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Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · 4d

And they would have you believe trans kids are having surgeries right? 🤯🤬🤬🤬

Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 4d

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 5d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

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

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Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · 5d

Yes we are but Lee's buying the drinks 🤣🤣

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5d

I'll be there too! The Mams are bringing me for my 50th 😄

Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · 5d

This is why the mams bought a table at the green party gala for this weekend @greenpartyni.org the ONLY party standing up 💚💚 if you're attending come say hi

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Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · 5d

This is why the mams bought a table at the green party gala for this weekend @greenpartyni.org the ONLY party standing up 💚💚 if you're attending come say hi

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 6d

This was the first test that had many trans people worried the Greens would fold. That they didn't is an excellent sign and a rare show of actual support for trans people from a political party that isn't just empty words.

More of this @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 NEW | Anti-trans hate group "Green Women's Declaration" have been formally barred from Green Party conference.

The group sought a stall at conference, but their bid was denied by the party. Green leader Zack Polanski recently affirmed the party's support for trans rights.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 6d

This is great news from @greenparty.org.uk standing firm against anti-trans lobbying.

I’m looking forward to attending my first ever party conference with an extra spring in my step.

If you’re going too, let me know.

🩵🩷💚🤍💚🩷🩵

Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 UPDATE 🚨

The news is in, and it’s good

🚫 GWD, the anti-trans lobby group led by four disgraced expelled members, has been denied a platform at Autumn Conference

They tried to strong-arm the party with legal threats in order to spread their transphobic agenda

But the party stood firm

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 UPDATE 🚨

This week, Green Party Specialist Interest Groups will be told whether Party leadership plans to allow GWD to run a stall at Autumn Conference

To be clear: GWD is a transphobic lobbying outfit, fronted by expelled ex-members with a history of breaching party values and code of conduct

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Alice McCool @mccoolingtons.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to everyone who spoke to me for this piece 💔

Pls know this is not a drill. 10yrs after topping ILGA-Europe LGBTQ+ rights ranking, UK has dropped to 22 place out 49. Lemkin Institute has issued a red flag alert on UK #trans and #intersex rights. goodlawproject.org/the-writing-...

‘The writing was on the wall’: The gender diverse people fleeing the UK | Good Law Project

While many stay to fight the rollback of rights in the UK, hundreds of trans and intersex Brits are leaving home. Content warning: sexual violence

goodlawproject.org

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Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · 17d

Mams NEVER ask anyone for funding and we will continue with this, BUT this project (N.E.S.T) we are taking on with some Prides desperately needs funds to get established. Please help us get started. families really need support. 🙏
Thank you, every little bit will help.
#bettertogether
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Curtis @curtislee.bsky.social · 17d

Donate to help establish N.E.S.T a vital new support group for LGBTQ+ parents & parents of LGBTQ+ young people.

I cannot stress enough how needed this is.

@causewaypride.bsky.social @meapride.bsky.social @imamammie.bsky.social @mams4transni.bsky.social & Foyle Pride. X

gofund.me/d8d376e2a

Donate to N.E.S.T Parents support group, organized by Riley McCahon

Parenting an LGBTQIA+ child can bring questions, challenges, and emotions you might not ha… Riley McCahon needs your support for N.E.S.T Parents support group

gofund.me

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Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you x

Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks x

Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks x

Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks lovely x

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Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · 18d

bsky.app/profile/nest...
Can everyone PLEASE give our new support group for parents a share and a follow, even if this is not close to you someone who follows you could need to see us and need help or support. This is in NI.
#bettertogether
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

bsky.app

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 27d

Confirmed true.

It’s a shame our X account was taken down by bigots opposing our free speech, we’d love to show the conversations.
Welcome back, Agent-X

Popcorn ready.

Please share.

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Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · 27d

I have just completed this and I managed to find enough spaces to tell these people what utter bollocks this actually is. I nearly feel sorry for whoever has to read my replies. Just nearly... 🤬🤬

Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 27d

UK medical establishment consulting with 8 anti-trans groups on medical policy on puberty blockers: Bayswater Support Group, Clinical Advisory Network on Sex & Gender, Genspect, LGB Alliance, Sex Matters, The Integrated Psychology Clinic, Thoughtful Therapists, Transgender Trend

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Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · 29d

The mams have a table booked for this, book a seat, come buy me a drink lol help raise much needed funds for the Green Party NI💚💚 should be good craic.

Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 29d

Looking for an unforgettable night out? The Green Party Gala Ball brings together activists, friends, and fresh faces from across Ireland for food, music, & fundraising. Charity shop chic encouraged. Every ticket helps get Greens elected.

greenpartyni.org/gala-ball

Promotional graphic for the Green Party Gala Ball, featuring elegant bokeh lights and a formal dinner table. Event details read: “Gala Ball, 04 October | 7 PM - Late, Clayton Hotel Belfast (Green Tourism Accredited). Entertainment by Trudy Scrumptious, compared by Gerard McCabe (Blue Lights & Say Nothing Actor). Red Carpet Arrival & Drinks Reception, 3 Course Meal (Vegan & Non-Vegan Options), Post-Dinner DJ until late.” Event website: greenpartyni.org/events. Two circular photos show the evening’s entertainer and compere.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29d

This is good;

"Minister of Hypocrisy Wes Streeting"

"So there we have it. One Irish person is charged with ‘terrorism’ in a UK court for speaking out against violence, while another Irish person is being held up as a victim of unfree speech for speaking out in favour of violence."

Suzanne Harrington: The UK's treatment of Graham Linehan and Kneecap is a study in contrasts

"Unlike Linehan, in court charged with harassing a trans teenager and smashing their phone (this was before he urged his online followers to physically attack trans people), Mo Chara’s ‘terrorist’ cha...

www.irishexaminer.com

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I'm a mammie @imamammie.bsky.social · Sep 8

I sat in a meeting with the Justice minister @naomilong.bsky.social just a week ago, she said it was abuse to deadname and use the wrong pronouns etc yet here we are learning it's to be the norm for kids in our schools and it's silence from her and her party! Utterly abhorrent, you're useless 🤬

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Causeway Pride @causewaypride.bsky.social · Sep 8

Schools are collapsing. Teachers are stretched to breaking point. Special Educational Needs provision is being gutted, leaving some of the most vulnerable children abandoned by a system that has already failed them.
And the DUP? Their priority isn’t fixing any of this it’s waging a toilet-based culture war.

Now teachers already exhausted, already underpaid, already stretched are now being told they can’t even use the correct pronouns for trans kids. They’re being ordered to deny children’s identities, to harm them in the very classrooms where they should be safe. It is nothing less than state-mandated bullying.

This is not policy. This is cruelty. Trans children are being used as disposable political pawns, targeted not because anyone cares about their wellbeing, but because some politicians see them as an easy enemy to demonise.

And where are the rest of the Executive parties? Where is Sinn Féin, so keen to call themselves champions of equality? Where is the SDLP, always ready with flowery words but silent when it really counts? Where is Alliance the so-called “progressive party” that claims to stand for inclusion, yet falls silent when trans kids are under attack? Silence in the face of cruelty is complicity. And every day they say nothing, they side with the DUP.

It is ideology over care. It is hate dressed up as law. It is distraction politics of the worst kind whipping up fear about toilets and pronouns while real children go without the education, resources, and protection they need to survive.

We see it. We will not let it pass unchallenged. We stand with trans kids. Their safety, their dignity, and their wellbeing come before the cowardice of politicians, before the cheap stunts of the DUP, before the silence of so-called progressives. Always.

And if the DUP think they can build a future on scapegoating children, and if the rest of the Executive think they can wash their hands of it? They’re wrong. That future will crumble and history will remember …

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I'm a mammie @imamammie.bsky.social · Sep 8

The shitletter feeling the need to tell us that unionists are transphobic arseholes 🤯🤯 WE ALREADY KNOW 🤡🤡

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Sep 8

The most important story in Northern Ireland today, according to the News Letter, is NI's Education Minister attacking trans children in schools.

"In light of the Supreme Court judgement"...says the DUP bigot.

News Letter front page 8 September 2025 - I’m scrapping trans guidance, says Givan
Boys and girls ‘should use separate facilities’

News Letter page 15 - Paul Givan - I have ordered the immediate removal of trans guidance for schools in NI

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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · Sep 5

Mike Nesbitt has chosen Hilary Cass’s discredited review over fixing Northern Ireland’s broken gender services.

That’s not evidence-based. It’s cruelty, and it will cost lives.

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I'm a mammie @imamammie.bsky.social · Sep 5

A statement from a few Prides in NI. Doesn't go anywhere near far enough at calling out what's actually happening, I'm wondering what it will actually take for them to develop some courage. But then again I'm currently fueled by anger so maybe it's just me 😭

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Sep 5

I wrote something that explains what is happening in Northern Ireland - Hilary Cass to be unleashed on Northern Ireland trans healthcare

www.patreon.com/posts/hilary...

Hilary Cass to be unleashed on Northern Ireland trans healthcare | The Trans Agenda

www.patreon.com

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Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our joint statement about today's vile news

Causeway Pride @causewaypride.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hug your trans loved ones folks, they are coming for us again. 🤬🤬
#whentransrightsareunderattackstandupfightback

I'm a mammie @imamammie.bsky.social · Sep 4

I spent many years on the panel for the review of trans healthcare, that was only "completed" and we were discharged from that in April of this year, that was over five years for nothing and just a few months later they are at it again.
Fuck right off , transphobic arseholes 🤬🤬🤬

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Sep 4

The Northern Ireland Health Minister has asked Cass to a review of Northern Ireland gender services

www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast...

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Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · Sep 3

Can anyone help with an updated phone number for the GD NRSS support line? The number we have is 01522 857799 and it's not working 😭😭 please and thank you🏳️‍⚧️

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Mams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy to, we get just as much from meeting other parents. No one should feel alone. Better together every time x

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