Velvet Glitterman
@velvetglitterman.bsky.social
Trans gay researcher & all round creative type. He/him 🔞 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈⚧️
Spideypool, Stackson, Malec, BlackBonnet, LotR, OFMD, general geekery. Mostly just human rights.
Spideypool, Stackson, Malec, BlackBonnet, LotR, OFMD, general geekery. Mostly just human rights.
Stumbled across this article earlier and wow. Incredible illustration of just how far backwards we've gone in less than 5 years. I cannot imagine the BBC writing an article like this now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
Trans clothing: Designer works to create standard sizes
A transgender model and lingerie designer work together to create a template for clothing designers.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Stumbled across this article earlier and wow. Incredible illustration of just how far backwards we've gone in less than 5 years. I cannot imagine the BBC writing an article like this now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
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"Our experience is not an outlier. Countless studies have documented exactly what we saw: the algorithm disproportionately favours right-wing content," writes Laurena Rodrigues about the experience of going undercover on TikTok.
Here's what we found: https://bit.ly/3KGT7Ec
Here's what we found: https://bit.ly/3KGT7Ec
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"Our experience is not an outlier. Countless studies have documented exactly what we saw: the algorithm disproportionately favours right-wing content," writes Laurena Rodrigues about the experience of going undercover on TikTok.
Here's what we found: https://bit.ly/3KGT7Ec
Here's what we found: https://bit.ly/3KGT7Ec
I know this person & they're awesome - PLEASE share & help if you can, they only have 3 days to raise £2,500!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/baa...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/baa...
Baal Fashion: The Creation of a Transfeminine Clothes Size
Together, we’re reshaping the standards of fashion — by building a reliable clothing size for transwomen.
www.kickstarter.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I know this person & they're awesome - PLEASE share & help if you can, they only have 3 days to raise £2,500!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/baa...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/baa...
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This is why it's important to understand what's going on. Not about accepting cowardice – but a proper analysis. Journalists are told by their editors across the country they cannot criticise Rowling. Not because they would lose a case, or would even sue, but because she has built up a latent fear.
I get where you're coming from- it's the same thing Rowling does with libel threats. The idea is to grind everyone down.
December 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is why it's important to understand what's going on. Not about accepting cowardice – but a proper analysis. Journalists are told by their editors across the country they cannot criticise Rowling. Not because they would lose a case, or would even sue, but because she has built up a latent fear.
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Keir Starmer says he had “uncontainable fury” about his niece’s homophobic attack in 2022.
Here’s a look at his party’s anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric and policies since 🧵
From op-ed by @jamiewareham.co.uk
Here’s a look at his party’s anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric and policies since 🧵
From op-ed by @jamiewareham.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Keir Starmer says he had “uncontainable fury” about his niece’s homophobic attack in 2022.
Here’s a look at his party’s anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric and policies since 🧵
From op-ed by @jamiewareham.co.uk
Here’s a look at his party’s anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric and policies since 🧵
From op-ed by @jamiewareham.co.uk
Sounds to me like the 'review' came in back in March...
December 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Sounds to me like the 'review' came in back in March...
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There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50
Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
goodlaw.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50
Nothing feminist and nothing radical in it either, it's conservative as fuck - I reckon just TE.
As a bonus, it doesn't use up as many characters, and TE can also stand for:
- Tight End
- Tracking Error
- True Evil
As a bonus, it doesn't use up as many characters, and TE can also stand for:
- Tight End
- Tracking Error
- True Evil
These people shouldn't be called TERFs but TERs. There's no feminism in their ideology.
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Nothing feminist and nothing radical in it either, it's conservative as fuck - I reckon just TE.
As a bonus, it doesn't use up as many characters, and TE can also stand for:
- Tight End
- Tracking Error
- True Evil
As a bonus, it doesn't use up as many characters, and TE can also stand for:
- Tight End
- Tracking Error
- True Evil
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Graham Linehan did a podcast with Joey Barton, while he was up on charges for kicking his wife in the head. JK Rowling didn't comment on that at all, but she did speak up for Graham when he was arrested for inciting violence against trans women in toilets, a move which won't just hurt...4/
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Graham Linehan did a podcast with Joey Barton, while he was up on charges for kicking his wife in the head. JK Rowling didn't comment on that at all, but she did speak up for Graham when he was arrested for inciting violence against trans women in toilets, a move which won't just hurt...4/
Despite BBC's anti-trans language ("biological males who identify as women") kudos to the judge!
Says:
-Trans-inclusive loo policy proportionate
-Only this woman (0.05%) complained👌
-Policy "didn't put women at greater risk of violence, assault or have a greater impact on their privacy" than men.
😊
Says:
-Trans-inclusive loo policy proportionate
-Only this woman (0.05%) complained👌
-Policy "didn't put women at greater risk of violence, assault or have a greater impact on their privacy" than men.
😊
Good news for trans workers
After the Girl guiding and WI announcements, some comfort for trans workers.
A Scottish tribunal has ruled that a trans-inclusive workplace policy is NOT discriminatory against a woman with gender critical views in the workplace.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
After the Girl guiding and WI announcements, some comfort for trans workers.
A Scottish tribunal has ruled that a trans-inclusive workplace policy is NOT discriminatory against a woman with gender critical views in the workplace.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Woman loses sex discrimination case after toilet complaint - BBC News
Maria Kelly took legal action against Leonardo UK alleging harassment and discrimination after seeing a trans colleague in female toilets.
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Despite BBC's anti-trans language ("biological males who identify as women") kudos to the judge!
Says:
-Trans-inclusive loo policy proportionate
-Only this woman (0.05%) complained👌
-Policy "didn't put women at greater risk of violence, assault or have a greater impact on their privacy" than men.
😊
Says:
-Trans-inclusive loo policy proportionate
-Only this woman (0.05%) complained👌
-Policy "didn't put women at greater risk of violence, assault or have a greater impact on their privacy" than men.
😊
Considering the SC ruling said its decision shouldn't affect trans ppl's lived realities or rights, it sure does seem to be having a massive impact.
We knew it would (as did GERMs, or they wouldn't have celebrated so hard) but I'm still disappointed in every org that capitulates, however "sadly".
We knew it would (as did GERMs, or they wouldn't have celebrated so hard) but I'm still disappointed in every org that capitulates, however "sadly".
Stuck on this gutting sentence on the Women’s Institute decision. For young people it’s watching the world close to them before they’ve had a shot at life, for older women it’s watching half a century of progress vanish. Either way it’s grossly, unbearably cruel.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Considering the SC ruling said its decision shouldn't affect trans ppl's lived realities or rights, it sure does seem to be having a massive impact.
We knew it would (as did GERMs, or they wouldn't have celebrated so hard) but I'm still disappointed in every org that capitulates, however "sadly".
We knew it would (as did GERMs, or they wouldn't have celebrated so hard) but I'm still disappointed in every org that capitulates, however "sadly".
Love it when we get lists of who we can support 💙💗🤍 This looks like an awesome event!
December 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Love it when we get lists of who we can support 💙💗🤍 This looks like an awesome event!
Good article.
One add: Cass Review cast particular doubt on young trans MEN's bodily agency. TERFs see trans men as women. Feminists MUST wake up to the fact trans men are the far-right's route to removing women's repro health rights. That's why they erase us.
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
One add: Cass Review cast particular doubt on young trans MEN's bodily agency. TERFs see trans men as women. Feminists MUST wake up to the fact trans men are the far-right's route to removing women's repro health rights. That's why they erase us.
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Transphobia is just the first step in removing rights from all women and girls
There's something familiar in the far right’s mounting attacks on abortion rights here in the UK
www.thenational.scot
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Good article.
One add: Cass Review cast particular doubt on young trans MEN's bodily agency. TERFs see trans men as women. Feminists MUST wake up to the fact trans men are the far-right's route to removing women's repro health rights. That's why they erase us.
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
One add: Cass Review cast particular doubt on young trans MEN's bodily agency. TERFs see trans men as women. Feminists MUST wake up to the fact trans men are the far-right's route to removing women's repro health rights. That's why they erase us.
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
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How will we know whether MAS is simply Kishwer Faulkner Mark II?
This thread suggests a number of ways in which those who wish the EHRC to cease waging war on trans people and return to its vital objectives can judge whether MAS intends to achieve that change. /2
This thread suggests a number of ways in which those who wish the EHRC to cease waging war on trans people and return to its vital objectives can judge whether MAS intends to achieve that change. /2
November 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
How will we know whether MAS is simply Kishwer Faulkner Mark II?
This thread suggests a number of ways in which those who wish the EHRC to cease waging war on trans people and return to its vital objectives can judge whether MAS intends to achieve that change. /2
This thread suggests a number of ways in which those who wish the EHRC to cease waging war on trans people and return to its vital objectives can judge whether MAS intends to achieve that change. /2
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A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).
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she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked
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All the regulators are useless:
August 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
All the regulators are useless:
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Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
She won't be satisfied till there are no trans people, and no one supporting trans people, anywhere, in any context. This disgusting bigot, who has a well-known history of racism to boot, shouldn't be given anything except her P45.
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
She won't be satisfied till there are no trans people, and no one supporting trans people, anywhere, in any context. This disgusting bigot, who has a well-known history of racism to boot, shouldn't be given anything except her P45.
Giles!!!! 💙💗🤍💗💙
AND Dolly Parton was a producer. Am just taking a moment to appreciate Buffy even more 😊
AND Dolly Parton was a producer. Am just taking a moment to appreciate Buffy even more 😊
Rewatching “Buffy” with my husband. He said nervously “I know Joss is now known as a piece of shit - please tell me Anthony Stewart Head is a good guy.”
Me, one Google search later: “He’s a staunch ally to the trans community.”
Him: “Oh, thank fuck.”
Me, one Google search later: “He’s a staunch ally to the trans community.”
Him: “Oh, thank fuck.”
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Giles!!!! 💙💗🤍💗💙
AND Dolly Parton was a producer. Am just taking a moment to appreciate Buffy even more 😊
AND Dolly Parton was a producer. Am just taking a moment to appreciate Buffy even more 😊
"Divide and conquer is not a new strategy of war – it is not surprising, but what are we as a collective going to do about it?... Don’t claim to ‘not be surprised’ and return to a sedentary stupor. Think about what you can do."
"Why is it that the media wants to convince the electorate of Reform’s apparent impending outright success? Perhaps when we examine who owns these media and social media outlets, whether it be Rupert Murdoch or the tech billionaires, we begin to understand the motivation."
#Democracy
#Scotland🏴
#Democracy
#Scotland🏴
Not being surprised – inaction is our enemies’ lifeline
A sense of outrage, déjà vu and exasperation at the state of the present – the comment “I’m not surprised” is not relevant, the question should be, what to do?
bylines.scot
November 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"Divide and conquer is not a new strategy of war – it is not surprising, but what are we as a collective going to do about it?... Don’t claim to ‘not be surprised’ and return to a sedentary stupor. Think about what you can do."
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Your regular Sunday go to meeting reminder that Jesus hated capitalists
Below: Actual historical photo of Jesus beating the shit out of some capitalists
Below: Actual historical photo of Jesus beating the shit out of some capitalists
December 8, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Your regular Sunday go to meeting reminder that Jesus hated capitalists
Below: Actual historical photo of Jesus beating the shit out of some capitalists
Below: Actual historical photo of Jesus beating the shit out of some capitalists
Sunday sermon 💜🏳️⚧️
Separating the Sheep from the Goats
Matthew 25:32-36 (Saint Shelley Authorized Version)
"Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my trans homies, you did it to me." - Jesus
Matthew 25:32-36 (Saint Shelley Authorized Version)
"Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my trans homies, you did it to me." - Jesus
November 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Sunday sermon 💜🏳️⚧️
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