As a kind of follow-up to Dorothy Colleen's book find:

I read and enjoyed this book several years back: Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas
https://www.amazon.com/Cemetery-Boys-Aiden-Thomas/dp/1250250463

And with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead and related observances coming up, I'm hoping your library has/can get it for you.
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PS: Don't buy. It's good for a read-once, and tagged teen/young

Thursday an appeals court denied Trump's illegal law against one's desired or court designated gender on their passport. The court claimed Trump's personal dislike for transgender is not a legal basis for passing a law. Lot of legal speak in the court documents but the general idea is they said it was unlikely Trump administration would win an appeal in higher courts.
This was a complete smack down of Trump's Exec Order ruling all passports must have the birth designated gender on one's passport. The following is one of many news feeds carrying the story.

With the trans population being around 0.5%, politicians can afford to not want your vote. At 0.5 % you are useful as scapegoats though. The recent church shooting, and the trans man in Nashville in 2023 shooting up a school. is really not going to help with the hate. You will get them saying "See, trans people are really mentally ill" this just goes to prove it.

Dr. Shannon Joslin, a biologist and bat researcher who has passionately worked at Yosemite for years as an employee of the National Park Service, was recently terminated by the Trump administration. On their own free time, SJ and six others climbed El Capitan in Yosemite and took part in a tradition of hanging a flag at the top. Hanging flags off El Capitan has occurred in the past without consequences. In February, demonstrators hung an upside-down U.S. flag, often symbolizing a distress call, on El Capitan to draw attention to the mass firings by the Trump administration.

An article from the Guardian citing a report that might be of interest.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/20/trans-people-u...

I have really been trying not to post anything political on this site over the past several months. As much as I sometimes need to vent and I feel that a topic may interest those who read here, I also understand that many may not feel it is appropriate. But today I can’t help but so so.

The Sandie Peggie case involved an NHS nurse who faced a disciplinary process after an incident in a women's changing room involving a transgender doctor.

Ms. Peggie encountered a transgender doctor, Dr. Upton, in the women's changing room at NHS Fife. The exact details of the exchange and the language used are disputed, but it led to allegations of misconduct, failures in patient care, and misgendering. Ms. Peggie also faced allegations of using racist slurs in chat messages and describing Dr. Upton as a "weirdo,"

There have been various debates on trans athletes [in competitive sports] here on BigCloset. Here is a Fact Check on that subject.