Laurel Powell
Bible college dropout. Always fighting for equal rights for trans people. Director of Communications @hrc.org
- it’s real. all of it.
- Then do your job and stop him. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- Republicans need to moderate on LGBTQ+ issues if they want to remain relevant (say it often & everywhere until it sticks)
- Yet more proof that running on a platform of anti-trans hate gets your base energized, sure, but wins you 0 new voters
- New this morning -> Despite all the attacks on our community, there's at least one area where we're still making progress - elder care. As more and more out LGBTQ+ people look for a place to spend their golden years, it's important that they find facilities that welcome them.
- I’m going to lose my fucking mind
- A doctors’ office is hardly large enough for the patient, their parents, their doctor, the Washington Post editorial board, and RFK Jr Medical decisions must be left to doctors & patients & families. Must. Anything else is and has been a recipe for disaster.
- Took me a minute to realize this was doll discourse (cisgender) and not the regular doll discourse
- lower back tattoo that says “DIRECTED BY DAVID LYNCH”
- Look. I don't know where Pope Leo XIV will be on LGBTQ+ people, our lives, or our issues. What I do know is that he dunked on JD Vance's asinine statement about 'ranking' our love for others and that's a pretty good start.
- I'm one of them, and am a DC taxpayer. None of this is perfect but if we let this opportunity get away, we'll have to spend decades staring at a dilapidated lot and endless parking areas - like happened with the McMillan site until it finally got developed like 30 years later.
- one of these days I'll write an essay on the bittersweet, equally great and terrible ending to Righteous Gemstones. Rather than delivering an ending that redeems its characters or leaves them dead for drama, it tries for both & kind of doesn't do either
- I give up, what's Weetabix?
- Trans Americans served in uniform with dignity and honor. We love our country, even when it shows us nothing but contempt. This is a shameful moment in our history.
- The Supreme Court said the Trump administration can begin immediately enforcing a ban on transgender service members in the military. Read more: cnn.it/4m9fdx6
- my god do I have to pack away so much of my very trans life to be a Professional in the Movement this shit takes a toll. A bad one.
- obviously none of these people have read Nevada
- lol
- re: RFK and people who heard he wanted to ban red no. 3 and then stopped listening
- Our full statement on the latest barrage from Trump & RFK:
- An important reminder that trans and intersex folks' fates are linked here - absolutely NONE of this garbage from RFK and his goons acknowledges the lives of intersex people.
- My hot take is that RFK and his cronies fucked up by positioning conversion therapy as the alternative to actual health care. More folks know and are disgusted by "pray the gay away" camps than even know what gender-affirming care is. You fight from your position of greatest strength.
- Stripping health care from young folks that EVERY doctor knows is needed and can ONLY be offered with parental consent and replacing it with fancy words that boil down to "pray the gay away" is a level of evil and stupid even I didn't think we'd get to this quickly.
- Leaving this here. For obvious reasons. Conversion therapy kills.
