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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 4m

Basically if we never had these rights they never resolved the ruling in Goodwin V and if we didn’t have those rights but they take them away they’re breaching article 8

I knew the SC ruling was illiterate but never realised by what yardage

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 6m

Omg yes this is a really great point, the SC tried to make out we’d not lost rights only we’d been told we didn’t have those rights to begin with but if we didn’t have them to begin with the en the UK govt never resolved Goodwin V

They’ve caught the SC in a perfect catch 22

Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 8h

This is an extremely good point.

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

This submission details how the case has exposed the UK's non-compliance with the judgment made in the European Court of Human rights case of Goodwin v. UK (2002). This non-compliance did not begin in April 2025. The Supreme Court has made clear

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 14m

Im not from NYC or US but this is all over my feed and I have to admit it’s properly hilarious to see the establishments Dems and Reps losing their shit over people voting for someone whose actually going to try and fix the broken system.

Really brightens my day and gives me hope we replicate in UK

Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 3h

This popped up in my memories but tell me again how it’s trans people’s fault for adhering to societal stereotypes.

A picture of a trans woman with subtle makeup “Having to pretty myself up to see my Endocrinologist today to convince him I'm still really a girl & need my meds, always feels odd meeting societal expectations on femininity to get medication.”

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 3h

a cartoon dog says squirrel while looking at a man

ALT: a cartoon dog says squirrel while looking at a man

media.tenor.com

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 9h

The whole transing kids thing makes me laugh, just try getting your kid to clean the house or eat vegetables then tell me that you’d be able to force them to change name / clothes and go to school with a new identity. 🙄

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 9h

Seeing him handle people like Piers it would be very happy to see her get her arse handed to her when she pulls that shit

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 12h

from a human position immigrants are welcomed by most of us as polls consistently show, from a fiscal perspective immigration has always had a net positive benefit to public finances, these anti immigrant policies will only harm us

cebr.com/blogs/immigr...

Immigration is estimated to yield £3.3 billion annually for public finances as the UK sees near threefold increase in non-EU immigration since 2018 - CEBR

The latest immigration figures for 2022 showed another steep increase in the number of people coming to the UK. Based on the latest estimates, nearly

cebr.com

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 12h

The economic damage this caused will likely be realised in a few years, many people out of work because of this and all because Labour won’t tax the rich who were told have all left because of them anyway

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 12h

I don’t think the rise in Employer NI is talked about enough here, I employ 16 people and we’re just on the cusp of what little profit we make being wiped out, more than 50% of companies have either scaled back recruitment or laid off staff specifically because of this.

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 1d

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...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 21h

youtu.be/x36ge2W7QOs

Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 1d

Like for me there’s no difference between Reform and Labour, they’re telling on themselves that they don’t want it to effect them, I won’t be held hostage to vote Labour, I’ll be voting Green

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 1d

Magnesium and Vitamin D are worth a try, Bluesky isn’t the place to get into the biomechanics of it but it may help with fatigue, sleep quality and crams if you’re getting them

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 1d

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 1d

Nope, no replies to 8 emails, pretty sure she’s a terf now 😢

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Scene Magazine @scenemag.co.uk · 2d

jane fae, a director of TransActual, has written for Scene Magazine on the eve of launching a new campaign to get MPs to reject the Equality & Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) bathroom ban.

jane fae, a director of TransActual, writes on the eve of launching a new campaign to get MPs to reject the EHRC’s bathroom ban

jane fae, a director of TransActual, writes on the eve of launching a new campaign to get MPs to reject the Equality & Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) bathroom ban. Scrap the Bathroom Ban🚨This is u...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 2d

0 and I’d bet my life savings on it!

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 2d

So he issues an absolutely disgraceful ruling achieving his religious aims then retires to leave others to clean up the mess

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 2d

Hhhmmm it’s looking rather like being pro trans isn’t a losing strategy after all, in fact the way you treat a vulnerable minority is a bellwether for how you’ll likely treat other minorities.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 2d

Oohh thanks for the reminder, I saw a trailer and was going to watch but forgot the name

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 2d

I’ve got an eSIM as a second line and it’s turned off, can use it for WhatsApp but it won’t receive calls / texts while off, I use this now for this kinda stuff and when people need my number where there’s a potential security issue.

(I’ve had my main number since 98)

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 2d

Louder for insurance websites! The amount of times I’ve ticked the, no don’t let the top 3 insurance quotes contact me, and they’ve bloody rung, as someone who hates talking on the phone.

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 3d

So if a just stop oil protest had caused the same disruption how many years would they have gotten?

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 3d

I mean in 2018 there was quite a high profile intimidation of trans people at Pride in London when they stormed the front of the march then went the whole way down handing out hate leaflets but sure Jan 🙄

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