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Ethel Weapon

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Exhilarated absurdist. Against nature. Music fiend. Physical media appreciator. Trans and trapped in England. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · Jul 29

A litany of pathetic, disgraceful, and vindictive actions from institutionally queer-hostile Labour UK

AGC @agc1985.bsky.social · Jul 16

Updated: Starmer’s Labour: The most anti-LGBT+ govt since Thatcher. A list of the awful things they've done and said regarding LGBT+ people, especially trans people.

Labour: Ditched its longstanding pledge to demedicalise gender recognition for trans people before the 2024 election • And then abandoned even plans for watered-down reform • Made the Tories’ temporary ban on puberty blockers for trans children indefinite • Endorsed the flawed and discredited Cass Review • Refused to pass legislation to protect trans people’s gender recognition following the recent Supreme Court ruling • Introduced a new Section 28 for trans people • Banned trans women from standing for internal Women’s Officer posts • Oversaw the UK dropping to its lowest ever place in the ILGA-Europe rankings of LGBT+ rights in European countries • Has adopted covertly transphobic language (‘sex-based rights’, ‘transmen’, ‘transwomen’) in internal documentation • Took no action against Rosie Duffield even after years of vile social media posts targeting trans (and bi) people – including sharing a post denying Nazi persecution of trans people • Re-elected Duffield Women’s PLP Chair on International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 2021 • Suspended the whip from Stonewall founder Michael Cashman for (rightly) criticising Duffield • Reappointed a ‘gender-critical’ bigot, Baroness Falkner, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission • Then tried to appoint ANOTHER ‘gender-critical’ figure, Mary-Ann Stephenson, as Falkner’s successor! • Suspended Lloyd Russell-Moyle, a gay MP and one of the most vocal pro-trans parliamentarians, on bogus charges shortly before the last election • Oversaw the introduction of new CPS guidelines that put trans people at risk of prosecution if they do not disclose their gender identity before having sex • Multiple Labour MPs attempted to dilute a motion at the Council of Europe condemning anti-LGBT+ hatred • Labour MPs abstained on backing trans rights in Scotland • Unlike other European countries, has not issued updated travel warnings for trans travellers to the US • Hosts anti-trans groups at its conferences

Health Secretary Wes Streeting: Responded to the (flawed, discredited) Cass Review by saying he’d been wrong to say trans women are women • Banned the use of puberty blockers, against international best practice and evidence, and severely restricted gender healthcare for trans children • Supports segregation of trans patients in hospitals • Has expressed sympathy for conversion therapy groups • Implemented a ban on young trans people being able to obtain hormone therapy outside the NHS • Has overseen guidance directing GPs not to monitor trans people’s blood values – putting them at harm if they are forced to self-medicate due to NHS failings • Wrote in The Sun to share the lie that the NHS no longer uses the term ‘women’ • Shared the false claim that the practice history of doctors who transition to a new legal gender would not be disclosed to patients • Shared false claims that terms such as ‘breastfeeding’ are being ‘erased’ • Invited transphobic groups to produce NHS exclusion guidelines • Has overseen a rise in GPs refusing hormone prescriptions to trans people, which can have serious mental and physical health consequences • Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by calling on those who’d previously recognised trans people’s lived gender identities to reconsider • Was named What the Trans ‘Villain of the Year’ in 2024 • Issued an apology to Duffield for how she had been treated, ignoring her years of vitriol against trans people on social media

STARMER’S LABOUR: THE MOST ANTI-LGBT+ GOVT SINCE THATCHER

Prime Minister Keir Starmer: Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by declaring that trans women are not women • Attended a deeply homophobic church to deliver his Easter message • Then did it AGAIN two years later! • Supports the exclusion of trans women from sports • Refused to meet with trans Labour members to discuss concerns about institutional transphobia in the party • Left Marsha de Cordova in post as Shadow Equalities Secretary even after she shared overtly transphobic content on social media • Staged a fake meeting with LGBT+ community members (in reality all Labour staffers/councillors) for a publicity stunt • In 2023, expressed ‘concerns’ about the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in Scotland that was supported by his Scottish Labour colleagues • Believes trans children should require parental permission to socially transition Education Secretary and ‘Equalities’ Minister Bridget Phillipson: Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by immediately declaring trans people should use toilets according to ‘biological sex’ • Supports the removal of anti-transphobia policies at universities • Supports trans schoolchildren being outed to their parents • Welcomed the fine imposed on the University of Sussex due to students using their free speech to protest campus transphobia • Erased the word ‘trans’ from the new schools guidance • Prohibited schools from promoting ‘gender identity’ and ‘social transition’ – Section 28 all over again • Requires schools to misrepresent the law about ‘biological sex’ and gender recognition

STARMER’S LABOUR: THE MOST ANTI-LGBT+ GOVT SINCE THATCHER

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood: During protests against LGBT-inclusive RSE in schools, argued that pupils’ ‘religious background’ and ‘age appropriateness’ should be considered • Agrees with J. K. Rowling’s views on ‘biological sex’ • Claimed it is ‘absolutely unacceptable’ to criticise the recent Supreme Court ruling • Home Secretary Yvette Cooper: Passed guidelines that would allocate trans women to male prisons – threatening their safety and dignity • Responded to a demonstration for trans rights by condemning washable chalk graffiti on a statue • Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy: Deleted all her past tweets supportive of trans people when the government switched to an explicitly anti-trans position • Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar: During the NHS Fife tribunal case, backed the ‘gender-critical’ nurse accused of harassing trans doctor Beth Upton • U-turned on previous support for gender recognition reform in Scotland • Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens: Shared content from gender-critical group Woman’s Place UK • Parliamentary Under-Secretary Feryal Clark: Described LGBT+ affirming education as ‘nonsense’ on social media • Parliamentary Under-Secretary Jess Phillips: Shared a conspiracy theory on social media alleging that the murderer of Phoenix Netts was a trans woman • Tonia Antoniazzi MP: Accused Welsh government of being ‘dictated to’ by Stonewall and having an ‘ideological culture’ • Jonathan Hinder MP: Supports exclusion of trans women from (non-competitive, mixed-sex) Parkruns

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 11h

supermassive ratio in progress lol

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you.

However, it is pretty hard not to feel that the language of "dignity and respect" has already been subverted by the government. This is phrasing that was used to welcome the FWS Supreme Court verdict and imply that trans people could now be excluded from society in a "respectful" way.

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 18h

giant 1992 era k.d. lang poster secured along with miss chatelaine remixes

12” single of Miss Chatelaine featuring extravagantly coiffed kd lang on the cover

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 18h

Here he's engaging directly with the two committees that recommended against the appointment of Mary-Ann Stephenson as EHRC chair, rather than directly with the UK government (which went ahead anyway).

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 19h

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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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 18h

I guess Cyril Kornbluth's short story "The Marching Morons" is unavoidable as well as unpalatable here

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 19h

Stand On Zanzibar

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 20h

The record:

- section 28 v2.0 erasing trans youths' existence
- a second transphobic EHRC lead, against all advice
- a series of disgusting positions on trans segregation
- etc.

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

We regret to inform you of Boris Johnson’s literary career

Boris Johnson and 72 Virgins: What we can learn from his terrible novel

If Johnson fails to gain the premiership, he could screen-write the new Carry On movies

www.irishtimes.com

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

Borges is just Aesop for the pretentious

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

Sonia Sodha regurgitating the same tired old bigoted schtick for the umpteenth time hardly merits a “New” label

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Vivian Magadori 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ⚢ @listentocrass.lesbian.cat · 1d

Received Stonewall's quarterly update newsletter

I've glossed over twice and trans people are never mentioned

Even when it talks about the EHRC guidelines, they don't mention trans people outside of LGBTQ+

Who specifically is being targeted by these guidelines Stonewall?

WHO?

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

They stopped mentioning trans people at all months ago

Complete failure of an org

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · May 14

Still unable to even mention trans people, or talk about the reasons why the ranking took such a hit. Weak, weak, weak.

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 2d

50 = nifty

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 2d

YES

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 2d

Wasn’t the Levy review meant to put out a bunch of reports early this year? Wondering what kind of hell’s brew they are busy concocting out of sight.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2d

Men like Piers Morgan have found women in trans women who it is socially acceptable to abuse.

Every time they do this stuff they are telling you how they'd treat cis women if they could get away with it.

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 2d

Filia boots

Night of the Libby Dead ☠️ @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently actual fighting broke out at the Filia conference. Pro-Palestine vs Pro-Israel inter-terf violence. Blimey.

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 2d

When the “at least he made the trains run on time” mythopoesis of fascism hits the buffers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 2d

Launching a fleet of 999,999 discoball satellites to deliver rainbows on demand business pitch

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 4d

Promo photo from The Thing With Two Heads

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 4d

My moderometer is now pointing straight at “cloaking table legs”

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 6d

Bluesky moderation is now at “Victorians putting fig leaves on classical sculpture” levels of prim bowdlerization

Next stop, cloaking table legs

Deathcliff plus Hellmets @heathcliffhelms.heathcliff.cat · 7d

Blue and Pink?! You best start seeing the patterns 😤

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 4d

[Crocodile Dundee voice]

That’s not graphic media.
*THIS* is graphic media.

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 4d

Classic scrawled-on-a-napkin policy making, as ever