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A wee reflection on section 28/2A I wrote for LGBT History Month:
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4. Dead leaf
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3. Novar Drive
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#dailyphoto20263. Novar Drive
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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
4 days ago
This was a fun episode and so fun to get a wee shout out. I had forgotten I’d alerted them to Kylie’s Wokeness earlier this year. Imagine going to see Kylie and thinking you’re going to be in the company of conservative, trad people 🤣🤣🤣 I’ve seen Kylie a few times, she’s a joy 🤩
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2. Botanic Gardens
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Started a new insta account for my NY Res: posting at least one photo a day while I learn to get better at photography. Give us a follow:
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Why are there no limes?
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A Mere Solicitor
5 days ago
The minister’s legal position on the draft guidance is at odds with the new head of the EHRC who she appointed despite serious concerns about her experience and qualifications for the role…
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Jolyon Maugham KC
6 days ago
Ludicrous for the Guardian to badge 'single sex spaces' a key test facing Starmer. It's neither a key test (polling shows it's a voting issue for almost no-one) nor a test for Starmer (it falls to judges to try and work out the disgraceful Supreme Court meant). Still, gotta stir the culture war pot.
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Similarly, re the Linehan tweet that got him arrested but then the charge dropped, imagine instead of trans people he'd invited folk to punch Jewish people or black people in the genitals.
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Nuzhat Uthmani
6 days ago
👏🏼👏🏼 “I feel that I cannot accept a personal honour because disabled people are being so dishonoured at this time.In fact we are being demonised, dehumanised and scapegoated for political choices and policy failures by consecutive governments.”
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Campaigner turned down MBE over ‘scapegoating’ of people with disabilities
Exclusive: In letter declining proposed award, Tressa Burke, CEO of Glasgow Disability Alliance, accused government of ‘fuelling hatred’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/campaigner-turned-down-mbe-over-scapegoating-of-people-with-disabilities?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Jolyon Maugham KC
6 days ago
Suzanne Moore in 2020: "As a feminist, I would argue that gender is socially constructed, and it can be reconstructed." And in 2025: "This must be the year Britain finally kills off trans ideology." Transphobia is the engine that pulls the train of fascism.
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The National
9 days ago
Right now, all over our country, there are people being made to deny who they are so as not to create friction or disrupt the time that is supposed to be special, writes Maggie Chapman ✍️ Read here:
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She Guevara
6 days ago
It would still be openly prejudiced and actively discriminatory, but if you wanted to merely convey that you wanted to have control over a demographics' movements in public spaces, then you'd use a word like temper, limit, or restrict... Not "kill off"
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BeardedGenius
8 days ago
Yes she was an animal rights activist, but we should honour the dead by highlighting *all* their activism. Bardot faced French courts five times and was convicted on each occasion for “incitement to racial hatred”, and she called Muslims “invaders” who are “destroying us, destroying our country”.
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Wow, it's taken her death for me to discover that Brigitte Bardot was a nasty bigot. Openly racist, homophobic and Islamophobic!
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Fergus Murray
10 days ago
The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people. It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace. New piece:
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‘Biological male’ is a pseudoscientific dogwhistle
The BBC should be better than this.
https://oolong.medium.com/biological-male-is-a-pseudoscientific-dogwhistle-c26c8174a163
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🥂🎆🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Just Nigel 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🎆🥂
10 days ago
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek Themed Restaurant. What are you calling it?
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Classic Gay Men 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
11 days ago
#onthisdayingayhistory
: December 25🧑🎄🎅 1982 – Two married US Army men are found, fully clothed, in bed together and are accused of sex. They say they only fell on the bed while drunk, but accept honorable discharges rather than fight the charges and possibly receive dishonorable discharges.
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She Guevara
11 days ago
Would be great to get Esse House a little festive donation boost going into the new year. The minimum contribution is a share of this post. Go on. It's Christmas.
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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸
13 days ago
No surprise The TERF Express is lying about self-ID in Ireland by making it an issue when it really isn’t in the Republic, so I’ll bring this up yet again. Self-ID and postal codes were introduced in the same week on July 2015. Only the latter has caused problems for some people in Ireland since
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Jolyon Maugham KC
14 days ago
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
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University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
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Natacha
15 days ago
Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
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Good Law Project
15 days ago
This is Trans Mission. A Solidarity Concert for one night only, raising vital funds for Good Law Project and Not a Phase 💓 Get your tickets here 👉
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Mark! The Herald Angel Sing Grimshaw
15 days ago
So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.
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In Scotland, we all wear kilts to work instead of suits.
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16 days ago
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17 days ago
EXCLUSIVE The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”. Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity.
#bbc
#humanrights
#journalism
#transparency
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Stéphanie says… 🏴☠️❄️☃️🎄
17 days ago
No Christian movement should welcome those who hate into their spaces, but it seems only the Quakers are prepared to do that. They’ve already repelled an attack on their trans inclusivity, now they’re making it plain that transphobes have no place in their buildings.
