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Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Writer querying my first novel and writing another, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own. Shetlander in Aberdeen. https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
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Yell, Shetland, 1928. Fourteen-year-old Merran meets a mysterious stranger on the beach who causes her to question whether there was more to her brother's drowning five years prior. But the stranger, Solveg, isn't all she seems, and her presence brings danger to the community.
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Very important, because this is very clearly what crackpot campaigners, politicians and press have always been hoping will happen: the public will correctly understand they’re being urged to rise up and hound transgender people on their behalf, thus resolving any issues without recourse to law.
An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.
December 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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In "Santa Buddy", Michael Bublé asks his straight pal for:

A Rolex
A '65 Convertible 🚻
A yacht 🚻
The deed to a platinum mine🚻
Canucks tickets
Unspecified gifts from Mercedes
Cash

🚻 indicates gifts which Eartha etc asked Santa Baby for (she sang for a '54 car in '53 though)
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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#C4News went above & beyond, reporting:

"a nurse has won a harassment claim against Dr Beth Upton."

No she didn't. NHS FIFE harassed her, not Upton.

This is almost defamatory, & they mentioned none of the dismissed parts or the implications for trans women in SS spaces. I complained to Ofcom.
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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You know, infuriating and a shameful betrayal though the BBC and other media's misreporting of the Sandie Peggie judgment is, it also doesn't really matter.

What matters is the judgment which lawyers will read, use to advise their clients, and inclusion will be the winner.
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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For heaven sake. I think we ALL need to report all these media outlets Ofcom.
Just haven’t got the spoons right now, but if anyone could put a template letter together that would be amazing!
Alternatively, I don’t have the details of which outlets said what to hand, but…
December 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Picking a ten year old track from an overplayed advert as 'song of the year' is why TikTok should be shut down immediately.
December 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Tribunal: *finds that Sandie Peggie harassed Dr Beth Upton*
British Press: Hahaha no, that's not the story we already decided we like, they must have said it wrong, we'll just say the opposite thing happened ☺️
#C4News went above & beyond, reporting:

"a nurse has won a harassment claim against Dr Beth Upton."

No she didn't. NHS FIFE harassed her, not Upton.

This is almost defamatory, & they mentioned none of the dismissed parts or the implications for trans women in SS spaces. I complained to Ofcom.
December 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Overwhelming establishment media in the UK lining up in defence of a massive racist who was found to be an harasser because she's transphobic and all they care about is this fucking culture war against a tiny minority of people who are publicly treated as guilty (of something) until proven otherwise
December 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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and the worst part is that they're not even managing to convince anyone but themselves.

The general public switches off when they see trans related shit cos they don't care. The only people reading all of this bullshit is annoyed trans people and outright delusional bigots.
Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US
December 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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You really do not want to get shingles.
The shingles vaccine could lay me out for a week and I'd prefer that to shingles.
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Cormack claiming Dundee has way more attractions than Aberdeen is bizarre. Really canna be arsed with the club just now.
🔴Catch up on key updates from Aberdeen's AGM at Pittodrie - as Dave Cormack gives EPIC stadium update including...

➡️New council talks
➡️How voters could swing stadium bid Dons' way
➡️When Reds would move on from beach idea

www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/foo...
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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45 years since John Lennon was murdered. I heard it on the radio ( this was before breakfast television.) I was halfway through S6 at Hamilton Grammar. I only really knew Lennon from Bank Holiday Beatles films that were quaint and without a plot.
December 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Man, I love this movie, despite the fact I'm a rarity here. But what the filmbros who love Elon Musk don't understand is that you're not supposed to like the protagonist. This film is about the toxification of the male ego, not some crusader's fight against "the system".
December 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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She lost all bar one of her claims and that against NHSFife. She lost all her claims against Dr Upton. The judge had some very harsh words for Peggie, her lawyer and Forstater. Don't believe the spin the trans hating media put on this
December 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Well, I've had a weird and kinda gross morning on here, so I'm going to step back for a minute.

Buy trans books. Buy a lot of trans books. Today and every day.
On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
December 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Have just been interviewed about the ‘Peggie’ case for BBC Scotland.

I’ll be travelling when it is broadcast this evening, so pleased to hear what others think.

Immediate ‘takeaways’ from (1272 paragraph) judgment:
December 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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My thread earlier focused on the discussion re. FWS - but I just want to draw this out really explicitly:

The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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gonna say that if a poorly written thinly-veiled "Harry Potter rape fantasy with the serial numbers filed off" book got a six-figure publishing deal and pre-sold movie rights then all the wonderfully written trans books you and I know of deserve AT LEAST more than that.
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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