Natacha
@natacha.bsky.social
Trans woman 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist & Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. All opinions expressed here are my own. 🇵🇸
Link to academic publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
“Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Link to academic publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
“Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
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“it’s always a choice when journalists decide to clean up quotes – or not. It’s always revealing which politicians have “uh” or “um” removed...For instance, how often does the mainstream media let Donald Trump’s words speak for themselves?"
Today’s First Draft email, on the media's coverage of AOC:
Today’s First Draft email, on the media's coverage of AOC:
First Draft: AOC Under (Unfair?) Attack
Prem on how reporters and Republicans want to undermine Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's big foreign policy event, Jesse Jackson's death, and more fallout from the Epstein files.
zeteo.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:08 PM
“it’s always a choice when journalists decide to clean up quotes – or not. It’s always revealing which politicians have “uh” or “um” removed...For instance, how often does the mainstream media let Donald Trump’s words speak for themselves?"
Today’s First Draft email, on the media's coverage of AOC:
Today’s First Draft email, on the media's coverage of AOC:
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There’s so much in-depth investigative reporting that’s been done now, establishing a CLEAR CONNECTION between ‘gender critical’ transphobes and the Christo-fascist far-right, it’s impossible for them to claim that they’re not enabling this regressive anti-gender movement!
TERFism = Anti women
TERFism = Anti women
February 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
There’s so much in-depth investigative reporting that’s been done now, establishing a CLEAR CONNECTION between ‘gender critical’ transphobes and the Christo-fascist far-right, it’s impossible for them to claim that they’re not enabling this regressive anti-gender movement!
TERFism = Anti women
TERFism = Anti women
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European Union: European Parliament resolution backs ‘full recognition of trans women as women’
www.washingtonblade....
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.washingtonblade....
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
European Parliament resolution backs ‘full recognition of trans women as women’
Non-binding document outlines UN Commission on the Status of Women priorities.
www.washingtonblade.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:22 PM
European Union: European Parliament resolution backs ‘full recognition of trans women as women’
www.washingtonblade....
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.washingtonblade....
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Trans people were the canary in the coal mine.
Labour gave tacit approval to ripping up the Equality Act by failing to uphold it or legislate for it when it was under attack from often dark money funded fascist lawfare.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Labour gave tacit approval to ripping up the Equality Act by failing to uphold it or legislate for it when it was under attack from often dark money funded fascist lawfare.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Reform plans to scrap up Equality Act – what it would mean for Britain
www.independent.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Trans people were the canary in the coal mine.
Labour gave tacit approval to ripping up the Equality Act by failing to uphold it or legislate for it when it was under attack from often dark money funded fascist lawfare.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Labour gave tacit approval to ripping up the Equality Act by failing to uphold it or legislate for it when it was under attack from often dark money funded fascist lawfare.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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Just in case anyone still thought Labour might ever deliver a conversion therapy ban, here are all the types of "legitimate" conversion therapy according to Labour.
Personally, I'd have expected literal conversion therapy to not be on that list 🤷🏼♀️
According to Labour, this is a "full ban".
Personally, I'd have expected literal conversion therapy to not be on that list 🤷🏼♀️
According to Labour, this is a "full ban".
Some sources:
(It's actually even worse) exempting:
- Religion
- Family
- Teachers
- Carers
And, of course,
- Literal conversion therapists
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6697f5...
(It's actually even worse) exempting:
- Religion
- Family
- Teachers
- Carers
And, of course,
- Literal conversion therapists
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6697f5...
February 17, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Just in case anyone still thought Labour might ever deliver a conversion therapy ban, here are all the types of "legitimate" conversion therapy according to Labour.
Personally, I'd have expected literal conversion therapy to not be on that list 🤷🏼♀️
According to Labour, this is a "full ban".
Personally, I'd have expected literal conversion therapy to not be on that list 🤷🏼♀️
According to Labour, this is a "full ban".
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Reform want to lower the minimum wage. Don't vote Reform.
www.thenational.scot/news/2586090...
www.thenational.scot/news/2586090...
Reform UK would look at cutting minimum wage, says Richard Tice
REFORM UK's Richard Tice has said his party would look at cutting the minimum wage if it got into government.
www.thenational.scot
February 17, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Reform want to lower the minimum wage. Don't vote Reform.
www.thenational.scot/news/2586090...
www.thenational.scot/news/2586090...
Not “constructive” enough to talk to anyone other than transphobic hate groups…
February 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Not “constructive” enough to talk to anyone other than transphobic hate groups…
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Has anyone asked Goodwin or Farage about this yet?
