I’m Zinnia Jones (she/her), a trans woman, researcher, and activist in Orlando, Florida. I transitioned in 2012 and have volunteered myself since then as a community advocate for transgender people collectively. I have spent years trying to give trans people the resources we need to survive. And for a time, it was good. But because of the current crisis of transphobia and far-right politics corroding trans rights near-daily in the United States, it is now necessary to document and track these events as they occur.
Gender Ideology with Zinnia Jones will provide an index of political attacks on trans people’s existence, showing why the specific events of today, yesterday, or this week were particularly alarming, disastrous, threatening, frightening, calamitous, and a danger to the basic integrity of trans life. This is our gender ideology: survival. ⬣
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling today, the Trump administration’s transgender military ban will remain in place and can be enforced while litigation continues in the lower courts.
Transgender Americans can be banned from military service, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, allowing the Trump administration to expel thousands of active-duty troops.
In a short order, the justices cleared the way for the White House to begin enforcing its prohibition on transgender service members. The court did not explain its order.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January declaring transgender Americans unfit for duty, stating that honoring the “falsehood” of their chosen gender identity was “not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.”
The case now goes back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which will hear the Trump administration’s appeal of the lower court’s ruling.
The Pentagon, which issued a new policy based on Trump’s order in February, ordered each branch to identify service members with gender dysphoria within 30 days and to begin removing them from the service within 30 days after that. The order allows exceptions for troops directly supporting “warfighting capabilities.”
Troops that obtain a waiver to stay in the military will face additional restrictions, including not being able to access changing rooms, bathrooms and showers for people of the sex they transitioned to. They will also have to meet the physical standards associated with their birth sex.
While there will now be some legal complications given the procedural posture in Talbott — the D.C. Circuit’s administrative stay of Reyes’s ruling remains in effect and the motions panel heard arguments over the stay pending appeal request last month but has not yet issued a ruling — the Supreme Court’s message is clear that the ban will go into effect.
First, procedurally, there is no bar to the Defense Department’s implementation of the anti-trans ban. Second, the D.C. Circuit is almost certain to either go along with the Supreme Court’s order and issue a similar order in Talbott or ask for follow-up briefing from the parties on the effect of Tuesday’s order.
Eventually then, the Ninth Circuit and D.C. Circuit will consider the merits of the government’s appeal and the losing party there can appeal to the Supreme Court — but the ban will remain in effect during that entire time.
As such, trans people will be kicked out of the military and lose their career during that time only because they are trans and the Trump administration has decided — as has happened many times with other groups throughout our history — that such status is “incompatible” with military service.
Lambda Legal and Human Rights Campaign Foundation: Statement (archive) (2025-05-06):
Today’s Supreme Court ruling is a devastating blow to transgender servicemembers who have demonstrated their capabilities and commitment to our nation’s defense. By allowing this discriminatory ban to take effect while our challenge continues, the Court has temporarily sanctioned a policy that has nothing to do with military readiness and everything to do with prejudice. Transgender individuals meet the same standards and demonstrate the same values as all who serve. We remain steadfast in our belief that this ban violates constitutional guarantees of equal protection and will ultimately be struck down.
“The Roberts Court’s decision staying the preliminary injunction will allow the Trump purge of transgender service members from the military to proceed.
“Transgender Americans have served openly, honorably, and effectively in the U.S. Armed Forces for nearly a decade. Thousands of transgender troops are currently serving, and are fully qualified for the positions in which they serve.
“Every court up to now has found that this order is unconstitutional. Nevertheless, the Roberts Court – without hearing any evidence or argument – decided to allow it to go forward. So while the case continues to be argued, thousands of trans troops will be purged from the Armed Forces.
“They will lose their jobs. They will lose their commands, their promotions, their training, pay and benefits, and time. Their units will lose key players; the mission will be disrupted. This is the very definition of irreparable harm.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on social media after the ruling that there will be “No More Trans @ DoD.” The Defense Department offered no further comment on Tuesday afternoon.
The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration admitted this week that he specifically targeted Maine after watching Gov. Janet Mills clash with President Donald Trump during an event at the White House.
“I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” Lee Dudek told the New York Times.
Dudek directed the agency to cancel a decades-old program that allows parents to register their newborns for a social security number while at hospitals.
The mandate only applied to Maine and required new parents to show up at a Social Security office in person to register their newborns.
The change was rescinded one day later after an outcry from Maine and criticism from the state’s congressional delegation. A similar program to end electronic death records also targeted Maine and was quickly reversed. […]
Dudek issued an apology when he rescinded the order, although he never provided an explanation for the abrupt change or for the reversal.
“I screwed up. I’ll admit I screwed up,” Dudek told the Times this week. […]
Dudek said he made the decision after watching a testy exchange between Mills and Trump at the National Governors Association dinner in February.
In the February dust-up, Trump told Mills she had better change the state’s policy allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports or the state would not get any federal funding.
When Mills answered that she was following state and federal laws, Trump said, “We are the federal law.” Mills replied, “See you in court.”
Analysis
This is a clear example of a White House-selected acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Leland Dudek, retaliating against an entire state of mostly cis people by interfering with their SSA systems in a wholly unrelated manner, in reaction to a state leader challenging the president on his anti-trans policy. Dudek admits this response was inappropriate and he knows it. How do we know that other acts of inappropriate retaliation by the Social Security Administration against US residents, based on our policy disagreements with Trump on trans issues, won’t happen again?
After his election, Donald Trump told NBC News that “we’re not touching Social Security,” other than to make it more efficient. But Elon Musk, who now wields enormous power in his role cutting government spending, has recently made comments critical of the program that are coming into conflict with Trump’s promise and worrying members of the president’s own party.
Those concerns have prompted some Trump allies to question whether the billionaire should continue to do so many media interviews, four people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
A particularly problematic remark came during Musk’s conversation with media personality Joe Rogan in late February, in which he described Social Security as “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.” A couple of weeks later, the billionaire once again went after Social Security, this time in an interview with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow. Musk, when discussing entitlement spending he deemed wasteful or fraudulent, said the program was “the big one to eliminate.” […]
A Trump adviser acknowledged that they were aware of “outside concern” around Musk’s comments. Trump allies — including some on Wall Street, in corporate America and Congress — have conveyed to the White House and even the president directly that Musk either has to be taken off air or needs to be more scripted. […]
The Democratic firm Blueprint tested 20 different political messages about Musk, and the four that were most “concerning” to registered voters were all about Social Security. The top two were about Musk’s proposals to fire Social Security Administration employees and dismantle phone services. By contrast, voters said the messages least concerning to them were about his personal life, such as Musk fathering children with five different women. The survey was conducted last week and released Thursday. […]
But the former official said Trump may be more amenable to tweaks that can be sold as eliminating waste, fraud and abuse — a sentiment the president hinted at in falsely asserting to a joint session of Congress that millions of dead people are receiving Social Security checks. That assertion came after Musk promoted similar misinformation online. The billionaire White House adviser has also claimed hundreds of billions of dollars in Social Security payments are being funneled to undocumented immigrants — framing that could appeal to Trump.
Musk’s promise to cut $1 trillion to $2 trillion in federal spending is virtually impossible without touching entitlement spending. And while Trump insists he wants to root out fraud, that’s unlikely to dent the program’s spending. The Social Security inspector general found that improper payments from fiscal year 2015 to 2022 totaled less than 1% of benefits paid over that time — and most of those were overpayments. […]
This person noted that elderly Social Security recipients who might not be tech-savvy and live far from a Social Security office are going to be most affected by the changes.
“It’s going to prevent people from getting their benefits,” this person said, adding that the effort amounts to “a very stealthy, very covert hostile takeover.” […]
Altman said giving Musk’s “DOGE teenagers and 20-year-olds in control of the Social Security Administration” access to seniors’ personal data creates data safety concerns that leave the program vulnerable to hackers and scammers — “a con artist’s dream,” she said. She argued that new rules requiring in-person office visits to register could mean that seniors who are disabled or immobile don’t end up getting benefits. And she warned that the removal of Social Security Administration workers will lead to weaker customer service and longer wait times for benefits.
A new executive order from President Donald Trump aims to expand information-sharing across federal agencies as well as between federal and state governments, but civil libertarians and other experts are warning that the main purpose is to help normalize how the Department of Government Efficiency is handling government data.
The order, issued Thursday, directs all federal agency heads to modify or rescind any regulations preventing the sharing of unclassified data and records between federal agencies.
Agency heads also must ensure that the U.S. government has “unfettered access” to comprehensive data from all state programs that receive federal funding. The order extends to all such data even when stored in third-party databases. […]
While the new EO asserts that the removal of data “silos” is designed to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse, disturbing mission creep is very possible, said Elizabeth Laird, director of equity and civic technology at the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology.
There are no assurances that the data won’t be used for “targeting people who the administration has separately said are a priority for them,” Laird said. “That can include immigrants, it can include people who are transgender, it can include people that speak up” against the administration. […]
Allowing DOGE to co-mingle agency data also could lead to abuses against the general population, said Cody Venzke, senior policy counsel at the ACLU.
Individuals going through airport security could routinely be checked against a centralized database so that the Transportation Security Administration, for example, could discover they unknowingly haven’t paid back taxes and delay their travel, he said. […]
Court filings in DOGE cases have revealed examples of irregular data sharing. On March 14, a filing said a former worker in the office, Marko Elez, broke Treasury Department rules when he sent an unencrypted database containing personally identifiable information outside of the agency.
When Mike Russo entered Social Security Administration headquarters on January 31, he introduced himself to agency staff as a representative of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to court filings.
Along with Akash Bobba, a 22-year-old former Meta and Palantir intern, Russo demanded sweeping access to data on every person in the United States with a Social Security number. Social Security Administration (SSA) insiders warn the sharing of this data puts Americans at risk of identity fraud — and that it could be used by Donald Trump’s administration to punish, threaten, or blackmail his political enemies, both at home and abroad. […]
Two SSA insiders warn the potential for misuse of this data is virtually endless: The agency data could be used by hostile foreign governments to locate defectors and political dissidents inside the United States; officials in DOGE and the Trump administration itself could theoretically use the data to threaten elected officials and journalists, among other political foes, or create databases of transgender Americans and citizens who were born in other countries.
The data given to DOGE includes the addresses, medical and work histories, tax, banking and citizenship information, benefit amounts, and family records of every person in the United States with a Social Security number or who has applied for benefits. DOGE officials were granted access to this data over the objections of Flick and former Social Security Commissioner Michelle King, who resigned in protest over the episode. Despite the pushback, DOGE was able to access the data thanks, in part, to Dudek, who has become key to DOGE’s work inside the agency. […]
Insiders and agency veterans worry that the data DOGE has access to isn’t secure, and could be stolen or hacked by the “bad actors” that Flick mentioned in her deposition. One source close to the agency tells Rolling Stone they worried that foreign governments could use the data to locate defectors or political dissidents within the United States. The source also expressed concern that terrorist organizations could use the data to find foreign nationals who have aided the U.S. military and intelligence community in fighting in the Middle East. Another source warned that law enforcement and intelligence sources living in witness protection could be exposed by the data, as well as everyday Americans who could be viewed by Musk and the Trump administration as political enemies.
Some of those perceived enemies could include transgender Americans, according to Zinnia Jones, a transgender activist and researcher. Jones warned that the SSA data could be used to “identify nearly all likely transgender people in the US with 99 percent confidence.” Jones cited a 2015 U.S. Census Bureau study that utilized the same SSA data accessed by DOGE to estimate the number of trans Americans.
