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Hello! Welcome to my blog. My name is Nilah, and I am a deaf transgender woman in my early 20s living in a red state. I feel an obligation to speak up while my rights are atrophied by the current powers that be. I also felt like I needed a long-term project to work on.…
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Today, most likely after 3:00 PM, the Senate will vote on a motion to invoke cloture on the potential transgender sports ban applying to youth activities ranging from dancing all the way to some chess programs. If 7 Democrats decide to flip on this motion, there will likely be a national sports ban in the…
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Hello readers – I wanted to take a break from the news and write an opinion piece. As I grow older, I begin to look deeper into the politics of the United States and compare it to other first-world countries. Over the past century, our electoral process has largely been simplified to a two-party race:…
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Hello dear readers! One of the segments on my blog will be about helpful resources and community projects by the transgender and gender non-conforming population. For the first segment, I would like to highlight this website, known as the Trans Legislation Tracker. This website tracks information about transgender legislation in the United States and contains…
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Earlier this month, as first reported by Bloomberg, the DHS office of Intelligence and Analysis updated its policy manual, removing all mentions of LGBTQ+ identities from its General Requirements section, which includes a list of immutable characteristics that prohibit surveillance purely based on those characteristics. The current secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, has some…
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Texas House Bill HB3399 was introduced originally on February 26th as part of a nationwide ban on gender-affirming care for minors, and it was sneakily amended to change all instances of the word “child” to “person”, which would include adults in its scope. If this bill passes, all medically assisted transitions would be banned starting…
"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. "
- Charles Bukowski