Astonishing it wasn't raised at Farage's press conference..
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
Astonishing it wasn't raised at Farage's press conference..
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
Matt Goodwin’s Reform UK campaign manager said he ‘would never touch a Jewish woman’ - The Jewish Chronicle
Adam Mitula, who is canvassing for the party in Gorton and Denton, also tweeted that the six million who died in the Holocaust only included ‘some Jews’
www.thejc.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Has anyone asked Goodwin or Farage about this yet?
Astonishing it wasn't raised at Farage's press conference..
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
Astonishing it wasn't raised at Farage's press conference..
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
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🧵 like many slogans, "vote blue no matter who" can mean different things in different contexts. sometimes it's used to encourage a broad Democratic coalition. but many Newsom stans are using it as a cudgel to disenfranchise trans ppl from that potential Dem coalition
it's one thing to say with regards to a general election "vote blue no matter who"
but it's a completely different thing to insist (as *lots* of Dem accounts I've personally seen are saying) that trans ppl *must* vote for Newsom when we're still several years away from presidential primaries!
but it's a completely different thing to insist (as *lots* of Dem accounts I've personally seen are saying) that trans ppl *must* vote for Newsom when we're still several years away from presidential primaries!
February 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM
🧵 like many slogans, "vote blue no matter who" can mean different things in different contexts. sometimes it's used to encourage a broad Democratic coalition. but many Newsom stans are using it as a cudgel to disenfranchise trans ppl from that potential Dem coalition
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February 17, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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The ruling follows California’s lawsuit against the federal government after it threatened to withhold $4.9 billion in funding from schools that protect transgender students from being outed #NOH8
February 17, 2026 at 4:07 PM
The ruling follows California’s lawsuit against the federal government after it threatened to withhold $4.9 billion in funding from schools that protect transgender students from being outed #NOH8
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NOW the institutionally-transphobic The Guardian is worried about public health.
February 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM
NOW the institutionally-transphobic The Guardian is worried about public health.
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We’re looking for a Social Media Lead volunteer to help us make the third Trans+ History Week a success! Will you join us?
✨Some experience necessary
✨10–12 hrs/month
✨More demanding during Apr/May ‘26
✨Can work flexibly and remotely
✨Some travel to London is required
✨Start date: 16th March ‘26
✨Some experience necessary
✨10–12 hrs/month
✨More demanding during Apr/May ‘26
✨Can work flexibly and remotely
✨Some travel to London is required
✨Start date: 16th March ‘26
February 17, 2026 at 2:46 PM
We’re looking for a Social Media Lead volunteer to help us make the third Trans+ History Week a success! Will you join us?
✨Some experience necessary
✨10–12 hrs/month
✨More demanding during Apr/May ‘26
✨Can work flexibly and remotely
✨Some travel to London is required
✨Start date: 16th March ‘26
✨Some experience necessary
✨10–12 hrs/month
✨More demanding during Apr/May ‘26
✨Can work flexibly and remotely
✨Some travel to London is required
✨Start date: 16th March ‘26
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"We look after each other and we work hard."
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
February 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
"We look after each other and we work hard."
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
The largest group protected by the Equality Act is cis women. The far right has used “gender-critical” transphobes to attack the Equality Act. So the group principally responsible for women having their human rights removed it is these transphobes who claim to be “feminists” “protecting women”.
Braverman is now lambasting equalities policies, saying Reform would scrap the equalities brief and repeal the Equality Act. Giving her this role - any role, in fact - does feel like quite a risk for Reform.
February 17, 2026 at 3:20 PM
The largest group protected by the Equality Act is cis women. The far right has used “gender-critical” transphobes to attack the Equality Act. So the group principally responsible for women having their human rights removed it is these transphobes who claim to be “feminists” “protecting women”.
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They’re announcing that they plan to strip women and girls (the main beneficiaries of the Equality Act) of their rights and protections next.
We told you so.
It was always transphobia.
Hate all the way down:
We told you so.
It was always transphobia.
Hate all the way down:
Braverman is now lambasting equalities policies, saying Reform would scrap the equalities brief and repeal the Equality Act. Giving her this role - any role, in fact - does feel like quite a risk for Reform.
February 17, 2026 at 2:42 PM
They’re announcing that they plan to strip women and girls (the main beneficiaries of the Equality Act) of their rights and protections next.
We told you so.
It was always transphobia.
Hate all the way down:
We told you so.
It was always transphobia.
Hate all the way down:
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 17 Politico:
Christian Right senses opportunity to fan anti-trans flames in EU, raises over $1b as it begins organizing to import the US's "gender ideology" culture war to Brussels.
Christian Right senses opportunity to fan anti-trans flames in EU, raises over $1b as it begins organizing to import the US's "gender ideology" culture war to Brussels.
Fight over trans rights comes to Brussels
NGOs claim that anti-transgender activists are getting more speaking time at events in Brussels.
www.politico.eu
February 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 17 Politico:
Christian Right senses opportunity to fan anti-trans flames in EU, raises over $1b as it begins organizing to import the US's "gender ideology" culture war to Brussels.
Christian Right senses opportunity to fan anti-trans flames in EU, raises over $1b as it begins organizing to import the US's "gender ideology" culture war to Brussels.
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If you need someone who isn't trans to confirm this, the 20thC has decades of academic research papers with psychiatrists and therapists bemoaning that trans people simply won't stop being trans. Not electric shocks, psychotherapeutic gaslighting, even Exorcism.
If you need someone who isn't trans to confirm this, the 20thC has decades of academic research papers with psychiatrists and therapists bemoaning that trans people simply won't stop being trans. Not electric shocks, psychotherapeutic gaslighting, even Exorcism.
perhaps obvious but as trans folks who spent our childhoods closeted will know, alllllllllll the pressure in the world can't change what you *are*.
If kids are allowed to express themselves too young, they might not end up growing up to be cisgender, and we think we might be able to pressure it out of them if we start early, goes the logic. We might be able to put them on the "correct natural trajectory" by inhibiting their preferred expression
February 17, 2026 at 1:12 PM
chican3ry.medium.com/a-rough-and-...
If you need someone who isn't trans to confirm this, the 20thC has decades of academic research papers with psychiatrists and therapists bemoaning that trans people simply won't stop being trans. Not electric shocks, psychotherapeutic gaslighting, even Exorcism.
If you need someone who isn't trans to confirm this, the 20thC has decades of academic research papers with psychiatrists and therapists bemoaning that trans people simply won't stop being trans. Not electric shocks, psychotherapeutic gaslighting, even Exorcism.
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the people who mediate our access to information tell lies to make people think the far right's analyses and actions are valid, because they like the far right and want them to win.
Staggering that 24% of voters in this advanced country continue to believe in a bunch of entitled bigots with unworkable policies, whose very ideas put us in the abject chaos we are in. Truly God awful idiots, and I make no apology for saying that.
YouGov Reform 24% (Reform + Cons 42% on the right) fits genereal pattern: Reform 2026 < Reform 2025.
Westminster Voting Intention:
REF: 24% (-3)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (=)
GRN: 17% (+1)
LDM: 13% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
OTH: 4% (+2)
Via @YouGov, On 15-16th February,
Changes w/ 8-9 February.
Westminster Voting Intention:
REF: 24% (-3)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (=)
GRN: 17% (+1)
LDM: 13% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
OTH: 4% (+2)
Via @YouGov, On 15-16th February,
Changes w/ 8-9 February.
February 17, 2026 at 11:23 AM
the people who mediate our access to information tell lies to make people think the far right's analyses and actions are valid, because they like the far right and want them to win.
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The work continues, but maybe slower.
Learning from our mistakes: Why I wrote 'Brown/Trans/Les'
And the future direction of this newsletter.
taliabhattwrites.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:09 PM
The work continues, but maybe slower.
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The evidence we have which directly examined the effect of testosterone suppression as it directly affected trans women’s athletic performance showed no athletic advantage exists after one year of testosterone suppression (Harper, 2015, 2021).
February 17, 2026 at 11:53 AM
The evidence we have which directly examined the effect of testosterone suppression as it directly affected trans women’s athletic performance showed no athletic advantage exists after one year of testosterone suppression (Harper, 2015, 2021).
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Long-awaited school guidance excluding Trans+ children from single-sex spaces landed just a day before the High Court rejected @goodlawproject.bsky.social's challenge to the EHRC’s position.
Why this matters 🧵👇
Why this matters 🧵👇
February 17, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Long-awaited school guidance excluding Trans+ children from single-sex spaces landed just a day before the High Court rejected @goodlawproject.bsky.social's challenge to the EHRC’s position.
Why this matters 🧵👇
Why this matters 🧵👇
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We interrupt tributes to Jesse Jackson to bring you your daily dose of racism.
Thanks, Beeb. Respectfully handled.
Thanks, Beeb. Respectfully handled.
February 17, 2026 at 11:42 AM
We interrupt tributes to Jesse Jackson to bring you your daily dose of racism.
Thanks, Beeb. Respectfully handled.
Thanks, Beeb. Respectfully handled.