Sunflower
@sunflowerdreams.bsky.social
She/her.
Politics, education, SEND, LGBTQ+. Parent to a trans kid.
Cats, books and gaming.
Politics, education, SEND, LGBTQ+. Parent to a trans kid.
Cats, books and gaming.
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There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50
Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
goodlaw.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50
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Ashley James, celebrity star of Good Morning has resigned from Girl Guides in response to their exclusion of trans girls.
December 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Ashley James, celebrity star of Good Morning has resigned from Girl Guides in response to their exclusion of trans girls.
I also was looking into girl guides for my daughter.
As a girl who had already been forced out of school due to their toilet policies, I had hoped it would be a great way for her to meet other kids her age.
And now that option has been ripped away from us too.
This is not an abstract debate.
As a girl who had already been forced out of school due to their toilet policies, I had hoped it would be a great way for her to meet other kids her age.
And now that option has been ripped away from us too.
This is not an abstract debate.
🤍 We stand with every family affected by the Girlguiding policy change
What happened to this young girl is not an abstract policy debate. It's a child who was excited to be part of Rainbows with her friends, tried her sessions, loved them, was ready to join. Now she's been told she doesn't belong.
What happened to this young girl is not an abstract policy debate. It's a child who was excited to be part of Rainbows with her friends, tried her sessions, loved them, was ready to join. Now she's been told she doesn't belong.
December 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I also was looking into girl guides for my daughter.
As a girl who had already been forced out of school due to their toilet policies, I had hoped it would be a great way for her to meet other kids her age.
And now that option has been ripped away from us too.
This is not an abstract debate.
As a girl who had already been forced out of school due to their toilet policies, I had hoped it would be a great way for her to meet other kids her age.
And now that option has been ripped away from us too.
This is not an abstract debate.
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I’m furious. Girlguiding yesterday. The Women’s Institute today. Organisations rushing to ban trans people before the government has even published its guidance.
This isn’t caution or fear, it’s capitulation to bullies with money, influence, and an agenda. It’s the weaponisation of hate. 1/4🏳️🌈🫶🏳️⚧️
This isn’t caution or fear, it’s capitulation to bullies with money, influence, and an agenda. It’s the weaponisation of hate. 1/4🏳️🌈🫶🏳️⚧️
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I’m furious. Girlguiding yesterday. The Women’s Institute today. Organisations rushing to ban trans people before the government has even published its guidance.
This isn’t caution or fear, it’s capitulation to bullies with money, influence, and an agenda. It’s the weaponisation of hate. 1/4🏳️🌈🫶🏳️⚧️
This isn’t caution or fear, it’s capitulation to bullies with money, influence, and an agenda. It’s the weaponisation of hate. 1/4🏳️🌈🫶🏳️⚧️
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8 years ago, 'gender critical' transphobes launched a campaign against the Girl Guides, because they refused to exclude trans girls.
A devastated mum of a young trans girl wrote this...
Today, the bullying, braying, bigots got their wish! 😪
They are NOT "protecting girls" - it's bigotry and hate!
A devastated mum of a young trans girl wrote this...
Today, the bullying, braying, bigots got their wish! 😪
They are NOT "protecting girls" - it's bigotry and hate!
Girl Guides: How to radicalise hate against trans children in 10 easy steps
Tomorrow, following a short but successful propaganda campaign, a UK Newspaper will publish an open letter asking Girl Guiding UK to suspend their policy of inclusion for All Girls, including those…
growinguptransgender.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
8 years ago, 'gender critical' transphobes launched a campaign against the Girl Guides, because they refused to exclude trans girls.
A devastated mum of a young trans girl wrote this...
Today, the bullying, braying, bigots got their wish! 😪
They are NOT "protecting girls" - it's bigotry and hate!
A devastated mum of a young trans girl wrote this...
Today, the bullying, braying, bigots got their wish! 😪
They are NOT "protecting girls" - it's bigotry and hate!