“For all we know, they may already know about the possibility of doing this and it’s part of why they insisted so forcefully on full access” to the data, Jones tells Rolling Stone. In her deposition, Flick noted that Bobba requested and was eventually given access to the SSA’s full dataset, “including source code.”
A former federal employee speaking on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution agreed with Jones’ assessment, telling Rolling Stone that the Trump administration could use the SSA data — as well as agency hiring paperwork and passport applications — to identify and purge transgender employees from the government.
And yesterday’s memorandum opinion in American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. Social Security Administration, 1:25-cv-00596 (D. Maryland, Mar. 20, 2025), ECF No. 49:
Plaintiffs’ members do not know if their information has been viewed or documented by any of these employees, nor how many times it has been viewed or will continue to be viewed in the coming hours, days, weeks, or months. But, plaintiffs know their sensitive, personally identifiable information is accessible to the DOGE Team on a daily basis, with no proper justification. […]
To facilitate the expedition, SSA provided members of the SSA DOGE Team with unbridled access to the personal and private data of millions of Americans, including but not limited to Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, hospitalization records, drivers’ license numbers, bank and credit card information, tax information, income history, work history, birth and marriage certificates, and home and work addresses. […]
In my view, plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their claim that such action is arbitrary and capricious, and in violation of the Privacy Act and the APA. Plaintiffs have also demonstrated that their members will suffer irreparable harm in the absence of a TRO, the equities tip in their favor, and the TRO serves the public interest.
Unsurprisingly, Musk ran with the fact that some of the people charged with the Tesla vandalism may be gender non-conforming, suggesting that it pointed to a larger phenomenon of violence perpetrated by trans people. “What are the statistics on trans violence?” Musk asked in his repost of Insurrectionist Barbie’s post. Ever the dilettante, Musk quickly answered his own question — with more of the baseless transphobia he has long spewed on his platform. “The probability of a trans person being violent appears to be vastly higher than non-trans,” Musk falsely claimed. “Hormone injections cause extreme emotional volatility. That is simply a fact.” […]
Musk’s latest transphobic tirade came on the same day that his estranged trans daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, was profiled in Teen Vogue — and she’s not giving her dad, or his unhinged X posts, any brain space. “He’s a pathetic man-child,” she told the magazine.
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. Social Security Administration, 1:25-cv-00596, (D. Maryland), filed Feb. 21, 2025
Last week, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey signed what he called the Riley Gaines Act; a law that defines the difference between a man and a woman. His reason being, to protect the women in West Virginia.
“It’s common sense that women’s spaces like bathrooms, locker rooms, domestic violence shelters, and rape crisis centers should be kept private for women only,” he said at last Tuesday’s bill signing. “The bill that I have before me defines terms like sex, male, female and the state code to allow for single sex private spaces.” […]
Others like Natasha Kerensky have decided to leave the Mountain State in hopes of feeling safer in a different environment.
“I’m heading to an area of an actual non-discrimination ordinance in place out of state mainly because I feel safer and have a place that you know isn’t going to discriminate against me and housing or employment,” she said.
She said she feels as if her identity is being taken away from her by the government.
“I don’t exist according to the government, they’re trying to erase me,” she said.
House Republicans ended debate early for two bills that would limit gender-affirming health care in the state after Democrats begged their colleagues not to vote for the legislation. Senate Bill 2 would end hormone treatments for 67 transgender inmates in Kentucky prisons and House Bill 495 would undo Beshear’s executive order to limit conversion therapy and, thanks to a late addition in the Senate, ban Medicaid from paying for gender-affirming transgender treatment and procedures.
Democratic Rep. Lisa Willner of Louisville said ending Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care would put patients already receiving treatment in medically dangerous situations, including withdrawal symptoms and severe mental health repercussions, with some treatments requiring patients gradually wean off the medication over a multi-month period.
Some Republicans have said that they do not believe any state Medicaid providers currently cover such therapies, but Willner said she knows that is not the case. State Medicaid covers hormone replacement therapy that a doctor deems medically-necessary, and Willner said she has personally spoken with some recipients.
“People are begging us for their lives, for their children’s lives. Please, I beg you,” Willner said. “Please understand that these folks we’re talking about who we may be right now about to deliver a death sentence to — they’re somebody’s child, they’re somebody’s siblings, they’re someone’s parents … Please, folks, please, let’s show some mercy.”
“I’m in a one-income family household, so money is tight for us,” said Carma Bell Marshall, a 35-year-old trans woman living in Louisville. “It’s done wonders for my mental health. It’s done wonders for my outlook on life. It’s something that I think if I didn’t have it, my life would be in a so much darker place right now.”
For several months, Carma Bell Marshall’s hormone treatment has been covered by Medicaid. But soon that could all be changing, and she could be coming out of pocket a couple hundred dollars a month. […]
The vote to pass House Bill 495, one of the more contentious pieces of legislation this year, was divided along party lines. It’s set to protect conversion therapy, a widely discredited form of counseling, in Kentucky and prohibit the state’s Medicaid program from covering gender transition treatment. […]
“We have Kentuckians who are actively contemplating suicidality, who are contemplating leaving a state that they have called home their whole life. I’ve even thought about — is Kentucky a safe place for me to continue living and existing?” she said.
A country that has pushed one group out of its political community will eventually push out others. The Trump administration’s barrage of attacks on trans people can seem haphazard, but as elements of a denationalization project, they fall into place. In his Inaugural Address and one of his first executive orders, President Trump asserted that only two sexes exist: male and female, established at conception and immutable. Trans people, in other words, do not exist. Executive orders aimed at banning any mention of transgender people from schools, banning trans athletes from women’s sports, ordering a stop to gender-affirming medical care for people under 19, and barring trans people from serving in the military followed.
The State Department stopped issuing passports with the “X” gender marker and began issuing passports consistent with the sex the applicant was assigned at birth, even if the person had legally changed gender. In his executive order on the military, Trump asserted that being transgender “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful and disciplined lifestyle.” During an address to Congress in February, Trump recognized a young woman who apparently suffered a brain injury during a volleyball game. Serious volleyball injuries are surprisingly common, but what stood out about this one was that the player who spiked the ball that hit her, the young woman said, was trans.
The message, consistent and unrelenting, is that trans people are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
As previously reported by The Advocate, German officials have issued a warning for trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming individuals traveling to the United States, saying that transgender people “should contact the responsible U.S. authorities prior to travel to the U.S. to inquire about current entry regulations,” German officials told Erin in the Morning.
Meanwhile, InterPride — a global association of over 400 Pride organizations from over 70 countries — issued a similar notice on its social media pages. “Due to an executive order issued by the U.S. president on Jan. 20, all travelers must select either ‘male’ or ‘female’ when applying for entry or visas,” the post said, as reported by The Washington Blade. “The gender listed at birth will be considered valid. If your passport has ‘X’ as a gender marker or differs from your birth-assigned gender, we strongly recommend contacting the U.S. diplomatic mission before traveling to confirm entry requirements.”
Maia Abbruzzese, also known as “Maia Poet” (Twitter: @thepeacepoet99), is an anti-trans activist and pretends to be a detransitioner, having never undergone any medical intervention but still routinely self-promoting on the basis of the supposed body-horror of transitioning.
In 2025, Maia was discovered to be the daughter of Evgenia “Zhenya” Abbruzzese, the cofounder of the anti-trans advocacy group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) (see section Resources at end of post).
Maia had previously filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court in U.S. v. Skrmetti (2024-10-15), citing a paper by her mother (Abbruzzese, Levine & Mason, 2023), but without disclosing their relation. Additionally, Maia only used the pseudonym “Maia Poet” in the amicus brief, at page 1a under “Appendix List of Amicus Curiae” (“Maia Poet, desister & section co-author”).
In a Twitter Space on 2025-03-08, Maia discussed her history of working with her mother at anti-trans conferences, and described meeting significant figures in the anti-trans movement including Helen Joyce.
Maia identified Kinnon MacKinnon as having attended a Genspect conference: “Anyone can get a ticket to a Genspect conference or whatever…. And we’ve even had Kinnon MacKinnon, who is like the trans man who’s doing this like study on detransitioners, right. So he’s been at the conference.” (More on Kinnon Ross MacKinnon: Detransition, Retransition, and What Everyone Gets Wrong)
Maia admitted that “Poet” is a pseudonym she uses to distance her activism on Twitter from her private life: “the pseudonym ‘Poet’, this is something that I made for Twitter to sort of distance my private life from my activism”.
Maia characterized trans people as “all people who’ve legally changed their names to some fucking stupid cross-sex name because they’re living a LARP”, “and they’re all mentally ill and stupid”. She believes “trans activists are evil lunatics who are not very smart.” During the space, Maia described trans women as “petulant toddlers … in castrated grown men’s bodies”.
At one point, Maia says “trannies” and immediately decries “all of this stupid virtue signaling”.
Maia Abbruzzese’s monologue concludes with her assessment that “this was a really strategically bad move on the part of trans activists, targeting kids. And they will live to regret it.” Because trans kids already existed as trans kids, and they are not trans because of any ‘targeting’ by activists, this is a threat by Maia that trans kids will live to regret existing.
Today, Maia Abbruzzese now tweets that “people with gender & other delusions *who are an active threat to themselves &\or others* should be institutionalized”, on the grounds that “We need to stop treating trans as if it’s an untouchable category”, and “If non-trans people did the same things, they’d be institutionalized immediately.”
SEGM, is this how you raise your children?
Update (2025-03-11): Maia Abbruzzese has responded at her Substack here (archive).
Transcript
[02:24]
MAIA ABBRUZZESE: Yeah, I don’t, honestly, I don’t really care. These are all people who- Look, my message is threatening to them. If my messages did not threaten them, they would not be doing this. So honestly, it just shows me that I’m powerful, and it just makes me more and more motivated to destroy these fuckers. […]
[04:49]
MAIA: No, no, no, it’s not that, guys. It’s really- you know what it is? They’ve- they’ve- the same person who doxed me, doxed my mom years ago. He has a hate boner for her, okay? These people only go after- there are so many GC accounts, so many, tons. But they only dox the ones who’s- who they actually feel threatened by. Who they actually feel has a chance of shifting the, like, the uh thought around this type of stuff.
So they- what’s honestly insane to me is that they, so, like- My mom was doxed years ago. Years. And I was doxed months ago and only recently did they put together the connection. I mean, same last name, like, same city. They literally could have put it together instantly, but clearly estrogen is rotting their minds, rotting their brains, making them slow. It’s like, honestly guys, you’re really slacking. Like everyone who means anything to me, or who has been to any of these conferences, by the way, knows that my mom is my mom. Every- like, like, like Sierra has met my mom, all my detrans friends know that, like- Helen Joyce, for Christ’s sake, knows both me and my mom.
Like, every single, all, anyone who- who is in any way important enough or, like, you know, interested enough in this cause to go to a conference, knows that my mom is my mom. Like, everyone. It’s like, a well, it’s a very, very well known fact. It’s just, like, seriously, like- The thing with these trans activists, they can’t stand, they can’t stand contending with ideas that they don’t like. So they- even though these same conferences are open to them, by the way, fully open to them. Anyone can get a ticket to a Genspect conference or whatever. Anyone can.
And we’ve even had Kinnon MacKinnon, who is like the trans, the trans man who’s doing this like study on detransitioners, right. So he’s been at the conference. I’m pretty sure even she knows this, okay. Like, these conferences, before I went public, like, I used my last name at these conferences. I didn’t, you know, the, the pseudonym “Poet” is- This is something that I made for Twitter to sort of distance my private life, you know, from my activism, knowing- I knew full well that this would eventually come out. I knew full well, because these people are vicious and because I was really popular in high school and college, amongst a bunch of different people who are all super woke.
I went to a super woke high school. We had queer history classes that you could take instead of world history classes, and we also had critical theory or critical race theory classes in high school. So I came from a super woke environment. I knew that the second that my story reached a single person who knew me before, all of them would be too woke to hold off on doxing me. I knew this, okay, but, you know, whatever. It’s like, am I going to tell the internet when I’m on my period? Am I? Like, it’s pretty insane that anyone expects me or anyone else to just like, dox themselves and their family members – otherwise, they’re being dishonest? It’s like, no, you trans activists were really slow to the game on this one.
And your, your little stunt is just really good PR because it just shows even more how insane and spirally and conspiracy theory-esque these people are. They’ve made up so many lies that are so easily disprovable. Not just about me or about my mom, but about literally every other person they’ve doxed. The same person who doxed me and my mom has also doxed many other clinicians in this space – including their fucking underage children. These people are vicious, they are ruthless. So I frankly don’t actually- and they’re all mentally ill and stupid. So if they call me a fraud, I genuinely don’t give a flying fuck. Because these are all people who’ve legally changed their names to some fucking stupid cross-sex name because they’re living a LARP. So they’re not being honest about their identities at all.
They’re changing their sex on all their documents. They’ve even, some changed their Social Security numbers or their, their identification to distance themselves from the fact they were born another sex. So I actually, frankly, don’t care what they say because I don’t take them seriously. They’re all, they’re all mentally ill, and like, you know. They, yeah, they just, they’re just mentally ill.
And so like, whatever they say, just kind of like whatever. I mean, it’s good PR, I mean, any, any, any exposure is good exposure. The people who hate me will continue to hate me, regardless of what these trans activists say about me. Like, that’s the truth. People who’ve made their minds up about me, who don’t like me, are just going to continue to dislike me. And the people who like me and find what I have to say to be valuable are going to continue to believe the same thing regardless of what trans activists say. Because they’re smart enough to understand that these trans activists are, are evil lunatics who are not very smart. Like you don’t pull this type of move, you just, you just don’t.
So it’s like, it just, yeah, like- I don’t, I don’t know. It’s not a thing of like, resilience or whatever, it’s just- Like, yeah, was I a little bit stressed about it in the beginning, sure. I was a little bit stressed about it in the beginning. But then I realized, you know what? Today is the day to turn lemons into lemonade. And I’m getting a ton of exposure. And you know what? These people are trying to knock me down. They are trying to get me to react in some way. They’re trying to, you know, they’re, they’re trying to elicit a reaction out of me, and I’m not going to give them that. I’m just not, they’re not worth my time. They’re trying to distract from the important advocacy that I’m doing, not just on this page. This page that I’m running is the least important aspect of my advocacy.
I, you know, I help parents, I write long-form content that is not just a bunch of, you know, rage bait and hot takes. It’s actually well thought out, well-reasoned, well-argued pieces that are reference materials for parents who are trying to help their kids through this, or for loved ones who are trying to help their kids through this. As well as broader commentary about the phenomenon, I make original arguments that, you know, I don’t see other people making, frankly, and I’m contributing something real to this movement.
They are trying to stop me by trying to bait me into some stupid flame war with them, so that they can be like, oh. look how cruel she is, look how transphobic she is. But at the end of the day, it’s like, we’re dealing with petulant toddlers in grown men’s bodies, in castrated grown men’s bodies. Their hormones are all over the place, they’re irrational, they’re clearly becoming slow.
Like they should have been on- like if, if one of them had been brave enough to confront ideas they didn’t like and go to this conference, they would have known. They would have been able to dox me before I even went public with my story. But like, honestly, the fact that it took them this long is just totally on them. They’re being lazy, they’re getting slow. They’re getting a little defeated. This is, you know, the last breaths of gender ideology. They feel their hegemony, their cultural death grip on our society just disintegrating.
And so they’re going to try this, and they have a huge mob behind them. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of- The fact that this is so popular literally just means, all it means, is that there’s a huge trans mob.
There are a lot of people who are very much indoctrinated, and they stick together, by the way. And our side doesn’t stick together. Our side wants to argue about stupid terms like, ‘oh, you’re not a real detransitioner, you’re a desister’, or oh, you’re not, you don’t believe the exact same, you don’t have the same feminist beliefs that I do, and so therefore you’re a grifter. Or, oh, you hold these free speech, controversial spaces where everybody gets to have a say, everyone gets to say what they want to say.
And this means that you’re kowtowing to the trannies, right? Our side has all of this stupid virtue signaling, and it’s, and it’s, and it, and we’re already small. Like, the thing is that most people in, in our Western societies agree with us. But most people who agree with us, agree with us because they’re reasonable. They’re not, like, mentally insane enough to get super involved in these arguments. They agree with us implicitly – but explicitly they’re not so passionate about it, because they’re like, yeah, this is common sense.
But the trans activists, they have a huge, huge mob and they’re all trying to fight to rewrite reality. They will always have a big movement because we’ve opened Pandora’s box and they’re all trying to collude with each other to create this like, new reality in which words, you know, have totally alternative meanings and in which there is no there’s no viewpoint in the future, you know, where there’s any kind of stable sense of reality.
It’s post-modernism at its core, because they’re the ones trying to rewrite basic, basic facts, and because they will always face resistance to rewriting our basic facts and definitions. They’re continue- they’re going to continue to like, have a big mob. That doesn’t make them right. That doesn’t make the claims that they make, that isn’t, doesn’t make their conspiracies right. That doesn’t make their tactics right.
It just means that they are vicious and they are mentally ill, and that ultimately they will bring about their own downfall. I mean, you fuck with enough mama bears who are trying to protect their kids, and you will start to lose your beloved trans rights. Perfect example of that, you know, January Littlejohn literally was talked about on TV by Trump. She was there and the school tried to socially transition her daughter. They socially transitioned her daughter without her consent. And now she is on the front line of running a movement to expose this absolute bullshit.
The dumbest mistake that these trans activists make from the beginning is that they started targeting children. Okay, parents can take the blowback, like parents can absolutely, like- If someone is mad at them for not ‘trans-ing’ their kid, parents frankly don’t really care that much. They don’t, because their mission to protect their kid is way more important than what anyone else says about it. Like it’s not- These parents who are skeptics don’t, like- they get- Either they get convinced by the suicide lie, or they have the mental fortitude to be like, wait a second. This doesn’t make sense.
Like, if you’re naturally a skeptic, you’re not going to go along with ‘trans-ing’ your kid. And there are plenty of parents who start out as skeptics, and then they believe the suicide lie, because they’re kind of too neurotic. They have that, like, kind of emotional thing about them where they basically get really wrapped up in their emotions.
But there are some parents who totally distance themselves. They don’t actually care about their kid’s emotions that much. They’re like- and they don’t really care about all of the scaremongering. It doesn’t impact them because they’re highly, highly rational. That’s the family I come from, highly, highly, highly rational. Those are the types of parents who protect their kids.
Everyone else who’s too neurotic ends up going along with ‘trans-ing’ their kids. And ultimately, if you’re the type of parent who’s too rational to trans your kid, because you ignore the emotional scaremongering, you don’t believe it, you’re whatever, it doesn’t impact you, it doesn’t compel your behavior. If you’re already that rational, like, another parent or even many parents saying, ‘oh, you’re horrible, you’re evil, you’re a bigot, how dare you not trans your kid?’ That’s not going to- that’s also not going to convince that parent into ‘trans-ing’ their kid, right?
So that basic understanding really shows us how stupid it is, like how strategically bad it is for trans activists to target kids. That’s kind of how this whole thing blew up and how people started being very, very skeptical, is when all of these kids started getting targeted. Like all these parents, you know- Note that like, the reason why no one even cared, really, about Jazz Jennings in like 2007, part of the reason why- The only like, the only people who were commenting negatively about what happened to Jazz in 2007 were religious conservatives. All these liberals were like, oh, these these people are crazy. They’re bigoted, you know, they, these people hate gay people.
And so they just dismissed the criticism outright. Liberals dismissed the criticism outright. And so it didn’t blow up as a culture issue until all of these liberal parents started having their feminine, normal, kind of quirky girls getting caught up in this. And then they’re like, oh, wait a second, this is a really big problem. Then, you know, it happened one by one by one by one. And then policies started changing in schools and institutions to try to collude with this and to hide this from parents. And from the moment, from the moment that any parent feels that their kid is being targeted, whether they’re on our side or whether they’re on the trans activist side, they will wage a war.
So this was a really strategically bad move on the part of trans activists, targeting kids. And they will live to regret it. That’s a fact.
Speaker 2: Well said, Maia, I agree with you.
Speaker 3: Okay, I got a slightly off topic question. So with all the trans men that you’ve met, how many of these motherfuckers went with the name Autumn or Skyler? Because that’s a big fucking one around here.
MAIA: You mean FTMs?
Speaker 3: Yes, that’s a big fucking one around here.
MAIA: Skyler? Skyler, yes, Autumn, no. Autumn is more like an MTF name.
Speaker 3: I was like, fucking like, every third fucking FTM around here goes with the name Skyler or fucking Autumn.
MAIA: It’s cause of Skyler Levine. You can basically figure out when these trans men came out, when they adopted trans identities, based on which names they pick. Because just like their identities are socially contagious and their gender dysphoria is socially contagious, the names they pick are also very socially contagious. Like if someone calls, if some FTM calls themselves Skyler, that probably means that they they came out as trans in the last years of the 2000’s or in the first years of the 2010’s. And then the names, the -den names, Aiden, Caden, Jaden, Braden, those names are like sort of 2013, 2014 to like 2017.
Speaker 3: It’s so unoriginal too.
MAIA: Oh yeah, cause they’re all copying each other. Of course it’s unoriginal.
Speaker 3: It’s like, and you look at them, it’s like half the time they just fucking, they all look the same too. It’s like absolutely fucking- I can’t think of more than like maybe three fucking FTMs that I’ve ever seen, even on the internet, that fucking passed.
MAIA: Yeah. I mean, some of them pass better than others. I don’t know, I mean… Um.
Speaker 3: Like, Buck is the only one I can think of where I had to look at twice. But Buck Angel is also incredibly honest about it.
MAIA. Yeah. I’m sure if Buck went to Israel, that Buck would have no problem passing. Like, the thing with Buck is it’s mostly, it’s mostly just the height. But, like, you know, I don’t know. Well, what really works in my favor in Israel, I think, is just that I was young, and so they were willing to believe that a 20 year old might be able to look like a 15 or 16 year old. But of course, the older you get, the harder it is for people to buy that. They kind of think twice a little bit more, but it didn’t seem to occur to basically any of these people unless they were like, you know, liberal Tel Avivis that I might actually be a woman. Because that’s how conservative and kind of traditional this culture is. They would never think that someone would do what I was doing. They would have never conceptualized of it.
With a man who’s wearing a dress, in those societies, that’s much easier for those people to tell, oh yeah, this is a man wearing a dress. It’s easier for them to tell that, even if it’s a super effeminate gay man. It’s that they’re better at passing than a woman who’s wearing men’s clothes, because it’s not as much of an eyesore. Like it doesn’t stick out in your face as much. And so it’s, I guess, easier for those societies to accept. That’s what really just allowed me to do this for so long, frankly, like without injecting toxic doses of testosterone into my body, you know, just roiding myself into oblivion, like- That’s the only way, is because I was really young, and so people could kind of suspend their disbelief because they just didn’t have a schema for what else I could, why I could look so young, right? Like that- But like for Buck, I feel like Buck would have no problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You’re gonna look fucking 15 for a while, Maia.
MAIA: Huh?
Speaker 3: You look young right now. You’re 25. You look like you’re 15.
MAIA: Yeah. I’m well aware.
Speaker 3: You’re going to look young forever.
Speaker 2: Don’t worry, that’s why I grow the beard, Maia.
Speaker 3: Just me doing a little bit of light teasing.
“Healthcare researcher and author of several widely-read peer-reviewed publications in pediatric gender medicine. After observing an influx of teens presenting with gender dysphoria for the first time in adolescence in 2018, Zhenya began to study the Dutch protocol and its applicability to the current clinical dilemmas. Eventually her work led her to co-found the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. Previously, Zhenya worked for a major US-based health insurer identifying low-value healthcare interventions, and led a venture-backed startup focused on patients suffering with medically-unexplained symptoms. Zhenya consults for a range of healthcare organizations, working at the intersection of physical and mental health and the promotion of culturally-competent evidence-based healthcare.”
The executive order was quickly challenged in court. In three lawsuits filed on behalf of trans women housed in women’s prisons, federal judges have ruled that the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) cannot withhold their medical treatment and was barred from moving them to men’s facilities. One judge said the plaintiffs had “straightforwardly demonstrated that irreparable harm will follow”.
Lawyers fighting Trump’s directive say the court rulings prevented the transfers of 17 trans women who are plaintiffs in the cases, but others not included in the litigation are now facing placements in men’s facilities.
“I’m just continuing to be punished for existing,” said Whitney, a 31-year-old trans woman who was transferred from a women’s facility to a men’s prison this week. The BOP changed her records from “female” to “male”, records show. In messages before her transfer, she said she felt like a “pawn in others’ political games”. The Guardian is not using her full name due to concerns about retaliation.
Kara Janssen, an attorney representing trans women in litigation, said she learned of another trans woman not included in the lawsuits who was recently transferred to a facility that houses men, and also had the gender marker in her records changed. Janssen also learned of a trans woman newly entering the BOP system who had gender-affirming surgeries before her incarceration, but was placed in a men’s facility. […]
Whitney, who was recently transferred, said in interviews prior to her move that staff for weeks gave her conflicting information. In mid-February, she and another trans woman were placed into a form of isolation called a “special housing unit” and told they could be there for months, she said. The other woman attempted suicide out of fear of being transferred, she said.
Days later, the women were moved back to the general population. Whitney’s doctor, however, then told her that her hormone therapy medications would start to be tapered down. Whitney said going off those medications would wreak havoc on her body and mind, describing it “like a slow death”. The doctor also said staff would start using male pronouns for her, though she said that had not happened yet.
Here I am again to rise on another bill targeting the LGBTQ community. I first want to start off and say, at its very core, drag is art. Drag is a beautiful art. Drag has a deep history in this country, and it is a history that is important to my community. You know, if you are a woman in this body wearing a suit today, you are challenging gender norms that existed long ago.
And in some ways, drag does work to challenge those norms. There were three articles of clothing laws 50 years ago that said if you wore three articles of clothing that were indicative of the opposite gender, the police could stop you and arrest you. It was those laws that led to the police raiding an LGBTQ bar in New York and led to the Stonewall riots, one of the most important civil rights moments in my community’s history.
I also want to reject the notion, however, that these are, as the sponsor says, events where explicit content is expected or where audiences expect risque entertainment. Drag story hours, I have been to here in Montana. They are like Disney princesses reading to people. We had people come in and talk about this. These are spaces where people come up and they sit down in libraries, and parents elect to bring their children and learn about books and the love of reading. And also, yes, be involved in part, and to hear stories told from members of my community. That is important and that is beautiful, and I do not think that we should be standing up and saying that this art form, because it’s somehow connected to my community, is not allowed.
But there’s something underpinning this that makes this even more insidious. And the sponsor called this a fix to last session’s bill. It’s important to note that last session’s bill, when it was applied, the first application of this was not on a drag show. It was to prevent a trans woman from giving a history lesson in a library. That’s where this came up. That’s how this is going to be attempted to be applied: as an attack against the trans community.
And we have even more examples of that, because in committee, when the sponsor closed on this bill, he said, “this bill is needed” — he said, and I quote his words — “because transgenderism is a fetish based on cross-dressing.” Those were his words for why this this bill is necessary.
And I’m here to stand before the body and say that my life is not a fetish. My existence is not a fetish. I was proud a month ago to have my son up in the gallery here. Many of you on the other side met him. When I go to walk him to school, that is not lascivious display. That is not a fetish. That is my family.
This is what these bills are trying to come after. Not obscene shows somehow getting in front of children. We have the Miller test for that. We have laws for that. This is a way to target the trans community. And that is my opinion, and in the speaker’s own words.
Please vote no.
MADAM CHAIR: Further discussion. Representative Essman.
To speak to the bill, I’m speaking as a parent and a grandmother. And I’m very emotional because I know the representative in seat 20 is also a parent. No matter what you think of that, she is doing her best to raise a child. I did my best to raise my children as I saw fit, and I’m taking it for granted that my children are going to raise my grandchildren as they see fit.
Everybody in here talks about how important parental rights are. I want to tell you, in addition to parental rights, parental responsibility is also important. And if you can’t trust a decent parent to decide where and when their kids should see what, then we have a bigger problem.
So I advise you all to vote about parental rights, parental responsibility, and remember we already have indecency laws in this state. We voted on one, I don’t know, earlier this week, last week, sometime during the session. We all wanted to make sure we knew what indecent was. And now we know.
Trust the parents to do what’s right, and stop these crazy bills that are a waste of time. They’re a waste of energy. We should be working on property tax relief and not doing this sort of business on the floor of this house and having to even talk about this.
Please vote no.
[On a vote of: 44 yes / 55 no, House Bill 675 fails to pass its second reading.]
Refers to:
Montana HB 675: “Revise laws related to hypersexualized shows” (2025)
“Inside, police lined up the bar’s patrons and demanded IDs. They especially targeted gender-nonconforming people, detaining many of them and citing a statute that allowed for the arrest of people not wearing three articles of clothing ‘appropriate’ to their sex assigned at birth.”
Free Speech Center: Miller test, “the primary legal test for determining whether expression constitutes obscenity” (2018-01-01)
— He’s misgendering the trans girl in high school who played volleyball against Payton McNabb, and calling trans women “men”.
Trump:
$8 million to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho which nobody has ever heard of.
— Everyone has heard of Lesotho. He can’t even pronounce it.
Believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million Social Security members from people aged 100 to 109 years old. … Including, to finish, 1,039 people between the ages of 220 and 229. One person between the age of 240 and 249 — and one person is listed at 360 years of age.
— There’s all sorts of possible reasons those Social Security records are still in that database. Any number of complexities could apply here. He could be listing all sorts of ad hoc edge cases, or odd formatting hacks, that came up in the course of everything all people in the United States can experience across the course of their lives.
Deals are being made — never seen. That’s a combination of the election win and tariffs. It’s a beautiful word, isn’t it?
And Elliston Berry, who became victim of an illicit deepfake image produced by a peer. With Elliston’s help, the Senate just passed the Take It Down Act.
And this is so important, thank you very much, John [Thune]. … The publication of such images online is terrible, terrible thing. And once it passes the House, I look forward to signing the bill into law. Thank you. And I’m going to use that bill for myself too, if you don’t mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody.
— A disgusting suggestion by Trump that an anti-deepfake law, primarily protecting women targeted by AI creation of pornography, would be necessary to protect him because of how desirable he is, which he is not. The implication diminishes what she has been through, to her face, in front of the country, which is extremely insulting. I am offended deeply on her behalf.
All three savages charged with Jocelyn and Laken’s murderers…
— Anyone in any group can act heinously, but choosing to dehumanize anyone is a choice that diminishes every one of us.
Two weeks ago, I officially designated this gang, along with MS-13 and the bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartels, as foreign terrorist organizations. They are now officially in the same category as ISIS.
— Terrorism involves attacks on civilians to achieve political aims and send a message. These gangs and cartels are not intending to do so in any of these cited incidents.
— This is all a disgrace, shameful, cowardly, pathetic, small, and utterly chickenhearted.
I have already signed an executive order requiring a mandatory death penalty for anyone who murders a police officer, and tonight I’m asking Congress to pass that policy into permanent law.
— He doesn’t specify what degree of murder, or the circumstances. If the accused were 10 miles away, it could be attributed to them as being a murder when an officer is killed by someone else, due a legal mechanism of associated responsibility. This has absolutely happened before. See: “Sentenced to Life for an Accident Miles Away” (The New Yorker, 2023-12-11).
My administration is also working to protect our children from toxic ideologies in our schools. A few years ago, January Littlejohn and her husband discovered that their daughter’s school had secretly socially transitioned their thirteen-year-old little girl. Teachers and administrators conspired to deceive January and her husband while encouraging their daughter to use a new name and pronouns – they/them pronoun, actually – all without telling January, who is here tonight and is now a courageous advocate against this form of child abuse.
— Notably, he’s describing even social, non-medical transitioning as “child abuse” in a national address, suggesting anything other than parental enforcement of stereotypical gender-conforming expression of cisgenderism (as defined by the state) is “child abuse”.
Stories like this are why shortly after taking office, I signed an executive order banning public schools from indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology. I also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation of our youth. And now I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body. This is a big lie. And our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you.
— This is notable for the invocation of religion (presumably Christian) as imposing a fundamentally anti-trans and cis-only reality on everyone, which precludes from the outset even the existence of trans people at all. This is the president’s claim that a Christian God has determined everyone will have specifically cis genders, and more broadly, that there is any kind of purpose or teleology in the universe at all.
— It is an assertion that trans people’s genders are against the intentions of an external, higher being. This assertion is baseless; there is no evidence of the proposed being or its intentions; the belief is an individual preference that falls within private practices; it is a matter for interpersonal coexistence within a pluralistic society; and it is not a vision for our secular government to select as its model of reality and then impose on everyone in the country.
As a first step, I’m asking Congress to fund a state-of-the-art Golden Dome missile shield to protect our homeland, all made in the USA. And Ronald Reagan wanted to do it long ago but the technology wasn’t there, not even close, but now we have it
— Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back? Nope! Sorry, Cold War/nuclear strategy/missile defense special interest engaged. This will never happen.
I was saved by God to make America great again, I believe that.
— Anyone can say that about any activity they engage in at any time.
— His vision of God wants nothing more for us than a falsified cisgender fraction-of-a-life, filled with many years of President Donald Trump.
And from the legends who soared at Kitty Hawk to the astronauts who touched the moon, Americans have always been the people who defied all odds, transcended all dangers…
— He said “transcended all dangers”, but it sounded like “transgendered all dangers”.
We are going to conquer the vast frontiers of science, and we are going to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond.
— Is he suggesting manned spaceflight to the Galilean moons?
And we will fight, fight, fight for the country our citizens believe in
— A reference to the attempt on his life; a “fight” chant now breaks out.
It will be like nothing that has ever been seen before
— Anyone can say that, but this time, in this context, it seems loaded with threat.
