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Aliza Adi (she/her)

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✊🏼 Co-founder and Diversity Officer of @FeministGreens 📢 Independent Community Engagement Advisor - VAWG/CSA/ACE/GRT/ LGBTIQA+ 🌍 Londoner and fan of Clean Air 💊 Former Head of Patient Services and Head of Policy - GenderGP Views mine, typos yes ☸️ 🇷🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🇮🇪

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · May 2

Trans+ lives are under attack

Help @goodlawproject.bsky.social in the fight back to defend Trans rights:

1. Fighting Fund
goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/fighting-fund-for-trans-rights

2. Supreme Court Challenge
goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/supreme-court-human-rights-for-trans-people

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 8h

🖐🏼 @mothinali.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social please take the time watch this from your Green colleague in Scotland 👇🏼

Maggie Chapman MSP (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 13h

Why do we keep talking about trans healthcare?

Because of statistics like this.
Because every day waiting, in this world obsessed with harassing trans people, is a battle that many don't survive.

So, we keep talking about it, and keep fighting back against systemic transphobia.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 11h

The planet has reached its first catastrophic climate tipping point.

160 scientists from 23 countries warn that unless global heating is cut to 1.2°C as fast as possible, warm-water coral reefs will vanish “at any meaningful scale.”

The science is clear: We need to act now.

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 14h

@greenparty.org.uk supporters show, by far, the strongest backing for keeping the UK in the European Convention on Human Rights - even most Labour voters don’t want to see it abandoned either

The message is clear and blindingly obvious : the public supports human rights

Will Starmer listen tho?

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 16h

Hey Kier Starmer and Bridget Philipson - if the current EHRC guidance continues into policy, the UK will be on a collision course with the ECtHR

This will be weaponised by the far right as a reason to leave the ECtHR - when 82% of Labour voters want Britain to stay!

👉 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Table showing 82% of Labour voters want Britain to remain in the European Court of Human Rights

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 17h

@theguardian.com editors and journalists taking a victory lap?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19h

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns following April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said. Michael O’Flaherty, the European Council commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK following April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 17h

Is this @theguardian.com editors and journalists taking a victory lap then?

Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 17h

Zack’s no stranger to right-wing attacks - and if you know him, you’ll know he won’t back down

He meets them head-on and turns them into fuel for hope and humanity

What these “have-an-opinion-for-money” warriors don’t get is: this is just the @greenparty.org.uk way

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 18h

🖐🏼 @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social

With grace they've not earned, Michael O’Flaherty of the Council of Europe has criticised Labour’s exclusionary approach

Another moment for ALL @greenparty.org.uk leadership to commitment to support Trans+ human rights?

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 20h

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 19h

He points to the European Court of Human Rights, which affirms that the very essence of the European Convention on Human Rights is “respect for human dignity and human freedom” and guarantees Trans+ people the [Article 8] right to privacy, personal development and to physical and moral security

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 19h

I'm not a lawyer, let alone a human rights lawyer, but this looks as though Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, has publicly disagreed with EHRC president Kishwer Falkner - who has claimed that “we [EHRC] don’t think Article 8 rights apply [for trans people]”

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 20h

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

Yuk

Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

Local police are reportedly investigating violent crimes committed by transphobic cis women against other transphobic cis women at a transphobic event attended by transphobes

When their entire movement is built on hate it's no wonder they'll turn on each other

naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 1d

FiLiA Statement on yesterdays brawl between Jean Hatchett and Lucy Masoud. Possibly others...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

How austerity hit young people.

In the decade after 2010 councils’ funding for youth services in England and Wales suffered a real-terms cut of 70%.

By 2023, 1,200 publicly run youth centres closed.

Young people abandoned to fund tax cuts for corporations the rich.

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

This is fantastic news

I truly wish I could more involved in Bromley party activism - party wide bodily autonomy liberation work is taking up all my time right now

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

Right now there's such positive energy in the party 💚✊🏼

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely agree, Mothin - and thank you for bringing attention to this

I truly hope your call to action extends, without qualification or caveat, to global majority Trans Women, who remain among the most marginalised and least represented Women in politics

Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

Counterpoint: We are listening to them, we just find too much of what they say and do morally repugnant

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 2d

“Ministers keep telling us what they have done, but voters aren’t hearing them. If the government has a communications strategy, it isn’t working,” writes @peterkellner.bsky.social.

Voters are not listening to Labour

New data shows how little the Starmer government’s messaging resonates

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

...by the continued criminalisation, discrimination, and violence faced by LGBT+ communities in many parts of the world"

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

Deeply cynical hypocrisy from Starmer's obsessively anti-Trans+ Labour Government

"The UK is unwavering in its commitment to the protection and promotion of human rights for all, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other LGBT+ individuals

We are deeply concerned...

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The United Kingdom will not waver in its defence of human rights: UK Statement at the UN Third Committee

Statement by Eleanor Sanders, Ambassador for Human Rights and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations at the General Debate of the UN Third Committee.

www.gov.uk

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Caroline 💚

I love that idea too - let's start with our big cities where those facing oppression, discrimination, and violence already flock to in order to find safety, family, and support ✊🏼

Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

🖐🏼 @london.gov.uk @mayorofgm.bsky.social @zoegarbett.bsky.social @carolinerussell.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social

Reject Streeting & Starmer’s anti-Trans+ crusade

Defend Trans+ kids, youth & adults - now

Be loud. Be clear. Be unambiguous

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 3d

The left must unite to ensure the defeat of both the increasingly right-wing Labour government and Reform at the next election

But if Your Party keeps platforming transphobia and appointing anti-trans activists to key roles, you can be absolutely sure we’ll resist any formal alliance

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 3d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

Photo of Zarah, Zack Polanski, Amna Abdullatif from We Deserve Better and Abubakr Nanabawa from The Muslim Vote

Zarah speaking to a packed room at The World Transformed

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 3d

..politicians, and activists are either enabling or normalising it - as if this cruelty is somehow acceptable [it's not - obviously]

We must call this out for what it is: a systemic and institutional violation of human dignity, a betrayal of trust, basic humanity, and an urgent crisis

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 3d

This is happening right now, across the UK – affecting thousands of young Trans+ people who are simply trying to be themselves and thrive

Young Trans+ people being inflicted with unspeakable mental and physical suffering

And all the while, anti-trans medical professionals, media figures,..

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 3d

"Laura found an NHS Dr in Brighton who helped support her daughter for 6 months.

Laura described it as ‘six months of support bliss’ before NHS ICB Sussex (Integrated Care Board) began investigating them."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

MP fails to support suicidal constituent

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her suicidal15-year-old daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 3d

Preach 💚

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 4d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 4d

Piers Morgan: Penis

@zackpolanski.bsky.social: What have you got against Trans people?

Piers Morgan: Biological woman

Zack: Why are you punching down?

Piers Morgan: Penis

Zack: It sounds like you have a huge problem with Trans people

Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 4d

This is an amazing defence of trans people against one of the country’s worst transphobic bigots by @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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