Kristin Beckstrom Radcliffe, MSW, LCSW

11/05/2025

Just get out of your comfort zone 🤷‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️

11/04/2025

This.

11/03/2025

Today is Transgender Parent Day 🩵✨🩷 We celebrate the joy and resilience of parents who are trans as well as those who parent trans children. Everyone deserves the right to live their lives as their authentic selves.

11/02/2025

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11/02/2025

Transgender Parent Day is a special day celebrated annually to honour and recognise transgender parents and parents of transgender children. This day is opposed to the more traditional Mothers’ or Fathers’ Days.

Transgender Parent Day is celebrated annually on the first Sunday of November. The month of November is chosen because it is Transgender Awareness Month, and also the month that includes Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Transgender Parent Day is especially important for transgender parents who may feel isolated or invisible in their communities. It’s a reminder that they are supported, appreciated, and accepted for who they are. It’s an opportunity to create a community of support and understanding for transgender parents and their loved ones.

Transgender Parent Day was first established in 2009, to celebrate and recognise transgender parents and parents of transgender children.

11/01/2025

10/31/2025

10/31/2025

Cruelty doesn’t survive on its own — it needs people who excuse it.
Those who look away.
Those who stay quiet.

Silence is complicity.
Neutrality sides with the oppressor.

Real love doesn’t look away — it stands up. 🌈❤️

10/29/2025

In Memory of Lia Smith

March 7, 2004 – October 18, 2025

Our hearts are heavy as we honor the life of Lia Smith — a bright, courageous young trans woman, student-athlete, and advocate whose light touched so many.

Her loss is a painful reminder of the cruelty so many trans people still face — and of the urgent need to create a world where every young person knows they are worthy and wanted.

Lia was just 21 years old — a double major in computer science and statistics at Middlebury College, and a diver on the women’s swimming and diving team. She was also an outspoken advocate for transgender rights and inclusion.

In a better world, this story would have been one of discovery, joy, and self-acceptance. Instead, it ended in tragedy. Lia’s death by su***de is not only heartbreaking — it is a devastating reminder of the cruelty, fear, and hostility that so many transgender people endure every day.

Lia was a student-athlete, but this year she wasn’t allowed to participate at all — excluded because of an incredibly hostile political climate and the failure of institutions like the NCAA to stand for fairness and inclusion.
Two years ago, she was a talented young swimmer at Middlebury. Today, her name and profile have been quietly erased from the college’s athletics website. We can only imagine the pain and isolation that kind of rejection must have caused. For someone whose love of sport was part of her identity, that loss must have cut deeply.

We send our heartfelt condolences to Lia’s family and friends — especially her parents, sisters, teammates, and all who knew and loved her. May they find comfort in knowing how many lives Lia touched, and how deeply her courage and advocacy continue to ripple through our community.

The transgender life is not an easy one, even under the best of circumstances. But being trans in a time when political leaders weaponize identity, when laws threaten your right to exist, when even spaces meant to celebrate your gifts become closed doors — that multiplies the pain beyond measure.

At Real Mama Bears, our mission has always been rooted in support, education, and empowerment. We believe, fiercely, that together, we can change the world. But that world must include trans youth who are protected, affirmed, and free to live out their gifts — not punished for who they are.

Lia’s story reminds us, with unbearable clarity, why this work is so urgent.

So today we implore you to stand with us and help build safer communities where every young person knows they are worthy and wanted.

Because every time we lose one of our own, the world grows dimmer.
But every act of love and advocacy helps light the way forward — toward the world Lia deserved: one of discovery, belonging, and unconditional love.

May her memory fuel our resolve.
May her courage call us to action.
And may we, together, continue the work Lia believed in — building communities of safety, love, and belonging, where every young person knows they are worthy and wanted.

10/26/2025

Absolutely 💯

10/25/2025

Learning is not becoming 🏳️‍⚧️

10/25/2025

I am so sorry. The Supreme Court will decide on Nov. 7 whether to hear a case that would ban gay marriage nationwide. 🏳️‍🌈

Only ten years ago, in June 2015, the Court legalized marriage equality for same-sex couples in Obergefell v. Hodges — guaranteeing our right to marry.

⚠️ Now, less than a decade later, the same Court — packed by conservatives and Donald Trump’s hand-picked justices — is considering rolling back that right. The case comes from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.

🧱 What’s at stake: If the Court agrees to hear the case, it opens the door to undoing decades of progress and throwing millions of couples and families into uncertainty and discrimination. “Equal marriage” would go from a protected right to a political debate again.

🔥 This is about more than marriage. It’s about whose rights matter — and whether justice means the same for everyone. The Court was stacked by Trump for a reason, and now it’s being weaponized.

🛑 We can not let this slide. Share this post. Be loud. Organize. Because if the Court moves, your freedom might be next.

Follow Josh Helfgott to stay updated. 🏳️‍🌈