Katie Lahnstein

Attorney, Runner, Hasher, Glitter Aficionado, Curly Hair Struggler, Proprietor of Uhland Manor in Eckington, generally over excited about shenanigans. she/her

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

My daughter just asked my birth year and I said 1976, and she said, "Dang! That's close to the Holocaust." And I was going to object, but it's actually closer to the Holocaust than it is to the present day and now I'm messed up for the rest of the day.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

8. "The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health has developed a resource to inform parents and guardians, educators, and other persons supporting children and adolescents with information on what is gender-affirming care..."

MORE: https://t.co/7eMxtSqEgh

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

7. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, which falls under HHS, has released "new information for providers confirming that providing gender-affirming care is neither child maltreatment nor malpractice".

READ: https://t.co/49B3l2Ze1C

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

6. HHS's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration released "LGBTQI+ Youth – Like All Americans, They Deserve Evidence-Based Care" to affirm the critical need of gender-affirming care for trans and non-binary youth.

READ: https://t.co/kPG28p0hv8

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

5. The Department of Education's Office of Safe and Supportive Schools is expanding trainings with more resources to educate school leaders and communities about the challenges facing trans and non-binary youth and their families.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

4. Department of Health and Human Services released a new website that offers resources and guidance for LGBTQ youth and families, to counteract several GOP-led state governments removing such resources from their own websites in recent months.

VISIT: https://t.co/Ebf9QfAHlW

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

3. TSA is also:

-- Working with airlines to implement non-binary markers during the flight booking process
-- Removing gender considerations with validating traveler info at airport security
-- Including non-binary markers during TSA Precheck enrollment + CBP Trusted Traveler

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

2. TSA announced that they are updating their body scanners at airport security to move away from tech that has led to trans and non-binary travelers experiencing frequent discrimination, reducing unnecessary and invasive and humiliating body searches. So excited for this!!!

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

1. The State Department announced that starting on April 11th, U.S. citizens will be able to select "X" as a non-binary gender marker on passports. They are the first federal agency to codify this inclusive policy. Applicants can already self-select w/o medical documentation.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Good morning! Happy #TransDayOfVisibility!

The White House and federal agencies put out a number of wonderful announcements about trans rights a few hours ago, and I'm so excited to tell you about them because today should be about trans and non-binary joy. ❤️

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[DCist @DCist]

"Some adults won't just believe in us:" We spoke with kids in D.C.'s wards 7 and 8 about what kind of support they need from the community. https://t.co/vW6q5VASjV

[TeachingFacultyUnion@HU @LecturersHU]

Here's more info about our fight:

[The New Voice of Ukraine @NewVoiceUkraine]

If NATO does not close the sky over Ukraine, Russian missiles will afterwards fall on its territory.

https://t.co/U2OuHzJVUD

[The New Voice of Ukraine @NewVoiceUkraine]

An alarming morning in the capital of Ukraine again. An explosion in Kyiv damaged the facade of a building and the office space of the Lukyanivska metro station. Russian terrorists again fired on residential areas in Kyiv's Podilskyi district and Osokorki.

Photos: ДСНС України

[TIME @TIME]

.@Kristen_Arnett: "If there is no support for our queer and trans teens, then there is no hope for Florida’s future. Our community will suffer. Where there is no safety for our youth, there is no safety at all" https://t.co/rXpHBq0iGb

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

A few weeks ago, parents, activists and educators in a red state where Republicans hold a legislative supermajority successfully beat back an anti-history (CRT) law, & yet I saw no national coverage of it at all. This says something important about media. https://t.co/DX8VhARxTh