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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️

@transnormative.bsky.social

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Just a middle-aged trans lesbian and Twitter refugee trying to survive the surge of fascism and climate collapse. #FreePalestine

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · May 21

This will be my thread concerning my FOIA Request to the EHRC. I think I got some actually worthwhile files, but I'll start with sharing the files so that other people can get their eyes on them.

They provided considerable correspondence between EHRC staff and antitrans orgs.

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · May 16

For what it's worth, this is what I'm waiting for them to respond to.

They're supposed to respond in 4 days. My expectation is that they will give themselves an extension, or deny it with some excuse:

Your Freedom of Information Request

Thank you for your request, detailed below, which we received on 21 April 2025.

"Any releasable correspondence for the period from June of 2024 through today in the EHRC's possession exchanged between EHRC staff, commissioners, and other representatives and representatives of the advocacy group Sex Matters, including any correspondence with Maya Forstater.

* Any releasable correspondence for the period from June of 2024 through today in the EHRC's possession exchanged between EHRC staff, commissioners, and other representatives and representatives of the advocacy group LGB Alliance, including any correspondence with Bev Jackson, Kate Harris, Allison Bailey, Malcolm Clark and Ann Sinnott.

* Meeting minutes for the EHRC Board meetings since October of 2024.

* Any information explaining the delay in posting the most recent board meeting minutes.

* The most recent Code of Conduct of the EHRC Board and the previous Code of Conduct."

We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We aim to respond promptly and in any event no later than 20 working days following the date of receipt of the request; a response should therefore be with you no later than 20 May 2025.

If you have any queries please contact us using the details below.

Yours sincerely

‎Information Governance team

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 2h

Also literally to benefit an industry with enough blood on its hands that many people are not upset when their executives get turned into statistics.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 4h

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 11h

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 11h

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss was made editor in chief of CBS News so she can make them report her blog as news.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 1d

This is DOGE for journalists. It's exactly what Musk/Trump did to the US federal government.

WGA Tells CBS News Staff to Hold Responses to Bari Weiss Memo Pending More Info

The Writers Guild of America East urged its members not to immediately respond to a memo requested by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

www.thewrap.com

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 2d

Probably because Keir Starmer combines the integrity of Boris Johnson with the charisma of Liz Truss.

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 2d

of a rogue state and get your alleged political opponents to do it. It's censorship through a loophole, turning one of the few social media platforms into state media aligned with the far right.

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 2d

It's actually much worse than that. It's one thing to get your failson on the board of a conglomerate making widgets so that he'll have something to do. It's another thing entirely to create a fake narrative about protecting people from foreign influence as the means to silence criticism
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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 3d

I'd like to congratulate Joe Biden on wisely making this possible. You saved us all, sir. Absolutely no notes.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 3d

He's so good at this, it's making everyone else look bad. This used to be the easy answer for any politician left of center, and the only thing that changed was the volume of manufactured outrage.

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 3d

CNN has always been pro-Trump, but in a way where they serve as falsely hostile cover for him. Maybe not every single host, but the company as an institution. It's kayfabe.

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 3d

The "victim" in this case felt bad because his bros gave him a hard time, and now the girl he had sex with gets to pay for it. It's actually terrifying how focused the UK is on criminalising trans women.

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 3d

The stupidity of some of these people is off the charts.

Hm, let's think mom. Can I find a job in the *private* sector in *public* health. No, I think that might be really hard.

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 4d

Her (Chloe's) argument doesn't even follow logically. And the right to have autonomy and self-actualization over your body and personal identity is not actually rooted in any particular view of gender or anyone's particular experience of the same.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 5d

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 4d

The "change in philosophy" is just one thing: the lives of trans kids matter less to the NHS now than appeasing the people who hate trans kids.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/n...

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 4d

The Cass review into children's gender services in the UK continues to be terrible.

A new report from Australia led by the fantastic Dr. Julia Moore - and featuring me - looks into the issues in detail.

My new piece.

gidmk.substack.com/p/the-cass-r...

The Cass Review Continues To Be Severely Flawed

A new paper from an Australian team shines a light on the problems with the review

gidmk.substack.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

Subscribe to support our journalism

New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 4d

It's hard to pick as bloodthirsty a pack of murderers as this. And not a single Palestinian voice, or even anyone who might be sympathetic to them.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 5d

I hate to say it, but people who willfully try to jettison some people's rights to gain power are fascists.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 6d

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 6d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 5d

This was as predictable as it was avoidable.

Children protected: 0
Identities leaked: 70,000

Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 5d

Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach | Discussion

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know if this was what this makes it look like, but it's absolutely terrifying regardless.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 6d

They get bigger weapons, and as their arrogance grows, so do their demands, but they never can be anything but a fraud. Which is why they try so hard to silence the truth.

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 6d

I have to post this from time to time to remind myself and everyone else that Zionism has always been the same thing. It's always been an effort to steal a whole country. It's always been the same thing since it started, it's always been genocidal colonialism, and it's never changed one bit.

Conference of Zionists

Elect delegates at Their Meeting in Baltimore

WILL COLONIZE PALESTINE

Rabbi Gottheil and Wise Were Chosen Members of the International Executive Committee.

Baltimore, MD., June 19.—The first business at to-day's session of the annual conference of the Federation of American Zionists was the election of two members from America, to serve on the Executive Committee of the International Congress, which will assemble on Aug. 15 at Basel,

New York Times, June 20, 1899

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