Last night I dreamt I planted a trans flag on Mars. #dreams #TransRights #Mars
#transrights — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #transrights, aggregated by home.social.
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Here's what I want understood: a piece of shit who publicly wished a noose on people like me is not an aberration in that party, he is a résumé, and the only thing dividing him from the ones with better tailoring is that he wrote the quiet part down where a reporter could screenshot it. We are not being crept up on. We are being campaigned on. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy https://thistleandmoss.com/p/get-fuckin-ready-for-the-drool-watch-a-white-nationalist-on-florida-s-ballot-maga-money-in-the-queer#queerisms-where-are-we-today
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"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door." — Harvey Milk, San Francisco supervisor, tape recorded November 1977 for playing after his assassination #LGBTQ #Pride #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #QueerNews https://thistleandmoss.com/p/and-the-room-laughed-the-tangerine-tyrant-s-gay-death-punchline-his-shove-it-up-their-ass-gym-sermon#the-witness-what-we-carry-from-ours
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"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door." — Harvey Milk, San Francisco supervisor, tape recorded November 1977 for playing after his assassination #LGBTQ #Pride #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #QueerNews thistleandmoss.com/p...
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🔗 “Where are you shopping?” Laura Ingraham stunned by Dr Oz’s grocery price claim
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/quick-hit-where-are-you-shopping-laura-ingraham-stunned-by-dr-ozs-grocery-price-claim/ #LGBTQ #TransRights #QueerJoy
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📢 Remember when JoJo Siwa ditched her iconic ponytail and revealed a whole new look?
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/aggregators/remember-when-jojo-siwa-ditched-her-iconic-ponytail-and-revealed-a-whole-new-look/ #LGBTQ #TransRights #QueerJoy
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🏳️🌈 Trans Youth Aren’t the Only Ones Suffering in Trump 2.0. So Are Their Affirming Parents
The job of parents has always been to keep their children as safe as possible, but what happens when an entire
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This shit sucks, talk to your friends and family.
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Last March, Kayleigh McEnany let Christian YouTuber Gabe Poirot plug his memoir about meeting Jesus during an 18-day coma. #Jesus #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy https://thistleandmoss.com/p/and-the-room-laughed-the-tangerine-tyrant-s-gay-death-punchline-his-shove-it-up-their-ass-gym-sermon#3-things-that-you-absolutely-need-t
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Last March, Kayleigh McEnany let Christian YouTuber Gabe Poirot plug his memoir about meeting Jesus during an 18-day coma. #Jesus #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy thistleandmoss.com/p...
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Rally after rally the recipe never changes: one lie, one slur, one trans kid as the laugh line. He drags trans women in sports into every speech he can. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Democracy https://thistleandmoss.com/p/and-the-room-laughed-the-tangerine-tyrant-s-gay-death-punchline-his-shove-it-up-their-ass-gym-sermon
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Rally after rally the recipe never changes: one lie, one slur, one trans kid as the laugh line. He drags trans women in sports into every speech he can. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Democracy thistleandmoss.com/p...
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🏳️⚧️ For Venton Jones, the GOP’s on war Black & LGBTQ+ civil rights is intensely personal
The newlywed expectant father lays out his vision for the future of Black queer politics.
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🏳️🌈 Trump’s gay niece mocks his “desperation” as he suddenly tells people they should vote by mail
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/quick-hit-trumps-gay-niece-mocks-his-desperation-as-he-suddenly-tells-people-they-should-vote-by-mail/ #USPolitics #LGBTQ #TransRights #QueerJoy
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October 3, 2026, a president got a laugh out of queer people vanishing, and the room clapped, and every pair of hands that clapped belongs to somebody who'd hold the door for it to be done #LGBTQ #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #News #QueerNews https://thistleandmoss.com/p/and-the-room-laughed-the-tangerine-tyrant-s-gay-death-punchline-his-shove-it-up-their-ass-gym-sermon#queerisms-where-are-we-today
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October 3, 2026, a president got a laugh out of queer people vanishing, and the room clapped, and every pair of hands that clapped belongs to somebody who'd hold the door for it to be done #LGBTQ #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #News #QueerNews thistleandmoss.com/p...
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💜 To defeat the current climate of hate, the LGBTQ+ movement must innovate like never before
Let’s commit to shaking things up, not only during this election season, but long after it.
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🏳️🌈 “Sad, disgusting, pathetic”: Trump slammed for repeatedly calling Democrat anti-trans slur
Even Republicans are calling his use of the slur "abhorrent."
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I've watched this for a decade and I'm still not numb, which my doctor says is either a moral achievement or a cardiovascular event; either way, the punchline was dead queers. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #Democracy https://thistleandmoss.com/p/and-the-room-laughed-the-tangerine-tyrant-s-gay-death-punchline-his-shove-it-up-their-ass-gym-sermon#the-part-that-draws-blood
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I've watched this for a decade and I'm still not numb, which my doctor says is either a moral achievement or a cardiovascular event; either way, the punchline was dead queers. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #Democracy thistleandmoss.com/p...
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🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ rights are on the ballot in 6 states this year. Here’s what you need to know.
This explainer on LGBTQ+ midterm ballot measures explains each one's potential consequences and community impact.
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"He used a song that “elderly boomers and silent generation folks turn to as they’re thinking about death,” one person"
📰 Remember when Trump’s latest social media post had people wondering if he was about to die?
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"There is not a single major medical group in the country that endorses blanket government restrictions on"
🏳️🌈 "Vote NO": Colorado's Top Medical Groups Formally Oppose Anti-Trans Ballot Prop. 135
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DATE: October 6, 2026 at 08:00AM
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A recent study found that parents of transgender youth experienced worsening mental health and well-being following the 2025 United States presidential inauguration compared to parents of cisgender youth. The research highlights the immediate emotional toll that shifting political climates and federal policy changes can take on the family members of marginalized groups. The study was published in Psychological Science.
Following the 2025 presidential inauguration, the new federal administration issued several executive orders aimed at transgender youth. These orders sought to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors, penalize schools that support transgender students, and restrict transgender girls from competing on gender-aligned sports teams.
Prior research has established that such macrolevel policies can act as institutional signals. These signals communicate how broader society views specific groups, which can influence the well-being of those targeted and their families. Policies limiting self-expression and resources contribute to minority stress, a framework explaining how marginalized groups experience worse well-being due to societal hostility.
Researchers wanted to understand how this specific political shift affected both transgender adolescents and their supportive parents. The research team was led by psychologist Rachel A. Leshin of Princeton University, along with Aditi Kodipady, Grey F. Raber, Natalie M. Gallagher, and Kristina R. Olson. They designed a study to compare the mental health trajectories of transgender youth and their parents against a similarly situated group of cisgender youth and their parents.
The researchers tracked 160 youth between the ages of 12 and 17, as well as 167 parents. Within this group, 73 of the youth identified as transgender or nonbinary, and 87 identified as cisgender. The participants were drawn from larger, ongoing longitudinal studies of gender development across the United States.
The families involved in the research were predominantly white, highly educated, and high-income. Because both groups of parents skewed politically liberal, the study offered a controlled comparison. It allowed researchers to differentiate between general frustration with the new administration and distress specifically tied to raising a transgender child in a hostile political environment.
In their primary analysis, the researchers compared mental health data collected annually between 2022 and 2024 to weekly data collected in the seven weeks following the January 2025 inauguration. Youth and parents completed separate self-report surveys measuring depression, anxiety, and positive emotional states. Participants rated how frequently they experienced specific symptoms, such as being unable to stop feeling sad or worrying at bedtime, over the previous seven days.
The researchers observed widening gaps in mental health between the two groups of parents. Before the election, parents of transgender youth and parents of cisgender youth reported similar levels of depression and positive emotions. After the inauguration, parents of transgender youth reported higher levels of depression and lower positive emotions than their counterparts.
Anxiety levels also diverged. While parents of transgender youth reported higher anxiety than parents of cisgender youth before the election, this gap more than doubled in size after the inauguration. To ensure these differences were not just reflecting voting behavior or a parent’s own gender identity, the researchers ran additional analyses. The patterns remained the same when excluding the small number of parents who voted for the current president or who identified as transgender or gender-diverse themselves.
The team also conducted a secondary analysis tracking participants continuously over an eight-week period surrounding the inauguration. They found that parents of transgender youth experienced steady linear increases in anxiety and depression throughout this window. In contrast, parents of cisgender youth showed no consistent changes in these measures.
To understand why parents experienced these outcomes, the researchers analyzed weekly measures of parental worry and perceived social support. Their exploratory analyses suggested that elevated worry for their children may help explain the differing mental health outcomes between the two parent groups, though the researchers noted the causal direction could not be definitively established. Perceived social support did not differ between the groups and did not explain the results. Both groups reported high levels of social support, indicating that community backing was not enough to offset the distress caused by the new political landscape.
