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The US Government is currently trying to pass an incredibly dangerous national law for trans youth called HR 2616.

This bill would ban all Federally funded schools from teaching about gender identity or sexual orientation, prevent teachers from using the correct pronouns and names for trans students, remove books with any trans representation in them, and even go as far as to prevent teachers from acknowledging trans identity AT ALL.

Any school that does not follow this will lose all federal funding. This bill would also require teachers to forcibly out trans students to their families, which would be fatal to any trans student with a transphobic Family or just hateful family in general. Trans people are already a group that already has some of the highest rates of being victim to suicide, domestic violence, and sexual assault.

This bill actively makes teachers put those innocent children at such a big risk. This bill has rapidly passed the house this week with support from all 209 republicans, as well as 8 democrats. But, it's still being voted on in the senate, which means there is still time to help stop this.

To help stop this, you can visit 5calls.org (look up 2616 in the search bar), one of the most top issues filed Oppose Attacks on LGBTQ+ Students. Once you put in your general location, it will pull-up contact information for your senator, and give you a script for calling them.

If you are a minor and/or do not feel comfortable doing this, PLEASE repost this on here, or any other platform you are on/can find! This needs to be heard and fought against.

Thank you for reading this, my lovely people!

[PT: Happy disability pride to disabled trans, gender diverse, and varsex folks! /End PT]

This includes all disabilities and all TGD and varsex folks! Happy disability pride, regardless of whether your disability is physical, sensory, neurological, psychological, or a combination!

Happy disability pride to intersex, ersex, and dysex [link] folks whose disability is directly connected to their variation!

Happy disability pride to intersex, ersex, and dysex folks whose disability is unrelated to their variation, or whose connection to their variation is unknown!

Happy disability pride to disabled binary gender diverse folks! To disabled non-binary folks! To disabled culturally gendered folks!

Happy disability pride to disabled trans & gender diverse fem, masc, androgynous, neutral, null, agenrine, xenine, outherine, aporine, multi, and unlabeled folks!

Happy disability pride to disabled trans, cistrans, and other modality folks! To disabled cis enben [link]! To disabled cis genderqueers!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks with musculoskeletal disabilities, limb disabilities, bodily deformities/disfigurements/differences!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks with paralysis, seizures, movement disorders!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks with neurodevelopmental disabilities, learning disabilities, cognitive disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, brain damage!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks with somatoform disorders, factitious disorder, identity incongruence!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex plurals!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks with dissociative disorders and trauma & stressor disorders!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks with anxiety disorders, mood disorders! To suicidal TGD & varsex folks!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks psychotic disorders, personality disorders, behavioral disorders, addictive & dependent disorders, paraphillic disorders! To TGD & varsex folks whose mental conditions are highly demonized by society, treated as the "crime disorders"!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks sexual dysfunction, perinatal disorders, reproductive disabilities, urogenital disabilities, gastrointestinal disabilities!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks with endocrine & metabolic disabilities, immune disorders, nutritional disabilities, cardiovascular & blood disabilities, respiratory disabilities!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks with eating/feeding disorders, oral disabilities, voice disorders!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks with sensory processing disorders, synaesthesias, visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, olfactory (smelling) disabilities, gustatory (tasting) disabilities!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks with headache disorders, chronic fatigue, chronic illnesses!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks with sleep disorders!

Happy disability pride to TGD & varsex folks with skin and hair conditions!

Don't forget trans, gender diverse, and varsex (intersex, dysex, ersex, varsex, etc) folks in your disability activism! And don't forget disability in your queer activism!

I hate posts like these that attempt to split hairs over individual oppression points to argue that one group of trans people has privilege over another (especially since, if we must, trans men notably have higher rates of sexual assault and less representation in government than trans women, facts that get conveniently ignored or even actively erased in these convos) because well. It’s unproductive, but even moreso it becomes a breeding ground for rank TERFish transphobic bile to be spread around uncritically:

The fact is that the true trans pay gap isn't between trans men and trans women, it's between white trans people and racialized trans people. This whole thing where we're bickering about which trans gender is doing better is fucking ridiculous when racialized trans people are on average, experiencing worse outcomes than white trans people on every metric.

Do trans men have systemic power over trans women? There really isn't a good evidence to back that up, nor is there any reason to believe the reverse. There is no steady metric for measuring the systemic power of one portion of a tiny minority against another, and it's stupid to bicker about it when we already know that different groups of trans people need support with different issues. Non-exhaustively, trans women tend to need support against stranger violence, and exclusion from education, and trans men tend to struggle with domestic violence, and discrimination in hospitals- and all trans people have higher rates of discrimination in all these fields than cis people. Most the issues trans people face are intimately connected to exploitation and violence at the hands of cis people- I mean not least because they are 98-99.6% of the population

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Why might someone from a group of people that historically have been denied access to wealth, now brag that they have it?

“Rappers only talk about sex!”

Why might someone from a group that have historically been denied sexual autonomy now brag about their sexual escapades on their own terms?

“Rappers only talk about drugs and crime!”

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a new solo-journaling game about being small, hopeful, and belonging to something

'it is a beautiful day on the marae and you are a baby pūkeko' is a game where the title says it all, really!

play as a baby pūkeko on your marae (Māori meeting house) as a group of guests comes to your home. you'll play through a pōwhiri, which is a formal Māori process where guests are welcomed on. you'll talk to some old friends, make some new ones, and help the pōwhiri run smoothly.

you'll need some dice (d4, d6, d8, d10) and a way to record your story.

no prior knowledge of Māori culture or language is needed. most words have a translation, and there's a provided dictionary link for the ones that aren't.

community copies (free copies!) are available, and additionally, every copy bought as well as $1 above the base price will add another copy.

play out your wildest pūkeko dreams for only $2USD here:

It’s not “people who contour are themselves automatically racist” but that the desired face shape created by contouring is one that, at the end of the day, pretty much reflects existing white standards of beauty. A thinner, pointier nose, smaller chin, high angled cheekbones and (on occasion) smaller lips. Also if you’re darker skinned you have to use a much lighter shade of foundation  thus ending up with an overall lighter face.

A moment of silence for the trans men who, due to their assigned gender at birth and religious backgrounds, have been taught that they are forbidden from being anything but broodmares to a man they may or may not consent to marriage or sex with.

A moment of silence for the trans men who died in childbirth from a pregnancy they may or may not have consented to.

A moment of silence for the trans men who dropped out of high school after getting pregnant.

A moment of silence for the trans men who only knew their desire for masculinity, but were beaten to death for it and told they were going to hell.

A moment of silence for the trans men who had their clitorises mutilated by female genital mutilation.

A moment of silence for the trans men who died without ever once getting to wear pants or cut their hair the way they wanted.

A moment of silence for the trans men who committed suicide rather than be seen as a woman anymore.

A moment of silence for the trans men who never were allowed to learn how to read.

A moment of silence for the trans men with perfectly treatable conditions who were allowed to die to avoid violating "modesty" rules.

A moment of silence for the trans men subjected to honor killings.

A moment of silence for the trans men who were murdered by abusive partners.

A moment of silence for the trans men who were subject to "hymen checks."

If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.

If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.

This is the very simple "starting from zero muscles" program I followed, highly recommend it or something similar:

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