Rhi Belle
@spoopyspoonie.bsky.social
Disability trans and queer stuff.
Impatient crip/"bad vibes"
They/them
Impatient crip/"bad vibes"
They/them
Lad, lads , in this week's patronising bullshit, I apparently need to accept that I'm disabled lmao
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Lad, lads , in this week's patronising bullshit, I apparently need to accept that I'm disabled lmao
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Getting your GP to agreed to shared care for trans HRT has become a lot harder in recent years. Some GPs are willing, but many will refuse or make excuses. I investigated one possible reason for this variation for @transsafety.network transsafety.network/posts/from-l...
From Lacking to Malicious - An investigation into NHS England's ICB's guidance
Since the Cass Review’s was published in April 2024, trans healthcare on the NHS has become significantly more precarious and unpredictable. While the dire situation for children has happened in the o...
transsafety.network
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Getting your GP to agreed to shared care for trans HRT has become a lot harder in recent years. Some GPs are willing, but many will refuse or make excuses. I investigated one possible reason for this variation for @transsafety.network transsafety.network/posts/from-l...
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@sasha98.bsky.social provides analysis of just how precarious and inconsistent access to trans healthcare on the NHS has become. They highlight how official guidance has favoured giving hostile and nervous clinicians excuses, rather than empower or expect them to provide good care standards.
From Lacking to Malicious - An investigation into NHS England's ICB's guidance
Since the Cass Review’s was published in April 2024, trans healthcare on the NHS has become significantly more precarious and unpredictable. While the dire situation for children has happened in the o...
transsafety.network
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
@sasha98.bsky.social provides analysis of just how precarious and inconsistent access to trans healthcare on the NHS has become. They highlight how official guidance has favoured giving hostile and nervous clinicians excuses, rather than empower or expect them to provide good care standards.
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Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views
Wes Streeting continues to ignore safeguarding concerns about parents group linked to abusive practices
Trans Safety Network has seen evidence Wes Streeting and the DHSC solicited feedback on a “puberty blocker risk form” from Bayswater Support Group and other anti-trans groups in September 2025, 6 mont...
transsafety.network
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views
I am at the angry stage of having "become the problem I pointed out " of wanting to assign mandatory reading lists of Sara Ahmed to like everybody
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I am at the angry stage of having "become the problem I pointed out " of wanting to assign mandatory reading lists of Sara Ahmed to like everybody
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Nothing about us, without us.
And with things like the puberty blocker trial, that doesn't simply mean involving trans adults - it means listening to young people and being led by their experience.
And with things like the puberty blocker trial, that doesn't simply mean involving trans adults - it means listening to young people and being led by their experience.
The trans community’s trust in the NHS’ new puberty blocker trial is low and I can’t help but wonder whether they could have prevented that by involving ANY trans people in its design or operation, and maybe not involving several people who have attended conferences of anti-LGBTQ hate groups
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Nothing about us, without us.
And with things like the puberty blocker trial, that doesn't simply mean involving trans adults - it means listening to young people and being led by their experience.
And with things like the puberty blocker trial, that doesn't simply mean involving trans adults - it means listening to young people and being led by their experience.
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Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx
October 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx
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Point 6 in the eligibility criteria, where adolescents are only eligible for potential access to puberty blockers if their clinician "believes they have participated sufficiently for their holistic health in other forms of care".
This set up gives clinicians so much power. It is set up for abuse.
This set up gives clinicians so much power. It is set up for abuse.
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Point 6 in the eligibility criteria, where adolescents are only eligible for potential access to puberty blockers if their clinician "believes they have participated sufficiently for their holistic health in other forms of care".
This set up gives clinicians so much power. It is set up for abuse.
This set up gives clinicians so much power. It is set up for abuse.
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This is not how you design a research study to see whether puberty blockers are beneficial.
This is how you design a research study to show they have little benefit.
This is how you design a research study to show they have little benefit.
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is not how you design a research study to see whether puberty blockers are beneficial.
This is how you design a research study to show they have little benefit.
This is how you design a research study to show they have little benefit.
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To celebrate #DisabilityHistoryMonth, browse the LUP reading list and enjoy free access to selected disability studies journal articles across the next month.
bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖
@davidbolt13.bsky.social
bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖
@davidbolt13.bsky.social
Celebrating Disability History Month 2025
To mark Disability History Month in the UK, we’ve collated a reading list from our books and journals that engage with ideas and narratives of disability, particularly our leading journal, Th…
liverpooluniversitypress.blog
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
To celebrate #DisabilityHistoryMonth, browse the LUP reading list and enjoy free access to selected disability studies journal articles across the next month.
bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖
@davidbolt13.bsky.social
bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖
@davidbolt13.bsky.social
Apparently people hurt by other activists must be on demand 24/7 and never take a day off from it or else lose credibility.
Anyway if you know me from dark I genuinely enjoyed the games sessions.
Very much doubt anyone has been told the full story so expecting distance but hope I'm wrong.
Anyway if you know me from dark I genuinely enjoyed the games sessions.
Very much doubt anyone has been told the full story so expecting distance but hope I'm wrong.
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Apparently people hurt by other activists must be on demand 24/7 and never take a day off from it or else lose credibility.
Anyway if you know me from dark I genuinely enjoyed the games sessions.
Very much doubt anyone has been told the full story so expecting distance but hope I'm wrong.
Anyway if you know me from dark I genuinely enjoyed the games sessions.
Very much doubt anyone has been told the full story so expecting distance but hope I'm wrong.
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one thing we can all agree on is that it's hilarious the bible's most famous homophobic verse has the numerical citation of 6:9
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
one thing we can all agree on is that it's hilarious the bible's most famous homophobic verse has the numerical citation of 6:9
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We gotta start close-reading Dead Kennedys album artwork like it’s the writings of Nostradamus
Real tweets from the White House are indistinguishable from anti-Trump AI slop.
Or, in this case, 1990s Adbusters parodies.
Or, in this case, 1990s Adbusters parodies.
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
We gotta start close-reading Dead Kennedys album artwork like it’s the writings of Nostradamus
Not enough shitposting on my timeline.
Get busy
Get busy
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Not enough shitposting on my timeline.
Get busy
Get busy
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The limited monetisation issue is real for basically any channel that talks about any serious issue. Ember is amongst the best to ever do it. Shit like this just isn't fair.
it's been hit with limited monetization, meaning i won't make much money off this one.
i don't know the reason, i requested a review & they stood by the decision.
i was only able to release 3 videos this year & the last was a flop.
so if you were thinking of joining my Patreon or Members..
🥺🥺
i don't know the reason, i requested a review & they stood by the decision.
i was only able to release 3 videos this year & the last was a flop.
so if you were thinking of joining my Patreon or Members..
🥺🥺
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The limited monetisation issue is real for basically any channel that talks about any serious issue. Ember is amongst the best to ever do it. Shit like this just isn't fair.
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This @caelan.bsky.social video about ChatGPT's occasional penchant for urging on other people's suicides is a hard watch, but it reveals how dark the AI can be and what OpenAI has decided is worthwhile collateral damage (or so its behaviour seems to say). youtu.be/hNBoULJkxoU?...
ChatGPT Kіlled Again - Four more Dеad
YouTube video by Dr. Caelan Conrad
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This @caelan.bsky.social video about ChatGPT's occasional penchant for urging on other people's suicides is a hard watch, but it reveals how dark the AI can be and what OpenAI has decided is worthwhile collateral damage (or so its behaviour seems to say). youtu.be/hNBoULJkxoU?...
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You've got 2.5 months to think about & put together your abstract for a 2026 MDN event! ⏳
MDN call for abstracts for 2026 events
Deadline: 31 Jan 2026
To continue efforts that heighten understanding while prefiguring the communities and society we want to live in, the steering committee is excited to announce this year’s call for proposals marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/m...
Deadline: 31 Jan 2026
To continue efforts that heighten understanding while prefiguring the communities and society we want to live in, the steering committee is excited to announce this year’s call for proposals marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/m...
MDN call for abstracts for 2026 events
We hope you all have been keeping well amidst a year of struggle but also success. To continue efforts that heighten understanding while prefiguring the communities and society we want to live in, …
marxismdisability.wordpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
You've got 2.5 months to think about & put together your abstract for a 2026 MDN event! ⏳
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Who needs a Reform government when we have a Labour one enacting the kind of policies that would make Reform happy?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Who needs a Reform government when we have a Labour one enacting the kind of policies that would make Reform happy?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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'Illegal' (no-one is illegal) immigrants are an already-demonised group which Starmer and co now want to conflate with asylum seekers, as the far right has done for ages, but it's the same playbook.
Going back to the OP ulitmately they're right, it's a racist, ableist, queerphobic party in power.
Going back to the OP ulitmately they're right, it's a racist, ableist, queerphobic party in power.
November 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
'Illegal' (no-one is illegal) immigrants are an already-demonised group which Starmer and co now want to conflate with asylum seekers, as the far right has done for ages, but it's the same playbook.
Going back to the OP ulitmately they're right, it's a racist, ableist, queerphobic party in power.
Going back to the OP ulitmately they're right, it's a racist, ableist, queerphobic party in power.
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See also govt trying to claim PIP was an out of work benefit, so they could imply those claiming it needed to 'get back into work' feeding the 'scroungers' narrative*
The government lies. Constantly
(*and those on out of work benefits aren't 'scroungers' anyway. They're people. They're us)
The government lies. Constantly
(*and those on out of work benefits aren't 'scroungers' anyway. They're people. They're us)
What on earth does asylum have to do with illegal immigration, and why is Starmer conflating the two?
(I know the answer: It's because he's a racist, in charge of a racist party.)
(I know the answer: It's because he's a racist, in charge of a racist party.)
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
See also govt trying to claim PIP was an out of work benefit, so they could imply those claiming it needed to 'get back into work' feeding the 'scroungers' narrative*
The government lies. Constantly
(*and those on out of work benefits aren't 'scroungers' anyway. They're people. They're us)
The government lies. Constantly
(*and those on out of work benefits aren't 'scroungers' anyway. They're people. They're us)
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The only way Shabana Mahmood will implement her vile, racist "reforms" is by importing anti-migrant ICE raids from the US into our communities, supported (more readily than in Britain than in some US states) by the police. It's time to get organised against the horrors that lie ahead
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The only way Shabana Mahmood will implement her vile, racist "reforms" is by importing anti-migrant ICE raids from the US into our communities, supported (more readily than in Britain than in some US states) by the police. It's time to get organised against the horrors that lie ahead
Can we have the anarchafeminist revolution right now please
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Can we have the anarchafeminist revolution right now please
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How have we found ourselves here as a country? A supposedly centre-left government unable to rule out child detention.
Will Labour MPs now ask – how have they found themselves here as a party? And, more importantly, what do they plan to do about it?
Will Labour MPs now ask – how have they found themselves here as a party? And, more importantly, what do they plan to do about it?
Lots of Labour MPs asking Mahmood tonight to rule out child detention. She won’t rule it out. That’s because forced removals of families will mean children in detention for periods.
Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.
Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.
November 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
How have we found ourselves here as a country? A supposedly centre-left government unable to rule out child detention.
Will Labour MPs now ask – how have they found themselves here as a party? And, more importantly, what do they plan to do about it?
Will Labour MPs now ask – how have they found themselves here as a party? And, more importantly, what do they plan to do about it?
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The latest Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies is out, and it's a doozy: a special issue on "Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation".
With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The latest Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies is out, and it's a doozy: a special issue on "Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation".
With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
It's a shame the Dresden Dolls are in the bigots and abuse apologists pile because Backstabber is such a banger, and the perfect soundtrack for throwing things at a particular fuckface to.
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It's a shame the Dresden Dolls are in the bigots and abuse apologists pile because Backstabber is such a banger, and the perfect soundtrack for throwing things at a particular fuckface to.