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Guest Post: Sister Golden Bear’s Transition Anniversary!

by Major Major Major Major|  December 9, 20208:47 pm| 86 Comments

This post is in: Civil Rights, LGBTQ Rights, Open Threads, Women's Rights

Sister Golden Bear mentioned in an earlier thread that she has something worth celebrating this week. She was kind enough to write up something for me to share. So, without further ado: happy anniversary, SGB!


So this week marks the fourth anniversary of me starting to live as a woman, as my true self.

Fortunately, my co-workers were more than supportive—in fact they asked me to come to work as me much earlier than I’d planned on doing. But I still remember that exhilarating and terrifying moment right before I sent the team-wide email announcing that I was transitioning.

For all its faults, one thing “Happiest Season” absolutely nails is how Dan Levy’s character describes coming out: “Everybody’s story is different. There’s your version [loved and supported] and my version [being kicked out of the house] and everything in between. But the one thing that all of those stories have in common is that moment right before you say those words when your heart is racing and you don’t know what’s coming next. That moment’s really terrifying.

And then once you say those words, you can’t unsay them. A chapter has ended and a new one’s begun, and you have to be ready for that.”

But my co-workers were so wonderfully supportive that they encouraged me to transition ahead of schedule.*

My thoughts from that morning four years ago today, which I wrote sitting in the car outside my office, not knowing what was going to happen next with the rest of my life:

About a dozen years ago, a girl-child finally set foot outside the house for the first time. Literally. After midnight on a black moonless night. Because NO ONE MUST KNOW. It was both exhilarating and terrifying.

Of course, she really wasn’t a girl, she’d been sharing the same body as her male protector for decades. Some of her sisters knew clearly from an early age, who they really were, and what they needed to become. Not this girl, growing up she just knew she was “different” but not exactly sure how — and in the pre-Internet days, assumed she was the only one in the world who felt this way.

Over the decades, she was able to come out every so often to express herself, but mostly sat, as if in a high tower, watching the world outside, waiting. Until that day came when the need to be out in the world became overwhelming.

Like many of her sisters, it began with tentative steps. The late-night drive en femme. Once she became a little braver, the late night walk. Venturing out to meet a similar group of peers who went out for dinners — safety in numbers. She connected with others like her online, she quickly gained the confidence to start going out in public alone.

I’m talking of course about myself. You’ve come a long way, baby. And now I’m facing that feeling that’s both exhilarating and terrifying, as I take the final step to living full-time as a woman this morning.

It’s a journey I couldn’t have made alone. There are so, so many people who’ve helped me on this journey, I can’t possibly thank them all. But there’s some I do want to highlight.

To my namesake, a fierce Femme who adopted me and other of my sisters, when I was just starting get out in the world. We’ve lost touch over the years, but wherever you are, thank you.

Thank you to all the other fierce Femmes who have supported and inspired me.

[Various other thanks to thank you to friends whose support had been invaluable.]

One again, thank you.

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Ironically, I didn’t really have much time to celebrate at the time. I was due to fly to Buenos Aires on New Year’s Eve for five weeks to do a series of surgeries to feminize my facial features. Yes, part of it was vanity, but part of it was survival. Life is far harder for trans women who don’t “pass” (a framing I hate), i.e. don’t look plausibly cisgendered. Since I hadn’t been blessed by the androgyny fairy and have a body that’s bigger and bulkier than the vast majority of cis woman (my peasant ancestors were built for the plow), it was important to me to have one visible part of my body that wouldn’t mislead people about who I am.

Trump’s election had thrown a huge wrench in my plans. I’d originally planned to travel to Buenos Aires under my male passport. Not ideal, but practical because I’d just gotten the court order changing my legal name and gender the day before, and it would be touch and go whether I could get my password changed before I needed to leave. But there were serious rumors that one of the first acts of the Trump administration would be to prevent us from changing our gender on passports — which posed a danger visiting a number of countries—and I wouldn’t be returning to the States until after the inauguration. So I booked the airline ticket under my new name and gender, and gambled that I could get the passport changed in time. I managed to do so with only two days to spare.

It’s been a long journey since then, partly because of multiple surgeries to make my body congruent with who I am. (I’m extremely privileged to have been able to do so. This is something many trans folks can’t afford to do.) Partly the lengthy recovery from those surgeries, but plus other personal medical issues and personal tragedies. (My mother died less than two weeks before I was scheduled to leave for another major surgery in Thailand.) Partly it was truly learning to move in the world as a woman—moving into the second-class status that women face definitely made me an even more ardent feminist.

I was looking forward to this year as The Year Everything Came Together, where I’d finally moved through all the transition-related stress and would be able to restart my life again. But obviously 2020 had different plans for me, and billions of others. It’s frustrating having the rest of my new life put on hold, but one day the pandemic will end, and I look forward to making up for the lost years—the so many lost years—living my life authentically.

*At the time, the general advice was to give one’s co-workers 2-3 weeks to adjust to the idea before coming to work as your true gender.

**Why Buenos Aires? Because it’s a specialized surgery and only a half-dozen surgeons in the world are excellent at it. I personally think my surgeon there is the best of the best, plus the favorable exchange rate meant I could do it for less than half the cost of doing it in the States, even including airfare and staying in an apartment for five weeks there.

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National Coming Out Day Open Thread

by Major Major Major Major|  October 11, 20202:11 pm| 205 Comments

This post is in: LGBTQ Rights, LGBTQ Rights Are Human Rights, Music, Open Threads

Is it October 11 already? Time flies when you’re locked in a plague bunker.

Last year I wrote about my mixed feelings on this day of observance. Visibility can be a burden; most of us just want to live our lives. At the same time, lack of visibility is a big driver of the forces that seek to prevent us from living our lives, and reminding everybody I’m gay once a year isn’t really that annoying. So it is with only minor grumpiness that I wish you an acceptable Coming Out Day–may we some day not need it any more.

I’m gay, and so is my husband.


We now return you to your regularly scheduled lazy afternoon.

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Late Night Open Thread: #ProudBoys Hashtag Hijacked

by Anne Laurie|  October 3, 202011:15 pm| 132 Comments

This post is in: LGBTQ Rights Are Human Rights, Open Threads, Popular Culture

Look up what’s trending now on #ProudBoys. You’re welcome, Internet.

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 3, 2020

Mr. Takei outed the Nazis, and his followers responded in… kindness!

Taking over #ProudBoys https://t.co/d2bHLmCEtc pic.twitter.com/sTWXDRcY7F

— Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) October 4, 2020

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#ProudBoys
Bless you @GeorgeTakei https://t.co/D7J77QzwYQ

— Lincoln's Bible (@LincolnsBible) October 4, 2020

Fantastic, I love this. #ProudBoys https://t.co/ZKB1CgPQC7

— kristen johnston (@thekjohnston) October 4, 2020

members of our government saluting the only #ProudBoys that count at Montreal Pride. 🇨🇦 (Elizabeth May ftw here)

thank you George Takei. allies unite and share this hashtag! pic.twitter.com/l2FziHHypd

— Lise C (@liseski) October 4, 2020

It just dawned on me, that when trump's always playing 'YMCA' at his rallies…it's actually a dog whistle to the #ProudBoys! Holy schnike! 😲 pic.twitter.com/TXHG1qU97E

— TWILIGHT ZONE dm 4 your secret ANTIFA decoder BLM! (@TheGreatMueller) October 4, 2020

Cream of the jest, she said piously, is that those cosplay Nazis supposedly sign a pact against masturbation…

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Senator McConnell Moves To Contact: The President’s Nominee “Will Receive a Vote On the Floor of the Senate”

by Adam L Silverman|  September 18, 20209:08 pm| 217 Comments

This post is in: America, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Domestic Politics, Election 2020, Environmental Rights, LGBTQ Rights, Open Threads, Politics, Racial Justice, RIP, Women's Rights

Senator McConnell has placed his marker on the table.

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ABC news is reporting that the President will announce his nominee shortly.

BREAKING: Pres. Trump is expected to put forth a nominee to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat in the coming days, multiple sources close to the president and with direct knowledge of the situation tell @ABC News. https://t.co/NpSSjiSOLo

— ABC News (@ABC) September 19, 2020

I expect that the President will announce his nominee no later than Wednesday and that Senator McConnell will have that nominee up for a vote before the full Senate no later than the Wednesday after that so that the new justice can be seated before the Supreme Court starts its new term in October. And to try to do sort of a judicial nomination shock and awe campaign by moving so quickly that no one can respond to what McConnell is doing.

I’ve seen Senator Murkowski’s statement, and it was nice to read, but the simple reality is that for Senators Collins, McSally, Gardner, Tillis, and Graham it is ride or die. They cannot let go of the tiger that is the President and his base at this point because it will not get them the Democratic votes to either save them in the case of Collins, McSally, and Gardner, nor to open up their reelection campaigns from the statistical ties that Tillis and Graham are in. Abandoning the President and his base of supporters on this will cost them more support and votes, then trying to look like they’re standing on principle.

The question is not what can be done to stop it, though I definitely believe as much hell as possible should be raised over what Senator McConnell is going to do. The question is what you are willing to do after Senator McConnell does what he is going to do to install a sixth conservative associate justice on the Supreme Court.

I expect there will be violence over this. Violence between senators. Violence directed at senators. And violence between Americans. I’m not calling for it, but as a nat-sec professional who works on low intensity warfare, this is what I expect.

Updated at 10:30 PM EDT

I just want to clarify and elaborate a bit on what I think is likely to happen. I expect that the violence directed at senators will come from the hard core and extreme right. It will be directed at the Republican senators who are being reported as potentially not supporting the President and Senator McConnell on confirming a new justice before the election and the inauguration; Gardner, McSally, Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Graham, Grassley, and Alexander. It will start with threatening emails, voicemails, and direct messages. And it may escalate to actual attempts at physical intimidation to send a message: get or stay in line or else… Similarly, I expect that violence between Americans will originate from the same direction. Some MAGA asshole will decide to gun his car through a vigil being held in memory of RBG or a demonstration and rally to demonstrate to Senator McConnell and his GOP majority that they have to abide by the rules McConnell established in 2016. Or that, as we’ve seen with the MAGA truck/vehicle rallies in Portland, that those supporting the President will show up and pepper spray and paintball those standing vigil for RBG or rallying to pressure McConnell and his GOP majority to not be hypocrites. This violence will be stochastic terrorism, but if it happens, I expect it will originate on the hard core and extreme right.

Open thread.

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Resolutely Joyful Open Thread: Still Taking PRIDE

by Anne Laurie|  June 29, 20206:00 pm| 119 Comments

This post is in: LGBTQ Rights Are Human Rights, Open Threads

Next year, Murphy the Trickster God willing, we’ll be able to party in public again…

Taiwan stages LGBT pride parade 'for the world' https://t.co/6WuUtopEgI

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 28, 2020

… More than 200 people thronged Liberty Square in Taipei, saying they were “marching for the world” during the LGBT pride season.

Organiser Darien Chen said it was an honour to march when nearly 500 other events globally had been cancelled.

Last year Taiwan became the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage…

The island normally holds its pride parade in October but brought this year’s event forward to replace the hundreds of cancelled marches around the world.

Taiwan has recorded just over 440 coronavirus infections and only seven deaths. It has not seen any local transmissions for more than two months.

Mr Chen said the LGBT community in Taiwan wanted to mark the 50th anniversary of the first pride marches in the US.

“The whole world is facing the height of the pandemic,” he said. “So Taiwan won’t give in. and we must continue with this flame of hope and stand up for the world.”…

Taipei is hosting the world's only Pride parade today. Today's gathering is small, but spirited. pic.twitter.com/7KUWy54h3c

— Chris Horton ??? (@heguisen) June 28, 2020

LGBTQ Pride looked a little different in New York City this year because of the pandemic, but that didn't stop people from celebrating in the streets and virtually. https://t.co/lHOVGrWEov

— AP Eastern US (@APEastRegion) June 28, 2020

A double rainbow appeared over the FDR Drive and the East River after a thunderstorm passed over New York City on the day that the annual Pride parade was supposed to take place in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Pride march in NYC. #Pride #nyc #rainbow pic.twitter.com/rklCSneNN1

— Chase Sutton (@chase_sutton99) June 29, 2020

Happy Pride! ?????? Even though we can’t march together this year, we can still celebrate together online. After all, Pride has always been about more than a parade – it’s about celebrating our differences and supporting one another no matter who we are or whom we love. #GlobalPride pic.twitter.com/nHKW99J0Ff

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) June 27, 2020

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Repubs in Disarray! Open Thread: “Conservatives” Suspect Justice Gorsuch Has Some Gay Friends

by Anne Laurie|  June 16, 202010:38 pm| 110 Comments

This post is in: Activist Judges!, C.R.E.A.M., LGBTQ Rights, Repubs in Disarray!

All those evangelicals who sided with Trump in 2016 to protect them from the cultural currents, just found their excuse to stay home in 2020 thank to Trump’s Supreme Court picks.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 15, 2020

This is a disaster. I always worried about Gorsuch given his support for his friend’s “gay marriage,” reported before his confirmation. Framers of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act never intended to include “sexual orientation” and “transgenderism.” https://t.co/ArhmU3PhBg

— Robert A. J. Gagnon (@RobertAJGagnon1) June 15, 2020

Conservatives: “Alito correctly states gender dysphoria didn’t exist as a concept until the 1980s so Title VII couldn’t protect lgbtq folks”
Also Conservatives: “The Founding Fathers specifically meant that all Americans should have assault weapons and grenade launchers”

— rejfrance (@rejfrance1) June 15, 2020

It is, of course, the fault of Title VII, which struck down the sacred traditionalist concept of ‘girl cooties’. Once normal hardworking bosses were forbidden to keep out the ladyfolk, sooner or later the ‘deviants’ were bound to start whining for a loophole to protect them, as well!

(I give it 36 hours, at most, before they remember that LBJ originally ‘rammed Title VII down their throats’ to protect… African-Americans. The equal-protection-against-sexual-discrimination line had only been added to the original law in an attempt to make the whole concept ridiculous — imagine letting a woman into the boardroom, har har har!)

So, Roberts and Gorsuch were loyal to their class after all.

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) June 15, 2020

The crisis moment for the “conservative legal movement” has arrived.

The Roe v. Wade of religious liberty is here, and it was delivered by golden boy Neil Gorsuch.

What comes next?

— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) June 15, 2020

the quiet part loud pic.twitter.com/2M7HPnuziw

— Adrenochrome Harvester (@ClenchedFisk) June 16, 2020

Conservatives are showing way more anger towards Gorsuch than Roberts, which shows how desperate they were for a non-racist excuse to like Trump.

— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) June 15, 2020

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Poetic that the 2016 election largely turned on the fight to fill Justice Scalia’s seat and his successor, who benefited materially by President Trump’s victory, just dealt a major blow to both Trump’s re-election chances and the concept that SCOTUS seats are worth fighting over. pic.twitter.com/W95udCX3FI

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) June 15, 2020

The libs live in a bubnle, said the St. Scalia resident fellow of natural law at the Institute of Sacred Marginal Tax Rates. https://t.co/xlBCzkpAK9

— Alex Hazanov (@alexhazanov) June 15, 2020

Gorsuch's majority opinion is 29 pages.

Alito and Kavanaugh's dissents are a collective 138 pages.

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 15, 2020

Here’s Alito accusing Gorsuch of betraying Scalia. Alito is MAD. pic.twitter.com/p4Tk329t4I

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 15, 2020

“The problem with applying civil rights law to sexual orientation or gender identity is that it will make it more difficult for employers to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity” — Sam Alito pic.twitter.com/nsWfgfHmph

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) June 15, 2020

Alito, weeping as he reads his dissent from the bench: “YOU’RE NOT THE NEW SCALIA I’M THE NEW SCALIA YOU’RE A . . . A . . . A PIRATE!” [flees from chamber, trips over robe]

— ListenHellboyHat (@Popehat) June 15, 2020

Kavanaugh declined to join Alito’s fiery rage dissent, which bristles with hostility toward LGBTQ people. Kav knows that doesn’t fly any more. Instead he wrote his own dissent that basically congratulates LGBTQ people for winning, even though he thought they should lose. pic.twitter.com/RCgLPjWaSv

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 15, 2020

Tired: “Defund the Police!”

Wired: “Defund the Supreme Court!” pic.twitter.com/TjEFMukQSg

— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) June 15, 2020

anyway, a reminder that the thing that caused conservatives to drop Dubya wasn’t Iraq or Katrina or the financial crisis but the five minutes he tried to put Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court.

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) June 15, 2020

Don’t underestimate the anger today’s SCOTUS decision will provoke on the right. It could boil over into a crisis. Conservative donors spent millions getting Gorsuch on the bench. They wanted results. Now they’re going to ask Republicans: THIS is the return on our investment?

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 15, 2020

‘I never knew him, he was McConnell’s idea, the christian people loved him, I said yeah sure but you can never be sure’

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) June 15, 2020

NARRATOR: he hasn’t read the decision. https://t.co/NbbnqRo8u7

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) June 15, 2020

Is there a better Monday-morning-feeling than watching Federalist Society twitter cry?

— Mangy Jay (@magi_jay) June 15, 2020

Gorsuch once ruled in favor of businesses letting their employees freeze to death so let's not get to complimentary of him just because his arcane legal text based sociopathy produced a good outcome this time.

— Viridian Forest Autonomous Zone (@weedlewobble) June 15, 2020

To end where we began…

Somewhere Erick Erickson scowls. He flips open his thesaurus. “Not goats this time,” he says. “Something . . . fouler. Something worse.”

