Being able to drive as ourselves and use the correct bathroom are essential to basic everyday life — they aren't privileges afforded to only people who aren't transgender.
We're suing the state of Kansas.
Breaking News: Two transgender Kansans sued the state over a law this week that abruptly invalidated the driver’s licenses of residents who had changed their gender designations.
CASE 0:26-mj-00040-LMP-DLM Doc. 22 Filed 01/23/26 Page 1 of 9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, Criminal No. 26-mj-40 (DLM) ORDER NEKIMA VALDEZ LEVY-ARMSTRONG a/k/a "Nekima Valdez Levy-Pounds"; and CHAUNTYLL LOUISA ALLEN, Defendants. Robert Keenan and Orlando Sonza, United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff. Jordan S. Kushner, Law Office of Jordan S. Kushner, Minneapolis, MN, for Defendant Nekima Valdez Levy-Armstrong. Jill Anna Brisbois, The JAB Firm, Minneapolis, MN, for Defendant Chauntyll Louisa Allen. This matter comes before the Court on the United States' application and motion for emergency stay and for review and revocation of U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas L. Micko's release orders. ECF Nos. 7, 17. Because the United States fails to meet its burden to demonstrate that a detention hearing is warranted, or that detention is otherwise appropriate, the Court denies the motion.
ORDER Based on the foregoing, and on all of the files, records, and proceedings herein, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 1. The United States' Application for Review or Reconsideration of Order Setting Conditions of Release or Detention (18 U.S.C. § 3142) and Request for Hearing (ECF No. 7) and Motion for Emergency Stay and for Review and Revocation of Release Orders (ECF No. 17) are DENIED. 2. Defendants are hereby ORDERED RELEASED under 18 U.S.C. § 3142(c). 3. Defendants are ORDERED to comply with two additional conditions of release (7)(d)* and (7)(e) in the Orders Setting Conditions of Release (ECF Nos. 12 and 15). 4. Defendants are ORDERED to certify their compliance with the additional conditions of release no later than 5:00 p.m. on January 26, 2026, by filing a declaration on CM/ECF. Dated: January 23, 2026 s/Laura M. Provinzino Laura M. Provinzino United States District Judge
Minute Entry for proceedings held before Magistrate Judge Shannon G. Elkins: Initial Appearance and Detention Hearing under 3142(f) as to William Scott Kelly held on 1/23/2026. Counsel to be appointed. Government moves for a detention hearing. Counsel argues as to the setting of a detention hearing under 18 USC 3142(f)(2). Governments motion is Denied. The Court finds a detention hearing is not authorized. Personal Recognizance Bond set with conditions, see Order Setting Conditions of Release. Government moves to STAY the order. Denied. Next appearance date is TBD before a U.S. Magistrate Judge for: Preliminary hrg. Government moves to unseal the case. Granted. Oral Rule(f) Brady notice read on the record. Consular notice read on the record. (Court Reporter Paula Richter) (LEG) (Entered: 01/23/2026) ORDER Setting Conditions of Release as to William Scott Kelly. Signed by Magistrate Judge Shannon G. Elkins on 1/23/2026. (LEG) (Entered: 01/23/2026) Personal Recognizance Bond Entered as to William Scott Kelly. Signed by Magistrate Judge Shannon G. Elkins on 1/23/2026. (LEG) (Entered: 01/23/2026)
All three people arrested by the feds in connection with the protest at the ICE pastor's church — Nekima Levy-Armstrong, Chauntyll Allen, and William Kelly — have now been ordered released.
Judge's order as to the first two: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
BREAKING: We just filed an amicus brief challenging a Florida school board's ban of "And Tango Makes Three," a children's book about gay penguins.
School officials can't overrule the First Amendment.
I am intersex and I exist. I love my trans siblings, who also exist. Our existence, and our resistance, will outlast this administration.
Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...
There is so much context missing from the discussion of the Davis cert petition. People are understandably scared. It’s also incredibly dangerous to act like same sex marriage has already been overturned and much of the mainstream reporting is frankly irresponsible.
Mahmoud v. Taylor was an awful SCOTUS decision, an attack on the humanity of 🌈 families and on some of the basic premises of public education in a pluralistic society. But it’s not the end of the world or of inclusive education...
wrote this up for @them.us today! www.them.us/story/federa...
i think it is bad that high level public officials do not respect the offices they hold or the public they are supposed to serve
If you’d told me as a teenager that as an adult I would be publicly advocating for intersex people in my hometown paper, @inquirer.com, I wouldn’t have believed you!
www.inquirer.com/life/interse...
What happened to "do no harm"? Several hospitals across the US stopped providing necessary care to consenting transgender patients. Still, they’ve spent decades refusing to stop “normalizing” intersex infants’ bodies without their consent. @transequality.bsky.social www.advocate.com/voices/donal...
NEW: We filed a complaint with the National Guard challenging President Trump's executive order prohibiting transgender people from using restrooms aligned with their gender identity in federal buildings.
Everyone deserves equal access to public facilities.
Bright green graphic with text "celebrate trans freedom with the ACLU" with banners over top reading "May 17, 2025, 12PM to 2PM" At the top reads "Freedom to Be, Washington DC" and at the bottom is an ACLU logo.
Bright green graphic with text "Featuring 250 artworks created by hundreds of trans folks and allies across the country, along with live music, DJ sets, and more fun surprises! RSVP at aclu.org/freetobe-dc " at the bottom reads "in partnership with World Pride, NYCLU, Gender Liberation Movement, ACLU District of Columbia"
Kick off World Pride with us in DC on May 17 as we unveil our Freedom to Be quilt made by trans artists from across the nation.
RSVP today at aclu.org/free-to-be 🏳️⚧️
It’s been two months.
My first case as lead attorney at @aclu.org is now on file. As the government tries at all levels to erase LGBTQ people—and transgender people in particular—from public life, the principles we seek to uphold in this case couldn’t be more vital.
You're going to be tempted to engage in discourse focused on what Mahmoud Khalil said--was it actually antisemitic? Did he endorse Hamas?--and I cannot encourage you enough not to do that. It just doesn't matter what he said because you should not be detained and deported over what you say, period.
We coulda had the free lunches for kids guy
Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.
very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman
Despite intersex invisibility in broader society, our incontrovertible existence demonstrates that Trump’s order is neither based in reality nor biology. Countering current medical doctrine and millennia-old literary references, the new executive order makes numerous false assertions that contribute to our erasure, one of which directly pertains to my own lived experience. “‘Female’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell,” reads Trump's executive order. I was born with internal testicles and an external vagina. I have XY chromosomes and my birth certificate has always said Female. I never produced the "large reproductive cell" and only produced the "small reproductive cell" until I was sterilized without my consent as an infant, in order to fit my body into this scientifically unsound sex binary the executive order seeks to falsify into law.
Trump's executive order attempts to codify a grade-school understanding of sex and biology defied by the very existence of intersex people--which is probably why it doesn't mention them at all
I am intersex and I exist. I love my trans siblings, who also exist. Our existence, and our resistance, will outlast this administration.
(d) "Female" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. (e) Male" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.
Big tell in this Trump order targeting trans people: "at conception"
TLDR: There is nothing enforceable for the immediate future. It will take months or years to implement this via rulemaking or bureaucratic changes which are then subject to legal challenge. While it's worrying, there's no immediate change yet for most trans people. Do not comply in advance.
Sec. 2. Policy. (a) It is the policy of the United States that no department or agency of the United States government shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship, to persons: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth. (b) Subsection (a) of this section shall apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order.
BREAKING: Here is Trump's unconstitutional order seeking to restrict birthright citizenship.
It takes effect in 30 days, but expect a challenge as early as tonight or tomorrow. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Undoubtedly, there will be Day 1 and Week 1 executive orders and declarations of policy via social media, not to mention additional attacks in the years ahead. It is critical that, on Day 1 and beyond, we carefully and rigorously work to understand what a given action actually does (and doesn't) do. Very few executive orders change policy immediately. They cannot immediately change regulations, and they cannot change the law as established through statutes and the courts. Rather, there will be steps that take time and follow a clear process (such as the regulatory process requiring agencies to make notice, to solicit comments, to review such comments, and then to issue final rules). In some instances, litigation is not only expected but is also already being prepared. We do not want to encourage anticipatory obedience, rather than asserting what is and is not happening at a given moment.
A colleague shared this advice for processing the executive orders Trump is going to sign next week
Lesbian representation is so important
