I'd just like to apologise to everyone in Scotland for the rain this evening - I washed my car at lunchtime 🙄

This!

Excellent cartoon from, checks notes, The Guardian of all places🤷‍♀️

I was a little bit more upbeat in the immediate aftermath yesterday, but I think this is on the money. This is a bathroom ban. As long as trans people can be forcibly outed just for using services, it is a bathroom ban nevertheless. It is Labour’s bathroom ban.

Happy World Goth Day! 🖤 (photo from before I became allergic to hair dye 😭)

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I mean why are we complaining? Just because a Labour government without a single trans MP ... is ok with the code from a statutory body without a single trans representative ... following a court judgement that refused to hear from any trans person or group ?

Well I don't know about you but that was a fairly terrible night's sleep 😐

Oh no Michael Keating died 😥 Best known for playing Vila in Blake's 7 and Revd Stevens in EastEnders

Apropos of nothing in particular but... I've just noticed that the wording on the GRC statutory declaration has changed since I signed mine Comparing the old and the current versions, the new version says "gender" 🤔

Anyway. I'm not changing how I live Fuck Labour

Straw clutching maybe... Why is allowing me access to women's single sex spaces not a reasonable adjustment given that I have an F64.0 transsexuality diagnosis and have been comprehensively treated for that condition by the NHS?

Let nobody forget that Labour could've avoided all of this by amending the Equality Act to undo the blatantly wrong Supreme Court judgement and taking a bit of flak in the newspapers Twats

Well fuck As bad as we thought and a bounty via legal claim for anyone that clocks me using the women's toilet I'm still going to use the women's toilet so this is going to cost businesses a fortune

The EHRC guidance is out, I haven't read it but remember it's only civil law affecting discrimination claims We'll get through this 💜 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a0de6...

Fucksake just publish it already

Call to action. Given reports the government is to drop its transphobic guidance from the EHRC today it’s time for us to get back to the streets. Who’s up for a second protest? We are looking to protest again and use the very guidance against them, show them it’s unworkable and stupid.

New EHRC guidance is due today. Remember: ➡️ Early reports based on unattributed briefings are spin, not facts. ➡️ This is civil law around who can and cannot bring discrimination claims - not criminal law. ➡️ Whatever it says, it is a choice by this government. They can fix it. ➡️ We will keep going.

There's a Telegraph article out saying we're going to be banned ... which then hedges it's bets. We need to wait for the actual document tomorrow, after which our fight back can start Courage my friends 💜

Looking forward to the UK EHRC guidance today/tomorrow Actually in a strange way I am, because I'm absolutely hating having this unknown threat hang over us. At least once it's out, we know what we're dealing with, what we're ignoring, and where we'll be taking our chances

They're segregating the trans kids in South Carolina

May 2027, we need to be in London protesting the hell out of this. The UK government is laughing at us, absolute fuckers

My mom just messaging before I start another day of IT drudgery to say she's going out for the day with the former WI committee, ie 🥂 Talk about rubbing it in

You think it's bad in the UK but christ

Making Sunday 'lunch' (we always have it in the evening), having made an apple pie earlier, so I'm now having a wee glass of sherry in order to complete the cliché hat-trick

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This is an incredibly grim but excellent assessment of where we are at and what's to come

It's weird not watching the euro song contest. Boycotting gay Christmas

Looks like they've worked out that they know a marginalised community that isn't allowed any access to mainstream media, and can pretty much blame them for anything they want

So Wes Streeting is going to be cosplaying as a progressive in this leadership election. The sheer gall of that speech after his actions towards trans people and selling off the nation’s health data to one of the worst organisations on the planet.

Spent the afternoon helping @divinegoth.bsky.social track down a mysterious clunk on her car when braking. This largely involved driving a sports car round the estate and braking sharply so I imagine the neighbours love us even more than usual 😬

Transphobes in Australia wasted no time in demanding politicians change the law. And guess what: right-wing politicians have started demanding it! It underlines the point I made in this thread: Labour's despicable capitulation to transphobes was a *choice*. bsky.app/profile/park...

Felt cute for an old lass, might not delete later

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

Is the Torygraph using bluesky to source trans stories, or is it just coincidence that we were talking about it? From their point of view I'm assuming they just want to keep up the pressure to bring harm onto trans kids and adults archive.ph/caQGX

Pal just checked her position on the Sandyford waiting list and described it as "Noting when the anthropologist will be sent to misgender my bones after excavation by Glasgow Uni's Archaeology dept.".

Stay classy BBC 🙄 They couldn't make it plainer that demeaning trans women is official BBC policy

Love being on LinkedIn because I get to see all the guys who worked for me before I transitioned getting ever more senior positions 🙃

Excellent thread in the light of Australian courts actually defending the human rights of trans people 👇

Looks like Australia has a functioning legal system!

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

My actual parents

It's weird having, in the past, quite liked Andy Burnham and what he got done in Gtr Manchester (being one of the many places I've lived!) but now I'm just expecting the Labour right-wing Westminster class to overwhelm him All my hope is in keeping trans people alive, there's none left for the UK

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Guess we're all having to say this again, huh

It impossible to overstate the damage done and deaths caused by Wes Streeting to trans people during his time as Health Secretary. May he rot.

It'd be hilarious if Andy Burnham loses the Makerfield by-election 🍿

Political joy is short lived when you're trans 😐

male socialisation is when they hold you down and [cut footage of trans girl’s entire childhood and teen years] and after a while you stop even crying because what would be the point