Catherine 🐈⬛
@catherinetheok.bsky.social
Strange old lady. Level designer working on Iron Man 🥳. All views are my own unless I’ve been coerced into saying it but I’ll use a clear sign like “also I like celery” if that happens. she/her 🏳️⚧️
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It's dignity and respect and regret and heavy hearts as we're told we can't play the sport and we can't join the clubs and we can't be recognized in law, not really. It's fully rejecting that trans people are meaningfully trans; it is entrenching into society and law that really it's just dress up
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's dignity and respect and regret and heavy hearts as we're told we can't play the sport and we can't join the clubs and we can't be recognized in law, not really. It's fully rejecting that trans people are meaningfully trans; it is entrenching into society and law that really it's just dress up
"utmost regret and sadness" will be the driving words behind the segregation and exclusion of trans people from public life while cis people still just move on
They've set up a "sisterhood groups", a segregated trans women space as a supposed olive branch
They've set up a "sisterhood groups", a segregated trans women space as a supposed olive branch
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"utmost regret and sadness" will be the driving words behind the segregation and exclusion of trans people from public life while cis people still just move on
They've set up a "sisterhood groups", a segregated trans women space as a supposed olive branch
They've set up a "sisterhood groups", a segregated trans women space as a supposed olive branch
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Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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The Girl Guide announcement.
What can I say?
I’m imagining if it was my child - the conversations and explanations, the apologies, “I’m sorry, so sorry,” trying to comfort but feeling a failure because I couldn’t protect her from GC hate.
And the child and parents - a little bit more broken.
What can I say?
I’m imagining if it was my child - the conversations and explanations, the apologies, “I’m sorry, so sorry,” trying to comfort but feeling a failure because I couldn’t protect her from GC hate.
And the child and parents - a little bit more broken.
December 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Girl Guide announcement.
What can I say?
I’m imagining if it was my child - the conversations and explanations, the apologies, “I’m sorry, so sorry,” trying to comfort but feeling a failure because I couldn’t protect her from GC hate.
And the child and parents - a little bit more broken.
What can I say?
I’m imagining if it was my child - the conversations and explanations, the apologies, “I’m sorry, so sorry,” trying to comfort but feeling a failure because I couldn’t protect her from GC hate.
And the child and parents - a little bit more broken.
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Kishwer Falkner's term as Chair of the EHRC, a term characterized by her willingness to use that vital guardian of the human rights of the vulnerable to wage war on trans people, ends today. THREAD
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Kishwer Falkner's term as Chair of the EHRC, a term characterized by her willingness to use that vital guardian of the human rights of the vulnerable to wage war on trans people, ends today. THREAD
I feel the indignity of not getting a token but instead getting an ad is further raised by the implication that the only reason I’m the best magic the gathering player in the room is because I’m the only one
Also, fair 😅
Also, fair 😅
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I feel the indignity of not getting a token but instead getting an ad is further raised by the implication that the only reason I’m the best magic the gathering player in the room is because I’m the only one
Also, fair 😅
Also, fair 😅
Degendering is still misgendering. In her quest to look impartial the judge is very much choosing to take the side of guy she also ultimately found wasn’t at fault dehumanizing the victim
They keep fucking editing the article, but it's not any better. And this addition about why the judge referred to her as "them" is like a parody of impartiality
![An excerpt from the linked article that reads:
[The judge] explained that the prosecution used female pronouns to refer to the complainant during the trial, while Linehan's defence used male pronouns. The judge said she had chosen to refer to Brooks using "gender neutral pronouns and as 'the complainant'" in her ruling.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:umokacyt44veykd6qw5zokyi/bafkreifcuteahuy7btte3q77evxfatrh7ddbi676sw4squ6hrpshakcszm@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Degendering is still misgendering. In her quest to look impartial the judge is very much choosing to take the side of guy she also ultimately found wasn’t at fault dehumanizing the victim
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the terfs have been so fucking successful at making using a trans person's correct pronouns a statement of your position on the ~ideological debate~ about trans people, rather than just basic human respect
They keep fucking editing the article, but it's not any better. And this addition about why the judge referred to her as "them" is like a parody of impartiality
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
the terfs have been so fucking successful at making using a trans person's correct pronouns a statement of your position on the ~ideological debate~ about trans people, rather than just basic human respect
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As we move into a major shopping weekend, filled with sales and exciting offers, I wanted to remind y'all about OMENS OF CHAOS, the first print Magic the Gathering novel since 2019!
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
As we move into a major shopping weekend, filled with sales and exciting offers, I wanted to remind y'all about OMENS OF CHAOS, the first print Magic the Gathering novel since 2019!
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I don't know the criminal standard specifically but Linehan did say *in court* that he was motivated by the victim's status as a trans person. If a clear statement of explicit prejudice isn't enough then you need a new standard.
