"Following this [ Skrmetti] ruling, not only are trans kids at risk, but so is the bodily autonomy of any member of any community who finds themselves in the sights of the hard right. Our freedoms are now up for 'fierce debate,' subject to the 'sincere concerns' of those who want to do us harm."

~ Meagan Hatcher-Mays

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/22

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/supreme-court-tennessee-transgender-youth

"I write because our movements must be intersectional. Our demand for liberation must be for all the people. We don’t get to decide upon whom the bright light of freedom should shine. We don’t get to be silent while human rights and liberation are eroded. We’ve got to stand up for all the people and stand up for love. Love liberates."

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/21

"I write about Transgender rights on Juneteenth because if this regime and the courts it has stacked to help put its agendas forth all believe that the equal protection clause does not put a demand on us to protect folks on the basis of gender and sexuality, it is also weakened around birthright citizenship, and it is also weakened about the civil and human rights of Black people."

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/20

"Why am I writing about Transgender youth on Juneteenth? Because we are not free until everyone is free. Because the surviving and thriving of humanity, the liberation of and justice for humanity are tied up together. Because I can’t be fully who I am intended to be until you are fully who you are intended to be."

~ Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/19

https://jacquilewis.substack.com/p/juneteenth-now-f23

"Juneteenth challenges us to confront a difficult truth: that much of American Christianity was complicit in slavery, and that the legacy of that sin continues in our institutions, our policies, and yes—even in some of our pulpits."

~ Benjamin Cremer

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/18

https://benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/a-juneteenth-reflection

"The cruelty remains the point. On the same day at the Supreme Court ruled against gender-affirming care for transgender youth, the Trump administration said it was ending specialized support for LGBTQ callers to the national suicide prevention hotline."

~ David Kurtz

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/17

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/its-clearer-than-ever-that-jan-6

"[Melissa Hortman] was murdered because she actually believed in the premise of liberty and justice for all. …

"The MAGA regime fans the flames of violence, singling people out to bully because of our races and genders and trying to turn our government into a weapon against our people."

~ Anat Shenker-Osorio

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/16

https://www.weekendreading.net/p/naming-villains-and-values

"We have watched Donald Trump and the Musk-minions as they have wreaked havoc throughout our government for the last three or four months, and folks, now we are about to see the national security price we will pay for all that cost-cutting and DEI firing and 'transgender for all' fear mongering."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/14

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/us-strike-on-iran-it-wont-be-surgical

"one that removes our rights one by one, making us more and more vulnerable, and sanctioning more and more of our derision, degradation and unfreedom."

If you sit by in silence while rights are stripped from ANY group, if you tell yourself, "Well, they're a minority and this doesn't affect me," you invite the same thing for yourself: you open the door to having your own rights stripped away.

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/13

"Many of us waited, with a mixture and terror and disgust, to see what cruelties the court would deliver for us in 2025.

The justices decided to start by attacking vulnerable children. ...

It is not hard to imagine Skrmetti, along with Dobbs, being the opening salvos in a broader legal assault on the status of women and queer people –"

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/12

"The court, controlled by career politicians in robes who were hand-selected for their loyalty to the rightwing and their willingness to be wildly intellectually dishonest in pursuit of Republican policy objectives, has ended the right to abortion, desiccated the Voting Rights Act, made state gun regulations nearly impossible and declared the president functionally immune to criminal law."

~ Moira Donegan

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/11

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/19/us-supreme-court-gender-equality

"We are all better off when we recognize that other people’s expectations and assumptions and rigid categories don’t define us, and that only we can define ourselves. ...

Fascists hate trans people because they hate diversity, they hate possibility, they hate joy, and they hate human flourishing. Fascists want to put everyone in a box—or I should say a cell—and shoot anyone in the head who dares to edge out of it."

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/10

"We are all better off in a world where people can become who they are, even if who they become surprises their parents, friends, teachers, employers, and political representatives. We are better off in a world where human flourishing takes many forms, and where people are allowed to find the form and shape and life that fits them."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/9

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-is-good-that-trans-people-exist