Emma
@thearidesbikes.bsky.social
Cyclist, kayaker, triathlete, wild camper, immigrant, flaming liberal. 🏳️⚧️
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Amusing conversation with a lawyer advising civil society organizations about how to deal with the chaos created by For Some Women, Scotland: "I tell them 'either you can be sued by JK Rowling or you can be sued by Jolyon Maugham.'"
November 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Amusing conversation with a lawyer advising civil society organizations about how to deal with the chaos created by For Some Women, Scotland: "I tell them 'either you can be sued by JK Rowling or you can be sued by Jolyon Maugham.'"
I think of us as the canaries in a coal mine. Miners carried canaries (yellow birds) in cages. They are more sensitive to carbon monoxide than humans. If the canary died, the miner had knew that the air was poisoned and could escape. If trans people are safe, it’s safe for everyone.
A sacrificial anode is used on steel ships. To prevent corrosion, the sacrificial anode erodes rather than the ship. They are replaced when done.
For some in the LGBT movement, Trans people serve the same purpose, our rights are eroded, to save theirs.
There are no replacements for us. 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
For some in the LGBT movement, Trans people serve the same purpose, our rights are eroded, to save theirs.
There are no replacements for us. 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
November 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I think of us as the canaries in a coal mine. Miners carried canaries (yellow birds) in cages. They are more sensitive to carbon monoxide than humans. If the canary died, the miner had knew that the air was poisoned and could escape. If trans people are safe, it’s safe for everyone.
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"Gender GP provides access to a vital service to adults that should have been fulfilled by the NHS provision."
Nothing else. No other statement given by anyone. Give them no soundbites or wiggle room.
They are coming for private transitional healthcare. I'm warning you all.
Nothing else. No other statement given by anyone. Give them no soundbites or wiggle room.
They are coming for private transitional healthcare. I'm warning you all.
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Gender GP provides access to a vital service to adults that should have been fulfilled by the NHS provision."
Nothing else. No other statement given by anyone. Give them no soundbites or wiggle room.
They are coming for private transitional healthcare. I'm warning you all.
Nothing else. No other statement given by anyone. Give them no soundbites or wiggle room.
They are coming for private transitional healthcare. I'm warning you all.
GenderGP were welcoming and wonderfully helpful when I needed them. Yes, they can be criticised but without them I might not have made it.
"Gender GP provides access to a vital service to adults that should have been fulfilled by the NHS provision."
Nothing else. No other statement given by anyone. Give them no soundbites or wiggle room.
They are coming for private transitional healthcare. I'm warning you all.
Nothing else. No other statement given by anyone. Give them no soundbites or wiggle room.
They are coming for private transitional healthcare. I'm warning you all.
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
GenderGP were welcoming and wonderfully helpful when I needed them. Yes, they can be criticised but without them I might not have made it.
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Hey Wes,
Your Puberty Blocker trial's already been done, countless times, by people not associated with TERF groups like SEGM
70% reduction in trans kids' suicide rates alone
We know the PB ban has killed kids
Wes has blood on his hands and he's working with TERFs to get more
Your Puberty Blocker trial's already been done, countless times, by people not associated with TERF groups like SEGM
70% reduction in trans kids' suicide rates alone
We know the PB ban has killed kids
Wes has blood on his hands and he's working with TERFs to get more
Nov 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Groundbreaking study in journal Pediatrics found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 (1.6%) discontinuing treatment only 4 of whom re-identified as cisgender.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Hey Wes,
Your Puberty Blocker trial's already been done, countless times, by people not associated with TERF groups like SEGM
70% reduction in trans kids' suicide rates alone
We know the PB ban has killed kids
Wes has blood on his hands and he's working with TERFs to get more
Your Puberty Blocker trial's already been done, countless times, by people not associated with TERF groups like SEGM
70% reduction in trans kids' suicide rates alone
We know the PB ban has killed kids
Wes has blood on his hands and he's working with TERFs to get more
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The rush to ban puberty blockers for trans kids is so that having gone through an inappropriate puberty, they look “trans” for the rest of their lives. So they are easily identifiable.
Tell me I’m wrong‼️
#Transapartheid
Tell me I’m wrong‼️
#Transapartheid
November 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The rush to ban puberty blockers for trans kids is so that having gone through an inappropriate puberty, they look “trans” for the rest of their lives. So they are easily identifiable.
Tell me I’m wrong‼️
#Transapartheid
Tell me I’m wrong‼️
#Transapartheid
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Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
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Encouraging the policing of public spaces based on appearance and gender stereotypes is no way for a human rights regulator to behave.
The EHRC’s proposed Code of Practice is a misogynist’s charter, and the government must reject it.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
The EHRC’s proposed Code of Practice is a misogynist’s charter, and the government must reject it.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Transgender guidance dubbed ‘misogynist’s charter’
Places such as hospital wards, gyms and leisure centres will reportedly be able to question transgender women over whether they should be using single-sex services based on how they look, their behavi...
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Encouraging the policing of public spaces based on appearance and gender stereotypes is no way for a human rights regulator to behave.
The EHRC’s proposed Code of Practice is a misogynist’s charter, and the government must reject it.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
The EHRC’s proposed Code of Practice is a misogynist’s charter, and the government must reject it.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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An FOI seen by QueerAF shows the anti-trans organisation included in a consultation that led to RSE guidance that will introduce what has been widely described as a 'Section 28 2.0'
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-rse-consultation-featured-four-explicitly-anti-trans-groups-foi-reveals
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-rse-consultation-featured-four-explicitly-anti-trans-groups-foi-reveals
'Section 28 2.0' RSE consultation featured four explicitly anti-trans groups, FOI reveals
An FOI seen by QueerAF shows the anti-trans organisation included in a consultation that led to RSE guidance that will introduce what has been widely described as a 'Section 28 2.0'
www.wearequeeraf.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
An FOI seen by QueerAF shows the anti-trans organisation included in a consultation that led to RSE guidance that will introduce what has been widely described as a 'Section 28 2.0'
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-rse-consultation-featured-four-explicitly-anti-trans-groups-foi-reveals
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-rse-consultation-featured-four-explicitly-anti-trans-groups-foi-reveals
At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, if you want to know whether someone is a decent human being, look at their position on trans people’s access to equality and health care. It’s that simple. These people all fail that test.
They all need to go - Starmer, Mahmood, Phillipson, Reeves, Streeting.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, if you want to know whether someone is a decent human being, look at their position on trans people’s access to equality and health care. It’s that simple. These people all fail that test.
If you want to know whether someone respects human rights, ask them where they stand on trans rights.
Scratch a transphobe, find a xenophobe.
Scratch a transphobe, find a xenophobe.
Shabana Mahmood tells Sunday Times it should take 20 years for somebody granted refugee status in UK to secure permanent status (ie, reapply 6 times) if came without permission.
Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
If you want to know whether someone respects human rights, ask them where they stand on trans rights.
Scratch a transphobe, find a xenophobe.
Scratch a transphobe, find a xenophobe.
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Is the Telegraph finally acknowledging that Thatcher wrecked British society?
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Is the Telegraph finally acknowledging that Thatcher wrecked British society?
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America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
In the midst of the continual meddling of Trump into foreign countries’ governments, I recall the outcry in 2016 when Obama politely said that he preferred that the UK remain in the EU.
I believe that Starmer would have the support of most UK people if he told Trump firmly to back off the BBC.
I believe that Starmer would have the support of most UK people if he told Trump firmly to back off the BBC.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
In the midst of the continual meddling of Trump into foreign countries’ governments, I recall the outcry in 2016 when Obama politely said that he preferred that the UK remain in the EU.
I believe that Starmer would have the support of most UK people if he told Trump firmly to back off the BBC.
I believe that Starmer would have the support of most UK people if he told Trump firmly to back off the BBC.
This is an astonishing analysis of the perfidity of the authors of the puberty blocker ban.
skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
It’s also worth remembering that puberty blockers are themselves a compromise solution to ensure that trans kids get time to think and be sure. They’re safe and reversible.
skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
It’s also worth remembering that puberty blockers are themselves a compromise solution to ensure that trans kids get time to think and be sure. They’re safe and reversible.
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Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted
skywriter.blue
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This is an astonishing analysis of the perfidity of the authors of the puberty blocker ban.
skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
It’s also worth remembering that puberty blockers are themselves a compromise solution to ensure that trans kids get time to think and be sure. They’re safe and reversible.
skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
It’s also worth remembering that puberty blockers are themselves a compromise solution to ensure that trans kids get time to think and be sure. They’re safe and reversible.
The face of polite transphobia.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The face of polite transphobia.
The new right wants to burn the BBC because it’s the one news outlet they can’t buy. Although I detest the “it’s not perfect but” milquetoast defence, the BBC with all its imperfections is worth defending as a bulwark against the far-right takeover of the media. Please will the government step up.
Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The new right wants to burn the BBC because it’s the one news outlet they can’t buy. Although I detest the “it’s not perfect but” milquetoast defence, the BBC with all its imperfections is worth defending as a bulwark against the far-right takeover of the media. Please will the government step up.
And yet the BBC is apparently too pro-trans. OK.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 AM
And yet the BBC is apparently too pro-trans. OK.
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Emily Maitlis & Jon Sopel on The News Agents podcast taking credit for getting the GIDS Tavistock clinic closed down.
Puffed-up journalists with their sense of self-importance think they can’t be radicalised & biased!
History will not be kind to them! 😖
Puffed-up journalists with their sense of self-importance think they can’t be radicalised & biased!
History will not be kind to them! 😖
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Emily Maitlis & Jon Sopel on The News Agents podcast taking credit for getting the GIDS Tavistock clinic closed down.
Puffed-up journalists with their sense of self-importance think they can’t be radicalised & biased!
History will not be kind to them! 😖
Puffed-up journalists with their sense of self-importance think they can’t be radicalised & biased!
History will not be kind to them! 😖
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So now we have a confession that that the so-called ‘investigation’ into the Tavistock was nothing more than a way to get it shut down.
Trans kids have died since then, because they can no longer get the healthcare they need.
This is on you @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Trans kids have died since then, because they can no longer get the healthcare they need.
This is on you @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
So now we have a confession that that the so-called ‘investigation’ into the Tavistock was nothing more than a way to get it shut down.
Trans kids have died since then, because they can no longer get the healthcare they need.
This is on you @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Trans kids have died since then, because they can no longer get the healthcare they need.
This is on you @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Once Coe was IOC President this was inevitable, sadly.
The Olympics had allowed trans women to compete since the 2004 games.
Out of 10s of thousands of competitors, only one trans woman ever qualified. She came last.
Zero medals. Zero.
Zero.
Yet the far right has convinced elites they were dominating.
Out of 10s of thousands of competitors, only one trans woman ever qualified. She came last.
Zero medals. Zero.
Zero.
Yet the far right has convinced elites they were dominating.
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Once Coe was IOC President this was inevitable, sadly.
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The Olympics had allowed trans women to compete since the 2004 games.
Out of 10s of thousands of competitors, only one trans woman ever qualified. She came last.
Zero medals. Zero.
Zero.
Yet the far right has convinced elites they were dominating.
Out of 10s of thousands of competitors, only one trans woman ever qualified. She came last.
Zero medals. Zero.
Zero.
Yet the far right has convinced elites they were dominating.
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Olympics had allowed trans women to compete since the 2004 games.
Out of 10s of thousands of competitors, only one trans woman ever qualified. She came last.
Zero medals. Zero.
Zero.
Yet the far right has convinced elites they were dominating.
Out of 10s of thousands of competitors, only one trans woman ever qualified. She came last.
Zero medals. Zero.
Zero.
Yet the far right has convinced elites they were dominating.
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iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last
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JK Rowling 'funding transphobia' as equality in Britain goes backwards, MP says
Nadia Whittome, who has just joined Westminster’s Women and Equalities Committee, called for the Government fight back against toxic narratives and show solidarity with the trans community
Nadia Whittome, who has just joined Westminster’s Women and Equalities Committee, called for the Government fight back against toxic narratives and show solidarity with the trans community
JK Rowling 'funding transphobia' as equality in Britain goes backwards, MP says
Nadia Whittome, who has just joined Westminster’s Women and Equalities Committee, called for the Government fight back against toxic narratives and show solidarity with the trans community
www.mirror.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
JK Rowling 'funding transphobia' as equality in Britain goes backwards, MP says
Nadia Whittome, who has just joined Westminster’s Women and Equalities Committee, called for the Government fight back against toxic narratives and show solidarity with the trans community
Nadia Whittome, who has just joined Westminster’s Women and Equalities Committee, called for the Government fight back against toxic narratives and show solidarity with the trans community
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Another amazing article worth a read and share!
metro.co.uk/2025/11/07/c...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/07/c...
Cyclists have just proven that including trans women isn’t hard
Cycling UK have gravely misjudged the people they claimed to represent.
metro.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Another amazing article worth a read and share!
metro.co.uk/2025/11/07/c...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/07/c...