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@woke66.bsky.social
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Definitely a bit woke! Supports LGBTQ rights and will block transphobes, racists and fools.
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adambienkov.bsky.social
The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.

Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
thegmcconnachie.bsky.social Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 1d
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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ameresolicitor.bsky.social
Default unisex?

The article is trash. Her attempts to claim attacking trans people’s existence isn’t disqualifying is disgraceful…

…and even she doesn’t think trans exclusion would actually work in practice.
"If you've got, you know, two self-contained cubicles, one of which is labelled men and one of which is labelled women, then the most sensible thing in those circumstances for a service provider to do is to make both of those unisex."
December 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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reactiveashley.bsky.social
This is absolutely disgusting. Stephenson still believes proselytising to remove human rights should be tolerated at work.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said
www.bbc.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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pickwick.bsky.social
The latest terrible transphobic article from the BBC does their new creepy "biological male" thing but is also repeatedly saying the bathroom ban is only controversial among "some transgender campaigners" rather than most of the left, very many cis women, the queer community, etc
December 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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sheg7.bsky.social
'Transgender' has moved up to 2nd in the most searched porn term on PornHub in 2025, behind ever-present top 5 "Lesbians"

A salient reminder that men love to spaff over things they ultimately have very little real world respect for.

Great news for sex-less cis-het marriages, mind.
Graph, showing the information in the tweet
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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agirlcalledlina.bsky.social
You are not a trans ally if you want to have a debate over trans rights just to be sure
December 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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goodlawproject.org
It's just a matter of time before the Cambridge Some Women Society abuses or harasses trans students - their exclusion being inherent in its worldview - and when it does we will seek to ensure the Student Union acts consistently with its published values. www.cambridgesu.co.uk/news/article...
The registering of gender-critical societies
Hello, my name is Olivia and I am the Student Community and Societies sabbatical officer at Cambridge SU. I am writing to address widespread student concerns regarding the rights of our trans students and the registration of a single-sex society. This post seeks to clarify the SU’s position.
www.cambridgesu.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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sophieperryportfolio.com
40 mins in and there is a huge turn out of current and ex-Girlguiding members
December 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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sophieperryportfolio.com
People are lining the full length of the wall alongside the Royal Mews in front of Girlguiding HQ
December 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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sophieperryportfolio.com
"Trans girls belong in Guiding too, and that's why we're protesting!"
December 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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thegmcconnachie.bsky.social
Indeed. I just hate that we’re in a timeline in which support and empathy for marginalised groups is deemed extreme while hatred and disdain for those same groups garners support and air time on political/news programmes
December 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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thegmcconnachie.bsky.social
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We have now reached the stage where the BBC, the national broadcaster, now thinks if you express sympathy or support for the trans community you are now considered “problematic”. So solidarity with @robinince.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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notrightruth.bsky.social
"I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career."

An act like this is, in itself, a victory for kindness and empathy.
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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colinelves.bsky.social
BTW, I’ve heard more overt racism in the past week than I heard in the previous 10 years, if anyone is wondering how things are going in “normal Britain”.

Well done everyone: we’ve made racism acceptable again.
colinelves.bsky.social Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 4d
Can we go back to responding to racism and antisemitism with disgust and opprobrium please?
December 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
amazing that the party that lets the far right, sexist, hate group 'sex matters' set their policy agenda sucks at preventing, and protecting women and girls from, gender based violence.
December 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
'One parent told me that she was hearing reports of Dr Hillary Cass (of the Cass Review) teaching staff at NHS Sussex on how to detransition trans children.'

northwestbylines.co.uk/opinion-corn...
Giving a voice to the voiceless – A trans woman investigates
How and why I investigated what is going on with the treatment of trans children in Sussex, and how if affects the children, their families and me
northwestbylines.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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hleehurley.com
"Just protecting women and girls"
thatidiotmonro.bsky.social Mark MonroHoHo | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 2d
They invited Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to the Harry Potter set THIS SEPTEMBER?!?
December 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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natacha.bsky.social
Streeting has already interfered by careful selection of “researchers” associated with a designated anti-trans hate group to carry out an unethical and pseudoscientific “trial” designed to get the result he wants.
Streeting admits he's 'not comfortable' with allowing puberty blockers trial, but defends following clinicians' advice Q: You are allowing a trial of puberty blockers for children questioning their gender. Some children involved will be as young as 10. Why are you allowing this? Streeting says in her report Hilary Cass uncovered a shocking lack of evidence about the effectiveness of these treatments. As a result, the government stopped the use of puberty blockers, and Streeting says he extended this. But Cass also recommended a trial, he says. He admits he is "not comfortable" about this going ahead. But he says, in allowing it to go ahead, he is following the clinical advice. He says he is uncomfortable about the idea of stopping puberty. But he says other countries use these drugs. There is some evidence that it is better than leaving trans people withot treatment, and all the distress that comes with that. This does not sit comfortably with him, he says. But, as a politician, he does not want to interfer with clinicians who know far more about this topic than he does.
December 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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lovingmeuk.bsky.social
Last week our Chief Operating Officer commented on the exclusion of trans girls from GirlGuiding.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/tran...
Excluding trans children is pointless cruelty - and Girlguiding has set a dangerous example | LBC
When a charity as large and well-resourced as Girlguiding folds so quickly, it sends a signal to others that excluding trans people is the path of least resistance, writes Melissa Dee
www.lbc.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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ameresolicitor.bsky.social
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor invited on to the set of Harry Potter?

You still end up wondering if he’s the biggest risk to children associated with the show?
December 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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rebeccajones03.bsky.social
"Men might pretend to be trans to harm women"

WHY DON'T YOU ACTUALLY HOLD MEN TO ACCOUNT FOR ONCE THEN INSTEAD OF BLAMING TRANS PEOPLE
December 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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natacha.bsky.social
Non-binary barrister is very clear that excluding trans people is not mandatory.

This means that if you exclude trans people you are doing it voluntarily and because you want to.

If you want to exclude trans people you will be held responsible for your actions.
Barrister confirms trans ‘exclusion is not mandatory’ after discrimination case
The UK’s first out non-binary barrister has emphasised that “nothing in the current law makes [trans] exclusion mandatory”.
www.thepinknews.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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dorianlynskey.bsky.social
That's the way to do it
Amanda Seyfried: "I'm not fucking apologizing" for calling Charlie Kirk "hateful. I mean, for fuck's sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that based on actual reality, actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and I'm free to have an opinion."
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM