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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 2h

Going to start frequenting the writing prompts subreddit and turning all the completely normal prompts people share into fucked up tranny smut

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Rebecca @beccauk.bsky.social · 1d

I recall that the EHRC’s draft guidance on single sex services, currently with ministers, expressly states that religious objections are a legitimate justification for single sex services…

Perhaps someone should tell Steve Reed?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Minister ‘appalled’ at Muslim charity run in London that excluded women

Event in Victoria Park organised by East London mosque and London Muslim Centre was open to ‘men, boys of all ages and girls under 12’

www.theguardian.com

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AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 4h

Fenway Health saved my life by providing me with the consultations, medical help, and information that made it possible for me to transition at 18 while being informed. It’s one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life.

This will hurt so many people.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 9h

On Loose Women

Carole Malone "You hate rich people Zack."

Zack Polanski "No I just want to tax them fairly."

Green Party +10,000 members.

Carole Malone "You hate women Zack."

Zack "No I just don't demonise trans people"

Green Party +10,000 members.

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 3h

A big problem I have with this whole 'being trans' thing is I'll be wondering if everyone on the street is looking at me because I'm trans or because I'm a lesbian or because I'm a woman (or a mix)

Each of those carries a different kind of social uncomfortability for me

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

We have jointly applied to the Council of Europe formally to seek re-opening of enforcement of the case of Goodwin v UK under rule 9 of the Rules for the supervision of the execution of judgments and of the terms of friendly settlements, in the European Court of Human Rights. T

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 13h

The transphobes always tell us that their individual bigoted and hateful transphobic opinions represent the views of "all women".

This is one of the key dishonesties of anti-trans campaigning.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15h

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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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 13h

Statutory or not, it still is not the law: A statutory code of practice is not a law itself, but it is a form of guidance issued by a statutory body.

Equality and Human Rights Commission @equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 14h

We've written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to request the government to revoke the 2011 services code and make our updated version statutory. It accurately reflects the law and updated guidance is urgently needed: www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 13h

The 2011 EHRC statutory services code was the result of almost two years work. Numerous consultations were held with relevant stakeholders, including many women's and trans groups.

By contrast, the proposed 2025 code was assembled within weeks, with a one-month consultation assessed by genAI.

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 5h

Rep. Dave Taylor (and all Republicans) really being like:

Meme from Peacemaker showing a mural of Adolf Hitler in plain sight with Chris Smith saying "Oh fuck, how did I miss that?"

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 5h

Rep. Dave Taylor (and all Republicans) really being like:

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 7h

I used to explain to my friends how growing up in a Jewish synagogue in an area of New Jersey where there were not a lot of Jews how rabbis who taught Hebrew school used to instruct us how to spot very subtle antisemitic dog whistles that were plentiful back in the early 2000s.

Anyway, here we are.

Politico @politico.com · 7h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 12h

The EHRC has written to the Minister for Women and Equalities, demanding that she rushes through their dreadful draft Code of Practice.

This is a bizarre intervention from a supposedly impartial public body.

Equalities watchdog urges UK ministers to ‘act with speed’ on trans guidance

EHRC writes to Bridget Phillipson over implementation of code on single-sex public spaces after supreme court ruling

www.theguardian.com

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 11h

The best way to stop a bitter online troll that will argue till the cows come home is to just ask how their day is going

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 12h

Oh yeah? You think capitalism is bad? Here are some inventions you can thank capitalism for:

[Tech that was developed through publicly funded research and then packaged as a Product by people who didn't invent it, and gets worse each year to increase profit]

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 12h

The EHRC has just taken down their transphobic interim guidance 👀

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/our-work/uk-supreme-court-ruling-meaning-sex-equality-act-our-work

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 23h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 11h

Oh it wasn’t the alcohol this time

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

I hate being right.

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 12h

abolish hangovers for people with adhd

(it took me like 2 hours to figure out how to word this)

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12h

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns @osakanone.bsky.social · 1d

remigrate is not a dog whistle, and is open nazi language

Remigration

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing[1] via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.[2][3] It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement.[4][5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.[6][7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 12h

Am I getting deja vu or have I seen this exact situation play out like 5 times in the last week?

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19h

Trans people have been warning about these people for *years*

Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 1d

This is a huge story but massively under the radar in the UK.

A US Christian legal org called the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is working to roll back abortion rights here using the same playbook it used in the US: briefing politicians, watching, waiting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 17h

Zack Polanski: "If the straight question is, ‘would I abolish the monarchy' - yeah, absolutely.”
open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

Exclusive: Zack Polanski backs Scottish and Welsh independence

The eco-populist Green leader has called for sweeping change to Britain's political system, and spoken about potentially leading an explicitly ‘English’ party for the first time.

open.substack.com

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