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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️

@erikasgarden.bsky.social

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🏳️‍⚧️ HRT since: 23/8/24 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro wrestler debut: 19/12/15 Trans girl living on TERF Island 😭 but at least I have video games and cookies to keep me sane The lettuce and tomato in the LGBTQ Walking headache of @marilynstars.bsky.social

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · Mar 23

Coincidentally I've just seen a TikTok video of someone answering this exact thing and they put it better than I could

It feels like I'm taking back my own body. It feels like its finally mine. I was depressed for so long before coming out, I didn't HATE my body but it never felt like mine

Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · Mar 23

Love when someone tells me trans doesn't exist because I won't explain in extreme detail every aspect of how I think and feel to them like I'm being interrogated

Dunno what to tell you bro, boob make me happy 😅

Its obviously way more than that but it is hard to explain to cis people

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 14h

I've decided if I'm ever single again, I'm going T4T. I'm not risking anything and don't want to deal with the bs

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 14h

This

As a married woman, I'm fairly sure if I hid that fact from someone and slept with them and that fact would have made it so they wouldn't have consented, I would not be arrested for that. That would not be a crime. This is a law that applies to us exclusively.

trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 16h

I'd have not consented to having sex with a few ppl had I known what a prick they were behind lies and deception.

If I or any other woman took this to the cops we would be laughed at and called a slag for not being careful who we open our legs to.

Ciara Watkin is in prison for being transgender.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 16h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 18h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 17h

I keep saying it but its true, I live in the UK, we elected our "liberal" party who said iffy things on trans rights

They've now gone full blown fascist on us and are working on a full blown social ban

American trans people being weary of the Dems is valid
We've seen it happen

Alexzoin @alexzoin.bsky.social · 19h

And there it is! Material conditions for people in reality DON'T MATTER! Who cares how many gay kids are sent to conversion therapy! Who cares how many people commit suicide!!!

The Dems are ICKY so we can't help those people!

Nice one, moron. Your purity testing is killing people. Have fun.

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 17h

Oh, interesting

Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 17h

That's fair. I might be missing the context of the time. In the modern day that does sound like what a non-binary person would say but she lived, what? 120 years ago? Like I said, I've only recently started reading about her

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 17h

I mean I'm gay as shit so I can't comment but I do know my bisexual wife definitely has a preference towards women 😅

She's always saying she prefers me now compared to when we got married 😆

Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 17h

Granted, I've only just started looking them up but it sounds to me like they were more non-binary. We'll never know for sure as these words didn't exist back then but the descriptions I've seen were that they "identified with aspects of males and females"

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 19h

Bindel is as much a feminist as Donald Trump is a Nobel Peace Prize winner 🤷

Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 19h

Bindel doesn’t seem to have any problem with right wing women that are the real threat to women’s rights.

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 19h

The one from Feb, I was around 6 months into HRT, maybe just under 6 months. Today I'm 13 months in

It makes me wonder how I'll look in another 8 months, or 2 years from now

I've genuinely never felt as happy to see myself as I do now
Genuine inner peace

HRT DOES save lives, it saved mine

Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 19h

Today I took a picture in the mirror, and I also came across this other pic from February this year on the night I wrestled my last match

I look a million times more femme in the one from today than the one 8 months ago and I'm wearing no make up here unlike the one from Feb 😊

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 20h

Pritzker > Newsom for '28

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, Pritzker says more Dems must sound the alarm, though he notes some exceptions (like Chris Murphy).

"I am surprised that more leaders have not stood up," he says.

He urges people to join No Kings protests to let the country know something's wrong. 5/5

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 20h

Even in cis people its not a simple thing

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 20h

You can't get a read on the guy who refuses to sign trans protections and personally ripped homeless people's camps down with his own hands?

Dude is a massive dickhead

Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 21h

Piers Morgan argued that "sex and biology aren't complex"

Anyone who says that has no idea how that works, and yes women can have a penis

Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21h

This is an amazing defence of trans people against one of the country’s worst transphobic bigots by @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 21h

I just know saying this will get me blocked by some Liberals buuuuuuttttt

Yes Trump did not deserve to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but then neither did Obama. So bragging about Obama winning it when he dropped more bombs than any president before him, just no

Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 22h

If I got a new boss at work who asked me to do this, I'd quit on the spot

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Time for my every 3 monthly appointment to get my hormones tested

I'm always so nervous but it always works out ok

Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that a woman beat Trump is the icing on the top

This will be a monumental crash out 😂

Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 won by a woman - Maria Corina Machado

Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 1d

While the UK regresses on trans rights, Irish Universities are working with trans groups to help trans students DIY ✨

Granted, it is necessary because Ireland's health service sucks almost as much as the NHS when it comes to gender care, this is still good

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 1d

gcn.ie/trangress-th...

Trans healthcare group partners with Irish universities to expand free injection supply programme

Transgress the NGS has announced a new phase of its Injection Supply Programme for trans folks in universities across Ireland.

gcn.ie

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 1d

"It won't be mandatory"

"You can't get a job without one"

Do you not understand how logic works? Yes its mandatory

Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 1d

The word trans in caps in the body of the article is seriously unnecessary

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Even if he did end the genocide in Gaza and bring peace between them, please don't give him this award

Not only would it be wrong to give it to him, but the crash out would be absolutely hilarious

Kenny Mayne @kennymayne.bsky.social · 1d

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Erika (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erikasgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Yep!

I had a TERF tell me I can't be female because my body is made up of "male cells"

... I'm still trying to work out WTF that means
Are my skin cells male? My blood cells?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

This article is spot on about the UK's descent into anti-trans hysteria. In 8 years, they went from the conservatives trying to make it easier for trans folks to self attest gender to a liberal government implementing a bathroom ban by fiat.

www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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