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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 6h

The lack of basic humanity some cisgender clinicians and researchers show toward Trans+ people is staggering

To them, Trans+ lives are just fodder for advancing their careers

Their lack of empathy
Their careerist cruelty
It’s utterly monstrous

They are monsters

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 8h

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 11h

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 7h

They've been given plenty of evidence - they refuse to act

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 8h

On a national stage, Kate Barker, CEO of the LGB Alliance, called Trans+ healthcare “grotesque”

When a charity leader uses such extreme and hostile language about life-saving care and Trans+ people, it raises serious questions about the group’s charity status and it's influence on government

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 9h

We've got the "right wing shit rags" running scared

Join the resistance

✊🏼

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 18h

"Having to battle with changes to her body without receiving the necessary preventative treatment, together with the many hurdles and setbacks, gradually eroded her belief that she would succeed and everything would be alright" – Senior Coroner Andrew Walker

Via @itsmylondon.bsky.social

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 18h

The UK’s Trans healthcare scandal isn’t a complex issue

Her death was preventable

It was the result of a complete failure by cisgender policymakers and clinicians who willfully ignore expert warnings and lived experience

They are responsible for a system built to delay, deny, and destroy hope

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Gender clinic waiting list 'far too long' says coroner after teen's death

Camden's Tavistock Centre has been criticised by a coroner but its specialist clinic for children and young people closed down last year

www.mylondon.news

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Reposted by Aliza Adi (she/her)

Trans+ History Week @transhistoryweek.com · 22h

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 21h

Ofcom let GB News off the hook - even after finding them in breach

It’s a terrible look for Ofcom, and a betrayal of LGBTIQA+ communities

If regulators won’t act on anti-LGBTQ+ hate, advertisers can - and must

They have the power to make real change

Marty explains the why and how 👇🏼

Marty Davies @smartypantsmarty.com · 1d

Ofcom ruled GBNews breached code with queerphobic rhetoric

However, Ofcom did not use their sanctioning powers.

GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code

A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

💯 this

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

Me hoping that you also get to discuss the very hard work many GPEW Trans+ folk and allies have put in to getting the party to where it is right now

We faced criticism but we refused to give up, we lobbied and persuaded countless people to join up and to vote for progressives like Zack

🙏🏼💚

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

There's doubling down then there's Jenrick doing racism

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

Neither exist for lgballiance even now

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

Just goes to show how those at lgballiance struggle to understand Queer folk

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

So lovely to hear what attending conference meant to you 💚

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, we all know Badenoch’s a liar

But you don’t even have to read the replies to see how Trans+ folks, their friends, loved ones, and allies are responding to Zoe’s claim that Guardian journalists don’t also “make things up”

Will be interesting to see how Zoe and her colleagues react, if at all

Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

How dare Kemi Badenoch say "given it's the Guardian"? We don't make things up! That's one of the most annoying things about us

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

That's a relief to hear

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s be honest - @theguardian.com and much of the legacy media have spent years dressing up anti-Trans+ rhetoric as “fact”

They too have helped deceive the US and UK Supreme Courts

They share responsibility for the erosion of basic individual rights, including the right to control one’s own body

Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

From Christian Concern and Sex Matters to the LGB Alliance, UK anti-Trans+ groups share ideological and strategic links with US organisations like ADF and the Heritage Foundation

What’s unfolding is a coordinated global effort to erode individual freedom, crush liberation, and control our bodies

Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

From Christian Concern and Sex Matters to the LGB Alliance, UK anti-Trans+ groups share ideological and strategic links with US organisations like ADF and the Heritage Foundation

What’s unfolding is a coordinated global effort to erode individual freedom, crush liberation, and control our bodies

Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

You're very very welcome

So glad you joined and brought your energy to the Green movement 💚

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

Across the globe right-wing governments are scrubbing climate data and silencing social justice research - erasing anything that threatens their toxic worldview

👇🏼 These researchers are fighting back with truth

And it matters more than ever

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Researchers across the US and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s attacks are launching their own climate information portals.

Climate scientists raise a middle finger to Trump's censorship efforts

Hundreds are collaborating to make sure accurate data is available to the public.

www.motherjones.com

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

Are you glad you joined?

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to the best political family you'll every join 💚

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

"so-called 'gender-critical beliefs"

Yup, they got that right

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of recycling happened that weekend 😉

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

The extremist anti-trans group Sex Matters sent their goons to conference

They spent the weekend trying to peddle their anti-trans bile

All that effort for nothing

They FAILED to sway a single vote or shift @greenparty.org.uk policy an inch

Our party stood firm, proudly, for trans folk 💚 🏳️‍⚧️ 👇🏼

Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 4d

🟩 Green Party Conference 🟩

🗳️ ✨ Reforming Trans Healthcare (a Trans positive motion) ✨

✅ Unanimously passed by @greenparty.org.uk members

✅ Every speaker in support

✅ Every vote in favour

The Green Party once again showing what true solidarity looks like

#GPC25
#TransRights

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