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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

I've spent time with family, gone on a beautiful canal walk, and eaten delicious ramen already today - time to round it out with one of the most important transfemme shortform anthologies ever published 🩷

This paperback is one of the coolest rare copies I've worked with.

Nameless Woman an anthology of fiction by trans women of color ed. Ellyn Peña Jamie Berrout and Venus Selenite

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 8h

2) Preet Kaur Gill

Arguing against the ECHR, claiming the EConHR prioritises VAWG, excluding trans women from that category, claiming that they are perpetrators hence banning from SSS. Arguing with EC HR commissioner.

Constituency: Birmingham Edgbaston
Maj: 8368

Suggested Vote: Your Party/Green

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1h

Let me have a go at speaking there. I have a lot of material he would not like to hear.

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 1h

I still have the letter I got back from William Hague when I wrote to him as a queer teenager arguing for the end of Section 28 and the equalisation of the age of consent - he confidently asserted that Section 28 would never be repealed and age of consent never equalised.

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 7h

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 4h

The Venice Commission has published an opinion on the so-called foreign funding laws.

According to the opinion, the following should be repealed:

Ivanishvili's FARA;

Restrictions of the Law on Grants;

Restrictions of the Law on Broadcasting;

www.coe.int/en/web/venic...

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 19h

OpenAI 2022- ChatGPT will cure cancer and solve the climate crisis

OpenAI 2025- ChatGPT will tell you that your dick is the biggest it’s ever seen

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/o...

Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

"As part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow...erotica for verified adults."

www.axios.com

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 8h

3) Shabana Mahmood

Home Secretary, open GC, wants to leave ECHR rather than pause the trans rights rollback. Commited ideologist. Part of the high level GC cabal that has colonised Labour. Defines as "Blue Labour"

Constituency: Birmingham Ladywood
Majority: 3421

Suggested Vote: Your Party

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 7h

4) Bridgette Phillipson

Previously ally, became GC when politically convenient. Appointed extremist transphobe to EHRC, even when MPs said not to. Main force, alongside Mahmood/Streeting, pushing anti-trans position

Constituency: Houghton and Sunderland South
Maj: 7168

Sugg. vote: Lib Dem/Green

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1h

So Milei's sociopathic turbo-Libertarianism is such a disaster, it needs to be bailed out with $40billion. What a loser! And so are all the politicians who held him up as a neoliberal hero when he was first elected.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 2h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 5h

The EHRC’s work in this area is actually a great example of AI being used not only to destroy the environment but also to destroy human lives.

Equality and Human Rights Commission @equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 7h

We've written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to request the government to revoke the 2011 services code and make our updated version statutory. It accurately reflects the law and updated guidance is urgently needed: www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 5h

Oh no, there goes my concurrent action against the EHRC.

Ash likes to take bad people to court in person. But Ash can’t sue the EHRC… and now Ash feels empty. 😞

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 5h

The EHRC has finally, five months after producing its wildly transphobic and, we believe, unlawful Interim Guidance now taken it down. Our judicial review challenge to that Interim Guidance will be heard in less than one month.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 3h

"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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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 7h

5) Wes Streeting

Gay man and previous ally, jumped ship the second it became expedient. Overseeing destruction of trans NHS access and treatment. Quisling in chief.

Constituency: Ilford North
Maj: 538

Suggested Vote: Your Party (presuming pact with Greens)

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 8h

List of Labour MPs who are openly transphobic nowadays and who to vote for to unseat them.

1) Tonia Antoniazzi

Transphobic for years. Open GC. Behind the "Women's Dec" for Labour

Constituency: Gower
Maj: 11567

Suggested vote: Plaid Cymru

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 3h

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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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 3h

This coming down is good.

It was transphobic nonsense which put trans people into a liminal third category which is a breach of international law…

…as the new statutory guidance almost certainly does too. So we fight that too.

This is a stepping stone towards a more equal future:

Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 5h

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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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 13h

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

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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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3h

“I’ve spent six months talking to trans people who are afraid to go out because of the climate of fear the EHRC’s interim guidance created,” Maugham said. “Some are suicidal – and I am aware of people who have sought to take their own lives." goodlaw.social/9j3v

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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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1h

People in my city desperately need affordable housing, Labour is selling them short and building for the rich instead.

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 7h

Says it all about the way UK mainstream media operates...

Sonia Sodha:
Why do I keep abusing my position as a journalist to publish dishonest anti-trans propaganda? Because I know trans people are banned from responding.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 9h

This could be applied to a number of journalists, columnists, radio hosts and presenters in the UK.

Yet trans people, or even just trans-supportive voices, are completely shut out from the mainstream news media! 😣

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 9h

Yes!
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Exclusive: Zack Polanski backs Scottish and Welsh independence

The eco-populist Green leader has called for sweeping change to Britain's political system, and spoken about potentially leading an explicitly ‘English’ party for the first time.

substack.com

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 8h

YES. Thank you @zackpolanski.bsky.social for standing up for trans inclusive women.

Conservative women like Carol Malone refuse to talk to or platform us, so we never get a chance to refute their nonsense.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 8h

🔴Keir Starmer’s ‘Brexit Is Bad, Let’s Make It a Bit Worse’ Strategy

The Chancellor just admitted that Brexit has been an economic disaster. It’s time the Government stopped making it even worse by imitating Nigel Farage’s damaging anti-migration agenda, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

Keir Starmer's 'Brexit Is Bad, Let's Make It a Bit Worse' Strategy

The Chancellor just admitted that Brexit has been an economic disaster. It's time the Government stopped making it even worse by imitating Nigel Farage's damaging anti-migration agenda, argues Adam Bi...

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