Navigating Gray (she | her) 🏳️‍🌈

Biden is making the best decision here - I did not see a future for his campaign. The next president will choose justices that are responsible for overturning the horrific decisions on LGBTQ rights and reproductive healthcare or recent years. It’s too important to fumble.

1. The risk map for transgender people for July 2024 has been released. In this update, Rhode Island improves and Louisiana deteriorates. For the first time, a change in national risk has occurred. National risk for trans youth is now High. Subscribe to support my journalism.

I am saddened to report that South Carolina's governor has signed a gender affirming care ban, forced outing policy, and public funding ban on gender affirming care. This is in violation of a recent 4th Circuit decision, with SC being under their jurisdiction.

1. Last month, I reported that Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok was appointed by Ryan Walters to "make schools safer" in Oklahoma. One month later, a trans teen is dead after a year of transphobic bullying. Their name was Nex.

Incredible decision out of the 5th Circuit finding that book bans are likely unconstitutional. This is one of the most right-wing courts n the country. This is a massive blow to those who seek to ban books in many states - over 25 book ban bills have been filed this year.

Today was a hard day. But we will wake up tomorrow and do it all over again. And we won't stop, because we can't - 20 years from now, we will look back on days like today and be proud of the world we made. Trans people have been around forever and will always be.

To see some people look at all of the ways in which trans people are targeted and then blame mass shootings on us is sick. Shootings aren’t new. Trans people aren’t to blame, nor are any other marginalized group. They rather blame the people they hate than their own policies.

Every transgender activist you know carries with them the deaths of dozens of trans people whose stories made an impact on us. It never gets any easier. We owe it to all of them. One day we'll make a monument in their names and their memories will live forever. Hold onto them.

Urgently: If you live in... Floirda Mississippi Montana South Dakota Tennessee West Virginia Wyoming Call your local rep/sen right now and tell them you oppose the gender affirming care bans. These states are at highest risk of imminent passage. myreps.datamade.us/