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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.”
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This👇 It’s just a variant of DARVO. But it’s what we’ve come to expect from TERFs. 🤷‍♀️
[Apols for posting a prof of terfing on your timeline]:

No, you see this is exactly back to front. We do indeed live in a system that discourages awk qns & reshapes categories so certain answers don't appear: it's called the patriarchy & these reactionaries are enraged it's being challenged
February 16, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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The fucked up thing is this is *far* from the worst thing I've seen said about trans kids by so-called "gender-critcal" people. When Brianna Ghey died a lot of them set about trying portray her, a child murder victim, as a pervert.
February 16, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.

They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.

Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
February 16, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Out of the last four Prime Ministers three have had to pretend they didn’t know about something (Starmer twice). Yet the only one who didn’t - Liz Truss - was probably the only one who could *credibly* have done that.
Starmer is now claiming he didn't know his close advisor of many years was harassing journalists.

Maybe it is time he also admits he doesn't know anything about trans kids and listens to trans people about his puberty-blocker ban, social transition ban and other transphobic measures.
February 16, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
February 16, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social: “This is more confirmation that Reform and Goodwin are not just part of an extremist anti-British project,” Polanski said, “but are also enriching themselves on foreign far-right money.”
February 16, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Poland experts release clinical guidance on trans youth healthcare. They define the Cass Review as of "low scientific value and credibility".

journals.viamedica.pl/endokrynolog...
Framework guidelines for the process of caring for the health of adolescent transgender (T) and non-binary (NB) people experiencing gender dysphoria — the position statement of the expert panel | Gawl...
journals.viamedica.pl
February 16, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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February 16, 2026 at 5:34 PM
So Matt Goodwin, the #Reform candidate for #Gorton&Denton has recently been paid to front propaganda activities for a foreign power…

…funded by Putin.

When Reform claim to be “patriotic” voters need to ask; “Patriotic…? To which country, Russia…?”
February 16, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Gonna post it again...

Please give it some exposure. It might not result in anything even if it got 100K signatures, but if it doesn't get any it definitely won't and we're seeing more and more evidence rather than conjecture around these murky, opaque orgs.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Petition: Require all think tanks to disclose their donors, funding, and media spending
Research bodies and representation of specialist interests is important when making policy. However, think tanks go beyond merely brainstorming ideas and presenting data and arguments. They can push s...
petition.parliament.uk
February 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil
The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?
goodlaw.social
February 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Zack Polanski is the only party leader not pretending that our "supreme court" is analogous to the US Supreme Court lol

We don't have a codified constitution. Nothing can limit parliament's ability legislate. Remember when Sunak passed the "actually Rwanda actually is quite safe actually" law?
There are three issues in @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s piece

1. Exposing how transphobic this Labour “government” is.

2. Showing his support for trans people when we need it.

3. Exposing the Starmer regime’s dishonesty; how they pretend to be constrained by the Supreme Court when they are not.
Zack Polanski on how Keir Starmer could have changed the April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling to protect trans rights (EXCLUSIVE)
Zack Polanski revealed how Keir Starmer could have acted to protect trans rights after April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling.
www.attitude.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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It's also just not evident based. For all the evidence Cass had tried to amass, this speculation that kids who might have ceased being trans are being frozen in time rather than helped to develop their growing minds, identity and agency by exploring and expressing it actively has zero evidence.
Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity?

The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them"

Direct quote.
February 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
There are three issues in @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s piece

1. Exposing how transphobic this Labour “government” is.

2. Showing his support for trans people when we need it.

3. Exposing the Starmer regime’s dishonesty; how they pretend to be constrained by the Supreme Court when they are not.
Zack Polanski on how Keir Starmer could have changed the April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling to protect trans rights (EXCLUSIVE)
Zack Polanski revealed how Keir Starmer could have acted to protect trans rights after April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling.
www.attitude.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity?

The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them"

Direct quote.
February 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Given some of the stuff in the Epstein files, the bonus for the Predator Elite of making trans lives really difficult is that, while some trans kids will kill themselves, others will just accept sexual availability/ servitude as the price paid for being able to transition at all.
Cass acknowledges "There are a tiny number of people who will never be comfortable with their biological sex, with the gender associated with their biological sex.

"And for them, a medical pathway is the only way they're going to live their life comfortably. And we don't understand why that is"
February 16, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Omfg absolute power move there.
The GMC suspended her for years on the spurious basis she wasn't qualified.
So she's going after Cass on the same basis seeing as she actually understands every nuance of those rules inside out 😈
February 16, 2026 at 4:29 PM
@aoc.bsky.social in the Whitehouse would be a the greatest gift for the world and for every American.
from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring
You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid
She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.
newrepublic.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring
You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid
She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.
newrepublic.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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I don't think these are unreasonable asks
Again, all I'm asking is that any Democrat who wants my vote support 1. Reverting Trump's anti-trans policies, 2. Commit to fighting against the future erosion of trans rights, and 3. Support legislation codifying trans rights into law.

Very weird how many of you centrists think that's unreasonable
February 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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The attack on the NHS and healthcare has come from many sides through the Policy Exchange.
February 16, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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This is very much that "containment" thing I was talking about recently. Much of the UK medical establishment, has accepted that they can't completely eliminate transness (not for lack of trying), so they will settle for making our lives hell so as few of us come out as possible.
Cass acknowledges "There are a tiny number of people who will never be comfortable with their biological sex, with the gender associated with their biological sex.

"And for them, a medical pathway is the only way they're going to live their life comfortably. And we don't understand why that is"
February 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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In the uk giving your child a haircut they want not approved by the government is considered child abuse. Also calling them what they want to be called, you need a license for that
in the uk you need government permission to get a haircut
February 16, 2026 at 2:13 PM
I’m hearing that Hilary Cass has been referred to the GMC about this. She should, IMO, be struck off.
February 16, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Awesome to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social making this clear and calling out Labour’s/Starmer’s dishonesty over the Supreme Court misjudgement.

The contrast between Zack Polanski’s honesty and Starmer’s creepy deceitfulness couldn’t be clearer.
February 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM