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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 8h

I guess JKKKR is just back on the Benson & Hedges on her boat, then?

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 9h

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 9h

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

goodlawproject.org

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 11h

The EHRC has finally, five months after producing its wildly transphobic and, we believe, unlawful Interim Guidance now taken it down. Our judicial review challenge to that Interim Guidance will be heard in less than one month.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 12h

... *now* at the point ...

Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 12h

Get ready for a protest showing pictures of Hague's mum blowing dogs for Quavers.

"Are you upset, William?"

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 13h

Labour's first targets are some of the same targets the Nazi's had when they first came to power. Curious, that.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 12h

Yes! Nobody seems to acknowledge this.

The Hirschfeld Institute and AktionT4.

They seem so complacent that nobody will report these obvious echoes of fascism.

...and tbh, who has?

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 12h

Starmer's not gonna fuck you.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 12h

By Malone's logic, the most qualified people to weigh in on the impact of *trans* people on *women's* rights ... would be ... trans women.

Participating in as much of the debate as possible clearly makes them the expert.

Wow.

Carole Malone, correct twice in one clip.

These are the end times.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 13h

This is a very important legal case, whereby the enforcement of equal human rights for trans ppl, ruled by the European Court of Human Rights, is actually carried out by the British govt. Having not done so, as legally required, brings the British state into disrepute, & undermines human rights.

Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 1d

ANNOUNCEMENT
This evening, 14/10/25 the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network have taken the next step in the struggle to restore the human rights, dignity & safety of UK trans people.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 12h

Sadly, while healthcare is devolved*, benefits aren't, and that is the area where we are being socially murdered.

So, yeah, we outside of England are *less* complicit but only slightly.

*Although funding is handed out centrally.

Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 14h

The cull of the disabled began when Gordon Brown introduced the WCA.

Social murder of us was fastest under the Tories because the most vulnerable are the first to die, but if that is where you look to feel better about Labour, I guess we have no common ground to debate on.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 14h

"She champions the erosion of women's rights." - Carole Malone on JKR.

Stopped clocks and that.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 14h

There's a brief clip of Jeremy Vine's face where he knows that Carole Malone is gonna have her arse handed to her, and he looks like a naughty schoolboy.

State of media in this country.

Well done, Zack.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 1d

He's not gonna fuck you, Sharon.

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LorenaBobbitTime 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦💙🐾🥸 @lorenabobbitttime.bsky.social · 2d

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dead horse @hooved-mammal.bsky.social · 2d

OH MY GOD HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 2d

a fake quote being attributed to zohran mamdani is igniting the pro-palestine left.

he never said arresting netanyahu would make him a trumpian fascist. that phrase was posted by an account known for using extreme rhetoric to accuse mamdani of effectively saying that as a result of him softening.

image circulating claiming to attribute a fake quote to mamdani. text reads:
dec. 2024: “as mayor of nyc i would arrest benjamin netanyahu”
sept. 2025: “arresting netanyahu would make me a trumpian fascist.” - this second quote has in big letters over it the words “fake quote.”

post from the originator of the phrase. text reads:

@zei squirrel
here you have it side by side. Zohran in December 2024, when he was running in the primary, pledging that he will definitely arrest Netanyahu. Then fast forward to Zohran in September 2025, after he won the primary, and suddenly arresting Netanyahu makes you a Trumpian fascist:

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 2d

🚨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 of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 2d

So either, "I'm lying," or "I am so insulated and privileged that zero trans or non-binary people that have met me can stomach my company long enough to befriend me and thereby inform my oblivious ass about the threat to their rights and lives."

Either way, it does *not* look good.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 2d

I have blocked this horrendous w ⚓️ as they spread the long-disproved assertion that trans rights and cis women's rights are in conflict, and i encourage every person who is not a frothing bigot to do the same.

Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 2d

If you close a window on a bus you're a cunt.

Also an idiot, as you're locking *yourself* into a petri dish, but mostly, you're a cunt.

Bring more scarves, you selfish wankers.

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Katie @katiedoesthings.bsky.social · 2d

This is really fucking important.

It's not actually about trans people. It's to force anyone who isn't doing gender as the hard right think it should be out of public life.

Will have more negative consequences for gender non conforming cis women than anyone else

actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

Scrap the Bathroom Ban

🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 2d

Way to dismiss neurodivergence, Canasten.