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Equality, human rights and human decency. Supporting the heroic people of #Syria as they celebrate freedom & recover their country following 14 years of genocide. Psychotherapist. #DSGBV #FreeSyria💚 #TransRights🏳️‍⚧️ #SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #StopGazaGenocide

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Grannies4Equality @grannies4equal.bsky.social · Nov 13

I have created a starter pack of those who support & provide accurate information about the Syrian struggle for dignity, freedom & justice.

Please reply with those I haven't found yet, or let me know when they arrive here.

Don't forget Syria

go.bsky.app/9FkfuUb

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CASE Coalition @casecoalition.bsky.social · 12d

PLUS:

Energy company TAQA has SLAPP-ed a former employee after he refused to participate in practices he believed violated labour and immigration law.

Their cease-and-desist letter sought to prohibit the target from discussing the matter, even “in private.”

www.the-case.eu/latest/from-...

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CASE Coalition @casecoalition.bsky.social · 12d

⚠️ IT'S A (DOUBLE) SLAPP!

@casecoalition.bsky.social has verified TWO new SLAPPs, both concerning Italian citizens who tried to raise their voices for the public good.

📣 Italy, where are your SLAPP protections? 👀

#StopSLAPPs

a cartoon drawing of a red alarm with the words siren blaring above it

ALT: a cartoon drawing of a red alarm with the words siren blaring above it

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CASE Coalition @casecoalition.bsky.social · 1d

If clinicians and academics can’t critique approaches to mental health treatment without fearing lawsuits, how can we have honest, evidence-based discussion in psychotherapy & healthcare?

🤐 SLAPPs don’t win arguments, they just silence them.

#StopSLAPPs #AcademicFreedom

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CASE Coalition @casecoalition.bsky.social · 1d

📚 O’Dowd’s piece was a professional critique - the kind of contribution journals exist to foster.

Moreover, it was taken down immediately after O’Malley complained...

👀 Yet instead of moving on, O’Malley pressed ahead with legal threats, demanding damages and costs.

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CASE Coalition @casecoalition.bsky.social · 1d

✋ It’s a SLAPP!

🤔 Why debate when you can silence with a lawsuit?

Stella O’Malley and her organisation Genspect are doing just this in threatening to sue fellow psychotherapist Leonie O’Dowd over an article in the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy.

👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...

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Grannies4Equality @grannies4equal.bsky.social · 2d

'Huge waiting times for trans healthcare in the NHS, in children’s & adult services, are by design. Better political & institutional decisions in Spain have removed this waiting list, delivering far better outcomes at a fraction of the cost'

growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/12/t...

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 2d

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps

The campaigner, who spent more than a decade in an Egyptian ‘vortex of incarceration’, wants to join his son in the UK while he reflects on the fight for freedom The British-Egyptian human rights activist and writer, released from more than a decade in continuous detention in Cairo, has said he wants to come to the UK to be with his autistic 14-year-old son. Alaa Abd el-Fattah said he feared his mother might have died on hunger strike during the 12 years he spent in what he described as a “vortex of incarceration”. Continue reading...

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Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social · 4d

3 women die w/n 9 days in September because of poor conditions and lack of medical care

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi: “Detaining sick prisoners in the prisons of the Islamic Republic is a clear example of torture, and killing them by denying their right to medical care is an act of crime"

#Iran

Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social · 4d

Women Are Dying in #Iran ’s Qarchak Prison

(h/t Center for Human Rights in Iran)

#IranHumanRights #WomanLifeFreedom

eaworldview.com/2025/10/iran...

Women Are Dying in Iran's Qarchak Prison - EA WorldView

Women detainees are dying in Iran's Qarchak Prison, notorious for its poor conditions and lack of medical care, with 3 perishing in 9 days.

eaworldview.com

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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 4d

Great article in today’s Irish Times about @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social and today’s @global-run.bsky.social. Look out for a wave of joy and positivity and solidarity in parks around the country (and the world) today.

@grahamclifford.bsky.social
#SpeirGorm

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Global Solidarity Run calls on governments to show ‘decency’ to people forced to migrate

More than 15,000 people across 100 countries to take part in Irish-led global event on Saturday

www.irishtimes.com

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 4d

New TKDB protest for the 1st Nov

transkids deserve better!!

TRANSPHOBIA

ALL OUT AGAINST !!

All out against transphobia! On Saturday, November 1, TERFS intend to march in London, demanding trans exclusionary, discriminatory legislation, and threatening trans people on our streets.

We cannot let this happen unchallenged- they may have been emboldened by the Supreme Court Ruling, but so have we. Just a few days after ruling, we marched through Westminster to express our rage, be with community, and make it clear that we would continue to fight for trans liberation. That march was only the start.

We need as many people possible out again on the first of November, to show up for collective liberation and show the TERFS that they will never divide us. less

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 5d

SEEN Police UK state the drop in number of hate crimes against trans people is fraud, as GMP are taken to Judicial Review after a secret policy of refusing to deal with ANY reports of hate crimes against trans people is obtained.

How far does this go? This ‘data’ is shit

www.gov.uk/government/s...

Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2025

www.gov.uk

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 5d

AGP, defined as "sexual arousal felt by a male at the thought of himself as a woman" barely made it into DSM-V, as a specifier to "transvestic disorder," not a standalone diagnosis. It has no relevance to a diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria, but is routinely used by Genspect & others to sexualise...

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 5d

"By filing these claims, O’Malley and Genspect are attempting to chill public debate on matters of significant societal and medical importance."

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 5d

Stella O'Malley (7 years experience of well-funded anti-trans rhetoric) & Genspect (4 years of well-funded anti-trans advocacy) have taken legal action against 70-year-old Leonie O'Dowd (40+ years experience of counselling & supporting trans people) to shut her up. www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...

It’s a SLAPP: Stella O’Malley Targets Psychotherapist and Rights Advocate Leonie O’Dowd – CASE

www.the-case.eu

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Grannies4Equality @grannies4equal.bsky.social · 6d

When asked who she met in Yarmouk, Catherine Connolly deflects into a twee story about swapping rosary beads with a Palestinian there.

Is this who she swapped with? The commander of the @Butchers of Yarmouk', her guide when visiting the site of the massacre of Palestinians?

Irish Syria Solidarity Movement @syriairl.bsky.social · 6d

Catherine Connolly says she met 'Palestinians' in Yarmouk. She 'can't remember' their names

We know

Her guide in Yarmouk was Saed Abd Al-Aal, commander of the Free Palestine Movement, the 'Butchers of Yarmouk', where the FPM operated as enforcers for Assad thru massacres & rape.

Irish Syria Solidarity Movement @syriairl.bsky.social · 6d

Dear
@catherinegalway.bsky.social

You have spoken a lot in your campaign about your honesty and your dislike of hypocrisy. You have also claimed to support the Palestinian people. We, the Irish Syria Solidarity Movement, have questions.

telegra.ph/Open-Letter-...

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 19d

A reminder - especially for all the far-right aligned snoopers here:
The anti-trans hate-group ‘Sex Matters’ and especially Maya Forstater- have been lobbying the government for mandatory Digital-ID
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 24d

Huge numbers of far-right aligned ‘Gender Critical’ accounts losing their shit over what looks like the imposition of mandatory digital-Id

They can thank Sex Matters for greasing the tracks of this - just to ‘beat the trans’es

The mugs were played, just like separatist LGB are being played.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 16d

Dear Immigrant. When you’ve finished your night shift at A&E, please spend a couple of hours picking litter in the park or we’ll kick you out. Yours, the Labour Party

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17d

This is Genspect trying to pathologize trans people as inherently violent and prone to terrorism and mass murder by virtue of their identity.

This is an absolutely heinous proposal.

Alt text: Screenshot of a section titled "Importance" with white text on a black background. The text explains that extreme overvalued beliefs are seen as a major motivator behind terrorist attacks, assassinations, and mass shootings. It describes how forensic psychiatrists and psychologists often encounter patients with bizarre beliefs during threat assessments or forensic examinations, but these beliefs do not meet DSM-5-TR criteria for psychiatric disorders and cannot be fully explained by terms like delusion or obsession. The passage notes that unclear definitions of psychiatric terms complicate matters, leading media and psychiatrists to mislabel acts of terrorism or violence as being driven by delusions or paranoia. Instead, such individuals are said to possess extreme overvalued beliefs, which they act upon as a defense of those beliefs. The section concludes by stressing the importance of creating clear definitions of psychiatric terms, like "extreme overvalued beliefs," to avoid misattributing acts of violence or terrorism to mental illness. Hyperlinked words include “threat assessment,” “insanity defense,” “delusion,” and “obsession.” Citations [1], [2], [3] appear in the text.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17d

Anti-trans hate group Genspect is formally calling for trans people to be repathologized. This is most certainly to set the stage for mandated conversion therapy and potentially forced institutionalization.

archive.ph/yA2Wh

Alt text: Screenshot of a press release titled “Genspect Calls for Re-Psychopathologization of Transgender Identification.” Subheading: “Statement for Immediate Release” by Genspect, dated 27th September 2025. Below the title is an abstract graphic of a stylized “G” composed of textured shapes in teal, purple, and pink. The text beneath reads: “On day one of the Genspect conference in Albuquerque, Mia Hughes announced the official launch of Genspect’s Re-psychopathologization campaign in her talk defining transgender identities as extreme overvalued beliefs.”

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Grannies4Equality @grannies4equal.bsky.social · 20d

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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 23d

We join @pressfreedom.bsky.social in condemning Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists and media workers, the deadliest attack on the press in 16 years. Journalists are civilians and must be protected under international law. We call for accountability and end to impunity. @penmena.bsky.social

Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 25d

Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded by CPJ, following the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. Read more: cpj.org?p=522184

Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists marks deadliest global attack in 16 years - Committee to Protect Journalists

Washington, D.C., September 19, 2025—Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers on September 10, signal that it...

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Grannies4Equality @grannies4equal.bsky.social · 23d

A Community Sponsorship Group in Dublin are raising funds to meet rent & living costs of an Afghan family, incl a child & 2 women,who will soon arrive in Ireland

They will be granted visas bec of very severe risk to their lives bec of their former human rights work

www.gofundme.com/manage/help-...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23d

They want you mad at trans people and immigrants so you don’t think about them shifting wealth from the bottom to the top with every move they make.

And Trump’s trillions transfer is accelerating the process.

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