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TransLucent @translucent.org.uk · 21d

Morning Folks!

So far we've raised a massive £22K+ to fight the legal campaign to keep the Kenwood Ladies Pond inclusive.

A big THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed.

We need to meet our target of 50K to fight for #TransRights

Please share.

www.gofundme.com/f/working-fo...

Donate to Keep the Ladies Pond Inclusive: Fund Trans Rights, organized by TransLucent Community

Keep Hampstead Heath's Ladies' Pond Inclusive: Fund Trans Righ… TransLucent Community needs your support for Keep the Ladies Pond Inclusive: Fund Trans Rights

www.gofundme.com

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 5h

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.

Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10d

Now. And always.

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 10d

Zack Polanski: ‘It’s time for a party to stand in unconditional solidarity with our LGBT community’
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/zack-polanski-green-party-uk-lgbtq/?utm_content=1759143618&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Green leader says party stands in 'unconditional solidarity' with LGBTQ community

New elected Green Party leader Zack Polanski speaks exclusively to PinkNews to make clear what his, and the Green Party's, policies on LGBTQ+ rights are.

www.thepinknews.com

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Juraj Mikurcik @jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · 2d

YES, Make Hope Normal Again 💚

Inspirational stuff from @zackpolanski.bsky.social // The Greens

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

www.youtube.com

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, go on, whack your signature on this one too!
Let's get our voices heard everywhere.
See the link in the post below.
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And if you can possibly help with legal costs (via @translucent.org.uk), please do donate here: translucent.org.uk/keep-hampste...

Madeleine Moore @matheleine.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is likely to be one of the first big tests of how far down the bigotry rabbit hole this country has gone. Everything we can do to fight back helps - please sign!

goodlawproject.org/petition/kee...

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

goodlawproject.org

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 9d

Right-wing attempt to brand 'trans ideology' a terror threat used 'misleading' data
https://bit.ly/46K3kGL

Right-wing petition on 'trans ideology' used 'misleading' data

A petition by The Heritage Foundation on so-called 'trans ideology' reportedly used 'misleading' data, an investigative report has found.

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Sara Hummingbird @sarahumm.bsky.social · 11d

The second crusade has started with trans people, with money from Christofascists

Womens bodily autonomy is also on the line.

I hope this fizzles out to nothing & doesn't create a second dark age.

We might already be edging into one, the lack of belief in science & a worrying trend of alt facts.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11d

Anti-trans hate group Genspect is formally calling for trans people to be repathologized. This is most certainly to set the stage for mandated conversion therapy and potentially forced institutionalization.

archive.ph/yA2Wh

Alt text: Screenshot of a press release titled “Genspect Calls for Re-Psychopathologization of Transgender Identification.” Subheading: “Statement for Immediate Release” by Genspect, dated 27th September 2025. Below the title is an abstract graphic of a stylized “G” composed of textured shapes in teal, purple, and pink. The text beneath reads: “On day one of the Genspect conference in Albuquerque, Mia Hughes announced the official launch of Genspect’s Re-psychopathologization campaign in her talk defining transgender identities as extreme overvalued beliefs.”

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 11d

PSA;

The problem is transphobes not trans people.

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Kaz Self @kazself.bsky.social · 13d

Going to Labour Party conference?
Want to show some solidarity with trans people?

Then you have choices:-
1) Visit the @translucent.org.uk stall
2) Solidarity meeting with MP’s
3) A PiL panel event (ft. moi!)
4) the call for an inclusive women’s conference.
www.prideinlabour.org.uk/events/solid...

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · Sep 1

It would be very difficult/impossible to deliver a trumpian hellscape in the UK while we have the ECHR protecting us.
Outside it, we are well & truly fair game.

Which is why billionaire disaster capitalists & asset strippers are flocking to Farage.

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/res...

‘Resolute 1850’: Reform UK Ltd’s MAGA plan to turn Britain into Little America

Right-wing US interests are pushing a plan to bend the UK to their will, ‘DOGE’-style – in Farage’s Reform UK they have an eager little helper

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 16d

"It is not that Trans people lost rights but that their rights need ‘correcting’... This is starkly reminiscent of the argument that rights did not stretch to gay people in the first Trump administration": dflw.ie/power-gender...

Power, Gender and Tyranny in Our Time - Doing Feminist Legal Work

While writing my monograph On Tyranny and the Global Legal Order, the frequent appearance of gender struck me. But, more startling, how little remarked upon

dflw.ie

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16d

short 🧵 on what autism and transgender pseudoscience & disinformation have in common:

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16d

so Tylenol supposedly causes autism, but so does MMR, despite autism predating either of them – how could this be? negativity bias! this is why when ppl consider something to be "bad" they can invent hundreds of causes w/little evidence & ppl will believe it...
juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...

screenshot from linked to essay that reads: There is a well-studied human cognitive bias, often called negativity bias, that refers to our tendency to dwell more on negative outcomes than positive or neutral ones, and to attribute negative (but not positive or neutral) outcomes to some external agent (reviewed in Rozin & Royzman, 2001; Morewedge, 2009). Or to put it another way, we often presume that positive or neutral events occur naturally or inexplicably, whereas negative events must have been caused by something or someone.

Here is a mundane example: If you were to drive home from work without incident, nobody would care or give it a second thought. It would be considered a taken-for-granted outcome and nobody would expect you to provide an account of how or why it happened. But if you got into an accident on your way home, well, then we would all want to know why and how it happened. You couldn’t say “I don’t know, I just got into an accident” — nobody would take that answer seriously, because something must have caused the accident! And if you do not provide an explanation that is satisfactory in our eyes, people will likely attribute causes or motives for you: Perhaps another driver cut you off? Or maybe you were speeding? Or drinking? Or fell asleep at the wheel?

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 16d

It's now close to 54,000 signatures! ❤️

Keep sharing and spread our letter even further....

Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 18d

Trans people are not a threat to women’s safety.

Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name.

Will you join them?
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Photo of 2 men with white bold letters that say “men who abuse their power are the real threat to women, not trans people”

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 18d

This is dangerous and not unsurprising in the UK today!

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 18d

We have been advised that ‘Gender Critical’ NHS staff have been trying to locate some trans people by searching the NHS computer systems.

We ask everyone worried they may have been targeted, to make a Subject Access Request to learn who has searched your record.

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NevereverDave.bsky.social @nevereverdave.bsky.social · 16d

on Helen Joyce I remembered there was some issue around plagiarism & #JenniferBilek

This covers that. Hence my thought that in that winey chat; she may have revealed a little too much, attempting a sort of "I said it first" peg. #Atkins & #Streeting listened.

transsafety.network/posts/joyce-...

Helen Joyce reveals plans to use fears around trans kids as stepping stone to eliminate “trans” in public life

Speech to conversion therapy lobby conference in Lisbon laid out plans to use puberty blockers as stepping stone to attack rights of trans adults

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 17d

What strikes me as most important about this British opinion survey is that even young adults are becoming transphobic. Anti-trans measures by the UK govt, reflect the ignorance & brain-washing of the public, by the British media & far right lobbyists.

The tipping point has now been reached:

Where does the British public stand on transgender rights in 2024/25? | YouGov

Scepticism towards transgender rights has grown across the board since 2022

yougov.co.uk

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TransLucent @translucent.org.uk · 17d

NION have now launched a website:

notinourname.org.uk

53,171 have signed. Let's get to 100,000

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 19d

Trans people are increasingly being painted as a threat to women.

We’re supporting @nionwomen.bsky.social to fight back against this harmful narrative. 👇
https://goodlaw.social/xmgc

Rejecting the false narrative that frames trans people as a threat to women

Trans people are increasingly being painted as a threat to women. We're supporting Not In Our Name (NION) Women to fight back against this harmful narrative.

goodlaw.social

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 17d

"The British Psychological Society has warned that recent changes to equality law guidance risk causing confusion and damaging the wellbeing of trans people."

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Equality and Human Rights Commission response | BPS

The BPS response urged the Equality and Human Rights Commission to adopt a clearer and more coherent approach that protects the dignity, privacy, and rights of trans people, while supporting service p...

www.bps.org.uk

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18d

Evidence (which he is ignoring)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban

This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...

www.tandfonline.com

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TransLucent @translucent.org.uk · 18d

Congratulations Katie.

Katie Neeves - Cool2BTrans - Trans Ambassador @cool2btrans.bsky.social · 18d

Erm... a thing happened last night. Quite a big thing, actually...

I only went and won the National Diversity Awards Positive Role Model for LGBT 2025 Award!!!!

#NDA2025 #NDA25 #ProudToBeDiverse #NationalDiversityAwards

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 19d

No transphobes at Green Party conference, please sign and share

Greens for Trans Liberation

Trans rights are human rights.  The Green Party has long affirmed that:  • Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary identities exist.  • Everyone deserves dignity, safet...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Cllr Brian Wernham 🔶 C.Eng. MA History @brianwernham.bsky.social · 19d

A trans-exclusionary motion was rejected out of hand this morning by delegates at Liberal Democrat conference

Delegates voted not to debate Motion F4 ("Diversity Quotas”). That meant no debate and no change to constitution

Trans women continue to be counted as women on committees - no change

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 19d

I know one of the parents who started this group. She took me under her wing after Alice died and earlier this year I made my first trip to Belfast to meet her irl. This group will embrace you and your LGBTQIA+ child and hold you fast in the storm. Reach out.

Claire's Trans Talks @clairestranstalks.bsky.social · 19d

If youre in Northern Ireland and a parent of an LGBTQ+ young person this new group may be of interest / help.

bsky.app/profile/nest...

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19d

There goes the First Amendment.

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