Serena
@serenadtyl.bsky.social
Baby trans, Too shy and dysphoric to post any pictures, She/Her
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How Am I Supposed To Love Myself?
YouTube video by Beth McCarthy - Topic
youtu.be
"Hiding from mirrors
Photos deleted
If I don't have to see it
I'm fine
Been quiet at dinner
Sick with a secret
I don't feel like eating
I'm lying"
Photos deleted
If I don't have to see it
I'm fine
Been quiet at dinner
Sick with a secret
I don't feel like eating
I'm lying"
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This is an account set up by @natacha.bsky.social to facilitate setting up a new group.
I regard the existing EHRC as not independent and consequently not legitimate. So I am looking to recruit members of an independent EHRC who can fulfill its functions with genuine integrity and…
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I regard the existing EHRC as not independent and consequently not legitimate. So I am looking to recruit members of an independent EHRC who can fulfill its functions with genuine integrity and…
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January 17, 2026 at 10:36 AM
This is an account set up by @natacha.bsky.social to facilitate setting up a new group.
I regard the existing EHRC as not independent and consequently not legitimate. So I am looking to recruit members of an independent EHRC who can fulfill its functions with genuine integrity and…
1/4
I regard the existing EHRC as not independent and consequently not legitimate. So I am looking to recruit members of an independent EHRC who can fulfill its functions with genuine integrity and…
1/4
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FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"
January 17, 2026 at 3:53 AM
FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"
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I don't understand US peeps going on about the Epstein files. You all know he's guilty already.
He's got secret police kidnapping, attacking and killing people already. He's effectively resigned you from NATO and is threatening a war against the rest of us.
It's not distraction.
He's got secret police kidnapping, attacking and killing people already. He's effectively resigned you from NATO and is threatening a war against the rest of us.
It's not distraction.
January 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I don't understand US peeps going on about the Epstein files. You all know he's guilty already.
He's got secret police kidnapping, attacking and killing people already. He's effectively resigned you from NATO and is threatening a war against the rest of us.
It's not distraction.
He's got secret police kidnapping, attacking and killing people already. He's effectively resigned you from NATO and is threatening a war against the rest of us.
It's not distraction.
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Virgin Active decided to restrict changing room access based on 'biological sex'. We're acting for, and financially supporting, a non-binary transmasculine person and a trans woman who are suing it for breaching the Equality Act.
We've published the Letter Before Action.
We've published the Letter Before Action.
We’re suing Virgin Active over their transphobic rules | Good Law Project
Last summer Virgin Active banned trans people from bathrooms and changing rooms across the UK – so we’re taking them to court
goodlaw.social
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Virgin Active decided to restrict changing room access based on 'biological sex'. We're acting for, and financially supporting, a non-binary transmasculine person and a trans woman who are suing it for breaching the Equality Act.
We've published the Letter Before Action.
We've published the Letter Before Action.
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This is why Labour won’t introduce the ban on LGBT conversion therapy - because they’re basically mandating conversion therapy for trans kids in the new - ‘gender critical’ transphobe designed - Children & Young People Gender Service (CYPGS) 😣
👉🏻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👉🏻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 15, 2026 at 8:50 AM
This is why Labour won’t introduce the ban on LGBT conversion therapy - because they’re basically mandating conversion therapy for trans kids in the new - ‘gender critical’ transphobe designed - Children & Young People Gender Service (CYPGS) 😣
👉🏻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👉🏻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A blanket ban on puberty blockers, with a medical trial the only way to access them for young people, still isn’t enough for those who are ideologically opposed to the very existence of trans people and want the trial stopped.
Nothing ever will be.
Nothing ever will be.
January 14, 2026 at 5:39 PM
A blanket ban on puberty blockers, with a medical trial the only way to access them for young people, still isn’t enough for those who are ideologically opposed to the very existence of trans people and want the trial stopped.
Nothing ever will be.
Nothing ever will be.
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In a screeching u-turn from its Manifesto the Government now backs conversion therapy for trans people. That is what 'supporting' trans youth but denying them the medicine they need to physically transition means.
Government 'moving away' from puberty blockers, minister says
The Government is reportedly 'moving away' from medical interventions for trans people such as puberty blockers, a health minister has said.
www.thepinknews.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:39 AM
In a screeching u-turn from its Manifesto the Government now backs conversion therapy for trans people. That is what 'supporting' trans youth but denying them the medicine they need to physically transition means.
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Reading this I just don’t know how me meeting Streeting will make any difference. It’ll cause me psychological harm to go, but to not do it will also mess with my head, because I won’t have tried everything in my power. Obviously this is all tied up with negative thoughts about failing Alice.
