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Jjthestrawb
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ayoub.bsky.social
If you’re in the media and don’t understand that ‘unite the kingdom’ is just the British equivalent of the ‘unite the right’ rally you’re not well-equipped to cover this.
September 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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bashback.bsky.social
STATE MEDIA KNOWS THAT IF THEY DO NOT PUBLISH US WE CANNOT BE HEARD, AND THUS OUR RIGHTS NEVER WON.

THEY SEEK ONLY TO SPREAD AND ENABLE THE LIES AND HATE ESPOUSED BY THE FAR RIGHT

WE WILL SHOW THEM THAT WE CANNOT BE IGNORED

www.transbashback.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
What's a book by a transfemme author that you've NEVER seen anyone discuss?

And I do mean never. Nobody. I want the books that you're convinced you are the only person who's ever read it.
September 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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thetransfemininereview.com
I am reading books by trans women tonight. And then I will write about them, and publish those thoughts.

They want us scared. They want to deplatform us. Fuck them, culture work still matters.
September 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
jjthestrawb.bsky.social
@susannajrustin.bsky.social
Why do you think that hate speech deserves to be tolerated in public life?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A gender-critical book at Scotland’s National Library is the latest in a long line of cancellations | Susanna Rustin
The UK supreme court’s ruling earlier this year has not stopped a wave of unfair boycotts and exclusions in the arts, says author Susanna Rustin
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
jjthestrawb.bsky.social
The BBC should do the same and pull out

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
EU divisions over Gaza hit Eurovision as Ireland pulls out
Ireland’s national broadcaster joins Slovenia’s in making participation next year conditional amid Israel’s war in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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carladenyer.bsky.social
Trans people are anxiously waiting for the EHRC’s final guidance to be published, following its extreme and unworkable interim guidance. I know many are worried it will further the exclusion of trans people. I've written to govt to say that we MPs must be given time to debate it.
Green and yellow writing on a green and pink background, and an image of a letter. The text reads: Carla Denyer MP writes to government to demand MPs get a chance to debate new EHRC code of practise "This is something that is of huge concern to trans people in my constituency of Bristol Central, and to trans people up and down the country." Screenshot of a letter on parliamentary headed paper. The text of the letter can be read at the link in the subsequent post.
September 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
I don't know who needs this right now, but I'm sending you a digital hug 🫂
a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug you can 't feel it but it 's there .
Alt: a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug you can 't feel it but it 's there .
media.tenor.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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tacc.org.uk
Audible’s ‘Harry Potter’ Series Expands Cast With Keira Knightley, Kit Harington, James McAvoy, Simon Pegg and More variety.com/2025/digital...
Audible’s ‘Harry Potter’ Series Expands Cast With Keira Knightley, Kit Harington, James McAvoy, Simon Pegg and More
Audible announced additional casting for its 'Harry Potter' audiobook series, including Keira Knightley, Kit Harington, James McAvoy and Simon Pegg.
variety.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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mrsgayguevara.bsky.social
If you can get to the #MarchAgainstFascism in #London, go. This is a generational struggle against fascists and bigots of all stripes. When future generations look back, they'll know you stood up against these vile bullies. Do yourselves proud. #antifascist #LGBT #antiracist #UK #thefarright
September 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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bashback.bsky.social
The state wants us afraid, alone and isolated.

Do not let them win.

Take action. BASH BACK.

www.transbashback.com/faq.html
DON'T GET SCARED. GET ANGRY. THE STATE, THE COPS AND THE EHRC WANT TO SCARE US INTO SILENCE AND OBEDIENCE. DO NOT COMPLY. DO NOT GIVE IN. READ OUR ACTION GUIDE. SET UP A CELL. TAKE ACTION. BASH BACK.
September 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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transactualuk.bsky.social
A new report from TransActual demonstrates not only the emotional toll, but the degree to which trans people are having to reshape and limit their lives to avoid the new dangers posed to us in the UK.

Read the report at: tinyurl.com/community-li...

