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Johanna Sorrell
@johannasorrell.bsky.social
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US politics junkie.
Wikipedian.
(Bedroom) guitarist.
Northern European mongrel raised and living in the UK.
Trans.

Likes: cats.
Dislikes: fascism.
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awjt.bsky.social
Explosive response of the British Medical Association to the Supreme Court's "biologically nonsensical" ruling: "We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine".
This meeting condemns the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the Equality Act as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who 'was at birth of the female sex', as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical. We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender diverse people. As such this meeting: i. Reiterates the BMA's position on affirming the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals to live their lives with dignity, having their identity respected. ii. Reminds the Supreme Court of the existence of intersex people and reaffirms their right to exist in the gender identity that matches their sense of self, regardless of whether this matches any identity assigned to them at birth. Condemns scientifically illiterate rulings from the Supreme Court, made without consulting relevant experts and stakeholders, that will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country. iv. Commits to strive for better access to necessary health services for trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people.
April 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
johannasorrell.bsky.social
Imagine hating trans women so much that you'd rather retrofit every building in the UK with a third set of toilets over having to share a toilet with one.
katymontgomerie.com Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · Apr 17
- In 2022 there was a leak from the EHRC that said they were planning to exclude all trans people from public bathrooms

- I sent "Baroness" Falkner an admittedly quit distressed email confronting her on it

- She responded saying it was all fake news

- Today she admitted that's what they want
April 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
johannasorrell.bsky.social
How long until Trump can convince his followers that he scored 18 hole-in-ones during his first ever game of golf?
April 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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esqueer.net
Trump is using economic blackmail to force the UK to repeal all protections for LGBTQ people.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
This image is a screenshot of a news article from The Independent. The headline reads: "Starmer told UK must repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people or lose Trump trade deal." A subheading adds: ‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but sources say his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘are still a red line’. The article is written by David Maddox, Political Editor, and is dated Wednesday 16 April 2025 at 07:27 BST. There is a red box at the bottom showing 890 comments on the article.
April 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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robt.fm
a post reading “I don’t think you should give kids phones or iPads but you should give them free access to a desktop computer” with a quote post adding “ipads have no soul but desktop computer is like a nervous horse and has the capacity for love”
March 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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juliaserano.bsky.social
lots of trans ppl gravitate toward transmedicalism. & the "I was on the left but now the right speaks to me more" trajectory is as old 1960s-era Ronald Regan. but the idea that trans women would be better off if we all did our makeup like Kristi Noem is so singularly batshit I don't know what to say
April 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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jael.bsky.social
has this not been on tv news at least once like what the actual fuck
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Apr 5
In case you missed it, the Trump White House issued a proclamation saying trans care is child abuse

Noteworthy sentence: “We affirm that every perpetrator who inflicts violence on our children will be punished to the fullest extent of the law”

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
National Child Abuse Prevention Month, 2025
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation America's children are the foundation of our families, the heirs of our freedom, and the
www.whitehouse.gov
April 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
johannasorrell.bsky.social
Fun fact: one of the reasons Grover Cleveland (famous for being the only non-consecutive term president other than Trump) won his second term is because he ran on a planform of removing tariffs which were causing massive economic harm to the country.
April 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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esqueer.net
All of these countries have issues travel warnings for trans people visiting the US.

Austria
Denmark
France
Germany
Ireland
Norway
Slovakia
Slovenia
The Netherlands

The US is not safe for trans people. Do not come.

metro.co.uk/2025/03/25/f...
March 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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thelincoln.bsky.social
Find joy in the simple things
Tesla Stock declining 38% year to date with calvin and hobbes sledding off the hill of falling stock
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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meantomyself.bsky.social
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is my favorite movie starring two unproblematic kings who I would follow into the tubes of time yesterday, today and tomorrow
March 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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goangelo.bsky.social
1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed.

Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance.

My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...
March 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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emmaberquist.bsky.social
god it must be so easy to be a Dem consultant, just sitting around making $250k a year to say things like "actually voters don't want healthcare, they want you to go to gun shows and start using the word orientals again"
March 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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esqueer.net
The cloture vote in the senate on a trans sports ban failed due to united Democratic opposition (needed 60 votes). When it matters on legislation, Democrats still have not abandoned trans folks.
March 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
johannasorrell.bsky.social
Wow so a lot of Democrats really are just straight up stupid.
Image of Andrew Cuomo under the headline "Andrew Cuomo seen as possible White House candidate by some Democrats".
February 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM