Not the Only One

since the NY Times is doing it's thing again – quoting anti-trans groups to make gender-affirming care for trans youth seem dubious – I will re-up this essay, which includes over 100 peer-reviewed studies and reviews: https://juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth-is-neither-new-nor-experimental-a-timeline-and-compilation-b4bb8375d797?sk=bc6099a519dff7fdeecc2b2038b0f2fb #trans #transgender #LGBTQ #science

New #AgedCare laws bear the fingerprints of industry lobbyists. Will the voices of older #Australians be heard? https://bit.ly/3xLGfWu There was no public debate around issues such as who would be asked to pay more, how much more would they need to pay and whether the extra funding would be used to employ more nurses and carers.

We've been hearing an increasing number of reports of trans people's GPs refusing to prescribe their HRT to them - even if they have a letter from an NHS gender clinic requesting that they do. That's why we're created our new My GP is Refusing to Prescribe My HRT resource: https://transactual.org.uk/medical-transition/my-gp-is-refusing-to-prescribe-my-hrt-what-can-i-do/ Has your GP recently refused to prescribe you HRT? Let us know at https://tinyurl.com/TransActualHRT alt-Text says: My...

Black faces in high places are not going to save us." Prof Ruha Benjamin" / X ICJ Judge Julia Sebutinde voted against a fact finding mission in Gaza that would be led by the United Nations.

“Can you imagine a little nation of about 170 people doing what we did?" The Nuchatlaht Nation took time June 1 to celebrate a historic win in the British Columbia Supreme Court. On April 17, the #court declared the nation had proven its assertion that the Nuchatlaht had Aboriginal title of its chiefly lands. While not all the land claimed by the nation comes under that declaration, a victory is something to commemorate. #Indigenous #FirstNations #LandBack #law https://windspeaker.com/...

we are all scared of what is to come, many are messaging me asking for advice, some have broken down under the stress of the situation. I don't know what say or do, but to continue to voice their experiences. "I am scared.... I am scared"

Revisiting trauma is not the road to justice for Aboriginal people

Austria’s President Alexander Van der Bellen apologized on Sunday after he and his wife were caught by police breaking curfew rules at a restaurant.