The Bad News And boy is some of it really bad...

We've all been following the Charlie Kirk shooting. To summarize the issues that this particular kind of post would address:

• No, the shooter was not transgender.
• Messages handed over to the police from the shooter's roommate, who some news outlets have reported is transgender and who the shooter seems to indicate was also their romantic partner, have been released to the press and indicate some of his possible motives.
• No, despite what numerous news outlets including the Wall Street Journal claimed in the initial breathless rushthere were no "pro-trans messages" on the bullets; they were all Internet memes or Helldivers 2 references.
• A transgender woman in Seattle was threatened when people online stated she was the shooter, when a Shitter account that talked about Kirk being killed a couple of days before the incident also retweeted a joke of hers. That is the only connection between the two.
• The New York Post has been kicking up anti-trans propaganda, continuing to find new and idiotic ways to blame trans people in embarrassing ways.
• On Fox News's Fox and Friends, commentator and wife of the most cowardly transportation secretary in American history Rachel Campos-Duffy suggested "the drugs they take" (the "they" in question being trans people) might be responsible for the Kirk shooting, following up with, "What do those drugs do to their body, their minds?" (I can tell her that for me, mentally, it made me much happier, so shove it, you harridan.)
• This week's Mortal Kombat involving Nancy Mace puts her against Ilhan Omar. Mace said that Omar "celebrated" the shooting and should go back to Somalia, and Omar retaliated that Mace should go into rehab. Mace filed a measure to have Omar stripped of her committees, which failed in the House 214-213 with four Republicans crossing the aisle to vote for tabling it.

As a quick summary for a horrific potential situation coming up, first Rep. Nancy Mace (R-Her Own Anus) had a transphobic rant of hideous intensity, saying of trans people, "these people are violently ill and should be in a straight jacket with a hard steel lock on it". Then on the professional cattle-feces-producing machine known as Newsmax, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Narcotics) went even further, calling trans people 'domestic terrorists', that trans people were "bred by the progressives and the liberal media", and declaring:

"[Trans people] have legitimate psychiatric issues...we have to do something about this, we have to treat these people, we have to get them off the streets and we have to get them off the internet and we can¡¯t let them communicate with one another. I¡¯m all about free speech, but this is a virus. This is a cancer that is spreading across this country."

This appears to be the starting point of Stage 9.

The head of the current Regime was asked a question by Margerine Traitor Greene's besuited boy-toy Brian Glenn, beginning with showing a picture of a Progress Pride flag on 14th St. in DC, asserting that, "A lot of people are very threatened by this flag. Would you be opposed to taking this flag down?" Herr Narrenführer replied, "Well, I wouldn¡¯t be. Then they¡¯ll sue, and they¡¯ll get freedom of speech stuff. So that¡¯ll happen. But I would have no problem with it.¡±

ICE has ended all gender-affirming care at a facility in Colorado. It was one of two that still provided it.

In Michigan, Rep. Josh Shriver, an open bigot who has filed bills to overturn marriage equality and classify abortion as homicide and self-declared ¡°Michigan¡¯s most conservative state representative¡±, filed a bill this week to ban all online pornography entitled the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act. In the definition of "pornography" for the bill, this noble little bastion of conservativism included :

Is a depiction, description, or simulation, whether real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory, that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of 1 biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex by means of a combination of attire, cosmetology, or prosthetics, or as having a reproductive nature contrary to the individual's biological sex.

As written this would include drag queens, family photos where a member of the family is trans, and selfies of trans people. This guy is the avatar of GOP assholery.

Over in the United Kingdom, we see that Health Secretary Wes Streeting is saying that the study on puberty blockers is going slowly. The two year study, to categorize the long-term effects, was recommended by the Cass Report, and therefore probably has no good basis at all. In addition, the wait times for trans people to see a gender affirming care clinic has gone up, and Streeting claims there is more money being sent to deal with these waits, although whether or not to help or just deny people faster is unknown.

In Wales, Reform UK has been growing in popularity and may win the Senedd (the parliament of Wales) if the vote happened now. It also would give, if a national vote came now, 271 seats for Reform UK in Parliament, up from the current five. Reform effectively states that Trumpism is the way to go. Please, people of Britain, wipe the smirk from the face of Nigel Farage.

