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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 22h

Impressively argued whilst being clearly harangued by the 'chat hosts' or whatever they think they are doing

I am so glad @zackpolanski.bsky.social won, by so much - and has honestly been far more than I expected, and I was expecting a lot

The only left way is Green, the only fair way is Green!

Emily Shepherd @emi.ly · 23h

This is genuinely incredible.

It's so easy to completely lose one's cool in the face of silly arguments like this, but @zackpolanski.bsky.social kept his wits and made the only sensible and grown up points in the room.

How do the Greens get cooler every time I see them 💚

join.greenparty.org.uk

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

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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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 1d

The ripple effect that most cis people simply don't realise

*EVERY* facet of a trans person's lives is being made more difficult now

From the large to the small, more risk is the goal of violence, cancer, discrimination

All to force trans people out of social, political, legal existence in the UK

Jenn @jennralize.bsky.social · 1d

Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.

My records have been altered, which is upsetting.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. Your read that correctly. This is Segregation. That's where we are in the current stage of capitalism.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 3d

🚨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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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Indigenous Peoples day!

Also, go buy Coyote and Crow*. It is most excellent!**
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*I own it, was a funder for
**I'm really sorry*** if you heard this in bill and ted voices and then did a tiny air guitar sound
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***I'm not sorry really

Coyote & Crow Games @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Today we celebrate the heritage, beauty, and perseverance of hundreds of cultures and nations across North America that have thrived and endured here for thousands of years, and will be around for thousands more.
If you want to support this Native: bit.ly/3L67Yrs

A display of Coyote & Crow, the roleplaying game, Wolves, the cooperative board game, Naasii, the Coyote & Crow Dice Game, and a set of custom dice for the RPG. All created by Cherokee Nation citizen, Kenna Alexander.

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 3d

It's hard to think of a single university subject that has a higher percentage of middle class cis het white men studying it.

You need social humanities people, where there's much more diversity of student and teacher, not philosophy, to be involved in silicon valley.

Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 3d

'upward of' what an odd phrase

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 3d

Good on them. Following the long, proud tradition of suffragettes smashing shit up in protest at their lack of equality

You know, just like trans women are treated unequally to cis women, and the hate groups having the 'conference' are the people fighting to make it even worse for trans people...

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 BREAKING | Trans activist group BASH BACK have smashed up the Brighton Centre, which will play host to anti-trans hate group FiLiA today.

BASH BACK wrote in a statement: "These bigots have our blood on their hands", adding FiLiA should "expect retaliation" for transphobia.

BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE

The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 6d

Apparently Your Party relaunched recently?

Yeah but no.

I'm here to watch @zackpolanski.bsky.social call racist fascists racist fascists on national TV.

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 8d

Well he clearly sees the same point we do - such a shame he doesn't get why

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 9d

#IAmEnragedByThis

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 9d

Guardian writer says they don't lie. Gets mass responded to by a bunch of trans people saying "um... excuse me?"

Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 9d

How dare Kemi Badenoch say "given it's the Guardian"? We don't make things up! That's one of the most annoying things about us

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 9d

Your paper makes up shite about trans people at least twice a day. And it's been doing that for the last 12 years or more.

'we don't make things up' you're having a laugh!

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 10d

We all knew this, but it's good to have some real detail on why the CASS review, used to justify the removal of treatment for trans adolescents, was simply a shoddy excuse by anti-trans Labour Party members, in conjunction with anti-trans extremists, to deny care to a vulnerable minority group

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 10d

6 Oct 2025 -- 16-person Aussie team publish a killer take-down of The Cass Review in the prestigious Australian Medical Journal titled, Cass Review Does Not Guide Care for Trans Young People ("lacking expertise & compromised by implicit stigma & misinformation..." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people

Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

www.mja.com.au

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 10d

If it's because of politics, it's attempted assassination by a terrorist organisation though... ?

Gonna be interesting to see how long it takes them to 'lone wolf' this situation

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 10d

And you know it's truly dire when you start 'Scottish'ing' your blasphemy ;-)

'Jesus McFucking Christ on a bike' is always an escalation from 'Jesus fucking Christ on a bike'

Also

*big hug*

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 13d

Literally this is how all anti trans people act

Thank you @assignedmale.bsky.social for being so spot on as usual

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 14d

unsurprising that this has happened. Disgraceful and outrageous, but unsurprising.

This government, and it's pet the EHRC, are truly awful

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 14d

An FOI seen by QueerAF shows the anti-trans organisation included in a consultation that led to RSE guidance that will introduce what has been widely described as a 'Section 28 2.0'

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-rse-consultation-featured-four-explicitly-anti-trans-groups-foi-reveals

'Section 28 2.0' RSE consultation featured four explicitly anti-trans groups, FOI reveals

An FOI seen by QueerAF shows the anti-trans organisation included in a consultation that led to RSE guidance that will introduce what has been widely described as a 'Section 28 2.0'

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 14d

Which is funny, because the blue tories in the 10s, the purple tories in the 00s and 20s all did such a bang up job on running down the military, starting wars we shouldn't have been involved in, overseeing genocide, and funnelling more wealth to the rich from the poor than at any time in the past

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 14d

While Labour and Lib Dem voters tend to trust the Greens on issues like the environment and protecting minorities, they tend not to trust them on defence, to manage the economy or form an effective government

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 16d

So. Academia.edu changed their terms... here's my response.

You're welcome

A screen shot of the Account settings page of the academia.edu. The open text box on the reason for account deletion states the following:

No. You don't get to steal my shit and train your stupid LLM.
They don't work anyway.
What are you even on?
Fuck right off

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 19d

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents.

I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights.

sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

An image of Sian's letter to the Minister for Women and Equalities.

You can read the full text of her letter at:

https://www.sianberry.org.uk/publications/letter-regarding-statutory-guidance-from-the-equality-human-rights-commission/

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 20d

ah... I knew it wouldn't take long. yes, this is how they will enforce the permanent outing of trans people...

Blair tried to do this in the 00's, during the so-called 'war on terror' and thankfully got stopped.

Really hoping that can happen again

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 21d

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 21d

Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID

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Sahra blocks non-posting profiles that follow her @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 20d

I think more and more of us have, but wozisface? The director? Oh yeah Tim Burton. He's definitely not moved past this... a shame. The second season wasn't nearly as good as the first, for this and many other reasons

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 20d

Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair.

ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

Reject Trans Doom-Posting

This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…

ruthpearce.net

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