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Annie Wallace
18 days ago
Remember, folks, Allison Bailey's baseless, failed attack on Stonewall has taken five years, and cost a six figure sum, mostly raised by crowd funding. I hope that Stonewall have recourse to claim their court costs from her now.
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On a clear day
18 days ago
With £1,000,000 now spent Allison Bailey loses again.
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Jess O'Thomson
20 days ago
I spoke to Novara about the campaign by anti-trans groups to pretend the law now requires a bathroom ban
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Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One | Novara Media
Gender-critical campaigners had hoped that this year’s Supreme Court ruling would tee up US-style bathroom bills across the UK, throwing hundreds of thousands of pounds at lawsuits to exclude trans wo...
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Jojo she/her
9 months ago
SNP do NOT value you They do NOT respect you They do NOT give a single fuck about you They dont give a fuck about any of us
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QueerAF
21 days ago
🎅 Trans Secret Santa is coming to town… again!
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
are delivering a whopping 896 presents to Trans+ youth all over the UK, who may otherwise feel isolated during this time of year 🧵
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Jolyon Maugham KC
21 days ago
The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.
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Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn
Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’
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Colin Murray
21 days ago
So much of the commentary on the FWS judgment has been driven by reflexive responses to the outcome, but there are so many gaps and leaps in its reasoning that it will spawn litigation for years to come -
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and I flag some failings in judge craft:
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Jolyon Maugham KC
22 days ago
It's not illegal to use the right toilets and no one should adhere to Mary-Ann Stephenson's headmistressly call to "follow rules" that serve no good purpose, breach the UK's human rights obligations, will be bad for all women, and debase trans dignity. Make her appoint her sodding toilet police.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
22 days ago
Bridget Phillipson knew her history, was told by MPs not to appoint her, insisted on appointing her, and in her first interview the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has ignored super clear and explicit human rights law that trans people are not a third sex. What a disgrace.
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Foxdie
24 days ago
So I'm going through the BBC archives on trans people to see how people are talked about and I'm at about 2005 now. 1. "Biological" just does not appear until this year 2. Omission of pronouns completely also doesn't occur until this year 3. Only 5 incidents of misgendering so far
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Natacha
23 days ago
🧵🧵🧵 When
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Published her story in Novara Media evidencing that Hilary Cass was already anti-trans before the Cass Review, I was intrigued by the fact that Cass hadn't tried to sue her or Novara. But if this report by
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I can't believe they didn't talk about Sandie Peggie on Question Time last night. What's going on? Is the BBC scared of the laughable allegation that they've shown pro-trans bias?
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈
24 days ago
everything sarwar is saying could be said to him about his transphobia. fuck him and fuck anyone cheering him on. he's a trump supporting, anti-lgbt+, piece of shit and a starmer lackey. have you seen labour's immigration policies? this is nothing more than two bigots playing team sports.
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She Guevara
25 days ago
I wrote a thing. Give it a read, maybe a share. 🙏
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LGBT+ folk - stop boosting Libby Brooks just to laugh at the pic of the transphobic gathering she posted today. Earlier in the week she contributed to disinformation about the Peggie Case.
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Lee Hurley
25 days ago
Police warn of 1.2 million child sex abuse victims last year. Imagine if politicians, the media and anti-trans activists put a fraction of their energy in to dealing with this instead of hating trans people...
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Sexual abuse ‘goes way beyond grooming gangs’, as police warn of 1.2 million child victims last year | LBC
Experts estimate that 90 per cent of child sexual abuse incidents do not get reported
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Pippa Crear is a bigots' rights activist.
25 days ago
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Sharon Davies is a 'women's rights activist' in the UK sense - ie she mocks trans people on twitter and bigoted client journalists like Pippa lie about it to serve their masters' anti-LGBT+ agenda. These people are scum.
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Suzanne 🇵🇸 she/her
25 days ago
Libby Brooks presenting Peggie as a victim, yet again, instead of questioning why a racist, bigoted, vicious bully is allowed anywhere near staff or patients. Never questioning why nurses have Facebook groups where they discuss patients by name and their health issues. Another column for flushing.
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Philippa East (Author)
26 days ago
Come work for TransActual! We are recruiting a Communications Lead 🤗 We will also soon be advertising for a Fundraising Officer. Full details here:
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Robin Moira White
26 days ago
Some comments by myself on the rather unattractive media campaign now being run by Baronrss Faulkner.
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Former UK equality chief questions Sandie Peggie tribunal ruling
Nurse Sandie Peggie complained about a transgender doctor using a female changing room in a Fife hospital.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75v1d6npr1o
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Zack Polanski
26 days ago
In conversation with Shon Faye. Premiering now: 👇🏼
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How Rising Inequality Impacted The Trans Experience | Shon Faye | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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