Did you catch the President's State of the Union speech this week? Nah, I didn't either. I figured I'd catch the highlights later rather than subjecting myself to that man's voice for 107 minutes. As you can imagine, this "highlight" really chapped my hide: "No state can be allowed to rip children from their parents' arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents’ will. Who would believe that we’re even talking about this? We must ban it, and we must ban it immediately." Raise...

For the past five years, journalist Erin Reed has maintained a list of transgender and nonbinary Girl Scouts selling cookies, encouraging her readers to buy from them! If you're looking to fill your Girl Scout cookie fix, consider buying from one of the kiddos on Erin's list. Click here for the Girl Scout list! Buy from Girl Scouts who have not reached their goals, and choose the “ship the cookies” option and not the “deliver the cookies” option (so some poor Girl Scout won't have to deliver...

I recently discovered Lelaina Faye's Instagram account (@defenestrans) and love their "Language Lessons for Lefties." She points out that allies often unintentionally use incorrect phrases that are framed by and weaponized by the right. Right-wing framing has been repeated so often that it starts to seem like acceptable vernacular. But when we repeat these phrases or terms, we're accidentally keeping them alive. Allies can work on noticing when familiar phrases come from political campaigns...