It's Friday, we are at £75, hoping we might be able to get it to £100 today! Please share around even if you can't donate, every little bit helps 💖

Still trying to cover electrolysis. Sorry to keep posting this one instead of anything else but the lack of electrolysis is one of the biggest things that's got me feeling stuck in life right now. gofund.me/1af9878e2 #MutualAid #TransAid #LGTBQAid

Again, the business of much of the British press is the recruitment of useful crackpots who can be tactically deployed against their enemies and people their staff despise

To be really clear, Sussex ICB threatened, in writing, to close a Brighton GP practice serving 25,000 patients, purely to bully them into passing over child records. The GP did not want to pass on these records, because they understood the acute risk (& reality) of harm to trans adolescents.

The nyt editors already have a biased angle in mind. They’re not seeking facts, they’re looking for quotes to fill in a predetermined narrative of bigotry. Every nyt story about us is intended to spread disinformation and foment discrimination. The leadership’s anti-trans animosity is deeply held

There is still time

Pitching "We asked 10 senior BBC managers what they think Kane looked like under that mask: the results will shock you" around.

To be clear the original article is complaining that the LGBT news reporting desk is not quite as transphobic as literally every other section of the BBC. It is complaining that the *LGBT* desk is not rolling out the red carpet for cishet people with "legitimate concerns".

Even more scandalously, I hear that in some of these so-called "wrestling competitions" the winner is decided in advance based on what will be most entertaining to the audience. Disgraceful.

“biological sex” is an invention of the gender reveal party supplies industry

Will trans people now be given a right to reply to every Sussex ICB statement or action...?

Had to resist the strong urge to draw a heart in the box next to @andrea4gs.bsky.social on my ballot because I don't want to risk it not getting counted. Reading Andrea's election address was such a breath of fresh air, if you're in Unison vote for her for real change!

Our union must be less London-centric. This includes allowing national posts to be worked away from the UNISON Centre in London more often. However, where we have London-based resources like UNISON Centre, we must deliver better value from them and enable all activists to benefit.

Interesting that the judge notes that it is a "political belief" Robinson holds and then proceeds to call it a "protected characteristic". Even though political beliefs are not in fact protected characteristics under the Equality Act – only philosophical ones are. Somewhat gives the game away.

We are seeing this continual collapse of all political beliefs short of the Article 17 criteria (an incredibly high bar - ie basically holocaust denial) into protection under philosophical belief and the consequences are utterly bizarre. The law in this area is a complete mess.

My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall. bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...

Also rebooting this! We are just £22 from Bee being able to afford her first electrolysis session, which will mean she doesn't have to shave daily and reduce the irritation from that as well as stress from worrying about visible stubble.

This quiz is amazing in showing how close current transphobia is to being 30 year old reheated homophobia:

this shit right here is wrecker shit, as much as wrecker shit as any online leftist has done, if not more so. no wonder so many people are repulsed by anyone (rightly) saying 'vote blue no matter who', the most powerful elected Dem in the nation won't do it! it undermines the whole coalition! jfc

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

My son is on blockers legally from before the ban and we did everything they told us to do and now we are being threatened with social services if we don't allow them to "safely withdraw" medication. They admit that the impact will be "stark" for our kids but they are going to do it anyway.

Congrats to British transphobia on successfully getting far-right beliefs protected by the legal system by making the bar for "worthy of respect" so low the devil could dance over it

First session of electrolysis covered! Trying to reach 10 sessions worth at the recommendation of good friend @foxdie.bsky.social :3 Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far!!! gofund.me/07f6d53bf #MutualAid #LGBTQAid #TransAid

we don't yet know what will happen in tomorrow's elections. some will win. others will lose. but freya decided the hollow under a basket's handle is in fact a cat leg holder, and that makes her the real winner in my book

all of this—*but also* specifically recruiting trans, queer, black, brown, and lefty voices to write for free at the very beginning only to offer “opposing voices” six-figure deals soon after? the founders repeatedly saying “free speech, nothing we can do” about literal nazis even YouTube banned??

Also rebooting this! We are just £22 from Bee being able to afford her first electrolysis session, which will mean she doesn't have to shave daily and reduce the irritation from that as well as stress from worrying about visible stubble.

It’s my dear friend @stargocks64.bsky.social’s birthday, and she’s fundraising for her vocal surgery. You dont need me to tell you how dangerous it can be to look or sound trans. Also Robyn is just a really great person who deserves happiness. If you can, please donate. If you can’t, please repost

Fwiw, a pharmacist can't force you to out yourself or ask what your prescription is for so if you can get your free hrt anyway. The way things are worded it doesn't seem it explicitly excludes trans hrt and if you're like me and post-op it's treating the same thing anyway despite what the indo says.

Hey all, it's my friend @stargocks64.bsky.social's birthday today and it would be super awesome if we could get this fundraiser for her to £2000 to celebrate! Only £217 to go! www.gofundme.com/f/running-th...

It's payday for a lot of people today so giving this a push- anything that can be spared or any reposts are greatly appreciated. Accessing facial electrolysis is so important to Bee for both safety and feeling comfortable in her own skin and she really deserves both.

TLC AND FRIENDS DISRUPT CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE Here's our statement: Today we disrupted the University IVs Regatta races, preventing most of the boats from competing. By putting out an inflatable boat into the water for the duration of the racing afternoon, we left rowers unable to race.

And to this one

If it’s your payday and you can afford to do so, please give some money to this trans healthcare crowdfund

I looked into this and this change has happened within the last year. Previous info that said preferred gender: web.archive.org/web/20240716... Current info: web.archive.org/web/20250710... This is unjustifiable.

It's payday for a lot of people today so giving this a push- anything that can be spared or any reposts are greatly appreciated. Accessing facial electrolysis is so important to Bee for both safety and feeling comfortable in her own skin and she really deserves both.

Update on what's going on with my dentist. Email screenshot below. Basically they're saying dentists use a different system to the rest of the NHS, no NHS numbers, and the NHS Dentists Business Services Authority have told them they can't use anything other than birth gender without a GRC. FFS!

Hey yall, I set up a gofundme to help raise money for electrolysis. I'm 34, disabled and barely make ends meet and the facial dysphoria is fucking killing me. Shares and such would be super appreciated <3 gofund.me/0aa68ae64 #MutualAid #LGBTQAid #TransAid

Hey all! My good friend Bee is currently fundraising for electrolysis. She's gone through a year of laser and at this point really needs to bring out the big guns to get rid of remaining hairs. If you can spare anything at all it will be greatly appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/bee-afford...

The Complaint Apparatus open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

As a trans woman who played women’s cricket for decades without comment but was suddenly banned for no sensible reason I am grateful.

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

Hey all! My good friend Bee is currently fundraising for electrolysis. She's gone through a year of laser and at this point really needs to bring out the big guns to get rid of remaining hairs. If you can spare anything at all it will be greatly appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/bee-afford...

We will fight them on the quiches

I'm running the Valencia marathon in 6 weeks and i've decided to use the occasion to help boost the trans healthcare fundraisers of legends @deeboom.bsky.social and @sapphicalui.bsky.social Any amount of money and any shares massively appreciated 🙏🖤❤️ Ty Ty gofund.me/24190224a

I think there is something there about accommodating different people’s needs, but surely the point there is to figure out *how* to do that, rather than to just say - like Hodge himself! - complex overlapping characteristics are too hard so fuck those people because it’s analytically easier.

The vast majority of trans people in the UK feel unsafe: the beeb thinks that story is "too weak" A handful of bigots think trans healthcare is unsafe: they get their own special on News Night

Bolton College and Bolton Uni out in solidarity with INTO Manchester today. A 2% pay offer is a PAY CUT! Do the right thing!