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Ethel Weapon

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Exhilarated absurdist. Against nature. Music fiend. Physical media appreciator. Trans and trapped in England. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · Jul 29

A litany of pathetic, disgraceful, and vindictive actions from institutionally queer-hostile Labour UK

AGC @agc1985.bsky.social · Jul 16

Updated: Starmer’s Labour: The most anti-LGBT+ govt since Thatcher. A list of the awful things they've done and said regarding LGBT+ people, especially trans people.

Labour: Ditched its longstanding pledge to demedicalise gender recognition for trans people before the 2024 election • And then abandoned even plans for watered-down reform • Made the Tories’ temporary ban on puberty blockers for trans children indefinite • Endorsed the flawed and discredited Cass Review • Refused to pass legislation to protect trans people’s gender recognition following the recent Supreme Court ruling • Introduced a new Section 28 for trans people • Banned trans women from standing for internal Women’s Officer posts • Oversaw the UK dropping to its lowest ever place in the ILGA-Europe rankings of LGBT+ rights in European countries • Has adopted covertly transphobic language (‘sex-based rights’, ‘transmen’, ‘transwomen’) in internal documentation • Took no action against Rosie Duffield even after years of vile social media posts targeting trans (and bi) people – including sharing a post denying Nazi persecution of trans people • Re-elected Duffield Women’s PLP Chair on International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 2021 • Suspended the whip from Stonewall founder Michael Cashman for (rightly) criticising Duffield • Reappointed a ‘gender-critical’ bigot, Baroness Falkner, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission • Then tried to appoint ANOTHER ‘gender-critical’ figure, Mary-Ann Stephenson, as Falkner’s successor! • Suspended Lloyd Russell-Moyle, a gay MP and one of the most vocal pro-trans parliamentarians, on bogus charges shortly before the last election • Oversaw the introduction of new CPS guidelines that put trans people at risk of prosecution if they do not disclose their gender identity before having sex • Multiple Labour MPs attempted to dilute a motion at the Council of Europe condemning anti-LGBT+ hatred • Labour MPs abstained on backing trans rights in Scotland • Unlike other European countries, has not issued updated travel warnings for trans travellers to the US • Hosts anti-trans groups at its conferences

Health Secretary Wes Streeting: Responded to the (flawed, discredited) Cass Review by saying he’d been wrong to say trans women are women • Banned the use of puberty blockers, against international best practice and evidence, and severely restricted gender healthcare for trans children • Supports segregation of trans patients in hospitals • Has expressed sympathy for conversion therapy groups • Implemented a ban on young trans people being able to obtain hormone therapy outside the NHS • Has overseen guidance directing GPs not to monitor trans people’s blood values – putting them at harm if they are forced to self-medicate due to NHS failings • Wrote in The Sun to share the lie that the NHS no longer uses the term ‘women’ • Shared the false claim that the practice history of doctors who transition to a new legal gender would not be disclosed to patients • Shared false claims that terms such as ‘breastfeeding’ are being ‘erased’ • Invited transphobic groups to produce NHS exclusion guidelines • Has overseen a rise in GPs refusing hormone prescriptions to trans people, which can have serious mental and physical health consequences • Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by calling on those who’d previously recognised trans people’s lived gender identities to reconsider • Was named What the Trans ‘Villain of the Year’ in 2024 • Issued an apology to Duffield for how she had been treated, ignoring her years of vitriol against trans people on social media

STARMER’S LABOUR: THE MOST ANTI-LGBT+ GOVT SINCE THATCHER

Prime Minister Keir Starmer: Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by declaring that trans women are not women • Attended a deeply homophobic church to deliver his Easter message • Then did it AGAIN two years later! • Supports the exclusion of trans women from sports • Refused to meet with trans Labour members to discuss concerns about institutional transphobia in the party • Left Marsha de Cordova in post as Shadow Equalities Secretary even after she shared overtly transphobic content on social media • Staged a fake meeting with LGBT+ community members (in reality all Labour staffers/councillors) for a publicity stunt • In 2023, expressed ‘concerns’ about the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in Scotland that was supported by his Scottish Labour colleagues • Believes trans children should require parental permission to socially transition Education Secretary and ‘Equalities’ Minister Bridget Phillipson: Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by immediately declaring trans people should use toilets according to ‘biological sex’ • Supports the removal of anti-transphobia policies at universities • Supports trans schoolchildren being outed to their parents • Welcomed the fine imposed on the University of Sussex due to students using their free speech to protest campus transphobia • Erased the word ‘trans’ from the new schools guidance • Prohibited schools from promoting ‘gender identity’ and ‘social transition’ – Section 28 all over again • Requires schools to misrepresent the law about ‘biological sex’ and gender recognition

STARMER’S LABOUR: THE MOST ANTI-LGBT+ GOVT SINCE THATCHER

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood: During protests against LGBT-inclusive RSE in schools, argued that pupils’ ‘religious background’ and ‘age appropriateness’ should be considered • Agrees with J. K. Rowling’s views on ‘biological sex’ • Claimed it is ‘absolutely unacceptable’ to criticise the recent Supreme Court ruling • Home Secretary Yvette Cooper: Passed guidelines that would allocate trans women to male prisons – threatening their safety and dignity • Responded to a demonstration for trans rights by condemning washable chalk graffiti on a statue • Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy: Deleted all her past tweets supportive of trans people when the government switched to an explicitly anti-trans position • Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar: During the NHS Fife tribunal case, backed the ‘gender-critical’ nurse accused of harassing trans doctor Beth Upton • U-turned on previous support for gender recognition reform in Scotland • Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens: Shared content from gender-critical group Woman’s Place UK • Parliamentary Under-Secretary Feryal Clark: Described LGBT+ affirming education as ‘nonsense’ on social media • Parliamentary Under-Secretary Jess Phillips: Shared a conspiracy theory on social media alleging that the murderer of Phoenix Netts was a trans woman • Tonia Antoniazzi MP: Accused Welsh government of being ‘dictated to’ by Stonewall and having an ‘ideological culture’ • Jonathan Hinder MP: Supports exclusion of trans women from (non-competitive, mixed-sex) Parkruns

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 7h

Bluesky moderation is now at “Victorians putting fig leaves on classical sculpture” levels of prim bowdlerization

Next stop, cloaking table legs

Deathcliff plus Hellmets @heathcliffhelms.heathcliff.cat · 18h

Blue and Pink?! You best start seeing the patterns 😤

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 7h

Reclaiming the swastika by putting a hug emoji on the flagpole

Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 3d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 12h

Someone locally is hanging up flags-of-all-the-world bunting from the bridges in response to the zip-tied Union Jack lampost racism outbursts.

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 13h

Lili Ivanova - Вечност

Bulgarian singer, superb soaring rock ballard from 1974

Лили Иванова - Вечност, Lili Ivanova - Vechnost (live, 1974, Golden Orpheus)

YouTube video by jassenjj

www.youtube.com

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 17h

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

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 14h

You cannot have "discourse" with people bent on your destruction.

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 21h

So-called “gender critical beliefs” are, in fact, akin to Nazism

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · Jun 23

"We need to leave the European Convention on Human Rights"

Domino effect meme: the smallest domino is labelled "Justice Choudhury rules that gender critical beliefs are not akin to Nazism" and the largest one is labelled "Nazism"

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 22h

Libdem policy on transphobia is literally appalling, a contradiction in terms in that it amounts to “you can be transphobic so long as you aren’t being transphobic while doing so”

Risible, unutterably feeble stuff

www.libdems.org.uk/code-of-cond...

Holding and expressing gender critical views, whether in internal debates or publicly, is protected by law under the Equality Act, Article 9 ECHR and Article 10 ECHR and is permitted. Those who hold such views may express them freely, as long as they do not harass or discriminate against trans people, nor create an environment which is hostile or discriminatory to trans people.

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 22h

It’s from this article, quoting @cajardinemp.bsky.social

Far from pushing back on the hateful and appalling, it is ushering them in over the threshold. This serves to normalize what should be regarded as depravity.

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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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 22h

Exhausted by endless rehearsals of this absolutely cowardly bothsidesism, which only operates as a mechanism to give ground to fascism.

Some voices are worthy only of dismissal. Not all opinions should be attended to or amplified via “debate”.

"On any subject, it doesn't matter what the subject is, you cannot have a debate if you only listen to one side and you can't make progress for everyone if you only listen to one side."

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

lol

• Drop students alone in the forest for two hours and ask them to write down every question that occurs to them; return to those questions soon

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah looks like her pedagogical methods were too groundbreaking

Take the students elsewhere, outside of the classroom, as much as possible. Do this early in knowing them. Go on a field trip somewhere without internet or cell service (it is still possible), and pose questions there, where nobody can google the answer. It is much more difficult to deny reality-to be in the throes of the woke-when in the Columbia River Gorge, than in a comfortable classroom. It is even
more difficult to deny reality in the Amazon.

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

Or not crank enough, I can’t quite parse it and don’t really care to

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned today that Heather Heying disassociated herself from it because it was too crank for her lol

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

Labour MPs are not a protected species and they can (and should) be driven to extinction

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

they tried to clip his wings just like a fly,
so instead of standing still, he chose to die

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

“Let’s do the fucking news”

Chris Morris in The Day Today with a blank speech bubble superimposed

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

Today's music: Ives' second string quartet, which premiered on this day in 1946. This is a brilliant work, challenging to play and listen to, but so rewarding. Ives was *far* ahead of his time, appreciated only late in his life, and moreso after death.

Charles Ives String Quartet No. 2 Ivani Quartet

YouTube video by SoundProfessional Boston

youtu.be

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

Exclusive: Guardian writers and editor set up group to make Guardian more transphobic - Trans Writes

A group of senior writers and editors at The Guardian met as part of the company’s ‘Diversity and Inclusion Week’ to discuss pushing gender-critical narratives 'fearlessly,' with the paper's anti-tran...

transwrites.world

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

You know they're just waiting to pump that number up to 25+

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

Guess who directs gender dysphoria research

transsafety.network/posts/simon-...

Simon Wessely’s history of discrediting sick and disabled people could be bad news for trans health research priorities.

Psychiatrist Simon Wessely has been appointed to chair the National Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board. TSN outline our concerns about this appointment.

transsafety.network

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

Factsheet

www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng2...

www.nice.org.uk

Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

idk pretty sure that my lifetime of inhaler use doesn’t stack up against even a minutes worth of pollutant output from the toxin burning cement plant down the road

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

from “carbon footprint” to “oxygen thief” is it

pushing the idea that only individuals need to shoulder responsibility for climate change

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently gonna be photo ID too according to that article