The Bad News

Let's start out with the elephant in the room: the school shooting in Minneapolis. The shooter was a graduate of the school, and records discovered show that the shooter suffered from homicial and suicidal ideation and severe depression previous to the incident. While there was a filing for a legal name change in 2019, with notes from the judge overseeing the name change in 2020 that the shooter ¡°identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.¡± However, no other information has been released as to whether the shooter still considered themselves transgender or had detransitioned.

This lack of information has not stopped certain parts of the political spectrum to blame the trans community for the shooting with rants from such spewminaries as Rep Margerine Traitor Greene (R-Her Own Colon), and calls to do things like violate HIPAA to find trans people and put them in camps.

After that, Attorney General Nuisance Pam Bondi supported a plan to use the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-V inclusion of Gender Dysphoria ¡°to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell.¡± by defining all trans people as mentally ill under the current gun ownership laws. This has managed to do the theoretically impossible and have the National Rifle Association, in part, stand with the trans community. Broken clock, twice a day, I guess.

Senator Rand Paul has proved himself as nut-bar-a-riffic as his dad was by stating that in his opinion, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, was unfit to serve in government because "¡°A guy that is so far ¡­ out of the mainstream, I think most people in America would discount his opinion because of the things he said in the past. He does not represent the mainstream of anything in America." Daskalakis, an out gay man, resigned as director of the Center for Disease Control's Center of Immunization and Respiratory Diseases because, in his words:

¡°I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public¡¯s health."

We have no word on whether Paul considers out gay man Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, or other gay men in the current Regime, also unfit to serve.

Cue the Mortal Kombat theme: Nancy Mace (R-Transphobia)! Sara Jacobs (D-California)! FIGHT! Mace had her transphobic ranty-panties on about her proposed amendment to the National Defence Authorization Act, said amendment requiring access to single-sex spaces on military installations to be based on sex assigned at birth:

Allowing delusional men to use women¡¯s restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms is an affront to women, and it¡¯s reckless.

On her heels, Sara came in to speak in opposition to it:

¡°Trans people, including trans service members, deserve basic human dignity and common decency in safely using the restroom.¡±

¡°Bathroom bans do not protect women,¡± she added, citing a study from the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law that found ¡°there is zero evidence that allowing trans people to use the correct bathroom increases the risk to others. It¡¯s actually opposite.¡±

And then...

¡°I think it¡¯s very interesting that my colleague from South Carolina is so obsessed with the issue of trans people, using horrible slurs to talk about them when many people in this body have received gender-affirming care. Filler is gender-affirming care. Boob jobs is gender-affirming care. Botox is gender-affirming care. Lots of my colleagues have received gender-affirming care. And let me be clear. I think everyone should have access to the gender-affirming care that they need. And I think we should respect everybody in this country.¡±

Mace took that as a personal insult, and kept up her homophobic screaming, including blaming trans people - using slurs - for the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

In the middle of all of THAT, Mace's least favorite collegue, Sarah McBride (D-DE) criticized the House Republicans for blocking her amendments to the NDAA:

Speaking on the House floor, McBride said her proposals, one to repeal the Trump-era ban on transgender military service and another to restore retirement benefits to veterans forced out before 20 years of service, were about fairness and military readiness.

¡°There was no problem until Donald Trump decided to fire thousands of qualified, capable service members simply because of their gender identity,¡± McBride said during debate on H.R. 3838, the Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026. ¡°They wore the uniform. They kept their promises to us. It¡¯s time we keep our promises to them.¡±

Dr. Janelle Marra, a US Navy commander, was targeted by concern troll and banshee wannabe Chaya Raichik. After posting about it on X, Secretary of Alcoholism Hegseth arranged for her to removed from the Navy, posting "Pronouns UPDATED: she/her/fired".

Lindsey Hecox, a transgender woman challenging Idaho's 2020 law banning transgender and intersex women and girls from participating in sports of their gender identity, has informed the Supreme Court that she wishes to no longer pursue her challenge based on her fears of harassment.

Monica Helms, the Navy veteran and creator of the original transgender pride flag, is fleeing the country due to anti-LGBTQ persecution.

Outright International, a global pro-LGBTQIA+ organization, studied 2024 elections and has determined that the right wing has worked globally to demonize the LGBTQIA+ community, with a stunning 51 of 61 jurisdictions studied (eighty-five percent!) having right-wing candidates attacking "gender ideology" and "wokism". These include the largest democraicies in the world: India, the EU, the US, Indonesia and Brazil.

A trans woman who worked for Houston County, TX, sued the county in 2019 stating that the health instrance plan not covering gender-affirming surgery was discriminatory and won, with the federal district court citing Bostock v. Clayton County. The county appealed, and a three-judge panel of the appelate court upheld the ruling... and a review from the full court has now reversed it, using the logic of US V. Skrmetti. Judge Nancy Abudu issued a scathing dissent to the decision, stating:

"Instead of embracing a legal tradition (and mandate) of upholding the law to ensure all people are treated equally, or that any treatment is not rooted in a discriminatory purpose or practice, the majority opinion temporarily moves the needle back in the ongoing struggle for basic human dignity. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent."

One in four trans gender people report being denied insurance for gender-affirming care, with 55% refused coverage for surgery.

The Good News

A group of former EEOC employees have created a new group to help with cases related to discrimination that the EEOC was unwilling to deal with.

The state of Iowa must pay $85,000 to a group of transgender students after they were barred from entering a restroom at the Capitol five years ago. The State Appeal Board approved the settlement Tuesday, the Des Moines Register reports, granting the money to the students without the state admitting wrongdoing. The lawsuit stemmed from an incident in March, 2020 where a group of trans students on an advocacy trip were prevented from using a bathroom by a state trooper.

In Oregon, State Rep Cyrus Javadi has announced he is changing his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, crediting his gay son, drag queens, and his own party opposing every single priority he had for legislation. So he's got that going for him.

In the UK, newly elected leader of the Green Party Zach Polanski has stated that ¡°Transphobia will absolutely not be tolerated under my leadership, and it will never be acceptable in the Green Party.¡±

Also in the UK, professional self-imploder Graham Linehan was arrested on suspicion of ¡°inciting violence¡± through his social media posts, and then released on the condition he not use X at all, a condition he promptly violated. But that's okay, because apparently that condition has been dropped. Apparently, this member of the Bloody Pillock Society is 'disgusted' by the lack of support from former collegues. *sad trombone noise plays* He has gotten support from Reform UK leader and Sir Oswald Mosely fanboy Nigel Farage.

Cosmetics company Lush has launched a trans flag colored bath bomb, 75 percent of the sales price of which goes to transgender rights charities.

In the gaming realm, Marvel Rivals has announced that in the next update, we will get Angela as one of the two new characters. For those unaware of the character, she started out as an enemy of the Image Comics character Spawn, was given to her creator N--- G----- as part of a lawsuit, and then he sold the rights to her to Marvel in return for other considerations. Angela, real name Aldrif Odinsdottir, is Thor's half-sister, a lesbian, a pretty scary beater-up-of-people, and married to a trans woman. This adds another LGBTQIA+ character to the roster for Rivals, along with Loki (bisexual and genderfluid), Illyana "Magik" Rasputin (pansexual), the comic version of Star-Lord (bisexual and polyamorous), Storm (at the very least bi-curious), and Wolverine (in at least one bit of the universe, he and Hercules are a power couple). It also has Jeff the Landshark, who is just awesome.

The Cinnamon Roll Report

The man, the myth, the legend, the original, Pedro Pascal has praised Sabrina Carpenter for her allyship at the MTV VMAs.

Carpenter's performance had multiple drag queens as backup dancers, and part of the performance had the backup dancers held signs reading ¡°Dolls, Dolls, Dolls,¡± ¡°If you hate you¡¯ll never get laid,¡± ¡°Protect trans rights¡±, ¡°Support local drag,¡± ¡°Love each other¡± and ¡°Don¡¯t hate drag queens because you can¡¯t read,¡± among other slogans.

Be well, friends. If you have news I missed or you want to share your personal triumphs, bring them here! Let us know your joys.

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