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7 more days! Here's an example of what you might write if you're stuck or low on time and want a place to start. Be sure to make it your own at least a little! "The proposed changes are harmful to American citizens, based on scientifically inaccurate information, and a waste of government time and money.

These changes add a significant burden for some American citizens seeking to exercise their rights to travel internationally and return home safely. No American should have to worry about whether or not they will be allowed to exit or re-enter the USA based on a mark on their passport. Further, forcing people to mark the sex listed on their birth certificate for their passport may cause unnecessary confusion and, more concerning, increases the likelihood of people being victims of hate crimes, whether they are transgender or not. American citizens have a right to privacy and safety that these changes will jeopardize.

The male-female binary is inherently, scientifically false. While most people will fall into XX (female biological sex) or XY (male biological sex), approximately 0.02% of people show "chromosomal sex… inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or… [their] phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female" (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/). Estimates of intersex demographics increase to 1.7% if a wider range of conditions are included. That means 2 out of every 100 people may have biological sex traits that cannot be easily boxed into the categories of "male" or "female." [Feel free to find other sources or cut this down if you would rather avoid the statistics. I'm a scientist so this was important for me!] Removing the X gender marker from passports denies intersex people recognition and is not supported by science.

Finally, changing hundreds to thousands of passports to align with the proposed revisions will take time and money. As stated above, these changes are unnecessary, unscientific, and harmful, so why should we, the taxpayers, pay for them? Our money is better spent supporting scientific research, [Insert other things you want your tax dollars actually going towards!].

PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE OPEN FOR GENDER IDENTIFIERS ON US PASSPORTS

Right now, you can submit a comment for consideration on the proposed changes to US Passport law that will include requiring a change from "Gender" to "Sex" on all passports and require that people identify with their sex assigned at birth.

THIS IS THE LAW THAT WOULD BAN TRANS PEOPLE FROM UPDATING THEIR IDENTIFICATION

Please take a moment to click through and submit a comment. This kind of thing is fast, easy, and is one of the many ways to show your support of the trans community to the people that need to know how many of us there are.

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The really important part here is that the woman who issued this order, Cathy Harris, was herself the target of an illegal firing by the Trump admin. That firing was ruled illegal, and so now that she's secured in her position (until 2028) she was able to stop these firings, at least for 45 days while the Merit Systems Protection Board goes over them.

The legal resistance IS working in meaningful ways. Each roadblock slows their plans down in real ways.

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likes to charge, reblogs to cast

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US based archaeologists, indigenous people, and heritage professionals:

Are you interested in zoom session to plan how to protect cultural heritage? This is a planning session for that, as Trump begins stream rolling Section 106 & firing the Advisory Council for Historic Preservation.

It’s on Friday and registration is free.

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Oh my Godddd. The US Army chorus was told to perform at the White House for Trump and his cronies and they chose to perform One Day More from Les Miserables. What a gutsy move. A giant middle finger to authoritarianism right in front of Trump's face. Good for them.

To every member of the military and every civil servant fighting in big ways and small, public and private, to protect the Constitution and uphold the oaths you swore, thank you for your service. We see you and we love you. We're counting on you and we're all behind you 100%. Hold the line.

This made me actually tear up and feel a little hopeful. Everyone, no matter who they are needs to do their part. The Fascists are dangerous but they are few. Together we can all defeat them and keep the freedoms so many have fought so hard for.

Also I am living for these comments!

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If Elon wants to go to Mars so bad, I think we should just send him there.

Right now.

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Oh no. The fascists are getting scared of being yelled at and are trying to hide from being yelled at some more. I think y'all know what you need to do (i.e. keep yelling at them).

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The threat was loud and clear: Report your so-called “DEI” employees or else. What exactly “DEIA or similar ideologies” means is up in the air, but the message was out there. And so was the email address of the DEIA snitching hotline. Fake emails quickly started to roll in. ‘I don’t care, fuck these McCarthyite bastards,” one BlueSky user said, with an screenshot attached of an email to the hotline where he ironically reported Donald Trump and JD Vance for being “put in their positions solely because of their race and/or gender despite the fact that they are wholly unqualified for their jobs and, in some cases, have criminal records.” “Anyone have a script to fire off a billion e-mails an hour??” another user asked in the replies. “Anyone can email anything of any size even if it crashes the site,” one X user noted. The scope and effectiveness of this latest phase of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade remains to be seen.

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Cartoon by Nick Anderson

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We have 30 days until the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) laws are rescinded. This is the 50-year bedrock of American conservation. Normally, these actions take years but the administration has provided 30 days for public comment gutting clean water and clean air. Drop what you’re doing, before you make any more calls or read any more social media posts, please populate the Federal Register with dissent.

A. Go to https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03014/removal-of-national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations

B. Click on the green rectangle in the upper right corner ("SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT") .

C. Fill in your comment, and info at the bottom, and SUBMIT COMMENT.

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national Park service didn’t remove the T. It was done to them by DOGE. More info on their FB page, they’re were very upset about it too!

maybe i'm stupid but why don't they change it back? like why are they sitting around as if they can't go back in and change their own website. sorry but if this is the "non-compliance" that's happening where, sure, they don't take initiative to comply with executive orders, but they just sit back and let someone else do it anyway and go "oh well, that's that", should we really be patting them on the back lol

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“Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” -AOC

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Not to be dramatic but this is a massive fucking deal and I legitimately hope every single politician dies.

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Here's my submission if anyone wants another idea to copy or build from: Leaving out the leadership and contributions of transgender people is both historically inaccurate and extremely disrespectful to those like Marsha P. Johnson and Silvia Rivera who fought so hard for our rights. Without their stories, this page offers half-truth at best. Please remember that the person who receives these messages likely has no control over the content of the page themselves. They will just be gathering comments to pass up. Be polite.

They removed all Transgender references references from the Stonewall website.

It's not on Trans people to fix this. If we're not here for each other, what are we here for?

This doesn't stand with me. If it stands with you, you can leave this page and never return.

Get the word out. For Marsha. Let's become a problem.

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really funny to illegally unemploy thousands and thousands of type A service minded people who had been content to spend their entire lives making less money to quietly do public service.