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Just Being Human ❄️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @woke66.bsky.social · 28m

You can rebrand, repackage and hide your transphobia as “gender critical” to give it an air of legitimacy and respectability because you have “concerns” but at the end of the day it’s still just transphobia.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 9h

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 1h

gonna be rereading this today

Miss Major speaks: conversations with a black trans revolutionary

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 10h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 13h

If it is correct that Bridget Phillipson is sitting on the new, post Supreme Court ruling EHRC guidance on trans rights (and I think it v. plausible) so as not to lose deputy leadership votes of pro-LGBT+ MPs, then not only is that sickeningly cynical, but guidance must be off-the-scale extreme.

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Grannies4Equality @grannies4equal.bsky.social · 1d

'Huge waiting times for trans healthcare in the NHS, in children’s & adult services, are by design. Better political & institutional decisions in Spain have removed this waiting list, delivering far better outcomes at a fraction of the cost'

growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/12/t...

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 20h

I have trans women friends who’ve been living authentically for decades - how are they going to start using the gents?
I have a tall cis female friend who’s now scared to use ladies loos because she’s been harassed several times.
This code is both cruel and unworkable.
Please write to your MP.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 21h

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

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

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 17h

More on the sad story of Leia Sampson-Grimbly:

diva-magazine.com/2025/10/13/c...

Coroner rules that the tragic death of a trans teenager could have been prevented by shorter NHS wait times

Leia Sampson-Grimbly was described as “a beautiful person inside and out”

diva-magazine.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 12h

Privileged ‘gender critical’ transphobes abusing their positions of power in National newspapers to propagandise their own personal brand of hate to attack trans people are a fight actual feminists could do without.

… But here we are! 🤷🏼‍♀️🙄😣

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 18h

Here we go! 📝📝📝
🚽 Scrap the Bathroom Ban🚨🏳️‍⚧️

Our work so far is already working (see here: archive.ph/gaCN4)

Now we’re demanding that any new Code must outline how providers can lawfully *include* trans folk in their services.

✍️ Write to your MP with our easy tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

Scrap the Bathroom Ban

🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

actionnetwork.org

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 23h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22h

Wes Streeting condemned some trans activists for vandalising a building. He will be condemning this, too, right?

naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 22h

FiLiA Statement on yesterdays brawl between Jean Hatchett and Lucy Masoud. Possibly others...

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Trans Pride Brighton @transpridebrighton.bsky.social · 18h

Wild how some white gay politicians are happy to reap the benefits of activists who came before them but suddenly clutch their pearls when today’s activists fight back.

Property isn’t sacred. Trans lives are.

Image is a meme based on the “Drake Hotline Bling” reaction format. The face of Wes Streeting has been edited onto Drake’s body. In the top panel, “Drake” disapproves of a screenshot of a social media post condemning vandalism of the Filia conference venue. In the bottom panel, “Drake” approves of a news headline about the suicide of a trans girl described as “preventable” due to extreme delays in healthcare. Text over the meme says: “if you’re more offended by broken windows than dead children, then you might be the problem?”

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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 15h

You know that poem that goes "first they came for ..... and i did nothing cos I wasn't ....."

Well, they came for trans people, and you did nothing... and now there's morality militia marching through Soho...

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

Utterly disgusting, but another sign of the continuing emboldening of hate groups.

Labour should be as quick to act against groups like this, who are actually causing harm and breaking the law, as they declare themselves to be against those opposing genocide.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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Trans Writes @transwrites.world · 20h

transwrites.world/ciara-watkin...

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation

by @gemma.transwrites.world

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation - Trans Writes

Ciara Watkin is now a 21 year old woman who, 3 years ago, met a man of the same age through instant messaging apps and engaged in sexual activity with him. She has now been convicted and will be house...

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 20h

It is hard not to despair when literally anyone could accuse you of having hid your "transgender status" from them and have you imprisoned and put on a sex offenders register.

Trans Writes @transwrites.world · 20h

transwrites.world/ciara-watkin...

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation

by @gemma.transwrites.world

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation - Trans Writes

Ciara Watkin is now a 21 year old woman who, 3 years ago, met a man of the same age through instant messaging apps and engaged in sexual activity with him. She has now been convicted and will be house...

transwrites.world

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

Trans people are so important they had to mention us twice in one headline.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 1d

Hands up who's surprised by this? The BBC is just a government propaganda arm.
www.scenemag.co.uk/bbc-pauses-t...

BBC pauses training programmes on LGBTQ+ and trans inclusion after Supreme Court ruling

The BBC has temporarily suspended two of its internal diversity training programmes focused on transgender and LGBTQ+ inclusion, following a landmark ruling by the UK Supreme Court that redefined the ...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 2d

This is Graham Linehan, who UKLabour, WesStreeting and every columnist in the country rushed to defend when he was arrested by police, after inciting online violence and smashed a trans girl’s phone. They are even changing the law specifically to protect him. “Just a joke” @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 2d

Watching Piers Morgan drag out the “what is a woman” question with Zack Polanski and using it to try and diminish Polanski and then reminded that Morgan’s allyship to women stretches all the way to calling Mohammed Al Fayed “a bit of a rascal”

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Mohamed Al Fayed may have raped and abused at least 111 women and girls, say police

Scale of criminality would make Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, one of Britain’s most notorious sex offenders

www.theguardian.com

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

This shouldn't make people care more. You should care about trans people regardless of how it impacts cis people, but that's not the world we live in so this is how trans people have to do things... Beg you to think about other people in the hope you might see what's happening to trans people.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

Men like Piers Morgan have found women in trans women who it is socially acceptable to abuse.

Every time they do this stuff they are telling you how they'd treat cis women if they could get away with it.

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 2d

I openly had my misgivings about how a cis white man may handle this topic, but it's so unbelievably refreshing to see a politician, and a party leader at that, answer the question "can a woman have a penis?" with a simple "yes". No obfuscation, no trying to answer a different question, just "yes".

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 4d

She fucked everything up and we’re still dealing with the consequences, pal

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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