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FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - What does AI mean for LGBTQ+ people?

The backlash to AI is real, and it’s growing. People don’t want broken tools surveilling them and polluting the Internet with slop, all while driving up energy costs where they live.

AI affects everyone differently. But here’s what scares me: the unique risks AI poses to LGBTQ+ people have barely been explored.

This fall, we want to launch a set of projects to research and expose the ways AI specifically hurts queer and trans people. These projects take advantage of our unique position as a queer- and women-led organization with over a decade of tech advocacy experience.

But funding’s tight—like it is for any project critical of AI. Can you help us power these projects with a recurring donation?

FUND CAMPAIGNS FOR AI JUSTICE

We know AI has disparate impacts on different groups of people.

AI identity verification tools locking trans people out of the Internet for not having “normal” government IDs1

AI-generated propaganda pushes people towards far-right and anti-LGBTQ+ views

Chatbots using insecure data storage that could expose people's therapy sessions or identity exploration

All of this during the most anti-LGBTQ+ and pro-AI presidency ever.2

Civil society needs to understand just how dangerous AI can be for queer people. Then we need to build a bulwark against the dangerous AI companies that want to capture our future.

Queer- and trans-led advocacy is essential here. Otherwise, we’ll get the same “solutions” that purport to protect kids—but really would wipe LGBTQ+ information and communities from the Internet. We’ll get government backdoors that violate our privacy. We’ll get biased algorithmic systems that push queer people out of legal recognition and public life.

Your donation will build out this capacity, enabling things like:

A publication connecting the dots between AI investment and the homophobic, transphobic tech bosses seeking control over our lives

Our ceaseless fight against age verification bills pushed by anti-LGBTQ+ groups

A campaign to kick facial recognition out of Pride events for good

Become a sustaining donor and help us make it happen. We need 21 more to reach our goal for the month!

Yours,

Footnotes:

1. Tech Policy Press: https://www.techpolicy.press/age-verification-is-locking-trans-people-out-of-the-internet/

2. LGBTQ Nation: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/ai-disproportionately-discriminates-against-trans-people-it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way/

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - VPNs = Lifesaving LGBTQ+ privacy tool

Happy pride to us all. And especially to any queer femmes out there just trying to exist who, like me, are using a VPN right now.

A quality VPN is a very important tool for privacy. They protect us from malicious scammers on iffy wifi, from what we do online being surveilled by the people and institutions that would do us harm. They hide the location we’re browsing from, so that creeps can’t mess with us at home. In a word, they help keep us safe.

They’re also essential for access to community. They let us dodge censorship and join the online world from the perspective that’s best for us. This means a lot as walls go up around queer digital life in the US, and also to people around the world whose love and identities are criminalized. In a word, they keep us alive.

So what are states like Utah and Michigan trying to do?

Ban them, of course!

At Fight for the Future, we’ve been slapping these lawmakers upside the head: holding a VPN Day of Action1, dragging Utah’s nonsensical law even as they delayed its rollout2, heaping shade on Michigan3, and generally organizing so that there’s an actual resistance to protect these crucial tools.

But we’ve got to be real: nobody’s really been funding this work except our grassroots supporters. And there is a lot more that we need to do.

So, if you can (and like I said, we get that we’re all just trying to exist out here), would you consider becoming a monthly donor to help us keep going on VPN defense?

This pride, we are really hoping to get support from 30 new monthly donors. We already have 6 this month - wanna help get us into double digits? To thank you, you can pick out a special piece of pride merch.

If you’ve got it, you’ve got it. If you don’t, don’t stress. We’ll keep fighting with everything we have!

