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Queer, Neurodiverse and a survivor.
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Trans communities warned for years about the NYT's transphobia, but the specifics of how this was ordered were often shrouded behind corporate hierarchy.

No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
You've talked about the paper's treatment of the pretty infamous Cass report, especially from your spot at the international desk. What happened in that case? It wasn't on my radar as much as it ought to have been. I was starting to wind down my time. I left the Times at the end of May of that year. There was an awareness that [Hilary] Cass was coming out with a report. The day before it officially came out, there was a lot of coverage in the BBC and UK media. Cass was already talking about it before its official release. The day editor's counterparts are in Seoul and London. My counterpart in London — who was actually filling in that day, but did so on a regular basis — assigned a UK reporter to do a story. That was standard practice, to be clear. [Chuckling] There’s so many examples of how standard it was. She assigned it to a UK correspondent, who wrote it in the context of UK politics, talked about it being very contentious, talked about the criticisms of its findings. Cass was talking about them herself, this isn't jumping to any conclusions at that point. It really put it in the context of being this very contentious, very political sort of document. When I saw it, because we're a few hours behind, there were 600, 700 words written. I had a pretty good sense of how the story was going to turn out. But within a few hours the story was to the top New York editors, and I don't know who exactly it was who did that. I assume it was Carolyn or her intermediary. They said ‘oh no, we want the science desk to do that,’ specifically that was Azeen [Ghorayshi], who had been a key reporter in a lot of the other anti-trans coverage. Some of what you just described, that's just outright bigotry from these reporters. Yes, but the stories are also edited too. Somebody had to approve that lede. I don't know if it was Carolyn, who was known to be directly, hands-on involved in the line editing of stories. I don't know if she was or made known her preferences. Those stories had editors. Certainly there are plenty of reporters that were fully on board with this, and others who do it out of ambition because this is what the bosses want and they want to get ahead so they insert what the bosses want.
January 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Blindingly obvious and exactly what I said to the New York Times at the time. So the question is, why did the useless British media carry, hysterically, coverage of a UK (Not Very Good) Lawyers for Israel press release? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bob Vylan: No charges over IDF chants during Glastonbury set
Avon and Somerset Police says the incident
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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goodlawproject.org
"One Whitehall source told The Telegraph there is a growing belief that if the Good Law Project wins its case, Ms Phillipson will tell the EHRC to reconsider its guidance."

Well, yes, because it will be unlawful.
Phillipson blocks trans rules protecting safe spaces for women
Minister is challenging guidance that would require businesses and public bodies to offer female-only lavatories
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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lorrainemiller7.bsky.social
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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wearequeeraf.com
🆕 An employment tribunal has set out in great detail why the Supreme Court ruling does not require segregating Trans+ people from single-sex spaces, in stark contrast to advice from the EHRC

www.wearequeeraf.com/supreme-cour...
Supreme Court decision does not require Trans+ bathroom ban, Scottish court says
An employment tribunal has set out why Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act 2010 does not require segregating Trans+ people from single-sex spaces
www.wearequeeraf.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
'One parent told me that she was hearing reports of Dr Hillary Cass (of the Cass Review) teaching staff at NHS Sussex on how to detransition trans children.'

northwestbylines.co.uk/opinion-corn...
Giving a voice to the voiceless – A trans woman investigates
How and why I investigated what is going on with the treatment of trans children in Sussex, and how if affects the children, their families and me
northwestbylines.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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natacha.bsky.social
Also the most amazing thing happened, Rainbow Rose, the LGBT Labour of Europe has roundly condemned UK Labour’s transphobic action, this is significant in contrast with LGBT Labour’s craven silence.
rainbow rose NO! TO BAN ON TRANSWOMEN AT UK LABOUR WOMEN'S CONFERENCE We stand with the UK transgender community rainbow rose The decision of UK Labour's governing body to exclude transgender women from its women's conference next year goes against principles of human dignity and fundamental rights. Our thoughts are with transgender members of the party. We oppose this move and will reach out to LGBT+ Labour to advocate for a return to a place where transgender women play active and full roles within women's sections of the party.
December 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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natacha.bsky.social
A decade ago trans people warned this would happen.

The “gender-critical” transphobes have opened the door to a much wider attack on women’s rights, including on safe and legal abortion, birth control…

I even managed to get this published in @opendemocracy.net in 2022
Through the wedge issue of transphobia, self-identified gender-critical 'feminists' have opened the door for the far-right's homophobia and misogyny. After investing all this money, are they really going to stop at just harming trans people?
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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sianberry.bsky.social
Greens welcome #GreatBritishRailways but what about rolling stock?

