Mercedes Allen

"On behalf of 25 other member states, Belgium called for a 'no action motion' to block the proposal. Pakistan and Chile were the only two member states to vote with the U.S. against the motion, with 23 countries voting to block the anti-trans proposal and 17 abstaining…"

United Nations rejects U.S. effort to erase trans women: "It stops here" - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/united-nations-rejects-u-s-effort-to-erase-trans-women-it-stops-here/

"While it might seem silly to waste my breath talking about the anti-democratic daydreams of a multi-billionaire, there’s a very good reason I want to talk about this: because this Shopify executive has been trying to influence Canadian policy..."

Shopify's CEO just suggested poor people shouldn't have the right to vote. He's also influencing our politics.
https://rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/shopifys-ceo-just-suggested-poor

"The groups are specifically pushing for the House of Commons Justice and Human Rights Committee to study the issue, which would put it on the parliamentary agenda and force members of Parliament to directly confront the impact of these laws…"

Carney has been silent as Alberta attacks trans youth. Parents and advocates have a plan to change that
https://rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/carney-has-been-silent-as-alberta

Tim Hortons isn't going to let loud, overt transphobia and the direct funding of anti-trans causes get in the way of a little profit.

"This really hurt more than most. How can one person's hateful voice carry this far…?"

Critics slam Tim Hortons Harry Potter promotion as un-Canadian, anti-trans | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tim-hortons-harry-potter-jk-rowling-9.7287100?cmp=rss

"… they know that they don’t have a true foundation in science. So they go through a process of identifying negative personal anecdotes and mobilizing around them. Then conservative news agencies begin publishing articles about the alleged 'victim' in it; this triggers wider news coverage… They’ve produced an entire alternative anti-trans information ecosystem to avoid just coming out and saying Trans people are gross and against God…"

TJ Billard on Anti-Trans Disinfo
https://assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/tj-billard-on-anti-trans-disinformation-and-media/

Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past.

Trump and Musk both want to control America's history - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/07/28/trump-and-musk-both-want-to-control-americas-history/

"The economic and political grievances expressed by the movement’s leaders obfuscate what’s really going on… Alberta separatism, at its heart, isn’t motivated by equalization policies, Senate seats, carbon taxes or oil. These tired complaints may ride shotgun on independence, but bigotry drives the truck…"

Among the Separatists | The Tyee
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/04/01/Among_Separatists/

"At [American First Policy Institute], we care about this issue from no matter what age you are. I think sometimes in policy, we pick the low-hanging fruit and we get the win where we can so that we can keep forging ahead… We’re not going to quit until we see [trans human rights policies] totally and completely overturned…"

Children ‘low-hanging fruit’ in fight to end trans care, official at pro-Trump thinktank says | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/children-gender-affirming-trans-care-trump

"The study authors make no effort to describe how Finland treats patients with gender dysphoria, or highlight the differences between their model and mainstream practices in the field. Instead, they present their findings as relevant to outcomes of medical gender reassignment writ large…"

Finland is Incredibly Bad at Treating Transgender Young People — Assigned
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/finland-trans-study-kaltiala-bad-science

The target was never just trans women alone.

"'WNBA is a hot bed of androgyny and homosexuality that inevitably leads to transgenderism,' he added…"

MAGA hate pastor says women's sports 'inevitably lead to transgenderism' - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/hate-pastor-says-womens-sports-inevitably-lead-to-transgenderism/

"Weeks after Acton endorsed a transgender sports ban and called transgender girls 'boys…' a meeting the campaign promised would begin repairing the damage instead further inflamed tensions… Acton did not show up, her campaign manager barred… a transgender candidate… from even entering the Zoom call… another… was ejected… And in the end, the campaign ultimately refused to apologize… and ended the meeting with no plans for what come next…"

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-ohio-gov-candidate-amy-acton

"here's something that really is happening: ecommerce sites charge parents of newborns extra when they order thermometers in the middle of the night. I'm not saying that anyone ever sat down and said, 'Parents with sick children will pay whatever we charge for a thermometer at 2AM…' this is the kind of thing an automated system can do without any human intervention…"

Pluralistic: The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/30/pay-for-privacy/

"if those incentives to create original, creative, independent content disappear, does content just come from big and powerful companies, or from governments, or from AI itself…?"

The web is being redesigned for AI. What does that mean for human readers? | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ai-summaries-chatbots-human-web-traffic-9.7289409?cmp=rss

"To counteract the threat, Shawn, Quinn, and many others have built up stockpiles of hormones. Sources all shared that everyone they knew had stockpiles or wanted to do so—this practice was so universal among trans people that it was hard to find a single member of the community who hadn’t long ago built their own HRT nest egg for hard times to come…"

What is Driving Trans People to Stockpile their Medications? - Assigned Media
https://assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/what-is-driving-trans-people-to-stockpile-their-medications/

"… she said, it 'may be time to introduce a bill requiring gender-appropriate professional attire for public school employees' to “protect children from being exposed to more complex and mature gender-identity questions and concepts at too young of an age…"

NC Republican Lawmaker Proposes Banning Trans Teachers Who Don’t Dress According to their ‘Biological Sex’
https://www.transiticsnews.com/p/nc-republican-lawmaker-proposes-banning

At Canadian religious conservative website LifeSiteNews, allowing women and girls to get a high school education is "woke."

"The Mounties' stated goal was 'broad penetration of extremist groups' to predict activity and counter it. However, most of these 'extremists' were engaged in legal, democratic dissent. Along with the Assembly of First Nations and Dene Nation, they included the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, Métis National Council and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, known then by different names…"

How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-spies-1970s-indigenous-rights-9.7134112?cmp=rss

"You know what? We could be better insulated against cost spirals like the price of oil due to Trump's war with Iran, by earnestly diversifying into green energy," said no American-owned media outlet ever ever ever ever.

Not The Onion: Woman gives her medal to a man as thanks for ensuring she'll never have to compete for a medal against a woman who she considers to be a man.

Trump fawns over another medal as bobsled legend thanks him for protecting "biological women" - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/fawns-over-another-medal-as-bobsled-legend-thanks-him-for-protecting-biological-women/

Quietly canceling permits, arresting on the street, rapid deportation: Canada trying to be more like ICE…

"It all comes down to two key pieces of correspondence from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) that Nolan says he never received…"

He thought he followed all the rules. Then border guards arrested him on the street | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mental-health-worker-border-guard-arrest-9.7128359?cmp=rss

Mark Carney taking in an anti-vax, anti-trans, Christian Nationalist, Islamophobic, far-righter to get his majority government says everything you need to know about his cynical drive for power, commitment to principles and care about anything but money.

Former Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu crosses floor to Liberals | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-mp-marilyn-gladu-crosses-floor-to-liberals-9.7156167?cmp=rss

"It’s not just that the right disagrees with the complexity of identity and gender; it’s that they really want to make it impossible for trans and nonbinary folks to live the full lives that we deserve…"

Red States Are Quietly Making Lists for Tracking Trans People | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/red-states-are-quietly-making-lists-for-tracking-trans-people/

"Canada's Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he has significant concerns with the way the provinces are overriding Charter rights by invoking the notwithstanding clause, and he's prepared to establish guardrails around its use as the document turns 44…"

Charter at a turning point as it turns 44 | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/charter-rights-freedoms-turns-44-9.7166036?cmp=rss

"What the right cares about here are the messages these laws send… These messages include the idea that sexual orientation and gender identity can’t be intentionally changed… and that heterosexuality is not the default state for all people…"

The right knows conversion therapy bans don't stop them. Here's why they fought to repeal them. - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/the-right-knows-conversion-therapy-bans-dont-stop-them-heres-why-they-fought-to-repeal-them/

"The GDI’s connection to DonorsTrust positions it as a battalion supported by the same army of right-wing megadonors, anti-trans pseudoscience activists, & Christian nationalists on the frontlines of Donald Trump’s all-out assault on human rights…" #AYAGDOS

The Same Dark Money Behind Project 2025 Is Bankrolling A Northwestern Study Recruiting Trans Kids
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-same-dark-money-behind-project

"I wondered what was going through your mind at that moment, why on earth you felt threatened by this little rally marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Why does eliminating racism threaten you so much…?"

To the man who yelled at us at the anti-racism rally ...
https://noraloreto.substack.com/p/to-the-man-who-yelled-at-us-at-the

"Meanwhile, researchers leading AYAGDOS—Littman, Dr. Kenneth Zucker, and Dr. J. Michael Bailey—have promoted pseudoscientific and pejorative ideas about trans people… relied on controversial methodologies that skew study outcomes; and reportedly used unwitting trans women as 'original research' subjects, to name just a few scandals that have plagued one or more of the trio…"

Scientists Behind the "Social Contagion" Myth Are Recruiting Trans Young People For Study
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/scientists-behind-the-social-contagion

"This memo tells the Justice Department they can weaponize conservative Christianity in order to use it against LGBTQ people, women, religious minorities, atheists, etc. An agency that’s supposed to defend the constitutional rights of all Americans is now manufacturing legal arguments for Christian privilege. It acts like damn near every conservative Christian grievance is a potential civil rights emergency…"

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-justice-depts-new-religious-liberty

"The elasticity of Liberal ideology right now poses an existential threat to the NDP, but it isn’t the only threat… Where the Liberals are threatening would-be NDPer-lefties… the Conservatives are eating their lunch… among the working class…"

The Elephant in the NDP race - Nora Loreto
https://noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-elephant-in-the-ndp-race

"A federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas agreed on Friday to convict eight people of domestic terrorism because they wore all black to a protest outside [ICE's] Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas… at which one of the protesters shot and wounded a police officer…"

Jury Convicts 8 in Texas Case Tied to Trump’s War Against “Antifa” | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/jury-convicts-8-in-texas-case-tied-to-trumps-war-against-antifa/

"The Department of Justice is trying to prosecute a man allegedly involved in the movement against Atlanta’s Cop City for using a 'duress' password on his smartphone that reportedly wiped its contents..."

DOJ Charges Alleged Cop City Activist Over “Duress” Password That Wipes Phone | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/doj-charges-alleged-cop-city-activist-over-duress-password-that-wipes-phone/

"Within two years after it launched in 2019, Entropy processed more than $3 million in transactions and experts say it has since grown to become an essential service for dozens of neo-Nazis and white supremacists…"

Canadian company helping white supremacists fundraise from hateful livestreams | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-website-helps-white-supremacists-nazis-monetize-hate-9.7134485?cmp=rss

Well, it happened.

"Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women's events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order…

"… The IOC said that determination would be made on the basis of a one-time SRY gene screening…"

Transgender women athletes banned from women's Olympic events by new IOC policy | CBC Sports
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/international-olympic-committee-transgender-rules-9.7142798?cmp=rss

"… a provider would be required to report… information regarding the prescription or surgery… the prescribing doctor’s 'name, contact information'… this data will be… available to the public via a '… report' published on the DOH’s website…"

Tennessee Republicans Advance Bill That Will Create a Public List of the State’s Trans People
https://transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-republicans-advance-bill

So there's no excuse if FEMA doesn't respond to disaster sites fast enough.

FEMA head claims he “teleported” to Waffle House - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/05/fema-head-claims-he-teleported-to-waffle-house/

"The extent to which people care about a given topic is co-productive with the media environment. The more they care, the more content they’ll see that feeds their beliefs, both because of how social media algorithms function and how media companies respond to topics that deliver them high traffic. And the more content people see like that, the more likely they are to be persuaded that this is something they should care about…"

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/the-right-is-so-hungry-for-anti-trans-stories-that-theyre-turning-to-ai-to-make-them-up/

“'Why are you taking my information down?”… The 31-year-old social worker had been observing and documenting ICE agents…'

“'’Cause we have a nice little database… and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist…'”

DHS Waited Until It Was Sued to Remind ICE Agents About the First Amendment – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/dhs-ice-domestic-terrorism-database-lawsuit-first-amendment/

"In attendance were representatives for the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Zhenya Abbruzzese, co-founder of [SEGM]… also attended…"

Dr. Oz Tried to Pressure Medical Societies to Oppose Trans Youth Care | Them
https://www.them.us/story/dr-oz-trans-healthcare-medical-associations-trump-administration

"However, unlike the other four states mentioned, there is an important caveat: the policy hasn’t actually been implemented yet. DPS employees indicated that the ban, while not in place at the moment, will be enforced 'as soon as [they] get word' from their superiors to do so…"

South Dakota Will Become the 11th State to Ban Gender Changes on Driver’s Licenses ‘Soon’; Trans Residents May Only Have Days to Update their Licenses
https://www.transiticsnews.com/p/south-dakota-will-become-the-11th

"Because censorship undermines literacy, disinformation becomes an effective tool to erase diverse perspectives from the discourse… supplanting them with a version of history that serves those in power.

"'The places where disinformation and censorship become closely linked, are also the places where marginalized groups are ready targets'…"

A Banned Book Club Blooms in Alberta | The Tyee
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/07/24/Alberta-Banned-Book-Club-Blooms-Fight-Against-Censorship/

"'Once people get used to the concept of paying out of pocket for more things themselves then we can change the conversation on health care,' she added…"

Smith Brazenly Broke This Promise on Health Care | The Tyee
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/07/30/Smith-Brazenly-Broke-Promise-Health-Care/