— ListenHellboyHat (@Popehat) June 15, 2020

Reminder: Erickson first bubbled to public attention for calling David Souter ‘a goat-fvking child molestor’. He remains a monster, albeit the Voice of the GOP Gated Community:

So about that police shooting in Atlanta at the Wendys — I’m struggling to see why the officer should be disciplined.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 15, 2020

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Onward & Upward

by Anne Laurie|  June 16, 20206:52 am| 176 Comments

This post is in: Activist Judges!, Biden For President, Election 2020, LGBTQ Rights, Republican Stupidity, Trumpery

Somewhat overlooked yesterday in the celebration of the protection of LBGTQ rights under Title VII, but also important:

Trump loses effort to overrule state “sanctuary city” efforts.

States can continue to refuse to be conscripted into helping ICE and CBP with deportation sweeps. https://t.co/dyemqmkaZH

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 15, 2020


(Full details here.)

Joe Biden pulled in $81 million for his election effort in the month of May, a massive sum that shows the extent to which Democrats have unified behind the former vice president as he seeks to defeat Republican President Donald Trump. https://t.co/mnHStwzChb

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) June 16, 2020

Please say Death Star… please say Death Star… https://t.co/Yz4Dp2YOxP

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) June 15, 2020

They may give it a catchy name, but it’s just doubling down on the BS:

… Trump wants to run as the candidate of “law and order.” But one reason Trump 2020 is not analogous to Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign — based on the same theme — is that Nixon wasn’t president while he exploited fear of violence in American cities during that volatile year. Nixon was campaigning against a chaos for which voters could not conceivably hold him responsible.

Trump, however, leads a nation roiled by protests and bursts of looting and violence. Trump’s aides say he needs to paint a picture of what a Biden presidency would look like. So, naturally, he grabs onto what he considers the most unappealing excesses of the left and tries to brand Biden with these images…

The Biden campaign’s response: “As he exacerbates crisis after crisis, Trump has stepped on his own message so much that he no longer even has one,” said Andrew Bates, Biden’s director of rapid response.

“Any politician who tear-gasses Americans peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights for a cynical photo-op, who defiles the Department of Justice by treating it as an extension of his re-election campaign, and who has leached untold millions off of taxpayers into his own pocket while still refusing to show them his own tax returns has no business saying that he stands for either ‘law’ or ‘order.'”…

No social distancing, masks optional: Here is what President Trump's Tulsa rally will look like https://t.co/GbmdZh9rEQ pic.twitter.com/AJDtLOqQaq

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 15, 2020

On Planet Trump, Daddy needs a dopamine hit:

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…The rally will take place at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which has a capacity of just under 20,000. The campaign says it is expecting a full house.

“It is a Trump rally, the arena will be packed,” said Tim Murtaugh, communications director for the Trump campaign. The BOK Center has canceled or postponed every other scheduled event through the end of July.

Campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted on Monday that the campaign plans to check the temperature of everyone who enters the venue. They will also be providing hand sanitizer, and each attendee will receive a mask provided by the campaign, although they will not be required to wear it. Trump has notably declined to wear a mask in public…

There was a “meaningful increase” in cases of coronavirus last week in the city, according to the statement. As of Friday, there had been 1,443 total confirmed cases of coronavirus in Tulsa County, and 62 deaths.

Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Bruce Dart told the Tulsa World newspaper over the weekend that he wishes the campaign would push back the date of the event.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a key member of Trump’s coronavirus task force, specifically warned about the dangers of gatherings like the rally.

“When you’re in a large crowd, if you have the congregation of people that are much, much closer to each other, you definitely increase the risk that you will either acquire or spread infections,” Fauci said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Friday night.

Campaign officials tell CNN they have not considered postponing the rally and are actively exploring a second venue somewhere in Tulsa for the President to appear in person to satisfy those who were interested in seeing the President speak. During a roundtable at the White House on Monday, the President said that his campaign had secured a nearby venue that will allow for an additional 40,000 people to see him speak.

The campaign is actively encouraging as many people as possible to RSVP to attend. The RSVPs are not tickets, and a ticket is not required for admission. Entry into the rally is first come, first serve, and the campaign is expecting rallygoers to begin lining up outside the venue well in advance of the Saturday event.

if trump is not on that stage encased in a plexiglas bubble I will eat a shoe https://t.co/7CmyBQtsLn

— kilgore trout, a ramp with no steps (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 15, 2020

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