The researchers also examined the mental health of the youth themselves. In the primary comparison between pre-election and post-inauguration periods, the differences in well-being between transgender and cisgender youth were subtle and not statistically significant in most models. Transgender youth showed a drop in positive emotions after the inauguration. However, the mental health trajectories of the two youth groups largely diverged only in anxiety. During the post-election period, cisgender youths’ anxiety lessened, while transgender youths’ anxiety remained stable.
To explore why the mental health declines were more prominent in parents than in the youth, the researchers analyzed open-ended survey responses. Two independent reviewers, blinded to the participants’ demographics, coded these responses. They found that parents of transgender youth were much more likely to explicitly mention transgender issues and express severe negative emotions than the transgender youth were. Some parents shared statements like, “I have cried almost every day this past week,” and “Every week is a new wave of fear, frustration, and utter disbelief.”
The authors suggest that parents often anticipate long-term threats more acutely than adolescents do. At the time of the surveys, the executive orders targeting transgender youth had largely been blocked by federal judges and had not yet altered daily life for most participants. The youth might not have felt the immediate impact, whereas their parents were already processing the institutional signals and preparing for potential future consequences.
The study focused on a specific demographic of liberal-leaning, supportive parents. Parents who hold different political beliefs or who do not support their child’s transgender identity might not experience the same mental health changes. Research involving more politically, racially, and socioeconomically diverse families is necessary to see if these patterns hold across the broader population.
The number of participants involved also limits how broadly the conclusions can be applied. The group differences observed among the youth were small and less consistent than those among the parents. Further research with larger groups of adolescents is required to track how federal policies affect the long-term mental health of transgender youth. Future studies could also track whether the deteriorating mental health of supportive parents eventually impacts the well-being of their children over time.
The study, “Reduced Mental Health and Well-Being in Parents of Transgender Youth Following the 2025 U.S. Presidential Inauguration,” was authored by Rachel A. Leshin, Aditi Kodipady, Grey F. Raber, Natalie M. Gallagher, and Kristina R. Olson.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #TransgenderYouth #ParentalMentalHealth #InaugurationImpact #LGBTQWellBeing #MinorityStress #PolicyImpact #MentalHealthResearch #PsychologicalScience #TransRights #FamilyWellbeing
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Zweitens sprechen die verfügbaren Versorgungsdaten über einen Zeitraum von neun Jahren dafür, dass diese Behandlung mit besseren psychischen Outcomes verbunden sein kann. Kronk, C., et al. (2026). Mental health of youths who use puberty blockers. JAMA Network Open. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.23302 #TransRights #TransJugendliche #QueereRechte #GenderAffirmingCare #LGBTQIAPlus
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The Safety of a Queer Space #Trans #TransRights #Queer #QueerNews #Politics #News thistleandmoss.com/p...
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A fearless breakdown of a white nationalist on Florida's ballot, MAGA money infiltrating queer media, a columnist's drool forecast, and the survival tactics we need when the world gets loud—rooted in resistance and refusing to flinch. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy https://thistleandmoss.com/p/get-fuckin-ready-for-the-drool-watch-a-white-nationalist-on-florida-s-ballot-maga-money-in-the-queer
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Trans rights are human rights.
💜 Anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA influencer tells Fox News he met Jesus, who is “manly… like a mustang”
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📢 GOP endorses man who allegedly molested a 5-year-old boy & 4-year-old girl
He reportedly told the boy's parents he was taking him to get ice cream, and then put his penis in the kid's mouth.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/gop-endorses-man-who-allegedly-a-5-year-old-boy-4-year-old-girl/
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🏳️⚧️ LGBTQ+ Gen Z Voters More Likely to See Climate, ICE, and Gaza as Urgent Issues
https://www.them.us/politics/lgbtq-gen-z-voters-issues #USPolitics #Healthcare #TransRights #LGBTQ
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🏳️⚧️ 21 Years Ago, A Story About Straight Vampires Launched a Thousand Queer Awakenings
The cold wind of October blows, Julia Wolf’s “In My Room” is on repeat, and the leaves across New England have turned
https://www.them.us/entertainment/tv-and-movies/twilight-was-so-gay
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A fearless breakdown of Trump's press bans, schools crushing queer clubs, Indonesian sago farmers defying palm oil giants, and the survival tactics that keep us warm when everything else tries to take it away. #Trans #TransRights #Queer #QueerNews #Politics #News thistleandmoss.com/p...
