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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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.
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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 11:39 AM
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.
Labour has become the joke party in #Gorton&Denton. Its between the Greens and RefUK all the way.
archive.is/oTjvY
archive.is/oTjvY
February 17, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Labour has become the joke party in #Gorton&Denton. Its between the Greens and RefUK all the way.
archive.is/oTjvY
archive.is/oTjvY
For all of you who kept quiet when Wes Streeting banned puberty-blockers for trans kids because you believed the pseudoscientific Cass Review. This is what happens if we let them remove healthcare from one group.
Read the poem, it applies to healthcare also.
Read the poem, it applies to healthcare also.
ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com/content/5f56...
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com/content/5f56...
ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:29 AM
For all of you who kept quiet when Wes Streeting banned puberty-blockers for trans kids because you believed the pseudoscientific Cass Review. This is what happens if we let them remove healthcare from one group.
Read the poem, it applies to healthcare also.
Read the poem, it applies to healthcare also.
Not Gen-Z but Gen-G…?
Under 40s now overwhelmingly support the Green Party.
Under 40s now overwhelmingly support the Green Party.
Forget Gen Z - When it comes to politics, it's all about Gen G
If it was up to young Britons to decide who should govern Britain after the next election, the Greens would win by a landslide. Here's why.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Not Gen-Z but Gen-G…?
Under 40s now overwhelmingly support the Green Party.
Under 40s now overwhelmingly support the Green Party.
So is it now OK to suggest burning Farage’s houses…?
Genuine question.
Genuine question.
February 17, 2026 at 9:16 AM
So is it now OK to suggest burning Farage’s houses…?
Genuine question.
Genuine question.
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The Honourable Member for Gorton & Moscow.
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 17, 2026 at 7:29 AM
The Honourable Member for Gorton & Moscow.
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This is very surreal - and massively appreciated!
Join the Green Party.
🌈🏳️⚧️
youtube.com/shorts/V0cmT...
Join the Green Party.
🌈🏳️⚧️
youtube.com/shorts/V0cmT...
Attitude 101 guests on Green Party leader Zack Polanski: "We're all entering our Zaddy era"
YouTube video by Attitude Magazine
youtube.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:59 AM
This is very surreal - and massively appreciated!
Join the Green Party.
🌈🏳️⚧️
youtube.com/shorts/V0cmT...
Join the Green Party.
🌈🏳️⚧️
youtube.com/shorts/V0cmT...
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🏳️⚧️ SECOND THOUGHT OF THE DAY…
Fabled ”Bological sex“ is just certified sex in the same way that a GRC certifies sex. It merely certifies sex after a cursory examination of external genitalia.
However, sexual identity is defined by the most complex organ in the human body, the brain... /cont.
Fabled ”Bological sex“ is just certified sex in the same way that a GRC certifies sex. It merely certifies sex after a cursory examination of external genitalia.
However, sexual identity is defined by the most complex organ in the human body, the brain... /cont.
February 17, 2026 at 8:10 AM
🏳️⚧️ SECOND THOUGHT OF THE DAY…
Fabled ”Bological sex“ is just certified sex in the same way that a GRC certifies sex. It merely certifies sex after a cursory examination of external genitalia.
However, sexual identity is defined by the most complex organ in the human body, the brain... /cont.
Fabled ”Bological sex“ is just certified sex in the same way that a GRC certifies sex. It merely certifies sex after a cursory examination of external genitalia.
However, sexual identity is defined by the most complex organ in the human body, the brain... /cont.
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The Times knows this is what Labour Together is about, because Times staff collaborated closely with Labour Together to do exactly the kind of smeary hate campaigns they’re now bleating about.
February 17, 2026 at 8:56 AM
The Times knows this is what Labour Together is about, because Times staff collaborated closely with Labour Together to do exactly the kind of smeary hate campaigns they’re now bleating about.
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More generally, the GC movement's aim is to stigmatize all gender non-conformity.
Amusingly, the LGB Alliance lot give the game away. They insist they're protecting effeminate gay men and butch dykes from being 'transed' but also endorse prohibitions on social transition, aka gender non-conformity.
Amusingly, the LGB Alliance lot give the game away. They insist they're protecting effeminate gay men and butch dykes from being 'transed' but also endorse prohibitions on social transition, aka gender non-conformity.
Not stamping out just treating as if it's a dangerous sign of mental illness that needs to be discouraged.
Not too long ago a regular GC cry was "I was a tomboy growing up. These days they'd trans you for that. Leave those kids alone!" Now Cass is arguing that tomboy (and other) behaviour needs stamping out altogether?
February 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
More generally, the GC movement's aim is to stigmatize all gender non-conformity.
Amusingly, the LGB Alliance lot give the game away. They insist they're protecting effeminate gay men and butch dykes from being 'transed' but also endorse prohibitions on social transition, aka gender non-conformity.
Amusingly, the LGB Alliance lot give the game away. They insist they're protecting effeminate gay men and butch dykes from being 'transed' but also endorse prohibitions on social transition, aka gender non-conformity.
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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
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Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.
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FWIW, I just emailed NYT's standards editor to ask about the paper's policy on this. Will update if I get a response.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
FWIW, I just emailed NYT's standards editor to ask about the paper's policy on this. Will update if I get a response.
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It’s not just that a large majority want Britain to rejoin the EU, it’s the fact that the majority steadily continues to grow…
February 16, 2026 at 8:33 PM
It’s not just that a large majority want Britain to rejoin the EU, it’s the fact that the majority steadily continues to grow…
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Since Cass is again making the rounds for expounding on all the ways we might make fewer trans kids, here’s a piece on how this discourse erases the lives of trans people doing extraordinary specifically because they embraced who they are. Whose rich lives wouldn’t have happened in the closet.
In defense of trans quality of life — Jessica Kant
Today trans people exist in an atmosphere where it has become normal for strangers to demand of us that we extemporaneously provide inarguable, indisputable proof that without very safe medical care w...
jessk.org
February 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Since Cass is again making the rounds for expounding on all the ways we might make fewer trans kids, here’s a piece on how this discourse erases the lives of trans people doing extraordinary specifically because they embraced who they are. Whose rich lives wouldn’t have happened in the closet.
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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
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
This👇 It’s just a variant of DARVO. But it’s what we’ve come to expect from TERFs. 🤷♀️
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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
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.
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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.
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.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
February 16, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
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.
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
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.