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- Nicola - 🌸🎀💕 @paneraiwearer.bsky.social · 3h

The trouble is that millions of Brexit supporters are too stupid to understand the message.

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 5h

The best way to defeat Reform is for millions of people to hear a version of this message:

"Farage's Brexit made you poorer. Don't let him do it again"

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 16h

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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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 9h

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 @helenm40.bsky.social · 13h

I wonder if people realise that the vast majority of anti-trans hate groups in the UK are affiliated with anti-choice groups.

When I say that 'gender critical' activists aren't feminists, I'm not pulling a No True Scotsman.

Collaborating with anti-abortionists is mutually exclusive with feminism

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- Nicola - 🌸🎀💕 @paneraiwearer.bsky.social · 5h

Or what it'll be replaced with.😬

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- Nicola - 🌸🎀💕 @paneraiwearer.bsky.social · 9h

"Hitler," "Reichsministerium," and "ersatz."

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 10h

The corrupt EHRC is trying to brute force their dangerous and illegal guidance through without a free vote.

Email your MP now.

Equality and Human Rights Commission @equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h

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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- Nicola - 🌸🎀💕 @paneraiwearer.bsky.social · 10h

I don't, but I am able to reply to them with the words "F off."

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- Nicola - 🌸🎀💕 @paneraiwearer.bsky.social · 11h

Already started.🙄

DWP letter offering longterm disabled "work skills."

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 1d

NHS England will soon be publishing its review of adult gender services. Trans Healthcare Coalition have created a breakdown of what the review is about, what outcomes we’d like to see, and more.

Find the full breakdown here: tinyurl.com/LevyExplaine...

#transhealthcare #NHS #LevyReview

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 1d

#r4today If it's so great why would it damage her leadership bid? If it would damage her leadership bid why is she planning to implement it?

Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 1d

Lol
archive.is/2025.10.13-1...

Bridget Phillipson 'delaying trans guidance to help deputy leader bid'
The equalities minister is accused of pushing back publication of a code on single-sex spaces until after the Labour election ends
Those close to Bridget Phillipson, who is also education secretary, said her opponents were "weaponising gender issues" in a "cynical and divisive" way

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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 1d

ANNOUNCEMENT
This evening, 14/10/25 the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network have taken the next step in the struggle to restore the human rights, dignity & safety of UK trans people.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

"The group has represented clients in the United States who are opposed to abortion, gay and transgender rights and contraception coverage in health care."

Every anti-abortion group is also anti-trans. Period. Support their latter work and you support their former. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Quibilah @quibilah.bsky.social · 1d

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Concerned Person @concerned-person.bsky.social · 1d

When a council of Europe expert tells you you're wrong and you stubbornly disagree because of hatred, then you dont deserve to be in government.

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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melody-fair.bsky.social @melody-fair.bsky.social · 1d

These are the rights that some politicians wish to take away from the British people. Would you trust a British Judge or Politician with your rights?

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- Nicola - 🌸🎀💕 @paneraiwearer.bsky.social · 21h

- Nicola - 🌸🎀💕 @paneraiwearer.bsky.social · 22h

True, but the Brexit referendum and the sheer volume of stupid people with a vote.... this is far too important to put to a vote with so many stupid people roaming freely with a vote.😡

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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 1d

So... Digital ID to catalogue, monitor and control everyone's every move, word, interaction and deed;
then, tear up everyone's human rights to remove the final vestiges of protection against a dangerously predatory, totally untrustworthy, totalitarian state.

NO way it ends well for citizens.

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Sylvie62 @sylvie-62.bsky.social · 1d

“Interference from Brussels” /s

“UK’s commitment to LGBTQIA+ rights is unwavering” (I.e. “we will not be dissuaded from our oppression”)

And this, this needs a wider more general debate…

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. None of this is being done in secret – the...

www.lrb.co.uk

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- Nicola - 🌸🎀💕 @paneraiwearer.bsky.social · 22h

Also, a pity that - despite visiting here as recently as June/July - he's made no mention of trans healthcare being routinely denied, which is surely another human right/discrimination.

bsky.app/profile/effe...

Effective Transsexualism @effecttrans.com · Aug 22

Everyone's talking about the EHRC guidance banning trans people from single-sex spaces like toilets + changing rooms... but there is another looming threat in the Levy Review

TL;DR expected very soon; separate under-25 pathway, lays the groundwork for more gatekeeping in the NHS

Screenshot: Review of adult gender dysphoria services One of the recommendations of the Cass Review was a review of the adult service specification. [...] Dr David Levy, Medical Director of Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, and previously NHS England’s North West Regional Medical Director, will lead the review, supported by an expert panel of patients, clinicians experienced in the delivery of gender-related care, independent regulators and members of relevant professional bodies.

Screenshot Levy Review The review of NHS adult gender dysphoria services in England[1], led by Dr David Levy, was announced in August 2024[2], shortly after the publication of the Cass Review. The stated motivation for commissioning the review included concerns about "inadequate, time-limited assessment", weak consent procedures, waiting times, patient demographics, and administrative problems.[3] It is still underway. Though NHS England originally expected to publish the report in spring 2025[4], it has not yet been released as of yet. Internal documents suggest publication may be close. Its likely effects are uncertain, but it may lead to tighter gatekeeping in NHS services, with possible knock-on effects for private clinics, particularly for people under 25.

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Effective Transsexualism @effecttrans.com · Aug 22

In this environment we recommend that people transitioning in the UK look at sources of HRT independent of the NHS, whatever the outcome of this review, even if for contingency planning.

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- Nicola - 🌸🎀💕 @paneraiwearer.bsky.social · 22h

"gatekeeping" = denial of service.

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Effective Transsexualism @effecttrans.com · Aug 22

Everyone's talking about the EHRC guidance banning trans people from single-sex spaces like toilets + changing rooms... but there is another looming threat in the Levy Review

TL;DR expected very soon; separate under-25 pathway, lays the groundwork for more gatekeeping in the NHS

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