ROSCOs paid £275m in dividends to shareholders last year - a huge drain on public finances!

I urge the Government to find ways to bring our rolling stock into public hands.
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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mc00.bsky.social
'Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential'
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
'After two years of being subject to relentless criticism which saw her attacked on the front pages of leading newspapers and talked about incessantly on social media, Dr. Beth Upton has been cleared on all counts.'

bylines.scot/society/beth...
Beth Upton exonerated, NHS Fife found guilty of harassment
Two years of misery for two women show the damage done when moral panic overwhelms common sense in workplace matters
bylines.scot
December 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
"A further 43 counts were thrown out, including all allegations against Upton, and the tribunal said that NHS Fife giving the doctor permission to use female changing spaces was not unlawful.:

www.thenational.scot/news/2568497...
Sandie Peggie case 'shows trans segregation is unlawful', MSPs told
THE Sandie Peggie tribunal ruling has shown that the “blanket exclusion of trans people” from single-sex facilities is generally unlawful ...
www.thenational.scot
December 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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goodlawproject.org
An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.
So far as her other comments are concerned, they were impermissible manifestations of her belief and were in our view what amounted to an incident of harassment by the claimant of the second respondent related to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, reasonably perceived by the second respondent to be so, and were a breach by the claimant of section 26 of the Act and of the Bullying and Harassment Policy. The second respondent was entitled to view the actions of the claimant in those particular regards as being such harassment, or as a “hate incident” within the policy, and the first respondent was entitled in principle to act on the complaint made, but the detail of how it did so depends on all the circumstances as more fully addressed below. The second respondent was also entitled to regard the claimant’s actions as a breach of the second respondent’s Article 8 rights, so far as the claimant’s expression of her beliefs was impermissible. 1034. We also considered that the claimant had acted deliberately to be able to challenge the second respondent whilst they were alone. What she did was to wait until other members of staff had left the changing room, and for the second respondent to leave the cubicle, before raising her own beliefs directly with the second respondent in the manner we have set out. 1035. Whilst the claimant had not been informed as promptly and in the detail we considered appropriate, and the first respondent did not consider whether to revoke permission at all, the claimant did not herself raise any formal grievance under the policy. She is an experienced member of staff who had access to union advice. She knew, or ought reasonably to have known, that the first respondent having granted permission to the second respondent she required to have raised her concerns with the first respondent as the decision-maker rather than with the colleague to whom it had been granted, and in any event ought not to have done so in the manner that she did.
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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natacha.bsky.social
PSA…
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
The roller derby community has come together in a show of solidarity for transgender rights following the Supreme Court's ruling on the legal definition of a woman.

👉 www.itv.com/news/granada...
December 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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sunhawk.bsky.social
Solidarity with any Girl Guide volunteer who refuses to uphold this cowardly bigoted nonsense ✊🏼
December 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Here: Streeting and Labour invest £10 million into manufacturing the “evidence” they need to legitimise their cruelty towards Trans+ youth

Elsewhere, in the real world: Scientists - yet again - prove that access to Trans healthcare, including HRT, dramatically benefits Trans+ young people
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Nov 24
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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goodlawproject.org
"Hormone Therapy was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time, extending prior findings with a larger sample and longer follow-up." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study
To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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He just keeps getting better and better. And isn't Ash Sakhar wonderful too? @zackpolanski.bsky.social brings out the best in her.
zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Nov 23
A live audience, Novara Media and the brilliant Ash Sarkar.

We talk socialism, AI and how to lower bills and tax billionaires.

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Zack Polanski Is Coming for Starmer AND Farage | Ash Sarkar Meets Zack Polanski
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November 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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brexitbin.bsky.social
Release The Epstein Files
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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greenparty.org.uk
The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.

Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.

Refugees are welcome.
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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wearequeeraf.com
Under pressure from Europe, court cases and MPs, EHRC withdraws transphobic 'interim update' calling for segregation of Trans+ people

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-withdraws-transphobic-interim-opinion-on-supreme-court-ruling-and-demands-ministers-act-at-speed-to-publish-new-statutory-guidance/
EHRC withdraws transphobic interim opinion on Supreme Court ruling
The equalities watchdog's move came in an eventful week for British trans rights
www.wearequeeraf.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM