Nino Cipri is a glorious being I'm honored to know in person 🧡 and I've enjoyed everything I've read of theirs. ninocipri.com/booksmerch/bsky.app/profile/nino...
Rude of you to just drop this on the timeline so I can stumble across it! (ilu 💜)
New study in Nature shows that suicide attempts in trans youth increased up to 72% after the enactment of anti trans laws with the biggest increase in the second and third years after enactment. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/09/anti...
This is a fantastic feature on a trans teen who has to travel out of state for care, and in the process, it also highlights how dire this situation is for trans youth without supportive families and resources.
An estimated 110,000 trans teenagers live in states that ban gender-affirming care for minors. Some travel huge distances every few months to keep getting their treatment out-of-state.
Here is Julian K. Jarboe if you are in need of a Christian trans perspective, from Rosalind's Siblings (edited by me, not a Christian, but I loved this poem). In case you need this tonight. Thank you @phoebebarton.bsky.social for bringing it up.
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We're dancing because we're happy. Or we're dancing in order to become happy. Or we're happy that we can dance. One of those.
Really stomach-turning to see E. Lily Yu's deeply transphobic substack post, and I encourage my trans siblings, particularly trans fems, not to bother reading any of it. It's nothing we haven't heard before, and it's presented in the same smug, pseudo-intellectual, self-righteous tone as always.
I'm sadly not surprised because she has been moving in a Christian publishing direction, and this is sort of expected if you do that. (As a Hungarian speaker, I've been seeing this play out endlessly in Hungary - now it's coming to the US.) But this was not great to come back to after Shabbat :(
It really is. Thank you for posting about it, otherwise I might not have known.
What a shitty end to a Saturday night.