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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️

@transnormative.bsky.social

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Just a middle-aged trans lesbian and Twitter refugee trying to survive the surge of fascism and climate collapse. #FreePalestine

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · May 21

This will be my thread concerning my FOIA Request to the EHRC. I think I got some actually worthwhile files, but I'll start with sharing the files so that other people can get their eyes on them.

They provided considerable correspondence between EHRC staff and antitrans orgs.

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · May 16

For what it's worth, this is what I'm waiting for them to respond to.

They're supposed to respond in 4 days. My expectation is that they will give themselves an extension, or deny it with some excuse:

Your Freedom of Information Request

Thank you for your request, detailed below, which we received on 21 April 2025.

"Any releasable correspondence for the period from June of 2024 through today in the EHRC's possession exchanged between EHRC staff, commissioners, and other representatives and representatives of the advocacy group Sex Matters, including any correspondence with Maya Forstater.

* Any releasable correspondence for the period from June of 2024 through today in the EHRC's possession exchanged between EHRC staff, commissioners, and other representatives and representatives of the advocacy group LGB Alliance, including any correspondence with Bev Jackson, Kate Harris, Allison Bailey, Malcolm Clark and Ann Sinnott.

* Meeting minutes for the EHRC Board meetings since October of 2024.

* Any information explaining the delay in posting the most recent board meeting minutes.

* The most recent Code of Conduct of the EHRC Board and the previous Code of Conduct."

We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We aim to respond promptly and in any event no later than 20 working days following the date of receipt of the request; a response should therefore be with you no later than 20 May 2025.

If you have any queries please contact us using the details below.

Yours sincerely

‎Information Governance team

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 1d

They get bigger weapons, and as their arrogance grows, so do their demands, but they never can be anything but a fraud. Which is why they try so hard to silence the truth.

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 1d

I have to post this from time to time to remind myself and everyone else that Zionism has always been the same thing. It's always been an effort to steal a whole country. It's always been the same thing since it started, it's always been genocidal colonialism, and it's never changed one bit.

Conference of Zionists

Elect delegates at Their Meeting in Baltimore

WILL COLONIZE PALESTINE

Rabbi Gottheil and Wise Were Chosen Members of the International Executive Committee.

Baltimore, MD., June 19.—The first business at to-day's session of the annual conference of the Federation of American Zionists was the election of two members from America, to serve on the Executive Committee of the International Congress, which will assemble on Aug. 15 at Basel,

New York Times, June 20, 1899

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 1d

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 1d

It's people who were bullies at age 12 and never forgave the world for taking that away from them.

"What do you mean I can't call my boss a bitch, just because she's a girl" type of people.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

Texas GOP candidate
Shelley Luther complains that students can't make fun of transgender children
By Jay Root, Staff Writer
Updated Feb 9, 2022 6:02 a.m.

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 1d

The attorney general is a liar, and not even a good one.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 1d

The look on her face, the opening and closing of her mouth the way she is, she knows she's in deep shit with that question. She probably is implicated in obstruction or something similar, but she didn't even get a cut. And she didn't even answer.

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 1d

This is just mind-boggling to me. Imagine telling someone that they have a right to care, and scheduling their first appointment in the 2240s.

But look on the bright side. If you make it to your first appointment, you'll be able to join the crew of the starship Enterprise.

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 1d

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 1d

"People are saying" is one way to launder a lie into the discourse.

To be clear, he's getting paid not to do his job..

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Nov 1

Regular people: Oh cool, we're following the Star Trek timeline!

Trekkies: Oh fuck, we're following the Star Trek timeline!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

The GOP has done nothing on healthcare in the 21st century other than stop Dems from improving it. Literally nothing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent stuff from Greta! 👌🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Greta Thunberg: ‘We Are Not Heroes. We Are Doing The Bare Minimum’

YouTube video by Novara Media

youtube.com

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 2d

Evidence collected by the medical community shows Israeli soldiers are *systematically* shooting and killing children in Gaza. revealnews.org/podcast/gaza...

US doctors in Gaza find evidence that kids are being targeted by the Israeli military

American doctors volunteering in Gaza report a disturbing pattern of children shot by Israeli forces. Now they’re pushing for accountability.

revealnews.org

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

An Israeli prison guard deliberately slammed a metal door on the already broken leg of a 70-year-old Scottish woman who was abducted from the flotilla.

Torture.

THIS IS SAD ❗❗

"That prison was awful. No food, no water. My broken leg, the girl said to me, "Ah, what happened to your leg?" I said, "it's broke." She slammed the metal door on it and went, "Oh, sorry"

Margaret Pacetta, 70, from Glasgow, Scotland, is one of four Scots who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Pacetta arrived in Istanbul Airport on Saturday afternoon along with 136 other activists.

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 3d

It's what Keir Starmer was hired to do.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 3d

ICE is illegally raiding apartments in minority neighborhoods and Trump is trying to deploy the national guard to suppress dissent and people are really out here wasting their time arguing that LLM bigotry is a thing ??? please wake up and care about literally anything that matters

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 3d

On reports the Home Secretary plans to grant police more powers to prevent ‘repeated protests’, Greenpeace UK:

“Protest works because it is repetitive. If police had told the Suffragettes or civil rights activists ‘you’ve made your point,’ they would never have won the victories we all enjoy today"

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 3d

Have you heard of Folke Bernadotte?

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 3d

The petition against digital ID cards has now reached 2.8 million. Keep sharing, it would be good to get this past 3 million by the middle of the week.

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 3d

Official Consultation: n.

A consistently-applied means of ignoring trans people in favour of transphobes, even when the number of “official consultation” responses from trans people overwhelmingly outnumbers those from transphobes.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I was wondering if it was the same guy in a couple of different incidents too.

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg has more courage than the entire state of "Israel".

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @transnormative.bsky.social · 4d

This has nothing to do with law enforcement. This is a male ego needing to dominate. He started out by going for the throat.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 4d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 4d

No warrants, no probable cause, detaining citizens. Zip tying children, using flash bangs, repelling through people’s windows and destroying their homes at night.

This Administration is lawless and abhorrent to our Constitution.

We are the frogs in the boiling pot.

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 4d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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