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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗

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Trans humanist https://screedvault.neocities.org/ For I dance And drink & sing: Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 2d

Note to self:

The key to the whole thing is a complicit mainstream media. That is, the WHOLE mainstream media.

This enables the governmental and institutional machinations to proceed unchallenged while the media try to blame the Internet. But it's ALL old school.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 7h

Why I think the party is expendable.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 7h

You are right, and I was so very, very pessimistic about Starmer.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 8h

Leaving the ECHR would be a far graver step than leaving the EU. People really need to get involved about this.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 8h

Ouch

The government has already ignored the parliamentary committees. We are in uncharted waters.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 8h

When my car failed the MOT test, that undermined the case for having an MOT test. I demand that MOT testing be SCRAPPED!

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Shortbreadfairy©️ @shortbreadfairy.bsky.social · 15h

It's like unelected Think Tankers run the Westminster Government....

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 10h

#Blair

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 15h

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a dinner at the five-star Corinthia hotel giving tech barons access to a government minister.

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy

www.theguardian.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13h

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills

The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 14h

It's already starting. Getting rid of rainbow symbols and boycotting Pride because "impartiality."

Precisely who is on the other side to be impartial with, is never explained.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, there's a difference between sounding unintelligent by BEING unintelligent, and sounding unintelligent by intelligent precise targeting of a supposedly unintelligent audience.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 1d

Here we go! 📝📝📝
🚽 Scrap the Bathroom Ban🚨🏳️‍⚧️

Our work so far is already working (see here: archive.ph/gaCN4)

Now we’re demanding that any new Code must outline how providers can lawfully *include* trans folk in their services.

✍️ Write to your MP with our easy tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

Scrap the Bathroom Ban

🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

actionnetwork.org

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 14h

#SupremeCourt #EHRC

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 14h

Our Judicial Review of the EHRC: we've published our formal written case - together with that of the EHRC and Bridget Phillipson - and they are very much worth a read. goodlaw.social/7gs4

An update in our judicial review of the EHRC’s interim guidance | Good Law Project

We’re publishing key documents in our legal challenge against the interim guidance issued by the EHRC in the wake of the For Women Scotland decision.

goodlaw.social

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 14h

Right wing press?

Or the Heritage Foundation?
www.thenational.scot/news/2435928...

Labour panned for meeting with 'extremist' architects of far-right Project 2025

LABOUR are under fire after frontbenchers met with the architects of a “far-right manifesto” that proposes completely reshaping the US into an…

www.thenational.scot

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 14h

Many thanks!. Will try with my GIC saying another GIC does this.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 14h

"I expect to go bankrupt in 60 years."

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 15h

The good news is that if Trump does indeed tear up the constitution, America just reverts to being part of the British Empire again.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 16h

#ChristianConcern #CitizenGo #Religion

Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 16h

Nurses Face Misconduct Probe After Raising Concerns Over Transgender Changing Room Policy at NHS Hospital

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Nurses Face Misconduct Probe After Raising Concerns Over Transgender Changing Room Policy At NHS Hospital

Four NHS nurses face misconduct investigations after objecting to sharing a changing room with a transgender colleague, citing workplace rights and discrimination.

townflex.com

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 16h

As I said, if clarity is what they want then nothing provides that better than pink triangles.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 17h

#Clarity

A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 17h

The Supreme Court decision is “clear”.

A clear breach of trans people’s 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...

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 17h

I lived in Kew for a year in 1999/2000. Was very nice. Bought a year's pass for Kew Gardens (only £14 then). Used the opportunity to find documents about my grandfather's World War I service.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 17h

Wes Streeting is sleekit.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 17h

#EHRC #ECHR #COE #HumanRights #TransRights #SupremeCourt

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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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 17h

How can an organisation be independent if it's entirely appointed at top level by the government? The idea is a nonsense.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 17h

Or maybe responding to an expanded job description we don't have access to?

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 18h

"The effort was initially led by France and the United Kingdom"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_mi...

2011 military intervention in Libya - Wikipedia

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