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Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️‍⚧️

@ashleigh.whatthetrans.com

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Trans, femme, co-founder of @whatthetrans.com, fighter of MS, wheelchair user, player of TTRPG's, Lego enthusiast, solarpunk devotee, bassist and theremin player. she/her.

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Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · Jan 31

All three episodes of my mini podcast with the MS Society are available here, for your perusal :) www.mssociety.org.uk/support-and-...

A life on the progressive side

This candid three-part podcast series is hosted by Ashleigh Talbot, a musician from Manchester diagnosed with primary progressive MS in 2022.

www.mssociety.org.uk

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Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 1d

You might hear a familiar voice if you watch this.

Unless you don't listen to the podcast, in which case it'll be unfamiliar. But you should still watch the video.

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 1d

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 2d

Greta got a lot of shit for going from climate change to Palestine but there's likely a stronger connection than you think between the fossil fuel industry and the growth of belligerent autocratic states that support or tolerate exactly the kind of thing that's going on in Palestine

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Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 2d

As promised, our podcast deep dive into the definitely weird but not wonderful world of the UK's gender clinics.

Again, massive thanks to @wearequeeraf.com and @clairestranstalks.bsky.social for working together. Without Claire, none of this would have been possible.

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 2d

New Podcast Episode: The Gender Clinic Files Part 1

In this episode:

How Wes Streeting used out of date information

A look at the centuries-long waiting list

How newer clinics are doing much more with less, compared to the old GIC system.

And more!

whatthetrans.com/ep141/

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Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 3d

Terf island

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Shocking stuff, I know.

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 3d

A new investigation has revealed significant lobbying efforts by gender critical groups.

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/freedom-of-information-request-uncovers-gender-critical-bias-within-ehrc/

Freedom of information request uncovers gender critical bias within EHRC

A new investigation has revealed significant lobbying efforts by gender critical groups.

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 4d

We've worked with @wearequeeraf.com and @clairestranstalks.bsky.social for months pulling all of this together and now finally we can talk about it publicly. I wish we had better news to talk about though. Spoiler alert: it's all pretty rough.

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 4d

The gender clinic files is out now!

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Check out our podcast on Monday for our coverage on this.

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

Nigel Farage accuses Keir Starmer of "emboldening" anti-semites.

This Nigel Farage

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Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 8d

Holy cow Lucy Powell actually said something?! She's my MP and other trans constituents and I had given up emailing her about trans stuff.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 8d

Wes Streeting using his Labour conference speech to attack Reform for being anti-science.

"Anti science, anti reason, anti-health" says the man who backs quack science when it comes to trans people.

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

For the avoidance of doubt:

Maya Forstater is the figurehead of an anti-trans lobby group that openly campaigns to “cure” trans people, deny them healthcare, and force them into cisgender conformity

She represents a direct safeguarding risk to every trans person at Labour conference

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 8d

Owen Jones has been banned from 'Labour' Party conference - but Maya Forstater is welcome.

And they wonder why progressive voters are deserting them in droves.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 23d

Angela Rayner resigned over her tax affairs, rightly and swiftly. The heat should well and truly have moved on to Nigel Farage. He had a lot to say about Rayner’s tax situation, but he’s not come clean about his own.

On the Ground - Farage’s Clacton Connundrum – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 10d

Plot twist bsky.app/profile/nied...

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 12d

Elon Musk went to Pedophile Island

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Musk, Bannon and Thiel named in new Epstein estate documents

The House Oversight Committee is continuing to release redacted materials in its ongoing Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

www.politico.com

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 12d

With time running out. Check out our compilation of actions to fight the EHRC code of practice guidance.

With some writing guides from @transactualuk.bsky.social and @tacc.org.uk

And a letter you can write to businesses from @transsolidarity.bsky.social

whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

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Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 12d

Me: "What, ID cards? Fuck off, Tony Blair. Get another hobby"

*monkey's paw curls*

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12d

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 13d

One of the reasons why the Right oppress trans people while also consuming vast amounts of porn about us is that they want to keep us poor, marginalised and available for low paid sex work. They hate the idea of our having other options.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 13d

Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis suggests

Farage's Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK's Mass Deportation Plan

www.bylinesupplement.com

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14d

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The *tone* of Streeting’s excuses for continuing to harm trans children with his puberty-blocker ban is very revealing. It reveals the government’s core strategy for imposing ever further restrictions on trans people’s lives while protecting transphobes’ hatred…

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14d

Research conducted by @transjournalists.org “identified 43 outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast running with the disproven stories of a ‘trans shooter’ and ‘trans bullets.’”

At least 43 outlets shared anti-trans misinfo after Charlie Kirk shooting: TJA | Xtra Magazine

A report from the Trans Journalists Association found that 43 outlets published misinformation about “transgender ideology” after Charlie Kirk’s killing

xtramagazine.com

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 15d

This has got to me a bit today so here we go.

No Rebecca we can't have a calm discussion for the way forward when one side's intention is to eliminate us, secondly the heat is coming from one side, it's the side accusing trans people of being paedophiles, rapists, cheats and predators.

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 15d

For 6+years non stop, they have demonised every single one of us as predators, paedophiles and child mutilators. There can be no “conversations” with these ghouls.

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Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 16d

I did write Farage, but then it autocorrected to garage and I didn't notice. Now I think I'll just call him that.

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Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 16d

It's really easy to disagree with someone in another party, Kier. You do it every Wednesday at pmq's. If you don't condemn things they become normalised and the overton window shifts even further to the right.

Worst PM ever. Until Garage, that is.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 16d

🔴Where Is the Opposition to Nigel Farage’s Immoral Mass Deportation Plan?

Keir Starmer’s refusal to explicitly condemn Farage's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/22/w...

Where Is the Opposition to Nigel Farage's Immoral Mass Deportation Plan?

Keir Starmer's Government's refusal to explicitly condemn the Reform leader's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues Adam Bienkov

bylinetimes.com

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Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 16d

I know :) I wasn't expecting wall-to-wall forcefem, I don't really follow that kind of account. Get enough of that sort of thing at home...

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Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 17d

*Immediately clicks 'Follow' button*

Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 17d

it's basically 24/7 forcefem with her

dolphin diaries ⚢ @dolphindiaries.bsky.social · 17d

In case I ever seem too serious to any of you, know that this is what I'm like in private

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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · 19d

Your Party is now mostly notable for its open transphobia and the internal struggle of five men to stop one woman talking. I think we can say your historic opportunity is done lads.

As one of your MPs told her: sit down.

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