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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 1d

The NHS is changing trans people back to birth sex on file, meaning we will not be treated appropriately for our bodies.

This is deadly, completely unacceptable, and the result of hateful far right ideology in our politics and healthcare.

Jenn @jennralize.bsky.social · 1d

Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.

My records have been altered, which is upsetting.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 1h

This shit is going to kill trans people. Which is of course the point.

Jenn @jennralize.bsky.social · 1d

Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.

My records have been altered, which is upsetting.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1h

i'm not even being remotely hyperbolic. cancer does not give one single fuck about the political claims of the gender critical set about our bodies. it is a biological fact that trans women on HRT have breast tissue and are at risk for breast cancer.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1h

this will kill people.

Jenn @jennralize.bsky.social · 1d

Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.

My records have been altered, which is upsetting.

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 1h

hap birfdy

Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 1h

The fact the UK could have a high functioning worker rn if they just gave me the meds I need for the ADHD I already have diagnosed, instead of making me wait on like a decade long waiting list, is kinda funny tbf

I prefer that framing to "my life is spiralling because I cannot function"

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 1h

Yah I heard you can get lucky with the NHS, but for most GICs and GPs it's a no-go. I ended up picking my private endo purely because I read she prescribed prog

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 16h

Well would you look at that 🐙

Disposable magic by dani finn paperback with not for resale band around it, showing a large octopus staring at a tiny one in an underwater bubble as black ooze drips down from above.

Back cover showing watercolor underwater background and a blurb: Life on the reef was perfect.
Food and dwemer were plentiful. The dangers were few and well-known. Sef and Kin had bonded. Communion was only a few moons away.
The humans destroyed their dreams in a day.
They capped the vent and stole the dwemer, leaving Sef and Kin to fight for scraps on a dying reef. The search for a new source takes this tentacled pair deep into the human city, where they find the key to hope and revenge.
When they finally find communion, they will join,
<blocked by the not for resale band>
They just need to do an eco-terrorism tirst.
This standalone short romance involves action, peril, trans themes, and tentacle play.
It is intended for adult audiences.
MOD2086846385

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 3h

Ah gotcha. Pretty sure I was offered either spiro or cypro by my endo; but then again she does offer prog which isn't generally prescribed here either 🤷‍♀️

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 3h

ECHR are taking a looksie into the UK's human rights abuses on trans people. The EHRC want to accelerate those abuses, but the government are shook and starting to distance themselves from it. Falkner's tenure is running out so she's big mad the gov are dragging their cold ass feet now

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 4h

Falkner writing a pissy letter to the minister going “its been six months and trannies are still legal what gives“ is quite funny tho

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 3h

She's paying £1200 a year for blockers, which is wild. I get Cyproterone for around £80 a year. I'm guessing it's Spiro she'd be supplied

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 6h

Good article by Josh Milton.

Please share.

metro.co.uk/2025/10/16/i...

'I used to pay £200 for trans healthcare - now I pay nearly £2,000'

'I just feel like my GP can, at any given time, ruin my life.'

metro.co.uk

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Liz Saville Roberts AS / MP @lsrplaid.bsky.social · 5h

Today’s Caerphilly specific poll shows clearly that unless progressive voters unite with Plaid Cymru, Reform will win.

Greens, Lib Dems and disillusioned Labour supporters - by uniting, we can stop Reform’s division taking root in Wales and deliver positive change 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 5h

If you put anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers in a year 1 class they'd throw a fit when kids are taught to wash their hands after blowing their nose or smth

"You're trying to tell me what I can and can't do? It's called free speech!"

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 13h

Long covid made me go from being a fairly competitive rower exercising multiple times a day to a wheelchair user who couldn't walk up the stairs in my own home.

I am doing much better but it has been *years*, and getting sick still floors me in a way it never ever did before. It's no joke.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 14h

Going to start frequenting the writing prompts subreddit and turning all the completely normal prompts people share into fucked up tranny smut

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Rebecca @beccauk.bsky.social · 2d

I recall that the EHRC’s draft guidance on single sex services, currently with ministers, expressly states that religious objections are a legitimate justification for single sex services…

Perhaps someone should tell Steve Reed?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Minister ‘appalled’ at Muslim charity run in London that excluded women

Event in Victoria Park organised by East London mosque and London Muslim Centre was open to ‘men, boys of all ages and girls under 12’

www.theguardian.com

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AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 15h

Fenway Health saved my life by providing me with the consultations, medical help, and information that made it possible for me to transition at 18 while being informed. It’s one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life.

This will hurt so many people.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21h

On Loose Women

Carole Malone "You hate rich people Zack."

Zack Polanski "No I just want to tax them fairly."

Green Party +10,000 members.

Carole Malone "You hate women Zack."

Zack "No I just don't demonise trans people"

Green Party +10,000 members.

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 14h

A big problem I have with this whole 'being trans' thing is I'll be wondering if everyone on the street is looking at me because I'm trans or because I'm a lesbian or because I'm a woman (or a mix)

Each of those carries a different kind of social uncomfortability for me

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

We have jointly applied to the Council of Europe formally to seek re-opening of enforcement of the case of Goodwin v UK under rule 9 of the Rules for the supervision of the execution of judgments and of the terms of friendly settlements, in the European Court of Human Rights. T

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d

The transphobes always tell us that their individual bigoted and hateful transphobic opinions represent the views of "all women".

This is one of the key dishonesties of anti-trans campaigning.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

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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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 1d

Statutory or not, it still is not the law: A statutory code of practice is not a law itself, but it is a form of guidance issued by a statutory body.

Equality and Human Rights Commission @equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 1d

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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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 1d

The 2011 EHRC statutory services code was the result of almost two years work. Numerous consultations were held with relevant stakeholders, including many women's and trans groups.

By contrast, the proposed 2025 code was assembled within weeks, with a one-month consultation assessed by genAI.

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