#Trans #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights
Text reads: “I've never seen a single issue unite the LGBTQ+ community so much. It's like you can feel this fire and power. We have a such a long road ahead of us. It's going to be hard especially when we are hurting so much right now and expecting more to come but we're united.” -trans woman in her 30s tinyurl.com/community-living-in-fear Image of the front cover of the report on a pink and purple background. Text reads: “It has taken decades to move away from biological essentialism which men justified to keep women quiet, and without the rights we have today. Now we have a new wave of anti-trans bigots who seek to roll back protections and re-introduce biological essentialism and justify it. My womanhood is and contains more than just my fucking vagina. It’s a huge, scary ruling and I’m deeply concerned about the potential reach it may have. ” -cis queer woman in West Yorkshire tinyurl.com/community-living-in-fear Image of the front cover of the report on a pink and purple background. “The recent ruling has made me worried for my safety in that it will embolden those who want to eradicate trans people. I have given up any idea of participation in the sports club I used to be a part of. As a longstanding NHS employee, I feel unable to continue in a public facing role and am looking to move into non-clinical work for another organisation. I am looking at the possibility of emigrating but this would be disruptive to my young family.” -trans woman working for the NHS, considering emigration tinyurl.com/community-living-in-fear Image of the front cover of the report on a pink and purple background. Text reads: “The UK is awful to intersex and trans women and I want to run away to Canada or Estonia with my fiancée so we can just live peacefully happily married. I can’t stand the constant hate online and in person that's deemed acceptable because politicians are being actively hateful. The equality minister blatantly saying ‘we’re discriminating to stop discrimination’ what??? It’s heartbreaking. What can we do?” -intersex trans woman tinyurl.com/community-living-in-fear Image of the front cover of the report on a pink and purple background.
September 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
jjthestrawb.bsky.social
This really makes Your Party sound like a shambles. Hope they can get their shit together and don’t let in the bigots like George Galloway. No regret throwing my lot in with the Greens though

www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Inside The Founding Of Jeremy Corbyn's New Party: 'End This Horrible Power Struggle'
The trials and tribulations of founding a new party on the left. Can they unite? What challenges lie ahead? Sienna Rodgers reports
www.politicshome.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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transactualuk.bsky.social
A new report from TransActual shows that trans and cisgender people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance.

Read the report at: tinyurl.com/trans-segreg...

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights
Text Reads: “I was denied access to female lounge because of being transgender I felt upset, alienated and othered. I was invited by other women patients to take part in a spa evening, but I was unable to join them because the hospital directors would not allow me to be in a female space. The patients were upset and outraged on my behalf, they felt it was unjust. I felt like a hole had opened up, that I was a freak and not right for society.” -Trans woman who faced issues with a healthcare provider in England. tinyurl.com/trans-segregation-in-practice Image of front cover of the trans segregation in practice report report on yellow and purple background
September 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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tacc.org.uk
The EHRC has locked the evidence away. A Freedom of Information disclosure shows the Commission will not release its consultation report on the draft Code of Practice until after the Code has been laid before Parliament and has become statutory guidance.

tacc.org.uk/2025/09/05/c...
Consultation in name only: EHRC blocks MPs and public from seeing the evidence – tacc.org.uk
tacc.org.uk
September 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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transactualuk.bsky.social
Audrey Tang is a non-binary politician from Taiwan and was the first openly trans government minister in the world. Audrey has led the way on developing Taiwan’s digital democracy.

#Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #Positivity #TransJoy #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTI
Photo of Audrey Tang, a Taiwanese non-binary person with shoulder-length black hair and glasses, wearing a black top and a black and white blazer over it. The trans flag runs along the bottom of the image. Text: Audrey Tang is a non-binary politician from Taiwan and was the first openly trans government minister in the world. Audrey has led the way on developing Taiwan’s digital democracy.
September 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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tacc.org.uk
Stonewall challenges Tim Allan's government appointment as charity writes open letter to Keir Starmer www.attitude.co.uk/news/stonewa...
Stonewall challenges Tim Allan's government appointment as charity writes open letter to Keir Starmer
Stonewall warns Tim Allan’s appointment could give Sex Matters "disproportionate and undue influence" over government communications.
www.attitude.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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transactualuk.bsky.social
A new report from TransActual demonstrates not only the emotional toll, but the degree to which trans people are having to reshape and limit their lives to avoid the new dangers posed to us in the UK.

Read the report at: tinyurl.com/community-li...

#Trans #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights
Text Reads “This ruling has completely devastated me. On Tuesday I was legally a woman with the right to use women's loos, be admitted to women's hospital wards. I was just a married woman like 1000s of other married women. Now? I have no idea even if my marriage is still legal? Am I going to get a letter that says it now counts as a civil partnership of husband and husband? And when I am admitted to my over stretched hospital, are they going to have to put me in a possibly non-existent private room or leave me in a corridor somewhere? I have already told my family that under no circumstances am I going into a men's ward. I have lived as a woman. I fully intend to die as one.” -Married trans woman, 62transitioned in 2000. tinyurl.com/community-living-in-fear Image of the front cover of the report on a pink and purple background Text Reads: “People assume trans folk live in a vacuum, that these hurtful and dangerous acts go from source to individual. I am a parent to teens and a younger child, I spent yesterday navigating questions about what they had read on social media. These angry and damaged groups that target trans people just living their lives make my children confused and fearful - that is something I cannot forgive. Their lies and violence seep into my home and make even that one sacred space feel unsafe.” -trans man, father of two tinyurl.com/community-living-in-fear Image of the front cover of the report on a pink and purple background Text Reads: “I am a woman by birth and will always be a woman. But I have PCOS. So I have high testosterone. If you saw pictures of me growing up you would see I have excess facial hair. And I fear I could go back to the days in school when people could call me a man as I don’t look like a typical woman. The abuse if I went to the women’s bathroom could be real.” -cis woman in North Wales, in her 50s Image of the front cover of the report on a pink and purple background Text reads: I am a UK citizen, I am not a man or a woman. I was assigned a gender when I was born, that assignment was given to an infant who did not yet know who they were. I have since grown up and come to understand myself. I am not a man or a woman, and the arbitrary marker on my birth certificate does not tell me who I am. The government cannot tell me who I am. Only I have the power to say who I am. It is dangerous for the government to start saying how a person is and isn't allowed to identify. Especially when it does not align with accurate scientific data. Sex is not binary.” -nonbinary respondent tinyurl.com/community-living-in-fear Image of the front cover of the report on a pink and purple background
September 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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asylummatters.bsky.social
📣Speak up NOW for the right to work📣

Banning people from work makes no sense. Right now, the House of Lords has a chance to amend the flawed Asylum Bill to back working rights for people seeking asylum.

Use this easy tool to tell a Lord to Lift The Ban:

act.refugee-action.org.uk/page/176343/...
September 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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bashback.bsky.social
The EHRC guidance was handed to the government this morning.
Do not expect them to have our best interests at heart.
Our rights are forfeit. Segregation for trans people is inevitable. But we still have our rage.

We're ready to fight back, are you?
September 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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transactualuk.bsky.social
We’re running a free Name Change workshop on 20th September via Zoom, for trans over 18s in the UK. Come along to find out how to change your name, and how to handle common problems with name changes.

Sign up at: form.typeform.com/to/n47vyAzR

#workshop #transworkshop #trans #transrights
How to change your name. How to handle common problems. Who to inform and how to tell them. Free online workshops for UK trans people. Saturday 20th September 2025 2-4pm BSL interpreter available on request Read caption for signup info Image is a person writing on a clipboard with a signed form and pen behind them.
September 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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bashback.bsky.social
DO NOT OBEY UNJUST LAWS.
DO NOT COMPLY WITH UNJUST SYSTEMS.
RESIST FASCISM. EXERCISE AUTONOMY. SPIT IN THE FACE OF THE STATE. REMEMBER OUR DEAD. RESIST OUR SOCIAL MURDER. PRACTICE LOVE. BE FURIOUS. BE DESTRUCTIVE.

THE PROTESTS ARE NOT WORKING

SHUT IT DOWN.

GET ON THE STREETS

BASH BACK.
September 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
jjthestrawb.bsky.social
As in favour of gun control as I am, this is obviously fucked up, and isn't real gun control. If anything, they're disarming a minority so we can't fight back against a future genocide

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics
Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.
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September 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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bashback.bsky.social
More ways to get involved now listed on https://www.transbashback.com/faq.html
September 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM