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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 11h

As a transgender woman trying to just live a simple quiet life in the UK, I'm pretty well placed to say this paragraph is complete bullshit and this government are shameless liars as well as hateful bigots who are actively shutting me out of participation in society.

Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 11h

… contains the following:

‘The UK is unwavering in its commitment to the protection and promotion of human rights for all, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other LGBT+ individuals.’

… and …

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 34m

Slow it down; lower the stakes. Again, & again, & again. Trauma recovery is about the jabs, not the knockout blow; the mile by mile pace, not the sprint.

Most of that is contrary to how we've been conditioned, to this is your reminder: try softer. Do less. Manage THIS moment.

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 2h

So far, from this Labour government, I am seeing:

Nationalism, disdain for human rights, scapegoating, controlled mass media, obsession with national security, religion & government intertwined, disdain for intellectuals, obsession with crime & punishment & rampant cronyism & corruption.

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 2h

Have a read of this list, detailing the 14 points of fascism, and see if you think any of these points resonate.

osbcontent.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/PC-00466.pdf

osbcontent.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 2h

Note that I did not say 'agreed', I said 'sympathised', which is a factual statement.

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not interested in being helpful to Labour, & my language is accurate and proportionate.

Can you explain why you think banning evidence based healthcare for trans children, resulting in at least one suicide so far, doesn't qualify as vicious?

Do you also agree with the proposed bathroom ban?

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 2h

I'm sorry that you don't want to see it, but this Labour government is overtly racist, holds extreme anti-LGBTQ views, and is composed of religious extremists.

I don't like it either. But we don't get to wish away reality.

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 2h

Several Labour politicians, including the Prime Minister, sympathised with the racist thugs burning down hotels.

Mahmood is talking about retroactively abolishing ILTR. They've limited student visas. They're planning to change working visas.

Not to mention their vicious anti-LGBTQ policies.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12h

In every possible way Labour's changes to immigration rules are profoundly stupid and damaging.
Not only will they ruin lives of migrants, they will cripple the economy, cost jobs, undermine crucial infrastructure etc etc. Everyone suffers with anti-immigration policies.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Visa changes will make it worse for my business'

Aneesa Khan says she hires chefs from South Asia to meet her restaurant's need for skilled workers.

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 4h

No, I think people just wanted a sensible, moderate party, and instead we've gotten Reform with a veneer of hypocrisy.

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 4h

Labour needs to stop caricturising the working class and stop trying to ape Reform.

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 4h

The bathroom bill, disability benefits cuts, retention of the 2 child cap, banning puberty blockers for ideological reasons, the new Section 28 in schools, increasing racist rhetoric, restriction of student visas, threats to scrap ILTR.

Would you like more examples?

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Finn @finl3y.bsky.social · 7h

Just looking through some stuff for research and this is what Labour said about the repeal of Section 28 in 2001.

The repeal of Section 28 of the 1988 Local Government Act was grossly misrepresented as an attempt to use teaching to promote particular lifestyles. We will ensure that such teaching continues to be prohibited based on the provisions of the Learning and Skills Act, while removing discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 5h

Oh look, it’s Akua Reindorf: Board member of the trans-hostile EHRC giving a talk at the FiLiA conference (which has a whole transphobic ‘gender critical’ subdivision) with a bunch of anti-trans activists! 😖

This, after she attended anti-trans lobby group LGB Alliance conference several years ago!

AKUA REINDORF
LEPA MLADJENOVIC
MIRANDA IMPERIAL
MYRIAM FOUGÈRE
SAM FOSTER
lESBIAN
#FiLiA2025 session announcement
EXPLORING LESBIAN COMMUNITIES
LESBIANS: INSPIRING EACH OTHER TO ACTION!
The panel includes one of our most respected legal authorities, speaking on where we are now and the importance of lesbian community to her.
Global contributions include French Lesbian Activism via Résistance Lesbienne as well as lesbian activism and solidarity in times of conflict from Eastern Europe. La Maison des RebElles in Canada, a ground-breaking social housing project, and women from the London Lesbian Collective talk about organising to build community and political action.
Tickets available nOW!
10th - 12th OCTOBER in BRIGHTON
www.filia.org.uk

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 7h

I could see that being a real winner, especially as YouTube are planning to reduce brand protection.

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Valour @valouriousknight.bsky.social · 8h

Can I just say that in this current era of societal downfall, it is genuinely a great idea both for mental health AND apocalypse skill building, to join your local community farm and learn how to keep goats (and pigs and sheep and chickens)

Milking the goats most Sundays is just....joy

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 8h

Given what they are doing to transgender people, particularly transgender children, I don't care.

None of that is worth children being harmed.

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 8h

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 8h

The last time I had Covid I was bedridden for three weeks.

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 8h

No real feminist would join an anti trans hate group like Filia.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 8h

Ignored by the media and attacked and disparaged by ‘gender critical’ transphobes - There were many cis women OPPOSING transphobia within the FiLiA conference this weekend.

Cis women trans allies are standing up and saying “Not in our name”!

True feminism includes ALL women! 👏🏻🏳️‍⚧️💕

Cis woman protestor holding a sign that says

“FEMINISM" THAT EXCLUDES MINORITIES IS JUST A CLIQUE”

She wears a T-shirt saying
NION
Not In Our Name
All women Welcome

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 9h

As a former Labour voter, I think it's the wrong strategy.

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 9h

"ChatGPT can do that".

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 9h

And the girl was just 17.