"Women are tasked with nurturing children & society reinforces the idea that their lives should be dedicated to that job—whether by not participating in sports so they can birth them or by playing sports so they can inspire them. Everything they do has to be in service of the next generation."

Reproductive rights are inextricably linked to trans rights.

I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"

We Can't Keep Waiting takes place tomorrow, 22nd November at the Pyramid at Anderston in Glasgow! We're excited to see you there! The event is for trans and nonbinary people only - sign up for your ticket here: www.outsavvy.com/event/30917/... Our final workshops to be announced are ⬇️

Since receiving no formal communication from Waterstones after breaking the news earlier this week, we believe that the concerns and support that we have received must be taken. Please read and consider signing our open letter to James Daunt, MD of Waterstones: ✍️: c.org/tRvvQM7Jrt (1/3)

This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).

Not taking HRT is unsafe for trans people who need it, with or without medical supervision lol Why is the risk of dysphoria never weighed against the risk of taking a natural hormone? (hormones which are actually much safer than the OTC meds Katie mentions!)

with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry. come over.

Sometimes I think I'd love to have an advice column, and then I realise that 50% of my advice would just be 'talk about it', and the other 50% would be 'break up'.

Got my PIP. Got the basic amount. Back dated to when I applied 18 months ago. Am completely numb. Need to reapply this time next year though which sucks. Fuck the tories, fuck Labour for making it worse and fuck every single Reformer who wants to take this stuff away.

The Alberta government putting out a statement for Trans Day of Remembrance two days after using the Notwithstanding Clause to override trans kids rights feels like parody at this point "Our government remains a dedicated partner of transgender Albertans.”

A sobering reflection Kai Cheng Thom today for #TransDayofRemembrance "We grieve. And we keep going. And maybe 15 years from now, or 50, or 500, we will live in a different world." xtramagazine.com/power/activi...

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I particularly want to stress that the violence we talk about trans people experiencing isn't just murder or domestic abuse or assault. There is also legislative violence—far too much of it. And we lose lives to that every year too.

Fear is such a misplaced word here. The concept of women having to look a certain way to be accepted as women has to be what would scare people with any inkling of feminism, and maybe even Philipson?

We're developing a collaborative roadmap for people who are DIYing HRT. Find out more here - www.thelovetank.info/news/diyhrtc...

Happy International Men’s Day to all the incredible trans men out there. Thank you for existing.

This month, after almost a year of development, we launched a whole new publication! @scripthealth.bsky.social is a brand new platform dedicated to covering LGBTQ2S+ health in a period where our rights and healthcare access are under extreme threat. www.script.health

Today is Trans Awareness Week *and* International Men's Day, so it's really the perfect time to subscribe to my newsletter where I (a trans man) write about gender and masculinity. www.genderbent.co.uk

This #TransgenderAwarenessWeek, we're launching the Trans News Initiative - a nearly yearlong project dedicated to tracking and analyzing news coverage of trans communities across the United States. transnewsinitiative.org

Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman. Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

The Greens are winning the support of around half of 18 to 24 year olds. Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right! And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics

It's fucking wild that the GCs have developed such a sense of impunity that they're just actively harassing and smearing members of a tribunal panel they are supposedly trying to win over.

This is incredibly powerful. Thriving, happy trans children in the UK are facing forced detransition due to a climate where their care has been politicized. Misinformation and innuendo suggests harms of their care that have never been shown.

Weird how conservatives didn't mention all those years that they think it's fine to fire people for their beliefs! What an unfortunate misunderstanding we've had around this. Oh well!

Danielle Smith's Alberta government has announced that they will use the Notwithstanding Clause to protect three laws (all targeting trans people) from court challenges. NEW from me in @xtramagazine.com on the lies they're using to justify such a massive move ⬇️ xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

✨ y'all, check out this new resource — we can see the numbers on trans news coverage in the last five years, what stories people read the most, what issues are top of mind, and what's being missed in the broader conversation

This is exactly what happened.

"...Abolishing Section 28 didn’t abolish homophobia, transphobia or any other -phobia. It just told the people who had those views, that quarter of the population that voted to keep the clause, to be quiet about it. And now those people are being given permission to be loud all over again."

It's the anniversary of Section 28's demise. By me: "Section 28 was largely a creation of the right-wing press, and many of the people, publications and proprietors who contributed to the anti-gay panic back then are at the forefront of the anti-trans panic today."

What I want for Christmas this year loved ones to tell me directly exactly what they would like for a present and not say “anything really” or “something like…” you know, the gift of not crying autistically for about a week whilst trying to figure out if what I get will make them hate me

How have we found ourselves here as a country? A supposedly centre-left government unable to rule out child detention. Will Labour MPs now ask – how have they found themselves here as a party? And, more importantly, what do they plan to do about it?

Annoying from 1st paragraph. It's not a blow to my identity!!! It's just wrong and makes me unsafe!

the lesson media people should take from the BBC blow up last week is that no matter how transphobic your editorial bent is, it will never ever ever satisfy the fascists

A while back, I wrote about Jennifer Sey and XX-XY Athletics are stoking anti-trans hysteria by a) gaming the media, & b) offering money to cis women who speak out. Just a few people can be tied to the entire anti-trans hate campaign:

*jingles bells* 2025 cards are here! Check out the outrageously cute & playful design by @stuartcb.bsky.social - and join Patreon before 1st December if you'd like me to send you one! www.girlonthenet.com/blog/2025-ch...

Trans awareness week trans day of visibility what about pay a trans person's rent week huh how about that

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

"If you don't let me punch you in the face, the other guy will kick you in the nuts" doesn't seem like a sustainable political message.

NEW: 'Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell's Swimsuit Issue' is now streaming on most platforms and I highly recommend you watch it—and not just because I'm in it.

Please click Assigned Media links, re-post our stories don't just hit the like button, and tell your friends and family irl who you think might like our work that we exist. The headwinds on a new media company are strong.

Look if you're trans, you have to live. Do whatever you need to do to make it.

Thank you so much to @katelynburns.com for giving me some of her thoughts of having to cover one of the most tragic parts of the last decade of public conversations of transfeminine athlete participation. Her piece in Teen Vogue is incredible:

I wrote about a potential IOC ban over transgender, intersex and DSD athletes and how that ties in with the tragic death of Lia Smith here in the U.S. Mostly, I ask is anyone going to care about those who have been hurt the entire time by this movement?

PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY

"Starting masking again in 2025 means I – we – have to confront the fact that maybe we should never have stopped. It’s scary to admit that we might have been harming ourselves and our communities; that our government might not have our best interests at heart." @onqueerstreet.bsky.social

It turns out you can't say the word 'genitals' on LinkedIn...

a lot of queer folk can't quite put their fingers on why they're so angry and upset about this shit and yeah no this is it. We all know and we even know that they know too. Eg the MP can't even give a single line explaining how this phone shit would have helped Brianna. They're just playing dumb.

Early last year I wrote about the real problems with GIDS that Newsnight failed (or didn't care) to address. transwrites.world/nhs-puberty-...

There are soooo many mainstream books on sex/love/dating that conflate ‘commitment’ with ‘exclusivity’ in a way that is quite odd for supposedly rigorous writers and scientists to be doing. Those two words mean different things! Say what you mean!