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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

… 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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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 5h

He literally encouraged people to punch women going to the toilet if you don't like the look of them.

No free speech issue for me. Prosecute and appropriately punish him. It's not acceptable to anyone with the capacity to think about it.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 6h

Yep. Ollie agrees, and I'm not going to argue. I just have to get up occasionally to refill my coffee and put a new log in the burner. 🔥

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 6h

Morning, Cin! 💜🙌🏻 Yes, it does look beautiful. Thankfully it's not cold yet.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 6h

Morning, Debs! 💜🙌🏻 You need a border collie to get you on your toes. 😅

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 7h

Happy Sunday. ☕

It's a foggy start today. The afternoon is meant to be sunny though. Ollie had me up and out at 6. I'm back in my bed now with the fire going 🔥 and a cup of coffee. ☕

His nibs has gone back to sleep and I'm in no hurry to get up and do anything.

Foggy early morning view of the canal from Isobel's window showing moored boats and trees in the dark mist.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 18h

A party we were told was left wing and for social justice, recruits anti-rights transphobes and says they need to vote on whether a demographic of human beings should have human rights.

D.O.A. 💀

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 1d

Ollie doesn’t ask what the time is. He tells the time what it is.

When he wakes up it’s walk time. 🥱

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Saturday. ☕️

It’s not getting light until after 7 now. Ollie thinks it’s still the middle of summer and woke me up at 5.

The world really feels and looks Octobery. 🍂 I like this month. 🧛🏻‍♀️🎃🦇 It’s not cold yet and the trees are all orange, yellow and brown. The air smells of autumn leaves. 👃🏻🍁

Early morning view of the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch showing moored boats and the marina building under a grey sky.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

People surprised that some formerly sensible left-leaning or liberal women are now apparently full of admiration for white supremacists, rapists and genocide might note that their entry point for far right radicalisation was invariably a belief that transphobia is ‘feminist’. Just saying.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. Why my attitude to it all is fuck off. 😛🖕🏻

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 2d

Your mum's not trans. You'd be amazed what people jump on.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 2d

I've had: It's not ladylike to chop wood on the towpath, drink pints of cider, wear jeans, swear, eat kebabs...

It's like when you're trans some people think you have to earn your own personhood by playing a stereotype as far as possible & will jump on anything they can use to deny your personhood.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely this! 💜💪🏻

I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just Isobel. I wear Isobel clothes and do Isobel things.

If I don't fit anyone's ideas of what I should be like, they can go do one.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 2d

I usually stand mine up in November. Not noticing a difference from summer yet, but it's coming.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 2d

Bore da, Georgie! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💜🙌🏻 Hope you get better quickly. You look after yourself!

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 2d

I was very small when I was first aware. Like 3. Was told I had to be a boy.

Went out a few times presenting female as a long haired teenager. Had to stop that.

Mum died in 2019 and I just let that shell fall off and walked on as Isobel at 43.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 2d

Morning. 🌞☕ Looks like a nice day.

I'm up later than usual and will have to play catch up with the morning's boat jobs. 🥱

Some of them can wait until Monday.

Morning view of the canal from Isobel's roof hatch showing the marina building and moored boats in the early morning sun under a blue sky.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 2d

Good question. I think I spent many years living in a broken shell that I held together for safety. Couldn't give a specific moment it first cracked, but I can say exactly when I let it all fall off and walked away from it.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 3d

I've got this one. Can't remember how much it cost but I bought it so it must have been one of the cheaper, less poncey ones, and it's very nice.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 3d

Charles.

I've got more hunches than evidence here, but I think he's a bioessentialist cunt who's found common ground with Trump over eugenics.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 3d

She's alright. She just never got into BlueSky much. For whatever reason.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 3d

I'm pretty much resigned to turning up in Ireland with a bag of stuff and no plan at some point before the next election.

Nothing I haven't done before. I'm getting a bit old for it though.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning, Cin! ☕️💜🙌🏼 Wishing you a fantastic day too!

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 3d

I think a lot of us are just exhausted. I’ve been looking at SM so much less lately because all the news I see on it is just crushing.

It is very worrying when you notice people who aren’t around.

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