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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗

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Trans humanist https://screedvault.neocities.org/ For I dance And drink & sing: Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 1d

Note to self:

The key to the whole thing is a complicit mainstream media. That is, the WHOLE mainstream media.

This enables the governmental and institutional machinations to proceed unchallenged while the media try to blame the Internet. But it's ALL old school.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 1h

#ChristianConcern #CitizenGo #Religion

Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 1h

Nurses Face Misconduct Probe After Raising Concerns Over Transgender Changing Room Policy at NHS Hospital

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Nurses Face Misconduct Probe After Raising Concerns Over Transgender Changing Room Policy At NHS Hospital

Four NHS nurses face misconduct investigations after objecting to sharing a changing room with a transgender colleague, citing workplace rights and discrimination.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 1h

As I said, if clarity is what they want then nothing provides that better than pink triangles.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 1h

#Clarity

A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1h

The Supreme Court decision is “clear”.

A clear breach of trans people’s human rights:

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 5h

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 1h

I lived in Kew for a year in 1999/2000. Was very nice. Bought a year's pass for Kew Gardens (only £14 then). Used the opportunity to find documents about my grandfather's World War I service.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 1h

Wes Streeting is sleekit.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 2h

#EHRC #ECHR #COE #HumanRights #TransRights #SupremeCourt

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h

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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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 2h

How can an organisation be independent if it's entirely appointed at top level by the government? The idea is a nonsense.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 2h

Or maybe responding to an expanded job description we don't have access to?

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 2h

"The effort was initially led by France and the United Kingdom"

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2011 military intervention in Libya - Wikipedia

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 2h

So why did he bomb Libya later? To destroy the evidence?

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 2h

Probably like the Terrorism Act 2000 being used to proscribe Palest1ne Act10n_ assurances were probably given that nobody would ever use it in that way in practise.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 2h

Forget "dignity." That word has been poisoned and devalues by the likes of the Catholic Church and Wes Streeting.

First we want our old rights back, then we want the reforms we were promised and which more and more countries are implementing.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 4h

Keep writing, people!
We now have the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe backing us up! 🙏🙏🙏

This whole statement is banging. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️
rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

And here’s the template to write to your MP: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

As I note in my end-of-visit statement, I observe a tendency to see the human rights of different groups as a zero-sum game. This has contributed to narratives which build on prejudice against trans people and portray upholding their human rights as a de facto threat to the rights of others. Such a zero-sum approach risks certain inferences being drawn from the UK Supreme Court judgment that could lead to widespread exclusion of trans people from many public spaces. This, in turn, may severely infringe on their ability to participate fully and equally in society. This is particularly the case, as discussions about how access to services and facilities will have to be regulated following the judgment have tended towards the exclusion of trans people. It would therefore be crucial for all stakeholders to receive clear guidance on how inclusion of trans people can be achieved across all areas, and how exclusion can be minimised to situations in which this would be strictly necessary and proportionate, in line with well- established human rights principles. In reality, tensions between the human rights of different groups in this context are likely to be exceptional in nature, and resolvable through nuanced, reasonable and balanced accommodations. This would also be in line with the approaches taken by various bodies of the Council of Europe (such as the Committee on the Prevention of Torture (CPT) or the Group of Experts on Violence Against Women (GREVIO)), which recognise the particular vulnerability of trans people, and which begin from the position of their inclusion within spaces according to their gender identity – with exceptions made on a case-by-case basis as necessary.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 2h

Can't allow their own economic model be seen to fail elsewhere before they've implemented it in the USA, can they?

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 2h

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Stopwatch Hearts

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 2h

Should be directly addressed to Women and Equalities minister and the PM IMO.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 3h

It's becoming difficult to see where relgious right / big oil and Russian interests begin and end, especially after the previous Pope called for Ukraine to surrender.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 3h

I suspect a convergence and the glue is religion, which has been a master stroke by Putin. Another potential glue is oil, i.e. I bet the oil industry REALLY wants this Ukraine War over by any means necessary, to get that Russian oil flowing again.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 3h

By which stage everybody has forgotten about the first and only use of Section 35 of the Scotland Act.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 3h

The timing seems strange, as does the SOCO tent on the lawn.

Then inexplicably Yusaf explodes the alliance with the Greens, apologises saying he made an (unforced) error and promptly resigns, leaving the leadership open for a Christian religious Swinney / Forbes leadership.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 3h

And... without government taking responsibility because of the fake independence of the EHRC.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 3h

Yes.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 3h

This is basically changing law and practise without parliamentary (and therefore democratic) oversight.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 3h

They openly signal their intent like hell. The worst example was the most recent grilling by the JCHR and WESC. They must want this discourse to become mainstream.
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Women and Equalities Select Committee 11th June 2025

YouTube video by Sarah Nova

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 3h

The infection started in 2017.