In a screeching u-turn from its Manifesto the Government now backs conversion therapy for trans people. That is what 'supporting' trans youth but denying them the medicine they need to physically transition means.
Government 'moving away' from puberty blockers, minister says
The Government is reportedly 'moving away' from medical interventions for trans people such as puberty blockers, a health minister has said.
www.thepinknews.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Reading this I just don’t know how me meeting Streeting will make any difference. It’ll cause me psychological harm to go, but to not do it will also mess with my head, because I won’t have tried everything in my power. Obviously this is all tied up with negative thoughts about failing Alice.
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Scientists reject a binary view of human sex at NIH symposium
They say complexities of human sex require more inclusive definitions, and research data need to reflect biological complexity
They say complexities of human sex require more inclusive definitions, and research data need to reflect biological complexity
Scientists reject a binary view of human sex at NIH symposium
Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.
cen.acs.org
January 12, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Scientists reject a binary view of human sex at NIH symposium
They say complexities of human sex require more inclusive definitions, and research data need to reflect biological complexity
They say complexities of human sex require more inclusive definitions, and research data need to reflect biological complexity
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Desperate for revenge - and with nothing to go on - the FSU has declared an injunction and used its media connections to make libellous accusations, putting an innocent trans person in danger while interfering with an ongoing legal process.
So much for "free speech".
xoxo BASH BACK
So much for "free speech".
xoxo BASH BACK
January 11, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Desperate for revenge - and with nothing to go on - the FSU has declared an injunction and used its media connections to make libellous accusations, putting an innocent trans person in danger while interfering with an ongoing legal process.
So much for "free speech".
xoxo BASH BACK
So much for "free speech".
xoxo BASH BACK
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Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
January 10, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
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Our latest: 📰UK’s EHRC has no working definition of biological sex, FOIA request shows 📰
📝: @artemis.theneedlenews.com
Go to theneedle.news/qeh_UTihO to read the article!
📝: @artemis.theneedlenews.com
Go to theneedle.news/qeh_UTihO to read the article!
January 9, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Our latest: 📰UK’s EHRC has no working definition of biological sex, FOIA request shows 📰
📝: @artemis.theneedlenews.com
Go to theneedle.news/qeh_UTihO to read the article!
📝: @artemis.theneedlenews.com
Go to theneedle.news/qeh_UTihO to read the article!
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Participants in Dr Horton's study contrasted abuse under GIDS and the new Children and Young People’s Gender Service with the affirmative approach of WellBN GP practice, which provided real space for exploration and reflection.
WellBN is now under NHS investigation for providing this care.
WellBN is now under NHS investigation for providing this care.
![Interviewees reflected upon a very different approach to being questioned within affirmative services. One parent commented that “I think she probably trusted [affirmative GP] more because he was trans—That first appointment was extraordinary because [adolescent], I think, felt seen for the first time, felt heard… and I felt like he was asking questions that were pertinent”. Several parents felt that an affirmative service created a safe space where trans adolescents could speak honestly about their feelings and their worries. One parent described seeing their child open-up more in one affirmative appointment, than in 2 years in a non-affirming service:
I was just quite blown away. I was like, Wow. We sat in that office for 45 minutes. I came out like almost puzzled. I’m like years. I was almost ** angry when I left, about the Tavistock again. In f****** years. Never once has somebody sat down and talked to my daughter like that, like she’s a person and it’s not an interrogation. It’s just a holistic health approach to a trans young person. It was wonderful actually.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:imuudyzzfj56y3lxiy35kop2/bafkreicj4pu3riwh4ubicpfecwycvcu72365xqx6g5t3ujnfvkvtlhftpq@jpeg)
January 8, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Participants in Dr Horton's study contrasted abuse under GIDS and the new Children and Young People’s Gender Service with the affirmative approach of WellBN GP practice, which provided real space for exploration and reflection.
WellBN is now under NHS investigation for providing this care.
WellBN is now under NHS investigation for providing this care.
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Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.
“The worst thing I’ve ever experienced” – comparing experiences of affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare provision for trans adolescents in the UK
Within trans youth healthcare two fundamentally different models of care persist, with a significant difference between affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare services. To date there has been l...
doi.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.
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“Intersex people are individuals with sex characteristics which do not fit the typical binary views of male or female bodies... Consequently, many people, like the author, only find out later in life or not at all that they are intersex.”
Read the full article: transactual.org.uk/blog/categor...
Read the full article: transactual.org.uk/blog/categor...
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
“Intersex people are individuals with sex characteristics which do not fit the typical binary views of male or female bodies... Consequently, many people, like the author, only find out later in life or not at all that they are intersex.”
Read the full article: transactual.org.uk/blog/categor...
Read the full article: transactual.org.uk/blog/categor...
"people who have been through this sort of gender identity treatment, they describe it as life-affirming and life-saving. But there is an understandable degree of public anxiety and concern."
So we have people saying this saved their lives v bigots who want us dead.
Who should Streeting listen to?
So we have people saying this saved their lives v bigots who want us dead.
Who should Streeting listen to?
archive.ph
January 6, 2026 at 1:47 PM
"people who have been through this sort of gender identity treatment, they describe it as life-affirming and life-saving. But there is an understandable degree of public anxiety and concern."
So we have people saying this saved their lives v bigots who want us dead.
Who should Streeting listen to?
So we have people saying this saved their lives v bigots who want us dead.
Who should Streeting listen to?
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"The only flags Farage and Starmer have been waving this weekend are white."
Written for the Metro 👇🏼
metro.co.uk/2026/01/05/z...
Written for the Metro 👇🏼
metro.co.uk/2026/01/05/z...
Zack Polanski: Starmer and Farage have proven their craven cowardice on Venezuel
This weekend has proven it beyond doubt - Keir Starmer is a coward.
metro.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 6:06 PM
"The only flags Farage and Starmer have been waving this weekend are white."
Written for the Metro 👇🏼
metro.co.uk/2026/01/05/z...
Written for the Metro 👇🏼
metro.co.uk/2026/01/05/z...
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times.
Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
January 5, 2026 at 2:05 AM
We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times.
Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
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The Free Speech Union commissioned a "security" report on us, so we tested their security. Turns out - it sucks.
We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign.
www.transbashback.com/fsu.html
xoxo BASH BACK
We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign.
www.transbashback.com/fsu.html
xoxo BASH BACK
BASH BACK
www.transbashback.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The Free Speech Union commissioned a "security" report on us, so we tested their security. Turns out - it sucks.
We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign.
www.transbashback.com/fsu.html
xoxo BASH BACK
We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign.
www.transbashback.com/fsu.html
xoxo BASH BACK
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📢 This is a call to anyone able (safeguarding is paramount).
We now need your help!
We need everyone to:
• Email your MP using our template
• Sign our open letter calling out “biological sex” framing as a slur
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We now need your help!
We need everyone to:
• Email your MP using our template
• Sign our open letter calling out “biological sex” framing as a slur
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January 2, 2026 at 6:28 AM
📢 This is a call to anyone able (safeguarding is paramount).
We now need your help!
We need everyone to:
• Email your MP using our template
• Sign our open letter calling out “biological sex” framing as a slur
1/🧵
We now need your help!
We need everyone to:
• Email your MP using our template
• Sign our open letter calling out “biological sex” framing as a slur
1/🧵
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We sent a formal complaint to the BBC over its repeated misgendering of trans people and use of terms like “biological male”. We’ve also written to the Women and Equalities Committee, DCMS, and the Minister for Women and Equalities. Now we need community action.
📢We now need your help! 1/3
📢We now need your help! 1/3
We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people.
Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6
Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6
January 2, 2026 at 4:34 AM
We sent a formal complaint to the BBC over its repeated misgendering of trans people and use of terms like “biological male”. We’ve also written to the Women and Equalities Committee, DCMS, and the Minister for Women and Equalities. Now we need community action.
📢We now need your help! 1/3
📢We now need your help! 1/3
"Hiding from mirrors
Photos deleted
If I don't have to see it
I'm fine
Been quiet at dinner
Sick with a secret
I don't feel like eating
I'm lying"
Photos deleted
If I don't have to see it
I'm fine
Been quiet at dinner
Sick with a secret
I don't feel like eating
I'm lying"
How Am I Supposed To Love Myself?
YouTube video by Beth McCarthy - Topic
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Hiding from mirrors
Photos deleted
If I don't have to see it
I'm fine
Been quiet at dinner
Sick with a secret
I don't feel like eating
I'm lying"
Photos deleted
If I don't have to see it
I'm fine
Been quiet at dinner
Sick with a secret
I don't feel like eating
I'm lying"
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2025 has been an incredibly hard year for trans people. And yet... the political project to erase us is failing. In spite of them having so many levers of power, many of us have continued to thrive, and new pathways open up every day to get around the attacks.
My case for hope for 2026.
My case for hope for 2026.
The Case For Hope: Transgender Rights Going Into 2026
This last year has been one of the hardest years for transgender people in memory. Somehow, though, I'm feeling hope going into 2026.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
2025 has been an incredibly hard year for trans people. And yet... the political project to erase us is failing. In spite of them having so many levers of power, many of us have continued to thrive, and new pathways open up every day to get around the attacks.
My case for hope for 2026.
My case for hope for 2026.