Your party has published a charter for eliminating trans rights and called it equality. You should be ashamed

I dont doubt the good intentions of the artist and even the people that chose to publish the artwork but fuck me after the Guardian’s active contribution to this present moment this just angers me. I dont feel solidarity, a kind hand on my shoulder,i feel pissed the fuck off and patronised

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

some kind of creature

The number of different communities living in fear in the UK is astonishing.

When I say that @amnestyuk.bsky.social have overlooked the obvious funding of Gender Critical activists by Christian groups and that these groups aren't actually distinct, here's the weekend's round up email from Christian Concern who are open about funding the GC Darlington Nurses tribunal.

You cannot understand the "gender critical" movement without understanding that it is an exterminationist movement

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Even violence, state or otherwise, will not stop me living my life. I will not change a single thing about how I've been living for over a decade regardless of what some new garbage "guidance" might say. If they made it illegal to breathe I'd still do it. Fuck you

Reading this it's rarely hit harder to me how disconnected amnesty are from grass roots hate researchers. This is a great report in that amnesty have a lot of weight but there's so much information amnesty seem to just not know

I’m sorry but if you aren’t sure of a citation, whether what it means or that it exists… why are you citing it. why are you referring to something you haven’t read or don’t understand? that defeats the entire bloody point

Dear all the people who are campaigning for a Conversion Therapy ban that you 100% know will sit alongside continued state mandated conversion therapy and conversive pressures of the NHS and UK state. What's up?

Any good recommendations for DIY gig promoters in Manchester? I'm trying to book a tour at the moment and for some reason Manchester specifically is really difficult to find a way into.

For dedicated followers of the Cass Review - Singapore's MoH has just released guidance heavily restricting access to transition-related care for those under 21, and attempting to ban it for under-18s, prominently citing the NHS (p.19)

Today I read this correspondence Harry Benjamin sent after Ormrod J's decision in Corbett. "Science without humanism is an ugly distortion of science". He discusses the "panic" of his trans patients.

oh no, new academic manmade horrors beyond my comprehension just dropped

Call for papers! The fourth issue of the Community Development Journal's 60th year will feature a special section that imagines how community development can contribute to a just future. Perhaps you could write an essay on this topic for us?

the 20th century era of the postcolonial nation-state movement is dead, transformed to neocolonies led by bourgeois patriarchs who threw out anticolonial liberation to try & get a seat at the table w/ the White Man and join the fraternity in the brotherhood of nations, women & lgbtq people be damned

frankly the strongest indicators of a broad anti-feminist culture being our norm beside the restrictions on reproductive rights, the transmisogynistic lawfare, & the anti-metoo stuff is the endless parade of content that tells women that the heterosexual household & family is their safest place

editorial boards getting stuffed with far-right grifters is one of many grim natural consequences of the rise of gold open-access driving the interests of publishers and academics in opposite directions

Just noticed that the zombie sociology journal Theory & Society has Colin Wright on its editorial board. Disgraceful. Wright has a PhD in spider biology, did one postdoc, and quit academia to become an anti-trans/anti-woke podcaster. He has absolutely no relevant qualifications.

Easiest job in history must have been being a white guy with a record deal in 1920. You could just sing "hinkey dinky donkey, everybody's plonky" and they'd give you a million dollars

So, uh, I have some news.

Cass, who the Starmer government insist on prioritising over the entire medical field of trans medicine, keeps insisting that a trans inclusive ban on conversion therapy would ban the therapy she favours. It's not going to happen under Starmer.

the indian state's attempt to codify hijra as the only singular legally legitimate enclosure of noncisness and so illegalize both diverse modes of transness within and outside of it is a product of a colonial "third gender" gaze on transfemininity inscribed through the rhetoric of postcolonialism

guess what film ilya and i just co-watched

student loan company overseas office believe the fact that I don't earn much from my zero hours contact job lifting things at an outdoor cinema challenge

In my opinion, Labour are failing to deliver their promised ban on conversion therapy because any legally robust definition of it would show that the NHS are doing it to trans people, and implicate this government in the practice. 4/5

hmm why not simply read and share my essay about how the construction of "healthy" homosexual masculinity sustained consistent malicious conversion efforts against trans youth instead of all those other essays where gay guys do that trickymothernature.com/littlemissdy...

Wish people would stop conflating 'social transition' with hair cuts. The government are not policing hair styles. This take risks dismissing & minimising what is happening to trans kids. What they are policing & denying is the social recognition & affirmation that trans kids desperately need.

Incredibly happy to see a video essay this comprehensive and accessible about the past and present of conversion therapy in the UK (and a real high point for me to have my work cited in something like this!)

It's really disturbing how in the mid 2010s there were several regularly active trans journalists in the British mainstream press and presently there's like maybe 2 who occasionally get some token comment somewhere when someone's given us a kicking.

People in sci-fi novels are always naming their exploratory vessels shit like ICARUS and IXION and while I am not superstitious, I would maybe go with the USS GOT-THERE-SAFELY.

draft schools guidance uses the cass review phrase 'living in stealth' - did we ever find an origin of this that wasn't just a portmanteau of 'stealth' and 'living in sin'?

the draft schools guidance leaves a lot of space for the ROGD/social contagion model. Thinking especially of this line: "the first step when considering a child’s request for support with social transition will be to consider what is in the best interests of the child and other children'

medieval and early modern recipe books abound with references to almond milk (and other non-dairy milks!)

I've said this before, but it makes me insane that in an age of human civilization when the ultra-rich have hoarded over half of all wealth, the go-to visual shorthand for depictions of gluttony is still "fat"

Don’t ever let people forget this.

It's mucus all the way down.

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

I just really fucking hate fascists, man.

remember that when Israel bombed the first hospital in Gaza, they dissimulated, lied, and argued, expending tremendous resources to "complicate" the "narrative." a month later, it was the new normal

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”.

While it is important to understand oil is an important motivator in the Trump administration's unilateral and flagrantly illegal decision to airstrike Venezuela, we must not ignore the centrality of their incompetence and racism

No I'm not autistic, I'm just listing minor Sopranos characters to calm down like any normal person does, I assume.

@ilyarabbit.bsky.social and Chloe F outline how the policies of NHS integrated Care Boards and inadequate equality impact assessments are leaving trans patients at risk of serious medical harm. transsafety.network/posts/defini...

Please help out a Pakistani trans woman if you're able <3