Wishing you a little too much fun this June,

Lia at Fight for the Future

Footnotes:

TechRadar: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-want-to-make-some-noise-advocates-are-stepping-in-to-defend-vpns-and-they-need-your-help

Fight for the Future Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYDjrjoPIJa/

Fight for the Future: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-09-26-major-backlash-to-michigan-vpn-ban-bill-as-thousands-call-on-lawmakers-to-defend-vpns/

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - Happy Pride!

i wanted to make sure you caught this. If you’ve got a sec to read and share the Pride 2026 page, or make a donation of any size, it goes a long way in helping us fight the censorship bills threatening LGBTQ+ resources and voices online. With Pride, as in, f-censorship,

Alex at Fight Fight for the Future is one of the only queer and trans-led groups throwing down to defend our communities at the intersection of LGBTQ+ rights and tech justice. This past year, we’ve seen a wave of proposed ID check mandates,1 VPN bans,2 AI-powered surveillance,3 and censorship bills targeting our community on a scale we have never seen before, and putting everyone at risk. We’ve been pouring an immense amount of our scarce policy advocacy resources into blocking the worst of these efforts on the state4 and national level.5 But that money is drying up. We can’t wait till the end of the year for more resources to materialize: censorship is accelerating right now. And it’s killing us.

FUND ANTI-CENSORSHIP WORK YEAR-ROUND

We just launched our Pride 2026 page that highlights our most pressing campaigns and sets a baseline goal to ensure we can continue this work through the end of the year: $15,000 and 30 new monthly sustainers by June 30th. Please, take a moment to browse our work, and start a monthly gift to sustain our anti-censorship campaigns year-round. Policy tracking, coordinating with peer orgs and impacted groups on the ground, driving calls and emails, organizing protests, getting our angle in the press, securing meetings with offices, raising viral hell, and building and maintaining the tech tools that make it all happen: that’s all happening behind the scenes of successful campaigns like Queers Against Censorship,6 Stop Online ID Checks,7 and Flock Out.8 And it all runs on support from folks like you. Fascists won’t stop at targeting queer and trans people. Their normalization of surveillance and their vision of a sanitized, age-gated, and tightly controlled Internet harms us all. Your solidarity this month helps us fight year-round for an Internet where everyone gets to be free, safe, private, and proud.Thanks for everything you do, Alex and the team at Fight for the Future P.S. You can help by sharing the Pride 2026 page and shouting out our work if donating isn’t in the cards. Any way you can spread the word is so appreciated. Footnotes:

Governing: https://www.governing.com/policy/states-are-increasingly-trying-to-keep-kids-off-social-media

Tech Radar: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/a-waste-of-money-digital-rights-group-slams-utahs-new-impossible-by-design-vpn-restrictions-under-controversial-age-verification-law

CNET: https://www.cnet.com/home/security/when-flock-comes-to-town-why-cities-are-axing-the-controversial-surveillance-technology/

Stop Online ID Checks in MA: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05-13-50-human-rights-groups-release-letter-urging-massachusetts-lawmakers-to-reject-age-verification-bills-hold-press-conference-with-rep-mike-connolly/

Section 230: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12-18-statement-2026-year-online-protest-dies/

Queers Against Censorship: https://www.queersagainstcensorship.com/

Stop Online ID Checks: https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org/

Flock Out: https://www.flockout.org/

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - NEW: Anti-Censorship Work can't wait

I know this isn’t the only email you’ll get for Pride Month, so I’ll try to keep it to the point. Fight for the Future is one of the only queer and trans-led groups throwing down to defend our communities at the intersection of LGBTQ+ rights and tech justice. This past year, we’ve seen a wave of proposed ID check mandates,1 VPN bans,2 AI-powered surveillance,3 and censorship bills targeting our community on a scale we have never seen before, and putting everyone at risk. We’ve been pouring an immense amount of our scarce policy advocacy resources into blocking the worst of these efforts on the state4 and national level.5 But that money is drying up. We can’t wait till the end of the year for more resources to materialize: censorship is accelerating right now. And it’s killing us.

FUND ANTI-CENSORSHIP WORK YEAR-ROUND

We just launched our Pride 2026 page that highlights our most pressing campaigns and sets a baseline goal to ensure we can continue this work through the end of the year: $15,000 and 30 new monthly sustainers by June 30th. Please, take a moment to browse our work, and start a monthly gift to sustain our anti-censorship campaigns year-round. Policy tracking, coordinating with peer orgs and impacted groups on the ground, driving calls and emails, organizing protests, getting our angle in the press, securing meetings with offices, raising viral hell, and building and maintaining the tech tools that make it all happen: that’s all happening behind the scenes of successful campaigns like Queers Against Censorship,6 Stop Online ID Checks,7 and Flock Out.8 And it all runs on support from folks like you. Fascists won’t stop at targeting queer and trans people. Their normalization of surveillance and their vision of a sanitized, age-gated, and tightly controlled Internet harms us all. Your solidarity this month helps us fight year-round for an Internet where everyone gets to be free, safe, private, and proud.

Thanks for everything you do, Alex and the team at Fight for the Future P.S. You can help by sharing the Pride 2026 page and shouting out our work if donating isn’t in the cards. Any way you can spread the word is so appreciated.

Footnotes:

Governing: https://www.governing.com/policy/states-are-increasingly-trying-to-keep-kids-off-social-media

Tech Radar: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/a-waste-of-money-digital-rights-group-slams-utahs-new-impossible-by-design-vpn-restrictions-under-controversial-age-verification-law

CNET: https://www.cnet.com/home/security/when-flock-comes-to-town-why-cities-are-axing-the-controversial-surveillance-technology/

Stop Online ID Checks in MA: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05-13-50-human-rights-groups-release-letter-urging-massachusetts-lawmakers-to-reject-age-verification-bills-hold-press-conference-with-rep-mike-connolly/

Section 230: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12-18-statement-2026-year-online-protest-dies/

Queers Against Censorship: https://www.queersagainstcensorship.com/

Stop Online ID Checks: https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org/

Flock Out: https://www.flockout.org/

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - Lowe's And Flock are tracking us

We’re gearing up to bring some serious heat to Lowe’s, one of surveillance-monger Flock Safety’s biggest commercial customers. Lowe’s' partnership with Flock scans our license plates en masse, exposing our data and movements to warrantless ICE surveillance.1 What’s worse, Lowe’s has voluntarily shared this surveillance data with law enforcement without a court order.2 With your support, we’ve successfully dragged Lowe’s in the press for their complacency.3 And now, it’s time to keep up the pressure until they end this dangerous partnership. On May 29th, Lowe’s will hold their annual shareholder meeting. Along with partners on the ground in San Francisco, we’ll gather at Lowe’s to demand they drop their dangerous and dystopian Flock partnership. We’re raising $5,000 to cover the costs of this action and ensure companies like Lowe’s are held responsible for their complicity in mass surveillance. If you’re ready to throw down with us, will you make a gift of any size today?

LOWE'S: BREAK UP WITH SURVEILLANCE!

Ahead of the big day, we’re building an action map and toolkit to inspire anti-surveillance advocates across the country to join in our action. Plus, we’re fronting the costs for posters, signs, protest supplies, and more to ensure our demands make it into any press coverage of the shareholder meeting.

Folks like you have made work like this possible. More than 80 cities across the country are dropping or cancelling their Flock partnerships,4 and our movement is only growing. If you have the means to start a recurring donation to support this work, please do. It really makes a difference.

Footnotes:

404 Media: https://www.404media.co/cbp-had-access-to-more-than-80-000-flock-ai-cameras-nationwide/

404 Media: https://www.404media.co/home-depot-and-lowes-share-data-from-hundreds-of-ai-cameras-with-cops/

Fast Company: https://www.fastcompany.com/91531608/lowes-cut-ties-flock-safety-ai-surveillance-cameras-privacy-groups

NPR: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/17/nx-s1-5612825/flock-contracts-canceled-immigration-survillance-concerns

DeFlock Lowe’s: https://www.deflocklowes.com/

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - Meta's AI tool in your face

Meta just announced1 that the company will be "developing" an AI tool that can determine a user's age based on visual, physical characteristics. We’ve seen this play before: a tech company uses “kids online safety” to justify invasive and nefarious collection of our data. This time it wants to use an “AI tool” that it swears “is not facial recognition” to analyze our “height and bone structure” in images. We’re supposed to believe that running our kids’ faces through Meta’s latest AI tool keeps them safe? Make it make sense.

That’s why we’re calling it what it is: a dangerous form of online ID checks that puts all of us at risk. Meta should not be able to freely scan our photos and videos on the platform with its AI surveillance tool.

