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👋🏼 Hiii it’s Trans Awareness Week!

I wrote this poem seven years ago, as I was beginning to grapple with my identity as trans and non-binary. 🥹🏳️‍⚧️

In a political landscape that seeks to eradicate our existence, this piece is about just how alive we are in between and far beyond two categories that seek to constrain and control us (aka the gender binary, oof).

It addresses some of the challenges I’ve faced living in the truth of my gender and life, and despite the progress we have made since I first came out, it’s heartbreaking how relevant these issues still are.

Beyond bathrooms, beyond gender markers, beyond all of this, life’s greatest challenge is for us to truly see each other’s humanity—loving liberation.

Poem: Pronoun Antecedent Disagreement
Book: San Franshitshow
Author: Cal Calamia

As it should be 👏🏼🏳️‍⚧️

Next step, Chicago start line. Next next step, policy change.

We did it. I love y’all so much.

#transathlete #ChicagoMarathon #trans #nonbinary #protecttransathletes

🏳️‍⚧️ This is the catch-22, that to become yourself means to risk what you love. Consider the “trans athlete debate” no more complicated than this, just for a moment. Read it again, please.

Imagine what erasure fear creates. Witness the consequences of courage.

For trans people, find each other.

For allies, carve out space.

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#trans #transathlete #nonbinaryrunner #protecttranskids #chicagomarathon #nycmarathon #ftm #transition

🏳️‍⚧️🏃🏼 Being a runner is one of my longest-held identities.

I learned so much about myself through my sport, including what it means to truly believe in myself and those around me. These lessons, as well as the assurance that I truly belonged, were essential to my evolution as not just an athlete, but as a person too.

So much of the work that I do in the world boomerangs back to my deep certainty that everyone deserves to be who they are and benefit from movement and sport.

At this crucial moment in history, trans youth, especially trans girls, are being excluded from sports in the majority of states. Young runner Becky Pepper-Jackson is challenging this in the Supreme Court.

As we await the court’s decision, Lambda Legal is fighting for trans kids and their right to play sports in community with their peers.

Join the conversation and share how sports shaped you. Please share your story at lambdalegal.org/sportstories (link in bio) to help us highlight the impact that belonging in sports has for all of us.

That collective energy can shift the conversation and make a difference. Love u xx

#lambdalegal #trans #transathlete

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Five years in a row!!! After fighting for a fair spot on this start line and across the finish line, I can’t stop coming back for more. 🏳️‍⚧️⚡️

One time for the race and one more time for the vibes. This day perfectly epitomizes my steadfast commitment to trans excellence AND trans joy.

Thank you to @litoffstudios and my @hoka Cielo X 1 3.0s for helping me set a course PR!!!

Thank you to @gemillewalker for the heroic finish line to Hayes Hill rescue mission.

Thank you to EDNA MODE AND VIOLET for making running the MOST FUNNNNN love u @ameyaokamoto and @nadyaokamoto ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏻‍♀️🤓

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#baytobreakers #nonbinaryrunner #transathlete #sanfrancisco

another day, another slay #BaytoBreakers

No bc this was so fun. We are coming back every year

#baytobreakers #theincredibles

This is a TRIO costume y’all #theincredibles #baytobreakers

Yesterday’s activity went a lil crazy. Switching up the hairstyles like they’re outfits. 12/10 recommend.

#bleach #hair #transformation #trans

🚨🏳️‍⚧️ I was ducking the headlines for a bit in pursuit of peace, but I’m now disturbed (though not surprised) at a new White House document that officially classifies trans people and “pro-trans ideology” as an anti-American threat to be neutralized.

While long-held in our intuition and nightmares, the government has now ~officially~ declared, “In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national CT activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist. We will use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally before they can maim or kill the innocent. We will do the same with the state sponsors of such groups and those governments undertaking lethal plots on U.S. soil or against Americans anywhere.”

Though it is unclear how exactly this strategy will be enforced, there’s much to fear with the close-knit ties between big tech and the government, and the lack of privacy and protection of our personal data and records.

In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice has advanced its investigation of gender-affirming care for minors by issuing civil and criminal subpoenas to hospitals and clinics throughout the nation.

Remember that hatred is coerced out of you. You can choose to love others and fight back instead. And yes, your vote DOES matter… no matter how many issues are on the ballot.

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#trans #transrights #news #community

It’s that time of year again 🤘🤘🫶 the 115th BAY TO BREAKERS

@calcalamia showing off this years bay 2 breakers shirt that I designed againnnnn :)

Very honored to be apart of this 115 year tradition… 🤯

I haven’t been through a drive thru in a while is this a thing??? Bc what in the iRobot 🤖🍔

#burgerking #ai #vegan