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Custodian of trees 🌳 for a Planning Authority 🇬🇧 and trans person trying to exist 🏳️‍⚧️
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NEW: We’ve uncovered how the EHRC met behind closed doors twice with anti-trans group Sex Matters to discuss rolling back trans rights. What they said will alarm you. 1/6 tacc.org.uk/2025/06/23/h...

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

There are a lot of things that are gross in journalism but the abject careerism and moral bankruptcy of the NYT reporters who jumped on the the youth gender medicine “story” is one of the more disgusting things I’ve witnessed

Trans Kids Deserve Better protest at EHRC offices in Glasgow.

Jordan Peterson's completely humiliating and failed attempt to debate 30 random atheists is a great reminder that he's really not worth paying attention to. Posited nothing of interest or meaning and simply played semantics games every time he was outmatched, which was often.

Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.

When Harry Potter (and Cormoran Strike) author JK Rowling could have supported a pregnant woman on her own TV show, she chose not step in. The pregnant actress brought a discrimination claim against JK Rowling's production for violating her rights under the Equality Act, and won.

I beg you - don’t ignore the warning signs that abortion access is under threat on our shores. For the sake of the 250,000 women who have one every year here ask your MP to sign our cross party amendment and vote for it. ONLY NC17 for the policing bill will guarantee their human right 1/2

Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."

Trans Kids Deserve Better has just covered the front of the NHS England with bloody handprints with the words "release the trans suicides report"

Sick of sycamore being called “non-native”? That label’s just arbitrary history, not ecological or cultural truth. Sycamore’s been here since at least the 1500s (Kent records). It’s naturalized & vital. [1/5]

The people wanting to bomb LGBTQ people at a Lady Gaga concert were also pedos with child sexual abuse material. I'm shocked.

I'm researching conservative women and this came up from Oct, to lay to rest again any temptation to think Usha Vance needs "rescuing." She advises and supports her fascist fuck of a husband. Give these women the agency to be the fascist fucks they choose to be www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Far from being feminist, assuming people are 'male until proven otherwise' is about as patriarchal as you can get. This Labour government is monstrous. Performative cruelty in a red tie is as bad as performative cruelty in a blue one. Worse, as they led us to expect better. 🥀 We're organising. 🔶✊🏳️‍⚧️

Pedro with his new super team directive.

Starmer has broken every manifesto promise he has made to trans people; his government is supressing data on the suicides his policies are causing and commissioning bogus reports to attack those trying to tell the truth; and is dishonest about what the judgment means. And now he wants us to shut up?

Minorities were frightened under the Tories. They're now terrified under Labour.

Thread -please read all of it 1/8 An extraordinary day in London. Many thousands. The police seemed blindsided by the way we completely filled Parliament Sq & later the surrounding streets and then St James’ Park. And wow did we need it. But…

There isn't a story on the BBC News site about today's trans rights rally at Parliament Square where it's estimated 20k attended. But they did have a story last week about the Let Women Speak transphobe rally in Bristol where 100 people attended.

Trans rights protest in London is absolutely massive incredible to see 🏳️‍⚧️

Patriarchy is not men. It is a system of oppressions that privileges male dominance. Feminism is not women. It is not anything a woman does simply becasue she's a woman. Femninism is the destruction of patriarchy. Feminism is much more than just equality. I want to be free. Feminism is liberation

To be clear: I have been busy with, well, yeah, but fuck JK Rowling and the anti-trans hate she happily basks in. (And fuck everyone over on this side of the ocean who decided that hating on a minority population like she has was the right approach to feeling better about yourself.)

#OtD 17 Apr 1943 Black students from @HowardU staged a sit-in at a segregated restaurant in Washington DC. One of the organisers of this and other sit-ins in the city at the time was Pauli Murray, who identified as part male and part female stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8851...

Solidarity with trans women after today’s Supreme Court ruling. The rollback of LGBT rights — especially trans rights — is global, bankrolled by billionaires and the far-right. Trans rights are human rights. We must defend the Equality Act and its protections for trans people.

There's a lot of trans people in the UK in denial about what the current situation is there. The UK government doesn't care about you saying "but actually Cass and the court said this." They will do whatever they want, which is eradicating trans people. Facts and logic don't matter to them.

The level of injustice is just so extreme They had a hearing about what rights, what freedoms, what future trans people have... without a single trans person being involved, yet multiple with hate groups They decided we don't deserve equality. Then said "no one won"

Jesse did not ‘question an aspect of the progressive message.’ He dedicated his *entire career* to popularizing the idea that progressives are unhinged, anti-science freaks who are foisting permanent surgeries on kids without assessment.

Are Wes Streeting and NHS England covering up trans suicide data? 🧵

BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway… LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

1. You may have heard about the anti-trans fencer kneeling and conceding to a trans opponent. Now, news has emerged that she collected a $5,000 prize for doing so, while saying her decision will "destroy her life." She also called her kneeling "god's will." Subscribe to support our journalism.

What a summary of the anti-trans movement: March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000

We can exclusively reveal a criminal investigation into the Luxe Lifestyle illegal VIP lane transaction. goodlaw.social/rp7h

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

Cory Booker has officially taken over the Senate floor for over 20 hours to call out Trump’s assault on the Constitution. And is still going.

BREAKING: Appeals court rejects the Trump administration's request to immediately enforce its anti-trans military ban. The Ninth Circuit panel just denied DOJ's request for an administrative stay of last week's ruling agains the ban. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

@marcelias.bsky.social on Trump's 3rd term threats: "He's saying he's not joking, so everyone in the legacy media: wake the fuck up."

1/ The Trump Administration is seeking to force foreign companies worldwide to ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes within their firms if they want to do business with the US government. It's an aggressive expansion of its anti-DEI crusade. ⬇️

Blimey. One of Nigel Farage's biggest donors, and the owner of 55 Tufton Street, is helping the Russian military effort www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

Manifest Destiny on Ice 🥶

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.