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On September 28, a researcher posting on X as Esoteric Shaggyism claimed that #CandaceOwens had four dating profiles in 2007 and 2008 aimed at women. #Trans #lgbtqia #queernews #transrights #sapphic #wtf #grindr #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest https://thistleandmoss.com/p/it-s-all-a-fucking-game-to-them-a-white-house-deportation-arcade-150-ways-to-steal-a-midterm-alex-jo#3-things-that-you-absolutely-need-t
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On September 28, a researcher posting on X as Esoteric Shaggyism claimed that #CandaceOwens had four dating profiles in 2007 and 2008 aimed at women. #Trans #lgbtqia #queernews #transrights #sapphic #wtf #grindr #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest thistleandmoss.com/p...
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A MAGA man explained that Alex Jones "taught us" chemicals in the water are turning frogs gay and Beck Williams, Ever the scholar, stepped in to correct him: "They're changing sexes, not genders." #Conspiracy #AlexJones #Trans #TransRights #Politics #wtf https://thistleandmoss.com/p/it-s-all-a-fucking-game-to-them-a-white-house-deportation-arcade-150-ways-to-steal-a-midterm-alex-jo#3-things-that-you-absolutely-need-t
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A MAGA man explained that Alex Jones "taught us" chemicals in the water are turning frogs gay and Beck Williams, Ever the scholar, stepped in to correct him: "They're changing sexes, not genders." #Conspiracy #AlexJones #Trans #TransRights #Politics #wtf thistleandmoss.com/p...
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A fearless breakdown of Buttigieg's readiness claim, the court's first Trump rejection on mail ballots, EPA's sky denial, Turkey's bar raids, and the survival tactics that sustain resistance—rooted in small mercies. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy https://thistleandmoss.com/p/of-course-we-re-ready-you-gravy-stained-ass-cowards-the-court-finally-said-no-the-epa-said-the-sky-i
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What The #Orange #TurdSandwhich said, when asked whether he'd send ICE officers or #NationalGuard troops to the polls: he would do "anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections." #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News https://thistleandmoss.com/p/it-s-all-a-fucking-game-to-them-a-white-house-deportation-arcade-150-ways-to-steal-a-midterm-alex-jo
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What The #Orange #TurdSandwhich said, when asked whether he'd send ICE officers or #NationalGuard troops to the polls: he would do "anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections." #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News thistleandmoss.com/p...
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So in 1938, right after Kristallnacht, a Dresden firm called Günther & Co. sold German families a board game called Juden Raus! Same as the fucking White house arcade. #Arcade #VideoGames #Politics #Trans #TransRights #Journalism #FuckThis #FuckThat #why
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So in 1938, right after Kristallnacht, a Dresden firm called Günther & Co. sold German families a board game called Juden Raus! Same as the fucking White house arcade. #Arcade #VideoGames #Politics #Trans #TransRights #Journalism #FuckThis #FuckThat #why
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We exist. We persist.
🏳️🌈 GOP senator lies: Biden allowed doctors to “cut on minors” to turn them trans behind parents’ backs!
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💜 The Only Out Gay Coach in Men’s College Basketball Pops the Question
https://www.them.us/news/out-gay-coach-pops-question #USPolitics #LGBTQ #TransRights
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I have swallowed 10 years of this horseshit-industrial complex without choking, but a government turning the roundup of human beings into a high-score table is the morning I break my monitor. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News https://thistleandmoss.com/p/it-s-all-a-fucking-game-to-them-a-white-house-deportation-arcade-150-ways-to-steal-a-midterm-alex-jo
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I have swallowed 10 years of this horseshit-industrial complex without choking, but a government turning the roundup of human beings into a high-score table is the morning I break my monitor. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News thistleandmoss.com/p...
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📰 Remember this CNN host’s stunned one-word reaction to Trump’s bizarre comment caught on a hot mic?
Trump was rambling about “young, handsome men” to the president of Paraguay.
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🏳️🌈 Remember when MAGA ex-gay Milo Yiannopoulos said that Trump faked his assassination attempt?
Other MAGA Republicans agree with him.
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Queer joy is resistance.
💜 Students & teachers rally to support trans homecoming queen amid brutal online backlash
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/students-teachers-rally-to-support-trans-homecoming-queen-amid-brutal-online-backlash/ -
"Antisemites during WWII turned Jew-hating into a literal board game."
📰 Trump & other hateful leaders treat dehumanizing vulnerable people like a literal game
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"Musk’s posts are not just inflammatory rhetoric."
🔗 Elon Musk Calls For “Death Sentence” for GAC Providers
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/elon-musk-calls-for-death-sentence