







Because we're all freaking tf out
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.

Trans Rats!
A promise I made to myself when I was very young that I have tried to keep in mind often is that I should never forget what being a child is like.
The New York Times helped fuel an anti-trans panic in 2022. Will 2023 be any better?
Perhaps no mainstream publication did more in 2022 than the New York Times to shift the mainstream conversation around transgender equality away from obstacles to access in housing, employment, and health care and toward the idea that the most pressing issue facing the trans community is actually too much medical care. The paper’s venerable pages featured profile after profile that platformed anti-trans extremists, fearmongered about the price of transgender acceptance, and framed rising trans identification as a social contagion. A recent article that centers the concerns of parents calling for the forced outing of transgender students shows why in 2023, the Times must improve its coverage.

Texas GOP uses photo of trans man forced to compete against girls in 'boys competing with girls' mailer
<p>They can’t seem to get their bigotry right.</p>

The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: New Pew Study Deflates The Social Media Panic
A couple weeks back, Jonathan Haidt published another entry in his ongoing campaign to convince the world that social media is inherently ruining kids’ lives. This one was a victory lap title…

NYT Less Interested Than Ever in Trans Perspectives on Trans Issues
Even while feigning concern, the paper of record remains largely uninterested in centering trans people and perspectives in coverage of trans issues.

ICE Has Placed a Record 600 Immigrant Kids in Federal Shelters This Year — ProPublica
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.

New study finds Canadian trans youth rarely detransition | Xtra Magazine
A group of Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later

Unaccompanied immigrant minors face growing hurdles from the Trump administration crackdown
Many children are having to defend their cases alone before immigration judges, without lawyers, while the government has made it harder for them to leave the shelter system and reunite with their families

The American Dream Starts Now
Trump Accounts provide eligible American children with tax-advantaged investment accounts courtesy of President Donald J. Trump.

Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans
Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.This piece has been updated from its original email version.Genocide scholars are sounding the alarm over what they describe as escalating attacks targeting transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans in the United States.Experts, including two former presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), warn that the nation may already be in the early stages of committ

Gay CECOT survivor rebuilds his life in Spain while speaking up for voiceless immigrants in America
The Venezuelan makeup artist who became the face of a controversial deportation case discusses life after release, lingering trauma, and the men whose stories he believes the world has forgotten.

Why Protecting Kids from Social Media May Make Things Worse — Douglas Rushkoff
I’m supposed to give a talk next week about kids and social media and the need for more media literacy education, more regulation of platforms, and more substantive discussion about how to keep our kids from media-induced self-harm. The whole event is well-meaning, but is characterized by a sense of worry and protection. And for some reason, after years of making those sorts of arguments in my articles and documentaries, I have a strong impulse to pivot the other way.
Why Does Everyone Hate Children?
Why Does Everyone Hate Children?
