dispatch from demonic legislators

and something about enormous zippers

Welcome to this week’s dispatch from the lesbian internet, a mid-week news roundup from Paging Dr. Lesbian, exclusively for paid subscribers. If you like this type of thing, tell your friends to subscribe.

Some heavy news to start:  Last Thursday, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth, in addition to a ban on public drag performances. Tennessee has now become the seventh state to ban gender-affirming care and the first state to ban drag. Unfortunately, last week was a very dark time for anti-trans and anti-gay legislation overall – read about the progression of other bills here. Meanwhile, in Iowa, hundreds of high school students staged a walkout to protest anti-LGBTQ legislation. For further context, check out this deep dive into the context of today’s war on drag. You can donate to the Trans Justice Funding Project, which redistributes funds to grassroots orgs around the country, here.