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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 7h

Partners job ended today and this needed shift is the only chance we have to survive.

Please DM if you can help?

♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 1d

Can anyone out there either fund domain + hosting for a shop (somewhere we have a site builder) or alternatively, host a shop somewhere we can use our own domain + API plugins?

We need to shift gears now to possibly try to make it.
linktr.ee/wylder

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2h

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men.
Studio executives, so many people.
After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her.
What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 1h

That sounds like even murkier territory!

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, reading the article it sounded like all the people who abused her knew she was trans, but according to the Hodge ruling that means that they all "know" that her "biological sex" is "male"

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 1h

None taken. We all think that the gender clinics should be abolished and replaced with providing treatment on the basis of informed consent

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 1h

And gender/sex markers on ID documents are totally pointless when we're all supposed to have the same rights

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 1h

So they used the perception argument as a circumvention. Got it

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 1h

Fair enough. In the UK the NHS only provides GRS and mastectomy for transmasc people, and that's only after years and years of waiting

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 1h

Don't you get FFS in France as well?

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks, this is definitely good news. But doesn't even the SC and EHRC accept that discrimination can occur on the basis of "perceived" sex?

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks

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undeadeleine 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @webway.bsky.social · 2h

for fuck’s sake defend us. even if you don’t give a shit against us they are using us as the wedge to take your rights away. every blow against us is a blow against bodily autonomy for all

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 19h

Yes this is correct. And the Bell case significantly weakened the Gillick Competency, which is a British legal standard for underage patients to manage their own health care decisions. And it was first established for, you guessed it, teens to get abortions without parental approval.

Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 19h

ADF was basically behind the Keira Bell case and trans reporters were trying to note similarities between that case and how the group uses lawfare in the U.S. to attack trans rights.

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 1h

What was the Post Office case?

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ACLU @aclu.org · 13h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 3h

I wouldn't mind some leggings with a pattern like that!

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 4h

I’m from the part of the west midlands that doesn’t really feel like the west midlands but gets lumped in with it because it’s stuck between the west midlands and wales lol

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 4h

In what way did the government or EHRC specifically start to be infected at that time? I’m curious

Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 4h

Under Theresa May?

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you! My sibling is way better at makeup than me though, they have decades of experience!

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, the media campaign and the formation of astroTERF groups started then. But they didn’t properly start to infect government institutions until around 2020

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 4h

At what?

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 4h

And it’s funny how this wasn’t a concern until Liz Truss appointed Kishwer Faulkner to head the EHRC…

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 5h

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 5h

Good point

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 5h

Congratulations! 🥳💜🥰

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