I'm Begging You to Be Consistent
And: a Straight Pride festival failed.
Fruit baskets,
YO! It’s KB Brookins, coming to you with the good trans news of the week. Let’s get into it!
Trans News That Doesn’t Suck: The Video
Belfast in Northern Ireland held a pro-trans rally, and thousands of people came! Thank you to the activists that made this happen. Shout out to the activists at the Rainbow Project and others who showed those transphobes in the UK Supreme Court that the people are not on their side.
As protests for immigration, No Kings, and trans rights break out all over the U.S., I’m wondering these days how activist and advocacy groups sustain momentum (as in, get folks to show up even when it’s not a piece of legislation to show up for)? How can we be there ALL the time; not just when things are in the news? How can we be consistent with the way we show up for trans rights?
Welp, I’ll put some suggestions in bold in my list. Let’s get into it!
Trans News That Doesn’t Suck: The List
The first ever competition show with a cast of only drag kings just dropped and it’s my new personality.
Readers: support trans media by WATCHING IT IN REAL-TIME or STREAMING IT THE WEEK IT COMES OUT. It helps the chances of getting renewed tremendously.
Delaware is now a sanctuary state for gender-affirming care. Pop off, Delaware!
INTERNATIONAL: An Indian court just ruled that trans women are women and are ‘legally entitled to recognition.’ I LOVE THIS!
Brooklyn has a new drag school, and it’s trans inclusive AF.
INTERNATIONAL: Brit-Award-winning singer Kate Nash joined nearly 1,000 trans people and allies at a mass lobby of parliament. Readers: Take 10 minutes to look up local pro-trans lobbying events you can attend. Commit to one.
A coalition of local educators and LGBTQ+ organizations in California are unveiling 10 new LGBTQ+ history lessons for the state’s K-12 public school classrooms. Woo!
Some fascists tried to put together a straight festival and 1) only 50 people went, and 2) it got infiltrated with a pro-trans song.
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Billie Butler, a transgender woman who ran for the New Hampshire House of Representatives as a Democrat, defeated her Republican opponent in a special election held this past Tuesday.
INTERNATIONAL: The British Medical Association passed a motion to support trans healthcare.
Drag Race superstar Lexi Love is engaged, and the photos are CUTE <3
A San Francisco bookstore stopped selling JK Rowling’s books. Other bookstore owners: DO THIS!
Trans comedian Jordan Gray says she wants to put “sadness on the shelf” with her new sitcom Transaction.
Trans music pioneer Beverly Glenn-Copeland is making a kid’s show.
A Senate parliamentarian has blocked one of the anti-trans measures included in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Thank you, Elizabeth MacDonough! US readers: take 10 minutes out of your day to call your house representatives and tell them to vote against this bill.
The US marriage equality law, which celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year, gave trans people the freedom to do something not enough understand as a life-saving right: get divorced.
Model and activist Munroe Bergdorf fell in love with another trans woman, and this led her to self-acceptance.
That’s all, folks! I hope you especially take heed to the things in bold.
What is one way you’ve sustained your support for trans rights? Tell me in the comments.
Till next time,
KB
i wanna watch that show that Beverly made when it comes out!!
yessss so excited for King of Drag!!!