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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 10h

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 12h

1/🧵 I am viewing a never-before-seen file on “gender reassignment” or trans inclusion policy at the National Archives, Kew. The Supreme Court should start sweating. A bagful of receipts!

A close-up, angled shot of a pink paper file cover from the UK "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH," resting on a light wood-grain surface. The "SUBJECT" is handwritten in large blue capital letters: "GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT".

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Kristine Nicole @assessbaggage.bsky.social · 13h

For sure, for sure. Hey, come to think of it, the current government inherited that trait too. 😠

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Kristine Nicole @assessbaggage.bsky.social · 13h

The Tories, with all that time in power, got almost nothing done. They spent most of their time infighting and self-sabotaging (which even caused Brexit, there only "achievement"). The Labour party have done more bad in a year due to being competent at their job, unfortunately.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 17h

1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists.
1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents.
2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police.
2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.

Met Police says it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents

The move comes as an investigation into Father Ted creator Graham Linehan is dropped, after his arrest over a post on X.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Kristine Nicole @assessbaggage.bsky.social · 16h

Seen the Bobs three times and it's always a very diverse crowd, that is the demographic, you'll have a great time.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 1d

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:

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Kristine Nicole @assessbaggage.bsky.social · 16h

No, no, no, what are you talking about? Surely it's time to duodecuple down on austerity, those damn disabled and poor people really do need to stop stealing from the government and start paying their way, more, again.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 23h

“Loving families who are struggling to keep their children alive are being hounded by social services… the NHS, and in some cases, also being hounded by the police.”

Devastating comments by @goodlawproject.org in the podcast on “Fighting Britain’s Bathroom Ban” 😢

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And there's a pretty good case to say that the on the ground present reality for trans people in Britain is worse than that in the United States.

Very good case, I think.
I know as a fact that trans kids who joined the NHS waiting list are now being, well, their families are being targeted by social services, threatening to take those children into care, if their parents continue to indulge their transness, and are being visited by the police, if they continue to offer gender-affirming care.

And I know for a fact that the
consequence of that for some families is that kids are being forcibly de-transitioned. And I know for a fact that in the UK, many, many families are profoundly worried about losing their kids to suicide. So parents are sleeping on mattresses at the end of their children's beds because they are so worried about what their children might do if given the opportunity.

My email inbox, I'm afraid, is a river of profound trauma from loving families who are struggling to keep their children alive and who are being hounded by social services, hounded by the NHS, which is misusing data that it has collected to offer supportive health care to these kids, and in some cases, also being hounded by the police.

And I've been saying now for several years, and I say again to those who are lucky enough to have this choice.
The United Kingdom is not a safe place to raise trans children unless you are very wealthy.

I'm sorry to be so blunt about it, but these are things I know to be true, and I see the trauma in my inbox.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 1d

New Podcast Episode: The Gender Clinic Files (Part 2)

In this Episode:

Two new things from our immortal archenemies, the EHRC.

A trans woman sent to a men’s prison, but sadly we’re talking about the UK this time.

Bashing Back in Brighton.

And an interview with @clairetranstalks.bskysocial

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

The idea that our friends, relatives, neighbours and colleagues should be summarily flung out of the country by some future Tory government because they don't fit some right wing extremist's definition of "cultural coherence" should set alarm bells ringing everywhere.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 2d

Disney tried to take legal action over this sketch. Alexie and his producer nervously went to meet an austere senior legal lady at the BBC. She read the letter and then watched the sketch on tape. Her opinion:

'Fuck them, we're the BBC' and she sorted it all out.

Oh for balls that big in 2025.

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 2d

Alexei Sayle's Stuff (19th October 1989). A lot more work goes into the production of each episode of Stuff than you might expect.

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Kristine Nicole @assessbaggage.bsky.social · 2d

For this, or just crimes against literature in general?

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 2d

It's incredible just how on the ball trans people were about those US think tanks influencing British politics, going to great length to detail all these links and connections, only for it to fall on deaf ears because of how aggressively trans people were frozen out and disenfranchised.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 2d

bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2d

The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing.

Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.

Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird

Media: trans activist criticizes media

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 3d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image has a pink background and scraps of torn blue and white paper behind the text. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban. Tell Your MP to say no to segregation. This is urgent. The EHRC Code of Practice could be laid in Parliament any day.

Act now. Tell your MP to stop this. Write to your MP:
tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 2d

Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice?
"You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There's only two kinds of politics these days, and you can't breathe the same air as the other kind."

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Kristine Nicole @assessbaggage.bsky.social · 2d

She will only be a rising star if the MSN keeps platforming her, just like Farage and Jenrick before her.

So there is that.

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Kristine Nicole @assessbaggage.bsky.social · 2d

two cartoon cats hugging each other with a heart in the background

Alt: two cartoon cats hugging each other with a heart in the background

media.tenor.com

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 3d

Where else could this very smart & bound to succeed approach to “beating” the far right be happening then?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely. The findings, published in the European Journal of Political Research, were based on an automated text analysis of 520,408 articles from six German newspapers over the span of more than two decades. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

We need to get past the idea of these people being "radicalised" on X. The British ruling class has been racist for centuries. For a while that was suppressed by hard won anti-racist social norms. But after years of chipping away with e.g. talk of "legitimate concerns" those norms are now collapsing

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 2d

this being one of the first things i saw after leaving a screening of One Battle After Another has been a trip

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 2d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Kristine Nicole @assessbaggage.bsky.social · 3d

March to the sea mate, then keep fucking marching.

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Kristine Nicole @assessbaggage.bsky.social · 3d

Why would I want to be one of the bland, grey, unhappy characters? Jeez, I sooo wish that "normal" people would take some time to actually look inside themselves, find their own identity rather than choosing to eradicate mine.

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