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🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 2h

Dm'd you.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 2h

I do too !

Stella @stella-b.bsky.social · 2h

I love this. Set to the words of Benjamin Zephaniah. ❤️❤️❤️

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2h

British.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 1d

Please share this far and wide we need to amplify its coverage:

TACC @tacc.org.uk · 2d

Today, we and the Trans Exile Network have made a joint submission to the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK Supreme Court's judgment in the For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers case of April 2025.

tacc.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...

Press Release – Submission to the CoE Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK’s non-compliance in Goodwin v. UK - tacc.org.uk

Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network seek urgent re-opening of enforcement of key human rights decision against UK. Today, the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective ...

tacc.org.uk

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🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 3h

Excellent news!
Still working our way through last weeks holiday washing pile.......

a cartoon girl is holding a pink bag that says wash

Alt: a cartoon girl is holding a pink bag that says wash

media.tenor.com

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Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health @nottsgic.bsky.social · 6h

If you are registered at a GP in Nottingham City and you are a patient with us, you can come along and attend our free smoking support group next Tuesday evening. Just sign up here - forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Microsoft Forms

forms.office.com

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 7h

Blood on their hands;

EVERY "gender-critical" transphobe - yes including the very rich ones, the bigoted "journalists" who abuse their power, the unacademic academics and the "comedians" who make transphobic "jokes" - are respnsible for this poor cis women's death.

Transphobia *harms* cis women.

Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 7h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 7h

Curious indeed.....

a piece of paper is burning in a pile of papers .

Alt: a piece of paper is burning in a pile of papers .

media.tenor.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 21h

Mermaids has a new CEO…

mygwork.com/news/mermaid...

Mermaids appoints Johanna Hardy as new Chief Executive Officer

Mermaids, a leading charity supporting transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse children and young people, have announced the appointment of Johanna Hardy (she/her) as its new Chief Executive Offic...

mygwork.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 18h

The @newsagents.bsky.social framed the ADF’s growing presence in the UK as a surprising new export from the US, when they've been infiltrating the UK for YEARS!

It's willful blindness/ hypocricy by journalists who have amplified the transphobic narratives that opened the door to these groups!

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

"The ADF has chosen Nigel Farage to focus on, building up this ally who has the potential to be a JD Vance-like figure in the future."

Can the Christian group that influenced the overturning of Roe v. Wade bring its extreme views to the UK?

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-n...

Is Nigel Farage being used as a pawn by US Christian extremists? | The News Agents

A New York Times report suggests Nigel Farage is being backed by Alliance Defending Freedom – a conservative Christian group dedicated to rolling back rights of many groups in the US. What does this…

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 14h

Indeed.

So we lead by example and show them how to behave...

Hopefully one day they will see, but it's a hard, hard task still ahead...

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🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 21h

I agree. It's hard to be positive, but I do try...

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🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 21h

Possible, but I hope the potato has now become that hot no one wants to catch it....
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For now anyway....

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 21h

The guidance will be challenged if it’s as transphobic as expected.

The government knows there’s a strong chance they lose domestically and a near certainty they lose at the ECHR.

The “risk of legal challenge” looks like code for “the lawyers told us this is a shitshow”.

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone know what the UK situation is re: the percentage of articles about Trans+ that do not quote a single Trans+ person?

@hleehurley.com

Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 1d

What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump's first 100 days.

Big takeway: based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of news stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote a single trans person.

bit.ly/TJA_visible

How journalists covered Trump's first 100 days

Trans perspectives were rarely present in articles about the consequences federal actions would have on their lives, according to an analysis conducted by Berkeley Media Studies Group in partnership w...

bit.ly

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

The EHRC and their transphobic handlers Sex Matters are clearly worried that MPs will demand full and public scrutiny of their anti-trans+ guidance - as an ever increasing number of MPs are demanding

The window to push it through is dwindling and they know it

Keep up the pressure folks ✊🏼

Equality and Human Rights Commission @equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 1d

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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🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 1d

😯😲😳😲😯

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely! The EHRC is really floundering right now, and Bridget Phillipson (so we hear) is getting increasingly annoyed at them.

What better time than now to write (using our easy-peasy tool) and pressure Phillipson to reject the EHRC’s segregationist Code 🤗📝🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

goodlawproject.org

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🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, we should !

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🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 1d

Seconded 👆👆👆

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🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 1d

bsky.app/profile/seen...

Jenn,
Might this be of some help?
I might indicate who has been accessing your record for you to investigate further....?

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 25d

Write to the NHS Trust or body holding your records (e.g., GP practice, hospital trust).

Submit a SAR in writing (email or post), clearly stating you want:

“All personal data held about me, including access logs showing when and by whom my records were accessed.” AND

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🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 1d

My name is Leah. My pronouns are she/her.

andrewb72.bsky.social @andrewb72.bsky.social · 1d

My name is Andrew and I go by he/him

Hazell Dean @hazelldean.bsky.social · 1d

#PronounsDay

Its international pronouns day, so If you’re ever unsure or don’t know someone’s pronouns - just ask!

Its as simple as that ❤️

#inclusionmatters #representationmatters #pronouns #NoHomeForHateHere #bekind

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🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 1d

Still a long way to go though......

🤔🤔🤔🤭🤭🤭🤭😁😁😁

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

most remote pub?

jk rowling's transphobia is impacting business in britain's most remote places?

food for thought. 🙄

also, morning all. ✌️

🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 1d

bbc.com/news/article...

Britain's most remote pub cancels Harry Potter night over backlash

The Old Forge in Knoydart said staff had received 'inappropriate grief' over the Halloween event

bbc.com

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PoggleReboocca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 1d

The problem being that it will never matter how much you raise for trans youth, the damage caused by validating that horrible woman's views will be more damage than you can ever repair with a few quid from a fund raiser.

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