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im probably nonbinary but i’m trapped in a seemingly endless loop of consecutive ego deaths as i am not able to become someone else and not able to kill myself as i try to escape my past and ultimately my identity, living stranger’s lives under stranger’s names, feeling manic and frightened, talking to animals and seeing omens in everything, until i by chance reach the part of america that is so widely idealized and mythicized by people with feelings like mine and having no further to run without leaving the country am trapped and in the care of people who have truly no expectations of me am able to comfortably and at my leisure integrate the experiences i have had over the past 2 years into my identity and come to terms with myself not as some chimerical evil and not as whoever the person i’m speaking to wants me to be but as a human being so idrc about that rn

mollybeenoel

bread-in-the-void

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bovid-beauty

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

junequeer

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

featherandstorm

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

genderkoolaid

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

expressions-of-nature

Sagres, Portugal by Luca Severin

#aes

fishpondfish

it is impossible to watch a movie. every night i think i want to watch a movie. no movie gets watched. because it's not possible

mousidy

and yet they keep making movies with the hopes that one day humanity will discover a way to watch them. it's so inspiring

organicmatter

Being hairy is so awesome #mammal

Advanced maneuvers

Schmovement

"i think", i say, about my own ocs, who i made,

rosexknight

“my headcanon is…” i say about the canon that i made about my own characters

shortbreadhorizons

i dont know......... this is hard.........

#tomodachi life

minart-was-taken

My friends on discord really hated it but maybe you guys can see the vision

#tomodachi life

cemeteryseven

i get so gay off that thai iced tea

lesbinewren

crazy how every time a female character gets cliche misogynistic writing we have to explain to people again that fictional characters are not real and do not choose things for themselves.

lesbinewren