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Louisa Vuitton @f-o-r-t-i-t-e-r.bsky.social · 8h

And immigrants are to demonstrate a high standard of English, the hypocrisy.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 9h

Commission builds on Union of Equality with adoption of new LGBTIQ+ Equality strategy ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission builds on Union of Equality with adoption of new LGBTIQ+ Equality strategy

Everyone in the European Union should feel safe and free to love whomever they wish and be their authentic self. To this end, the European Commission has adopted its LGBTIQ+ equality strategy for…

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Louisa Vuitton @f-o-r-t-i-t-e-r.bsky.social · 12h

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"They poison our democracies" | Yanis Varoufakis on Big Tech, populism and the future of The Left

YouTube video by BBC Newsnight

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Louisa Vuitton @f-o-r-t-i-t-e-r.bsky.social · 15h

Wow so now we're responsible for the energy crisis too, what with her nuclear reactors and Trump's windmills (he meant wind turbines🙄) its astounding the world hasn't ground to a halt because of us.

Dare say Poland's economy is doing well in part because after Brexit many Poles went back to Poland.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

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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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 21h

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 22h

Because of the unforgivably appalling decisions of the Charity Commission, these hate groups, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance, are funded from your taxes.

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Louisa Vuitton @f-o-r-t-i-t-e-r.bsky.social · 1d

Coming to get you Donald, be afraid, be very afraid.

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Louisa Vuitton @f-o-r-t-i-t-e-r.bsky.social · 1d

Coming to get you Donald, be afraid, be very afraid.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Can we stop using calling groups like Sex Matters and LGB Alliance,"Gender Critical Activists" as if their views are in any way "legitimate"? When they make comments like these then I can't see how you can call them anything other than transphobic hate groups.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Gender critical activists accused of ‘hateful’ remarks about trans women

Labour MP Richard Quigley said he was ‘appalled by the comments, but not surprised’

www.independent.co.uk

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – it's time to fight back.

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive - add your name 👇
https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive

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Trans Greens 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @transgreens.bsky.social · 1d

Green Party Conference recently passed some amazing healthcare policy for the trans community. It commits us to an informed consent model of trans healthcare, a trans-led public inquiry into NHS care, a trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy, and so much more.

The Green Party just voted to reform trans healthcare.

What does this bold new policy look like?

Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

What we're calling for:
- The end of segregation in trans healthcare.
- Ending the torture of conversion therapy.
- Moving the NHS to an informed consent model.
- Expanding the range of funded transition care.
- Access to affirming healthcare for trans youth.
- NHS support for people who seld-medicate or use private care.
- Real support for detransitioning people.

Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

How we get there:
- Closing the existing Gender Identity Clinics and supporting GPs with training and funding to care for trans people.
- Lifting the politically motivated ban on 'puberty blockers'.
- Starting a government funded, trans-led, inquiry into past NHS treatment of trans people.
- Including & prioritising trans expertise in independent care reviews.
- Passing a trans-inclusive ban on 'conversion therapy'.

Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqagreens.bsky.social · 1d

The @transgreens.bsky.social and ourselves have revamped our Teemill website where the #ElectTheDolls t-shirts that we had at conference are now on sale.

Do check it out: lgbtiqagreens.teemill.com

Home

lgbtiqagreens.teemill.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 2d

“Another degrading possibility… is to allocate times during which the ponds will be trans-inclusive.”

Imagine scheduling time to “allow” black, disabled, lesbian, or Jewish women to use the pond - outside of that time, they’d be banned because of the ‘feelings’ of a group of privileged white women!

The Hampstead Heath ponds debate sets a dangerous precedent for trans rights

Trans rights are being debated, again.

www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

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Louisa Vuitton @f-o-r-t-i-t-e-r.bsky.social · 2d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is a rare person. He is capable of joined up authentic political thinking without hubris. I believe he can go the distance. As a bridge across the many divides populism exploits, by establishing a common understanding of what we collectively face in the forthcoming years.

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richiebryan.bsky.social @richiebryan.bsky.social · 2d

Straight off the back of the biggest Green Party conference, our party political broadcast is out tonight!

Please share 💚

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Tax wealth.

Not work.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Green Party Political Broadcast. Monday 6.25pm on ITV and 6.55pm on BBC 1.

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Louisa Vuitton @f-o-r-t-i-t-e-r.bsky.social · 2d

You can be anything you want, but not like that moment.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 3d

Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: “These people make trans people their whole personality and spend their entire day being angry” 💯

“There was a time when Pride felt like a celebration of the shoulders people were able to stand on, but now it feels like an absolute political necessity”

Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: "These people make trans people their whole personality"

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has criticised increasing levels of transphobia in the UK and overseas in a new interview.

www.nme.com

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 4d

This was actually the 2nd favourable ruling in recent times.

A Brussels Court recently ruled that you can't hold trans women to safety/fairness requirements while exempting c1s women from the same standards.

x.com/kirstimiller...

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 4d

There's a whole network of 'gender critical' transphobes within the Green Party, with the majority of the 'Green Party Women' being anti-trans.

A key player within this network is the 'GC Greens platform that was set up 3 years ago, along with the trans-hostile 'Green Women's Declaration! 😣

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 4d

New 'gender critical' transphobic platform 'Athena' just dropped! 😖

This one is with a European twist.

All you need to know is who's in their advisory group, and who they've dashed to follow on Twitter!

All the usual transphobes and bigots! 😣

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4d

What I hear from multiple sources in the Scottish Government is that it feels defeated by the limitless spending power of the transphobes who, of course, are explicitly or implicitly underwritten by JK Rowling's vast fortune.

rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 4d

What do you think why the Scottish Government has been targeted, such as Darlington nurses, NHS Fife?
Has Scotland really devolved? Was the Scottish Government allowed to implement its self identity legistlation or blocked by the former government? Devolution in the UK is a joke.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 5d

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

www.lrb.co.uk

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