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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 18h

Human rights underpin our everyday lives, often in invisible ways but always there when you need them.

Easily sacrificed for political expediency. Hard felt by all of us when gone.

ORG joined @libertyhq.bsky.social and hundreds of groups to defend the ECHR ✊

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Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry

Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 3d

This is the Murdoch Times saying the quiet part out loud.

“Forcing” trans people to use the wrong toilets.

The entire plan is about coercion and endangering trans people and, as I said recently, nothing whatsoever to do with principle.

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Rules forcing trans people to use birth-sex facilities delayed
The Equality and Human Rights Commission set out statutory guidance on how gyms, clubs and hospitals must judge single-sex spaces based on biology
Geraldine Scott, Assistant
Political Editor
Thursday October 30 2025, 9.40pm
Rules that would ban transgender people from using facilities that do not match their biological sex could be delayed for more than a year, it has emerged, as ministers were accused of "undermining the law" by demanding extra checks.

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Barkley @barkleybluesky.bsky.social · 2d

The Lib Dems are not on your side, folks

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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 5d

Transphobes don't just hate trans people, but they're generally quite shit - racists, islamophobes, shit politics, that's what they stand for
When I said our fight is one, I meant it, the same people coming after one minority also target others
Legitimate concerns need space, hate doesn’t

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 4d

"Press Gazette has spotted more than 100 examples of fictional content sent by dodgy PR companies being published by major newsbrands in recent months."

Including quoting people who don't exist.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/how-to-...

How to spot fake AI-written press releases

Reporters are being bombarded with millions of press releases from virtual PR agencies.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Netpol @netpol.org · 4d

Protest bans are a ‘display of state power’ - should we celebrate the police banning protests, when they are likely to weaponise their unprecedented powers against anti-racists in the future?
netpol.org/2025/10/30/p...

Image of a banner stretched across Whitechapel Road in Tower Hamlets, which reads "East London is Anti-Fascist"

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 5d

Imagine the impact it would have if - as a bare minimum - Government departments, ministers and No 10 posted stuff *first* on other platforms than X. Westminster as a whole would move over.

It is pure masochism or idiocy not to do so.

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Barkley @barkleybluesky.bsky.social · 5d

hate marches & riots, & as it produced Brianna Ghey’s murder & the physical violent abuse of trans friends & comrades.

We say “an injury to one is an injury to all” because we must stand up for eachother.

Utterly condemn this attack. None of us are free until all of us are.

Solidarity Mothin.

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Barkley @barkleybluesky.bsky.social · 5d

It’s all the same system; anti-trans street harassers & “respectable” eliminationists, islamophobic & xenophobic “patriots” & the racist politicians who echo them in the halls of power. Those who try to divide us are not on the side of the 99% & the bile they spew produces this abuse as much as

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Ellie Gomersall @elliebgomersall.bsky.social · 5d

YET another dodgy landlord MP, and this time it's the chancellor of the bloody exchequer. Yet another reason why MPs should be banned from being landlords.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves admits breaking housing rules by renting out home

Rachel Reeves refers herself to the PM's ethics adviser after "inadvertently" renting out her family home without a licence.

www.bbc.com

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 6d

If your shifting ideal for housing migrants is now some sort of barracks that should be located far away from the domestic population and completely isolated from amenities and infrastructure of regular life then it sounds to me like what you really want, whether you realise it or not, is a camp.

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 6d

Lib Dem MP here expressing concerns that “migrants” (in fact asylum seekers, or “human beings”, as they’re also known) might be allowed to live next door to people, and near a high street

Post from Angus MacDonald MP:
I’m deeply concerned by reports that the UK Government plans to house up to 300 migrants at Cameron Barracks in Inverness. This site is surrounded by residential houses and is only a ten-minute walk from the High Street - it’s simply not an appropriate or secure location.

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Sarah Clarke @damselindystopia.bsky.social · Aug 8

We decide what our bodies are for. We decide what they look like faulty and what they look like whole.

takingsteps.blogspot.com/2007/01/seam...

I am not a woman trapped in a man's body. This body is no man's; it is mine, it is me, and there is no man in that equation. And I am not trapped in it. There are a million and one ways out of this body, and I have clung to it, tooth and claw, despite an endless line of people and institutions who would rather I vacate the premises, and have sometimes been willing to make me bleed to convince me they're right.

This body is mine, and I claim it and its bruises, and it is not a man's, and I am not trapped here. I have looked leaving my body in the eye and I have said, in the end, hell no. There is too much to do, too much to love, too many who need one more of us to say hell no and help them say the same.
You might not like it. It might be a wrongness to you.

It is time to look the monstrous in the eye. It is time. It is time to say that we are beautiful in our fierceness, and that we are our own. We are not the rejected of what we can never be. We are what we were meant to be. We are not pieces of wholes thrown together incorrectly. We are not mistakes.
We are not inferior knockoffs of someone else. If our monstrousness is frightening, then it is time we bare our teeth and draw that fear close to us and stop being so afraid of our fearsomeness that we fear everyone and everything else right back.

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Trans Greens 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @transgreens.bsky.social · 6d

Gender Identity Clinics are a segregating bottleneck to gender-affirming healthcare 🏥

An informed consent model of care is vital to tackle the backlog & deliver trans people health equity 🏳️‍⚧️

That’s why the Green Party will abolish GICs, funding & training GPs to care for trans people equitably 💚

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 10d

"Gender clinics create the bottlenecks for treatment"

@vic-parsons.bsky.social examines what it would take to fix the transgender healthcare crisis in the UK, and clear the 48,000 people waitlist 👇

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Gender Clinic Files: What would a healthcare system that works for Trans+ people look like in the UK?

What would it take to reduce the 48,000-person wait list for transgender healthcare in the UK?

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Kat Bristow @kathrynbristow.uk · 6d

I take no pleasure in this. As a Green, I have a lot of disagreements with LibDems on economic issues, but I want every party to be trans inclusive.

LibDems rejected this move at their conference, so it is bad for both internal democracy and trans people.

Their leadership needs to grow a backbone.

Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 6d

This is what happens when Lib-Dem MP's and party administrators don't come charging out the gate and bodyslam misogyny against all women whether born cis or trans. If the Lib-Dems can't defend all women with the same vigour they are shit at their job.

www.libdemvoice.org/prue-bray-i-...

Prue Bray: I am so angry I almost can’t type

We are in the middle of elections for internal roles in the Federal party, and I am one of the candidates for President. Voting opens tomorrow. So, this morning, I sat down to write a piece about why ...

www.libdemvoice.org

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Decrim Now @decrimnow.bsky.social · 7d

If you live in Scotland, please use Scotland for Decrim’s template tool to email your MSP and ask them to stand up for sex workers: scotlandfordecrim.netlify.app

Scotland for Decrim

Demand full decriminalisation - write to your MSP now

scotlandfordecrim.netlify.app

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Decrim Now @decrimnow.bsky.social · 7d

We are horrified but not surprised by this. No one connected to the Magdalene laundries should be involved in making law on any subject, let alone trying to push laws which endanger women who are doing sex work. Sex workers say no to the Nordic Model.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 7d

EXCLUSIVE: Ash Regan 'owes the Scottish public an explanation', campaigners have said, after it emerged a Holyrood group supporting her bill to outlaw buying sex is backed by an organisation that ran Magdalene laundries

Read here: tinyurl.com/ynept4fb

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Sarah Clarke @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 7d

People who use they/them pronouns face documented employment discrimination. Is that material enough for you?

newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/pronoun-disc...

Pronoun Disclosure and Discrimination on the Job Search

Nonbinary folks who use they / them pronouns do experience discrimination on the job search. According to research by Taryn Eames, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of T...

newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 7d

germany allows for no gender marker or an x as gender marker and I made an active choice to not do this because this effectively creates a list of trans people for the government. no gender marker for anyone please.

Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 7d

This was barely covered, but the US regime made it harder for people with "X" on their passports to fly. Creating a de facto no fly list of nonbinary and trans people.

Sarah Clarke @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 7d

People who use they/them pronouns face documented employment discrimination. Is that material enough for you?

newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/pronoun-disc...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 7d

We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".

But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 7d

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
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‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe

YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK

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Barkley @barkleybluesky.bsky.social · 6d

This is to be quite frank, fucking obscene.

Peston & team should be ashamed of themselves.

Peston @itvpeston.bsky.social · 7d

Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black & Asian people a racist or realist? How many migrants would the Tories expel? & should the UK be selling fighter jets to Türkiye?

Join LIVE at 9PM on X & YouTube or on ITV1 at 1045PM 📺

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 7d

Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...

"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”

Absolutely. Please get on with it.

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Decrim Now @decrimnow.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing work by our friends in Ireland to write and launch a bill to decriminalise sex work, which would enable sex workers to work together for safety, and improve their health and access to workers’ rights.

Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 14d

Press release: Decriminalisation of sex work bill launched by TD Ruth Coppinger

The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective.

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 8d

This is the same “legitimate concerns” phrase that was used as a get-out-of-jail-free card for broadcasting transphobia on TV and in the newspapers for ten years.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 9d

Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp repeatedly refusing to say that he thinks Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying she doesn't like seeing black people on TV was racist.

Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration

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Barkley @barkleybluesky.bsky.social · 8d

Your turn @zackpolanski.bsky.social?

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Gillian Mackay MSP @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social · 8d

A huge congratulations to @catherinegalway.bsky.social

Catherine received the largest total 1st preference votes of any Irish President ever.

She will represent Ireland with pride, courage and integrity!

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