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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5h

As Wes Streeting comments to condemn some vandalism by trans activists has he said anything about this?

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 5h

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/nhs-wait-times-trans-girl-suicide/?utm_content=1760127601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

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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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6h

I wrote an article in January about where we have ended up in English law re. "deception as to sex", and what that means for trans people. I think it's likely we can expect to see more of these sorts of cases going forward.

www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-teen...

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · Jun 9

I shared this list with somebody earlier cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/viole...

CAIN: Issues: Violence - List of People Killed by 'Rubber' and 'Plastic' Bullets

cain.ulster.ac.uk

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 7h

🇵🇸 Events in solidarity with the Palestinian people around the country this weekend. All out for Palestine! #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 8h

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

archive.ph

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 8h

Oh do fuck off Wes Streeting.

It's not designed to intimidate women, it's designed to protest transphobia.

If I protest against racist scum, that's not me 'intimidating men', it's disagreeing with racism.

I am sick to fucking death him pretending that transphobe and woman are synonyms.

naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 9h

Another happy @bashback.bsky.social customer…

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 8h

O’Brien stabbed the victim in the torso & back. He stood on her head. The attack continued for 5-6 minutes until nearby security staff intervened & he ran away.

Kelly suffered 50+ stab wounds all over her body. A piece of the blade is still lodged in her skull.
www.thejournal.ie/court-ex-gir...

Court hears man tried to murder his ex-girlfriend in the street by stabbing her over 50 times

‘Only for an off-duty paramedic, I would have been left to die,’ the woman told the court.

www.thejournal.ie

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 6h

She also has to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

www.bbc.com

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MayaScientist @madscientist212.bsky.social · 8h

And assuming the BBC's quotes from the judge are accurate, he believes a trans woman who has sex with a straight man is by definition a rapist, as he does not believe it possible for straight men to be attracted to trans women without being deceived (which is rape now, but only for trans people).

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13h

If she'd been married and lied about being single or if she'd been a convicted abuser and lied about that she would not be going to jail.

People lie all the time before sex, during sex and after sex.

If you're trans, that's a crime.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 14h

She's been jailed - to be raped every night.

She's in a male jail. Despite living as female since she was 13.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 7h

There’s no defending a law which functions in this way. Its only purpose is to criminalise transitude and gender non-conformity.

If you refuse to see this, you’re simply an enemy.

פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 7h

Another curious fact: under English law not disclosing your birth sex is rape by deceit, but if you’re a cop during an undercover operation and get people to sleep with you under a false pretence this way, the law see this as perfectly consensual and legal.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 7h

Another curious fact: under English law not disclosing your birth sex is rape by deceit, but if you’re a cop during an undercover operation and get people to sleep with you under a false pretence this way, the law see this as perfectly consensual and legal.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 12h

Even sex resulting in pregnancy after one partner lied about their fertility, or resulting in STD transmission after one lied about having an STD*, is not considered to legally invalidate consent, despite far more demonstrable harm than lying about body parts for sex acts not involving those parts!

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13h

If she'd been married and lied about being single or if she'd been a convicted abuser and lied about that she would not be going to jail.

People lie all the time before sex, during sex and after sex.

If you're trans, that's a crime.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 14h

She's been jailed - to be raped every night.

She's in a male jail. Despite living as female since she was 13.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12h

The terrifying, brand new threat of people on TV misleading the public. I would say this one is not even in the top thousand most damaging bullshit assertions presented to the public this century so far, and quitepossibly this year.

Michael Savage @michaels... • 37m
NEW: A false claim about Euan Blair found its way into Have I Got News For You.
It was from an X post seen almost 3m times - and it was wrong.
Production chief blames a "digital native" culture.
A very online media class drinking in
social media = danger:

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13h

I've an ex who told me a man once accused her of fraud for wearing a padded bra. Imagine if he'd went to the police how hard they'd have laughed at him

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13h

"I didn't describe my genitals accurately before I gave him a blow job"
"jail for you"

This is the UK.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13h

If she'd been married and lied about being single or if she'd been a convicted abuser and lied about that she would not be going to jail.

People lie all the time before sex, during sex and after sex.

If you're trans, that's a crime.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 14h

She's been jailed - to be raped every night.

She's in a male jail. Despite living as female since she was 13.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Trans woman jailed after hiding male genitalia during sex with man

Ciara Watkin, 21, concealed she had male genitalia and performed sex acts on a man she had been on a date with - before later texting him 'I'm trans, I'm sorry I didn't tell you'

www.mirror.co.uk

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Sarah Savage @ohsarahsavage.bsky.social · 13h

I was personally promised the council would fly the trans flag months ago. Yesterday I was told they forgot to do it and there's nothing anyone can do to rectify their mistake.

Trans Pride Brighton @transpridebrighton.bsky.social · 14h

5/7 We’re also disappointed that Brighton & Hove City Council promised to fly the trans flag over both town halls this weekend in solidarity, then backed out, citing Black History Month. As if intersectionality doesn’t exist. Once again, our community is pushed aside by institutions.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13h

the Nobel Peace Prize committee going “yeah we felt like recognizing opposition leaders who resist authoritarianism was important right now for whatever reason” somehow feels like Trump won -1 Nobel Peace Prizes

like he somehow has one even less than he did before, despite never having had one

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16h

They're not a false flag

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

The Conservative Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner to open the FiLiA hate conference, with this coded incitement to hatred.

Katy Bourne OBE @ @KatyBourne • 2h Really excited to be opening today's @FiLiA_charity Women's Rights Conference in
Brighton - an important space for bold conversations and for amplifying the views, thoughts and voices of women
#FİLiA2025

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 17h

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

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 18h

Bash back have sent us this statement

TRANS ACTIONISTS TARGET ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE

Trans direct action group "BASH BACK" accuses FiLiA of having "blood on their hands"

Last night - October 9th - actionists representing trans direct action group BASH BACK took action against the Brighton Centre, host of this year's FILIA conference, which begins its 10th annual event today.

Actionists from BASH BACK - which took action against Health Secretary Wes Streeting in August smashed windows and sprayed pink paint on the Brighton Centre building in protest at the anti-trans views expressed by FiLiA attendees. The group's objective was to prove trans people will not be intimidated, saying that FiLiA should "expect retaliation" if they continue.

A spokesperson for BASH BACK said:

"Despite presenting itself as a feminist conference with 'zero tolerance [...] for transphobia', FiLiA plays host to some of the most vicious transphobia in modern pop-politics.

"The conference's notable alumni include JK Rowling and Maya Forstater, and this year feature bigot-provocateurs such as Julie Bindel, LGBAlliance and

Transgender Trend, as well as Jenny Wilmott, director of Scottish Lesbians - one of the groups responsible for this year's segregationist and transphobic Supreme Court ruling.

"Speakers at FiLiA claim to advocate for 'protecting women's spaces' and 'sex based rights' but routinely advocate for the erasure of women's bodily autonomy and self determination. Their vile and hateful rhetoric that seeks to exclude and erase us leads to the same kind of discriminatory violence that kills hundreds of trans people every year. Far from outsider radicals, the bigots at FiLiA are backed by billionaires like J.K. Rowling, fundamentalist Christian groups, and the Labour government itself. This is the norm, and we will rise against it. To save ourselves, to save our community. To fight for our right to exist.

"Bindel, Wilmott and FiLiA itself have our blood on their hands, and for years they have sought a stage to gloat about it. This year, we will not allow them the privilege.

"BASH BACK recognises the speakers at FiLiA as neither radical nor feminist, and, like the suffragettes and radical queers before us, that the only path toward liberation is through action."

The BASH BACK spokesperson added:

The BASH BACK spokesperson added:

"To the organisers of FiLiA we say this: If you expect to continue in your trade of transphobic hate, if you expect to continue in your queerbashing and transmisogyny and call it 'feminism', then expect resistance, expect retaliation, expect us. Paint washes off, but blood never does."

Notes to editors

BASH BACK is a trans-led direct action project focused on "total transgender liberation", and has previously taken action against Health Secretary Wes Streeting and private prison firm Sodexo.

Formatting should be BASH BACK in full caps

More information about the group can be found here: https://www.transbashback.com

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18h

I’m at the Oslo trans healthcare conference today and have just been listening to Rosa Almiral of the Spanish trans healthcare service say “We have a waiting list of three weeks.” !!!!!!!!!!

Helsestasjon for kjonn og seksualitet
THE OSLO
INTERNATIONAL TRANS HEALTH CONFERENCE
9.-10. OKTOBER 2025

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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