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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · Nov 11
🏳️‍🌈 We started @WeAreQueerAF.com as a response to the bad practices we saw while working in gay media and mainstream media newsrooms.

This is how we're modelling the change we want to see, changing the media and helping thousands understand the LGBTQIA+ news 🧵👇
We started QueerAF in response to bad practises we saw in gay and mainstream media newsrooms. This is what we're doing differently.
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"Doing nothing is not a neutral act; doing nothing allows suffering to grow." 🏳️‍⚧️

Earlier this month, in a critical parliamentary debate, @racheltaylormp.bsky.social set out the “woeful” state of healthcare for Trans+ people in the UK drawing directly from our investigation 🧵👇
Gender Clinic Files - QueerAF
An investigatory series that exposes deep structural issues with the UK’s approach to transgender healthcare by QueerAF, What The Trans?! and Claire's Trans Talks.
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December 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Roberta Cowell might have been born into a strict, religious family - but her history is one with many lessons. 

This is how a transgender pilot survived the Nazis and set racing records 🏳️‍⚧️🧵
The transgender pilot who survived the Nazis and set racing records
The complex legacy of Roberta Cowell - a pioneering figure in motorsports and the first UK trans woman to get gender affirming surgery
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December 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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While the Levy Review correctly identifies some of the issues with Gender Dysphoria Clinics, its recommendations tinker around the edges

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Levy Review: A scathing audit of NHS Trans+ healthcare that isn’t radical enough to fix the problems
While the Levy Review correctly identifies some of the issues with Gender Dysphoria Clinics, its recommendations tinker around the edges
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December 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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What 2025 was like for Queer People, and what we'll carry into 2026 👇

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What 2025 was like for Queer People, and what we'll carry into 2026
In a world that seems determined to exclude us, it was a year that tested queer people in ways we didn’t expect
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December 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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ICYMI: How Starmer’s anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric has created anti-LGBTQIA+ sentiment 🙄

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Starmer "furious" at homophobic attack on his family, as if his party has nothing to do with it
Since a homophobic attack on his niece, his party has introduced multiple anti-LGBTQIA+ policies and the UK has fallen steeply in human rights rankings
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December 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The Levy Review is a “missed opportunity to give all trans people timely and local access to gender affirming hormones on the basis of informed consent - the most effective way to clear long waiting lists,” says Tammy Hymas of @transactualuk.bsky.social

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Levy Review: A scathing audit of NHS Trans+ healthcare that isn’t radical enough to fix the problems
While the Levy Review correctly identifies some of the issues with Gender Dysphoria Clinics, its recommendations tinker around the edges
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December 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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“A model that thrived under a particular capitalist drive failed because of that same logic, and is now being carved up and sold—without serving the community it was meant to deliver for."

Read our full analysis as Manchester Pride’s assets are set to be sold 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/manchester-p...
Manchester Pride's assets set to be carved up and sold to recover £230K of debt
Liquidators have begun the process of selling key Manchester Pride assets in order to recover debt from the charity
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December 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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“Like gender, the state is precarious, sustained through repetition and exposed to constant unravelling.”

What can queer theory tell us about Palestinian statehood?
What queer theory can tell us about Palestinian statehood
I hope that this Black History Month, we all take the time to uncover history lessons we were denied.
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December 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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“The Levy Review is not a decimation of care as many feared.

“It mostly recommends possibly useful ‘tinkering’, but ultimately calls for changes to a system set up by cisgender people that continues to fail transgender people.” www.wearequeeraf.com/levy-review-...
Levy Review: A scathing audit of NHS Trans+ healthcare that isn’t radical enough to fix the problems
While the Levy Review correctly identifies some of the issues with Gender Dysphoria Clinics, its recommendations tinker around the edges
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December 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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What 2025 was like for Queer People, and what we'll carry into 2026 👇

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What 2025 was like for Queer People, and what we'll carry into 2026
In a world that seems determined to exclude us, it was a year that tested queer people in ways we didn’t expect
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December 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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"When you are constantly bombarded by romance in everyday life, it can feel as if love as an asexual person is not good enough."

How a trip to Glasgow reminded Sarah of the many great love stories in her life
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Exploring asexuality has allowed me to recognise all the love stories in my life and celebrate platonic love
Asexuality teaches us that we can, and should, celebrate platonic bonds in the ways usually reserved for romance
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December 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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What can a handkerchief tell us about queerness and Trans+ life?

Find out in this episode from the latest series of the @wearequeeraf.com podcast with @transhistoryweek.com 🧵
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The tension and dependency of the handkerchief - do you feel it too?
From the hanky code, to the oh so queer cravat - how much do we depend on objects, to express our queer and Trans+ identities?
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December 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Manchester Pride's assets set to be sold, and could be carved up to recover £230K of debt 👇

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Manchester Pride's assets set to be carved up and sold to recover £230K of debt
Liquidators have begun the process of selling key Manchester Pride assets in order to recover debt from the charity
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December 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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An employment tribunal has set out why Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act 2010 does not require segregating Trans+ people from single-sex spaces

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Supreme Court decision does not require Trans+ bathroom ban, Scottish court says
An employment tribunal has set out why Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act 2010 does not require segregating Trans+ people from single-sex spaces
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December 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Christmas Day can be joyful for some and incredibly hard for others.

For many LGBTQIA+ people, this season can bring loneliness, grief, masking or at least frustration at your supposed nearest and dearest 🧵
December 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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How to have yourself a merry, queer Christmas 👇

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How to have yourself a merry, queer Christmas
We owe it to ourselves as a community this Christmas to be each other’s families when our own miss the mark
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December 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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At a time of unprecedented awareness of the Trans+ community, we have never been more misunderstood

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Visibility is nothing if we don't translate it into understanding. Let’s reclaim it
At a time of unprecedented awareness of the Trans+ community, we have never been more misunderstood
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December 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Asexuality is a spectrum, and all of us who fall somewhere on that spectrum have different relationships with sex and sexual attraction

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Asexuality is a spectrum that answered a lifetime of questions
Asexuality is a spectrum, and all of us who fall somewhere on that spectrum have different relationships with sex and sexual attraction
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December 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Most NHS gender clinics require “immediate improvement” to be fit for purpose, a review of adult Trans+ healthcare services says.

Read our analysis 👇🧵
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Levy Review: A scathing audit of NHS Trans+ healthcare that isn’t radical enough to fix the problems
While the Levy Review correctly identifies some of the issues with Gender Dysphoria Clinics, its recommendations tinker around the edges
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December 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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ICYMI: What was behind Girl Guiding and the Women's Institute’s decision to reverse long-standing trans-inclusive policies?

Read our explainer: www.wearequeeraf.com/organisation...
Women's Orgs "pressured" and forced to exclude Trans+ people, amid legal threats
Two culturally significant women's organisations have reversed long-standing trans inclusive approaches, citing "reference to legal challenge" in communications
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December 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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There are chaotic years, and then there is 2025.

Daniel Anthony on the policy rollbacks, courtroom battles and a worsening political climate for LGBTQIA+ rights 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/what-2025-wa...
What 2025 was like for Queer People, and what we'll carry into 2026
In a world that seems determined to exclude us, it was a year that tested queer people in ways we didn’t expect
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December 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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How learning about disabled trans figures from history made me feel less alone

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How learning about disabled trans figures from history made me feel less alone
I hope you, too will find visibility and community - whether past or present in the intersectional icons of queer history
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December 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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For my cisgender friends.
December 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Christmas can bring a lot up for LGBTQIA+ folk.

Alice on how to have yourself a merry, queer Christmas ✨

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How to have yourself a merry, queer Christmas
We owe it to ourselves as a community this Christmas to be each other’s families when our own miss the mark
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December 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Transgender parents are smashing damaging perceptions of gender roles in the family

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Transgender parents are smashing damaging perceptions of gender roles in the family
Queer and trans households are steadfastly raising children to live without gender bias
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December 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM