Dr Phoenix CS Andrews
@thatdocphoenix.com
That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews
@thatdocphoenix.com
· Nov 13
Hello new followers! I am trans and autistic but wrote a book that is about neither of those things so neither of those communities tend to know about it. It’s called I Heart Politics and it’s a good read, I promise
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Today is one of those days where, whether or not you have any opinion on what is going on in the news, isn’t the problem.
Days like today are awful because you know that the trans community who are going to end up picking up the tab. Things are only going to get worse.
I’m so fucking exhausted.
Days like today are awful because you know that the trans community who are going to end up picking up the tab. Things are only going to get worse.
I’m so fucking exhausted.
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Today is one of those days where, whether or not you have any opinion on what is going on in the news, isn’t the problem.
Days like today are awful because you know that the trans community who are going to end up picking up the tab. Things are only going to get worse.
I’m so fucking exhausted.
Days like today are awful because you know that the trans community who are going to end up picking up the tab. Things are only going to get worse.
I’m so fucking exhausted.
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Personally I think BBC, especially news, is mismanaged. It's reporting on certain areas, obviously I tend to focus most on immigration, but others as well, is incredibly shoddy. It has huge issues. Not being right wing enough isn't one of them. This feels like an attack to undermine press freedom.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Personally I think BBC, especially news, is mismanaged. It's reporting on certain areas, obviously I tend to focus most on immigration, but others as well, is incredibly shoddy. It has huge issues. Not being right wing enough isn't one of them. This feels like an attack to undermine press freedom.
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Just to get this straight in my head, we've gone from "BBC badly edited a piece about Trump, but was accurate overall", to the "BBC isn't transphobic enough and is all woke", and we're still arguing, regardless of the myriad of issues with the BBC, whether there's a genuine right wing attack on it?
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Just to get this straight in my head, we've gone from "BBC badly edited a piece about Trump, but was accurate overall", to the "BBC isn't transphobic enough and is all woke", and we're still arguing, regardless of the myriad of issues with the BBC, whether there's a genuine right wing attack on it?
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Men like this are transphobes because they are, deep down, misogynists. They simply believe they are better than women at everything, and in trans women they have found a group it is alright to descriminate against. This man believes cis women are his physical inferiors, and needs you to know that.
It’s a good step forward and hopefully puts an end to this discussion. The vast majority of people will agree with this and it’s the fairest thing to do.
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Men like this are transphobes because they are, deep down, misogynists. They simply believe they are better than women at everything, and in trans women they have found a group it is alright to descriminate against. This man believes cis women are his physical inferiors, and needs you to know that.
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...but in general so much of the 'should Labour pivot to the left to win back the Greens?' chat inside and outside the government ignores that 'the Labour 2024, Green 2025 voter is basically the Labour voter that has done worst out of the government's policies and the broader economic backdrop'.
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
...but in general so much of the 'should Labour pivot to the left to win back the Greens?' chat inside and outside the government ignores that 'the Labour 2024, Green 2025 voter is basically the Labour voter that has done worst out of the government's policies and the broader economic backdrop'.
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This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
putting her phone in a pouch would have made her killers less transphobic and violent?
Phones did not murder Brianna Ghey in cold blood.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
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If the lads had been upfront all along and just said that the likes of Sonia are vicious whackjobs and crackpots - and they absolutely are - then we might not be in this mess now.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If the lads had been upfront all along and just said that the likes of Sonia are vicious whackjobs and crackpots - and they absolutely are - then we might not be in this mess now.
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It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
Transphobia is a pipeline to the far right. An example:
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
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She uses the word "impartiality" here, but what Sonia Sodha wants from the BBC Director General isn't impartiality at all.
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
She uses the word "impartiality" here, but what Sonia Sodha wants from the BBC Director General isn't impartiality at all.
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The key is to raise taxes enough to actually be able to do something with it, beyond placating the OBR and bond markets
Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
If Labour want a fairer society, they must argue for it
Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.
It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...
renewal.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The key is to raise taxes enough to actually be able to do something with it, beyond placating the OBR and bond markets
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Those “trans issues” which Alan Rusbridger doesn’t object to?
• Drag race:
Nothing particularly to do with trans people, just queer culture existing.
• Stories about pride:
Ditto.
• Occational stories about trans people existing.
• Regular transphobia and conspiracy theories about trans people.
• Drag race:
Nothing particularly to do with trans people, just queer culture existing.
• Stories about pride:
Ditto.
• Occational stories about trans people existing.
• Regular transphobia and conspiracy theories about trans people.
Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Those “trans issues” which Alan Rusbridger doesn’t object to?
• Drag race:
Nothing particularly to do with trans people, just queer culture existing.
• Stories about pride:
Ditto.
• Occational stories about trans people existing.
• Regular transphobia and conspiracy theories about trans people.
• Drag race:
Nothing particularly to do with trans people, just queer culture existing.
• Stories about pride:
Ditto.
• Occational stories about trans people existing.
• Regular transphobia and conspiracy theories about trans people.
Gibb pushed for Prescott as well
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Gibb pushed for Prescott as well
Mumsnet’s take on the BBC stuff. Deranged
![Tim Davies [sic] Resigns - Can Gender
Critical Movement take some credit?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vvaxu5dkaojgdamc3x77kjh4/bafkreico7vqcxaskfykg4jfin7mcbc65ikyw6o2q3b4mevppbjgw2pjyju@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Mumsnet’s take on the BBC stuff. Deranged
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A conscious and deliberate decision basically to weaken everything that demanded anything of anyone - whether it was effectively cancelling the old Newsnight, scrapping HardTALK, just at every stage a 'people won't get mad if we retreat from detail and rigour'.
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A conscious and deliberate decision basically to weaken everything that demanded anything of anyone - whether it was effectively cancelling the old Newsnight, scrapping HardTALK, just at every stage a 'people won't get mad if we retreat from detail and rigour'.
It’s more who Robbie Gibb wants
Seeing so many posts about who “Starmer and Nandy” will appoint as director general. Easy mistake but the government does not appoint the director general! The BBC board, whose members are appointed for rolling terms by the culture secretary, appoints the director general.
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It’s more who Robbie Gibb wants
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twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
People are still reposting the goddamn fake AI beer jacket into my feed. Grow some critical thinking skills
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
People are still reposting the goddamn fake AI beer jacket into my feed. Grow some critical thinking skills
Davie was awful. They will recruit someone worse. Someone who openly hates trans people and the left, rather than just in their actions
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Davie was awful. They will recruit someone worse. Someone who openly hates trans people and the left, rather than just in their actions
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Fun that people who have overseen a massive rightward shift in the current affairs output of the nation’s public broadcaster have resigned… because they’re being perceived as not right-wing enough
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Fun that people who have overseen a massive rightward shift in the current affairs output of the nation’s public broadcaster have resigned… because they’re being perceived as not right-wing enough
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No, the beer coat is not real, please, stop rewarding ai shite.
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
No, the beer coat is not real, please, stop rewarding ai shite.
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Gender critical, islam critical, race critical, Jew critical. "You can't fire me for my genuinely held beliefs in the inherent genetic superiority of the white race." It's all fucked.
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Gender critical, islam critical, race critical, Jew critical. "You can't fire me for my genuinely held beliefs in the inherent genetic superiority of the white race." It's all fucked.
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My god this BBC criticism report is by a man who thinks professional wrestling is a genuine competitive sport.
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
My god this BBC criticism report is by a man who thinks professional wrestling is a genuine competitive sport.