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moif @moif-velocita.bsky.social · 18d

Saying that they're merging the rules for intersex and trans athletes, because 'gender doesn't trump sex' is saying that intersex women are really men.

That is what 'Lord Coe' is really saying

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 19d

Sadly, I think this is a test the vast majority of people fail. It's why those cis people who tend to properly advocate for us almost always have "skin in the game" – they are our parents, lovers, friends etc. But, really, this should be a fight for all of us.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 19d

I think fundamentally, the ability to care about the rights of a small and vulnerable minority (of whom you might know no members) is an important sign of whether you are committed to human rights out of principle, or out of mere convenience.

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 19d

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 24d

2/ I pointed out that none of the lawyers argued that the Gender Recognition Act was defective. It was Hodge who came up with the idea.

Perhaps, just perhaps, he wasn’t acting as a judge at all, but as an arbitrary authority. That would explain why he felt the need to defend his nonsense.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 24d

1/🧵 Judges are generally proud of the tradition that once a judgment is given, they do not explain or defend it further. So you should definitely ask yourself why Patrick Hodge chose to break with that tradition.

It’s just fucking lame.

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Megan @quietlymegan.bsky.social · 27d

It’s here! It’s here! Oh happy days :D i have been waiting years fir an audiobook release! It’s @lrlam.bsky.social’s Pantomime, out today, and in my case pre-ordered through @libro.fm
Hopefully my physical copy will arrive soon

A screenshot of the Audiobook app from Libro.fm, showing L. R. Lam’s Pantomime downloading

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Sep 6

Women are biologically afraid of insects. Gender critical feminism, everyone.

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · Sep 6

Amazing developments in women defending theory happening in that courtroom.

www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/09...

'A lot of women famously do not like insects, they have a natural revulsion against insects. This is a form of terrorism that's very specifically aimed at women.'

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Sep 4

assurances from the NI Justice Minister herself that Nesbitt had no interest in prosecuting families.

Then, one month after the funding is announced Mike Nesbitt, the current NI Health Minister, orders another review, this time to be led by Hillary Cass.

It is absolutely shameless.

3/end

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Sep 4

People lost their shit, including the News Letter which published 17 articles in one week, more than the Telegraph and Mail combined that week. The TUV and DUP started crying.

Then we hear that families here will be criminalised for seeking private care abroad for their trans kids despite 2/

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Sep 4

To clarify the situation. The former NI Health Minister commissioned a review of gender services. That involved trans people and their families and concluded in April after almost 6 years. They made recommendations, which were going to be implemented, and asked for funding, which was allocated

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Megan @quietlymegan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Saw Inter Alia this evening, broadcast live from the National Theatre to cinemas.
Fantastic.
Emotionally devastating.
And so much to think about.

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · Sep 1

I would just note that HRT was also flagged as a specific danger last week regarding trans people; and forever unspecified dangers were the reason trans kids in the UK had their access to blockers removed. As ever, the war on gender and on bodily autonomy is thoroughly intersectional.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Sep 1

You guys see where this is going? Right?

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · Jul 19

You know who never gets called "a biological male"? Biological males.

Bukkakestocracy (cumming soon) @boo.bsky.social · Jul 19

"Biological male" is a slur against trans women 99.9% of the time it's used

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · Aug 30

Cause as it stands even with this damage control message from sultana the only actual trans rights policy called for in all this is segregation. She is not actually calling for anything at all is she. STILL not daring to rock the boat

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · Aug 30

Dare she say trans women belong in womens spaces? Dare she say trans healthcare should be accessible? Dare she call out the ehrc and the supreme court? Or is it just please be nice to trannies but oh no dont wanna actually confront what transphobic politics means

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · Aug 30

Talk of solidarity and no place for bigotry but no talk of what that means or looks like. Meanwhile the transphobe is clear cut and calls for segregation. This cowardice is exactly what i feared and will see our rights compromised away

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · Aug 30

Cause she waited so long they left space for one of their mps to call for trans segregation so now these nice sentiments mean very little, you gotta now overtly actually oppose that policy. Really sick of just getting nice sentiments but no addressing of our human rights and healthcare

Smazak 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 they/them @smazak.bsky.social · Aug 29

Slightly undermines your "transphobia not welcome here" messaging if one of the other co-founders was, at the same moment, tweeting transphobic talking points.

Will he be kicked out? Doubt.

Zarah Sultana tweet supporting trans rights and closing with "bigotry has no place in it" (it being the new party)

Adnan Hussain tweeting gender critical talking points such as "safe spaces should not be encroached upon" and calling for third spaces.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · Aug 29

We are in such a rum place where we should welcome a such a Home Office sigh of relief in an asylum judicial review case.

Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · Aug 29

A Home Office source just messaged me to say there's a "collective sigh of relief" in the department following the Epping hotel appeal ruling. Fears a ban could have led to a domino effect across the country.

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Theresa Davis @helresa.bsky.social · Aug 29

This very much is why we are upset. We have followed the rules that have been set by cis people every step of the way, and now you turn around and say, sorry but you don't have the rights you think you have.

Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · Aug 19

He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

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Megan @quietlymegan.bsky.social · Aug 18

Used @hivestores.bsky.social for the physical preorder - supporting my local @octoberbooks.bsky.social
And @libro.fm for the audiobook

Megan @quietlymegan.bsky.social · Aug 18

Preordered the upcoming revised edition of Pantomime by @lrlam.bsky.social in hardcover and audiobook . Loved the original trilogy, and now I can get the first installment in a gorgeous new hardcover and *for the first time* in audiobook! Yay!

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Aug 11

Used the wrong link before. Here is a pile of evidence that the supreme court ignored when coming to its misjudgement. Evidence that, had it taken note of, would have meant it could not have arrived at its - flawed - conclusion.

uncommon-scents.blogspot.com/2025/08/evid...

Evidence that the Supreme Court judgement against trans people's human rights was factually wrong...?

Chapeau; Sue Pascoe

uncommon-scents.blogspot.com

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Megan @quietlymegan.bsky.social · Aug 9

I am unsure I will ever be able to forgive Labour for this.

Today I felt anxiety going to the loo in a shopping centre for the first time since I switched over a decade ago.

And the situation is going to get worse, probably for years. At best there might be hope at the next General Election.

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