How interesting - is Helen Lewis going to write another chin stroking op-ed about how the gender critical movement ‘explores legitimate concerns about women’s sexed based rights’? Maybe she could profile these ‘concerned citizens’??

These changes to Article 8 in particular feel dangerous given how the UK courts are currently interpreting trans rights IANAL etc so do wait for more qualified opinions, but I'm worried

Bathroom bans are unworkable in practice. When pushed, supporters admit they expect trans people to break their laws. Creating laws trans people have no choice but to break isn't an accident. The intent is punishment of the ones they hate. The intent is driving trans people out of public life

BREAKING: Zack Polanski alleged to have kept using WinRAR ‘considerably’ beyond the end of the provided 40 day free trial

Two chapters into this book and my friend sends me this to inform me that even Butler hasn't fucking read "Gender Trouble"

Errrr…

an abusive, stalking, predatory man assaulted a teenage girl, smashed her phone, and then spent days bragging his crimes on his social media. high court judge: you sir, are acquitted. -- never seen a clearer example that trans women are women tbh.

Labour must be destroyed. It's one week until polling day. You know what to do

trans woman: there are a lot of little things here that seem off and i don't trust the thing everyone else: the thing is fine. stop imagining things. you're always so oversensitive the thing: I'm shit actually everyone else: damn! holy shit. fuuuuuuuck. nobody could've foreseen this

We're never going to be respectable or legitimate in the eyes of a cis society hell-bent on enshrining the reproductive imperative above all. High time we stop trying to prove "we've always been here" and focused on emphasizing that we're not going anywhere.

Instagram, where the clever people hang out.

I'm Jewish. I condemn genocide. I condemn the Labour Governments role in the Genocide. The Prime Minister repeatedly conflating criticism of the Israeli Governments genocide and actual antisemitism is disgusting - and makes so many of us as Jewish people feel less safe.

Forever my queen

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Not to be a broken record, but why on earth is Ed Balls there interviewing his wife's work colleagues about a scandal involving the government department she currently runs?

The new Chair of Stonewall, Kezia Dugdale, on JK Rowling (www.theguardian.com/politics/202...).

it's cool that the one thing both of them agree on is that transgender people should be denied healthcare. both those ghouls can go to hell

Drawink

@ Downing Street

Every year, whilst at the Hay Festival, I meet people who think they are at the Hay Festival but are actually at this event, which coincidentally is in the same town at the same time. I often fondly remember Matt Hancock trying to blag his way into a Hay evening event, only to discover this.

It's easy to lose the substantive win here in the Government's transphobic framing. Last summer, we expected the Code to be forced through without scrutiny. Instead, they have had to amend it and recognise they got their legal analysis wrong. It was our community's hard work that achieved this.

It actually is Baal… and this after a dozen Iranian LEGO animations depicting Baal as his ally. This is hard to even process.

Manifesting the US replicating the journey of the Baltic fleet. Someone convince them to stop somewhere to pick up violent monkeys as pets

BASEBALL YURI (1/5)

Warehouses on fire, Molotov thrown at Sam Altman’s house, a data center supporting politician’s home shot at — attacks on the ruling class have begun. Every attacker will now be deemed a terrorist, that’s inevitable. But what the ruling class doesn’t want you to know is they made this inevitable.

A 1st century BCE Roman marble sculpture of four puppies asleep together, discovered in the House of the Faun in Pompeii, and now preserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. 🐾💕

I think I might start noting down every time a cis politics nerd complains about Eleanora from Stats4Lefties and uses her pronouns rather than saying "this person". I have not heard a solitary "she" from any of them in all the pixels that have been spilled enumerating her flaws

Honestly, that "guarantee" in the 2014 legal-opinion has always been over-reported and under-enforced, but a lot of Western media does not care to investigate the realities or nuances of what life is like for queer people in the Third World. C'est la vie.

Following a tip of from @sideways.bsky.social on the Laurel's new scheme to "help" trans people to "wait well" for their healthcare, I was inspired.

2026 Crowd-Sourced Statement of Persons Nominated Master Sheet is now Live - most will be published by 5PM today. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Surrey I'm just really enjoying this chapter of metamorphosis. Ovid names some dogs.

#OtD 8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...

This is what Polanski said btw I think the phrase is, can't take it, will dish it out

labour: hey you! yeah you! have... have you heard about the boob hypnosis?! yeah. i have. have you heard about wes streeting and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social abusing their positions so they can abuse and kill children from a minority demographic they hate? i think that's worse than the boobs thing

I suspect we're just way more into the personal angle these days

A week or so ago I asked what the point of following Pink News on here was. Nobody had an answer. Today, I'm asking again...

March 2026 started with the USA killing 180 schoolgirls with a big stupid rocket April 2026 started with the announcement that they can fire their big stupid rockets further and do more with them I'm sorry I don't consider this to be good news for humanity

Even when they'd succeeded in having no trans women at the Olympics, they invented trans women to persecute. Remember that.

Very occasionally the elephant in the room actually gets brought up...

The Catholic Church hates trans people Pope Leo is a genocidal monster transnews.network/p/it-s-a-nig...

lmao

We were trapped, alright. Look at us. Aren't we idiots. Aren't we just such fucking idiots. Doesn't it make you laugh. Doesn't it make you laugh until your teeth vibrate and your jaw aches and your chest hurts so much you don't think you'll be able to draw another breath.

The trap was always for us. Letting us name ourselves, it was just to make us think we could show our faces, just to make us think we could be accepted, before we realised too late that they did it to traumatise us for their entertainment and all we did was irrevocably mark ourselves as targets.

Watching Harry Potter directly gives money and clout to the most significant anti trans politician in the UK. I don't care if she gets that power and money from "good people" or "bad people" it'll harm us just the same

4 July 2024: Labour win a majority with only 1/3 of the vote. How? Because first past the post (FPTP) is used. Labour came first in hundreds of races across the country, which cumulatively added up to a huge majority, even though most people did not vote Labour. But what if this wasn't the case?

Labour blog to introduce sex segregated hot takes

"We must imagine Sisyphus happy because the gods have cursed us with that as an endless, meaningless task"

ok i actually believe them when they say they don’t know who the Sugababes or Sophie Ellis-Bextor are

Julie Bindel was there too... Wonder if any of theses insane fuckwits managed to go the whole gig without going to the toilet - cos it sure would undermine their cause if they suddenly didnt mind sharing, or if they took it upon themselves to use single use toilets, for an evening.