#arizona

[thomaswaynewolf]

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[inatungulates]

Collared peccary Dicotyles tajacu

Observed by liamhuber, CC BY-NC

[rosechata]

Two weeks of coming back to say farewell

[desert-love]

[thelostcanyon]

Brittlebush (Encelia farinosa) blooming in April, Saguaro National Park, Arizona.

[fatchance]

Found on the ground at the side of the trail.

The nest is lined with spider web silk and willow fluff, the softest imaginable cradle for a hummingbird chick.

[alexeiphotography]

monument valley, ut

[oldpueblocyclist]

Full moon last night.

[ravensarca]

The Flame Skimmers are back for the 3rd year (In my timeline)

Los Flame Skimmers están de vuelta por tercer año (en mi línea de tiempo)

[liv-update]

Look at them 🥹 How beautiful are they 🤍

[giomagnetism]

Planned Parenthood Arizona has (hopefully temporarily) suspended Gender Affirming Care services at threat of their funding being cut. You can read the notice on their website.

[ID: Image reads, On Friday, April 11, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent a letter to Medicaid agencies directing them to not provide Medicaid dollars to any clinics that provide Gender Affirming Care services. At this time, Planned Parenthood Arizona is pausing Gender Affirming Care services as we continue to review and evaluate this order. We are committed to keeping our patients updated about the services we provide and will communicate further once we can provide more information.]

Even if this does turn out to be temporary, trans folks are entitled GAHT services now, so I want to share a few resources that I personally know of.

FOLX is a nationwide organization dedicated to offering similar services by and for the LGBTQIA+ community, including some very competent and knowledgeable staff in Arizona.

University of Arizona's LGBTQ resources, primarily designed for students but with generalized guides for accessing HRT and gender-affirming surgery in Arizona.

Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation offers HRT, labs, and sexual health services.

Gender Identity Center focuses on mental health therapy for gender diverse folks in Phoenix and Tucson. They cannot provide HRT but do offer referral letters and voice training (they do not take insurance for confidentiality reasons).

I make dubious mention of the El Rio Reproductive Health Access Project: El Rio also suspended gender-affirming care for minors in February, but to my awareness RHAP still offers access to confidential sexual health services for folks ages 14 to 24. I would encourage doing your own research.

Should all else fail, DIYHRT.wiki and a guide with some extra links regarding DIY HRT harm reduction.

These links do not necessarily help with HRT acquisition, but have a few spots to start in regard to community:

211 Arizona isn't trans-specific but collects local resources for healthcare, housing, employment, food, and a lot of other stuff.

Pima Community College's LGBTQ Community resources, compiling a number of organizations and networks for finding and advocating with Southern Arizona's LGBTQ population.

WPATH has an index of doctors offering resources for the Arizonan trans community: I cannot vouch for any of these services or comment on the state of their care, so, again, do your own double-checking.

Transequality.org has a page for nationwide Legal Services and Transgender.org is a worldwide community aggregate of many different types of trans resources.

& as always, if anyone knows of any resources that I don't, you are more than welcome to drop them in the replies or a reblog. Trans folks cannot be legislated out of existence and attempting to do so is a losing battle. Go get HRT. 🫵

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[andmaybegayer]

go there

[reasonsforhope]

"Doctors and women now have the final say about when an abortion should be performed, after a Maricopa County Superior Court judge struck down the state’s 15-week ban following last year’s vote to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona Constitution. 

Two local OB-GYNs and the Arizona chapter of Planned Parenthood took the state to court over the ban late last year. The trio argued that the 2022 law, which prohibited abortions after its gestational deadline unless a patient was facing death or the impairment of a major bodily function, should be struck down because voters in November [2024] overwhelmingly decided to make the procedure a fundamental right via Proposition 139. 

Judge Frank Moskowitz agreed, writing in a two-page ruling that the 15-week law is instantly nullified and no one will ever be able to carry out its punishments. The law threatened doctors who violated it with up to two years in prison. 

“(The state of Arizona), its respective agents, officers, employees, successors, and all persons acting in concert with each or any of them are hereby immediately and permanently and forever enjoined and restrained from implementing, enforcing, or giving any effect to (the 2022 law),” reads Moskowitz’s order. 

The 15-week ban directly conflicted with Prop. 139, because the voter-approved constitutional provisions explicitly allow abortions to be performed to the point of fetal viability, generally regarded to be around 23 to 24 weeks. It also includes a carveout for abortions beyond that point if a doctor deems one is necessary to preserve a patient’s life, physical or mental health. 

Abortion rights advocates celebrated the ruling, which has been long-awaited and represents the first win in tearing down Arizona’s many hostile abortion laws. More than two dozen anti-abortion laws remain on the books, including laws that mandate a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion can be performed and forbid the use of telehealth to prescribe the abortion pill. Each of those will likely need to be individually challenged in court. 

Dr. Paul Isaacson, one of the OB-GYNs involved in the lawsuit and the co-owner of a private abortion clinic in the Phoenix area, said the ruling restores his ability to offer his patients critical care without worrying about being criminalized for it. 

“For nearly three years, my hands were tied because of this cruel ban,” he said in a written statement. “It is a relief to no longer have to turn away patients from essential health care.”"

-via Arizona Mirror, March 5, 2025