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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 12h

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-Are pushing conversion therapy as first line trans 'treatment'
-Appointed TERF to replace EHRC Head, despite 'No' from Women & Equalities Committee and Joint Committee on Human Rights
-Look increasingly likely to boot trans U-25s from NHS healthcare to claim they've cut waitlists

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 12h

Not so long ago, LGBTQ traitor Streeting milled up a sob story about how trans people's waitlists are just too awful (as if he had nothing to do with that) - I just know this is how he's planning to cut them.

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 1d

🆕️ Some 32,000 people could lose access to care if all of the Cass Review reccomendations are implemented a new investigation shows

Majority of adults waiting for Trans+ healthcare are under 25

Two-thirds of Trans+ people would lose care if all Cass Review recommendations implemented

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 12h

This is a great idea 🏳️‍⚧️

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 15h

Thinking globally, but acting locally sparked a movement, that has ultimately spread the Safe Space initiative nationwide

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-my-local-action-turned-into-a-national-movement-creating-safe-spaces-for-trans-people/

How my local action turned into a national movement creating safe spaces for Trans+ people

Thinking globally, but acting locally sparked a movement, that has ultimately spread the Safe Space initiative nationwide

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 16h

Labour:
-Banned puberty blockers for trans youth
-Refuse scrutiny of Cass Review
-Lied abt trans suicides
-Commissioned Cass-style Levy review for trans adults
-Set 'Trans Section 28' from Sep 2026
-Backed Sullivan Review plan to forcibly out trans ppl
-Openly support EHRC trans-segregation guidance

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17h

Quite a bloody cheek, this, given the UK has the most hostile regime towards healthcare for young trans people and their families in the world (www.gov.uk/government/s...).

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 21h

My updated go-to sources for the best news, analysis and political commentary - now including @thenerve.news

(You can tell I’m having an admin heavy weekend)

🐻

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 17h

I'd go apricot jam then cheese - reckon a wensleydale would work well :)

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22h

Zack Polanski, "Reform UK's Zia Yusuf was full of b*llocks and I think it was important to call that out on #BBCQT"

"What has become clear about Reform UK, they're a bunch of cowards"

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John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social · 19h

This really is a great counter-propaganda tactic

Alt text: A person in a large green inflatable frog costume faces a line of police officers in riot gear at night. The frog has dark spots and a blue scarf. The officers wear helmets, masks, and body armor, some holding shields. Text on the image reads: “I obviously started a movement of people showing up looking ridiculous, which is the exact point. It’s to show how the narrative that is being pushed with how we are violent extremists is completely ridiculous. Nothing about this screams extremist and violent. So it's just a ridiculous narrative that the Trump administration wants to put out so they can continue their fascist dictatorship.” — Seth Todd, Portland Frog 🐸✊

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 19h

"Sex not being black & white [shocked]..my community. They support me [but] some of the same ppl criticize trans individuals who can’t walk in with a diagnosis on a piece of paper like I can. DNA proof or not, intersex & trans ppl are real & we should believe them"
👏
www.huffpost.com/entry/inters...

I Spent 32 Years Believing I Was Male. Then A Shocking Phone Call Exploded Everything I Knew.

"Our phone conversation sounded like a price negotiation in the final hour of a flea market as I bargained for my old identity back."

www.huffpost.com

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 8d

I'm not - I don't know Kristol (I'm not US) but I'm not into Republicans whether they're Trump critics or not. I found AHH's article interesting & informative nevertheless and find it useful to know what others are thinking, esp when they're trying to make ppl in the UK aware it's all coming here.

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 9d

Wibble, as we used to say

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9d

Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn’t let her in to use the restroom in Illinois today.

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 9d

UK media constantly hides its power. One look at how the entire MSM attacks trans ppl (when quite brief research would reveal well-documented lobby groups, science denial, dark money & far-right power agendas) shows the RW has already bought them.
The MSM will propagandise our rights away.

Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 9d

The greatest threat to our democracy, freedom, and human rights is not Farage. It is the overwhelming majority of the British news media.

They promote Farage, and they protect Farage.

If they carry on like this, we will soon have no democracy.

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David, The King of Kemptown @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 9d

Powerful!

Can we have Zack as PM right now please?

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 9d

"Real pride comes when you no longer hide who you are"

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 9d

Republican Trump critic, Bill Kristol:

-"It’s typical for mass movements to lose touch with reality.”

-"We’re beyond the stage of asking if our institutions will hold. They haven’t.”

-“What’s happening in the UK is following our path”

Grim reading, but important

Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 9d

My latest piece for @bylinetimes: America’s authoritarian descent is gaining pace, under the increasingly unhinged and unconstrained mad King Donald. Where America leads, other countries are following suit. open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

The Madness of King Donald

After the recent bewildering slew of Trump administration outrages, Alexandra Hall Hall questions conservative commentator and fierce Trump critic Bill Kristol

open.substack.com

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 10d

I'm about to publish book 7, I hear this so hard

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 10d

Opposing aspiring dictators is good.

Not opposing them is bad.

We all knew this until quite recently.

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 11d

Cruz claims Trump planned the shutdown to counter court blocking of his earlier attempts to lay off federal workers. He says the White House has told all cabinet agencies to give permanent layoffs to left-wing bureaucrats.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 11d

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) revealed President Donald Trump's plans for the government shutdown on Wednesday during a new episode of his podcast, "Verdict."

'Brilliant game of chess': Trump's plans for government shutdown revealed by key allies

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) revealed President Donald Trump's plans for the government shutdown on Wednesday during a new episode of his podcast, "Verdict." The federal government shut down on Wednesday after Republicans and Democrats failed to strike a deal on a bill to fund the government through the end...

bit.ly

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 12d

Owen Jones has been banned from 'Labour' Party conference - but Maya Forstater is welcome.

And they wonder why progressive voters are deserting them in droves.

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 18d

"Trump & other demagogues...throw something patently ridiculous into the conversation - “London is going Sharia” - and count on two things:
-Their supporters to believe it
-Everyone else to roll their eyes & mutter “oh for fuck’s sake” before scrolling on."

Why we shouldn't do the second for them ⬇️

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 18d

Yesterday Trump told the UN that London wants to “go to Sharia Law.”

I’ve lived here for a decade and I’m pretty sure I would have noticed if Tower Hamlets had turned into a caliphate.

FAQ below on why this rant is weapons-grade nonsense - and why debunking it matters.

Sharia in London? An FAQ for the Terminally Gullible

Spoiler: I live here. I’d have noticed if Tower Hamlets had turned into a caliphate.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

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Julia Gulia 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jrobb773.bsky.social · 19d

Please, please start right now with “bodily autonomy is for all, no matter the group they’re in” because they’re going to keep going down the DSM finding groups few will fight for.

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 18d

Our society maintains a cosy illusion of linear progress from 'primitivism' to an 'enlightened now', which auto-casts us as smarter than our silly forebears.
But believing we're too clever to have fallen for the propaganda & misinformation of the past is exactly what makes us vulnerable to it now.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19d

During WW1 there was a rumour that aspirin caused the Spanish Flu. As I was writing about that last year I often shook my head in disbelief at the stupidity of our near ancestors. Seems a lot of people are still dumb enough to believe nonsense.

Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 19d

I wish MPs would wake up.
The 'heat' exists bcos right-wing lobbyists want to gut trans rights to create legal means to gut gay & abortion rights.

They foment heat FOR AN AGENDA!

Calling us "Trans activists" HELPS that agenda. So does both-sidesing.
LibDems can support trans ppl or lose our votes

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 20d

For 6+years non stop, they have demonised every single one of us as predators, paedophiles and child mutilators. There can be no “conversations” with these ghouls.

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Velvet Glitterman @velvetglitterman.bsky.social · 20d

They do - Reeves added that "the numbers that Reform have come out with overnight have already begun to disassemble."
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Meanwhile, the Royal College of Nursing called it "abhorrent beyond words...[showing] neither compassion nor understanding".

...Can I vote for them instead?

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 20d

Labour have branded Nigel Farage’s migration attacks "unfunded, unworkable and falling apart in real time." And the classic: "Unserious".

They seem very reluctant to say "immoral" or "wrong".

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20d

The truth: we need migration.

The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it.

Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality.

Reject it. Draw the line.

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Nathan Ormond @nath-ormond.bsky.social · 20d

The UK economy would collapse without immigration. Universities would close, we would stop innovating, tax revenues would massively reduce and we wouldnt be able to pay for the NHS, state pension and schools. We depend on migrants and should welcome them

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