Carrie plays guitar 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Writer, parent and guitar wrangler from Glasgow. Author of Small Town Joy and Carrie Kills A Man, singer in Unquiet Mind. Trans, she/her. https://linktr.ee/carrieplaysguitar. Pic: Omar Salam
Pinned
Closer To The End Than The Beginning, by Unquiet Mind
from the album The Nest That You Have Flown EP
unquietmind.bandcamp.com
I'd like to play you some music that my band and I have taken far too long to finish. We gigged this one over a year ago; it's about the retreat of corporate pride, and it's given me an opportunity to indulge my Talk Talk obsession a little bit.
unquietmind.bandcamp.com/track/closer...
unquietmind.bandcamp.com/track/closer...
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Since at least 2018, right-wing extremist Christians have been quite open that trans people were the thin point of the wedge. This lawfare will not stop, even when they get a favourable judge. It’s death by a thousand cuts. This is what happens when the shite side has millions to burn in legal fees
In the Sheriff Appeal Court, an Edinburgh man's case against Natwest claiming £35,000 in damages for breaches of the Equality Act as a result of his "phobia of Pride-related paraphernalia" has been dismissed. www.scotcourts.gov.uk/media/ygvbue...
www.scotcourts.gov.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Since at least 2018, right-wing extremist Christians have been quite open that trans people were the thin point of the wedge. This lawfare will not stop, even when they get a favourable judge. It’s death by a thousand cuts. This is what happens when the shite side has millions to burn in legal fees
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So fed up with this bullshit. And cis people, try and imagine for a moment what this constant egregious crap feels like for trans people. This is the kind of shite gay people had to put up with in the 80s when AIDS hysteria seemed to be pushing us backwards
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
So fed up with this bullshit. And cis people, try and imagine for a moment what this constant egregious crap feels like for trans people. This is the kind of shite gay people had to put up with in the 80s when AIDS hysteria seemed to be pushing us backwards
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It looks like every Irish outlet (that I've seen so far) has just transcribed a wire services report about the Linehan trial that is *dripping* with anti trans bias, misgendering the victim, calling the teenage victim an "activist" but not Linehan, and eliding the fact that the victim was a child
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It looks like every Irish outlet (that I've seen so far) has just transcribed a wire services report about the Linehan trial that is *dripping* with anti trans bias, misgendering the victim, calling the teenage victim an "activist" but not Linehan, and eliding the fact that the victim was a child
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Look - I agree that, broadly, the BBC is a force for good in this world, and privatising it or losing it would be a net loss for us all.
And then I see performative cruelty done in the name of the public interest, and I just do not give a fuck.
Fix it. Then we’ll talk.
And then I see performative cruelty done in the name of the public interest, and I just do not give a fuck.
Fix it. Then we’ll talk.
Truly grotesque that the BBC chose to describe the *victim* of Graham Linehan's *crime* for which he was *convicted* in these terms. I can only conclude that this is now standard BBC editorial practice for referring to trans people, regardless of context. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Look - I agree that, broadly, the BBC is a force for good in this world, and privatising it or losing it would be a net loss for us all.
And then I see performative cruelty done in the name of the public interest, and I just do not give a fuck.
Fix it. Then we’ll talk.
And then I see performative cruelty done in the name of the public interest, and I just do not give a fuck.
Fix it. Then we’ll talk.
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I don't know the criminal standard specifically but Linehan did say *in court* that he was motivated by the victim's status as a trans person. If a clear statement of explicit prejudice isn't enough then you need a new standard.
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I don't know the criminal standard specifically but Linehan did say *in court* that he was motivated by the victim's status as a trans person. If a clear statement of explicit prejudice isn't enough then you need a new standard.
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
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This is TONIGHT!
I’m super excited to join a wonderful Fantastic YA Reads panel of authors online with @booksofwonder.bsky.social this coming Tuesday, 25 November at 1800 EST/2300 GMT! Join us and reserve your spot here! www.crowdcast.io/c/fantastic-...
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is TONIGHT!
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Glasgow peeps?
Does anyone know Aoife Melusine of Glasgow @melusinequinn.bsky.social ? I’m very worried about her safety.
Does anyone know Aoife @melusinequinn.bsky.social ? I’m very concerned about her wellbeing.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Glasgow peeps?
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In several reports lately, the BBC has used the misgendering slur "biological male" when referring to trans women, including Sophia Brooks today. It's clear that they wrongly see it as neutrally adding clarity to "trans woman".
Tell them to stop.
Make a complaint here.
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
Tell them to stop.
Make a complaint here.
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
Make A Complaint | Contact the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
In several reports lately, the BBC has used the misgendering slur "biological male" when referring to trans women, including Sophia Brooks today. It's clear that they wrongly see it as neutrally adding clarity to "trans woman".
Tell them to stop.
Make a complaint here.
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
Tell them to stop.
Make a complaint here.
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
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the picture that emerges of british courts is one of normative middle and upper class people determining the life conditions of the rest of us according to their own prejudices
Someone ask the judge what her reaction would be if she was on the receiving end of what Glinner did, *then* followed it up with that performance in court?
But of course we all know the answer anyway.
But of course we all know the answer anyway.
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
the picture that emerges of british courts is one of normative middle and upper class people determining the life conditions of the rest of us according to their own prejudices
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I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
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In my experience of emailing Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, who's my MSP he'll respond when it's something they can blame Westminster for (Supreme Court) but I get crickets when it's something actually within his power
Something that should be laid at the feet of Wes Streeting and likewise the SNP dragging their heels in Scotland -
If hormone therapy saves the lives of trans youth, what, logically, does that mean denying that care achieves?
