#queernews — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #queernews, aggregated by home.social.
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In August, Australia put sexuality and gender identity on its census for the first time
The same season ours came off 360 federal surveys
One government learning to count. One eating the scorecard
#Trans #Queer #QueerNews #Australia #LGBTQ #Journalism
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He didn't win the argument by finding a better crowbar. He declined the crowbar and won anyway.
#LGBTQ #Trans #QueerNews #TransRights #Queer #Florida #Books #Education #Journalism #News #Solidarity #SocialJustice #BookBans
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He fired her on the record instead. The book removals. The district lines. The children she was elected to protect and didn't.
He refused to use a woman's private life as a weapon even against a woman who had spent years using ours.
That was December 2023. This week Sarasota County voted her replacements in and Bridget Ziegler leaves the board on November 17.
#LGBTQ #Trans #QueerNews #TransRights #Queer #Florida #Books #Education #Journalism #News #Solidarity #SocialJustice #BookBans
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A high schooler in a district that had already removed the books, redrawn the lines, and named the trans kids out loud. A microphone. A sitting school board member in front of him, and her private life sitting right there on the table where anyone could pick it up.
Zander Moricz put it down.
#LGBTQ #Trans #QueerNews #TransRights #Queer #Florida #Books #Education #Journalism #News #Solidarity #SocialJustice #BookBans
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Zander Moricz was a teenager at a school board mic in 2023. Every crowbar was on the table. He put it down.
He fired her on the record. The book removals. The district lines. The kids she protects.
#Trans #Queer #QueerNews #Florida #LGBTQ #Journalism
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Today's issue: three stories, eight linked sources, one federal ruling read end to end, one Ring video watched twice to be sure.
Zero ad networks. No AI wrote a word of it.
That's the ledger. It runs on readers and stays free.
#Journalism #IndependentMedia #News #NoAI #QueerNews
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They funded the survey. The survey found us queers: 26.5 million, 12%, over 10% in forty states. Then they pulled the questions from roughly 360 federal data collections.
#Trans #Queer #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Census #TransRights #Journalism
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They burned the questionnaire after we answered it. The number is already out of the building.
#LGBTQ #Trans #TransRights #QueerNews #Queer #Nonbinary #Bisexual #Census #Journalism #News #SocialJustice #Solidarity #History #Data
The full piece, free every morning → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/when-november-comes-i-wanna-surf-that-blue-wave-straight-into-the-pipe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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Twelve percent. Over ten percent in forty states, Georgia and Arizona and Texas among them.
Then the questions came off roughly 360 federal data collections.
You cannot appropriate money for a bathroom bill if the bathroom's population is officially zero. That's the trick. That's the whole thing.
#LGBTQ #Trans #TransRights #QueerNews #Queer #Nonbinary #Bisexual #Census #Journalism #News #SocialJustice #Solidarity #History #Data
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Somebody in a federal office looked at the LGBTQ+ questions on hundreds of government surveys and decided the fix for an inconvenient number was to stop asking.
Get the sequence right, because the sequence is the crime. They funded the survey. The survey found us — 2.4 million responses to the Census Bureau's Household Pulse, analyzed by the HRC Foundation.
#LGBTQ #Trans #TransRights #QueerNews #Queer #Nonbinary #Bisexual #Census #Journalism #News #SocialJustice #Solidarity #History #Data
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Today's issue: three stories, eight outside sources, one four-thousand-word investigation read before the coffee finished dripping.
No ad network. No AI. No overlord. Just me.
Reader money and one morning. That's the budget
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#Journalism #TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #NoAI
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One man, a poor student at the time, gave twenty percent of his income to his sessions — on the understanding that paying for your recovery makes you more invested in it.
That is not a ministry. That is a subscription with a shame gate.
#TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy #Accountability #Journalism #NonProfit #Religion #uspol #Queer #FollowTheMoney
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Read the arithmetic slowly, because the arithmetic is the whole story.
Strength in Weakness is a for-profit corporation registered in Ontario. It instructs American donors to route contributions through a Florida church holding 501(c)(3) status. Memberships $70 a year.
Church leader courses $360. A three-day workshop, $3,000 plus flights and hotel.
#TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy #Accountability #Journalism #NonProfit #Religion #uspol
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56% of trans/nonbinary students attend a school with a discriminatory policy.
97% can still name one adult in there who supports them.
5 adults or fewer: 3.20 GPA. 11 or more: 3.42.
#TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Teachers #uspol
The research brief and today's issue →
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What did you believe about yourself for years, that somebody handed you, that you never once checked against the evidence? I answer every one of these in the comments under the piece.
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Andy Stowers Forest couldn't save his friend. So in 2022 he saved the paperwork instead. Screenshots. Dates. Archived pages.
That file is why 24 people's testimony reached reporters four years on.
#TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Archives #Journalism
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Anger, given a filing system, becomes evidence.
Find the ID-help project in your own state this week and give it one hour.
That's the whole assignment.
#TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Archives #MutualAidIsNotCharity #Solidarity #Journalism #Trans #Community #Chile #Documentation
Today's issue, with the full record → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/new-letterhead-same-fuckin-leash-a-rebranded-cure-an-all-caps-siege-with-a-limp-dick-and-water-gives?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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Nobody in that building had to hate her. They only had to be busy. Ignorance is fucking bliss I guess, or something.
#TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Kansas #Veterans #Disability #uspol #Journalism #CivilRights #Trans #Accountability
Wrote this up in today's issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/new-letterhead-same-fuckin-leash-a-rebranded-cure-an-all-caps-siege-with-a-limp-dick-and-water-gives?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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That archive is why twenty-four people's testimony was legible to reporters four years later.
He also runs a small nonprofit that has helped 25 transgender people get accurate identity documents. On a week when Kansas is voiding licenses, that's not a small number. #TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Archives #MutualAidIsNotCharity #Solidarity #Journalism #Trans3/4
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Some of those letters arrived after February 26. She called. She emailed the court order like they told her.
She got an auto-reply, and then nothing.
A judge granted her a temporary injunction on August 18 — on due process, he was careful to say, not on gender markers. It applies to her alone. Her case joins the ACLU's challenge for a hearing on September 29. #TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Kansas #Veterans #Disability #uspol #Journalism2/3
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He couldn't fix that. So in late 2022, with a group of other survivors, he started collecting the documentation instead — screenshots, dates, saved pages, the boring cataloguing of what happened while everyone else was still arguing about whether it happened.
#TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Archives #MutualAidIsNotCharity #Solidarity #Journalism #Trans #Community #Chile #Documentation2/4
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A military veteran with a surgery from 2013, a Douglas County court order naming her female, thirteen years of doing every single thing the state told her was required, and a disabled daughter who needs errands run, bought an electric tricycle to keep getting to the bank.
Kansas mailed her a letter saying her driver's license was void as of February 26. #TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Kansas #Veterans #Disability #uspol #Journalism #CivilRights #Trans #Accountability
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He was pushed into the program's materials (Conversion therapy) by his own church leadership in Tallahassee. He later transitioned and moved to Chile. His friend died.
#TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Archives #MutualAidIsNotCharity #Solidarity #Journalism #Trans #Community #Chile #Documentation
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Jamie Miller: a surgery in 2013, a court order naming her female, a disabled daughter who needs errands run.
Kansas voided her license as of February 26.
Nobody had to hate her. They only had to be busy.
#TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Kansas #Veterans #uspol
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