When you hear people spouting these lies, please think of your queer friends and family. Do not stay silent. Expose the lies and the hatemongering. Embrace queer people in your schools and workplaces. Shut down harassment. Remind people of love.

There’s still a huge swathe of the country where anti-trans bills are going into effect, including in Missouri. There are, nationwide, 79 bills which have passed this year to target trans folk. It’s dismaying.

I highly recommend giving this your full attention: Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen.

Hateful people are passing waves of anti-trans bills in sports, as well. They’re passing laws trying to say that we can’t talk about queer people in school, despite the fact that we talk about straight people in school every day, without any accusations of indoctrination into a “cisgender ideology.”

Every year on March 31st, it’s the Transgender Day of Visibility! If you didn’t catch it last year, we did a video AMA with Linet interviewing me (Alexis) about some of my experiences as a trans woman. I also wrote three articles about it in the Calico Medium blog.

Tomorrow, November 20, is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. It’s a day when we remember the lives of trans folk who have been murdered for one simple thing - being trans. We also, on this day, recognize the ongoing violence against transgender people.

I highly recommend giving this your full attention: Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen.