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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · Mar 7

when i call myself a tummy ache survivor, i do not mean that i survived a tummy ache more that i have survived the existence of tummy aches (so far)

that ridiculous detrans grifter. she's recently started calling her October 7 survivor because she survived the date October 7th

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 1d

every now and then I remember the israeli "detransitioner" who survived October 7th (the day, not the event) and have a wee chuckle to myself

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 2d

free her

a photograph taken of the inside Buchanan Bus Station. you can see a Subway, public toilets and some sky lights

zoom in on the sky lights. you can see a cow balloon has gotten stuck

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 3d

a time of healing, a time of whatever

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 3d

Third favourite pastime after "being transphobic" and "defending Woody Allen" surely?

"Taylor Swift creates aural crack cocaine for people like me, whose favorite pastime is to drill sad songs into our brain on repeat, writes Hadley Freeman."

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 4d

any other religions you don't want to see at rangers, murdo?

A picture of Murdo Fraser with the caption:

'No more Buddhists or vegans at Rangers' says Conservative MSP

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 4d

so fucked up you can just adopt cats off the street but not rabbits. so fucked up

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 5d

Something I haven't seen mentioned is that after that 224 year wait, you may be prescribed 25mcg of estrogen patches, which is borderline placebo levels of HRT. You wait 3 lifetimes to even be seen and your reward is... fuck all

Adam Turner 🏳️‍🌈 @awjt.bsky.social · 6d

In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments.

224 YEARS.

This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.

We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.

Gender Clinic Files: Some people in Scotland will never get a gender clinic appointment on a 224-year waitlist.

This system is failing to support people to transition not because it is broken, but by design. The frustrating thing is that this would not be a difficult problem to solve under a different political paradigm.

Trans+ people do not need to be assessed by gender clinics or diagnosed by psychiatrists to tell us what we already know: we are trans. The healthcare we need, especially when it comes to hormones, is already available to cis people through making an appointment with their GP.

Gender clinics are unnecessary and exist to segregate healthcare for Trans+ people. Abolishing this system and providing Trans+ healthcare in primary care, at the GP through an informed consent model, would solve many of the issues this data reveals. GPs already prescribe hormones to cis adults. Trans+ adults simply need the same access to this healthcare.

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 6d

Health is devolved so this is all on the Scottish Government btw

Adam Turner 🏳️‍🌈 @awjt.bsky.social · 6d

In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments.

224 YEARS.

This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.

We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 9d

"Despite our difference of opinion, I still love and respect Joanne. She means the world to me, and always will, even if we do have a minor disagreement on this issue. My door will always be open to her."

Joanne:

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 9d

decided on the expensive, big girl treat I'm getting with my redundancy payment

a holiday! how exciting!!

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 14d

she's consistently one of the worst accounts for sensationalist scaremongering. gets engagement tho

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 14d

about 50% of
survival horror transphobes
protagonists
🤝
"has anyone seen my wife?"

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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 14d

Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander and Scottish Labour Councillor Jane Meagher at the Granton Gasholder

𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 14d

me: dropped your brit card btw 👇
you: *looks down*
me:

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 14d

telling friends they dropped their brit card like every kid in the 90s would tell their friends they dropped their gay card

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 15d

metal gear solid 1

screencap of a DM conversation

1: what's going on with Russian Hind D's in Alaska
2: Don't worry Kitten
1: okay 💗
1: yay 💗

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 16d

got raptured. just for having an opinion 😔

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 22d

What's your favourite Scottish literary quote

I'll start

a stylised rendering of JK Rowling next to her famous quote "The words are Hitlers, but..."

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 24d

had to put sephiroth on his arse myself

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 24d

it was the onion from parappa the rapper

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 24d

no final fantasy in that list. i waited the whole game waiting for FFVII. nothing. got 100% of the collectibles, told to complete a very hard level. the whole time I was thinking omg it'll be aerith and a secret sephiroth boss fight at the end

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 24d

finished astro bot. really good platformer full of creativity but it was a game that gradually got worse from me as the novelty wore off and the VIP bots moved away from my favourites like metal gear, resident evil, etc

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · Aug 21

i love working at the gender identity clinic. my job is to stand by the reception and if anyone even looks like they're thinking about answering a ringing phone, i shoot them in the head

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 26d

let's not forget the real victims of US school shootings: british transphobes somehow

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