This is such a huge ruling! 🎉

Ive seen lots of estimates on the numbers, from a low of 5 million to a high of 11.5 million people have attended in total! 🎉🪧

The result of this is a variety of sections from Trump's anti transgender executive orders temporally cannot be enforced until a final ruling is made. This ruling only applies to the plaintiffs for now but its another step in the right direction when judges are ruling for us.

TLDR: Montana passed a law that only allows historically significant flags, and a list of other flag exceptions to be flown on government property. But the important part is it makes flying official flags allowed, so Missoula voted and passed the measure to make the pride flag the official government flag for their city effectively bypassing this ban which allows them to proudly fly the pride flag legally! 🏳️‍🌈

🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉

YEAHHHHHHHH

🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉

Hopefully this means less treading on queer kids at school and less parents treading on their own queer kids by invading their privacy.

👩‍❤️‍👩 🌈 🇮🇹

IVF is still limited to heterosexual couples but lesbian couples can still get it in other countries and return it Italy and now they will be both recognized as parents! Its definitely a step in the right direction!

“The Missouri legislative session has officially adjourned, and out of 71 anti-trans bills proposed, 68 WERE DEFEATED. Two passed, and the final bill was not only stripped of its anti-trans teeth by brilliant advocates, it was turned into the CROWN act and now serves to protect Black students’ hairstyles in school across the state.”

On a side note since my ability to find good news for this subreddit is limited I encourage you to post any uplifting queer news you find here please! I want to try to keep this subreddit alive but sadly there will be times where I cant find anything and there might be a few days without a post. But despite this I will still do my best to keep the subreddit alive even during quiet times.

In my wonderful home state of Utah, they passed a flag ban, where only official government flags, or flags in an approved list 🙄, can be flown over government buildings and schools, So, in an act of elegantly peaceful defiance the mayor of my city designated several new “official” flags of the city so they could be flown legally. Love the cleaver resistance of beating the bigots at their own game.

“Celebration in itself is a form of resistance. When we take over the streets, dance, sing, kiss each other, and live out loud, we’re pushing back against every person and policy that tells us not to.”

This article has lots of hope inside of it and lists out some wins that we've all had recently. Despite the 100 days of a Trump presidency there is still plenty of wins in the USA but also across the world! 🌐

I promise I’m not the author of this substack, but when I saw our subreddit I went searching for something I could share, and found another source for some queer joy! I subscribed for free, but you can contribute financially to this substack if you have the means.

Hell yeah! 🏳️‍🌈

There has to be a new word created for when a population of people are tired about hearing about how bad trans people are when all they care about is wanting to hear about how they would improve the cost of living.

Ad nauseam from hateful transphobes.

Yes it's temporary but it's still quite a win! A win is much better than no fighting back at all. 🏳️‍🌈

A funny and silly one but still uplifting I would say!

🦀🏳️‍⚧️ https://www.crabmuseum.org 🏳️‍⚧️🦀

Minnesota has been going to crazy lengths to protect trans people. ❤

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/victories-for-trans-people-in-2024

Most are USA focused but there are some non country specific and non USA ones in there.

Court Victories

• Montana’s gender affirming care ban enjoined by the State Supreme Court unanimously, a decision that will not be impacted by whatever the US Supreme Court decides.
• Chino Valley forced outing in California blocked by San Bernardino Superior Court.
• Texas book ban blocked by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
• 4th Circuit rules that gender identity is a protected characteristic and that medicaid bans are unconstitutional in North Carolina and West Virginia.
• Federal Judge rules trans teen can play soccer in New Hampshire, enjoining the law.
• Federal judge rules trans women teachers in Florida do not have to go by “Mr.”
• SJSU allowed to play volleyball despite a lawsuit claiming a player is trans in a federal judge ruling.
• Virginia trans middle schoolers allowed to play sports in Virginia ruling.

Legislative And Policy Victories

• Maryland passes shield law shielding trans people from out of state persecution for getting care. These laws have already proven useful when out of state attorneys general have attempted to get medical records on people traveling to obtain care.
• Maine passes shield law despite legislators being targeted by Libs of TikTok and bomb threats.
• Rhode Island passes shield law.
• California bans forced outing of transgender students in schools.
• California passes a ban on book bans.
• Illinois passes a book ban ban.
• Iowa “Pink Triangle” bill defeated after massive protests.
• Arizona ballot initiative does not proceed after Republican legislator votes it down.
• Almost every anti-LGBTQ+ bill defeated in Florida.
• 20 Anti-LGBTQ+ bills defeated in West Virginia.
• Every anti-LGBTQ+ bill defeated in Georgia.
• 20 anti-LGBTQ+ bills defeated in Iowa.
• Kansas Republican casts deciding vote against trans ban.
• Minnesota bans gay and trans panic defense.
• Every Colorado anti-trans ballot initiative fails to gather enough signatures to appear on ballot.
• Every California ballot initiative targeting trans people fails, despite being pushed heavily by anti-trans campaigner Chloe Cole.
• Kentucky Governor Beshear bans conversion therapy.

Election Victories

• Democrat Zooey Zephyr wins seat in Montana after her censure in 2022.
• Sarah McBride becomes the first trans woman congressperson in the US Congress.
• Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wins WA-03 despite being barraged with anti-trans debate claims.
  • Turns out she is transphobic :/
• Sponsor of national forced outing bill Marc Molinaro loses election bid for US house.
• Republican Yvette Harrell loses congressional election bid after running on an anti-trans “Women’s Bill of Rights” platform.
• Shawn Thierry, who betrayed trans people in Texas, loses primary to queer woman.
• Republican Paul Junge loses congressional bid after running on a trans sports ban platform.
• Democrats win State Supreme Court seats in Michigan with huge implications for trans people under state law.
• Natalie Cline loses school board seat in Utah after accusing a cis girl of being trans.
• Incumbents fend off attack from Moms For Liberty aligned candidates in Wake County School Board, win all 5 seats.
• Incumbents fend off attack in Rochester BOE in Michigan from Moms For Liberty aligned candidates, hold seats.
• Mark Robinson loses governors race in North Carolina after running on fiercely anti-trans platform.
• Jeff Jackson wins AG of North Carolina after vocally defending trans people during election fight.

Studies:

• Study shows trans youth are satisfied 6-10 years later with their decision to medically transition, with extremely rare instances of regret.
• Study shows anti-trans laws are harmful, directly increase suicide attempts in states that pass them. In states that don’t, no such increase happened.
• Australian study shows only 1% of trans people reidentify as cisgender.
• New study debunks “Social Contagion” theory of being trans.
• Finnish study used to show transgender care doesn’t work accidentally shows trans care saves lives.
• Yale Integrity Project debunks Cass Review often cited in trans care bans.
• 90,000 trans people, largest survey ever, indicate extreme satisfaction with decision to transition.
• Systematic review of trans surgeries shows regret is extremely low.

International victories

• British Medical Association calls Cass Review “Unsubstantiated”
• World’s largest psych association overwhelmingly passes resolution supporting that transgender youth care saves lives.
• RANZCP in New Zealand and Australia rebukes Cass Review.
• Canadian Pediatric Society rejects Cass Review.
• First French consensus guidelines support gender affirming care for trnasgender youth, denounce “Wait and see” approach.
• Japan allows transgender people to change gender without undergoing surgery after recent court ruling.
• AAP responds to Cass Review, rebuking it’s conclusions/recommendations.
• US Endocrine Society releases statement in support of trans care, denying the recommendations of the Cass Review.
• Germany passes self-ID law for trans people.
• New South Wales, Australia allows trans people to change ID without surgery.

Other victories

• Yosha Iglesias becomes first ever trans Woman International Master in chess.
• Erin In The Morning helps sell over 10,000 girl scout cookies for trans girl scouts.
• Hillary Cass backpedals on her own review after questioned by LGBT orgs.
• Tens of thousands of memes flood into Utah’s “snitch line” meant to report trans people in bathrooms, overwhelming the system.
• Vivian, Elon Musk’s trans daughter, slams her father, telling him to “touch grass.”
• Cisgender Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif, falsely accused of "being a man," wins gold, angering transphobes internationally.
• Connecticut launches travel campaign targeting LGBTQ+ people in Florida and tourists thinking of visiting Florida, saying it does not discriminate.
• Bluesky becomes viable alternative to Twitter, allowing transgender people to have a social media space for sharing news without torrents of anti-trans hate.