If hormone therapy saves the lives of trans youth, what, logically, does that mean denying that care achieves?
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In my experience of emailing Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, who's my MSP he'll respond when it's something they can blame Westminster for (Supreme Court) but I get crickets when it's something actually within his power
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It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
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Seen some people misunderstanding the point of TSN pointing out our previous communications with the government about this. It's not because we expect them to have empathy for trans people or to listen out of the goodness of their hearts. It's to prove that they know exactly what they're doing.
Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views
Wes Streeting continues to ignore safeguarding concerns about parents group linked to abusive practices
Trans Safety Network has seen evidence Wes Streeting and the DHSC solicited feedback on a “puberty blocker risk form” from Bayswater Support Group and other anti-trans groups in September 2025, 6 mont...
transsafety.network
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Seen some people misunderstanding the point of TSN pointing out our previous communications with the government about this. It's not because we expect them to have empathy for trans people or to listen out of the goodness of their hearts. It's to prove that they know exactly what they're doing.
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There is no other word for it? They just began an obsessive campaign of legal and political attack on our rights, which trans people - as a scattered and isolated group with limited political connections - have been unable to do much about.
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
There is no other word for it? They just began an obsessive campaign of legal and political attack on our rights, which trans people - as a scattered and isolated group with limited political connections - have been unable to do much about.
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A decade ago it looked like it was possible to hope for trans rights to get better in this country (from the "OK but a lot to be desired" that it was before). We were being treated with respect and dignity for the first time. This sent many parts of the British establishment insane.
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A decade ago it looked like it was possible to hope for trans rights to get better in this country (from the "OK but a lot to be desired" that it was before). We were being treated with respect and dignity for the first time. This sent many parts of the British establishment insane.
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Increasingly the state of trans rights in the UK is that things that have been settled aspects of these rights for more than two decades are being stripped away. The idea that "trans activists" are making novel demands is ludicrous.
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Increasingly the state of trans rights in the UK is that things that have been settled aspects of these rights for more than two decades are being stripped away. The idea that "trans activists" are making novel demands is ludicrous.
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Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.
One wonders what *would*.
One wonders what *would*.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.
One wonders what *would*.
One wonders what *would*.
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Everytime a trans girl plays sports along her cis girl mates they go like: "Gigantic, huge manly man crashing through little, daint, girly-babies", even when she's about the same size as them. But when a 6.4, heavy-set adult man attacks a noticeably smaller teen, she suddenly is just an 'activist'…
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Everytime a trans girl plays sports along her cis girl mates they go like: "Gigantic, huge manly man crashing through little, daint, girly-babies", even when she's about the same size as them. But when a 6.4, heavy-set adult man attacks a noticeably smaller teen, she suddenly is just an 'activist'…
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Mainstream publications in the UK used to use trans people’s pronouns in reporting. Then they stopped using pronouns for trans criminals. Then they started referring to trans criminals by their biological sex. Now they seem to have stopped using pronouns for all trans people.
the refusal to use any pronouns for the woman involved here is so bizarre
Graham Linehan cleared of harassing trans activist but convicted of damaging phone
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Mainstream publications in the UK used to use trans people’s pronouns in reporting. Then they stopped using pronouns for trans criminals. Then they started referring to trans criminals by their biological sex. Now they seem to have stopped using pronouns for all trans people.
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Lots of weird headlines for a story in which Graham Linehan *is* guilty of a crime.
Go and look at Graham Linehans social media and tell me he hasn't spent years doing little other than harassing and targeting trans people.
Go and look at Graham Linehans social media and tell me he hasn't spent years doing little other than harassing and targeting trans people.
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Lots of weird headlines for a story in which Graham Linehan *is* guilty of a crime.
Go and look at Graham Linehans social media and tell me he hasn't spent years doing little other than harassing and targeting trans people.
Go and look at Graham Linehans social media and tell me he hasn't spent years doing little other than harassing and targeting trans people.
Our CEO was in The Herald yesterday commenting on last week’s Herald Awards.
“Across public life, animosity towards trans people is becoming more overt and more prominent”
Read the article here:
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
“Across public life, animosity towards trans people is becoming more overt and more prominent”
Read the article here:
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Genuinely, the country's judiciary, legislators and media have been captured by right wing extremists, probably because they're all in the same incestuous circles, and the only way to resolve it is a full clear out
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Genuinely, the country's judiciary, legislators and media have been captured by right wing extremists, probably because they're all in the same incestuous circles, and the only way to resolve it is a full clear out
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November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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If she’d ended up, say, detransitioning they absolutely would have referred to her as a vulnerable child. You wouldn’t be allowed to forget how young she is.
the bbc coining the phrase "teenage trans woman" in their coverage of the linehan case is driving me insane. it's so subtly revealing
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If she’d ended up, say, detransitioning they absolutely would have referred to her as a vulnerable child. You wouldn’t be allowed to forget how young she is.
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We're following the last day of the Graham Linehan trial:
"Bumhole of the Bailey: Kamikaze transphobe Graham Linehan, divorced from reality"
www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...
#Glinner
"Bumhole of the Bailey: Kamikaze transphobe Graham Linehan, divorced from reality"
www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...
#Glinner
Bumhole of the Bailey: Kamikaze transphobe Graham Linehan, divorced from reality
Bumhole of the Bailey: Kamikaze transphobe Graham Linehan, divorced from reality
www.cookdandbombd.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We're following the last day of the Graham Linehan trial:
"Bumhole of the Bailey: Kamikaze transphobe Graham Linehan, divorced from reality"
www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...
#Glinner
"Bumhole of the Bailey: Kamikaze transphobe Graham Linehan, divorced from reality"
www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index...
#Glinner