There’s a chance my freedom of information requests for the Cass papers may escalate into a full judicial review of the Cass Review. I still have an administrative avenue to pursue, so let’s keep it in suspense for now.

I was flattened yesterday!

LANDMARK MOMENT - the Greens now have more members across Great Britain than the Lib Dems! Let's keep it going! 👇🏼👇🏾👇🏽 join.greenparty.org.uk Latest stats available: 85,800 @greenparty.org.uk (England & Wales) + @scottishgreens.org combined membership 83,174 @libdems.org.uk (a single party across GB)

1/🧵 Over the past few months, I’ve hosted several guests who came across the pond to take up research roles, mostly in biomedical fields. The US isn’t just experiencing a brain drain right now. As the $100k surcharge for H1B visa came in, it’s more like a brain flush. We don’t want a brain flush.

Good read. I didn’t know McCarthyism was a manifestation of antisemitism too. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thatcher revoked my parent’s right of abode. Blair revoked my nationality. The Supreme Court revoked my gender. Farage is going to revoke my indefinite leave to remain. What else can they revoke of mine? ☺️

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Actually, the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 has already been passed. It gives the government the authority to create digital ID schemes, whether voluntary or subtly coercive. So I’m not sure his input adds anything of substance.

Time travelling to the 1930s 😊

Seriously, I think Candace Owens’s lawyer should just try to establish that “biological sex” is a religious belief, so it is incapable of being defamatory.

The Transmaxxing moral panic is like if a straight evangelical overheard some gay guys talking about the "demon twink problem" and then went and found other guys talking about demon twinks ("I'll fucking kill that demon twink"), ...

It’s pathetic that the Luxon government is too cowardly to even join the rest of the world in recognising Palestine.

Trans people don’t like signs.

Palestine is now recognised, so let’s form diplomatic relations and make sure we uphold the law too.

May not be that unpopular and the press will pitch-roll like crazy. “Be afraid! Fear the other! It’s just a wafer thin ID card! We’re the Government… you can trust us”… (Ignore the Henry VIII powers, ability to amend scope and usage by SI. Ts&Cs apply. Value of freedom may go down as well as up)

Trans people like trains.

I spent half of my life living under mandatory ID laws in several countries, and I can tell you from experience, you won’t like it. These laws are designed to give police arbitrary power to stop, question and search anyone they choose.

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

What’s your sign?

This mechanism is a key part of transphobes' strategy in the UK, too. The FWS ruling didn't make trans segregation mandatory (despite what the EHRC says) but it likely did declare open season on trans inclusive spaces by well funded litigious transphobes. It's lawfare disguised as "clarification"

This is exactly the energy I want going into gender affirming surgery.

As a non-white British trans woman whose citizenship was stripped decades ago in violation of a peremptory norm of international law, I find this performatively fascist Labour government both comical and frightening.

Getting ready to be racially profiled… 😊 www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/star...

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

New deadlift PR: 125kg

I waited for the night’s sunset, I closed my eyes but smiled, So blind was my heart, Almost tender, almost sweet.

So @zackpolanski.bsky.social is a real person… before now I had only seen him online, so I’m glad to know.

Quick poll: do you remember Ruby Sampson? (No Googling)

I’m immediately closing my account with Nationwide and moving my savings elsewhere. My partner is doing the same. I would recommend everyone who is not a fascist to do the same. Plenty of other options.

Ever changing.

1/🧵 Another childhood story. When I was 8 years old, a school psychologist screened me for autism and giftedness because I was too quiet. I was told I had both and was placed in the Asperger’s box (as it was called at the time). However, this turned out to be a misdiagnosis.

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1/🧵 This actually brings back memories of experiencing gender dysphoria as a teenager. I once read that testicles are external because sperm production requires a lower temperature. My first thought after learning this was: if I expose my labia to hot water, it might reduce or even stop puberty.

HRT works wonders too.

They ask “what rights do trans people not have?” Alberta plans to derogate the Canadian Charter and override human rights protections for trans people while a court challenge is underway. globalnews.ca/news/1143606...

Mental health check-in with a gif

I decided to go for a “baby trans” look today since my leg laser and exfoliating spa treatments worked out really well. 😂☺️

Yesterday, we received an email from a Daily Mail journalist asking us to comment on the attempt by a trans-exclusionary group to change our party's rules. For the avoidance of doubt, or misrepresentation of our position, we reproduce our response in full here... 1/4

In Alberta, girls must sign a religious pledge about their sexuality before they are allowed to participate in sports.

Remember, large language model doesn’t understand. It can perform only trivial tasks. So I just wrote a poem and GPT-5’s interpretation of it is so shallow I feel embarrassed.

I’m officially Aunty Ash!!! 🥰💖

Sweep away the feathers of memory, Flee from the fog not yet gathered, So it smoulders a bit longer, And from the ashes, thy heart— unfurls.

If they do 🏳️‍⚧️

Trees are awesome. But some of them have spiky fruits. 😆

Early discussions about the Gender Recognition Act even touched on the British Nationality Act and the rules around acquiring nationality through one’s mother. I find it amusing how deeply the civil servants examined the issue. And how patronising Patrick Hodge has been to find the Act defective.

If the UK begins taxing colossal wealth, it’s likely that other economies will follow, rather than forcing us into a race to the bottom. Billionaires won’t leave, not out of patriotic sentiment or inertia, but because soon there will be nowhere left to escape and they know it.