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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1h

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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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 1h

The state abuse of trans people has been described as a humanitarian catastrophe. There may be a case for a case at the Hague for a crime against humanity and certainly prosecution of those involved including the fraud Hilary Cass. Piers Morgan isn't innocent either if that will stop him smirking.

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 2h

Zack is getting traction among the pro-Ukraine bros for lamping Reform over their connections with Russia.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny7q...

Reform UK Has a Russia Problem, & People Are Starting To Wake up to This. Gill & Farage's Russiagate

YouTube video by ATP Geopolitics

www.youtube.com

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 5h

Pull on the thread of Russian money and it cause a domino effect knocking over Reform and the Tories, the Heritage Foundation, and billionaire's like the Mercer's and Rowling et al, and perhaps even the Labour party. Kier "Security" Starmer seems very shy of this or releasing the Russia report. 🤔

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 5h

UK govt and media specifically target trans people who have no representation by out trans people in mainstream politics, media, the judiciary, large organisations etc.

Overwhelming majority of trans people avoid the cops.

Hate crime statistics against trans people has been fiddled down.

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 5h

Farage, gold, and the Russia connection. Those accusations are not going away!

www.rand.org/randeurope/r...

Gold Rush: How Russia is using gold in wartime

RAND Europe researchers examined how Russia has been using gold since its invasion of Ukraine, how its gold sector and gold producers currently operate, and how Russia will generate gold revenues and ...

www.rand.org

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 7h

Both TRON and The Matrix are conceptually similar and fights against authoritarianism etc. The far right are just frikkin magpies.

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 7h

The right wing fear their loss of status and relevancy and feel scared moving out of their comfort zones.

Change is happening even if they can't see or want it and they'll all be popping their clogs soon enough.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 12h

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

www.sureserve.co.uk

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 7h

It's really a fight between progressive post-war consensus versus authoritarian neoliberal fascism. Left and right are dated and inaccurate labels.

Progressive models provably work whether you're talking economics or trans rights because we've done it before.

Neoliberalism provably doesn't work.

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 8h

On Youtube some anti-woke multimillionaire petrolhead boomer and chum of Brexiter and far right inclined Lord Bamford is trying to say EV cars aren't up to the public policy challenges.

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 8h

Current politics is a fight between those who want to rekindle progressive post war consensus versus those going down the authoritarian neoliberal route.

If a market trader like Gary Stevenson is in the same position as trans people it says think bimodal systems than labels "left" and "right".

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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

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 8h

Strategically the same blocks in the system Gary Stevenson has identified on economics and equality are exactly the same for trans rights. Same gatekeeping.

The position of trans people in the UK has been described as a humanitarian crisis.

We know progressive models are proven to work.

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 8h

The issue is refreshing the progressive post-war consensus versus cratering in more neoliberal fascism.

It's people who solve problems vs ideologues living in a political-media bubble.

"Left" and "right" are dated and inaccurate labels.

I voted Green and got Green. Very happy I did.

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 8h

National security is a big topic. It's not just kinetic but also society, economics, and healthcare etc. I'm not wholly persuaded violating international law is great for national security...

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 9h

I have asked the same questions Gary asked and even is it my fault or the trans communities fault? The answer is no.

Yes we need a govt which is receptive. If we don't get that we need a country to provide a model where self-id and informed consent etc work. The problem is we had all that...

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 9h

The arguments Gary uses on gatekeeping are exactly the same issues trans people face when dealing with govt, media, and the NHS etc etc.

Church of England attitude on women? Be less angry... NHS on trans women? Do something about your anger... Economics? Class anger...

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 9h

Structurally the arguments on economics and equality are exactly the same as trans healthcare and rights.

Both economics and trans healthcare are dominated by fossils who have been institutionalised.

Have a mind of your own and you are rejected by the system.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ul...

Can Labour be saved?

YouTube video by Garys Economics

www.youtube.com

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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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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 18h

'Tron: Ares' mode for Teslas has to be the most tone deaf movie and product tie-in ever. Wendy Carlos is a transgender woman who wrote the original Tron theme tune and Tesla is owned by a giga transphobe.

www.thewrap.com/tron-ares-mo...

'Tron: Ares' Mode Turns Teslas Into Glowing Light Cycles

The "Tron"-themed navigation update hit the EV grid with the rollout of the Disney legacy sequel

www.thewrap.com

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 23h

Sit tibi terra levis - May the earth rest lightly on you

Diane Keaton 1946-2025

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 23h

Cause, winter's passed, spring and fall,
You never wrote me, you never called,
Nathan Gill you've been gone too long.

Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 23h

I just discovered there's loads of hotels named after Bristol. There's hotels in Paris and Odessa both of which were named Hotel Bristol as Bristol like London was associated with luxury.

Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 23h

My new ELF pencil sharpener is good. It comes with a removable lid top and bottom to catch shavings and a tiny pick to clear the blades.

New blades help a lot! I bought a ten pack off Ebay for when I need them.

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