Carrie plays guitar 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@carriem.co.uk
Writer, parent and guitar wrangler from Glasgow. Author of Small Town Joy and Carrie Kills A Man, singer in Unquiet Mind. Trans, she/her. https://linktr.ee/carrieplaysguitar. Pic: Omar Salam
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Closer To The End Than The Beginning, by Unquiet Mind
from the album The Nest That You Have Flown EP
unquietmind.bandcamp.com
I'd like to play you some music that my band and I have taken far too long to finish. We gigged this one over a year ago; it's about the retreat of corporate pride, and it's given me an opportunity to indulge my Talk Talk obsession a little bit.
unquietmind.bandcamp.com/track/closer...
unquietmind.bandcamp.com/track/closer...
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If you’ve been thinking about applying for the EHRC Commissioner roles, please, please do!
Falkner and Reindorf will soon be out and there is a real desire for representatives of our 🏳️⚧️ community on the Board.
Be quick though — the deadline is midday on Monday 1st December
Falkner and Reindorf will soon be out and there is a real desire for representatives of our 🏳️⚧️ community on the Board.
Be quick though — the deadline is midday on Monday 1st December
It’s not too late, and there is a real desire for people from the trans community to apply
archive.ph/UQia8
Application details here:
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9026?b...
archive.ph/UQia8
Application details here:
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9026?b...
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you’ve been thinking about applying for the EHRC Commissioner roles, please, please do!
Falkner and Reindorf will soon be out and there is a real desire for representatives of our 🏳️⚧️ community on the Board.
Be quick though — the deadline is midday on Monday 1st December
Falkner and Reindorf will soon be out and there is a real desire for representatives of our 🏳️⚧️ community on the Board.
Be quick though — the deadline is midday on Monday 1st December
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"There is no evidence they are safe"
"HOW DARE YOU LOOK FOR EVIDENCE THEY ARE SAFE!!!"
"HOW DARE YOU LOOK FOR EVIDENCE THEY ARE SAFE!!!"
The greatest fear the bigots have is trans people preventing puberty changes that alter the skeleton, voice, etc
It was never about ‘spaces’ it was about these scared, closed-minded, religiously-brainwashed cranks seeking to eradicate us.
It was never about ‘spaces’ it was about these scared, closed-minded, religiously-brainwashed cranks seeking to eradicate us.
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"There is no evidence they are safe"
"HOW DARE YOU LOOK FOR EVIDENCE THEY ARE SAFE!!!"
"HOW DARE YOU LOOK FOR EVIDENCE THEY ARE SAFE!!!"
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I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
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Great to see B&M finally catering to people suffering from a metaphysical crisis in the middle of their Xmas shopping.
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Great to see B&M finally catering to people suffering from a metaphysical crisis in the middle of their Xmas shopping.
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The louder they shout about "biological reality", the more I can hear the "gay sex is unnatural" echoes from the 1980s.
Reactionary cunts, the lot of them. Then, and now.
Reactionary cunts, the lot of them. Then, and now.
November 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The louder they shout about "biological reality", the more I can hear the "gay sex is unnatural" echoes from the 1980s.
Reactionary cunts, the lot of them. Then, and now.
Reactionary cunts, the lot of them. Then, and now.
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Switched on BBC News and they’re crowing about how their investigation has led to the govt banning asylum seekers from using taxis to go see a doctor. Sick country.
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Switched on BBC News and they’re crowing about how their investigation has led to the govt banning asylum seekers from using taxis to go see a doctor. Sick country.
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I’m not surprised that journalists at the Guardian didn’t want to investigate links between “natural birthing” & the anti-trans movement or that they wanted to include a TERF like Singleton but it still pisses me off. I’m so fucking tired of this shit. So much for being an in-depth investigation.
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I’m not surprised that journalists at the Guardian didn’t want to investigate links between “natural birthing” & the anti-trans movement or that they wanted to include a TERF like Singleton but it still pisses me off. I’m so fucking tired of this shit. So much for being an in-depth investigation.
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Who'd've thunk?
Jeez. Leave these people alone to live their lives.
Jeez. Leave these people alone to live their lives.
In the study’s results summary, the researchers wrote that “suicidality significantly declined". Read 👉 buff.ly/aD9EOjP #GCNnews
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Who'd've thunk?
Jeez. Leave these people alone to live their lives.
Jeez. Leave these people alone to live their lives.
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Slime City's new album has been getting me through these long Black Friday shirts (still working right now). Cannot wait to see them live tomorrow.
Please check them out if you cannae be arsed to listen to Christmas tunes just yet. 🙏
Please check them out if you cannae be arsed to listen to Christmas tunes just yet. 🙏
Our new album 📈 NATIONAL RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT 📉 is available to stream, download, buy, and ignore now!
12 bangers. All annoying.
"It's really f**king good" - 10/10 @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social
"Sarcastic, frantic, hefty, and above all fun" - @theskinnymag.bsky.social
The links 👉 slime-city.com
12 bangers. All annoying.
"It's really f**king good" - 10/10 @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social
"Sarcastic, frantic, hefty, and above all fun" - @theskinnymag.bsky.social
The links 👉 slime-city.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Slime City's new album has been getting me through these long Black Friday shirts (still working right now). Cannot wait to see them live tomorrow.
Please check them out if you cannae be arsed to listen to Christmas tunes just yet. 🙏
Please check them out if you cannae be arsed to listen to Christmas tunes just yet. 🙏
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My small jewellery business Peloria Studio. Check out my pretties at
PeloriaStudio.com and instagram.com/peloria.studio #Edinburgh
PeloriaStudio.com and instagram.com/peloria.studio #Edinburgh
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My small jewellery business Peloria Studio. Check out my pretties at
PeloriaStudio.com and instagram.com/peloria.studio #Edinburgh
PeloriaStudio.com and instagram.com/peloria.studio #Edinburgh
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In an interview w/ Meghan Murphy*, Mary Lou Singleton said she was in touch w/ the journalists who wrote the Guardian piece about the Free Birth Society but refused to be in it because they didn’t want to talk about how the FBS was “a refuge for women who were gender critical” & “covid critical”.
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long time. They contacted me so many times asking me to be on record for that story and I just I just wasn't
Oh, really?
Yeah. I'm not willing to do it. I'm not I'm not interested in taking down Emily and Yolanda. Um, but I have to say when I made the decision not to talk to them, well, I had multiple reasons. One was they refused to acknowledge certain social factors that led to the growth of of the free birth society and led to it being such a social phenomenon. One one being the the massive um influence of gender ideology and all the other online birth spaces and that the free birth society was a refuge for women who were gender critical to be able to speak their minds about the mind [ __ ] of gender and to not be jumped on every time they used female language to talk about birth. So the free birth society Facebook group grew and grew and grew out of that issue. like it was it was a refuge of sanity for women in the birth world. They were absolutely unwilling to discuss that. They said it was, you know, basically a like every, you know,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cm2cojukkodnzm4w5hpq2sff/bafkreibt2754ujcnqz4i5pkmsnmesu4qgmaxxjubzzcmiof47yf6b2r7j4@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
In an interview w/ Meghan Murphy*, Mary Lou Singleton said she was in touch w/ the journalists who wrote the Guardian piece about the Free Birth Society but refused to be in it because they didn’t want to talk about how the FBS was “a refuge for women who were gender critical” & “covid critical”.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Today could be a really good day to buy a copy of Birding from an independent bookshop, or perhaps even its poor neglected older sibling This Is Yesterday
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Today could be a really good day to buy a copy of Birding from an independent bookshop, or perhaps even its poor neglected older sibling This Is Yesterday
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TW: Suicide and transphobia
A trans woman died in Scottish prison after spending *nine weeks* in isolation as discussions over being transferred to a women's prison "dragged on" in 2019.
The inquiry ended this month.
insidetime.org/newsround/tr...
A trans woman died in Scottish prison after spending *nine weeks* in isolation as discussions over being transferred to a women's prison "dragged on" in 2019.
The inquiry ended this month.
insidetime.org/newsround/tr...
Trans woman took her own life after being refused move to female jail
A transgender women took her own life in the segregation unit of a male prison after being denied a move to a female establishment. Sarah Jane Riley died in January 2019 at HMP Perth, where she was…
insidetime.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
TW: Suicide and transphobia
A trans woman died in Scottish prison after spending *nine weeks* in isolation as discussions over being transferred to a women's prison "dragged on" in 2019.
The inquiry ended this month.
insidetime.org/newsround/tr...
A trans woman died in Scottish prison after spending *nine weeks* in isolation as discussions over being transferred to a women's prison "dragged on" in 2019.
The inquiry ended this month.
insidetime.org/newsround/tr...
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Oh hey! Today is Creator Day on @itch.io ! That means ALL the money you spend goes directly to us creators!
With that in mind, I'm gonna tell you all about the rad stuff you can find in my store!
Go shop now at:
chrislaumanson.itch.io
#shop #itch
With that in mind, I'm gonna tell you all about the rad stuff you can find in my store!
Go shop now at:
chrislaumanson.itch.io
#shop #itch
Chris Lau Manson
chrislaumanson.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Oh hey! Today is Creator Day on @itch.io ! That means ALL the money you spend goes directly to us creators!
With that in mind, I'm gonna tell you all about the rad stuff you can find in my store!
Go shop now at:
chrislaumanson.itch.io
#shop #itch
With that in mind, I'm gonna tell you all about the rad stuff you can find in my store!
Go shop now at:
chrislaumanson.itch.io
#shop #itch
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Starmer and his team dropping this story into the news cycle at this point is just nakedly cynical exploitation, and no one - particularly not queer people harmed by Starmer and his party - should be expected to pretend that this entire thing is anything other than attempted manipulation
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Starmer and his team dropping this story into the news cycle at this point is just nakedly cynical exploitation, and no one - particularly not queer people harmed by Starmer and his party - should be expected to pretend that this entire thing is anything other than attempted manipulation
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There is simply no medical reason to take a person, cold-turkey, off of a medication they've been stable on for almost a decade, with no offer of anything else - and when the lack of that medication causes irreversible lifelong issues up to and including death.
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
There is simply no medical reason to take a person, cold-turkey, off of a medication they've been stable on for almost a decade, with no offer of anything else - and when the lack of that medication causes irreversible lifelong issues up to and including death.
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If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
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I have been able to regain access to my necessary medication (and thankfully was able to avoid going without during my fight for it). But I know many people who are having the exact same fight right now. Including people who've been settled on hormones even longer than I.
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I have been able to regain access to my necessary medication (and thankfully was able to avoid going without during my fight for it). But I know many people who are having the exact same fight right now. Including people who've been settled on hormones even longer than I.
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Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
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I wasn't part of the study but from my lived experience and therapy, I can confirm this to be true 👇
gcn.ie/hormone-trea...
gcn.ie/hormone-trea...
Hormone treatment leads to significant decline in suicidal tendencies for trans youth, study finds
A new study found that transgender adolescents experience a significant decline in suicidal tendencies following hormone treatment.
gcn.ie
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I wasn't part of the study but from my lived experience and therapy, I can confirm this to be true 👇
gcn.ie/hormone-trea...
gcn.ie/hormone-trea...
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A thing which is both hard to know how to combat but also has some hope for future deradicalisation is the extent to which the UK is being Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines-ed; media classes are far more insanely radicalised than the population as a whole (criminalise Twitter)
Talking to some other volunteers at the food bank, women in their 70s, and the subject of JKR came up and I was heartened by the strength of feeling. "That vile fucking woman" was one description.
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A thing which is both hard to know how to combat but also has some hope for future deradicalisation is the extent to which the UK is being Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines-ed; media classes are far more insanely radicalised than the population as a whole (criminalise Twitter)
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An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
Trans Mission - Wednesday 11th March
Mighty Hoopla and Olly Alexander team up for a Trans Mission: an all-star solidarity concert for the trans community at OVO Arena Wembley
www.transmissionlive.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
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OPINION: The proposed loss of BBC music shows in Scotland is a devastating blow –
@constantfollower.bsky.social #bbcscotland #bbcintroducing www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/11/28/o...
@constantfollower.bsky.social #bbcscotland #bbcintroducing www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/11/28/o...
OPINION: The Proposed Loss Of BBC Music Shows In Scotland Is A Devastating Blow - Constant Follower - God Is In The TV
Following the decision to scrap the new music shows in Scotland hosted by Iain Anderson, Roddy Hart, and more. McAll aka Constant Follower has written a
www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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