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Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
Transgender girls deserve a safe, nurturing space where they can learn, grow, and contribute to the community, just like anyone else.
Sign the petition... 👇
Transgender girls deserve a safe, nurturing space where they can learn, grow, and contribute to the community, just like anyone else.
Sign the petition... 👇
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
c.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
Transgender girls deserve a safe, nurturing space where they can learn, grow, and contribute to the community, just like anyone else.
Sign the petition... 👇
Transgender girls deserve a safe, nurturing space where they can learn, grow, and contribute to the community, just like anyone else.
Sign the petition... 👇
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An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
Trans Mission - Wednesday 11th March
Mighty Hoopla and Olly Alexander team up for a Trans Mission: an all-star solidarity concert for the trans community at OVO Arena Wembley
www.transmissionlive.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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Waited all day to read this and it was even better than promised. And comments that anti-trans panics -- and moral panics in general -- are a way to avoid dealing with the far more endemic sexual abuse of girls and women are spot-on.
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Waited all day to read this and it was even better than promised. And comments that anti-trans panics -- and moral panics in general -- are a way to avoid dealing with the far more endemic sexual abuse of girls and women are spot-on.
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I still don't understand how a piece of legislation that allows exclusion if a service wanted on a case by case basis has become forced exclusion whether or not the service wants to, or be sued by anti trans fanatics
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I still don't understand how a piece of legislation that allows exclusion if a service wanted on a case by case basis has become forced exclusion whether or not the service wants to, or be sued by anti trans fanatics
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I've been to a number of official queer events since the DUP's Tracy Kelly became Lord Mayor of Belfast, pledging to be a Lord Mayor for everybody, and she hasn't been at a single one of them. Every event it has been the deputy Lord Mayor.
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I've been to a number of official queer events since the DUP's Tracy Kelly became Lord Mayor of Belfast, pledging to be a Lord Mayor for everybody, and she hasn't been at a single one of them. Every event it has been the deputy Lord Mayor.
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happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
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Nobody should be hiring Dr Hilary Cass to carry out research.
bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
September 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Nobody should be hiring Dr Hilary Cass to carry out research.
bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
goodlaw.social/ncfw
goodlaw.social/ncfw
‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe
YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK
goodlaw.social
October 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
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This clip is really horrible just fyi the minister just dead eyed refusing to answer pointing at the supreme court and the ehrc claiming they were very clear with the obvious implication
Equalities minister Bridget Phillipson unable to tell trans woman which toilet she should use
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/21/bridget-phillipson-trans-student-asks/?utm_content=1761204000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/21/bridget-phillipson-trans-student-asks/?utm_content=1761204000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Bridget Phillipson unable to tell trans woman which toilet she should use
A video online shows Bridget Phillipson awkwardly responding to a trans student's question of where she is allowed to pee.
www.thepinknews.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This clip is really horrible just fyi the minister just dead eyed refusing to answer pointing at the supreme court and the ehrc claiming they were very clear with the obvious implication
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When a politician dithers over questions about trans people that’s when they’ve lost credibility with the trans community.
No matter how much ‘dignity and respect’ they might claim trans people deserve, they’ve lost the room.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social does not dither.
No matter how much ‘dignity and respect’ they might claim trans people deserve, they’ve lost the room.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social does not dither.
Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions
October 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
When a politician dithers over questions about trans people that’s when they’ve lost credibility with the trans community.
No matter how much ‘dignity and respect’ they might claim trans people deserve, they’ve lost the room.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social does not dither.
No matter how much ‘dignity and respect’ they might claim trans people deserve, they’ve lost the room.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social does not dither.
Wonderful to see Zack Polanski answering this question directly, empathetically and calling out this awful bigot on his obvious transphobia.
Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions
October 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Wonderful to see Zack Polanski answering this question directly, empathetically and calling out this awful bigot on his obvious transphobia.
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1/🧵 As a trans lawyer, I say that @zackpolanski.bsky.social gave the legally and politically perfect answer.
“Of course they’re wrong. Their job is to look at what has been legislated for. The legislation is wrong and we should get back to parliamentarians who actually stand by trans people.”
“Of course they’re wrong. Their job is to look at what has been legislated for. The legislation is wrong and we should get back to parliamentarians who actually stand by trans people.”
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
1/🧵 As a trans lawyer, I say that @zackpolanski.bsky.social gave the legally and politically perfect answer.
“Of course they’re wrong. Their job is to look at what has been legislated for. The legislation is wrong and we should get back to parliamentarians who actually stand by trans people.”
“Of course they’re wrong. Their job is to look at what has been legislated for. The legislation is wrong and we should get back to parliamentarians who actually stand by trans people.”
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Fairly sure the group involved here also protest outside the homes of migrants and were outside the home of a family friend. MLAs outside Alliance who talked about legitimate concerns when protests happened aren't mentioning that today.
October 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Fairly sure the group involved here also protest outside the homes of migrants and were outside the home of a family friend. MLAs outside Alliance who talked about legitimate concerns when protests happened aren't mentioning that today.
I am beyond angry that the Charity Commission are giving these groups money paid from MY taxes to fund groups that are directly harming my family!
Because of the unforgivably appalling decisions of the Charity Commission, these hate groups, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance, are funded from your taxes.
October 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I am beyond angry that the Charity Commission are giving these groups money paid from MY taxes to fund groups that are directly harming my family!
This is heartbreaking. These wait times are criminal.
A young girl died because of the British government’s assault on trans people. They murdered her. Streeting, Starmer, Cass and the rest, they murdered this girl. Her blood is on their hands.
archive.ph
October 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is heartbreaking. These wait times are criminal.
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As an #intersex child, I'd often wait until the break was over before I went to the toilet, and then I'd often sit in the locked cubicle and cry because I was terrified of going back into the classroom where the teacher would single me out for example
It was 1979, and I was 9 years old 🧵
It was 1979, and I was 9 years old 🧵
The UK 'just protecting children'
"Teachers say trans pupils 'limiting food and drink' to avoid school toilets"
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"Teachers say trans pupils 'limiting food and drink' to avoid school toilets"
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Teachers say trans pupils 'limiting food and drink' to avoid school toilets
The new guidance said students will be asked to use toilet facilities which correspond to their biological sex.
news.stv.tv
October 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
As an #intersex child, I'd often wait until the break was over before I went to the toilet, and then I'd often sit in the locked cubicle and cry because I was terrified of going back into the classroom where the teacher would single me out for example
It was 1979, and I was 9 years old 🧵
It was 1979, and I was 9 years old 🧵
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genuinely insane we are at point "a person was afraid of someone who caused NO harm, so latter person needs to be segregated" rather than genuinely if YOU are so terrified of others on this level YOU are A PHOBE of some stripe and it is YOU who needs to leave. it IS bigots who need a third space imo
October 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
genuinely insane we are at point "a person was afraid of someone who caused NO harm, so latter person needs to be segregated" rather than genuinely if YOU are so terrified of others on this level YOU are A PHOBE of some stripe and it is YOU who needs to leave. it IS bigots who need a third space imo
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I hope people understand just how horrifying this is as a trans person.
You could just be getting in with your life, not doing anything to hurt anyone - and suddenly you find yourself dragged into a horrible legal case where the press is painting your going to the toilet as somehow predatory.
You could just be getting in with your life, not doing anything to hurt anyone - and suddenly you find yourself dragged into a horrible legal case where the press is painting your going to the toilet as somehow predatory.
October 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I hope people understand just how horrifying this is as a trans person.
You could just be getting in with your life, not doing anything to hurt anyone - and suddenly you find yourself dragged into a horrible legal case where the press is painting your going to the toilet as somehow predatory.
You could just be getting in with your life, not doing anything to hurt anyone - and suddenly you find yourself dragged into a horrible legal case where the press is painting your going to the toilet as somehow predatory.