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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.

#Transphobia

ivviannaa

something so many people in this fandom seem to forget is that depression isn't cured by love. ilya will go through his life with a supportive team, an adoring husband, wonderful friends and in-laws, and he's still going to have days where he doesn't want to get up. he's still going to be angry at himself for not being better despite everything. he's still going to flinch when he sees pill bottles and knives and wonder if he laughs like his mother. through therapy and being honest and maybe medication, those days are going to be less frequent until maybe they barely happen at all. but they're still going to happen, because ilya is still depressed, and you can't love the depression out of someone

#Heated Rivalry #Trigger warning #Suicide #Depression

biphasic by PenAndInkPrincess

Summary: “Go?” Rozanov repeats, and Shane thinks he manages to nod, thinks he manages to spin some kind of excuse that he knows Rozanov doesn’t really buy, but he needs to go. He needs to get out of here. He needs to find somewhere quiet and calm where he can ride out this panic and painful tightness until he can catch his breath again. He needs-

He needs to go.

“I’m sorry,” he says, turning heel and resisting the urge to just book it right for the front door only because he’d rather not have to explain to Hayden why he returned from a hookup with Boston Lily in men’s clothes that he certainly didn’t leave in.

It’s not until he makes it halfway up the stairs to Rozanov’s bedroom that it occurs to him in a cold rush that it isn’t just anxiety that makes it this hard to breathe.

“No,” he tells himself firmly, white knuckling the bannister and trying to take a deep breath just to prove that he can.

It wheezes.

(how the tuna meltdown is averted through the power of food allergies and anaphylaxis)

#Heated Rivalry #Heated Rivalry fics #Heated Rivalry fic recs #Fic recs

I want a bettman look-a-like to play crowell.

#The long game #the long game spoilers #Heated Rivalry

If you’re as ready to sink your fangs into the upcoming season of The Vampire Lestat (debuting on June 7 on AMC and AMC+) as I am, then you’

It contains book spoilers for somethings they haven't mentioned in the show. (Which I wish they'd warned about.) If you just look at the images though, you should be okay.

#Tvl #The vampire lestat #Tvl spoilers #The vampire lestat spoilers

rhubarbmuncher

Rose chafer beetle on my climbing rose.

I like the idea of Ilya not only being known as having especially accurate gaydar, but also being a good matchmaker. There are at least half a dozen couples, queer and straight, he helped set up.

#Heated Rivalry #Ilya rozanov

Check out the official photos from the season premiere episode of The Vampire Lestat, "Detroit," provided by AMC.

AMC just released a series of behind the scenes photos from the season premiere episode of The Vampire Lestat, "Detroit."

There are also photos for episode two here.

#Tvl #The vampire lestat #Tvl spoilers #The vampire lestat spoilers

Something about the fact that after the Pevensie’s are pulled out of Narnia three of them don’t live long enough to reach those ages again. That Peter is supposed to be around twenty eight by the end of their reign and after returning to England he only lives until he is twenty two. That despite living multiple lives he never makes it to thirty. That Edmund dies at nineteen and Lucy at seventeen.

That Susan is left behind knowing what her siblings would have looked like for several years after their deaths and then not knowing any longer. That she grows up and has to face life without the people she always expected to be by her side. That even in Aslan’s kingdom the Pevensie’s cannot find true peace because someone is always missing.

That Peter never has the chance to graduate university or become a doctor, that Lucy doesn’t even live to adulthood, that Edmund never gets old enough for people to take him seriously. That Susan lives to be older than Peter ever got to be and then older than all her siblings put together before sixty.

That she has to grow up for all of them and they never get to.

