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Jill Hayward

@frdragonspouse.bsky.social

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Still all the things I was over at the Other Place. And still angry. Preoccupations: politics, education, disability and inclusive feminism. Cishet trans ally. Widow. Socialist. She/her.

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Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social · Apr 16

It's not a good time to be the socialist parent of a disabled trans person,tbh.

The UK is a bit shit right now...

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 4d

Following the trans action in Brighton last night in protest of the deeply transphobic FiLiA organisation, I encourage everyone to watch this video (originally created for BBC) where Julie Bindel and other ‘gender critical’ transphobes admit to violence and arson!

Bindel is a hypocrite!

V. Engle, Angry Wimmin, BBC 4, 11 October 2007

YouTube video by Dylan Sebastian Evans

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 15h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social · 15h

Immigrants having to have Level 3 (A level equivalent) English would mean they have a higher standard than a lot of Brits, and certainly way higher than the people who hate them the most.

Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social · 15h

That's a shame. No worries.

Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social · 16h

Are the T shirts still available? Mine* is now very faded and I'd like to replace it.

*(Late Beloved's - the first Moose T shirt I bought him).

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17h

Some changes to immigration rules today, not just increasing English language requirements, mean migrants looking to live and work in UK will have to meet far far higher standards than British nationals, while paying vast sums to be allowed to do so. That isn't a system based on "fairness". 1/

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 19h

"Are we going to abandon people whenever the rightwing press demands it?"

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 16h

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 20h

If you agree that mandatory digital ID cards are a terrible idea, please ask your MP to sign my motion opposing them.

These plans risk turning us into checkpoint Britain. They must be scrapped.

Email your MP my motion: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

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Fraser Denholm @fraserdenholm.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine having enough money to solve most the worlds issues but this is what you spend it on

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Robinson allegedly failed to comply with officers who ‘became concerned’ by his behaviour at Channel Tunnel Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counter terrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. The far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon, refused to give police the pin for his phone because it had “journalistic material on it” after they stopped him at the Channel Tunnel on 28 July 2024, a court heard. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 19h

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 20h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23h

“Beyond privacy concerns, being forced to disclose sex assigned at birth may also significantly increase people’s vulnerability to harassment, abuse and even violence…”

The British government has pursued the erosion of trans rights. Letting people use spaces that align to their identity is basic.

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

European Council commissioner voices concerns after April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman

www.theguardian.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21h

Author is a "senior policy researcher" at The Prosperity Institute, which used to be known as the Legatum Institute

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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John Henry @priveteye.bsky.social · 22h

Palestinians were subjected to rape, beatings, lack of food & water etc. the 1st batch of Israeli 'hostages' were all in good physical condition & attested to the fact that they were not abused. More recent releases look a bit more haggard due to Israel's withholding of supplies to Gaza.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 22h

Who could have guessed that demonising trans people would impact on their rights?

The moral panic was never about 'legitimate concerns' or protecting women or children, it was always about vilification, oppression and the mainstreaming of reactionary politics
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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

Council of Europe commissioner voices concerns after April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman

www.theguardian.com

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 22h

The Commissioner for Human Rights has written to the UK – warning that trans people's human rights are at risk.

www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

BREAKING

Intervention from Europe's human rights watchdog.

The Commissioner for Human Rights has written to UK parliamentarians, making it clear that trans+ inclusion is a vital human rights principle.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 22h

The EHRC code must be scrapped.

Our Head of Policy, Jess O'Thomson, says that in light of this significant intervention, the Code of Practice cannot be laid as drafted. The Minister must reject it.

Exclusion of trans people from services for their lived gender must be the exception, not the rule.

"This significant intervention from the Commissioner makes clear that the EHRC's new Code of Practice cannot be laid as drafted. The minister must reject it and insist the EHRC try again - making clear how to include trans people, not just exclude.

Exclusion of trans people from services for their lived gender, the letter makes clear, must be the exception - not the rule."

Jess O'Thomson

Head of Policy

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 22h

I handed a physical copy of my EHRC submission to my MP's office, followed up with an email a month later, complete silence. I guess that confirms their position.

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Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social · 22h

It will cost the NHS much more than that if he ends up in hospital, and he already has chronic pain and fatigue to cope with, without getting Covid as well.

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Lisa Severn @lisasevern.uk · 23h

"Trans rights are human rights" was never just a chant

metro.co.uk/2025/10/14/t...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

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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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 23h

This sequence of posts sums it up, really. Men are the problem - cis men, who don’t need to change anything about themselves to do harm - but trans people are the scapegoat because tackling men would require a total dismantling of societal structure.

A story about the former Premier League referee David Coote admitting making an indecent image of a child, followed by a story about trans people being at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces

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Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social · 22h

In response to my contacting mine, I was sent a copy of a letter from the Minister for Equalities, which although it was big on "dignity and respect" offered no reassurance that this government intends to do anything trans-positive.

We have a government of outright transphobes and cowards.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 23h

10 yrs ago our, then tory, government issued a travel warning when north carolina implemented a bathroom ban.

that was a tory government.

now a labour government, under @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, are going to implement a bathroom ban to keep the far right christian group 'sex matters' happy.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

To all you patriots (and UK authorities)

Is this not political interference of the most egregious and socially divisive kind?

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