Elizabeth Taylor
@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
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Not to be vulnerable on social media but… this stuff really makes me feel a deep existential dread.
Is there anyone who will stand against this awfulness? I feel like we’re just careening off a cliff and there’s no way to stop it
Not to be vulnerable on social media but… this stuff really makes me feel a deep existential dread.
Is there anyone who will stand against this awfulness? I feel like we’re just careening off a cliff and there’s no way to stop it
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
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December 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Not to be vulnerable on social media but… this stuff really makes me feel a deep existential dread.
Is there anyone who will stand against this awfulness? I feel like we’re just careening off a cliff and there’s no way to stop it
Not to be vulnerable on social media but… this stuff really makes me feel a deep existential dread.
Is there anyone who will stand against this awfulness? I feel like we’re just careening off a cliff and there’s no way to stop it
Have Anas Sarwar or Jackie Baillie, or indeed any of the other Scottish Labour
Ghouls got anything to say since the Sandie Peggie verdict?
Or has the cat got their tongue?
Ghouls got anything to say since the Sandie Peggie verdict?
Or has the cat got their tongue?
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Have Anas Sarwar or Jackie Baillie, or indeed any of the other Scottish Labour
Ghouls got anything to say since the Sandie Peggie verdict?
Or has the cat got their tongue?
Ghouls got anything to say since the Sandie Peggie verdict?
Or has the cat got their tongue?
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Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
I realise this person is transphobic, but it is useful historical context to know, they Magnus Hirschfield who was the father of trans medicine, was also one of the first and most prominent advocates of the depathologizing of homosexuality
The false equivalence of trans ideology with the earlier gay rights movement lies at the heart of the problem, not least for gay people as well as women. I'm happy to see some sense returning to the debate, although yesterday's judgement and your comment shows there's still distance to travel.
December 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I realise this person is transphobic, but it is useful historical context to know, they Magnus Hirschfield who was the father of trans medicine, was also one of the first and most prominent advocates of the depathologizing of homosexuality
See stuff like this *does* put the whole
“Tories are far more reasonable than Reform underneath it all” discourse under a different light. This is as evil as it gets…
“Tories are far more reasonable than Reform underneath it all” discourse under a different light. This is as evil as it gets…
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime ⬇️
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
See stuff like this *does* put the whole
“Tories are far more reasonable than Reform underneath it all” discourse under a different light. This is as evil as it gets…
“Tories are far more reasonable than Reform underneath it all” discourse under a different light. This is as evil as it gets…
Considering apparently gender critical feminism is considered to be a “left phenomenon” I’m really curious as to whether Helen views policy pushed by her fellow travellers where any woman viewed to be as the “wrong sex” is challenged when using the toilet as “deeply illiberal and wrong”?
Yes, I don’t agree with you there; some of what’s happened in the last few years on the left *has* been deeply illiberal and wrong, in my view. But I’ve been a consistent critic of Donald Trump’s illiberalism and smashing of democratic norms, too. I’ve also been critical of Palantir specifically.
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Considering apparently gender critical feminism is considered to be a “left phenomenon” I’m really curious as to whether Helen views policy pushed by her fellow travellers where any woman viewed to be as the “wrong sex” is challenged when using the toilet as “deeply illiberal and wrong”?
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I also want to express my love for Dr Beth Upton. That woman truly has more courage than any of us.
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I also want to express my love for Dr Beth Upton. That woman truly has more courage than any of us.
Cue my continued dramatics, but the last paragraph of this could be used in a how to module for subtle propaganda.
The “direction of travel” being that…. The entire way the ramifications for the SC judgement have been reported by the press and political class is actually likely wrong?!
The “direction of travel” being that…. The entire way the ramifications for the SC judgement have been reported by the press and political class is actually likely wrong?!
December 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Cue my continued dramatics, but the last paragraph of this could be used in a how to module for subtle propaganda.
The “direction of travel” being that…. The entire way the ramifications for the SC judgement have been reported by the press and political class is actually likely wrong?!
The “direction of travel” being that…. The entire way the ramifications for the SC judgement have been reported by the press and political class is actually likely wrong?!
I’m actually losing my mind reading the BBC live reporting on this… Scottish Tories calling for John Swinney to apologise??
If anyone should be apologising it should be Anas Sarwar on behalf of Scottish Labour to Dr Beth Upton who was entirely vindicated and in fact shown to have been victimised.
If anyone should be apologising it should be Anas Sarwar on behalf of Scottish Labour to Dr Beth Upton who was entirely vindicated and in fact shown to have been victimised.
Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”.
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I’m actually losing my mind reading the BBC live reporting on this… Scottish Tories calling for John Swinney to apologise??
If anyone should be apologising it should be Anas Sarwar on behalf of Scottish Labour to Dr Beth Upton who was entirely vindicated and in fact shown to have been victimised.
If anyone should be apologising it should be Anas Sarwar on behalf of Scottish Labour to Dr Beth Upton who was entirely vindicated and in fact shown to have been victimised.
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Mini thread on the ET decision in Peggie
Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law.
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Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law.
🧵👇
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Mini thread on the ET decision in Peggie
Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law.
🧵👇
Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law.
🧵👇
Once again howling into the void but… is anyone in the gov going to be challenged on this?
We were told by the PM and ministers the SC had brought “clarity” and that facilities must now be provided on basis of “biological sex”.
If that’s true why have 2 tribunals in 1 week found the opposite?
We were told by the PM and ministers the SC had brought “clarity” and that facilities must now be provided on basis of “biological sex”.
If that’s true why have 2 tribunals in 1 week found the opposite?
From the press summary: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
December 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Once again howling into the void but… is anyone in the gov going to be challenged on this?
We were told by the PM and ministers the SC had brought “clarity” and that facilities must now be provided on basis of “biological sex”.
If that’s true why have 2 tribunals in 1 week found the opposite?
We were told by the PM and ministers the SC had brought “clarity” and that facilities must now be provided on basis of “biological sex”.
If that’s true why have 2 tribunals in 1 week found the opposite?
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Someone print this off and pin it to Anas Sarwar's office door in parliament: the sight of a national party leader effectively falling in behind a campaign of personalised bullying of Dr Upton was so utterly grotesque that it should be one of the biggest stains on his reputation for life.
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Someone print this off and pin it to Anas Sarwar's office door in parliament: the sight of a national party leader effectively falling in behind a campaign of personalised bullying of Dr Upton was so utterly grotesque that it should be one of the biggest stains on his reputation for life.
Without even being partisan, from a pure informational standpoint wouldn’t a headline like “employment tribunal judges trans women using women’s changing rooms not unlawful” make for more sense?
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Without even being partisan, from a pure informational standpoint wouldn’t a headline like “employment tribunal judges trans women using women’s changing rooms not unlawful” make for more sense?
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December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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"[The Tribunal held that] Mrs Peggie had in some of her remarks impermissibly manifested her gender
critical beliefs"
So there *is* a floor on this thing. They *can't* just say whatever the hell they like under the banner of protected beliefs. That'll come as a shock to some of them, I'm sure
critical beliefs"
So there *is* a floor on this thing. They *can't* just say whatever the hell they like under the banner of protected beliefs. That'll come as a shock to some of them, I'm sure
December 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"[The Tribunal held that] Mrs Peggie had in some of her remarks impermissibly manifested her gender
critical beliefs"
So there *is* a floor on this thing. They *can't* just say whatever the hell they like under the banner of protected beliefs. That'll come as a shock to some of them, I'm sure
critical beliefs"
So there *is* a floor on this thing. They *can't* just say whatever the hell they like under the banner of protected beliefs. That'll come as a shock to some of them, I'm sure
My body is ready for the BBC push notification
Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board and another (judgment and summary) - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Case number: 4104864/2024 Employment Tribunal, Scotland 8 December 2025 Before: Employment Judge A KempTribunal Member L BrownTribunal Member C Russell Between: Mrs Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board...
www.judiciary.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My body is ready for the BBC push notification
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Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board and another (judgment and summary) - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Case number: 4104864/2024 Employment Tribunal, Scotland 8 December 2025 Before: Employment Judge A KempTribunal Member L BrownTribunal Member C Russell Between: Mrs Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board...
www.judiciary.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
I realise I only have myself to blame for engaging, but I do think all this “who is worse, who are the lesser of evils discourse” so tiresomely premature.
Who knows where we’ll be in 2029? Why don’t we talk about what’s going on now, or better yet the elections happening in May?
Who knows where we’ll be in 2029? Why don’t we talk about what’s going on now, or better yet the elections happening in May?
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I realise I only have myself to blame for engaging, but I do think all this “who is worse, who are the lesser of evils discourse” so tiresomely premature.
Who knows where we’ll be in 2029? Why don’t we talk about what’s going on now, or better yet the elections happening in May?
Who knows where we’ll be in 2029? Why don’t we talk about what’s going on now, or better yet the elections happening in May?
I don’t actually think it’s a conspiracy, but I do think this is all part of a particular grim kind of affliction you might call “Policy Exchange Brain”.
A certain kind of “reactionary centrist” rabbit hole made worse by lots of wine and too many Westminster dinner parties
A certain kind of “reactionary centrist” rabbit hole made worse by lots of wine and too many Westminster dinner parties
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I don’t actually think it’s a conspiracy, but I do think this is all part of a particular grim kind of affliction you might call “Policy Exchange Brain”.
A certain kind of “reactionary centrist” rabbit hole made worse by lots of wine and too many Westminster dinner parties
A certain kind of “reactionary centrist” rabbit hole made worse by lots of wine and too many Westminster dinner parties
I realise I post in outrage here far too often, and it’s probably bad the mind and soul.
But I can’t really explain the effect of all the little cuts - that within the week of leaving her job, the chair of the “independent” human rights refused can go on TV and attack my community’s human rights.
But I can’t really explain the effect of all the little cuts - that within the week of leaving her job, the chair of the “independent” human rights refused can go on TV and attack my community’s human rights.
Kishwer Falkner, the former EHRC chair, is on Sky saying the Labour government is anti-women, citing not just trans issues but also grooming gangs and what she calls pandering to Islam and racial sensitivities. She's not exactly dispelling the idea she was a political actor when she led the EHRC.
December 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I realise I post in outrage here far too often, and it’s probably bad the mind and soul.
But I can’t really explain the effect of all the little cuts - that within the week of leaving her job, the chair of the “independent” human rights refused can go on TV and attack my community’s human rights.
But I can’t really explain the effect of all the little cuts - that within the week of leaving her job, the chair of the “independent” human rights refused can go on TV and attack my community’s human rights.
Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
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I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
The chair of the EHRC at the time was Trevor Phillips, who has now said the SC judgement was the correct interpretation of the EA.
Isn’t it time for him to answer some questions about why he signed off a hugely consequential piece of secondary legislation that he apparently thought was inaccurate?
Isn’t it time for him to answer some questions about why he signed off a hugely consequential piece of secondary legislation that he apparently thought was inaccurate?
Snake oil salesmen like… the EHRC in 2011 who published trans inclusive statutory guidance approved by parliament? Hard to keep up here…
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The chair of the EHRC at the time was Trevor Phillips, who has now said the SC judgement was the correct interpretation of the EA.
Isn’t it time for him to answer some questions about why he signed off a hugely consequential piece of secondary legislation that he apparently thought was inaccurate?
Isn’t it time for him to answer some questions about why he signed off a hugely consequential piece of secondary legislation that he apparently thought was inaccurate?
Snake oil salesmen like… the EHRC in 2011 who published trans inclusive statutory guidance approved by parliament? Hard to keep up here…
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Snake oil salesmen like… the EHRC in 2011 who published trans inclusive statutory guidance approved by parliament? Hard to keep up here…
Logged into Twitter, and Zack’s (admittedly clumsy expressed) comments re care workers are being absolutely pilloried by everyone from the Labour frontbench, to the fash, to the online left.
Such a contrast to Bsky lol
Such a contrast to Bsky lol
Zack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration"
"Migration is a positive thing for our country"
"We need migration"
"We need fair and managed migration"
"And that's what will change this conversation"
*huge clap* #BBCQT
"Migration is a positive thing for our country"
"We need migration"
"We need fair and managed migration"
"And that's what will change this conversation"
*huge clap* #BBCQT
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Logged into Twitter, and Zack’s (admittedly clumsy expressed) comments re care workers are being absolutely pilloried by everyone from the Labour frontbench, to the fash, to the online left.
Such a contrast to Bsky lol
Such a contrast to Bsky lol