Tell Meta to keep its AI tools and online ID checks away from our faces!. Can you add your name to the petition now?

Tell Meta get out of our faces!

Meta has some guts trying to convince us this isn’t facial recognition, especially right after it got heat for developing those facial recognition Ray Ban glasses perfect for perverts and stalkers alike. We could list all of Meta’s privacy blunders and public breaches of trust here, but we respect your time and ours enough not to bother. We both know that list is long.

The truth is, today people are acutely aware of Big Tech’s role in promoting fascism in this country. When it mattered most, Meta has broken its commitment and rolled back end-to-end encryption on Instagram. Meta has also allowed law enforcement to access Messenger to prosecute abortion investigations. In other words: Meta cannot be trusted-- especially not with our faces.

Demand Meta drop its online ID checks and GTFO of our face!

Thanks for all you do, Reem at Fight for the Future

Footnotes: 1. Meta's announcement: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/05/ai-age-assurance-teens/ 2. Tech Spot: https://www.techspot.com/news/112306-meta-using-ai-facial-analysis-identify-underage-users.html

Now, these are things I seen on Twitter, I don't support any KOSA bills at all, Im posting these to let all you know and be aware of it, the words I put in"" are just the things some people on Twitter saids in their posts. It's not mine, I'm just copy and pasting what I seen people are saying.

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"NEW: Senate Commerce Chairman @SenTedCruz announces his committee will mark up the Kids Online Safety Act, COPPA 2.0, Keep Kids Off Social Media Act and a chatbot bill he introduced last week.

Comes at rally w/ parent advocates, #KOSA cosponsors @MarshaBlackburn

@SenBlumenthal"

"At rally with survivor parents earlier today, @SenateCommerce Chair Cruz said the committee would pass KOSA, COPPA 2.0 (which already passed the Senate), KOSMA and his new chatbots bill. The first three are his longtime priorities but markup time presumably draws near,"

Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz told parents and advocacy groups who rallied at the Capitol on Tuesday for passage of the Kids Online Safe

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - Let's stop the age verification whack-a-mole

Politicians around the world are pushing for laws that would turn the Internet into a mass surveillance machine. ”Age verification” and “age assurance” mandates1 are being marketed as protections for kids, but the truth is, they mostly impact adults2 : by forcing all of us to upload a government ID or submit to an intrusive and discriminatory face scan to access information or speak out online. For dissidents, journalists, and human rights activists in many areas with rising authoritarianism, the ability to criticize the powerful anonymously is a matter of life or death.

This is the free speech fight of our generation. And I have to be honest with you, we are gaining ground, but we are seriously outgunned. Billionaire donors, conservative think tanks,3 and giant corporations like Meta4 are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into lobbying and PR campaigns to convince lawmakers to age-gate the Internet. Online ID check laws are being proposed in a growing number of countries5 and US states,6 including in our “progressive” home state of Massachusetts, where we’ve dug in to stop a dangerous precedent.7 We’re building a global movement of human rights groups, ordinary Internet users, parents, educators, and impacted communities to fight back against the rising tide of dangerous age verification laws. I’m reaching out today today to ask: will you make a recurring gift to sustain this fight?

DONATE TO STOP ID CHECKS

This is not a fight we’re going to win overnight. But it’s clear we’re at a turning point. If we continue down the path we’re on, governments could require surveillance and censorship to be baked into every piece of technology we own. Not just social media: financial transactions like Venmo, wearable health devices, even the operating system of any computer, phone, or tablet you buy.

We don’t just want to play whack-a-mole, swatting down bad laws that just come back year after year and eventually pass. We need to sustain a global movement that wins hearts and minds, helping people understand why hard-coding surveillance into the Internet makes all of us less safe, not more safe.

With your support, we’ve already made significant strides in changing the narrative around online ID checks.8 But we don’t have giant corporations or billionaire donors backing this work. We’re relying on people like you who understand what’s at stake to contribute whatever you can. Can you pledge the cost of a coffee or Netflix subscription per month today?

