karinqed.bsky.social
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Das Grimmsche Wörterbuch kennt zwar keinen Strux, aber Struck oder Strucks. Das ist ein gerippter Wollstoff.
www.woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB/struck
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Die österreichische Künstlerin Daniela Luschin malt Frauen, die von ihren (Ex)-Partnern ermordet wurden und erzählt ihre Geschichten. Ihr Projekt "Her last Portrait" sucht noch Mitstreiter:innen, um diese Frauen sichtbar zu machen. ⬇️
dieluschin.at/her-last-por...
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The regret rate for gender transition is less than 0.3% (as compared with an average of 14% for surgery in general and 7% for having kids!) but the media loves to find and platform a regretter.
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Services for trans people have been allowed to wither through lack of funding. In 2002, the wait for a first appointment at an NHS gender clinic was three months; in 2025, it’s seven years.
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Around 2016/17, that changed. Initially, it was an apparent shift in editorial policy at The Sunday Times, then The Times. In the space of one year, we went from almost no articles on trans people to several hundred – none written by actual trans journalists, all hostile or at least negative.
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In the UK, anti-trans attitudes in the public discourse are relatively recent. I’ve been in this line of work for 23 years (I estimate that I’ve assessed and treated around 14 thousand transitioners) and I can tell you that, prior to the last 9-10 years
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Gepflegt ausrasten.
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One of the big prpblems with anti-trans rhetoric is that it inevitably starts using the same arguments that men who want to oppress women use.
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The SC judgment actually talks about a trans woman having to decide which changing room will cause least disruption, but blithely ignores that their reasoning would leave her excluded from both.
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This is one of the more wretched points of the whole judgment. The SC explicitly said trans men could be excluded from women’s spaces for looking “masculine”. While they are also excluded from men’s spaces because they are “biological women”. Literally nowhere to go.
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On the flip side I have found friendships in England to be much more fleeting. People I‘ve hung out with regularly move to the neighbouring village and I never see them again.
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The Supreme Court accepted the submissions of the GC orgs before it that bringing trans people with a GRC within the definition of man or women would create absurdities. But it refused to hear from anyone pointing out the absurdities of excluding them - that's why trans representation matters.
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I'm genuinely stunned. I spoke to KCs at three leading sets of chambers with deep specialisations in equalties law. Each of them told me that For Women Scotland's position was not even arguable.