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Sophie Guy @sophieguy.bsky.social · 16h

Also I'm sorry you're dealing with this, Jess. It's a really sucky thing to have to deal with and too many people just don't understand. Hang in there x

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Sophie Guy @sophieguy.bsky.social · 16h

If someone is able, masking is a socially responsible thing to do. I still do it when I'm able to leave the house, and I feel safer around those who do. In so doing they demonstrate a level of social care and consideration for the safety of those around them, not merely their own comfort.

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Sophie Guy @sophieguy.bsky.social · 16h

More than that, for those of us who never recover, repeat infections are a terrifying prospect. It can take years to claw back a semblance of function, only to be lost in a moment because some wazzock chose to cough all over you. You get sick again and your body does not handle the strain.

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Sophie Guy @sophieguy.bsky.social · 16h

As someone who's had M.E. for twenty years now, I'm sorry you're having the same struggles, and couldn't agree more with the sentiment. So much of disability is hidden away from public view that many people have no conception of the consequence of not masking. They think it's a cold. It might not be

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Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most perfect example I've ever seen of the extremely common tendency for British people to fantasize that whatever they're doing to minorities is reliably much more decent than whatever America is doing to those same minorities.

ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 1d

Quite incredible conjunction of news stories under the transgender tag at The G, The Trump administration, far right pressure groups, The "Equalities" Commission and the a Labour government, all essentially working on the same side

Transgender

October 2025

How rightwing groups help Trump's education department target school districts

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Equalities watchdog urges UK ministers to 'act with speed' on trans guidance

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 1d

"What we have been through is only a small, small part of what Palestinians have experienced. On the walls of our prison cells, we saw bullet holes with bloodstains and messages carved into the walls by Palestinian prisoners who had been there before us."

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 4d

Any politician can and should do this! It's easy, actually, to stand up for the folks who need it the most.

Lovely write-up by Katelyn here.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 5d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 5d

I have actually never seen a politician say anything even remotely like this. Whatever the follow-through, or not, even the fact he said this is really, really something

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

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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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 12d

- informed consent in primary care
- bulldoze every gender clinic
- hold inquiries into the abuses that went on there
- apologies + damages to patients denied care
- bosh ✊

If someone wants to transition, at any age and for any reason, that’s their business.

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 12d

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 12d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13d

They also say transphobia is awful while treating trans people like criminals.

Almost like Starmer is a lying piece of shit.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14d

Once again Labour's strategy is to say that racism is terrible, and therefore we will defeat the racists by giving them almost everything they want
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/k...

Keir Starmer's Farage-Dominated Conference Takes Labour Up a 'Darker Path' Towards a Reform Government

The Prime Minister's condemnations of Reform's racist rhetoric, was undermined by him accepting the central premise of Nigel Farage's anti-migrant politics, argues Adam Bienkov

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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 14d

Last night, Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla, illegally seizing ships and those onboard.

I've written to the Foreign Secretary, urging the government to condemn this attack and speak up for the safety and immediate release of the 13 British citizens detained.

A letter to the Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper MP on Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP's Parliamentary letterhead. It expresses "grave concern for the safety of British citizens participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla". It highlights the illegal seizure of British-flagged ships and British citizens, calling on the government to "clearly condemn this attack on British citizens by the Israeli military and take every action to have our citizens returned to the UK swiftly and safely."

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 14d

On the Gaza flotilla live stream, one by one, boats are intercepted by IDF & blasted with water cannons until comms are jammed & the feed for each boat goes down.

Israel is illegally kidnapping civilians on international waters, & they're preventing the world from witnessing.

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 UPDATE 🚨

The news is in, and it’s good

🚫 GWD, the anti-trans lobby group led by four disgraced expelled members, has been denied a platform at Autumn Conference

They tried to strong-arm the party with legal threats in order to spread their transphobic agenda

But the party stood firm

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 17d

🚨 UPDATE 🚨

This week, Green Party Specialist Interest Groups will be told whether Party leadership plans to allow GWD to run a stall at Autumn Conference

To be clear: GWD is a transphobic lobbying outfit, fronted by expelled ex-members with a history of breaching party values and code of conduct

Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 24d

🚨 UPDATE

My understanding is that GPEW now has legal advice and leadership are holding high-level discussions about how to handle the GWD stall at Autumn Conference

As I mentioned before, members should be prepared for the likely presence of an anti-trans lobby group led by expelled former members

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 16d

Every example Starmer gave of Britain not being broken is people having to step up where the Government has failed. It should be considered shameful that people have been driven to this point.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17d

This is some Trump level bullshit.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17d

Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, Darren Jones, says that "the progressive movement outside of the Labour Party" must understand that "populism on the left... risks taking us down a much darker path for our country"

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 18d

as a matter of urgency, this labour government must be removed from office

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Sophie Guy @sophieguy.bsky.social · 18d

I'm sure there was something about "the air of England [being] too pure" or the like, but apparently we've moved beyond the peroquial abolitionist morality of the 1700s. This is supposed to be the centre left government, how damn mask off can they get?

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18d

"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18d

What centrists are offering across the Western world is the opportunity for the right to consolidate their gains as hegemonic. They’re offering managerial competence in service to reactionary aims.

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 18d

Dehumanisation as policy.
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...

Shabana Mahmood vows law reforms to prove migrants 'contribute' to UK society

The home secretary signalled in her first major interview since taking over the reins that she believed migration "has been too high".

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18d

I note here that the police raided Nicola Sturgeon’s house live on national television because they thought her husband had spent party donations on a camper van

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18d

I feel it’s very irresponsible and inflammatory to accept donations from extremely partisan pro-Israel billionaires to help wreck your own party, then conceal them from the authorities while booting the pro-Palestine left for antisemitism, while you facilitate the genocide of the Palestinian people.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18d

It seems to me that what Morgan has very obviously done here is considerably worse than the stuff that had coppers storming through Nicola Sturgeon’s front door and digging up her back garden live on national television, and everyone is saying it’s old news and there’s nothing much to see.

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Sophie Guy @sophieguy.bsky.social · 18d

That combo is super cute, Katie. All I can say is thank god it's Autumn.

Also means I get to wear my jumpers again

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19d

“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians

The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 19d

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents.

I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights.

sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

An image of Sian's letter to the Minister for Women and Equalities.

You can read the full text of her letter at:

https://www.sianberry.org.uk/publications/letter-regarding-statutory-guidance-from-the-equality-human-rights-commission/

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