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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 2h

Sex Matters is a hate group!

Not just me saying that. They meet the definition of such;

"A hate group is a social organization whose core purpose is to promote hatred, hostility, or violence against people based on their membership in a particular race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristic. While the presence of bigoted individuals isn't enough, a group becomes a hate group when its goals and actions are substantially rooted in this shared antagonism. "

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 3h

"Put the pieces together, and the design is clear. The law exposes you. Guidance outed you. The media makes you hateable. Politicians choke services. Clinics close their books. Young people miss their only medical window."

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 3h

Time to update the scoreboards so everyone knows what's up before JK Rowling drops another few hundred grand on being a bigot loser

Money wasted on being a dick to trans people: literally millions upon millions.

Women saved from harm or even vaguely supported by being a dick to trans people: 0

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 3h

"This is a catalogue of intent made real through law, policy, healthcare denial, public rhetoric and institutional cowardice. First, you remove recognition. Then you prevent a safe presence. Then you choke off life-saving care. This is indistinguishable from a death sentence."

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 3h

A worthy read of the exceptionally grim situation for trans people in the UK. The US gets the media spotlight, but the UK's attack on us is more subtle but also more destructive.

medium.com/@geekonaleas...

The UK’s Trans Genocide

The slow machinery of erasure: courts, clinics and ministers weaponising our disappearance

medium.com

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 4h

That article reflects much of my experience. The low level stuff that is slowly escalating and has pretty much become the norm.

So much the norm it barely registers now and only takes it being witnessed by a friend or ally and the shock they experience, to sort of highlight it.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 4h

My latest article.

CW. Transphobic violence and discrimination.

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/equalit...

Hate against trans people surges!

In the last few years, trans people are experiencing more and more hate from prejudiced strangers

northwestbylines.co.uk

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 4h

Me Me Me Me Meeeee! Do you know who I am!!

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 4h

Her hubris is the ugliest part of her diseased mind.

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 6h

How fucking embarrassing is it for the entire political establishment that they're being outflanked on the left by MICHAEL FUCKING HESSELTINE

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 22h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 4d

Flags on lampposts will be affecting property prices. Surprised the Daily Mail hasn't started reporting on that.

I mean, who'd want to move to an area festooned with flags marking "white territory" like a dog that pisses on lampposts?

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 7h

The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has adopted a groundbreaking recommendation to the organisation’s 46 member states on equal rights for intersex persons👇

🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

@coe.int #Consent #Equality #NoDiscrimination

Council of Europe adopts landmark Recommendation on equal rights for intersex persons

<p>Historic milestone calls for prohibition of non-consensual medical interventions and for full equality and non-discrimination against intersex persons across all areas of life</p>

www.coe.int

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 6h

Lost for words. The UK is supporting and funding anti-trans hate groups.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 9h

Because of the unforgivably appalling decisions of the Charity Commission, these hate groups, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance, are funded from your taxes.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 6h

Sex Matters is an anti-trans hate group. That's its only purpose.

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 9h

I don't think enough is made of Starmer appointing a SexMatters director into number 10 as comms manager.

Or that SexMatters wrote to NHSE asking for the blocker study to be cancelled because being trans in the UK with no rights is undesirable.

Letter here..
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...

Behind the ruling: how ‘Sex Matters’ is shaping UK policy on trans rights

The UK Supreme Court ruling redefined ‘sex’ – but for trans people, it’s the start of something far more sweeping and exclusionary

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 6h

Bigots gotta bigot I guess.

They seem to hate everyone; trans people, immigrants, asylum seekers. Maybe they hate themselves? Their shallow, empty lives. They have money but their souls are empty.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 6h

Let them continue saying it - it'll show others what disgusting people they are.

"Gender critical campaigners have been accused of making “hateful” and “extremist” remarks at an event at the Conservative Party conference"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 1d

Another way to fight this would be to remind residents that house prices are crashing in areas that are flying the flag.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 21h

Which is the American model. We got rid of guns after his massacre - other than farmers shotguns. No more crazies have guns and no more mass shootouts.

Nobody in the UK argues for guns. What's up with you?

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 21h

But you did. So make that count.

We had a gun lobby here too, though not as strong. Also, you don't have to ban all guns. Just make them fecking difficult to keep and make the penalties for any misdemeanour HARSH.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 21h

Read my second comment! 🙄

"....we banned VIRTUALLY all guns..."
bsky.app/profile/unic...

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 23h

Same way we did in the UK after yet another gun massacre. We banned virtually all guns and had a buy-back scheme for their return. Farmers can have them still. Some crims have them, but they mainly shoot each other and the penalties for any gun crime is severe.

Nobody worries about guns now.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 23h

This was the massacre that caused the ban. Everyone had had enough. Gun owners objected but the momentum was there to ban guns. And we did.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblan...

Dunblane massacre - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 23h

A Tory MP doing a racism! No, surely not. I'm so surprised!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jenrick defends calling Handsworth 'worst-integrated'

The shadow justice secretary is accused of racism after saying the Handsworth area was one of the

www.bbc.co.uk

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 Dear friends and community,
We invite you to come together for an online interfaith memorial service celebrating the life of beloved activist and friend Tuisina Ymania Brown.

There will be two separate gatherings to allow for colleagues, friends, allies and family in different time zones to join.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 23h

Same way we did in the UK after yet another gun massacre. We banned virtually all guns and had a buy-back scheme for their return. Farmers can have them still. Some crims have them, but they mainly shoot each other and the penalties for any gun crime is severe.

Nobody worries about guns now.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 1d

So if our HRT prescriptions are so cheap, why not just treat us on the NHS and be done? It's obviously very cost effective treatment and would make thousands of people happy, comfortable and content, for less than £150 per year.

Oh, it's 'Terf Island' isn't it. And the NHS. 😒

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