Orion Rummler
LGBTQ+ reporter at @19thnews.org, previously breaking news at Axios. Southern trans man. 📲 Text me on Signal @orionr.80 or email orummler@19thnews.org
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- This Mother's Day, I'm fundraising to help secure my mom's future. She is in a precarious financial and housing situation as she nears retirement. My mom is never one to ask for help, despite all she does to help others. Please read & share her story, and contribute if you can. Thank you so much!
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- Mace's bill did not pass www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c... But like my story mentions, House Speaker Mike Johnson has put a trans bathroom ban in place on the Hill. The amount to which it's enforced depends on if Mace or one of her colleagues spots a trans person using a bathroom
- She’s devoted her life to teaching your kids — in a country that now wants to deport her. There are 15,000 immigrant educators who rely on temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. But they fear for their futures under Trump. Crucial report from @nadrakn.bsky.social
- A vocal and visible group of Catholic women are marrying faith with politics as they talk about their own brand of feminism — and Donald Trump. Fascinating read from @jennifergerson.bsky.social and Mariel Padilla
- This isn't an isolated incident: as anti-trans rhetoric increases, more cisgender women are being harassed and bullied out of public restrooms as they're accused of being trans
- This happened recently to one of my sources, who is almost 80 years old. She says that people are usually nicer to her about it because she uses a seeing-eye dog, but they still feel empowered to be the gender police around her!
- 🚨 It’s day one of the @19thnews.org Spring Member Drive! 🚨 We're rallying our readers to help us maintain our independence and stay true to our mission to represent women and LGBTQ+ people. Donate today & keep us going!
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- This lovely story is from @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social one of our newsroom partners
- The actual findings of the new HHS gender-affirming care report don’t really line up with what the agency is saying about it.
- HHS says its new report on gender-affirming care proves that science doesn't support the care & that its risks are too great. But the report doesn't really support that blanket statement. It found “sparse” to no evidence of harm and evidence about the benefits of gender-affirming care.
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- Context for this moment: Trump mandated this report in an EO condemning gender-affirming care — without evidence — as a form of mutilation, while pressuring youth clinics to halt treatment or lose federal funding.
- When analyzing research the admin deemed low-bias, HHS found: - high satisfaction and low rates of regret from puberty blockers - limited complications from hormone treatment & improved mental health - lower levels of suicidality and self-harm after hormone treatment
- Exclusive: Trump administration banned chosen names at FDA, CDC, NIH under new gender policy
- Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week: S-O-S. With a Reuters drone flying nearby, 31 men formed the letters in the dirt yard of the facility on Monday.
- It was great joining WNPR this morning for a conversation on the state of trans rights with @evanurquhart.bsky.social and Ricardo Martinez of @gladlaw.bsky.social — listen here
- Where can LGBTQ+ families find support right now, as they worry about their futures under a second Trump administration? What rights do these parents have in their states? Find resources and expert advice here:
- The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has quietly begun cooperating with federal immigration officials to locate people suspected of being in the country illegally
- A nuclear physicist, a nonprofit executive and a construction manager: How one family has fared in Trump’s first 100 days This story reflects the reality of hundreds of thousands of Americans living under the second Trump administration — a must-read from Mariel Padilla of @19thnews.org
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- The rollout has been chaotic. When the State Department started blocking new passports for trans Americans in January, there was no formal announcement from the agency; impacted people had to scramble to find out what was happening.
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- Yes, this is measured! People are being asked to choose one of these three options, whichever most closely matches their belief: - Politicians should focus on protecting trans people - Politicians should focus on restricting gender-affirming care - Politicians should not focus on trans issues
- This data is from our ongoing 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll project — check out more analysis here 19thnews.org/topics/19th-...
- Many LGBTQ+ parents don’t feel safe in the U.S. under a second Trump administration, according to a new survey. So in this story, we answer some questions for LGBTQ+ parents and share some resources. Read & share:
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- If you're looking for safe travel advice, this is a good resource — I would also note that there's almost always trans and LGBTQ+ friendly pockets in these rural/red states, not every county is the same
- Trumpworld + professional wrestling are connected through enthusiastic fandoms, pageantry, machoism — and allegations of sexual assault. from @jennifergerson.bsky.social
- deja vu! (we probably know where this is going: back in 2019 the Supreme Court reinstated Trump's trans military ban)
- The Justice Department has canceled hundreds of grants to community orgs and local governments, including funding for gun-violence prevention, crime-victim advocacy and efforts to combat opioid addiction
- In one children’s book, a family dog gets lost at a Pride parade. In another, a young girl talks about using a wheelchair, while her friend wears a hijab in ballet class. These books are at the center of a Supreme Court case today. So... how did we get here? Let me and @nadrakn.bsky.social explain
- And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"
- The scientist who could change cancer diagnostics forever is being held at ICE’s Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe, Louisiana. “I would call it a grinding machine,” she said. “We are in this machine, and it doesn’t care if you have a visa, a green card, or any particular story."
- ➡️ Be sure to follow my friend and colleague's work on this pivotal case tomorrow
- "On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, the second-or third-best player on the third-or fourth-best team in the sixth-or seventh-best conference in women’s college volleyball took the court in Las Vegas. She was the center of attention."
- The pontiff, who died Monday at 88, was beloved by many progressive Catholics. My colleague Mariel Padilla recounts his record and his life here:
- It took Peter Staley two weeks to build 200 full-sized coffins. The longtime AIDS activist, with a group of volunteers, fashioned them out of styrofoam, tape and velcro. On Thursday, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department to protest cuts to global AIDS relief.
- PEPFAR provides lifesaving HIV treatment for over 20 million people. Activists say the program is in grave danger under the second Trump administration.
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- Full story here!
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- thank you so much for sharing, Emily! it took me awhile to write this story to try and get all the policy info right
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- thank you so much Gwen
- Up to 2 million people could lose their health care coverage in 2026, if a recently proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is finalized. I break down one part of this proposal here: how trans people, many of whom already live in poverty, could see higher health care costs
- Experts say this new rule will raise health care costs for transgender people and possibly encourage health insurance companies to deny claims involving gender-affirming care, since the Trump admin is taking so many actions to oppose it.
- Margaret Hamilton created the software that sent humans to the moon. Katherine Johnson was the only person that early astronauts trusted to check their orbit calculations. Pearl I. Young was the first woman scientist at NASA in 1922. These are the women who built space travel. Learn their stories:
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- yep, we use the right acronym in the story — I shortened my caption in order to post on Bluesky
- Sanchez called Almutairi his “top student,” and said he was conducting research as part of a three-year, $800,000 Department of Energy grant to study fusion, an energy release process, using the university’s fusion reactor. Another great mind the U.S. has chased out of the country
- The Trump admin has gutted key oversight offices responsible for safeguarding the rights of immigrant victims of gender-based violence, including victims of domestic violence and trans people facing abuse in detention. Crucial reporting from @mellbarclay.bsky.social
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- yep, we use the right acronym in the story! I shortened this caption to post on bluesky
