#lgbtq

[reasonsforhope]

"Arizona’s ban on transgender athletes has been blocked by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which called the 2022 law “the essence of discrimination.”

Supporters of the so-called Save Women’s Sports Act claimed that the law protected girls and women in schools and colleges from “unfair competition.” However, the federal court found that pre-pubescent trans girls and trans girls on puberty blockers have no significant physical advantages over cis girls their own age, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

“[The law] to ensure competitive fairness and equal athletic opportunities for cisgender female athletes cannot be squared with the fact that the Act bars students from female athletics based entirely on transgender status,” Judge Morgan Christen wrote in the court’s 3-0 decision.

“[The law] permits all students other than transgender women and girls to play on teams consistent with their gender identities,” Christen continued, “transgender women and girls alone are barred from doing so. This is the essence of discrimination.”

Two trans girls, an 11-year-old soccer player and a 15-year-old swimmer and volleyball player on puberty blockers, sued to overturn the law; 18 states signed court arguments in favor of the law, and 17 states signed arguments against it.

A lower federal court also ruled against the law, and the two court rulings against it can now be cited as a legal precedent to help other trans girls play sports. However, Arizona could also appeal the decision to be heard by an 11-judge panel on the appeals court or ask the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the matter.

“A student’s transgender status is not an accurate proxy for athletic ability and competitive advantage,” said Rachel Berg, a lawyer with the National Center for Lesbian Rights who represented the two girls in court. “Our clients are thrilled to be able to continue to play on girls’ sports teams with their friends while this case proceeds to trial.”"

-via LGBTQ Nation, September 10, 2024

[sad-klown-syndrome]

*grabs your hands and speaks to you in a tone that is so gentle* they/them pronouns stop being universal once you learn a person's pronouns. Sometimes that person's pronouns will include they/them and in that specific case you are allowed to keep using those pronouns for that person. In any case where you learn a persons pronouns and that person doesn't use they/them, you should no longer use those pronouns for that person. If you continue to use they/them pronouns knowing that person doesn't use them, you are now misgendering that person. Kindly stop doing that please. Thank you, I love you.

[prettyyygayyy]

An absolute dream of a date!! Kicking off Season 2 of Pretty Gay with the strong and funny Vic Michaelis!

Check out the full episode only on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/PrettyGay

[abis-silly-little-posts]

One of the things I adore about being around other trans women is getting to watch the people I love grow more confident, more beautiful and more themselves every time I see them. It brings me immense joy!

[shaveyoureyebrows]

I uh May have forgotten to post the last few tremes to Tumblr whoops

[genderqueerdykes]

the fact that some people genuinely believe that amab enbies don't exist literally hurts my brain because the first trans person i ever met IRL was a transfemme agender person. last summer i met an AMAB masc nonbinary person who used he/they pronouns. now that I've been going to queer spaces IRL, I've met so many different kinds of amab non binary people; masc, femme, doesn't matter. if you actually interact with the trans community at large you'll find that we are just as diverse as any other group of people. folks viewing nonbinary as a white afab person phenomenon have had their perspective tinged by their extremely closed off internet circles where they can pick and choose what narratives they adopt without any correction from an external source

[lesbianhouseplant]

Ah yes, the 3 genders. Male, female, and “what the fuck are you, a cop?”

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[itgetsbetterproject]

And this is why queer folks call Gaga "mother."

[rotten-sarcophagus]

right after the anti-lgbtq law passed. these creatures have no morals, no humanity. just waiting for the moment to strike. scum.

[windywallflower]

AND WE'RE LIVE~~~

Help us fund this funky softcover edition of Winter's series of short stories featuring queer knights: PRISM KNIGHTS!!

The stories are a bit of a 6 shades of Gay situation where each colour of the rainbow follows a different queer identity in the shape of knights and royals. They're a messy bunch. Here's our quick pitch of the series at cons:

Coqelicot -- a redux of Rapunzel featuring evil lesbian knights. Bronze -- a redux of The Princess & The Pea featuring a nonbinary, ace knight caught in a time loop. Lamplight -- a redux of Beauty & The Beast featuring a trans knight learning to love and forgive herself. Juniper -- a redux of Cinderella featuring a tragic gay knight running from his past and right into a blacksmith's arms~ Sapphire -- a redux of Sleeping Beauty featuring a polyam ship between a dragon (she/her), a knight (she/they) and a royal (they/them)~ Velvet -- a redux of 12 Princesses featuring a bisexual knight overcoming grief.

We're funding a softcover anthology version of the series and I get pretty much nothing but high praise from folks who have read (and reread???) these books time & time again! We'd love to get your support for the project this time around (or a bit of a share if its something you want to see even more of)!

Check it out here!

[isopodcore]

I’ve opened up my kofi commissions!

[gendercensus]

Gender Census 2024: Worldwide Summary

Who? Everyone whose gender doesn’t tidily fit into the female/male binary.

What? An online survey asking participants how they describe themselves and how they would like other people to refer to them.

When? May to June 2024.

Participants: 48,645

The full report: click here

Raw data and summary tables: Google Sheets:

Unprocessed responses

Processed responses – warning, this will take a long time to load!

2013-2024 trends

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Identity words

The top five were:

nonbinary: 63.1% (down 2.7%)

queer: 54.8% (down 1.2%)

trans: 46.7% (down 2.0%)

a person / human / [my name] / “I’m just me”: 42.5% (down 3.4%)

transgender: 40.3% (down 1.5%)

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Titles

The top 5 were:

No title at all: 42.2% (up 2.1%)

Mx: 17.4% (down 1.3%)

Mr: 11.3% (down 0.2%)

Non-gendered professional/academic title: 9.2% (down 0.2%)

Ms: 5.8% (up 0.3%)

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Pronouns

Here’s the top 5:

They – they/them/their/theirs/themself: 75.5% (up 1.0% on last year)

He – he/him/his/his/himself: 42.0% (down 0.5%)

She – she/her/her/hers/herself: 36.0% (up 3.3%)

It – it/it/its/its/itself: 20.3% (up 0.9%)

Avoid pronouns / use name as pronoun: 13.9% (up 0.7%)

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[vaspider]

Read the whole article, not just the headline.

Those accusations include him allegedly peeping in women’s locker rooms when he was a student at North Carolina A&T State University, saying he wanted to own slaves, and saying in online forums that he enjoyed pornography featuring transgender models, according to North Carolina journalist Bryan Anderson.

Read the rest.

[xeliibee]

Lil sketch ✨️

[genderqueerdykes]

lesbians who say "fuck terfs <3" and then immediately say "trans mascs, men and trans women who are also men can't be butches/lesbians/dykes" and "i'm a lesbian, men dni" and also viciously try to remove trans women who are also men, transmascs & men from lesbian, sapphic and dyke spaces...

hey guess what: you're terfs. try again.