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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 3h

He's destroyed the labour party..I cannot understand why anyone defends him.

🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 9h

Labour have done everything we were terrified the Tories would do. And I daresay there's more to come.

Even if they reverse course (unlikely), it's a betrayal that can never be forgiven.
They're worse than thatcher in the S28 era.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 9h

And that's not just the leadership.

Mention ttrans rights on YP social media groups and theres LOADS of transphobia.

I do not feel safe in YP spaces & feel driven away by the already very evident transphobia.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 9h

Just b/c you imagine something that doesn't make it true.

trans ppl are experiencing the most comprehensive domestic human rights rollback in living memory.

YP have had NOTHING to say about that, despite having plenty to say about other issues.

And they're already chock full of transphobes.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11h

New Opinion Article: Your Party is a waste of time

whatthetrans.com/opinion-your...

Person holding up cardboard sign saying "Boot out transphobia". On the sign is a drawing of a boot.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 11h

They tell themselves everyone remotely progressive will tactically vote for them at the next election.

They just don't understand how hated they are.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 11h

Oh and it's very obvious you're not trans.

You might be part if a minority.

I'm guessing it's not one your precious labour are attacking.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 11h

I can't go into hospital any more for any reason b/c I REFUSE to be treated as a man & humiliated at my most vulnerable. And I'd better pray I'm never sent to prison

But oh dear. Ppl are replying to your posts. Oh the trauma.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 11h

And who is "bullying" you exactly.

What a DISGUSTING claim - it's just ppl replying to you on bluesky. You can look away. While I face abuse & harassment just for going to the fucking toilet thx to labour. I can't stop being trans.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 11h

"I'm blindly & dogmatically devoted to my far right party of bigotry. And I won't let any facts get in the way if it."

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 11h

I vote green b/c, among other things, they're not committed to persecuting ppl like me as labour are.

Labour =
transphobia
Racism
Ablism
Collusion with genocide
Robbing the poor to pay the rich

Why do you support this? They're a vile far right reform clone.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 12h

Labour have -
* Banned healthcare for trans kids
* Brought in a trans S28
* Poised to bring in a national bathroom ban
Amid vile transmisogynistic rhetoric from e.g. starmer & streeting.
I'd rather eat my own shit than vote labour after the way they turned on our community. Labour are scum.

Merry Christmas, as in the other place. @hellobluesky5694.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, Plaid Cymru, won this time, but give the slagging off Labour has endured since before they even won the last General Election, my guess is it will be ReformUK next G.E. and Farage will be our own little Trump.
Maybe then the voters will see, too late, that it is Labour that is on their side.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 13h

Idk. You can read that as the standard "I support women's rights & also think trans people need dignity &respect" bullshit we hear from labour politicians as they actively strip our rights.

I don't trust a word she says.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 13h

IMPORTANT!

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 14h

The EHRC has sent a new draft Code of Practice which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life.

The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret?

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-ba...

#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image has a pink background and scraps of torn blue and white paper behind the text. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban. Tell Your MP to say no to segregation. This is urgent. The EHRC Code of Practice could be laid in Parliament any day.

Act now. Tell your MP to stop this. Write to your MP:
tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 13h

Especially now they're feeling pressure.

After months of radio silence my useless MP yesterday sent an email about the guidance supportive of trans ppl (in a shit labour kind of way). I think it's b/c he's had a bunch of these letters.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 1d

Letter sent to JCHR and WEC from The Trans Exile Network and the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective 1/2

Letter on organizational letterhead with logos for "Trans Advocacy & Complaints Collective" and "Trans Exile Network." Addressed to UK officials, dated 18 October 2025, discussing legal actions related to rights and equality in Council of Europe.

Text document discussing the UK’s non-compliance with rulings on transsexual rights. It outlines legal actions and laws like the Gender Recognition Act.

A legal document discusses UK trans rights under specific acts, court judgments, and European obligations. It questions compliance with equality norms.

Text-heavy document titled "Closing points" discusses legal issues for transsexual people in the UK regarding recognition and rights, referencing European human rights.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 1d

They're blocking anyone critical of them.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 1d

She's extremely foolish joining a party most of whose MPs are transphobes that doesn't even have a policy structure yet.

The greens support trans ppl & have clear (& or indy) policies.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 1d

Give your head a wobble sis, you're spouting tripe.

And joining a party that's put a transphobe in charge of selections = you may as well go round wearing a sign saying "kick me".

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 1d

And back then the key messaging was that self harm is typically about survival, about a way to cope with emotions.
The response needs to be to tackle the issues causing the problem

While I recall there was also much talk of 'social contagion' - nothing changes. The same bullshit goes round & round

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 1d

The framing that trans rights "impedes the rights" of others is completely buying into the notion of
1/ 'clash of rights'
2/ Trans ppl should give way in that clash.
The more I look at that article, the more straightforwardly transphobic that guy seems.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 1d

Published in 2003 in response to it being a widespread issue. I know this b/c in 2003 I was working w/young ppl the & still have my copy kicking around somewhere.

When no child had a smartphone & access to the internet was nowhere near as straightforward or routine.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 1d

This is a straightforward listing of the transphobic talking points we were hearing in the UK a few yrs ago that have led us into the catastrophe we have now.

This guy's either a spectacularly credulous fuckwit or an outright bigot. Or maybe both.

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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 1d

"Labour should imitate Reform to counter Reform" is exactly the strategy that's led to Labour being so monumentally unpopular & been boosting Reform.

You should be hired as a Labour advisor. You have the requisite tenuous grip on political reality.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 1d

And here is a link to our full submission to GANHRI, detailing the EHRC’s failings.

transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Overview of Submission
This submission focuses specifically on the EHRC’s actions in relation to the definition of ‘sex’ the UK’s Equality Act 2010, and the closely-associated issue of the operation of gendered (‘single/separate-sex’) services under that Act. We believe that, subsequent to the 2024 SCA report recommending that the EHRC’s ‘A’ accreditation be maintained, the EHRC have undermined and violated the assurances given at that time and are now clearly in breach of the Paris Principles, warranting further urgent review. We present this submission in the form of a summary of previous SCA reports (section 5), a brief legal background (section 6), a timeline of subsequent events (section 7), and a summary of breaches of the Paris Principles and / or General Observations (section 8). The information presented is based on publicly available sources and verified correspondence.
5. Summary of previous SCA reports and recommendations
5.1 In 2022, the SCA’s report referenced ‘concerns raised by several civil society organizations and in public records on the will of the EHRC to effectively and independently address human rights issues, including the rights of LGBTI people’ and emphasised that an NHRI’s mandate should ‘promote a progressive definition of human rights.’ The SCA also encouraged the EHRC to ‘take visible and clear steps to strengthen its working relationships with civil society organizations, including organizations that work to promote and protect the human rights of LGBTI people.’

The rest of the text shown above can be found via the link in the post

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