, but we rely completely on donations to run this project. So please spread our fundraiser around and get people to donate! 

Fundraiser: 

https://www.youcaring.com/people-in-the-transgender-community-560819 

Yesterday, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a big ruling that could help pave the way for transgender students’ rights. The Court ruled that the Kenosha Unified School District in Wisconsin violated transgender student Ash Whitaker’s rights when they refused to let him use the boys’ bathroom.

The court found that if Ash’s case underwent a full review as a case of Title IX discrimination, he would likely win, upholding a lower court injunction to allow Ash to use the boys’ bathroom.

In the decision, a three-judge panel from the Seventh Circuit Court concluded that the school district “has failed to provide any evidence of how the preliminary injunction will harm it, or any of its students or parents” — a rebuke of the prevalent myth that letting trans people use the bathroom for their gender identity will hurt others.

The ruling has big implications: If existing federal law and the 14th Amendment shield trans people from discrimination, then it’s not just Whitaker’s rights that are protected here, but all trans students’. And if bans against sex discrimination in particular apply to trans people, then it’s not just students’ rights that are protected, but all trans people who face discrimination in other settings where sex discrimination is banned — so not just schools, but the workplace and housing as well.

“This powerful decision — another in a growing list of rulings affirming the constitutional rights of transgender people — helps Ash and tens of thousands of students like him get the same opportunity to learn as any other student,” National Center for Transgender Equality executive director Mara Keisling said in a statement. “It recognizes that fully respecting and including transgender students like Ash Whitaker is legally and morally the right thing to do, and that discrimination against these young people because of who they are is cruel, wrong and illegal.”

This is a link to a word replacer extension for Chrome (link) and this is a link to the same word replacer for Firefox (link)

This will change your life. 

Two days ago I downloaded this and set it to change the word ‘qu.eer’ to ‘q-word’. It’s a little funny looking at times, because there will be posts on my dash like “roses are red, my skin is clear, rose from the new star wars movie is q-word” and i have urls show up on my dash as disq-wordse, but it’s functional and it makes life so much better. 

I know that blacklisting isn’t an option. I know that blacklisting means you are locking yourself out of a community you need access to. So this is honestly the best solution for everyone involved. You don’t get that sinking feeling in your chest every time you see the word, and your mutuals don’t have to feel like they need to censor their identities. 

what I did was start a new game on Pokémon Omega Ruby and give my starter, mudkip, my deadname. after many hours of play time, whenever i hear or see my deadname, i think of my beloved mudkip, now grown into a handsome, strong swampert.