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I don't know the criminal standard specifically but Linehan did say *in court* that he was motivated by the victim's status as a trans person. If a clear statement of explicit prejudice isn't enough then you need a new standard.
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
And all this, not to start down the path of the correct puberty but, to pause being forcibly transitioned in to the wrong puberty
These are 50 steps to ask “do you want this medication to give you time to make sure you are making the right choice rather than your body poisoning itself?”
These are 50 steps to ask “do you want this medication to give you time to make sure you are making the right choice rather than your body poisoning itself?”
The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
November 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
And all this, not to start down the path of the correct puberty but, to pause being forcibly transitioned in to the wrong puberty
These are 50 steps to ask “do you want this medication to give you time to make sure you are making the right choice rather than your body poisoning itself?”
These are 50 steps to ask “do you want this medication to give you time to make sure you are making the right choice rather than your body poisoning itself?”
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It was Labour’s choice to allow Kishwer Falkner a 12 month extension.
It was Labour’s choice to weaponise the Cass Review against trans kids.
They created this disgusting, amoral mess that’s metastasising into a full-blown assault on human rights.
Never forget.
#TDOR
It was Labour’s choice to weaponise the Cass Review against trans kids.
They created this disgusting, amoral mess that’s metastasising into a full-blown assault on human rights.
Never forget.
#TDOR
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
It was Labour’s choice to allow Kishwer Falkner a 12 month extension.
It was Labour’s choice to weaponise the Cass Review against trans kids.
They created this disgusting, amoral mess that’s metastasising into a full-blown assault on human rights.
Never forget.
#TDOR
It was Labour’s choice to weaponise the Cass Review against trans kids.
They created this disgusting, amoral mess that’s metastasising into a full-blown assault on human rights.
Never forget.
#TDOR
This is abhorrent
Doing this two days before TDoR is particularly vile.
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on trio of transgender laws
The Alberta government has invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause for the second time in less than a month in this case to protect from legal challenge a trio of laws affecting transgender youth...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This is abhorrent
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*stares in trans* whoever indeed...
“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
*stares in trans* whoever indeed...
I just went straight up evil jerk as my first theme. Seems a popular choice
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I just went straight up evil jerk as my first theme. Seems a popular choice
Had a mammogram which was unpleasant but thankfully I’m following that up with the Avatar prerelease 🥳
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Had a mammogram which was unpleasant but thankfully I’m following that up with the Avatar prerelease 🥳
One trans woman has competed at the Olympic level, I believe, in the 2+ decades trans women could have. She didn’t win any medals. The association the media want you to make here is that trans women are dominating women’s sports while also continuing a toxic narrative about women’s appearances
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
One trans woman has competed at the Olympic level, I believe, in the 2+ decades trans women could have. She didn’t win any medals. The association the media want you to make here is that trans women are dominating women’s sports while also continuing a toxic narrative about women’s appearances
Yesterday I was waiting at a crossing and a young girl said “Look, rainbow shoes” and her mum said “and look at her bright green coat” and as I started crossing the girl said “and her flower bag” and I felt like the coolest woman in the world in that moment ☺️
November 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Yesterday I was waiting at a crossing and a young girl said “Look, rainbow shoes” and her mum said “and look at her bright green coat” and as I started crossing the girl said “and her flower bag” and I felt like the coolest woman in the world in that moment ☺️
"Help us."
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
"Help us."
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Ask not what rights you're ready for trans people to lose so that the left wins. Ask yourself what rights you're ready to lose, yourself, so that the left wins. And if the answer is "I don't see how me losing rights is necessary for the left to win?", go take a long walk on a short pier.
November 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Ask not what rights you're ready for trans people to lose so that the left wins. Ask yourself what rights you're ready to lose, yourself, so that the left wins. And if the answer is "I don't see how me losing rights is necessary for the left to win?", go take a long walk on a short pier.
This is truly horrific and somehow acknowledges that misgendering is abuse but not against trans people
5. Confronted with an argument that this allows students to bully cis students by misgendering them as well, the judges said that such conduct would be barred. Misgendering cisgender students would be "ridiculing their physical characteristics." But apparently not when its done to trans students.
November 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is truly horrific and somehow acknowledges that misgendering is abuse but not against trans people
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This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
I’ve been having fun painting over cards from other games I don’t play any more to make tokens for magic. I’ve seen some crazy paint overs and these are not that but it’s still really fun and relaxing to do
November 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I’ve been having fun painting over cards from other games I don’t play any more to make tokens for magic. I’ve seen some crazy paint overs and these are not that but it’s still really fun and relaxing to do
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So why do I keep going on and on about OMENS OF CHAOS? A couple of reasons.
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
So why do I keep going on and on about OMENS OF CHAOS? A couple of reasons.
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‘we do not care about the human rights of british citizens’ — the labour party
We don't vote on ten minute rule bills, ever. It's not subject specific.
October 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
‘we do not care about the human rights of british citizens’ — the labour party