#Narnia

sparklejamesysparkle

Elizabeth Taylor’s eloquent and powerful speech while accepting the Vanguard Award at the 11th annual GLAAD Media Awards in 2000. After her dear friend and co-star Rock Hudson announced that he had AIDS prior to his passing in 1985 (the first high-profile celebrity to do so), Elizabeth—against great opposition during the fear-based AIDS hysteria and stigmatization prevalent in the 1980s—immediately organized a fundraising benefit to raise money for AIDS research (she later stated that she had the phone hung up on her repeatedly while trying to enlist the help of other celebrities with the benefit, and that some people thought she was “crazy” for getting involved with the cause). After Rock passed away on October 2nd, 1985, she also organized his memorial service and soon after became the co-founder (alongside Dr. Mathilde Krim) of the first AIDS research center amfAR. Her separate Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation was established in 1991 with the specific focus of providing nutritious meals (as well as medical and financial assistance) to people living with HIV and AIDS. She also lobbied the U.S. congress to contribute more money for AIDS research and education, devoting the last twenty-six years of her life to the cause. After Elizabeth passed away in 2011 at the age of 79, a large portion of the $156,800,000 raised at the Christie’s auction of her legendary jewelry collection was bequeathed to her charity in order to continue providing the services and assistance she believed were important in perpetuity.

#I thought James Dean was bi #Elizabeth Taylor #Aids #She helped a lot of people when it was very unpopular to do so

musicallychaos

Just thinking about how Shane and Ilya's "insults" for each other are the things they aren't allowed to be.

Shane calls Ilya an asshole. Shane is perfect. Polite. Marketable. He's great at hockey with no caveats. He doesn't yell or get into fights. He's never late.

Ilya calls Shane boring. Ilya never stops, even for a second. He's in constant motion: on the rink, at the club, in bed with hundreds of different women. He can't be lazy. Can't relax, not even for a second. He knows what happens if he does.

Shane has a dozen moments a day when he wants to punch something. To scream and cry and take exactly what he wants. He doesn't want to be managed for once in his life.

Ilya wants to slow down. He wants video games, ESPN, and a home cooked meal. He wants to be quiet and still and safe.

And isn't that what they both get?

#Heated Rivalry

alovelywaytospendanevening

The Bookseller: Britain's bestselling LGBTQ+ books of 2026 so far

We have combed through NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM) for the first four-and-a-bit months of 2026 to find out how books by and about the LGBTQ+ community have performed this year. To do this, we have identified authors previously featured in LGBTQ+ profiles at The Bookseller among those who are known to be publicly out. From there we have identified the 50 bestselling titles and worked our way up the list from there to identify anyone we have missed. We may still have omitted some – either because they are not publicly out, or because they have simply been missed in our search. For context, our 50th bestselling title – Louie Stowell’s Write and Draw Your Own Comics – has sold 5,163 copies, but there are 1,685 different ISBNs selling more than that so far this year, so it is akin to finding a needle in a gaystack. Just 50 titles out of the 1,685 – just under 3% – of the bestselling books of the year are considered LGBTQ+ by this definition. The 2021 census across the UK suggests that 3.7% of the population is lesbian, gay or bisexual – though it should be noted that that number may be under-reported if respondents were unable or unwilling to answer the question openly. At first glance, our Top 50 does slightly over-index from a value perspective: they represent 4.6% of the total sales of the equivalent 1,685 titles, more than their frequency within the list suggests they should be achieving – but £1.7m of the Top 50’s £7.6m comes from just one author. The cultural phenomenon that was Heated Rivalry on Sky Atlantic at the beginning of the year catapulted Rachel Reid’s Game Changer books – the series the steamy ice hockey romance was based on – straight to the top of the charts as the titles were published in the UK for the first time. For a brief period, Reid challenged Freida McFadden for the number of different titles in the UK Top 50 – and at of the end of April was the 11th-biggest author in the country, sandwiched between JK Rowling and colouring collective Coco Wyo – although sales have dipped since the initial release. Without Reid, the LGBTQ+ Top 50 represents 3.6% of total sales, nearly spot on that figure from the census. (Full article)

#Books

In an interview with Nerdist, Assad Zaman shared two songs from his incredible secretive Armand playlists. His selections are incredible.

#Iwtv #Tvl #armand #Music

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