I refuse to be told by a guy who has suggested all neurodivergent Individuals should be institutionalised, and another whose brain was eaten by a worm, that my being autistic is the problem, or a crisis. Autistic individuals aren't the problem, the way we are treated and minimised damn sure is.

Things RFK says cause autism: ✅ vaccines ✅ paracetamol ✅ sticklebricks ✅ lloyd grossman's puttanesca sauce ✅ that hair gel you used to be able to get down the newsagent for 59p ✅ jennicam ✅ the turbografx-16

Motherloving typos. The last time we got an edit button in brought the far right and that’s not a price worth paying, but surely we can have nice things just once?

The impracticality of inhuman policies isn’t my core problem. Its the wanton cruelty, the lack of respect for human rights and the dignity of the person that make me angry. The world is full of people who will do badly thought out things because they’re evil, or scared, or not paid to think think…

Quiet reminder, as exhibit A in this theory, that you can’t tell a disabled person’s support needs from what they look like or their online presence.

Kair Starmer simply cannot continue as Prime Minister. He is entirely unprepared for this political moment, and is handing the country to Reform on a platter. No matter your politics, you would have to be a fool to support this inept man as PM.

"You couldn't make The Birth of a Nation nowadays," laments D. W. Griffith, "because it's three hours long, very racist, and I am dead."

Bojack Divorceman

Streeting had an interview with the founder of Mumsnet archive.ph/Ys6u4

Anyone who can’t see through the “free speech!” “Cancel culture!” Bullshit now - the whole project has been about amplifying bigotry & shutting up criticism, is utterly complicit - Gervais, Carr & all- the reason they have far right fans is not the quality of jokes but the quality of propaganda

I am a stuck and broken record but every time it's true: scratch a terf, sniff a racist.

Buried details: the 18% of kids whose identities shifted over the course of the study were overwhelmingly between binary trans and non-binary or vice versa. The number who shifted between binary cis and trans was very low indeed - out of a subset of 254, precisely *one* kid shifted in this way.

Trans people are not a threat to women’s safety. Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name. Will you join them? notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Donate to help establish N.E.S.T a vital new support group for LGBTQ+ parents & parents of LGBTQ+ young people. I cannot stress enough how needed this is. @causewaypride.bsky.social @meapride.bsky.social @imamammie.bsky.social @mams4transni.bsky.social & Foyle Pride. X gofund.me/d8d376e2a

The UK has recognised Palestine. It must now end its complicity in its destruction, and in the genocide of its people.

Capitalism makes us powerless and pushes the idea that consumerism is powerful. This is not a new or original thought. But it means the only actual power we have is to NOT consume. So Disney already being $4bn down following the decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel feels really fucking great tbh.

"Activists had intended to force party into banning trans-sexual women from taking on female roles" [sad Sunday Telegraph] "The campaigner who successfully quashed the debate was Lucas North, who uses “they/them” pronouns and is a member of the executive committee of the LGBT+ Liberal Democrats."

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Jesus christ. It angers me deeply how not a single damn person in power who wants to at least pretend like they give a shit shout trans people will read even one damn book about the history of sex segregation in sports, cause you’d see how it’s all just sexist bs. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

We’ve published the DfE FOI and Annex A. It confirms the Secretary of State (Bridget Phillipson) met Sex Matters on 5 March 2025, before the FWS Supreme Court judgment. The meeting was to discuss "steps to prevent violence against women and girls". 1/ drive.google.com/file/d/1Cdvb...

I’m reading a book about the history of conversion therapy in 20th Century 🇬🇧 and it’s striking how much the NHS had exactly the same institutional issues back then as they have in trans healthcare right now. Everyone blamed everyone else, complaints went nowhere, and politicians ignored it

New blog: Questioning Trans Kids A summary of the questions asked to trans under 18s and families in the new 'PATHWAYS Horizon' study for the new Children's Gender Clinics. growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...

It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us? ✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter https://goodlaw.social/wu1u

Does anyone know anyone famous & supportive of trans kids who might receive an early copy of a book explaining in an accessible & engaging manner what's happening with "Trans kids, medicine and the fight for trans equality". I need to show publisher it has potential for high profile endorsement

Gillick competence comes from a case about being able to get advice on contraceptives without your parents having a veto… …brought by a religious extremist.

The fall out to last week’s assassination is interesting to me because it really gives insight into the way the algorithm showed people on the right CK’s relatively benign, pro-Christian, pro-family content and none of his bigotry, and people on the left seemingly only saw the bigotry stuff

Transphobia harms everyone and leads to exclusion. Standing up for trans people helps everyone and builds inclusive communities. Every single time:

Reminder that if you have ever written a guest blog on my site, I am always ALWAYS up for updating your work to make sure your name/links/social are up to date. Just drop me an email - if it's a deadname issue, or time-sensitive, put 'URGENT' in subject line and I'll hop on it asap.

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

When I read Terry Pratchett books as a kid I got half the jokes and didn’t realise the depth of the history, philosophy and politics in them. I still come across things in “serious” books which I’d thought were just Pterry’s jokes. #GNUPterry This is the opposite in action:

Have you seen people realise they’ve misgendered a dog or cat? They back that misapprehension up so fucking fast…

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

Hey all! I'd like to thank the world's media institutions, and of course the Bluesky mods, for being totally normal and proportional about a barely famous trans woman cracking wise about a Nazi's death.

"I didn't think leopards would eat YOUR face," sobs a leading member of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you Wes Streeting lamenting the systems he put in place to restrict trans healthcare.

"Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each." Errr.... This is doing the marking, plus writing a summary. How does this save me any time at all?

This makes me feel ashamed. This generation of hateful bigots and their enablers will be rightly judged very harshly in future. open.substack.com/pub/shonfaye...

Can’t disagree with Shon Faye here, though I’m sure many will take umbrage: “transitioning medically makes you significantly poorer and any trans politics should start there” shonfaye.substack.com/p/well-its-o...

Because I've seen some prominent cis allies saying that they hope Streeting's most recent words are a good sign: this is the entire point - he's always got some reasonable sounding words to placate cis people as he continues to meet with transphobic bigots and enact brutally transphobic policies.

Today @fra.europa.eu released the report ‘Being Intersex in the EU’, highlighting the barriers intersex people continue to face in everyday life. While there is a long way to go to ensuring the full human rights of intersex people, this is an important step in the right direction!

Here’s the letter with full list of signatures. We know where to shop now! www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...

a good way to undermine the very concept of a human rights watchdog would be for it to introduce a set of rules that no-one follows and that are never enforced

So the near universal reaction to this has been the Goose Meme… …rightly so:

He added: “I don’t think the government can afford to bury our heads in the sand about the fact that trans people in our country today feel less safe than they did 10 years ago.” The 'he' here is Wes fucking Streeting.

This is despicable. Streeting has repeatedly made Trans people less safe and fed the transphobic culture war. Washing his hands of the consequences to position himself for a leadership bid shows just how craven he really is. archive.ph/s9Zwo

Good morning. Did a little activism. Flags is it?

I used to work with a woman who didn’t wear trousers because of her religious beliefs. We got on fine because she was very clear that her beliefs applied to her actions and she wasn’t interested in trying to impose her own view on others. I think about that attitude a lot…

The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business. Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Business says this EHRC guidance is unworkable – will our government listen?