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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve created an FAQ resource with common questions that might be raised by MPs.

Find the resource at: tinyurl.com/Bathroom-Ban...

Ask your MP to urge the government to scrap the bathroom ban.

You can find our resource for meeting your MP at:
tinyurl.com/Meet-Your-MP

#ScrapTheBathroomBan

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Lisa Power @thisislisapower.bsky.social · 1d

Good on Lammy for pointing out that while he's the first black person to stand on the winning side of the despatch box, two black women have stood on the other side before. Though honestly, it should be less "congratulations" and more "about bloody time".

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

A historical moment in Parliament as Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy becomes the first Black person to ever answer a Prime Minister's question. 👏

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Lisa Power @thisislisapower.bsky.social · 1d

Meet the Author: Ophelia Field - The Favourite
Wednesday 3 December, 7pm

Visit Queer Britain Museum to meet author Ophelia Field, interviewed by Lisa Power, as they explore the history behind the award-winning film.
Book online: link.outsavvy.com/xba5kvw1

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Who could have predicted that what voters wanted after all were candidates with even a modicum of a spine? This was truly unknowable before today.

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Lisa Power @thisislisapower.bsky.social · 1d

Save this for the next time some Terf decides to speak on behalf of all cisgender women. And the next, and the next because they don’t love facts.

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 2d

Well this is depressing and familiar >>

I scored 90% on Have I Got Phobia For You. Test yourself here www.higpfy.co.uk

Have I Got Phobia For You

Bringing attention to the often harmful practices of our mainstream media. Thankfully the days of vile hostility against gay people are now more or less over, but, reading today’s newspapers, there’s ...

www.higpfy.co.uk

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, look what the Forstater case has unlocked…

The racist is found to be unlawfully stopped by the police because of his protected characteristics of political belief.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Tommy Robinson found not guilty over border stop terror charge

Far-right figure was driving Bentley to Benidorm with thousands of pounds in cash when he was stopped by police, court heard

www.independent.co.uk

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 1d

My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...

Astro-TERFs - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies

In the backlash against trans rights in the UK since the late 2010s, the LGB Alliance has been implicated as a leading exponent of the new moral panic, typified by its newspaper campaign against GRA r...

bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

I emailed Nadia Sass the wife of the man who was charged alongside the former leader of Reform Wales, Nathan Gill, & she sent me a long reply..all about Nigel Farage.

The weird thing is that I didn’t ask her anything about Nigel Farage.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Funny* isn't that the Media complain about the 15% payrise for Train Drivers over 3 years, or the 22% payrise for Doctors over 3 years.

But they ignore the 76% payrise for CEO's over the last 5 years, or the 38% payrise for Bankers in 1 year.

*Disgusting

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 3d

Asking for pavements and dropped kerbs to be kept free for those who need them isn’t too big an ask. It’s the absolute bare minimum ✍️Stephen Price

Chasing pavements: Can we have our streets back, please?

Stephen Price Towards the end of my dad’s life, his only option to get out and about and away from the confines of his small flat and the TV screen was through the (initially very reluctant) use of a…

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 4d

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 4d

It seems that very few of those in power at our councils and at the Senedd have a disability, or a family member with one, and it shows. If they had, we'd have our pavements back overnight ✍️ Stephen Price

Chasing pavements: Can we have our streets back, please?

Stephen Price Towards the end of my dad’s life, his only option to get out and about and away from the confines of his small flat and the TV screen was through the (initially very reluctant) use of a ...

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 4d

This is a cracking piece of investigative journalism.
And it's the kind of thing that mainstream, centralised outfits don't do enough of now.
Get off X, get into the details, people.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

The men who raised the flags

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

manchestermill.co.uk

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 4d

News in that children are now being prescribed weight loss jabs on the NHS.

@wesstreetingmp.bsky.social

Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe?

📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢

All so utterly predictable and fucked up.

Here we go again ✍️

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 6d

Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.

A Piers Morgan article calling on the BBC to "Scrap Eastbenders"

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Jenn Manley Lee @jennmanleylee.bsky.social · 6d

Halloween decoration on a green lawn with yellow and brown scattered leaves. There is a fake black grave marker with white text which says “I Did My Own Research.” In front of the grave marker are two plastic skeletal hans and forearms that are positioned as if they are clawing up from below the grass.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.

At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

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Lisa Power @thisislisapower.bsky.social · 6d

When I was a kid the local swimming pool (which still had slipper baths attached, tuppence for a quick bath) had one machine which dispensed a thin golden liquid with green bits in that was called “Chicken bouillon” and we all thought it was rather glamorous compared to tea or Bovril.

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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 7d

Friendly reminder: these are the rights we all have under the ECHR.

They're not just for a privileged few

They're for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US

1. respect human rights
2. right to life
3. prohibition of torture
4. prohibition of slavery
5. right to liberty and security
6. right to a fair trial
7. no punishment without law
8. right to respect privacy and family life
9. freedom of thought, conscience and religion
10. freedom of expression
11. freedom of assembly and association
12. right to marry
13. right to an effective remedy (if your rights are violated)
14. prohibition of discrimination
15. derogation in time of emergency
16. restriction on political activity of non-nationals
17. prohibition of abuse of rights
18. limitation on use of restriction of rights

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7d

Farage gets voted down on leaving the ECHR… for now.
Ed Davey quite rightly tears a strip off him.

But really, the corrupt leader of a racist party threatening to remove our protection from abuses of power by our own government, should be the biggest red flag going.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging UK'

Nigel Farage's call for the UK to leave the European Convention for Human Rights (ECHR) was voted down by MPs, with Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey branding it "un-British"

www.mirror.co.uk

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Lisa Power @thisislisapower.bsky.social · 7d

This is horrible but hilarious, mainly because I am dead certain that the ones included will be irritated but the ones left out will be fucking furious.

Freda Wallace @missfreda.bsky.social · 8d

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The gender cranks wallpaper.

Above is Jo Phoenix. Jo(anna) Phoenix was a Professor of Criminology at the Open University. Known for her research on sex, gender, and…

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d

Keir Starmer, who insisted last month that leaving the ECHR “would be a profound mistake" that should be resisted at every turn, has told MPs to abstain on the Reform bill to do so

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 8d

I’m told Labour MPs have been told by whips to *abstain* in the vote on Nigel Farage’s ten-min rule bill on leaving the ECHR, which has left some furious. Whips’ arguments seems to be to just ignore it. Labour MPs worry it leaves Lib Dems/Greens looking like only they care on this.

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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 8d

🌳 As a #NationalTrust member I’ve just voted for the recommended slate to keep out the bogus, right-wing entryists of “Restore Trust”. Anything this creep wants is bad for Britain and bad for our heritage.
🌳 If you’re a member, vote Recommended Slate now: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

teresapbn.bsky.social @teresapbn.bsky.social · 17d

One vital reason to vote in the National Trust elections and for the NT endorsed candidates. We can't risk the Restore Trust candidates getting any influence on it.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8d

The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa

The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

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