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The Russian Government is currently trying to make it as difficult as possible to transition or be transgender within the country. This includes making marriage much more difficult, and make changing identity markers like sex much more difficult. Additionally, transgender parents will no longer be able to adopt. This is a critical human rights issue.

Most notably they’re moving to put sex on birth certificates (which they currently do not have). This is clearly to target transgender individuals. They also seek to null all same-sex marriages even if done overseas

So, what can you do?

You can contact the Duma and Council with information found here.

and then i checked their names

they’re all NAmED aftER fOOD

EXCEPT kEVIN

WHY

Gendered Intelligence writes:

Signing off on #InternationalPronounsDay by celebrating Janelle Monáe, who’s “pushed boundaries of gender since the beginning of [their] career”. Here’s to gender liberation & all the beautiful things possible in a world with no hate.

Janelle Monáe (one of my favorite artists, for sure) is a pansexual and gender exploring supporter of nonbinary and transgender people.  As she put it: “I’m not a woman, I’m not a man, I’m an experience.”

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“Recently, she tweeted #IAmNonBinary, and, as you might expect, people wondered what she meant.

Many publications immediately began using they/them pronouns for the star, while some carefully wrote pieces about Monae coming out that omitted using pronouns for the singer altogether.

And at least one publication used the moment to write a guide to using they/them pronouns.

As any non-binary person could tell you, all of these stories share one problematic assumption: that all non-binary people use they/them pronouns.

Monáe was eventually asked about her pronouns, with the interviewer pointing out that her Wikipedia page was amended to incorporate they/them pronouns following her “non-binary” tweet.

“That [Wikipedia edit] was not me,” she said. “I think people can call me whatever it is they want to call me. I know who I am. I know my journey. And I don’t have to declare anything.

When I retweeted I’m nonbinary, it was “I’m not binary day,” and so I did a hashtag to show support to the community.

I retweeted the Steven Universe meme ‘Are you a boy or a girl? I’m an experience’ because it resonated with me, especially as someone who has pushed boundaries of gender since the beginning of my career.

You know, in the same way when Prince said, “I’m not a woman/ I’m not a man/ I’m something that you’ll never understand” in “I Would Die 4 U” — that resonated with me. I feel my feminine energy, my masculine energy, and energy I can’t even explain.”

I’m exploring, you know? I’m so open to what the universe is teaching me, and teaching all of us about gender. I definitely don’t live my life in a binary way.

I’ve always pushed, as you can see from the way that I dress to the things that I’ve said since the beginning of my career. I have fought against gender norms, and what it means to be a woman and what it means to be a man. I’m a fucking android.

But I will say this: I’m so happy that people are learning more about what it means to be gender non-conforming, and what it means to be non-binary.”

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There are non-binary people who don’t use they/them pronouns, so someone coming out as non-binary doesn’t necessarily mean that the person has decided to change his or her pronouns to they/them.

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Happy Birthday Carrie Fisher! [B. October 21st, 1956-∞]

One time, I was at a Q&A with Nora Roberts, and someone asked her how to balance writing and kids, and she said that the key to juggling is to know that some of the balls you have in the air are made of plastic & some are made of glass.

And if you drop a plastic ball, it bounces, no harm done. If you drop a glass ball, it shatters, so you have to know which balls are glass and which are plastic and prioritize catching the glass ones.

Nora was not talking about juggling five balls. She was talking about juggling FIFTY-FIVE balls. The balls don’t represent “family” or “work.” There are separate balls for everything that goes into each one of those categories. “Deadline on Project Y” or “crazy sock day at school”

And her point, addressing a room full of women, was not “proritize kids over work.” It was “some kid stuff is glass and some is plastic, and sometimes, to catch a glass work ball, you have to drop a plastic family one, and that is okay.”

@murmurder: … while that ball may look plastic to you it might be glass to your kid; sometimes a kid will remember that you thought what they cared about was trivial and resent you for it or develop negative connotations.