START A MONTHLY GIFT

Every dollar will help fund:

A full scale media and narrative campaign to educate journalists, pundits, and prominent influencers about why ID check laws are dangerous and ineffective

Collaboration with frontline LGBTQ+, abortion rights, and youth mental health organizations who would be most impacted and can speak on this issue

Direct grassroots lobbying and educational meetings with lawmakers in statehouses and in Congress

Coordination between fights in the US, EU, Australia, Brazil, and other countries

The launch of our “Parents Against Censorship” campaign to counter disingenuous Big Tech astroturfing claiming to speak on behalf of all parents

Awareness-raising actions at Pride Month events this summer and future movement events

Footnotes:

The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/kosa-online-age-verification-free-speech-privacy/

CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-internet-ai-surveillance.html

Free Speech Coalition: https://www.freespeechcoalition.com/whos-behind-age-verification-legislation

Gigazine: https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260316-meta-lobbying#gsc.tab=0

Politico: https://www.politico.eu/article/age-check-social-media-scientist-warning/

Free Speech Coalition: https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/age-verification-bills/

Civil liberties and LGBTQ+ advocates protest social media “ID check” laws: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04-28-civil-liberties-and-lgbtq-advocates-protest-social-media-id-check-laws-outside-wgbh-ask-the-governor-broadcast/

Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/

Stop Online ID Checks: https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org/

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and make sure your comments are kind!!! “I love this so much!” and “this is amazing! I’m so excited for what happens next” are more likely to get your favorite fics updated than “when will we get the next chapter?”

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - What happens in Massachusetts

This week was a big one in the fight against online ID checks in Massachusetts. On Tuesday, a crew of queer youth, teachers, LGBTQ+ rights and digital privacy experts demonstrated outside of Governor Maura Healey’s radio broadcast,1 demanding she engage with criticisms of her new social media ban bill2 that would mandate online ID checks for anyone in the state to post online. We handed the Governor our critiques directly in-hand and confirmed a meeting with her office next week!

Here’s why this matters for you: what happens in Massachusetts won’t stay in Massachusetts. If so-called progressives in MA pass one of the strictest age-gating bills in the country, it puts every other state at greater risk of implementing these surveillance and censorship laws and hamstrings our ability to actually reign in Big Tech.

With your support, we’re making headway here in MA. We might actually be able to flip the Governor’s bill (and its House counterpart3) from one of the worst age verification proposals in the country into real protections against Big Tech abuses.

But to do that, we need to keep up the momentum with more actions, more meetings, more coalition-building, more press…you get the gist. For an org of our size that relies greatly on small dollar donations from folks like you, costs can really add up. Can you throw us $30 or more to fund the sustained pressure campaign we need to defeat ID checks in MA and beyond—or better yet, start a small monthly donation to fund this work?

DONATE TO STOP ONLINE ID CHECKS

Footnotes:

Civil liberties and LGBTQ+ advocates protest social media “ID check” laws outside WGBH “Ask the Governor” broadcast: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04-28-civil-liberties-and-lgbtq-advocates-protest-social-media-id-check-laws-outside-wgbh-ask-the-governor-broadcast/

A line-by-line analysis of Governor Maura Healey’s proposed social media legislation: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04-16-a-line-by-line-analysis-of-governor-maura-healeys-proposed-social-media-legislation/

News from the States: https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/how-would-proposed-age-restrictions-social-media-use-actually-work

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - Find a May Day protest near your this friday!

We are the many. They are the few. And we will not be silent.

The billionaires have taken over the federal government, gutted public services, and funded a private army that is kidnapping and killing our neighbors. They’ve launched a war on Iran, on unions, on public education, and so much more.

But authoritarianism doesn't take hold if everyday people refuse to cooperate and comply. That’s why on May 1st, people across the country will join 3500+ planned protests while calling for a day of “no work, no school, and no shopping” – to demand the government puts our families over billionaires' fortunes. Check out this map to find a protest near you this Friday, May Day 2026.

Find a protest on May 1

May Day is a holiday celebrating workers and the history of labor organizing around the world. It's an important moment for our movements to show what collective power to defend democracy and freedom looks like.

The momentum building towards this Friday is undeniable: Labor unions and community organizations representing a million members in New Jersey are currently urging mass participation in May Day across the state,1 the school district in Durham, NC has been forced to cancel school because so many teachers have requested leave,2 and The Guardian just reported on the 3500+ actions planned across the country.3

Join community members in marching, picketing, educating, agitating, and rallying to make the billionaires pay what they owe, demand ICE Out, protect workers, and expand democracy. We work and fight for our families – not billionaire profits. Find a May 1st action near you this Friday!

See you in the streets!

Leila & the team at Fight P.S. Looking to learn more about the movement behind this Friday's actions and get pumped up? Register for the MayDay Strong mass call TONIGHT, Wednesday, April 29, 8-9pm ET: https://www.mobilize.us/mayday/event/942999/

Footnotes:

1) Insider NJ: https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/coalition-of-more-than-one-million-new-jersey-union-members-and-community-groups-rally-support-for-may-day-demonstrations-at-newark-press-conference

2) ABC 11: https://abc11.com/post/durham-public-schools-no-school-dps-students-may-1-teacher-absences-surge/18934593/ 3) The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/22/may-day-strong-trump-workers

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Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! season 2 main visual. The release has been announced for July.

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fandom etiquette as a whole died when people who didn’t grow up on fandoms became stans during lockdown, yes, but why am i seeing people openly mocking fics on twitter. why am i seeing screenshots of fics with captions like “bro what is this 😭.” why am i seeing people mock fic writers for not knowing how sports or theater or college or any other organization operates in the real world.

“college is absolutely nothing like this” “why are we writing four people on the team scoring a hat trick in one game” “so tech work is nothing like this, hope that helps!”

if you don’t like a fic, and if you can’t suspend your belief enough to enjoy a fic that exaggerates or ignores real-world orgs, you don’t have to read it. you don’t have to screenshot it and put it on blast for twitter. you don’t have to post a link to it in the replies. the back button is literally there on your phone. it’s not giving baby’s first fandom anymore, it’s giving entitled asshole and it isn’t as cute as you think it is.

deathlyangel

To add to this, With certain fandoms I'm in like (Hannibal and Gachiakuta) with certain characters that are unhinged or have some upsetting qualities....There are tags and warnings for reasons. Authors quite literally put the words "Don’t Like, Don’t Read".

The new fans need to understand, fanfic is made by other fans who want to share their works. You have no reason to be this nasty or mean. With some of these more extreme fandoms I feel like some new people don't understand that no nothing is condoned or anything like that. People just trying have safespaces where we can like certain characters and ships without feeling judged.

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - Game Over for Online ananymity

This really worries me. Massachusetts lawmakers and Governor Maura Healey are rushing to pass some of the most invasive and unworkable online ID check legislation I’ve ever seen in the form of a “social media ban” for young people.1,2 As a Mass resident, parent of a teen, and longstanding hater of online ID checks, I’m taking this personally. But it’s not just personal. If a bill like this passes in MA, supposedly one of the most progressive states in the country, it could be game over for online anonymity.

We’re taking a stand in MA,3 because if we lose on ID checks here, we might lose everywhere. I’m hoping you can rush a donation to fund this crucial rapid response campaign.

DONATE TO STOP ID CHECKS

Here are just a few things these bills threaten to do:

Force everyone (not just kids) to upload a government ID or submit to a facial recognition scan to create a social media account or post online, even on educational sites like Wikipedia.

Allow unsupportive parents to lock queer and trans youth off the Internet, restricting access to life-saving community and information with zero recourse.

Expand the Trump admin’s surveillance capabilities, making it easier for them to persecute people organizing protests, monitoring ICE, and criticizing the administration.

There are much better ways to protect kids than spying on everyone. MA lawmakers could start with passing a comprehensive data privacy bill4 that would actually crack down on Big Tech abuses and make the Internet safer for everyone.

I’ve been working around the clock to get reporters asking critical questions, educate lawmakers who seem to lack a basic understanding of the tech (much less the law), and mobilize a coalition of local groups to speak out against ID checks. And we’ve already started moving the needle5— but this could move super fast. So we need to be faster.

If you can, please support this campaign. We really need to win, for the sake of our ability to organize and keep our communities safe. Or to put it another way, we can’t afford to lose. Thanks for all you do, Evan at Fight for the Future P.S. If you’re in Massachusetts, take action here to let Governor Healey and MA lawmakers know how you feel about ID checks.

Footnotes:

WGBH: https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2026-04-08/mass-house-passes-bill-to-ban-kids-under-14-from-social-media

A line-by-line analysis of Governor Maura Healey’s proposed social media legislation: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04-16-a-line-by-line-analysis-of-governor-maura-healeys-proposed-social-media-legislation/

Stop Online ID Checks in Massachusetts: https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org/MA

ACLU Mass: https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/data-privacy-now/

Mass Lawyers Weekly: https://masslawyersweekly.com/2026/04/14/healey-proposes-limits-youth-social-media-massachusetts/

DIGITAL ID ALERT: The website posted on Dr Phil's account claims Congress will be voting on the KIDS Act on Thursday - assuming that would be this week. The KIDS Act - HR 7757 - was marked up in the House Energy & Commerce Committee last month.

The KIDS Act contains several other policies in one large bill. It was marked up in the same meeting as the App Store Accountability Act - which also may be getting a vote Thursday.

Here's my full Substack from March on the KIDS Act: …servativeladiesofamerica.substack.com/p/digital-id-b…

A ton of age verification across the digital landscape and behavioral monitoring of minors online. These are NOT child protection, they are de facto Digital ID bills.

Here

Number to call your reps is in the original Dr Phil post

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FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - Censorship = Death

I just got back from D.C. where I spent the weekend with my Fight colleagues1 sharing a really crucial message at Trans Day of Visibility events: we’re facing massive attacks on queer and trans people in public life. Attempts at online censorship via the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), age verification bills, and proposals to repeal Section 230 are part of that agenda. Online censorship is an existential threat. We’ve seen what bigots like Marsha Blackburn2 and Andrew Ferguson3 mean when they say “protect the kids.” It looks like erasing trans voices from online spaces, cutting vulnerable members of our community—especially youth—off from lifesaving information and resources. That’s why we’re fighting so hard alongside queer and trans youth4 and a coalition of LGBTQ+ rights groups5 to call these censorship efforts what they are. This Trans Day of Visibility, help fund our work to stop right-wing censorship from shuttering online LGBTQ+ spaces and hurting trans youth. We’re a small and scrappy org on the frontlines of this issue, so any amount goes a long way:

DONATE TO STOP CENSORSHIP

Censorship = death is not a metaphor. With a fascist administration revoking our legal documents,6 inciting violence by smearing us as terrorists,7 and attacking gender-affirming care,8 the Internet remains one of our only lifelines for finding community and fighting back. Bills like KOSA hide behind kids’ safety messaging to obscure who they’re pushed by (anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups) and what they’re intended to do (give the Trump admin unprecedented censorship powers to decide who and what exists online).9 Online ID check laws take things a step further to explicit demand we ID ourselves to use the Internet, opening us up to further mass surveillance and censorship.10 Attacks on Section 230— known as the First Amendment of the Internet— put the most basic structures of the Internet at risk, threatening to tank platforms like Bluesky and Reddit while incentivizing Big Tech platforms to crack down on "controversial” speech.9 We’ve been ringing these alarm bells for years, and we intend to keep ringing them. But this work isn’t easy. Many major funders are scared to take a stand against Trump’s fascist agenda by funding hard-hitting campaigns like ours. Many of the hate groups behind the moral panic about kids safety have wooed lawmakers on all sides, making it so we have to peel off Dem lawmakers who claim to be allies from censorship bills one by one.11 Your support is what makes it possible to run ambitious campaigns with a full-time team of artists, technologists, and campaigners against the notorious hate groups pushing these bills. And the tide is turning against these censorship bills. But how quickly and decisively we win is a life or death question for so many. Please, pitch in if you can.

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GIVE TO FIGHT Thanks for all you do, Evan at Fight for the Future

Footnotes: 1. Trans Day of Visibility Events: https://bsky.app/profile/evangreer.bsky.social/post/3mi4zlxzg5k2v, https://bsky.app/profile/evangreer.bsky.social/post/3mi3ckkb33k2e, https://bsky.app/profile/fightforthefuture.org/post/3mi3nw6w5ks2s 2. LGTBQ Nation: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/gop-senator-speaks-transphobic-rally-people-threatened-kill-doctors/ 3. Incoming FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson wants to throw trans people under the bus. KOSA would help him do that: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-12-11-incoming-ftc-chair-andrew-ferguson-wants-to-throw-trans-people-under-the-bus-kosa-would-help-him-do-that/ 4. Youth Against KOSA: https://www.youthagainstkosa.com/ 5. LGBTQ, Civil Rights Organizations Implore Congress to Push Back Against Trump Agency Agenda for LGBTQ Communities: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-12-18-new-letter-lgbtq-civil-rights-organizations-implore-congress-to-push-back-against-trump-agency-agenda-for-lgbtq-communities/ 6. NPR: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/28/nx-s1-5728969/kansas-revokes-drivers-licenses-of-hundreds-of-trans-people-prompted-by-new-law 7. Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-transgender-mass-shooters-terrorism-b2833160.html 8. KFF: https://www.kff.org/lgbtq/new-trump-administration-proposals-would-further-limit-gender-affirming-care-for-young-people-by-restricting-providers-and-reducing-coverage/ 9. Teen Vogue: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/some-democrats-are-helping-the-trump-admins-anti-lgbtq-tech-agenda 10. Stop Online ID Checks: https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org/ 11. Op-Ed: With KOSA, Elizabeth Warren is Betraying the Trans Youth She Claims to Protect: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/op-ed-with-kosa-elizabeth-warren

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - Censorship = Death

I just got back from D.C. where I spent the weekend with my Fight colleagues1 sharing a really crucial message at Trans Day of Visibility events: we’re facing massive attacks on queer and trans people in public life. Attempts at online censorship via the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), age verification bills, and proposals to repeal Section 230 are part of that agenda. Online censorship is an existential threat. We’ve seen what bigots like Marsha Blackburn2 and Andrew Ferguson3 mean when they say “protect the kids.” It looks like erasing trans voices from online spaces, cutting vulnerable members of our community—especially youth—off from lifesaving information and resources. That’s why we’re fighting so hard alongside queer and trans youth4 and a coalition of LGBTQ+ rights groups5 to call these censorship efforts what they are. This Trans Day of Visibility, help fund our work to stop right-wing censorship from shuttering online LGBTQ+ spaces and hurting trans youth. We’re a small and scrappy org on the frontlines of this issue, so any amount goes a long way:

DONATE TO STOP CENSORSHIP

Censorship = death is not a metaphor. With a fascist administration revoking our legal documents,6 inciting violence by smearing us as terrorists,7 and attacking gender-affirming care,8 the Internet remains one of our only lifelines for finding community and fighting back. Bills like KOSA hide behind kids’ safety messaging to obscure who they’re pushed by (anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups) and what they’re intended to do (give the Trump admin unprecedented censorship powers to decide who and what exists online).9 Online ID check laws take things a step further to explicit demand we ID ourselves to use the Internet, opening us up to further mass surveillance and censorship.10 Attacks on Section 230— known as the First Amendment of the Internet— put the most basic structures of the Internet at risk, threatening to tank platforms like Bluesky and Reddit while incentivizing Big Tech platforms to crack down on "controversial” speech.9 We’ve been ringing these alarm bells for years, and we intend to keep ringing them. But this work isn’t easy. Many major funders are scared to take a stand against Trump’s fascist agenda by funding hard-hitting campaigns like ours. Many of the hate groups behind the moral panic about kids safety have wooed lawmakers on all sides, making it so we have to peel off Dem lawmakers who claim to be allies from censorship bills one by one.11 Your support is what makes it possible to run ambitious campaigns with a full-time team of artists, technologists, and campaigners against the notorious hate groups pushing these bills. And the tide is turning against these censorship bills. But how quickly and decisively we win is a life or death question for so many. Please, pitch in if you can.

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