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Trina's Technobabble @trinastechnobabble.bsky.social · 4h

There is a picture of a cat and above the cat's face it says "Every time you repost this image" and below the cats face it says "A trans girl gets hormone treatment and a transphobe dies"

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 10h

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 10h

They're probably actually 32 or something.

PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 10h

God they're all so old.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 15h

One restaurant along the march route also has bunting in support of FiLiA.

The same bunting was reportedly seen at Brighton Railway Station yesterday, however today it is nowhere to be seen.

Bunting in TERF/suffragette coloures in front of a restaurant in Brighton.

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Lee @leewilliamdesigns.bsky.social · 13h

The spin on it as well … ‘feminist group targeted by trans activists’ and then the comments that follow about ‘violent men’. Hello, did we forget the suffragettes used bombs and attacked people and horses?

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 17h

1/🧵 If sexual orientation can somehow vitiate consent, then consider this: if a woman consents to sex only with a man who is recognised as a “Supreme Court homosexual”, after sex he confessed he pretends to be one, could she send him to prison for rape?

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 15h

That's one thing we can unequivocally agree on.

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 15h

One sentence would absolutely repair the act, and the fact that Labour are too far-right to consider this is absolutely on them, but you can't excuse the actions of the SC in all this.

This and their actions leading up to the ruling is enough proof for me to see it as ideologically driven.

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah for sure it would be really easy to fix what was pretty clear and settled 15 year old law.

The point is that imo if anti-LGBT extremists weren't hammering away at literally every avenue of trans exclusion, then this would never have been ruled this way. Ever.

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 15h

In my opinion, there's basically no way this would be misinterpreted by anybody without an axe to grind, and anybody claiming that the EqA2010 never intended to be inclusive of trans people is a fucking liar trying to cover up this axe grinding.

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 15h

That then leads on to the GRA, that explicitly says that someone with a GRC is their reassigned sex for all purposes.

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 15h

If someone can't reassign their sex like the SC claims, how is it that people with gender reassignment are defined as people who have reassigned their sex?

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 15h

I'm EqA2010, under "gender reassignment" it says that someone with this characteristics is someone who is "proposing to undergo, are undergoing, or have undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning their sex.”

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not ruling that out, but if someone tells someone to punch you, you can't say the person who then punched you bears no blame.

The SC intentionally misinterpreted the EqA2010. Whether they did it at the behest of someone else or not, they still did it.

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 16h

While it's true that Labour could attempt to fix the EqA2010, it's completely possible that the SC will just "nah" through the repair and say that sex is again this nebulous "biological sex" that nobody can define, other than to exclude those 'icky tr*nny freaks' from public life.

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 16h

As much as I would like to blame Labour for this mess, the Supreme Court's decision was contradicted in the very piece of legislation they were ruling on.

The EqA2010 is quite explicit under the section under gender reassignment that a trans woman is a woman and trans man is a man for all purposes.

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 16h

This is happening right now, across the UK – affecting thousands of young Trans+ people who are simply trying to be themselves and thrive

Young Trans+ people being inflicted with unspeakable mental and physical suffering

And all the while, anti-trans medical professionals, media figures,..

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 18h

"Laura found an NHS Dr in Brighton who helped support her daughter for 6 months.

Laura described it as ‘six months of support bliss’ before NHS ICB Sussex (Integrated Care Board) began investigating them."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

MP fails to support suicidal constituent

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her suicidal15-year-old daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 16h

British people look at people like Alan Turing, who committed suicide because the British government refused to allow him his humanity, and they will rightly blame the government.

Those same people will look at the same thing happening to trans people for the same reasons and blame trans people.

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 16h

The thing that really grinds the gears of far-right Christians is that even left-wing atheists are better Christians than they are.

They go to the building and say the words out of fear, but others go into the world and do the deeds out of kindness.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

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Citizen X (He/Him) 🏳️‍🌈 @xma1e.bsky.social · 14d

The same Heritage Foundation that the LGB Alliance founder consulted a few months before she and others created the LGB Alliance?

Screenshot of LGB Alliance founder Bev Jackson:

Bev Jackson
@BevjacksonAuth
The leftwing silence on gender in the
US is even worse than in the UK.
This story explains why working with the Heritage Foundation is sometimes the only possible course of action. thepublicdiscourse.com/
2019/04/50959/
11:46 AM • 4/10/19 • Twitter Web Client

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 14d

Months before the general election, Stephen Kinnock and Tan Dhesi were among Labour MPs who accompanied the right wing Legatum Instutute in a visit to the Christian Nationalist anti LGBTQ #HeritageFoundation, architects of Trump's political programme. #r4today www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Labour MPs discussed US/UK Brexit trade deal with Trump allies

Exclusive: Senior Labour MPs were guests at the Heritage Foundation, the USA’s leading right-wing think tank, in Washington DC this week

www.independent.co.uk

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 16h

This is AI generated.

The chair swivels 180 degrees, but she still somehow sits down on the part without a seat.