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Seattle Voice Lab 🏳️‍⚧️ @seattlevoicelab.com · 4h

Seattle Voice Lab now has -no waitlist- (across morning and afternoon slots).

If you'd like to begin voice training with SVL and join 3000+ students in bringing out your own authentic voice. 💘

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Seattle Voice Lab 🏳️‍⚧️ @seattlevoicelab.com · 7h

Voice training lightning round! Answers to the most common questions we get every day 🏃‍♀️

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Lou 🔜 UK Glam awards 2025 @loufcr421.bsky.social · 7h

Just over a week till the green flag drops at le mans for the 847 @racingteamecho.bsky.social lmp2 in the 24h global endurance series of circuit de la sarthe

Here's hoping lady lucks on our side

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 13h

I mean this sincerely: people like JK Rowling and Glinner and their "gender critical" pals, the media and the politcians who indulge them, they ALL share a portion of the blame for acts of violence like these.

Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 14h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

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She Guevara 🗳💚 @sheg7.bsky.social · 1d

You can forcibly transition a ham and cheese toastie by putting an egg on top

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She Guevara 🗳💚 @sheg7.bsky.social · 12h

So, middle-england that is adament that they have no problem.with trans people existing...

Still believe its all about protecting kids from puberty blockers?

Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 12h

🚨 Hundreds, possibly thousands, of GPs are refusing Trans+ adults their healthcare

We always said the Trans+ Healthcare scandal would get worse

"Given the complexity and unique medical considerations involved in hormone therapy [we're no longer authorising your prescription]" - GP

'I used to pay £200 for trans healthcare - now I pay nearly £2,000'

'I just feel like my GP can, at any given time, ruin my life.'

metro.co.uk

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 20h

With the EHRC acting like it is. It shows that it is really important to keep trying to get in contact with your MP.

We have seen that this is working.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 3d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely! The EHRC is really floundering right now, and Bridget Phillipson (so we hear) is getting increasingly annoyed at them.

What better time than now to write (using our easy-peasy tool) and pressure Phillipson to reject the EHRC’s segregationist Code 🤗📝🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 19h

Remember this?
www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/e...

UK equalities boss under investigation 'over bullying and harassment claims'

EHRC chair Kishwer Falkner is reportedly under investigation after 40 staff complaints accused her of bullying, transphobia, and harassment.

www.thepinknews.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 15h

UK TERFs & the US right joined forces YEARS ago!

The UK don’t have the same Christian evangelical infrastructure to promote anti-abortion ideology directly, so the ADF use a different tactic to infiltrate the UK - transphobia.

They even use the same “free speech” “we’ve been silenced” playbook.

Transphobia: How the ecosystem of UK and US anti-trans hate works

Detailing the various types of transphobes in the US and UK, and how they have grown under differing political, social, and media…

medium.com

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heresvix @heresvix.bsky.social · 1d

Coffee Date — full comic 😳👗

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She Guevara 🗳💚 @sheg7.bsky.social · 13h

For every victim like Marie, there will be 10 women, who look just like her, that will blame this on trans people before they look at themselves and the rhetoric they use as the cause.

Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 14h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

share.google

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nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social · 19h

The Council of Europe just told the UK to stop treating women’s rights and trans rights as opposites — and they’re right.

Human rights aren’t a zero-sum game. They’re a framework for coexistence. #humanrights #councilofeurope #transrights #womensrights

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Ada Wolf 🐺ΘΔ 🏳️‍🌈 Scotia 26 @adawolf.bsky.social · 17h

Very well done and I hope it goes ok =^.^=

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⛧₊˚.⋆☾🎃RiniSCREAMIES👻☽⋆⁺₊⛧ @rinibeanieart.bsky.social · 1d

commission for @/suntattoowolf! werewolf barista is such a cute idea!! who's ready for autumn days and hot cosy drinks? ☕🍂🧡

#furryart

Illustration of a werewolf barista in a little cafe. The werewolf wears a barista apron and carefully pours cream over a tiny cup of latte. The backdrop consists of a countertop upon which sits a blueberry tart under glass, and a glass shelf housing various pastries. There's also a commercial espresso machine, bouquet of flowers in a vase, a wall shelf, a chalkboard menu, and string lights strung on the wall.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

It's not like the evidence has been hidden:

The SPLC exposed their strategy back in 2017 to use 'trans rights' as a wedge issue - not just to split LGB from T, but also to divide the women's movement (pitting TERFs against trans-inclusive women) www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Christian Right tips to fight transgender rights: separate the T from the LGB

Last week, from Thursday, October 13 through Saturday, October 15 the anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council put on its annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC., A prime networking event fo...

www.splcenter.org

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Jan @tigerknight.com · Sep 3

Nine to Nine - Amazing Phil https://www.tigerknight.com/99/misc-59

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

The ADF have been worming their way into the UK for YEARS trying to impose the Christo-fascist ideology.

Loads of articles have exposed their anti-gender campaign tactics against bodily autonomy.

You’re right - they won’t target abortion rights, they’ll use the ‘wedge issue’ of trans rights!

Feminism, biological fundamentalism and the attack on trans rights

Sophia Siddiqui warns of the multiple dangers ahead if we cede territory to far-right ideas on innate biological difference.

irr.org.uk

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 17h

While ADF UK’s overhead, lobbying and legal costs have gone up/fluctuated between 2018-2024, the BIG increase is staff costs - yet they only have 1 extra person!

That would indicate they've hired someone between 2023 - 2024 who is on a salary of £154,000

… when did Farage meet with them again? 🤔

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 17h

The amount that the ADF is pouring into the UK has massively grown since 2018

It’s jumped from £328,000 in 2018 to £1,119,975 in 2024

You can see their full accounts here: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0992...

@mc00.bsky.social @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

Year - ADF Support (£)
2017 - 328,000
2018 - 374,500
2019 - 474,900
2020 - 324,000
2021 - 490,852
2022 - 398,000
2023 - 789,863
2024 - 1,119,975

Total sent to the UK (2017-2024):
£4,300,090

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 17h

The supreme court case and everything following it relies on not asking questions and forcing anti trans ideology through soooooo

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 17h

Feel like some of the apparent panic from the EHRC would be because they know the only way to push through the trans segregation is by force and not to look into it with due care so the minister seemingly not brute forcing throws their whole scheme off

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

A Whitehall source said: “Unfortunately this looks like the EHRC deflecting – they still haven’t sent ministers the information requested in order to assess the draft code. The EHRC should be cracking on with their job, not giving lectures on timing while government still awaits their material” 🔥

EHRC drops interim trans advice and urges ministers to act fast to approve its guidance

Equalities watchdog removes interim response to supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman from its website

www.theguardian.com

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

The EHRC has just taken down their transphobic interim guidance 👀

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/our-work/uk-supreme-court-ruling-meaning-sex-equality-act-our-work

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 1d

The EHRC has written to the Minister for Women and Equalities, demanding that she rushes through their dreadful draft Code of Practice.

This is a bizarre intervention from a supposedly impartial public body.

Equalities watchdog urges UK ministers to ‘act with speed’ on trans guidance

EHRC writes to Bridget Phillipson over implementation of code on single-sex public spaces after supreme court ruling

www.theguardian.com

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