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Scottish Green Councillor for Craigentinny & Duddingston, Edinburgh Non-binary They/them
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I’d like to point out the most popular leaders and parties are the ones most supportive of trans rights. Does this prove such a position is what makes them popular? No. Does it prove taking such positions doesn’t make you UNpopular? Yes.

Left: Spectator Right: Bluesky being nasty

Doesn’t support a pregnant person’s right to decide what happens to their body. Doesn’t support human rights for immigrants. Is somehow a Labour minister.

Rebecca Paul MP — who at the Women and Equalities Committee last week spoke so much about women's rights (in order to undermine trans people's) — is now speaking in Parliament against the decriminalisation of abortion. You couldn't make it up. These people are not feminists.

I’m no fan of the Iranian regime but Israel attacked them. I think it’s clear who the principal source of regional instability is.

How is Katharine Birbalsingh allowed to be in charge of an entire school’s education programme? Why would any parent send their child to her?

Apparently the story in the Guardian about toilet policing in a hitherto safe club is about Koko, a venue which would be as vulnerable to a boycott by musicians as it would be to being sued by GCs. Just a thought.

A wave of legislation and executive actions have targeted transgender people, particularly teens, by stripping away gender-affirming care and other essential rights, but intersex people and anyone who doesn’t conform to strict sex binaries also stand to lose something as a result.

Trump’s military parade was actually quite heartening as it made it clear the military rank and file don’t actually like him very much. Honestly, I wouldn’t be keen on someone who made Pete Hegseth my boss either.

Israeli soldiers are committing genocide in Gaza. Yet while Keir Starmer in public is calling Israel's actions ‘appalling and intolerable', in private he's training those very same soldiers on UK soil.

Very sad to hear of Sir Geoff Palmer’s death last night. A truly great man and champion of human rights, it was a privilege to know him. RIP Geoff.

It’s remarkable watching so many moderate Democrats realise, “Oh, actually, you can’t compromise with these people after all.” I hope the moderate parties in the UK realise the same and stop trying to compromise with and kow-tow to Trump.