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Molly Maclachlan
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Scottish amateur writer/streamer. My posts are often bad.

🏳️‍⚧️ she/her

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mollymaclachlan
Website: https://mollymaclachlan.github.io/website
AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/Molly_Maclachlan

Here be trans rights. #TransRights
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Molly Maclachlan @mollymaclachlan.bsky.social · Aug 12
• name: Molly
• pronouns: she/her
• height: 5'9"-ish
• sexuality: probably not
• sign: semicolon and/or my beloved em dash
• piercings: 0
• tattoos: 0
• fav color: sunset orange or purple
• fav drink: copius amounts of tea
• fav animal: my cat specifically, corvids generally
• MBTI: pseudoscience
sandraduffy.bsky.social Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · Aug 12
• name: Sandra
• pronouns: they/she
• height: short
• sexuality: dyke
• sign: ABANDON HOPE, etc
• piercings: 8, all ears
• tattoos: 2
• fav color: lavender
• fav drink: iced americano
• fav animal: lemur
• MBTI: INTJ - the architect

(none of this will help you hack me, I'm afraid)
reactiveashley.bsky.social Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · Aug 12
If you see this, do it! 😑

• name: Ash
• pronouns: she/they
• height: classified
• sexuality: Omni
• sign: classified
• piercings: 0
• tattoos: 2
• fav color: all fluorescent colours
• fav drink: iced soya latte
• fav animal: catto
• MBTI: INTP - The Logician
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parkermolloy.com
There's a post over on Twitter that I've been laughing to myself about. Some right-wing guy is celebrating that a school took down "All-Gender" bathroom signs and replaced them with "Single Occupancy Restroom" signs. And like... it's the same thing, man. You're celebrating a pointless relabeling.
Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol · Dec 8 🚨#BREAKING: The University of North Carolina Asheville has completely REMOVED all of its "ALL-GENDER" bathroom signs. It has replaced them with "SINGLE OCCUPANCY RESTROOM" signs.
December 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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goodlawproject.org
An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.
So far as her other comments are concerned, they were impermissible manifestations of her belief and were in our view what amounted to an incident of harassment by the claimant of the second respondent related to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, reasonably perceived by the second respondent to be so, and were a breach by the claimant of section 26 of the Act and of the Bullying and Harassment Policy. The second respondent was entitled to view the actions of the claimant in those particular regards as being such harassment, or as a “hate incident” within the policy, and the first respondent was entitled in principle to act on the complaint made, but the detail of how it did so depends on all the circumstances as more fully addressed below. The second respondent was also entitled to regard the claimant’s actions as a breach of the second respondent’s Article 8 rights, so far as the claimant’s expression of her beliefs was impermissible. 1034. We also considered that the claimant had acted deliberately to be able to challenge the second respondent whilst they were alone. What she did was to wait until other members of staff had left the changing room, and for the second respondent to leave the cubicle, before raising her own beliefs directly with the second respondent in the manner we have set out. 1035. Whilst the claimant had not been informed as promptly and in the detail we considered appropriate, and the first respondent did not consider whether to revoke permission at all, the claimant did not herself raise any formal grievance under the policy. She is an experienced member of staff who had access to union advice. She knew, or ought reasonably to have known, that the first respondent having granted permission to the second respondent she required to have raised her concerns with the first respondent as the decision-maker rather than with the colleague to whom it had been granted, and in any event ought not to have done so in the manner that she did.
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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greenparty.org.uk
🎯ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY🎯

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That's enough to fill Ally Pally 18 times - and we're not getting any littler 😉

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Be part of it. Join today ⤵️
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. 180,000 Green Party Members Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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ballotbox.scot
Some might say it's unwise to burn so many journalistic bridges with an election coming up but I intend on being able to look my fellow queers in the eye in 20 years time and say with all honesty I didn't equivocate or stay silent during the worst hate campaign against our community of my adult life
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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ballotbox.scot
Note especially the Daily Record, with their "oh that poor mum 😢" front page. Here's a fun memory: when I was a kid, a little gay boy who needed support, they were backing the evil, homophobic Keep the Clause campaign. You know they've never apologised for that? Plus ça change, apparently.
December 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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ballotbox.scot
I'm sure you're very proud of yourselves in the journalism space though, eh? Off you went to learn the trade, bright eyed and idealistic about speaking truth to power, and here you all are just doing The Gay Agenda Is Out To Get Everyone again but subbing in trans people as the target. Mortifying.
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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ballotbox.scot
Quite a lot of, simply, lying and unjustified valorisation of a nasty person on the front of papers today. Personally I put a lot of stock in honest reporting but I guess when I do such things as a hobby rather than my job I don't have to dance to the whims of the hate campaign gripping the nation.
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23h
Thread of the main papers and their coverage of the Sandie Peggie ruling...
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d
Sandie Peggie's agony...

BBC News - Scotland's papers: Sandie Peggie 'agony' as NHS board 'harassed nurse'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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marcusjdl.bsky.social
You’d never know this was what was decided as part of that tribunal ruling…
But Ms Peggie's claims of discrimination and victimisation by NHS Fife did not succeed and were dismissed. • The tribunal also dismissed the claims which were made against Dr Upton.
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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dsquareddigest.bsky.social
Errr... Would this not include someone who has Nigerian citizenship through her parents, and who has admitted to hacking Harriet Harman's website, a crime which at the time carried a maximum sentence of five years?
December 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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wrathofgodbot.bsky.social
The entirety of British politics now just consists of all parties from across the political spectrum making increasingly deranged statements about how and why they are going to deport people
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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rtgame.bsky.social
I am so furious at YouTube for doing this. You have literal gambling ads plastered across your website. The video you take action on contains no real gambling, and is promoting an LGBTQ+ children's charity fundraiser. Absolutely horrendous image and optics for the website. Completely moronic
rtgame.bsky.social RTGame 👑 @rtgame.bsky.social · 1d
I am beyond upset, YouTube has age restricted my video tonight for thinking it depicts real actual gambling. The video is on CloeverPit and contains no real gambling, but does contain a massive charity push for The Trevor Project. Last time this happened I almost quit YouTube
December 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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clamc.bsky.social
Not a single Scottish Labour MP has signed this. After weeks of hunger-striking, several of these young people who have been on remand in prison, treated as terrorists & without trial for over a year, are now in hospital.
#Labour
@scottishlabour.bsky.social
#HungerStrike
#PalestineAction
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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rtgame.bsky.social
If you can see the video, I kindly ask that you leave a like and comment on it to show your support. You can also support my charity push for The Trevor Project here. Thank you tiltify.com/@rtgamecrowd...
December 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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rtgame.bsky.social
I am beyond upset, YouTube has age restricted my video tonight for thinking it depicts real actual gambling. The video is on CloeverPit and contains no real gambling, but does contain a massive charity push for The Trevor Project. Last time this happened I almost quit YouTube
December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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esqueer.net
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
“A screenshot of a news article from The Times website. The headline reads: ‘Children taking DIY cross-sex hormones before going to gender clinics.’ The subheadline states: ‘Hundreds of young trans people are buying puberty blockers, oestrogen and testosterone without prescription from websites and even recreational drug dealers.’ The page header includes navigation links, a log-in button, and a ‘Start trial’ button.”
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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esqueer.net
You'd never know it from these headlines that she lost all her claims on the actual substance of the case, claiming that trans people must be banned from bathrooms.
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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tristangrayford.scot
The BBC is now consistently using a transphobic slur to refer to trans people.

Transphobes are still not happy. That's still not hateful and cruel enough.
SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN Good coverage from the BBC at Six, what a glow up Lost count of how many times it said ‘biological male’ But it does need to lose ‘was born a biological man but who identifies as a woman’. It’s obviously agreed wording but it’s not great Both reporters vvv across the story
December 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
mollymaclachlan.bsky.social
Tribunal: "Sandie Peggie is transphobic, harassed Dr Upton in what amounts to a hate incident, and is racist."

BBC: "A victory for Sandie Peggie!"
December 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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goodlawproject.org
I can't help but remember that "it" is also the word used by the man who murdered poor Brianna Ghey in a transphobic attack.

These people don't have "reasonable concerns" - they are revolting bigots.
632. A wider aspect of evidence we considered concerned an attack on her position in cross examination to the effect that she was generally transphobic, which she denied both when giving evidence initially and on recall (which is addressed further below). Some of the messages she sent are indicative of views which could be described as trans-phobic. In one dated 10 January 2024 the claimant described the second respondent as “it”. In an earlier part of the same message there is reference to the second respondent having a shadow (being in our view a reference to the appearance of stubble on the face) and a “pathetic voice”. These are disparaging remarks in relation to the second respondent in our view, because of the second respondent being a trans woman. 633. In another the second respondent is described as a “weirdo”, which the claimant sought to explain as someone acting weirdly, but which we did not accept as being what she had intended by use of that word. These remarks we consider to be consistent with other evidence of her making comments the second respondent was liable to find offensive that went beyond the simple expression of a gender critical belief, but amounted to personal attacks on the second respondent.
December 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Oooft. Sandie Peggie shared highly offensive messages and was then "untruthful" in giving evidence to the Tribunal.

This is the 'hero' Gender Critical campaigners have chosen.
631. The third aspect was her evidence given when recalled in relation to a message she had passed on to her group of friends which related to floods in Pakistan in the most highly offensive terms. She initially described the messages as “dark humour”. Her evidence later was that the message had been sent to provoke a reaction, in broad summary. We did not consider that latter evidence to be credible given the content of the message sent and her initial evidence about it. In our view it was an untruthful attempt to downplay what she had done, which she recognised as having included very offensive material. We consider that it was clear beyond serious argument that the author or authors of the original message considered the remarks humorous, and that the claimant had also considered them humorous which was why she had passed them on. That was supported in our view by her reference to dark humour
December 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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jessothomson.co.uk
If the reporting on the Peggie decision tells us anything, it should be that the way news gets reported in this country has little to do with truth, and much more to do with narrative - as well as whose heavily spun press release lands on journos desks first.
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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johnlees.bsky.social
It’s maddening that I just heard this tribunal decision covered on BBC News, which led with “Sandie Peggie wins her case,” expanded with “Sandie Peggie secures a partial victory,” then only on listening further did it become clear she actually lost on most of the substantive points she was pursuing.
December 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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helenbelcherobe.bsky.social
The media's obvious bias is maddening. This is an example from the supposedly 'too trans inclusive' BBC, spinning that Peggie won her case, when she effectively lost almost all of it and was criticised for her own behaviour.
johnlees.bsky.social John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 1d
It’s maddening that I just heard this tribunal decision covered on BBC News, which led with “Sandie Peggie wins her case,” expanded with “Sandie Peggie secures a partial victory,” then only on listening further did it become clear she actually lost on most of the substantive points she was pursuing.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d
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...
December 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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transsexual.bsky.social
so Beth Upton was - very publicly - put through hell, monstered, harassed, abused by the press, by politicians, by her opponents lawyers and by the most rabid, fanatical online hate movement for... nothing
December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM