Hi friends, I’m out of jail. They tried to charge me with two misdemeanors and one felony.
I was booked, so many of your messages did not come through until about 11:48pm when I was able to turn my phone back on. It’ll be a while before I get to everything, but know I’m okay.
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it's just Twitter, y'all. community organizer | political strategist | radical dreamer | best hugger | unapologetically queer, trans, first-gen | eptx & atx
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In this moment the most upsetting thing is that in the video being widely circulated, it clearly shows me doing absolutely nothing wrong. Yet, I was still thrown to the ground, pinned by four men, mistreated, and detained… all to be let go 8 hours later. Free and still harmed.
So the officers knee appears to be on my backpack that is then pressing against my head. Phew.
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Replying to @reportsbychar @SpectrumNews1TX and @TXCapTonight
#AnglesMatter
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“It’s none of your business what medical decisions my parents my doctors and I make together.”
-10 year old Texas trans kid
9 yrs after top surgery, I regret nothing.
Thanks for asking!
Living my best life bc I was able to access healthcare! But the reality is that no one should be denied any safe medical treatment because one religion disagrees with it!
Have a good weekend!
I hope you find peace.
All the hot takes from the folks who did not grow up in a 90% Hispanic community dominated by law enforcement agencies as the only means for upward economic mobility are all missing some very vital information.
Having an abortion at 16 years old saved my life.
Everyone loves someone that's had an abortion.
Trans rights advocates chanting in the Capitol after Public Health committee cuts testimony off at midnight. Over 2700 people showed up from all over Texas to register their opposition to HB 1686. Over 450 people signed up to testify. Pushing this bill is anti-democracy. #txlege
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We're all hands on deck in Texas and I just want to chime in & say: We NEED you to love transgender people. Right now. Loudly.
We NEED you to love transgender youth
We NEED you to have the difficult conversations
The future of transgender people across the country depends on it.
Fuck you, we don't have power and you're busy going after me because I'm trans?
SOME PEOPLE ARE TRANS. GET OVER IT.
#txlege #icestorm #TexasFreeze #atxwx
I have absolutely zero respect for you if you have the audacity to sit in a room with a parent who lost their elementary school child and your priority is defending access to fire arms. Y'all are all cowards if you don't do something. #txlege
We’ve been warning that the legislative attacks on trans people would lead to violence against trans people. The bills themselves are violent enough but I never thought that I’d be slammed to the ground in my own state’s Capitol. What happened on Tuesday is NOT normal.
Just retweeting so I don’t lose it at this point.
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Replying to @reportsbychar @SpectrumNews1TX and @TXCapTonight
#AnglesMatter
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I accidentally texted an estranged family member on the REACH App. It turns out that the trans rights media frenzy from February to August reached my own family members and now they’re really supportive of trans rights and they’re really proud of me.
(Here’s your story of hope.)
Friendly reminder that the Texas Public Policy Foundation and Texas Values are full of shit when they say they want to protect children.
The single number one threat to Texas school children is gun violence. Throw your weight behind gun safety legislation. Cowards. #txlege
Three anti-trans healthcare bills up next week at the Texas Lege. Time to show up for trans people and kids.
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Are you talking about this? This is the insurrection? Reverends, kids, parents singing folks songs with Adri? Terrifying.
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Hey Twitter,
A middle school friend designed these shirts to raise funds for Texas nonprofits that support trans youth across the state. #ProtectTransKids
You can grab one here: urbanlifestyleapparel.com/collections/bu
Once upon a time I was a trans kid in high school who never thought it would get better for me and others like me.
It did. And I’m so grateful I held on long enough to see it.
There are better days ahead. Today is not the end. We will keep fighting and we will win.
#txlege
Yesterday, more people died in El Paso than in the STATE of New York.
More than in 37 states, actually.
The people suing the county are millionaires. The county is not the enemy for doing the right thing to stop this from getting worse.
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A state appeals court on Thursday put on hold El Paso County’s shutdown of nonessential businesses.
COVID-19 has hit this area with such force that patients are being airlifted to other cities in order to make room at local hospitals. bit.ly/32JghAu
Transgender people belong:
✔️ In sports
✔️ In Texas
✔️ At the Legislature
And we won’t let you take away our access to gender-affirming healthcare. Not for kids. Not for anyone. 🏳️⚧️✨
#txlege #ProtectTransKids #TransPeopleBelong
HB 25 is about to pass the house on second reading. It’s a tough night to be a trans Texan. While I’m crying alongside you, please don’t lose hope. Please know: We see you. We love you. And we will never stop fighting for you. #txlege
I have a degree in Biology. Good try.
