1. If someone seems to strangely walk up to you holding a microphone up to you saying "i'm just asking questions." they are likely Boditle (a well known alt right troll who will posts their interactions on Youtube with your face without asking for your permission.) or they may just be an right wing troll. So without adding a celebrity name to it, these individuals are usually signified as alt right trolls or similarly.
2. If someone doesn't have a microphone and they approach you, to talk, make good judgement. Do they make you feel comfortable with their presence, are they talking like they are seriously here for the movement, protest, or LGBTQ+ parade. Are they questioning your sign or shirts, or outfit (if you're holding a sign or etc.)
3. You should avoid putting hands on the individual (even if they aren't seriously injured they can still claim assault to the law cops against you.) and report them to the event organizers, and if things escalate, with the alt right trolls behavior

Fantasic breakdown. Explains how fascists operate and how to handle them.

I wasn't sure if I could link this here. I would consider this related to current events surrounding us in the LGBTQA+ community, though it's not news.

"In a landmark decision issued late Friday, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s passport policy targeting transgender Americans."

From Substack: (Erin Reed) "In case you missed it: The Trump passport ban is BLOCKED! But right now, the ruling only applies to defendants. I am expecting this to be expanded to a class covering all transgender Americans, but for now, if you are transgender, my recommendation is to continue to wait until we get that class certification. Once the ruling is expanded to all trans Americans, I will inform my readers, and that will be the time for you to rocket-speed file your passport updates."

They can't use this to make a useful database of we just flood it with whatever lol

Link for those who feel like doing a little low effort sabotage. I was trying to find conversion therapist info to report them but couldn't find anything. Could be an idea. Report transphobic businesses or doctors.

The UK Supreme Court has ruled the legal definition of a woman excludes trans women.

Gender care: The treatment of trans youth with puberty blockers is a Dutch invention that is now used worldwide. However, in an increasing number of countries, there is growing debate about this ‘Dutch Approach’. NRC spent a year and a half at the oldest and largest gender clinic in the Netherlands, where this care model was developed in the 1990s. „They think you can just roll into a transition…

I was casually browsing on it today and now all profile pics showing a penis are blurred so you must upload a face pic to unblur the pictures.

Anyway, that means you can't browse profiles without disclosing your identity using incognito mode. At the same time it means your actual photo is now illegally being collected by a shitty company because there's no such law in Washington state dictating that websites must blur content if not presented with a photo to match to photo ID. The website says that they will use your photo to match with your ID....who gave this company access to everyone's IDs?

Anyway I could not screen shoot it from incognito, but maybe one of you fine awesome people could?

If you need a bit of substitute parenting try [email protected] I've found them great for moments when you need a parent but don't have one to go to. They're really lgbt inclusive 😊