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Claire's Trans Talks @clairestranstalks.bsky.social · 1d

The last article in The Gender Clinic Files is now out!

The Gender Services Monitor is available from tge article, and my website will be updatted later today.

Huge thank you to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series, which finishes off with a Q^A next week.

How I discovered the waiting times for every gender clinic in the UK

We believe in doing what the NHS should be - reporting honestly and transparently on the state of gender services in the UK

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 20h

Hammering the human rights lawyer on his human rights failings seems like such an obvious play.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 23h

If you've particularly poignant you'd like her eyes on, I would be happy to sign and send a letter to her office from myself, as a trans (and disabled, double equality baby) constituent of hers. I'm just so very burned out on this whole letter writing thing. I don't know how you've done it.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 23h

As a constituent of hers she's been... somewhat lacklustre in my experience, although this has been largely before she was made the LD equalities spokesperson. Very generic platitudes in the aftermath of the April ruling, general reassurances but nothing specific. I'm sure you can imagine.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 1d

Me and my bestie twinning.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 1d

We also need an inquiry into how the EHRC has been allowed to be captured by bigoted ideologues, and why the govt has chosen to overrule two parliamentary committees in appointing another bigot to chair, ensuring the EHRC does not meet the Paris Principles of NHRIs.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 1d

We need the Equality Act to be amended so that it is compatible with the HRA and the ECHR.

UK is in violation of our convention rights and needs to do something about it as a matter of urgency.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 2d

And your legacy in education will be the introduction of the trans section 28, ignoring the findings of your RSE consultation. You're going to go down in history alongside Sir Queer Harmer and Wes Quisling as the most regressive government for LGBT people since Thatcher. Is that what you want?

Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 2d

The internet discourse freaking out about pokemon going woke over this was so funny. My dude, look at gen 1: that’s a magnet. You want to gender the magnet?

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 2d

The little head bump at this point had me sobbing with how cute it was.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 2d

Levy Review supposedly coming imminently (possibly even this week) per T&P.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2d

Say it with me.

4 frame comic. 1st is the silhouette of two podcaster. Text reads

In a world where trans
people's dignity, humanity,
and existence are subject
to debate, every trans
suicide is a murder.

2 is a silhouette of a swimmer. Text reads

In a world where
trans people aren't allowed
to participate in their
community, every trans
suicide is a murder.

3 shows Gavin Newsom. Text reads

In a world where
trans people are thrown
under the bus because their
rights aren't considered a
"winning issue", every trans
suicide is a murder.

4 shows Lia Smith. Text reads

In a world where trans
people have to fight every
instant of their life simply
to have the right to live in
peace, every trans suicide
is a murder.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 3d

If his police experience is anything like mine, he’ll report it and give his account. The police will say “yeah we have it on cctv, clear shot of the guy. Anyway that’s us done, have a good one.” And nothing further will happen.

Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 3d

This is horrible, and as Mothin himself has said that transphobes and racists are so often one of the same- this mirrors far too frequent experiences of my own. Replace p*ki with tr*nny and comments about deportation with being called a nonce, and it’s something I have experienced all too often.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 3d

Can you press the government to actually ensure that domestic law (the Equality Act) is actually compatible with convention law, per the HRA?

It currently isn’t, and I don’t know why they aren’t being hammered on the human rights breaches by a human rights lawyer PM at every opportunity.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 3d

Will you be pressing the government on how it has, under the leadership of a human rights lawyer, allowed the UK to fall afoul of its human rights obligations?

We are currently in violation of Goodwin. Please use your influence to remedy this as a priority, and ensure we follow the ECHR in full.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 4d

He’s a bad person. He is making the decision to cause harm when he is in a position do so, for no material benefit.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 5d

Does transphobia have a place in yours? Given the exclusionary and segregationist policies you’ve quietly enacted on the eve of internal election ballots being sent out, it appears so. Where is the condemnation for all forms of bigotry and prejudice? Or is one just a bit more acceptable than others?

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Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social · 7d

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 5d

I’m sure @teamlabouruk.bsky.social will be rushing to implement these…

Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 5d

I’m not sure we need to be fair to people enacting transphobic acts, regardless of whether or not they were ‘just following orders’.

It’s disgusting and needs to be called out as unacceptable under the strongest terms.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 5d

I am genuinely asking you to push this @mariecgoldman.bsky.social as a) one of your constituents b) a trans person in the UK and c) a human being who thinks human rights are good actually and everyone should have them.

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 6d

Took me literally four months of calling up 2-5 times a week to get an appt for GIC referral. They switched to an e-consult this year and the one time I tried using it they gave me a phone appointment and then cancelled it 15 mins beforehand.

Uselessness abounds across the breadths of the country.

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Daily Wah (red pandas) @dailywah.bsky.social · 6d

Biiiiiiiiiiiiig Daily red panda stretch

A red panda hangs onto a wooden platform to give its back a nice big stretch, a perfect morning routine for a good healthy lifestyle

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Calliope @callidoptera.bsky.social · 6d

Rowling doing her part to burn the entire planet down because it would cause harm to trans people.

Yacht CO₂ Tracker @yachtco2tracker.bsky.social · 9d

J.K. Rowling yacht Samsara is on the moove. Between 17-10-2025, and 24-10-2025, the yacht produced approximately 131.3 tons of CO2 by consuming 50503.4 liters of fuel (estimation based on AIS data + ship manufacturer data and OMI fuel consumption equiations) #climateprotests

Map of the positions of the yacht AIS, between 17-10-2025 and 24-10-2025