And so it begins… UK FOLKS, SIGN THE PETITION: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... (Anyone who replies with “just get a VPN” is getting blocked on sight) #OnlineSafetyAct

Given that @bsky.app is bending over backwards to the will of the totalitarian UK government I'll likely not by using this platform after Thursday, Instead I'll be here, where the #OnlineSafetyAct can't be enforced. todon.eu/@ThePhoenixV...

There's a petition that's popped up recently this morning to Repeal the Online Safety Act I've signed it, you should too! (Only available for residents of the United Kingdom) petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

The online safety act btw is a transparent farce to censor queer people internet wide.

The Online Safety Act is going to be another means of forcing trans children into conversion therapy via “safeguarding referrals”, isn’t it?

This is a petition going to the UK Parliament to repeal the Online Safety Act. If you live in the UK and care about your digital freedom, sign this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Just how much did you want to let Epic Games collect a giant profile of your actions, attached to your Government ID? CnaM and Ofcom have delivered this with their Age Verification scheme. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-age...

this isn't "age" verification it's "We need your legal identity tied here, so if you say anything negative about what the government is doing, we can punish you for it."

Removing your privacy makes it a lot easier for people to silence you.

there is also a reason why it's rushing out the door NOW when a large amount of people requesting aid in gaza, criticising the british government's thirst for genocide are on bsky and the government is trying to crack down on people pointing out anything to do with it.

There's a *reason* it's only coming into full force amidst a wave of hard-right leaning policies that curb trans people's access to public spaces.

"Won't somebody please think of the children!" The UK online safety act has never been and will never be about protecting kids. If it was, youtube would not be the cesspit it is.

Totally normal thing to be worried about, who hasn't met with a hate group and wanted to keep it hidden:

🚨 The evidence points to this being a clear case of campaign groups calling the shots behind closed doors. https://www.wearequeeraf.com/freedom-of-information-request-uncovers-gender-critical-bias-within-ehrc/

For other UK folks who see this, there is indeed a petition on fighting this! (Has 700+ signatures at the current time of posting.) If you can't sign it, please pass it on. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard. I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.

TLDR: because the NHS isn't following JPAC guidelines trans women on HRT are effectively banned from donating blood because they insist on using male reference ranges...

And on top of that, the London Marathon isn't a women-only race to begin with.

Anti-trans bigots will claim that organisations and institutions are "captured" if they support and accept trans people yet in reality they're the ones who are capturing organisations and institutions... As with all right-wingers, every accusation is a confession!

If we wanna defeat the far-right, we need to defeat the centrists first.

This is the result of voting for Reform - censorship. They are telling us what we can or can’t read. We are NOT Nazi Germany, we are NOT 🍊💩’s America. We do not ban or burn books in this Country. Here is the link to complain: kccportal.icasework.com/servlet/serv...

Presumably the free speech union will be defending any authors of trans books for kids (me) should we decide to challenge this? Or is it that they only support right wing grifters who don’t like being called bigots www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

A reminder: LGBT people are only a “divisive issue” because others object to our public existence. Resolving such conflict shouldn’t be about censoring LGBT folks or undermining our rights; it should be about challenging the people who reject our humanity, freedom, and visibility. Just saying. 🌈🎓

The report is by fucking ALICE SULLIVAN If I asked David Duke to give me a report on whether race-critical academics were protected I'd expect a slightly biased outcome an all

Having the backing of the UK and US governments, along with the richest people in the world and a cabal of child molesting TERFs, but you can’t stand that your students and colleagues see you for the filth you are. Weak-minded, victim-playing fascists.

It's so fascinating how terfs don't realize how much they infantilize women. Worse than any man I've ever dealt with, I'll tell you that.

“It’s a phase.” “They’re mentally unwell.” “The lifestyle is dangerous.” “They’ll regret it later in life.” “They’ve been indoctrinated.” Bigots said this about gay kids in the 1980s and 90s. Now they say the same about trans youth. Let’s put this recycled politics where it belongs: the trash.

so basically 95% of the money you give her for buying her merch, games, books, whatever, is being used for hate. You are actively giving her most of the money to do hateful shit.

It will forever blow my mind that we could eliminate one of the largest sources of anti trans hate and funding but we can’t because some “allies” (and even some LGBTQIA people) have a death grip of nostalgia for a poorly written and problematic children’s book series

This is NOT a joke

current news got me thinking about this story from last year

This is what trans people are up against - entire aisles of merchandise funding an explicit hate campaign. Imagine walking past an aisle like this every time you went to a bookstore, knowing that every sale goes to funding someone who's trying to kill you. Imagine working there.

This is the action of an authoritarian government with callous disregard for freedom of speech

If you're still buying wizard book shit, you are no friend to the trans community. Here's the wizard book bigot inciting harassment against innocent people to her 14 million followers on the nazi app. And no, they can't Always Tell.

NEW VIDEO! Rowling funding movements which seek the eradication of trans people from public life, along with terrorizing intersex people, Jewish people, women of colour and even survivors of breast cancer, has turned Harry Potter into nothing but a symbol of hate, a threat to all those listed.

The EHRC and Supreme Court are unfit for purpose and need to be completely dismantled! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B4u...

I’ve been making my way through the Welfare Reform Bill and this paragraph on the gov.uk website is genuinely disgusting. Receiving a decent disability benefits rate “encourages sickness”, does it? Funny, I thought it just enabled severely ill and disabled people to eat.

Open eugenics with just the barest, most pathetic tissue of lies across the top for pretence of civility. Everyone fighting like hell for trans rights - we need to be fighting this too. They're all connected - and we're all we've got.

One of the funniest things I've seen I must say