In corporate news, we can no longer call the company by name after both founders resigned in protest for what they violations of their company's contract with Unilever. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield founded the ice cream brand that bears their first names 47 years ago, and now both have left.

And One Million Moms is ...am I reading this right? OK... protesting Wendy's for a tie-in with the Netflix series Wednesday. Anything to stay relevant when all the LGBTQIA+ hate is being taken up by the feds, I guess...

The Good News

Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) have filed a bill to write the 988 crisis hotline for LGBTQIA+ youth into law and revive the hotline.

¡°We are in the middle of a mental health crisis, and the 988 lifeline saves lives, plain and simple.¡± ¡°There is absolutely no good reason that Donald Trump took away this specialized help for our LGBTQ youth. Mental health does not see partisan lines or geography, and I¡¯m proud to be working with Democrats and Republicans to do what¡¯s right and ensure that all kids have access to the help they need ¨C regardless of who is President.¡±

Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-OR) is pushing back against an amendment to the NDAA banning pride flags in the military.

Nine Democratic attorneys general released a video pledging they will "never stop fighting" for trans students. The video hast statements from Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, and Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield.

In Orlando, The owner of restaurant Se7en Bites, Trina Gregory has offered up 49 parking spaces for members of the community to paint at a recent event dubbed ¡°Parking Space for Pride ¡ª A Rainbow Connection.¡± The lot is on privately owned property and is not subject to enforcement of a law, signed by anti-LGBTQ+ Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in July, directing the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to remove all ¡°surface art¡± from crosswalks and intersections, regardless of any underlying political message. She stated, "If they want to erase symbols of pride and acceptance, then we¡¯ll create even more of them."

This year at the Emmys, there was a huge show of support for the LGBTQIA+ community, including members of the community winning about one-third of the awards. Winners include:

• Travis Tillman for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role in Apple TV+¡¯s Severance, both the first Black man and the first openly gay Black man to win the award.
• Hannah Einbinder for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on Hacks. She also said, "Go Birds, Fuck ICE and Free Palestine!" as part of her speech. The openly bisexual actress stated, ¡°I feel like it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the State of Israel, because our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethno-nationalist state."
• Somebody Somewhere star Jeff Hiller¡¯s first-time win for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
• Alan Cumming accepting the award for Best Reality Competition Program while wearing a pink and blue pin by jewelry company Tatty Devine, of whch he said, "it¡¯s got trans colors, and it says ¡®not a phase,¡¯ because it¡¯s not."
• British actress Erin Doherty took home the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, and gave a shout-out to her partner Sinéad Donnelly in her speech.
• Hunting Wives stars Brittany Snow and Malin Åkerman nodded to their characters¡¯ same-sex romance while presenting the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. ¡°I don¡¯t mind waiting for you to come out...¡± Åkerman said after Snow joked that she was ¡°really slow to come out¡± onto the stage.

In an open letter to the UK's EHRC, more than 650 British businesses have stated that a ban of trans people from 'single-sex' spaces would be "unworkable". The letter, organized by British groups the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance and Safe Space UK, said the EHRC 'guidance' would be "incompatible" with their values.

Web site Hard Drive has (jokingly) explained why Elon Musk hates trans people. "Elon we know the real reason you hate trans people is because they¡¯re all better at video games than you." mic drop

Hey, in New York, it's Fashion Week! So that means we get some news on models. Let's look at Vivian Jenna Wilson's runway debut for Alexis Bittar¡¯s Spring/Summer 2026 collection, and Kai Shreiber opened the Jason Wu show. The two models got rave reviews on their work. For those unaware, Vivian Jenna Wilson is the estranged daughter of a guy who is upset that trans people are better at video games than he is, and Kai Shrieber is the daughter of Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber.

The Cinnamon Roll Report

Pedro Pascal interviewed his sister Lux Pascal for Elle Magazine where they talked about their childhoods, their dream roles, and the joys of playing trans roles. The interview in Elle can be found here.

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