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pollik.bsky.social
Brit. Trans. Reluctantly political. Widow. 71yo (2024) Background - probate/exor (asst manager high street bank), subpostmistress/shop owner, bus driver, independent living, mobile librarian, counsellor Unwanted DM means instant block.
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Thought experiment: the rest of the world agreed to isolate USA from trade, cooperation on science, etc. What would that look like?

Next time transphobes call trans healthcare "experimental" you can show them this

BBC1 has nearly three hours of panel shows, back to back, this evening. Should I renew my licence? Hmm Trouble is that BBC does have some bangers like 'Doctor Who' and 'What It Feels Like For A Girl'

Any Questions - Sarah Elliott is some piece of GOP work.

Judge brands Equality and Human Rights Commission “complacent” towards its Public Sector Equality Duty. Another hole below the water line in the sinking ship HMS Falkner. Soon to be renamed with a new figurehead, but remaining on course for the seabed. Insightful analysis from Ashleeee below.

I just published: EHRC still can't explain how or why they published the “bathroom bill” interim guidance ashleeee.substack.com/p/ehrc-still...

Listening to Any Questions, I honestly can't tell it apart from a typical satirical comedy sketch.

Coop bank has been sending me statements for 15yrs. I've just closed the account. Now it wants proof of ID before sending me a payment transaction history. Make it make sense.

Oh look... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

@BrightonCentre (X) We understand viciously anti-trans organisation, FiLiA, is due to hold conference at the Brighton Centre this October. We call on you to cancel. They are only choosing Brighton - that has the UKs largest trans community - to provoke. www.scenemag.co.uk/opinion-terf...

No organisation or service provider has any excuse. If you are being transphobic and exclusionary it is not because you are being "threatened" by transphobic hate groups or because you are "following" the "supreme" court misjudgement. You are doing it because you want to be transphobic.

If you're one of those trans inclusive small businesses which is getting attacked by transphobes, we've drafted this text for your website, or as a standard reply.

The bereaved mother I’m liaising with has emailed the Tavi a second time, to ask again, ‘was my child’s data sent to the DHSC for Prof Appleby’s (discredited) report?’ You gave this information to Caroline Litman about her child, she argues, so why do you deny me? I look forward to their reply.

Because the trans community is consistently misrepresented by our media we are supporting @wearequeeraf.com, an LGBT+ facing outlet, including by giving it exclusive content. Here is its story on the claim we filed yesterday against the EHRC. www.wearequeeraf.com/following-eh...

Should we follow Putin out of the ECHR? Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?

The politicians are bad enough, but it is the media that I see see as the biggest problem. They don't sell news. They sell outrage and division...because drama sells.

Anti-ECHR people looking like hypocritical bellends? Surely not... Oh.

Sainsburys

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅

This is interesting ⬇️ Something to quote in letters to the Women’s and Equality Committee. It adds weight to the argument that Stephenson should not be appointed to chair the EHRC, given the credible evidence she’s anti-trans and therefore not neutral. One for you? @goodlawproject.bsky.social

I want to make an observation. Although Liberty was not granted permission for a judicial review today, the judge described the EHRC as “complacent” in its dealing with the PSED. This is very useful for any future proceedings, including my own proposed case.

This is a big and important statement.

The fact that Bridget Phillipson is now defending Mary-Ann Stephenson's appointment, despite knowing she cannot Chair a neutral regulator, wnd because she is an ideological ally, speaks clearly of Labour's attitude to governance: it is *identical* to that of the Tories.

The hate-group Sex Matters have published their ‘response’ to the EHCR guidance. They are urging the TERFs to model their own responses on it It’s shockingly clear they really do want trans people obliterated from society, as if we didn’t know that already. It does feel pointless participating as

Caveat: I have not listened to this yet.

Everybody should listen to the interview below, in particular MPs. The parliament have only the power to make laws or change or repeal them. I don't know how, but Melinie Field should be invited before EHRC's Guidance gets the stage of debating or approval. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Jesus fucking Christ a bunch of *children* committed an acid attack against a trans woman in Philly. this is what this fucking ever-escalating rhetoric gets us; children are radicalized before they can even conceptualize of the weight of their actions www.inquirer.com/crime/acid-a...

Suzanne Moore ranting about What It Feels Like For A Girl in the very same publication giving it a great 4-star review is sending me 😅