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My research into the effects of the UK puberty-blocker ban was published only 10 days ago, it has already been viewed more than 7,000 times! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

Worldbuilding talk! Some people have noticed that SF2 is pretty hopeful and happy. Why? The brain is naturally inclined toward pessimistic risk assessment. That includes fandoms. It's why we see so much grimdark pokemon! So make a setting worth fighting for. GMs are welcome to make it grimdark!

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Yknow what? I’ve been sitting on this for a decade because I’m not into punching laterally but I AM FINE with punching far right lunatics. Just a handful of short weeks before GamerGate started, Briana Wu, who I spoke to 0 times before this, sends me this wild ass email. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

Bit rich complaining about New York being taken over by immigrants when there's a big fucking statue in the harbour that invites everyone to come live there.

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

I did say the thing!

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

PROVOKE AND PUBLICISE Tomorrow in the Houses of Parliament the transphobes will attempt a “Provoke & Publicise” action. Provoke and Publicise was originally developed as a tactic by racist segregationists in US states like Alabama & Oklahoma to try and stop the civil rights movement there… 1/7

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Fascinating exchange on X between JK Rowling, For Women Scotland and Lucy Hunter-Blackburn. I sat down at Scottish Labour Conference with Ann Henderson and Norma Austin-Hart for 45 minutes. They objected to me describing LWDS as an anti-trans group, I argued my case. Ann also asked about my garden.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Look, I know none of us want to give in to the bigotry, and im not suggesting that we just cave in, but we have to find workarounds to the difficulties we are gunna face whilst this is all going on and we are waiting for legal challenges to go thru. Visit: www.essehouse.co.uk/pip-program

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

The illegal ban on trans people using the correct toilets in parliament imposed just two days before our mass lobby of MPs is basically Starmer saying to trans people; “You have fewer democratic democratic rights than cis people. We don’t want MPs to listen to you as constituents and voters.”… 1/4

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

Any lie will do. Apparently I was subject to JKR vilification this week, based on a Jo Bartosch article and associated social media. Allegedly I ‘breezed past gender-neutral facilities’ in Portcullis House. Apparently I am either ‘well over 6’ tall’ or am 6’5’’ am ‘huge’ or built like Hagrid.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

We should all be concerned about plans to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Targeting non-violent protesters in this way is a misuse of terrorism-related powers. It sets a dangerous precedent, which governments in future could further use against their critics.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Hahahahaha this is amazing coz she FUCKING LOVED being friends with Stephen Fry. He's EXACTLY the sort of twee faux-intellectual celeb that people like Joanne have on their dream lists of dinner party guests.

submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

JK Rowling is now saying that trans women who use women's toilets should be assumed to be a threat and is encouraging her followers to photograph and harass online those they believe to be trans.

submitted 3 days ago • 105 comments

The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does. #201FirstNationsArticles

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

Here’s the thing. There are over 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the USA. Many of us have been tracking the right-wing capture of law enforcement for years and years. We’ve been talking about it. It’s well known.

submitted 5 days ago • 61 comments

Open letter calling for an inquiry into the EHRC. I’ve just signed. organise.network/actions/peti...

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

I am glad that I wrote this article. McBride did real damage with her interview, as should be clear by people who are allies and even some trans people arguing for sports bans. I can promise you that capitulating won’t slow down the extreme stripping of rights. If anything it’ll speed it up.

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

Do you love published TTRPG adventures and adventure paths? Do you want to see small press, indie TTRPGs publish more adventures? Buy the ones that are out there. Prove to the small press publisher industry that adventures can sell. 1/x

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Finally got everything together and ready! #trenchcrusade

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Mind-blowing story in the Daily Rowling of Allison Bailey, sacked by her vet they say because she was rude and a massive bully to their staff, suing it for £25k via Akua 'Honest Guv, I really am an independent EHRC commissioner' Rheindorf KC. JK Rowling's billions have properly rotted their brains.

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

I couldn't let that Confessore piece slide. It was such a disgusting hit piece on a vulnerable community in a moment of crisis. I dissected the article and why its framings are dishonest at best and outright lies of ommission at worst. www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

🚨 Last night JK Rowling attacked The National as an "anti-woman newspaper". I think that is absolutely ridiculous chat. Here's my open letter setting out why this kind of attack does not work on our team. www.thenational.scot/news/2525321...

submitted 7 days ago • 111 comments

grateful to once again be having a conversation about the bullying tactics of trans activists

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

In a rare moment of good news, the appalling rise in hate crime towards trans people have caused the Government to agree to support a new clause in the Crime and Policing Bill which will increase the punishment for them. hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

1/🧵 After 14 months, 20 emails, 4 ICO complaints, and 1 tribunal case, NHS England finally responded to my FOI about Hilary Cass’s creepy citations: no discussions about those citations were ever recorded, past or present. This severely undermines the credibility of the Cass review.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

submitted 11 days ago • 231 comments

Someone is mad Horus Galaxy got banned off Reddit. Also they fact they think that bait works for anyone who is actually in the community and has seen the breadth of Warhammer subreddits on Reddit is just sad.

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

Sorry to be a tiresome old fart about this. I'd like to remind so-called 'old school' trans women that I transitioned in 79, have never been stealth, came out as a dyke in 84 after getting bored with shitty men, have always fought for women's and queer causes and am in solidarity with young queers.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

biological sex is NOT binary. that is 'settled science'. you are literally just making shit up bcos you can't handle that science doesn't fit your simplistic world view. you transphobes are like creationists denying evolution.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

The #CASS Report, it's not peer-reviewed, it's merely a biased essay. #CASS is devoid of any sensible arguments against gender affirming health care. #CASS subjects us to a carefully crafted sideshow of straw man conjecture, smoke and mirrors. www.thenational.scot/news/2516682...

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

“You are over here gooning to the shadows on the cave wall” is the new “cellar door”

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

Very happy to see the founder of Pregnant then Screwed coming out in support of the only amendment that actually decriminalises abortion. This chance may not come again so, please, use our tool and ask your MP to vote for NC20. It takes seconds action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis....

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Bats with tinnitus hallucinate monsters, sonic cities, howling gods. They are revered as shamans, and in chiropteran hieroglyphs they are drawn with their ears full of stars

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Wild stuff from Kishwer Falkner: the UK lost on Article 8 in Goodwin and the Supreme Court in For Some Women Scotland did not agree that Article 8 didn't apply - it didn't address Article 8 at all.

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

The Chair of the EHRC, Baroness Falkner, just claimed in Parliament that Article 8 of the Human Rights Act doesn’t apply to trans people and falsely said the Supreme Court agrees. MPs must speak out. Email your MP now using this template: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

For those not tracking, Rifts Africa is (arguably) one of the worst books I've read for a mainstream #TTRPG. It was so breathtakingly awful I use it as an example of how not to do things. Almost anything you homebrew will be better than this book. In my own Rifts...1/3 pocgamer.com/archives/858

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Looking to respond to the EHRC consultation on their guidance about single sex spaces Here’s a master list of letters and information criticising the EHRC position…

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Seriously, do not buy, stream, or otherwise support of promote more Harry Potter bullshit. It is no longer theoretical - Rowling is funelling those wizard bucks into getting the law changed to actively oppress an already-vulnerable minority.

submitted 40 days ago • 41 comments

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.

submitted 15 days ago • 67 comments