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  • Trans activists stage bathroom sit-in at Capitol Hill [from Dec. 2024 - photo, barf alert]

    02/12/2025 6:04:25 PM PST · by simpson96 · 21 replies
    The 19th ^ | 12/05/2024 | Orion Rummler
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Transgender activists staged a sit-in on Thursday inside the women’s bathroom closest to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office on Capitol Hill, to protest Republican-led efforts to keep transgender people from using restrooms that match their gender identity. The protest marked a shift in some LGBTQ+ activists’ approach to calling for change ahead of a second Trump administration that is expected to enact harsh anti-LGBTQ+ policies. The sit-in was organized by the Gender Liberation Movement, a volunteer-run grassroots group that previously took to the streets of Washington, D.C. to protest Project 2025, a policy blueprint for a second...
  • Federal judge orders Chelsea Manning's release from jail

    03/13/2020 5:53:50 AM PDT · by BBQToadRibs · 7 replies
    CNN ^ | March 12, 2020 | Katelyn Polantz, Veronica Stracqualursi and Mark Morales
    Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning will be released from jail after being held for 10 months because testimony she refused to give to a secret grand jury is no longer needed, a federal judge said on Thursday. Manning's release comes because "the business of (the grand jury) had concluded," Judge Anthony Trenga of the federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, wrote on Thursday. "The Court finds that Ms. Manning's appearance before the Grand Jury is no longer needed, in light of which her detention no longer serves any coercive purpose." Manning was fined $256,000 in fines for refusing to testify,...
  • Trans military intelligence leaker Chelsea Manning arrested for storming women's restroom on Capitol Hill

    12/06/2024 2:27:04 PM PST · by BlackFemaleArmyColonel · 43 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 12/6/2024
    Chelsea Manning has been arrested along with more than a dozen others for storming the women's restroom on Capitol Hill in protest of Republicans' congressional transgender bathroom ban. Activists led by the Gender Liberation Movement held gathered outside of Speaker Mike Johnson's office in the Cannon House Office Building on Thursday. The group held banners that read 'Flush Bathroom Bigotry and Congress Stop P**sing on Our Rights' and chanting 'Speaker Johnson, Nancy Mace, our genders are not a debate!' Among the protesters were Manning, a 36-year-old former Army intelligence analyst, who was taken into custody and charged with crowding, obstructing...