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Obviously you did not attend human anatomy or even elementary science class. You really should seek mental health care for your gender dysphoria.
If “Abolish ICE” and “Chinga la Migra” make you more uncomfortable than the president calling brown people animals y’all should re-evaluate your values.
Happy Pride Month from the second DFPS Council meeting since Texas tried to criminalize transgender teens and their parents.
As one testified said: “These meetings would get a whole lot shorter if you stopped these investigations”
Definitely demanding my glasses in that first photo.
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LGBTQ rights activist @AdriPerezTX was detained by DPS troopers as activists protested SB14 outside the Texas House of Representatives at the Capitol today. The bill would ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender children.
A message for every ~*~*ALLY*~*~ to the trans community, from a Texas advocate:
🏳️⚧️THE TIME TO SPEAK UP IS NOW🏳️⚧️
Not 120 days from September 20th when the law goes into effect and you “can’t believe this happened,”but NOW.
RIGHT. NOW.
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“Kids my age don’t care about that stuff, they care about what’s in your heart.” - Sunny, 8 years old.
I am a transgender adult and I am begging you to stop letting them attack our trans kiddos.
#txlege
It’s Trans Day of Visibility! 👀
Take this day to witness, uplift, and support the magic and fearlessness of trans people. ✨🔥
What I want is a thread of selfies, pets, joy, love, abundance, struggles.
Whatever it is, I want to see it.
Today and everyday.
#TDOV
Hello Texas Legislature, we’re here to say something loud and clear.
Or rather, big and bright:
#txlege #ProtectTransKids
Good morning, in case you were wondering how Texas is wasting your money while our cities flood, freeze, and go without healthcare: it's the first day of the Special Session and there are already FIVE anti-trans bills.
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Here's a screenshot of every single person in the #txlege that chose to make it easier for people to get a gun without a license, background check, or training.
Not a single one of you has an ounce of integrity to claim you sincerely care about addressing gun violence in the TX.
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This is a horrific & heartbreaking situation. I’ve reached out to Rep. King and am keeping in touch with @TxDPS and @TDEM as this develops and more info becomes available. Please pray for the students, teachers, families and everyone else involved. twitter.com/Uvalde_CISD/st…
Greg Abbott made an appearance in New York. #txlege
There’s been some trolls saying “this isn’t the way to get people to listen.” M’am 2700 people showed up to testify AGAINST this bill who didn’t get to go. The community that solves and supports trans people is being silenced in these legislative hearings.
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Trans rights advocates chanting in the Capitol after Public Health committee cuts testimony off at midnight. Over 2700 people showed up from all over Texas to register their opposition to HB 1686. Over 450 people signed up to testify. Pushing this bill is anti-democracy. #txlege
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I promise if you help build a world that validates the existence and freedom of transgender existence that it will mean liberation for you too.
If you want to support Texas trans kids, adults and all those who love them -- the best way to get plugged into the organizations doing work across the entire state is by visiting: TXTransKids.Org.
And above all: support your local LGBTQIA+ Center or org.
The lack of action to prevent people from dying in El Paso County is effectively genocide.
El Paso is 80%+ Latinx with almost TWICE the national poverty rate in 2019.
They're letting poor brown people die and it IS genocide.
This part.
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Today at the Capitol Adri was going around and trying to gently calm down some of us who we chanting and confronting the anti-trans singers. The fact Adri is the one being detained right now is extremely upsetting.
The testimony in this hearing is absolutely heart breaking.
Personal narratives of a suicide note written in a blue glitter pen by a twelve year old kiddo hit particuarly hard.
Randomly bursting into tears about how cruel this is happens regularly now. I am full of rage, hope, and a determination to keep fighting but I wish none of this was happening at all. I am brought to tears at the pain my community is holding simply for being brave enough to exist
“If you or anyone you know is impacted by this opinion or any false accusations, please reach out to us. We are actively monitoring this and working to ensure that transgender youth continue to thrive here in Texas.
•lambdalegal.org/helpdesk
•intake.aclutx.org"
We won, if only for a bit. We won.
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VICTORY: A judge has BLOCKED Gov. Greg Abbott and @TexasDFPS’s unlawful actions targeting essential medical care for transgender youth.
This weekend, Austin was blessed by all of the best trans people in Texas. And together we showed up to speak up, to share joy, and lastly, to just pause.
And every single one of us who does this work, or who is impacted by the most recent attacks, needed it more than ever.
Friendly reminder: trans people are magic. 💕✨
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Adri Perez, with Common Cause 866ourvote, leaves Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, Texas with an emergency ballot for a person hospitalized with Covid-19.
#Vote2020
#ElectionNight
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Trans kids are not a threat.
Trans kids deserve dignity, love, safety, and the freedom to participate in k-12 sports with their peers.
#txlege
I received the Johnson and Johnson vaccine today and it is a very surreal feeling.
Yes, my eyebrows are always serving some serious attitude but I was trying to not burst into tears in a Walmart.
“Gender affirming health care saved my best friends life and it has been an honor to see them thrive as who they are” -My best friend making me cry at this meeting
We're now getting calls from kids and parents in other states wondering if it's safe for them to come to Texas.
The damage and fear ripple far beyond the borders of this state.
To the Texas legislature: I do not need your permission to exist. I simply do.
Hey Bob, it’s racist. He’s making racist remarks. Clearly he thinks he’s the standard to uphold and adhere to. The 82% of ‘Hispanic’ El Pasoans he’s mayor to are not normal to him.
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For the second time in recent weeks, El Paso's @mayor_margo has made inflammatory remarks about COVID-19, this time comparing hospitalization rates of Hispanics to those for "normal Caucasians," @Elida_S_Perez reports. elpasomatters.org/2020/11/21/el-
I love you so much, El Paso.
#LoveForElPaso
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A year ago, El Paso experienced a racist terrorist attack that killed 23 people. This was the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern American history.
This year, we take action because we won't let hate silence our communities. Go to votolatino.org/elpaso
#LoveForElPaso
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I know everyone says their dog was the best dog… but Ollin really was the best dog.
My best friend, my most steadfast supporter, showed up to this DFPS meeting to testify. I've been doing this work for a long time without family support but my incredible friends always come through.
Show up for the trans people in your life. It makes a huge difference.
Steve Hotze and several people with red shirts on were among some of the folks still in the Gallery when they grabbed me and threw me out. Jesus. What a day.
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It has been decades since the last time the Texas House gallery was ordered completely cleared out. Longtime observers say it's been at least 30 years since the last time it happened #txlege
.@jasminefor100 office is my favorite office and you can’t change my mind.
This meeting is the worst of them. I hope you understand that.
We have done this countless times before at the legislature and this meeting? This is the worst one.
Reader: this woman corrected someone who misgendered me as “she” to say that I am a “he.”
Happy to report you’re both wrong. Have fun! Either way, it does not affect your life!
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You mean HE! He is a man pretending to be a woman!
Reminder to myself and all that our liberation exists outside of and beyond this oppressive as hell legislative session.
We've always been responsible for caring for each other and we will continue to, beyond September 1st, and in every chaos the future holds. #txlege
Representative Anchia making a point that no school district has come to testify in favor of the ban on transgender kids participating in sports. #txlege
I absolutely would've-- and was on the precipice of-- ending my own life because I could not access gender-affirming care.
I just don't know what else to tell you to make it make sense that attacking the rights of trans kids in this way is senseless, cruel, and has no basis.
I love people. I love democracy. I love my city. I love defending and protecting civil rights for all.
I hate being in the national news because my community is suffering from a deadly pandemic and I have to run around ensuring people’s votes are cast.
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Adri Perez, with Common Cause 866ourvote, leaves Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, Texas with an emergency ballot for a person hospitalized with Covid-19.
#Vote2020
#ElectionNight
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May the best part of today's Senate State Affairs hearing be that I stood up when they dared to assert that trans men don't exist.
Listen, I appreciate people raising awareness about what’s happening to transgender people. But y’all… we haven’t lost yet. We keep talking about the loss of healthcare as though it’s inevitable. And it’s not. We can fight back and win.
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HI. Love you. Also started a bail fund that you boosted once. We are holding a webinar for parents tonight and generally people can sign up to take action at txtranskids.org.
Paxton and Abbott came after trans youth and their loving and supportive families. So we sued to protect them.
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BREAKING: We are suing to block the state of Texas from investigating parents who support their transgender kids.
Trans youth and their families have been under attack for too long. Enough is enough.
As a deeply sentimental nerd, this means so much to me
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HR 252: Honoring Adri Perez for working in behalf of the LGBTQIA+ communities in Texas. capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/His #txlege
It’s the “you don’t ge to define who I am” of it all.
It’s the “here I am, existing. beautiful and without a single regret because this healthcare saved my life” of it all.
Have a good night 🙏🏽💕
I really love that El Paso does this.
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El Pasoans who cast votes in 2022 will be rewarded with a unique sticker designed by Layla M. Gonzalez, a seventh-grader from Jose J. Alderete Middle School in Canutillo. elpasomatters.org/2021/11/10/see @Alderete_Eagles @CanutilloISD @EP_Elections
It is life-saving care to provide healthcare to transgender people of all ages and it is nothing short of a death sentence to deny that care. This is unfathomably cruel & it should not be happening.
Access to transgender healthcare SAVES LIVES.
El Paso won it’s Safest City designation in the years we had the LOWEST number of police officers.
Police officers don’t keep us safe.
More than anything, I want trans kids to exist freely. The relentless attacks on my community for our determination to be who we are in this world are cruel and deeply harmful.
I need you to give a shit about what's happening right now and I need you to say something about it.
Every bone in my body wants to travel to Uvalde if only to fucking translate for the folks that don’t understand what is going on. Because I know damn well there are too many young kids having to understand something they should’ve never had to.
Parents who support their trans kids are heroes and should be celebrated as such.
Hi, I'm a nonbinary person that can (and did!) get pregnant. You're a woman! That's great!
When you're referring to a right that applies to me too, I'm literally just asking you to acknowledge that people other than women can be pregnant. twitter.com/sheisstocked/s
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And on the eve of my 12th (!!!) Coming-Out Anniversary… I present my father enthusiastically pointing at a “Love Wins” sign.
It may never be perfect, but it always gets better. ✨
As a queer hopeless romantic—that’s been in at least 3 long distance relationships— I know that finding true love in your city can feel impossible.
That’s why this Pride month I’m partnering with to get you the points you need to get rapid rewards.
"El Paso Millionaires sue El Paso County over shutdown order" would be a more accurate headline after my research.
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My Mexican upbringing has prepared me for this exact moment. Can't enter without saying hi to everyone. Can't leave without saying bye to everyone. twitter.com/jen_rice_/stat
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Hello— it’s us
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Doing this work as a trans person is truly a nightmare but I can't imagine doing anything else.
Texas alone has introduced ~65 anti-LGBTQ bills~ in 2021.
Of those, ~39 bills~ are specifically targeting transgender KIDS and their right to
1) access age-appropriate, best-practice healthcare &
2) participate in K-12 sports as their authentic selves
#txlege
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.@NewsHour reported in June that state legislatures across the country had introduced more than 100 bills to restrict transgender people's rights. to.pbs.org/3yezerL
If my dentist asks me what I'm listening to today and I have to answer with "myself" and "on a podcast with JVN" I might never recover.
Gender-affirming healthcare saved my life. So much so that 7 years later I still tear up thinking about it.
Support trans youth in your life. Fighting to ensure access to medical care that affirms transgender youth is life-saving work.
This is the dog the shelter called me about. I am still extremely reluctant but she's really winning me over.
FYI: A world that allows life-saving medical treatments for lupus and cancer to be withheld because it interferes with reproduction, and may induce an abortion, is the same one that allows trans kids to be denied life-saving medical care such as hormones and puberty blockers.
Just a thought, but maybe we could consider that the people obsessed with talking about the genitals of transgender kids and adults are the ones doing the sexualizing.
Transgender people are not the ones talking about genitalia 24/7.
When I testified before the legislature in 2017 to say that if it hadn’t been for hormone therapy I would be dead, I meant it.
I was 21 and thrived in the months after accessing hormones & top surgery, but for four years before that, I coped w/depression in less-than-ideal ways.
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Today CDC released data that 1 in 4 LGBTQ youth attempted suicide in the first half of 2021.
When we discriminate against #LGBTQ ppl on topics like same-sex marriage, workplace discrimination, trans athletes, K-3 ed: queer teens are listening, internalizing, and suffering.
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I have been informed that this post is insulting to cockroaches. I agree. I apologize to our insect brethren.
I am not a problem. I am trans, I am queer, I am nonbinary AND I am caring, beautiful, intelligent, & so much more. I'm so completely done with this debate over our lives.
The problem is politicians who aren't doing their jobs of caring for their constituents. Not queer people.
GIRL, LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE TRANS PEOPLE THAT ALL LOVE 13 GOING ON 30.
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