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Cyclist, kayaker, triathlete, wild camper, immigrant, flaming liberal. 🏳️‍⚧️
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I may be old in years but I’m only just finding the courage to be myself. I say courage, but it’s part anger and part joy. Anyhow, today I travelled 8 hours by train through Switzerland and Germany- and nobody gave a toss. Oh why did I wait this long to find that out? Happy.

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UK followers. Please sign this petition to lift restrictions to prescribing puberty blockers for trans children. Last week I learnt Finasteride - the drug Alice was prescribed because her GP refused to administer a puberty blocker - causes suicidal ideation. The PB ban puts trans youth at risk.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

ok, so basically I'm trying to make this post go viral.

submitted 18 days ago • 509 comments

Every film* made before 2025 portrays the US president as kindly, benevolent, wise, knowledgeable or respectable and suddenly they seem anachronistic and somehow twee. Like Hallmark movies, they seem to hark back to a bygone age. Oh well. * except Back to the Future 2.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I thought that Dump said he only needed to be a dictator on day one? We’re into the third week of it now.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

CDC removes references to trans people on website

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Same exact thing.

submitted 21 days ago • 60 comments

Last time around the Nazis burned the scientific and medical journals about trans people in a funeral pyre. This time, they’re just hitting a delete button! 😣

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Munroe Bergdorf On Trump 2.0 And The War On Woke: “Your Exhaustion Is Precisely The Point” “Conservative prime ministers spearheaded an incessant and absurd “war on woke”. A more appropriate name would be a war on empathy” www.vogue.co.uk/article/munr...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

submitted 67 days ago • 71 comments