“If you use <insert grammatical pet peeve here> then I know your writing was done by AI.” Cool, and if you use AI paranoia to try and shame a writing style you don’t like, then I know you’re a bit of a cunt.

The only exception is when interviewing small animals.

Is anything else going to go drastically wrong today? I can't

The Pink News article by Wes Streeting isn't for trans people. It's for cis idiots who don't actually care what is really happening to trans people, but now they have something they can point to to show 'dignity and respect'

"A cis teenage girl lying about being on her period to avoid a sex act she’s uncomfortable with would arouse sympathy. When a trans girl does the same, it’s treated as a serious crime." My latest for @wearequeeraf.com www.wearequeeraf.com/come-out-bef...

my boyfriend has surgery in 1 day. could we please boost and donate to his gofundme to support him? he’s a sweetheart going through cancer and poverty. he’s suffering a personal loss so he’s dealing with rough emotional pain along with being sick. i will send you all my writings if you donate.

I genuinely think anyone who thinks accommodations are special treatment should be banned from teaching and banned from being an employer.

On the 8th and 15th April (4-5.30pm), we’ll be joined online by Mad Youth Organise to discuss Big Tech and mental health, and to devise tangible campaigning goals for the fight against the tech companies profiting from our distress. Sign up for free! www.nsun.org.uk/news/big-tec...

In case you missed it: last month we published a report exploring the way that the media’s approach to engaging with people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma can be tokenistic and re-traumatising. Read the report & guidance👇 www.nsun.org.uk/resource/not...

I do not need this stress

Trans Day of Act Now to Stop Labour's Section 28! Tell all your cis friends and colleagues. They have until 20 April.

Trying not giving the shitty people head space thing. How do people do this, how are people just spoken to like shit and just ah ok let's just do another thing?

I am so sick of today

Caelan and Bronagh took a leap on making a piece of art completely different to what they'd ever made before! And I think that's neat.

my boyfriend @mineralcraftsman.bsky.social has cancer, is materially & food insecure. he has risky surgery in a week. he needs funds to nourish himself so he isn’t frail as he is operated on. pls donate if you can & share. CA- $mineralcraftsman VN- issabikey PP- [email protected] ko-fi.com/retrx

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy. Proud to expose this stuff ✊ youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

I see everyone is doing the performative=performance thing again and well done! You made me go outside.

Thie men in this city are lucky that I don't have fire powers

I have a Bartleby joke, but as far as telling it I‘d prefer not to.

A while back, we decided to start providing accessible toilet keys to trans and non-binary people in the UK. To date, we have sent out over 100, with nearly 1/3 being sent totally for free. If you can imagine a scenario where you might need one - get one www.essehouse.co.uk/pee-in-peace-program

So, research funding for “research” about trans people BY CIS PEOPLE is likely between £13-£15 million. Trans researchers were excluded from ALL of these. Research funding for trans academics is WAY below this, if available at all. This is an equal opportunities issue as well as an ethical one.

This is such a gross and badly thought out comparison that doesn't help anyone on the sharp end of fascist policy.

I am going to need my brain to stop this horror loop for a bit.

I do get nervous criticising approaches to evidence review on short-form platforms that aren't made for nuance like Bluesky - in part because the narratives lose some of the nuances, and in part because it can definitely be frowned on to criticise others work outside of peer reviewed environments.

Awesome longer thing on similar themes currently under review at a journal! But for now, if you haven't read our open access piece about FWS and community, why not do so?

Trans activism has "infected" Cambridge University, which presumably just means that cis students are being normal about trans students, by e.g. not describing them as an "infestation." Aww, you poor things.

Importantly throughout all the many studies that they excluded for one reason or another, there is also NO EVIDENCE of significant harm. You can bet your bottom dollar they would have been interested in ANY study that showed harm - those wouldn't have been deemed out of scope.

Cal's thread details some of the many issues with the recently released reviews. Importantly, they also discuss options for what to do next, given that there's a "consultation period."

I want to burn things

The evening sketch FLINTA session coming up next Tuesday 17th ✨️ This session is open to FLINTA only - Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Non-binary, Trans, and Agender individuals Modelled by the lovely Diana Taylor (she/her) (me!) ♡ @nocomment.bsky.social Hosted by Cora @merrylemontree on insta 🌟

This is not an attack on Gillick Competence, because Gillick only applies to u16s. This undermines the statutory presumption of consent for 16/17yos.

New article! Is Livewell Southwest Corrupt? dissociatingthroughlife.neocities.org/articles/202... We investigate the private company that runs our local mental health services...

Who wants a replay of my webinar last night on epistemic injustice, oppression and ignorance? You can still sign-up using the form here and get the link!

Fuck I am going to have to stop being a coward and figure out Linux aren't I?

Please share - and donate if you can! I'm helping to raise money for Isaac - a Black trans kid seeking vital healthcare in England. Isaac is lucky enough to have a very supportive family, but they have all been screwed time and time again by the NHS and UK authorities. Any contribution will help!

Yeah I think I am going to go back offline. What the hell is going on in here.

This is out (again) now! Re-uploads are not algorithm winners, so I’d extra appreciate shares on this one, I worked very hard on it.

Brown/Trans/Les by @taliabhatt.itch.io. I'm not going to try to summarize all of my thoughts, because there are far too many, but having finished reading it: This is an essential book to read. It is an intervention in decolonial theory, transfeminism, queer theory, and much more.

Worth reading their letter in full, but would particularly like to draw attention to this paragraph, following the High Court decision. Routinely outing trans people at work is not compatible with their human rights.

I don't think I've ever seen this written about. Trans kids having their data rights attacked from so many angles. This one particularly stung because it had a big impact whilst not even being acknowledged as anything more than a minor IT system change. schools were told by DofE this was mandatory.

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

Sick of getting abuse every time some member of the public is denied their feelings good moment

Trans Safety Network encourage our supporters to engage with the James Lind Alliance consultation to set research funding priorities.

CW sa, abuse The rapist just needs to present themselves, the violence they cause is implicit, their social privilege their previous behavior The violence of the victim on the other hand needs to be loud to be heard it needs to be so loud the rapist can't ignore it and for that we are monstered

MCC Brussels specifically* These are the people who want us to think our trans comrades are predatory. The LM network and their collaborators are disgusting peddlers of fascist impunity for abusers.

The Living Marxism/Spiked network position (of which O'Neill is part) on Jimmy Saville was the same. Their main ideologue Frank Furedi wrote a whole book on it. This is a habit for them. Furedi now leads the Orban-funded MCC think tank. One of his students edits the Thiel-funded Compact Magazine.

I actually hate that they put him in a suit

Really hoping I am not stuck in this "I can focus, but not on what I need to focus on" loop for long.

Crack is coded as a drug of violence, lumpenproles, often seen as Black coded racially, a drug of unemployed dangerous gangsters. Unlike the drug they all use, cocaine. Nice bougie cocaine, very white, very fancy. Except its the main drug used in our safe consumption clinic.